Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-02-27

up IN Canada 38 below zero was the
record the other day. lis breath was felt
here yesterday.
The great drifts of snow blocsaded SON
of the railroads Yesterday morning but our
& t. r.. r. made connections.
Ladies, Geo. Gibbs has learned the biz
and will pull out your tangled hair and make
handsome switches, curls or frizzes GU. Of il.
AT sociable held in the Union church
at Dickeyville, Grant county, Wis, few
days since, while those assembled were enjoy
ing ice cream and otherwise feastiEg the floor
gave way and fell distance of three feet.
Nobody was hurt but all experienced terri
bic scare.-Dubuqae Times.
The idiotic trick of sprinkling pepper on
the floor Of the school house chapel last Satur>
day evening, deserves to be dealt with in the
most summary manner. To deliberately SUBJ
ject large audience of ladies and gentlemen
to the torture of inhaling such an irfitant for
three hours, argues a cool diabolism which is
an interesting psychological study. 1t does
not need the moralizing Of a Sunday school
book to suggest that such courses frequently
end in taking board in uncomfortable lodg.
ings, with very ugly surroundings.
| MIR. f. w. Lowell, Railroad and Express
Agent at Specht's Ferry, places US under
obligations for report Of shipments from
Grant County at that station for 1878, which
were as follows Live hogs, 20 car loads,
or 1852 head cattle III car loads. or 1873
head; hoop-poles, 3 car loads household
goods, 8 car loads; wool, 3 car loads lum-
Der, 2 car loads clover seed, ear loads
butter 1850 pounds, and IS small lots Of
skibg total Weigh" Of Grant COUNTY mfR's sbis
ments, l,700,970 pounds. During the same
time, including 8 cars of salt and of lum-
her; s49, 290 poands of merchandise were re.
ceived. Last winter, ii will be remembered,
the ice was not at any time in q safe condi.
ton for crossing freights or these shipments
must have been much greater, though they
make surprising showing as it is.
The entertainment given by the CITY Club
last week was success, financially. Great
pains had been taken in the arrangement OF
scenes and costumes, with very creditable re-
suits. "The Drunkard is play by no means
easy OF execution. In its performance Messrs.
Arthur Sherman and Louis Schroeder did es-
pecially well, while the acting of the young la
dies was good in every part, particularly those
rendered by Miss Myra Barnett and Miss
Amelia Schmitt. Most of the actors could
have done better if their parts had been well
learned. Amateurs should never announce a
day for public appearance until they have
proved to themselves by repeated successful
rehearsals that neither pepper nor grape nor
canister can at any time put them out The
play is very long one, and might easily have
been cut down without disturbing the contins
uity of the plot, and making its performance
less wearisome to all parties. The concluding
| farce proved too solemn to excite much
| laughter, or else its humor was of too recons
dite nature to arouse a sleepy audience after
| eleven o'clock. Throughout. the evening the
scenes followed each other with commendable
promptness; in fact, almost too promptly.
since but little time was thus allowed for the
pleasing diversion of music by the orchestra.