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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-11-06

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shapes all sizes complete. Knits over so different
garments, socks, stockings, mlttens leggins wrist
let's gloves 1t knits every possible variety OF
plain or fancy stitch IS per cent profit in manu-
featuring knit gods Farmers treble the value
oftheir wool by converting it into knit goods.
Agents wanted in every state, county. city and
town, to whom very low prices will be made
For full particulars and lowest prices for the best
family machine send to
Bickford Knitting Machine Man'f'g Go.
BRATTLEBORO VT
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-11-06
CATARRH
THE EYE, EAR, and THROAT
suce sssfuiiy Treated with
SAEFORD'S RADICAL CURE,

UCCFgs Il the test OF merit and success In the treat
- OF Catarrhal Affections, Ter 80 many misern-
bic failuree undonbted spec nc curative proper
CuRK for catarrh possess sneh ropertiesf The eyi
dence The shape unsolicited testimonials rom the
most respectable people in all stations OF life must be
conclusive point. Never. We believe In the bis
tory ofpopu hes tnch valuable testimony
been fcfed freely offer In favor OF any remedy ii
that IN the POSE q tue propristors OF sAsyoEDs
RADICAL CCHE. And valuable L. Il does not repre-
cent thousandth part OF the dations which
to-day offered by friends 70 friends in It's favor. Peo
PIE OF wealth and refinement IN all parts the country
daily admit its superiority over any method OF cure
known the regular medical profession. but shun the
pEblcity inelf,uGl n Published Hence
the testimonials N oar possession represent but ANAL
part OF those Withheld Tor the reason mentioned The
Following unsolelt Testimonial from HRsRY WKLLs
kHo., OF Res, Fargo Co.'S Express "a outspoken
Enforcement Of wi.icA we are lastly proud.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-11-06
g ''''' MEDICAL ADVICE.

A lecture Manhood aal Womanhood, 10 eee'st r Oh
acrly bound yaiuue 81 They CONTAIN COO
100 illustrations. enhancing even ffag f
ztntrtipe system that worth knopins ans nle is o. RI
faaishad ia other T0Fk. The ou.lei sai-E1f
fty-, ~ ssf eoIiar Mejicai HOES published aHa
sa:l.~a 4fief gegz have thr refarasl, It
author experienced Physician ~ uaeT rfaf
eeN 6noWs.4 z53 fhs advice esft, All Frs N
r4eut t.a viii be aecG a great yaar e. if tu
rsri1c irosa Impurities a the early errs last
e The troubles ur9rf the had N
Private" or Chronic" dissases -sett ia tinsif sol
rry. jC0usaitaon spehdsrtai al letters - tInHfs
fnklv answered without eharEe.i Address DIR. Bats
t~9ea.ary. II n. S ST. 81 LJpss No fEaia-ii-'l tjf7
: l. -. d.. hHEAIE ..nnaaA
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-11-06
60 COLLINS 60
vOLTAIC PLASTER
ALWAYS CURES.
Enlarged Spleen.

Enlarged Spleen.
TAisisl eeri.Gy that have been using your coLLiSs'
VJLrAIo PAsr kEs for Enlargement VI tbs Spleen aud
DEPRESSION IN the Stomach. and they have given M
more relief than any other remedy lhnvs ever usrd.
would highly recommend them 10 al suai ring from.
the Effects OF pain rad Inflammation. -
J. ". SELLS
IIcKKRISG. No, June - is75.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-11-06

nUn AEc Is Stops. set Reeds Knee Swelis,
Vu0 ANS stool and book, only $3.50. Pianos,
stool, cover ard book, only Si4375. Illustrated
news paper sent free. Address DANIEL BEATTY
34w4 Washington, New Jersey
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-11-06
Facts for the Public!

The Stomach and
LIrey are the sourc-
es of 1'igoy and
keGlfA--if kept IN a
healthy condition.
There is no kH0syH
remedy Mat zgiH 50
promptly and eT-
cie0t2y insure a
keait1y STOMACH
and LIVER, and SO
thoroughly fortify
the system against
, the sudden changes
\ ofour climate, as tie
q wonderful. vltaliz
4 ing, health giving
II Holman LfEey and
n Stomach Pad. Ii is
Ialso a sure PreveR
si7'e Of disease. Do
,,ok foHfo kJ-F IL,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-11-06

Weaknesses.
Collius' NpIttc Plastcrs give tas 70 sAiisf 90
here Of ay fhivg TINT has bees tlie Tor Iaingl,
Weakness tEc Back. Please send more right Az.
JAMES lEN't
Bsy.Nr, ILL, June 70. !s1i.
I'rfcc, 25 Get -
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Severe Pain.

