Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-04-20
HERE, THERE, AND ELSEWHERE.

kentucky is going inso fsh-cul-
ture earnestly and on large scale.
The President has signed the bill
authorizing the sale of the Pawnee
reservation.
Connecticut has alec liquor
dealers, and their traffic amounts to
SIS, 100000 ayear.
The testimonial used for Cant.
Webb, who swan across the English
channel, has reached $4,000.
"A native Greek declined the post
of Minister to England because the
salary, $4,000, was too small.
"A geography printed in London
100 years ago, describes California
as an island surrounded by water.
An English reviewer says that
the fall in the price of silver will
check the production of The Ameri-
can mines.
A man named Bragg has been
sentenced to four years imprisonA
ment from Washington, Ohio, for
girdling trees.
New York has two thousand
professional clairvoy ants, who make
their living off fools by prophesying
what never happens.
In one district of Ayrshire, Eng.
the reading of a sermon is regarded
as about the greatest fault of which a
minister can be guilty.
"A "Home for Aged Couples"
where man and wife will not be sep.
arated in their old age, has been es-
tablished in Philadelphia, Pa.
The New York Legislature has
killed a bill prohibiting the employ
ment of women in liquor saloons, gar
dens, or any place where liquor is
sold.
The government life saving SER
vice will be introduced on the lakes
the present season, and promises to
become as efficient as to the sea.
board.
"A Missouri farm contains O foun-
tain of whitewash, and all the owner
has to do is to take his house over to
the spring and have the job immedi>
ately done.
In England, persons employed
in the Government Postal Service
are forbidden TO write either to or
for newspapers, on pain of instant
dismissal in case of detection.
Chicago is already preparing for
the annual exposition, which will be.
gin September 9th and close October
10th. 1t is expected that it will be
the finest exhibition ever held there.
For the first time since Wash.
iug.on's an Administration ap.
proaches it's close without there
being an exPresident alive; usually
there have been two, or three, or
four.
Dispatches from Washington re.
port that the supreme court has do.
cided in favor of the Usage settlers
in the. famous Usage coded land case.
This decision secures the homes of
5000 families.
The route from Cheyenne to the
Black Hills ia over vast ashy plains
studded with troublesome sage brush
and broken by infrequent but mud
dy streams. Trees are scarce and
the nights are cold.
Goldsmith Maid trotted against
Golden Gate, on Saturday, at San
francisco, at Bay District track, the
latter to run a mile and $50 yards.
The Maid won in 2:l9 4, beating
Golden Gate .hree seconds.
--Zack Chandler, the Secretary of
the Interior, says that he isn't going
to try to any longer keep the frauds
of his predecessor, Delano, covered
mp, as they are bound TO come out
anyway. Honest old lack
There is advertised in the Lon
don rewspapers"a Continuance which
applied to the nose for an hour daily,
so directs the soft cartilage, of which
the member consists, that an ill
formed nose is quickly shaped to
perfection"
The remarkable scientific fact is
announced that an iron ball at white
heat refused to receive q charge of
electricity; when cooled down TO red
heat it will receive q positive charge;
and when further cooled down it
will accept both kinds.
Once in a while Schuyler Colfax
comes out into the front yard, and
putting his hands TO his ears, listens
intently to hear il his country calls
him, and then, unable to detect any
sounds of that nature, slowly and
sadly be goes back into the house.
The Biptists in Wisconsin have
IA associations, 81 ohur ches, 1872 or
dained ministers, and total MEM
bership OF 1860. They received
by baptism and otherwise during the
past year, 1884 members, add con-
tributed S110, 1880 or an average
of over $50 to each.
ETHER drunkards are a prodnct of
England. In Londonderry neigh
borhood an official report has been
made of two deaths caused by drink
ing ether, and Notwithstanding at
tempts made by the clergy and 9th.
ers Of influence" to stop the practice,
it seems to be spreading.
The narrow gauge between Des
Moines and Ames, Ia, tbirty-eight
miles, has been in operation a year
and half, and has paid all expenses
and reduced its debt $4,000. 1t was
built with Iowa capital, and burden
of debt of only 100000 at the start,
and cost only 1000 mile.
William Hewett, who does not
seem to outgrow his Quaker princi.
pies with years, writes from Rome,
where he is living, that the Pope is
having an easy martyrdom in pal.
ace with 1900 rooms, and with
treasury enriched by 1000, 900 of
free offerings from the faithful du-
ring the last jubilee.