Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-03
Items About Everything.


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II pride leads the van, poverty
brings up the rear.
Laziness grows on people. 1t
begins in cobwebs and ends in iron
chains.
DoN'T spank your children with
the boot-jack. 1t is hard to hold,
and is apt to make bunions on your
thumb.
GOLD has been discovered on
Shefford Mountain, in Canada, in
large quantities. causing great az
citement.
Value the friendship of him who
stands by yau in the storm swarms
of insects will surround You in the
sunshine
know not which Of the twain
lifts man the higher. genius lifts
him above others gentieness, out
of himself
Miss LOVELY says that males are
OF NJ account from the time ladies
stop kissing them as infants till they
kiss them again as lovers
AN Iowa editor acknowledges a
present of grapes in rather ambigu-
Gus language.-He says "We have
received a basket of grapes from our
friend W.. for which he will accept
our comp ilnents, some of which are
fwu inch,.s in dsamatars
The Watertown Dispatch says at
an editorial room is not properly
furnished without a good dictionary.
That article of furniture does come
in handy to hurl At exchange tramps
literary agents and poets OF the
springtime.--N. Y, Commercial Id.
Uerfiser.
MISTAKES in courtship," was the
subject ola clergy discourse 10
this city on Sunday. 1t seems to us
that it isn't so much in courtship
that people make mistakes. Court
ing's all right. It's the sad awak-
ening from the rosy dream that
hurts. Moral-keep on counting
~. 4. commercial.
A MAN coming out of a Texan
newspaper Office with one eye goug-
cd out, his nose spread all over his
face, and one of his ears chewed off.
replied to policeman who inter-
viewed him: 81 didn't like an
article that 'peared in the paper last
week, an / went in ter see the man
who writ it, and be war therel"
ABOUT six weeks ago smallpox
OF very malignant type broke out
among the Moravian Indiana on the
River Thames in Canada. Since it's
breakout about fifteen have died,
and more have it at present than at
any previous time AS ye. no pre-
cautionary measures have been Ia
ken to prevent the spread of the
disease.
THOMAS MILLERCHIP,a surgeon at
Coventry, Eng, has been sentenced
by Lord Coleridge to four months
imprisonment, with hard labor, for
failing to attend sick child in the |
district of which he was medical of. |
ficer. The charge against him was
that of man-slaughter by crlpable
negligence, and the jury found him
guilty and strongly recommended |
him to mercy.
THE daughter, aged twenty, of a |
linen draper at Omagh, Ireland, has
gained $4,000 from wealthy bar.
rister, aged thirty, who is Crown
Prosecutor on the Northwest Cir
cult, for breach of promise He used
to stop at her fathers house when
on circuit, and had promised to set
tie 50. 900 a year on her, Lawyers
might be expected to keep clear of
such entauglements.
AT the funeral of Gen. James
Shields at Carrolton, No, the two
swords presented to him by tne
states OF Illinois aud South Caro-
lina for gallantry in the Mexican
war were crossed over crossed
the coffin The gift OF Illinois cost
81 900, and that of South Carolina
$4,000, aud both are richly studded
wife jewels. The immediate cause
OF general shields death was the
opening of the old wound received
By him at the battle of Cerro Gorno
PACIFIC CoAsT whalers set forth
from their win ter quarters early in
the spring, provisioned for cruise
or at least six months The
crew numbered about thirty five
men. force sufficient to man four
or tive boats. The number of boats
carried depends on the locality of
the hunting ground and the nature
OF the whales to be captured. In
the extreme North, whales never
attack boat, but in the South they
do 80 frequently. The best of the
weapons carried is SAID to be a bar
poon-gun, which is darted from the
hand, and explodes after striking
the whales, causing instant death
when 1t enters vital part.-Er-
change.
PITTsBURa SMoKE-Pittsburg is
one of the BLACKLIST of cities, by rea-
son of the smoke from it manufacso-
ries; but plan is being tested that
promises TO make it clean. The
proposition is to wash the smoke,
and the way of doing it is thus de-
scribed :"The washing is done by
passing the smoke through the
spray caused by paddle W heels re-
volving in tank of water holding
soda ash in solution. The tank and |
wheels are placed in the fue, be.
tween the furnace and the chimney,
the wheels being made to revolve
in the direction of the chimney, I
the draught is increased" The
smoke after being thus treated will
not soil Q white handkerchief.
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