Severe ram.
Having ncrasic- To- usr remedy for rcry rrere pa!
IN my s.fe ire CIT tf your LOLLtNr' foLTAp' p :
= ard IL ,Wenty.four hours the pala xas tir :.
removed. j. u. SANMiS
Ass't Cashier First Nat. Bal.
WiSOSs. NV. iunc ~. ISL.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-11-06
For sale BY News Dealers. AGENTS wanted.

A uUr7tRF . send Rim tier nsases aud tstTrt,.
II 10 hstaAs assures them that ihey VII lean n
4 ; a-gf 81. 70 their advante @e-Not q Truss. =
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-11-06
FORECLOSURE SALE-JAcoBr,

cHtIiH UTdhI NNWHtNt " rs.
s. MERRICK, Pits Attorney 3zw6
L. o. Address, Fairp.ay, Wis.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-10
The Moscow correspondent of the Co

THE Moscow correspondent Of the Co
logne Gazette saysthe practice of Danish
ing Russian criminals to Siberia has of
late been repeatedly objected to both by
legal and political authorities in Russia,
and that even the Government now
recognizes the necessity of thorough
reform of the present system. Depor-
tation to Siberia was first introduced as
a mode of colonization, and Punishment
did not depend SO much on the degree
of the convict's guilt as on his capacity
for labor; indeed, many persons who
were innocent of any crime used to be
sent to Siberia as settlers. Iti. only in
comparatively recent times that Danish
ment has been looked upon a means of
clearing Russian society of its danger
GUS elements. Only those are now ban
ished to Siberia who are regarded as
dangerous to society and the State, ire
spectively of any qualification they may
possess as colonists. The number of
persons "deported to Siberia in 1875
was about 1S.620; 5000 of these were
sentenced to banisbment by court, of
law, 5000 were banished "by admins
trative Decree" and the rest were the
women and children of the exiles. 1t
is estimated that the total number of
banished persons now in Siberia is about
three hundred thousand.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-10
CrIminality Here and Abroad.

The croakers who have vigorously
proclaimed that New York is the worst
governed city in the world-the one in
which crimes against life and property
are the most numerous and the least
punished-have Just had one of their
arguments knocked in the head by the
discovery and arrest of the murderer of
Mrs. Hull. Now, it should be said, once
for all, to the snobbish people who
vainly attempt to convince their Amer
lean friends that they are above the lat
ter because they find everything in this
country to be wrong, ill-managed,
roughly and bluntly administered, and
that things are well managed only in
titled and refined Europe, that these
very things" are worse in the Old
World than here. Murders and rob-
berries are so frequent in European coun-
tries that capital punishment has been
resorted to in those where death penalty
had been legally or only de facto abol-
ished. The police there continue to
| give mostof their time to watching over
political specters, and allow robbers and
murderers to have a good time. In
England, the recent criminal affairs OF
Easton Square and Richmond show,
among many others prudently kept as
secret as possible by the Scotland Yard
people, that murderers in the
Middlesex and Sussex Counties
have as free scope as the
British papers declared the same unlaw.
full fraternity enjoy here. AS to Paris,
the bloody record is still darker. The
ex-Liberal Prefect of Police, M. An
drieux, is employing so many detectives
to watch Blanqui and other radicals
that he has hardly anybody LETT to pro-
tect the life and property of citizens OF
to discover and punish the criminals
against common law. During the past
three months the Paris papers have
been filled daily, under the heading OF
i" Nocturnal Aggressions," with Ions
list of robberies and murders, the per
petrators of which usually could not be
discovered. Even now, after foul
months of vain search, the assassips O
three persons who were murdered IL
three different places, all situated in th'
very heart of Paris, have not vet beer
tracked by the French police, and 1T il
not surprising that general sentimen
of uneasiness prevails in Paris in regart
to the safety of private citizens.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-10
FOREIGN SUMMARY.

