Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-05-04
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represented at the Centennial.
| A twenty-four pound baby was
born in Pittsburg, and the mother
weighed $50 pounds.
| strawberry shortcakes this year
are cut bias and rather fuller in the
crust than usual.
The Chippewa Herald says that
Judge Barron will take up his resi-
dence is this city.
| in the Department of the Loire,
France, over IL 900 women are en-
ployed in the glove trade.
Fever analogue, a disease for
eign to New England, has lately been
generated in Boston by imperfect
drainage.
--Dio Lewis is around again.
He now advises people not to eat
potato-peelings just before going to
bed.
The residence of Leland Stanford,
the President of the Central Pacific
railroad at San Francisco, cost 81 ,Oo0,-
900.
The New Hampshire temperance
revival is assuming vast proportions,
10000 people have signed the pledge
since the movement began.
1T isn't learning to embroider
that the young ladies of this age SO
especially need, as learning how to
put on a good square patch.
Mr.. Blaine is said by the New
York Sun to be the richest man in
the State of Maine, with one excep-
ton, or possibly two.
Over 10000 bushels of clover
seed have been exported from On
tario, Can, to Great Britain, at about
81 per bushel.
The New York Hell Gate fire.
cracker will not be touched off next
fouath of July as was expected, hav-
ing been postponed until August.
Prof. Swing said in a recent SER
mon at Chicago that ''latterly wine
had not done so much harm as Lace
and the congregation applauded.
The New York Independent lee
lures Secretary Taft for breaking the
Sabbath in visiting and Inspecting
Fort Hamilton on recent Sunday.
The factis being daily impressed
upon the public mind, that with the
exception perhaps of jeff Davis,
Brigham Young is the slowest man
to die on the continent.
| River men predict that a greater
volume of water will come down the
Mississippi river this year than any
previous year since since the "high
times" Of 1926.
A Minnesota woman killed her
husband with an AK the o'her mora
ing, because he would not get up.
She got tired chopping kindling
wood.
The sum OF 100000 was recently
nivided by Liverpool firm among
those of their employees who had been
with them five years and upwards.
| Good place to work.
Prof Huxley received a check
for S. 900 recently from gentleman
in Manchester, England, who sent it
as an expression of the regards Of his
deceased father for the professor.
The Kansas Changers have is
sued an address favoring initiation,
and the Leavenworth Times express
ses its conviction that three fourths
of the people of the State "are for
gree nbacks."
AN eagle lighted on the shout
ders of boy in sugar orchard Snr-
ry, Vt, the other day, with the evil
dent intention of carrying him aloft,
but another boy tsruck him with a
bucket and he flew off,
1t is proposed to have a log-cab-
in erected on the fair grounds, in
Elyria, o., on the 4th of July, each
township to furnish one or two logs,
the same to be put put up in primi-
tive style.
On Sundays, in San Francisco,
10000 people cross the Bay, dis
lance of six miles, in order to enjoy
picnics in the oak woods on the oppo-
site shore. The people who arc
mainly Germans.
Newark is to celebrate the Fourth
with salute of one hundred guns at
mid night, to usher in the day, a ma
tional salute at sunrise, Federal sal
ute at Noon, and another national
salute at sunrise.
Gen. Albert Pike will preside at
the bienniel session of the Supreme
Council (thrty-third degree of the
ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite
of FreeMascnry, to be held in Wash
ington next month.
The first Chinese that ever voted
in Cincinnati, was at the late city
election, and he voted the Democrat
ic ticket. "For ways that are dark,
and tricks that are vain, the heather
Chimes is peculiar"
The female newspaper cores
pondenta in Washington are still
searching for the woman who has the
smallest foot and ten to one when
they find her they will also discover
that she has the smallest amount of
brains.
Why the English sh ould be con-
tinually singing "God save the
Queen" is more than reasonable man
can conjecture. 1t is always advisa-
bic to save the jack but the queen
only counts two for game, and is
always a good card to throw away.
The office of y. S. Treasurer, it
would seem, goes begging because
the Treasurer is made liable for any
deficiencies that may occur during his
administration, and beside, he has not
the appointment Of his employees.
Mr.. New is anxious to retire.
Mr.. Schenck challenges the most
thorough investigation in the Emma
Mine scandal, claiming that he bought
into it in good faith, that the is really
valuable, and that its failure was ow-