Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-03-23
HERE, THERE, AND ELSEWHERE,
-There are 1900 Chinese bows 10

Maine Is the fifth state that has
abolished the death penalty.
The membership of Mr.. Spur
geon's church numbers 4, 8l3 persons.
The late advisory council in
Brooklyn cost Plymouth church
$4,000.
-aThe man who follows the null
titude when he is strong is likely 10
be left alone when he is weak"
The Iowa Legislature has passed
bill for the punishment of those
nuisances called "trsmps"
Asparagus was originally q wild
sea coast plant, and is native of
Great Britain.
Proctor Knott looks like q fat
person With pink cheeks and white
mustache.
London drinks 25O,O0O gallons of
beer every day. That beats Mil
wsukee.
Last year $685. horses were
eaten by the gormandiziDg citizens
of Paris. Where's Bergh
Orange culture has been tried in
Georgia with success, and the fruit is
said to rival that of Florida.
The Delaware, Lackawanna aud
Western Railroad is to be changed
from broad to a narrow-gauge.
The licenses to shoot game in
Scotland amount to $4,000, 900 an
nually or more than all the game
is worth.
The New York Graphic, hither.
to an npcompromising hard-money
sheet, now advocates greenbacks ana
the repeal of the resumption act
They are shipping apples from
Grand Rapids 20 Rotterdam, Hol.
land. They pack them so they won't
Rotterdam bit on the way.
Montreal has in progress of
erection the largest cotton mill 10
America. The capacity of the mill
will be 5000, 900 yards per year,
The average length of schools in
the State of Maine is III days per
year, and the daily expenditures dur
ing that time are 1896.
Last year the United States
Patent Office granted one patent
every twelve minutes, or at that rate
for sill the while it was doing business.
The New York Graphic wants
to prohibit walking matches on the
ground that they are very detrimen-
tai to health, inviting paralysis and
apoplexy,
The wages of New York COM
positors have been reduced from
$50 to els q week, and correspond,
ing reduction has been made in the
price of piece-work.
Mr.. Seth Green protests against
the wholesale slaughter of the sea
lions in San Francisco Bay He says
the whole Of them do not destroy as
many fish as one Cbinaman.
The Pope of Rome has issued a
letter summOning the Car of Russia
TO the judgement bar of God" to
answer for his persecution OF
Catholics in his dominions.
The Scientific American ad COATES
another neglected industry-mush-
room-raising. Every variety of the
toothsome fungus can be raised in
our climate with very little care.
La Crvec~ psPere "nnnnnoA tho
death of Hon. Thomas B. Stoddard,
a resident of that city for the past 26
years. He was born in 1900, and
was one of the founders of the city
and its first Mayor
Mr.. Moody said in a late sermon
"There was never church erected
but the devil was The first to enter
and the last to leave. There is no
one who is "a more regular attendant
ON all the services"
The Graphic, OF New York,
speaking of the government Of
churches. says that the Presbyterian
Church is federalist. the Methodist is
the Episcopal is aristo-
cratic, and the Catholic is absolute,
AT the marriage Of an Alabama
widower, one of the servants WAS
asked II his master would take
bridal tour. "Dunn0, sab whom old
mssns alive he took paddle to her;
dunno if he take a Bride to de new
one or no.
High officials will begin to learn
after awhile that the people send
Them to the National Capital to at
Tend upon national duties, and not TO
furnish their wives with funds TO
keep up with the extravaganza and
Jolly OF "high-falutiu" society circles,
A MiddIetown Conn compost
tor has calculated that in the course
Of years type-setting the average
will set up more than T.
900, 600 separate pieces, which, with
their distribution, require more than
IS, 900, 900 motions of the hand,
Only one person in 100000
passengers is killed in railway acct.
dents. As it has never yet been the
peanut boy, that distinguished and
widely.known iodividuai still main
tains the hardness Of bis cheek and
the insinusting sweetness Of his
smile.
The London correspondent OF q
paper understands that
the reason why the Queen did not
read her own speech at the opening
of Parliament was that she is now
unable to read without glasses, and
it was thought that the eight of the
sovereign in spectacles would look
little unmajestlc.
The lead miners Of Illinois,
Wisconsin and Iowa, propose to unite
in procuring for the Centennial
Exposition largo and varied collec-
ton of specimens of ore, to represent
the whole lead district of sixty miles
in diameter, or az area of 3, 600 square
miles, situated IN ten prosperous
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