Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-02-10
HERE THERE, AND ELSEWHERE

Three German iron-clad shins
VIII visit this country next July.
The art of life is to know how
to enjoy little ard to endure much
As words can never be recalled
speak only such as you will never
wish to recall.
No one can be happy without &
friend, and no one can know what
friends he has until he is unhappy.
Painting is an Intern ediate som ..
thing between thought and thing.
= Coleridge.
There is 10 Germany an institu,
ton known as the "Stitt, the refuge
for maiden ladies of noble families.
DIR. Wilder, of Chicago, has
plead guilty to the crime of robbing
u grave.
There are 1888 blind men and
8,977 blind women in the United
States.
Tho woman suffragists claim
That they can count at least fifty-five
|
Representatives.
After all the talk about woman
suffrage in Wyoming, the Legislators
are now endeavoring TO repeal the
| act.
The Boston Post thinks that
Boston is hereafter to be a great
shipping port, with interests both in
Europe and in the West.
Mr.. White of Kentucky, has
Introduced bill to reduce the salaries
of Federal officers twerty per cent
whore they exceed $1,000 per year.
Many men and some women
mistake the WON'T power for
strength Of wills, and sheer ugliness
for firmness.
The Chicago Tribune thinks
Jimmy Blanchard will be in the
Whiskey Ring and have front pew
at church when he becomes mGB.
The Pawnoe squaws trade Ave
dollars worth of bead work for two
shitlings' worth of perfume, and they
'A0 no"P Soou enell
The negotiations between
Prussia and Lauenburg for the moor
poration of the latter with Prussia
have been completed.
1t is again announced that the
5000 race will take place ia
California on the 22d inst, the
weather and track permitting.
Within year four members of
the ST. Louis whisky ring have
died, making eight dealhs in that
circle since the fear of lighting began
to torment them.
s0-The military committee of the
house are unanimously opposed 10
TIE reduction of the army, but will
recommend some curtailing of the
retired list
Senator Sherman has introduced
q proposition to esi ablish common
unit OF money fer the United States
and Great Britain. The London
Times approves tho proposition.
u o..yUH ~ orr Az ~~-v.+ Is ~~.is COO,
u bill u prevent the sale OF intoxi-
eating liquor in the Centennial build
ings or grounds a, Philadelphia.
A stump speaker, in dealing
with the "Modern Physical Degener-
acy of Woman" exclaimed We
must take good care of our grand
mothers, for we shall never get any
more"
-APittsfold, Mass, ma is making
trunks entirely of paper, without any
frame and with no other material
except IIirnnA'"e~ "f leather, 1t is
claimed that they are sto~'-. than
those made of any other material.
The English GJvernment has
appointed comission to visit the
manufacturing centers and TO asccr-
tain the effect of foreign tariffs, and
especially of the tariff of the United
States, upon trade 10 those places.
Punch once told droll story OF
a man who, being suddenly raised to
riches, exclaimed, 10 the fullness OF
his satisfaction, ooh, that could
stand in the road and see myself ride
by in my carriage"
To bachelor whose affections
are not anchored, perhaps there is
nothing more aggraVating than the
spectacle of u beautiful woman, with
her sleeves rolled up, scratching her
husbands back.
"A London doctor has discovered
that you may cure the toothache by
dissolving half drachm OF bicar"
Donate of soda in on ounce OF water,
and holding the solution in your
mouth
A mob of ruffians destroyed the
Ne,0s and Press Office Ut CtmArroh,
New Mexico, because the local cleo
tons terminated in the choice of men
who would enforce tho laws against
certain political clique.
"A California inventor has pat
ented continuance for driving
sewing-u achines, which does away
with the treadle a number OF
springs are moved by clockwork and
governed by lever so nicely that
the needle may be made TO move at
any desired rate OF speed. The
machine will run for about an hour
and quarter with one winding up.
The Milwaukee Iron Works
annually consume 10000 tons blum
inous coal, 1900 tons anthracite coal,
10000 tons coke $4,000 tons Iron
Ridge and similar ore, 1880 toms
Lake Superior ore, % 900 tons lime
stone; an they yield product OF
80, 900 tons pigiron, A 600 tons rails,
IL. 900 merchant iron, 5000 tons fish.
plates, and 2 400 tons of car links and
pins.
David Riddlebarger is the nam,
of miser at Ridgefield, Inj.-or
was his name, rest his miserable soul
who was found dead-frozsn to
death in his hut February Sd.
The old boarder lived alone and
search about his premises has thus