A DETACHMENT of soldiers on the march
near Elizabethpol encountered plague of
grasshoppers in such overwhelming numbers
that they were compelled to beat retreat.
An area of twenty-five square miles was
completely covered by the swarm.
FROM Paris we learn that scaffolding
and an unfinished wall of house in
Montmaitre fell few days since, killing
four workmen and wounding five others.
In a hurricrne on the river Doubs a
steamer with fifty-three passengers was
sunk. Only five persons were saved.
ENGLAND is just entering into a struggle
with four guns weighing one hundred tons
each. They are the work of Sir William
Armstrong & Co., and cost $125,000 each
They are thirty-two feet in length, and are
fired with charges of from four hundred
pounds to five hundred and fifty pounds
of gunpowder, and projectiles of about two
Thousand pounds. Two are to be sent to
Malta, and two to Gibraltar.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-10

The Illinois railroad commissioners
have obtained returns from twenty-six
railway companies, which show that the
+" life of Il locomotive engine varied on
these railways from eight years to
twenty-four, and that the general aver
age duration was fifteen and a quarter
years. Passenger cars endure from
eight to twenty years-the average being
fifteen and three-quarter years; the
average stock cars being ten years, and
that of freight cars eleven and half
years; and railway bridges, of wood,
endure from five to twenty years. As
to the life of rails, the statistics seem to
indicate. that those of iron last from
three to twelve years-the mean being
seven; while steel rails are credited
with from nine to twenty years service
and an average of fourteen years is
obtained from the returns.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-10

The race between fiction and theology
in the making of books is singularly il
lu-trated in the results of the publishing
trade of Great Britain last year. Out
of the total of 1914 books published in
the United Kingdom in 1873, there was
an average of nearly seventeen novels
or other works of fiction every week,
making a total of $40 for the year. This
class of books is the largest in the list: /:
the next IL the theological class, which
numbers 739. But new editions of
novels were almost as numerous as the
novels themselves, while of works on
theological subjects scarcely third
went beyond the first. The time was
very recent when theology led in the
race. In the large catalogue of the Brit
ish Museum, the vast majority of titles
are those of books that treat of religion,
and Allibone gives list of 1889 Eng
lish writers on Divinity" while next
in number are writers of poetry, who
make total of only 5,194. There are
no fewer than eight other classes before
fiction" is reached, with its list of only
2,257. Allibone's list includes men OF
all times and places who wrote in Eng
lish, and these figures, in contrast with
those for the past year, afford striking
suggestion of the intellectual changes of
of a people.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-10
An Irish Zulu.

Mccarthy, the recently captured
chief of the Umzuzi tribe, tributary
of the great Gwazi people, was a
draper's clerk in Limerick in the year
of the Fenian rising. He had relative,
a Constable of Police, who warned him
that his name was on the castle books,
and that if he wanted to preserve his
liberty he had better leave the country.
Mccarthy fed to to the South African
diamond fields, where he prospered,
making two profitable investments in
London. He also contributed sone
readable sketches of the diamond fields
to the London Globe. Somehow or other
he picked up with the natives, and being
of bold, adventurous disposition, and
already reduced to a half savage state
by his occupation, he ended by joining
the Umzuzis. When the chief of that
tribe died Mccarthy was elected to the
position, which he secured by killing in
single combat half dozen pretenders.
He made an effort to introduce
Christianity, but failed. He has a
white wife, daughter of a rich Boer,
who eloped with him some time ago
The lady's father would be glad to, re-
ceive his son-in-law, but the Irish Kafil
refused to desert his adopted people,
1t is feared it will go hard with him on
Court-martial, for Mccarthy, as a com
bination of Fenian and Zulu, can hardly
enlist the friendly admiration of his
captOrs.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-10
A Cautious BOarder.

Charles Thompson, Secretary to the
first American Congress, was noted for
his caution.
When young man, he boarded with
school teacher and his wife, both noted
for slanderous tongues. For some
good cause Thompson wished for a new
clearinghouse; but dreaded to leave
the teachers family, fearing that his
character might suffer from their back
biting. He. however, hit upon an in
genious expedient to prevent them from
slandering him. One evening he gravely
inquired If his conduct as a boarder had
been satisfactory to them. Entirely
so," replied both husband and wife.
Would you be willing to give me
a certificate to that effect2'' he asked.
"Oh, certainly" and they wrote one
then and there.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-10
Bird Lore.

