Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-02
One Thing and Another.


Out in California they have discoy-
cred that the leaves of the castor oil
plant will destroy grasshoppers. A
few leaves were placed under some
trees which were being destroyed by
swarm of the insects, and the hop
pers soon began to die in great n1m-
bers. They would nibble the castor
leaves, and soon become stupe fed.
and upon attempting to fly would fall ]
back and die.
Any skunk that gets above his nat.
ural insect business, and NEEDLES with
the poultry, ought TO be shot, of course.
That is the only way to reform him.
But all sorts Of people are finding ont
that this saimal is about the most Wig
liant insecticide we have. Leave him
alone in the field and we shall take
our pay 10 potatoes after awhile.
Hartford Conrant Agricultural Man.
A writer in the Germantown Tele.
graph claims the discovery that rats
and mice are more readily enhced
into trap when it is provided with a
piece of mirror glass. They are So
ciai creatures, and thinking they see
companion they advance to meet it,
TheMennonites who emigrated from
Southern Russia and came over into
our far Western States, are teaching
the people of that section an impor-
tant lesson in this matter of thrift.
Prof. Butler writes of them from Ne.
oraska that he had recently eaten a
dinner among the Mennonites which
was cooked with grass, and be saws
ne has examined straw furnaces in
the houses of the Bishop and the men
OF bis flock. The house in which the
Bishop lives has been built two wears.
1t is forty-eight by twenty six feet.
and there has been no freezing in it.
though he has used nothing for Win.
ter fuel but straw, and his furnace.
the iron work of which cost but Eve
dollars, is heated only three times a
gay. AS the writer expresses it, what
Nebraska has wasted now warns
many Muscoyites. Russian furnaces
are said to be now used by some of
our American farmers.
They who have never known pros.
peTity can hardly be said to be un.
happy; it is from the remembrance
OF joys We have lost that the arrows
OF afiiiction are pointed.
They are manufacturing wine with
out grapes in Berlin, as we'll as in
France and this country. A large
house there whose speciality was pure
WINE for medicinal purposes, was
found on examination to have moth.
IN but artificial mixtures in its stock.
What's dc time O. day, ole 'oman ?
a colored countryman TO Aunt
y NY, yesterday, trying to poke fun
a' the brass chain that held her front
O ,r key around that young lady's
4 *. "Look at de town clock chile
D Is built for POI folks"
J Liverpool bird.dealer has been
nne1 S75 and costs for going on a
spree and leaving his birds and AMI.
mais unfed. Some were dead. others
week and lettering with starvation
ana Others had literally gone mad.
Mrs, Fremont is said to possess
beautiful hands, Miss Minnie Ream
mas modelled them; the right, holding
q pen, represents Industry; the left.
lying with open palm holding flowers,
represents Idleness.
Qnilp says the Stewart Hotel for
women is designed for those who are
Just poor enough to be compelled to
work and not handsome enough to
get married.
a new song will soon appear, called
At your arm around me, pet +: the
oln ian's eyes are shet.n-
r. Register.