Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-08-07

HERALD readers know something
about already, but as they may lack
accurate statistical information on
the subject, will, at the risk of bor-
ing them deep, proceed to fill Cor
drilD the aching void, SO to speak.
First of all, | want you to study the
above picture. What you see there
high towering over the naples in
the naples in the distance is the
summit of the residence of Esq'r.
Savage, father of John, the efficient
and gentlemanly court reporter. The
man in the sulky is the best livery
man in the city. His name | have
forgotten. If he comes around one
of these days with a V or weeks
free riding on the bluffs, / will try to
remember whether it is Bronson, or
Matthews, or the other fellow. The
team you see there belongs to the
Mondell House, and is on its way to
train from the east, the McGregor
ferry and steamboat from st. Paul,
all at the same time. Billy Van is
driving, ard he is one of the best
hotel hackmen in several western
States. Now and then my noble lord
Williams, OF the Railway House, (es.
pecially when he can get newspaper
men, members of Congress. aud other
eminent people to ride with him)
comes across from the island and
makes his white.faced sorrels canter
gaily about the shady thoroughfares of
the city. The party leaning against
tho post at the right is Bro. Merrell, OF
the Courier. He is mentally figuring
out how many bushels of spring
wheat he will get per acre this year,
and wondering whether the Demo-
cratic State ticket, with Mitchell at
the head, and an old. fashioned hard
money platform, will have thirty
thousand majority, or only twenty
five. The man opposite is Lacy, of
the Union. He, too, seems to be 10
a quandary about something. Think
he is trying to make sure whether its
mineral water or Schuman d Men
GEES beer that's making him so fat l
say both. The gay troubadour talk
ing taffy to the lady near the fence is
Bannister, the city editor of the C0ur-
Ter. He is saying how he didn't win
the ice cream the other night when
he bet me that John Grsce's sign
was wood instead of canvas. Ban.
mister is bad man and goes about
"mashing" whole communities. lie
ought. to be muzzled. The two
smallish looking figures in the back.
ground are supposed to be human be-
ings who were foolish enough to bet
against the Lancaster base ball boys
this afternoon. They look small! be-
cause they feel that way.
The above picture, let me explain,
was taken some time ago, and conse.
quertly doesn't begin to give all, or
even half, the facts in the case. The
trees which now beautify the park
are wanting; likewise the shady
seats all around,
For talking age and Whispering lovers made;
and the band. house, and the two
smaller fountains, where the real
healthy water flows out, etc.
The water you see flowing up and
down and out, in the picture, comes
from depth of geo feet below the
surface and runs at the rate of TWEEN.
ty barrels an hour This vast vol
ume gives the city fine water works
and sends two streams of cool, spark.
ling water ripping down Main or
Bluff street, much as one sees re-
freshing rivulets flashing along on ell /
Their side of the clean wide streets of |
Denver City.
1t is IL O'clock now, and as | am
pretty tired of scribbling, l will rest |
my quill bit and do a little paste |
pot business. Put it in solid. 1t is /
solid, and has i'ro Atwood, of the 1
State Journal behind it:
The following analyses, made by one and /
the same man, the celebrated analytical /
chemist, Pro-. Gustavus Bode, of Milwaukee,
proves that the waters Of these wells shows |