In the Leeh Valley there is belief
that the ravens never drink during June
because in that month they fed the
prophet Elijah. In North Germany,
Swabia and Tyrol, a superstition pre-
walls, that if the eggs are taken from
ravens nest, boiled and replaced, the old
raven will bring root or stone to the
nest, which he fetches from the sea.
This craven stone' is very valuable,
for it confers great fortune on its owner,
and has likewise the power of rendering
him invisible when worn on the arm.
The stone is found in the nests of mag
pies as we'll as ravens, and as it ma kes
the nest itself invisible, it must be sought
with the aid of mirror In Pomerania
and Rugen the method is somewhat
different. The parent birds must have
attained the age of one hundred years,
and the woUld-be possessor of the pre-
cious " stone' must climb upand kill one
of the young ravens, who must be cock
bird, and not over six weeks old. Then
the aggressor descends. taking careful
note of the tree. Then the old raven
Immediately returns with the stone.
which he puts in his sons beak, and
thereupon both tree and nest become
invisible. The man, however, feels for
the tree, and on reaching the nest he
carries off the stone in triumph. Rugen
folks declare that this feat can only be
accomplished by the help of Satan, and
that the mans soul is the price paid for
such assistance. The Swabian peas
antry maintain that young ravens are
nourished solely by the dew from heaven
during the first nine days OF their exist.
ence. AS they are naked and of light
color the old birds do not believe thai
they are theirprogeny, and consequently
neglect to feed them; but they occasion
ally cast glance at the nest, and wher
the young ones begin to show little
black down on their breasts by the tenth
day their parents bring them the first
carriOn,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-10
A COOL PLACE.

Here it may relieve lis, when the
mercury has crept up into the nineties,
to think of town which Humboldt and
other travellers have pronounced the
coolest on the globe. This is Jakutsk
(or Yakootsk), chief town of the pro.
vince of that name in Eastern Siberia, on
the left bank of the River Lena, latitude
81 deg. min. north, longitude 119 deg.
A min. east, and distance from st.
Petersburg 5,75l miles. The ground re-
mains continually frozen to the depth
of 300 feet, except in midsummer, when
it thaws three feet at the surface. Dur
ing ten days in August the thermometer
marks 85 deg. but from November to
February it ranges from AZ deg. to 6S
deg. below zero, and the river is solid
ice for nine months out of the twelve.
The entire industry of the place-popu-
lation about 5,000-is comprised in can
die works, and yet it is the principal
market of Eastern Siberia for traffic
with the hunting tribes of the Jakats
and Buriats. The former, mostly
nomadic, having large herds of cattle
and horses, bring to market butter which
is sent on horseback to the port of
Okhotsk. The Buriats, also nomadic,
bring quantities of skins of sables,
foxes, martens, hares, squirrels,
bears and the like, and many of them
are sold at the great fair in June, which,
with May, is the active period of the
year. In May the collected goods are
conveyed to the sea-ports, whence they
are sent in every direction. The
merchandise, chiefly furs and mammoth
tusks, sold at the fair amounts in value
to 100000 rubles, (S3OO,OOO.) Jakutsk
is evidently place where, if many OF
us would not care to stay ourselves, we
should like very much to have some oi
our friends to live permanently-it
must be SO very uncomfortable, and ther
it is 80 delightfully."- far away.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-10
Another shindy Among the Statesmen

During one of the recent exciting
debates at Versailles, the Presidential
bell, violently agitated by Gambetta,
lost it's clapper, which went spinning
through the air, and caught Nj. Langlois
in the eye. He thought some missile
had been thrown at him by one of his
opponents, and was seeking for some
mark against which he could hurl his
resentment aud the clapper, when he
had hurried explanation of the affair
made to him by one of the secretaries,
who took the clapper from him and
hung it in its place. M. Baudry d Asson
lost one of the skirts of his coat, torn
from him by one Of his friends. who
endeavored to prevent him from rushing
down into the arena,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-10

PROFESSIONAL tramps in Northern
Pennsylvania threaten that they will
burn barns and do all the mischief they
can in a quiet way if the new tramp law
Is enforced. They claim that the high
ways are free, thar the world owes them
a living, and they are bound to have it.
The Binghamton Republican thinks that
a few doses of buckshot with four or
five drachms of powder burned behind
them will doubtless have a soothing
effect,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-10

