Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-02-24

| -DAIllMOTe eAults because the
flag OF nearly every civilized nation
floats from the shipping in Balu-
more harbor
In the family circle show the
sunny side of your nature Don't
go around, complaining miserable,
and unhappy.
Leading modistes in Paris and
| London have Discontinued using
small birds as ornaments tor bonnets
and coffures.
DO cheerful, contented, and
light-hearted. Always remember
that there are others whose troubles
are greater than yours.
The Minnesota Republican State
Committee has called State Con
vention for May 24, to appoint dele
gates to the National Convention
"A petition recently presented to
the Maryland Legislature, praying
for the abatement of the tramp
nuisance, has been referred 10 the
Committee on Agriculture.
Residents Of Washington Heights
and vicinity, New York, have form
ed party to walk to Philadelphia
and back about the time for opening
the Centennial Exhibition.
Tho water has soaked through
the levee in the Runyon tule districts
ia Sacramento county, Cal, to such
an extent that most of the land can
not be cultivated this year.
When man strikes for higher
wages, can't get 'em, loats around
three months and goes TO work for
less than old figures, who has been
made happy r Detroit Free Press.
Miss Anna Dickinson's new lect-
ure is entitled Sowing and Reaping."
And an old bachelor cruelty says
that Sewing and Ripping would be IL
more appropriate subj Get fora woman.
"A gentleman rode up TO u public
house ia the country and asked
NV no is the master of this house 7"
81 am, sir" replied the landlord
"my wife has been dead about three
weeks.
--Sebastopol was declared COM
mercial port just one year ago.
| Now it is the second corn granary in
Southern Russia, and new buildings
and boulevards have sprung up as #
by magic.
There arc $3.50 900 square
miles Of dry laud on the surface Of
the earth, of which II. l25, 848 square
miles, or one fourth, is under the
dominion of nations using the Eng
fish language.
A Brooklyn girl described gem
| tleman to whom she was introduced
as wearing IA startled look, giving
one the impression that any sudden
noise would cause him 20 imp
through his neck tie and run away"
"A Wisconsin editor Illustrates
the prevailing extraVagance OF tho
people Of the present day by refer-
ring to the costly baby carriages in
use now, while when he was q baby,
they hauled him around by the hair
| of the head
Why should the beehive DO ta&e4
as symbol of industry? Not bee
is to be seen al! the Winter long,
while the cockroach is up at live
o'clock in the morning, and never
gees to bed till midnight, Let's
change this thing.
--"It is not our fault" says Mill
waukee editor, chat we are rcd
| headed aud small and the next time
that one Of those overgrown rural
roosters in a ballroom reaches down
for our head and suggests that some
fellow has lost q rosebud out Of bis
| buLtonhole there will be trouble"
A granddaughter Of General
| NathaniG Greene ia resident OF
Toledo, Ohio. She has in her pos
session two relics, one Of which is an
old style double sugar bowl owned
originally by General Greene'a
mother, and the other is an So Con
linental bill, numbered 1892 and
dated l777.
The Lqdtes' Bureau does not be-
lieve Mrs. Topper to be insane.
Why is it that these angels never
have any charity for each other
What woman was it who said the
only thing that reconciied hor to tho
idea Of being woman was the pro-
bublo necessity of not having TO
marry one!
What d SILVER must have run
through tho Democratic ranks in the
House of Representative when o
colored mem Der, and former slave
told his Democratic colleague from
Mississippi that he was sorry TO see
him "not better informed )" and all
the Republicans laughed, as if the
remark was deserved
The London Woman's Dress
Association, a society formed some
time ago, with the object of inducing
English women of all classes to avoid
extravaganza in dress, is now turn
ing it's attention particularly to the
servant-girl class, and awards IN
money are to be offered as encourage
ment to female servants to dress
more suitably to their stations in life,
and to keep their places more care
fully.
An English gentleman was
strolling out with cockney-a
genuine cockney-when they finally
approached meadow in which was
standing a glorious crop of hay. The
cockney gazed at it wonderingly. II
wasn't grass, it wasn't wheat, it
wasn't turnip tops, Ivy, vateVer
does you call this stutf?' said be TO
his companion. That why hay TO
be sure, was the reply. HAY y
exclaimed he, ''come, that's cutting
il a little too thick. If that's hay
lust show me the hay-corns-come
now"