Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-12-04
Tonight | met Mr.. r. ] Cleman.

Pheasant cDat with him over the 0ye-
tiers and the accessories
Well, what of it? Who is X. ]
Clemsns you ask.
The first cousin of Mark Twain, q
party OF whom some OF yonr readers
may have heard.
He resembles his distinguished
relative IN several particulars. Has
a wonderful blue eye, fine features,
a dropping silken mustache and sn
imperial like that of the late Emper-
or of France. There is fun in him,
and he has the air of man who has
been on terms Of intimacy with cele-
brated people and "gooi fellows"-
authors, artists, actors-sll over the
world. He saw Mark in Chicago a
few days ago and was proud to no.
tice that, for the time being. the au
thor of Innocence Abroad, was al
most 90 niger man than old Grant"
We have several other choice spir-
its amongst us here at the hotel.
Am ong them Is Mr. 5. Berger of Nil,
waukee, whose son is the junior mem
Der of the firm of Strong 81 Berger of
Lancaster and Montfort and of Mil
wsukee. An intelligent, progressive
German American, thorough BUSH
ness man and well up in the topics
of the day-politics, literature, for
eign affairs, everything. He is tak
ing Turkish baths for a skin disorder
contracted some years ago through
the medium of poisoned ivy. We go
through the fiery furnace together,
and we have a hilarious time of it,
let me assure you Mr.. B. has many
acquaintances and friends at Lancas
ter, and Miss Sadie Burr, now teach
ing in the Cream City, makes her
home in his family. OF this sterling
young lady he speaks in the highest
terms and says she is great favor
ite in the cultured, hospitable circle
to which she belongs and of which
she is the attractive and charming
centre. No danger that Lancaster
will ever send out a youth or maiden
who will not be able to take care of
number one.
Last Sunday one of the Mondell
House chimneys was burned out, and
came near having genuine copfia-
grafton in consequence. The brick
became very hot and the dry sheet
ing of the kitchen root through which
the chimney passes was soon briskly
ablaze. Then the alarm was given
and the tiremen and the rest of the
citizens came focking to the scene
with rush. The fire was put out
in an instant without the aid of the
engine, though a hundred dollars
worth of damage was done before
the root ceased 70 smoke or to "look
suspicious" When the fire bell
sounded commercial man from Mil
waukee and Your correspondent
were standing in the yellow after
noon sunlight at the foot of the ma
jestic bluffs good stout mile east Of
the city. We thought of our trunks
and things simultaneously, and we
looked an instant at the smoke roll
ing densely upward. Then we in
augurated pedestrian tournamen,
; which it would have done the whole
civilized world good to gaze upon
Of course all danger was past wher
: we came painting and red faced upon
; the scene but we were there all the
) same and ready to jerk and "histe'
, things if necessary. And in the even
/ ing we sat in our great rustic chair
around the coal fire and told how i
: it hadn't been for our heroic and su
. perhuman exertions the magnifcen
Mondell structure would have gon,
TO the devil sure, and we'd none Of
US have where to lay our heads OF
get our soft.boiled eggs with toast
and coffee IN the morning.
l saw it stated in one of the loca
prints few days ago that the Cbica
60 d Tomah narrow gauge and the
Southern Wisconsin ditto, are te
slime ends" on or before the first O
January next, somewhere out beyond
Montfort. Let US hope it is true,
About year ago l SAT- in letter to
, the Dubuque Herald, that something
; OF the kind was likely to come to
pass, and many who read the proph
ecy waxed exceeding wroth and said
: what an awful liar, not to say Demo
, cratic hossthief, that fellow is, any,
how.
When that connection is made old
Galena and this old city will fee
like neighbors. Visits will be inter.
: changed and Grant himself will
doubtless come occasionally to drink
Mineral water and take Turkish
baths and things. Then I'd like to
see how much of hero he'll be 70
the man who lays him on marble
! table, face down, and rubs his noble
crust vigorously with a stiff brush
The fact is it would take clever
fellow to tell the gre t Ulysses under
those circumstances from any com
mon peasant of the same bulk and
inches. Verify, there is something
in Carlyle's philosophy Of clothes.
after all--more than many of us are
J at first blush willing to acknowledge
Speaking OF Grant reminds me OF
what happened here last night. A
big drove of hogs, 600 strong, came
down from Seneca and was driven
through the streets by moonlight.
, Everybody rushed out to see the
caravan. | even went to the window
and gazed upon the spectacle. "For
all the world like a Grant process
ion.' | had the temarlty to observe.
a Grant man heard il and itmade
him mad. He has been uneasy
about it in his mind ever since, and
every hour or two | hear him nut.
tering something about "vo,ing cat
tie" Don't know what he's driving
at. unless he has reference to the
colored population of the South.
Way back IN 1912 when America
wasn't half the country it is TO day,
Dickens came to these shores. and.
even at that early day, was made
quite as much of as Grant was in
the etfete monarchies of the old