A FEW months ago young man. now
resident of Grinnell, Iowa, married.
Recently he received package contain
ing note and a cigar. The note ex-
planned that the cigar was wonderfully
fine one. The unusual character of the
gift, coupled with the fact that the
yourg husband did not recognize the
name of the donor, aroused his sus-
picions, and he showed the present to
his wife. She recognized the writing as
that Of a former suitor. She proceeded
to investigate the cigar, and found
several grains of strychnine concealed
in the end. The fellow has not been
regarded as quits in his right mind of
late.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-10

PHILOSOPHERS will be glad to learn
that mysterious entity, the mind, has
been discovered. So, at least, proclaims
Dr. G.. Jager of Stuttgart, who writes to
tbeeditor OF the German periodical
Aw!and that, after long series of in
vestigations, he he's at last caught the
interesting monad which has given SO
much trouble to metaphysicians, and
whose very existence so many Of them
deny. An association of scientific men
will soon meet in Baden-Baden, and
DR.. Jager promises to deliver up the
soul to them, " mathemstically bound
hand and foot"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-10

1T cannot yet be sscertained what
amount of truth is contained in the ru-
mors relative to the approaching abdi-
cation Of the Emperor Of Germany. 1t
is said that his health is fast failing;
but that before remitting the power into
the hands of the Crown Prince he is de-
termined to require that the latter shall
keep the same political advisers who
helped the Kaiser though the latest and
most brilliant part of his reign. These
words evidently point to the mainten-
ance of Prince Bismarck as Chancellor,
and consequently the ministers who do
not agree with him, like Hobrecht and
the famons Falck, are represented as de-
termined upon giving in their resigna-
tion.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-10

A LETTER from Milan relates that the
Baron Won K, an Austrian officer,
quilted his residence in that city in
1859 to join his regiment. Before going
he deposited with notary there will,
leaving all his property to person not
named in the document, and saying that
the notary or his successor would be
made acquainted with the name of the
legatee by person who would call and
identify himself by giving the particu-
lars of the will, which was not to be
opened until the testator's death. The
persons name was then left with the
notary by the Baron, who was subse-
quently wounded at the battle of
Magenta, and died soon after. Before
dying he requested the soldier who
acted as his servant to call on the notary
and name his heir, remitting at the same
time sundry documents to his care.
The soldier was soon after wounded in
the face and lost the power of speech.
He could not read, and was therefore
unable to write the necessary irfOrma-
ton. On the news of the Baron's death
his next of kin took possession of his
property, the notary being unable to
prevent them. A woman named Elb,
in Milan, and her son twenty-six years
of age, lately found themselves in great
pecuniary distress, when a dumb man
called and presented a note with these
works: "I have made many inquiries,
and at last found you. l have learned
to read and write, aud can make you
rich" He then presented the papers
received from the baron, which named
his son by Nine. Elb as his heir. The
claimant called with the old soldier upon
the notary, and lawsuit is on foot fol
the estate.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-10

The Pope is in very much better
health than he was year ago, takes
long walks in the Vatican gardens and
works somewhat less at night. He has
res lived to establish, at his own cost, an
astronomical observatory second to none
in Europe, the Italian Government hav-
ing forcibly taken possession of the OBJ
servatory established by Plus TX for the
late Father Secchi, which the Vatican
considered To be Papal property.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-10

1" take piece of glass end on it l paste
the photographed heads of such spirits
as wish to reproduce in hszy outlines
about the head of the sitter. In the
center of the glass 1 put nothing, but
arrange the spirits in semi-circle.
Then from this prepared plate take
negative, and afterward a positive.
When a sitter comes for photographs l
take negative just as l would any ones.
When the printing is done Iplace the
positive plate of the sitter under the
positive plate of the spirits, and allow
the sun to print them both. The
spirits being in a semi-circle, the i'm
ished photograph appears as if the sitter
was surrounded by heads in the air."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-07-10

Mr.. BRIGHT, of Chattanooga, is ar
ranging for the reception of colony of
fifty or more New England families,
near Wartburg, on the line of the Gin
einnati Southern Railroad. They are
sent out by Boston Colonization
Society, and embrace substantial farmers
and mechanics of different nationali-
ties. They have purchased fifty thous-
and acres of land lying in Morgan, Fen
tress and Scott Counties. They will be
ont in the fall.