Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-04-27
HERE, THERE, AND ELSEWHERE.

get detective upon your track.
The new city directory makes
the population of ST. Louis 49s, 1872.
American watches are being ex-
ported to Europe in large numbers.
The total expenditures of the
Cleveland schools last year were
| $3.50, o95.24.
Sixteen of the forty.seyen States
and Territories have no laws regulat-
ing the rate of interest.
albany, N. Y, is the oldest city
in the United States. It was incor-
porated as city In 1886.
Henry w. Longfellow and VIM.
Nj. Evarts are spoken of as candi-.
dates for the English Mission.
The American salution abroad:
"Ah, hs-you from America, so am
what did you run away fors"
Tho Washburne movement for
Governor is Enthusiastically popular
throughout every part of Northern
Illinois.
A religious paper published in
Tennessee says; "Those of our SUBJ
scribers who pay promptly are mark
ed as Christians"
"A North Carolina man has con-
ceived the brilliant idea of exhibit
ing tho fifty ugliest men in the Unit
ed States at the Centennial.
"A New York dispatch announ.
ces that the pooling arrangements
between the trunk lines is burst, aud
that new railroad war is imminent.
The Government life-saving SER
vice to be introduced on the lax
the present season, promises TO be-
come as efficient as on the seaboard.
Mr.. Gladstone has written llng
letter in which he deprecates tie
policy of those who arc favoring tho
disestablishment of the Church Of
England.
Every foot of Centennial space
for American exhibitors has, it ia
said, been applied for more than
twice over. and 500 applications have
not yet been touched.
The Norwich Bulletin advises
men not to set out Centennial trees
this year, but to plant lamp-posts.
because they are more distinct at
night and easier to hang to.
The crime of calling a woman
go withered-up old maid is punisha.
BILE by penalty of $4,000 for the
benefit of the pocket book of the lady
in the case, in Onondaga county, N,
Y.
The Havana Custom House, with
largely diminished imports and ex-
ports tor the past quarter, has, never.
theless, collected s2,5O0,0oo more
than during the same period last
year.
Mr.. NJ. d. Conway says that
Queen Victoria is getting old and
very homely, and that the favorable
sentiment once surrounding the
throne in England, has distinctly
fallen.
Another country has elected an
Ulysses for President. 1t is Santo
Domingo, in the West Indies, where
Ulysses f. Espaillat has just been SO.
lected as the coming Chief Magistrate
of the little Republic.
The Hindoo Holy Book torplds
woman to see dancing, hear music,
wear jewels, blacken Der eyebrows,
eat dainty food, sit at window, or
view herself in mirror during the
absence of he husband.
The alumni faculty of Wilbraham
Academy proposes giving a dinner
to Messrs. Blaine and Brstow should
they pass through Boston Oh the oe-
casion oftheir visit to the academy at
the coming celebration.
Writing to friend in Nevada, a
gentleman closed with the injunction
"Take good care of Nancy" His
wife saw the letter, and it took him an
hour to explain the difference be-
tween bonanza silver mine and
Nancy feminine.
Brooklyn can't find room for 49,
600 of its school children. II is pro-
posed TO petition the Legislature for
permission to issue bonds to the
amount of 81 500, 900, the proceeds to
be devoted to the erection of twenty
primary schools.
Canada has entered at the Cen
tennial $50 horses, 160 neat cattle,
800 eoops of poultry, and as many
sheep and swine. England will ex-
hib't in all classes, and some stock
will be received from Germany,
France and Spain.
The Chinese companies of San
Francisco have issued card to the
people of tho United States, in
which they propose that change in
the treaty should be made prohibits
ing the people of either nation from
crossing the ocean.
Irish emigration will be small
this year This indicates an improv-
ed and more contented condition of
the people of that island. Through.
out Europe the state of the laboring
classes has greatly improved of late,
and is still improving.
The Wheeling (W. Va.) Register
claims that tho old Snnthoro loadoro
have learned too sad lesson TO try
misrule /; that the largest class OF the
South is of young men who have no
slaqery traditions, and the old fellows
talk emotionalIy, while tho young
South is practical and sensible.
London society tired of the novel
hum of the spelling bees as soon as
we did on this side of the big pond,
and has adopted new amusement.
This is found in dancing quadrilles
without the accompaniment of instru-
mental music the dancers them
selves singing their own dance music.
The will of John Garner, of
Boston, executed in 1862 but jus.
probated, gives s.. 900 for the promo
ton of education in Maiden, and con-
tnh