Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-27
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

50 per day.
In 1878 Germany Is TO have an
Imperial Exposition.
Ida Greeley's husband is named
Smith, and yet writes poetry.
| One of the wickedest counties
in Dakota Territory is named Moody.
/ There is estimated to be in the
United States about 5000, 900 horses.
| There is talk of the need of
great national university at Washing.
ton.
Louisville will have Secretary
Bristow as an orator on Decoration
day.
Henry Ward Bsecber's SOD, Will
liam, is going into The law business
with Tracy.
| Weston has failed to make his
800 miles in six days, and yet no one
is disappointed.
| --Thirty-odd distilleries have been
seized in the West within few DAYS
for Illicit distilling.
When Victor Hugo is at home,
bis door is always open to receive his
friends on each Thursday evening.
The table on which Pemberton
signed the capitulation of Vicksbur0
is now doing duty in beer saloon.
| The New York Tribune calls the
seventy "bad Indians" held at Fort
Leavenworth, "herd of ELEPHANTS
TO be soldier has no charm,
but to have been one is quite an en-,
Ijoyable thing, especially on reunion
days.
-"No scandal talk allowed at
meals" is the notice posted on the
bedroom doors of Brooklyn board
ing-house.
Robert Collyer, of Chicago, will
scatter the words at the Arlington
Cd. CD National Cemetery on Deco
ration Day.
The "Colonel Sellers" copyright
marks twain thousand dollars per
month, right along, to Mr.. s. Clemens
bank account.
The Pope received many pilgrims
and full complement of congratula-
tions, on the attain m emit OF his eighty
third birthday.
The grasshopper which feeds up
on the land is said to have an enemy
in the form of a minute parasite that
feeds upon him.
The S.. Louis Republican is be-
ing instructed in the courts, aIso the
Chicago Times, in the meaning of the
word sshyster"
On June 3 Missouri will pray
that the grasshoppers may not come.
Better also pray that the James and
Younger brothers may go.
The American Colonization So
ciety sent only twenty seven negroes
to Liberia last year, and it cost 49,
S00.27 to expatriate them.
The house at Dsnbury, Conn, in
which General Wooster, of Rsvolu-
tionary fame, died, was lately sold
for So. 1t was erected in 1771.
About $500,000,000 were spent
in Europe last year to maintain q
10000 men in doing nothing but
carrying muskets and preparing for
war.
Eleven hundred and twenty
empty houses in the twin cities of
Pittsburgh and Allegheny attest the
severity of the depression in the iron
industries.
The next Centennial celebration
in Boston, after that of Bunker Hill,
will be on July 3, the anniversary of
Washington's taking the command
of the army.
On the Queens birthday, last
Monday, at Whitby, Ont, new Odd
Fellows Temple was dedicated, at
which Hon. Schuyler Colfax deliver.
ed the grafton.
The only gold medal of President
Washington of 1890 now in existence
in this country was exhibited at the
last meeting of the Massachusetts,
Historical Society.
"A planter in Western Georgia is
visiting Colorado with a number OF
colored people, for the purpose Of
finding land and homes for their per-
manent settlement.
Lieutenant General Phil Sheri-
dan will be married to Miss Rucker,
in Chicago. the first week in June.
President Grant and wife will le
present at the ceremony.
The sober-looking and dead,in~
earnest grasshopper is again threat.
ening the eweet-potsto vines of the
nation. What to DO with him is the
conundrum as yet snsolved.
"A mob threw David Reed, me-
gro of Nashville, Tenn. over the
river bank, drop of 100 feet, but
the black tnmber caugh. in a tree,
which broke his fall, and is yet alive.
Owing to the severe frost in
Pennsylvania and the iateness Of the
season, not more than half crop OF
wheat is expected, and even this
amount depends on favorable wealth.
err.
"A man 10 France has been sem
fenced to twelve months imprisop-
ment at hard labor for cheating in sci.
ling horse. If America had such
law what would she do for prison off,
GERS
The oldest Fourth Of July orator
in Massachusetts is Benjamin Hobart,
of Arlington, 81 years Of age, who
delivered the GRAFTON on Indepen-
dence day in that town in the year
1905.
The press is freer in Belgium
than in France, and ell the newspa-
pers, pamphlets and books prohibited
by the authorities of the. latter coun-
try are paraded and sold IN the little