Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-01-06
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.
The winter is ssxsra in Anstr

arc WOku uCNCI saw - Sc0is
He who would be q policeman in
Buffalo must be vaocinated.
There was eleven earthquakes in
the United States last year.
Switzerland possesses l6S cotton
mills, running 2,059,350 spindes. :.
The bones of a mastodon have
been exhumed at Cbampoeg, Oregon.
The skin of the common house
cat is rapidly rising in favor as dress
fur.
twill not the Centennial drive
away the hard times p is the hope.
ful question.
This year will be hard one for
ministers. There will be ffty-three
Sabbaths.
years be has been arraigned before
the courts of justice twenty.one
times, and yet has never been found
guilty.
Kansas has 10000 sheep and
$4,000 dogs. Scarcely sheep and a
half for each dog.
Philadelphia hoteI-keepers
promise not to charge more than IS a
day at the Centennial.
-Four ex-Congressmen occupy
mental positions in the service of the
House, at Washington.
Tho statue of Napoleon Bona.
parte is replaced upon the top of the
reconstructed Column Vendome in
Paris.
-Ex-Queen Isabella, of Spain,
now in Paris, is down sick with the
measles. She always was a rash
woman.
And now Frank Moulton has
sued Henry Ward Beecher for $50. r
900 damages, "malicious prosecution"
being the accusation.
-Ninety-two thousand emigrants
have arrived in this country since
January l, 1875. OF these, $4,000
were Germans.
An enterprising pastor of Altoona,
Pa, occupies himself in travelling
among the houses of his flock and
breaking up all dancing parties.
Colorado has within her borders
100000 sheep, and confidently ex-
poets that number TO be increased to
100000 in another year.
The Secretary of the Bible
Society in Fayetteville, o., Gays in
his report: "Thirty-fve years ago
We had thirty distilleries in our
An Onoida IN. Y man recently
purchased an oil book, with other
waste paper and rags, and found
pasted betweeH the fly-leaves S35 in
bills.
Commodore Vanderbilt has just
made an additional donation Of $780,
900 to the Vanderbilt University at
Nashville, which makes 100000
in all.
The broom corn crop in the
Connecticut valley this year, is said
to be a good one, and at present
prices, it is more profitable to raise
than tobacco.
The new "Ency clopedia Britain
MICA" devotes twenty pages TO apes
and only two to angels. But it pro-
baby knows ten times as much about
the apes as about the angels.
A Pennsylvania is using a
stove 105 years old. The revolution
airy fires of re are supposed to have
been kinded in it. OF course it will
90 to the Centennial.
The largest foreign mail ever
sent from this country was des-
patched on Saturday last from New
York. 1t consisted of 1890 letters
and ninety one bags of paper.
Some one suggests that there is
no protection in our laws for the
originators of new fruits, and that
Congress should be petitioned to
pass bill for their protection.
The editors of Indiana and their
wives, Numbering in all about 200
persons, will visit Philadelphia about
the 10th of January, for the purpose
OF viewing the Centennial buildings.
Joaquin Miller claims that 40
named the Territory of idaho. 1t is
an Indian word-from the language
of the North Shoshones--and it
means the "Gem of the Mountains"
The Michigan salt regions last
year yielded a product of 100000
barrels greater than that of the most
successful of previous years, the total
for the twelvemonth being 1,026, 979
barrels.
Ben. j. Kemp, of Marion Co.,
Ind, says that he has cured all the
cases of hog cholera on his farm by
giving sixty grains of calomel to each
grown hog. He mixes it with -four
dough.
Rev. Mr.. Chandler, who has just
returned from India, says the women
ofthat country build all the railroads,
and carry the dirt from the grades
and to the fills in baskets on their
heads.
The Board of Public Commits
soners of st. Louis have issued or.
ders to arrest erybody engaged in
the sale of Missouri State lottery
tickets or tickets Of any other lottery
scheme.
Open communion has been
adopted by four Baptist Churches
Mr.. Malcom's, of Newport; Mr..
SawtelPs, of San Francisco f; Mr..
Smiths, of Brooklyn, and Mr..
PentecosL'a, of Boston.
The police authorities at San
Francisco have made their first raid
on the opium-smokers, and will con-
tinue the crusade till they have
broken up all dens frequented BY
white people.
"A Russian paper reports that
the Cossacks of the Don believe that
the end OF the world is at hand.
Many of them have given up all their
property, and have ordered their
collins. The authorities have taken
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