Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-06-19

Chinese say there 10 8 well of wis
dom at the root ofevery gray hair.
Tsose who criticize most severely
the works Of others, seldom can pro-
duce any themselves.
We ought not to Judge of mems
merits by their qualifications, but by
the use they make OF them.
"The idle should not be cIassed
among the living; they are sort OF
dead men not to be buried.
Ladies are like violets, the more
modest and retiring they appear
the more you love them.
Shallow rivers are commonly
noisy rivers and the drum is loud
because il is hollow.
The Northern Pacific Railroad
Company 10 trying to extend the road
to the Yellowstone this year.
The Spanish Bank 1t Havana will
soon publicly burn 100000 OF
worn paper currency.
NEW York, June 17.-Lord Lotus,
the newly-appointed Governor of
New South Wales, has arrived here,
or bis way to Sydney.
The old man looks dawn, and
thinks OF the past. The young man
looks up, and thinks OF the future.
The child looks every where and
thinks Of nothing.
Medical men declare that the vic.
Tins ofthe poisoned. brook horror 10
Vermont, died Of diptheria, superin-
duced by the pools Of tagnant water
under and about the school house.
We must not calculate on the
weather nor on fortune, but upon
God and ourselves; He may fail us
10 the qualification of our wishes,
bat never in the encounter with our
observation-disclosures
DR.. MILLER Of the Omaha Her
aid, the leading Democratic paper
Of Nebraska, characterizes the SIR.
render from the original purposes Of
the Extra Session. as "a disgraceful
and dangerous farce"
ALL that remaius IF William
Lloyd Garrison having been return
ed to mother earth, the Georgia
Legislature might rs well repeal the
old law Offering reward Of So, 900
for bis head.--Philadelphia Press.
NJ. De LEssEps is confident of his
ability to raise the money necessary
to build the proposed canal across
the isthmus. In Paris and London
alone the great Frenchman expects
to raise money enough to guarantee
the success of the enterprise.
"Good morning, William. How
are you? And how is your poor old
mother ?" "Well, sir, I don't know.
don't live with the old woman now.
I've got lodgings of my own; but
| won't see her waut." "Ah! sup
pose that's why you've moved away.
The Polk County Press says
"Give rs railroad and we will give
you q city Of 5000 in Eve years. !"
That is q big promise for an unmar-
ried man, bus we think, with the
hearty cooperation of his neighbors
Charlie would do it.-Lumbern.an.
A loyer received the following note,
accompanied by beautiful bouquet
"Deer-, send bi the boy buc:
kett Of fours. They is like my love
for u. The mite shaid menes kepe
dark. The dog fenil menes am ure
Slave. Rosis red and possis pail !;
mi luv for shall never fale.''
A Batter county woman slyly at.
tached pedometer to her husband.
when, after supper, he started to
Ego down to the Office and balance
the books" On bis return fifteen
miles of walking was recorded. He
had been stepping around the billi-
ard table ell the evening.-Dubuque
Times.
Adversely exasperates fools, de-
jects towards, draws out the facul-
ties of the wise, puts the modest
woman to the necessity of trying
her skill, awes the opulent and
makes the idle industrious, Much
may be said 10 favor of adversely,
but the worst of it is it has no
fri ends.
Sour SToMAcR.-A sufferer from
want of appetite and sour stomach
can be greatly benifted by leaving
al medicines alone and tor q time
existing entirely on milk and lime.
water "a tablespoonful of lime water
to tumbler of milk. IF this disagrees
in any way, increase the quantity of
lime water.
ARTIFICIAL flowers are 10 crate fa-
vor in Paris. Vases and miniature
gardens in drawing-rooms are filed
with them. They are most beautiful.
The India rubber plant, begonias,
cactuses and similar plants are in
great vogue, and when surrounded
by flowers AZ artificial az themselves
they are not attractive. In many
houses the pipe of the porcelain
stove OF the ante-chsmber literally
disappears under q mantle of climb.
ing plants.
UNTIL very recently it was not
Known that either copper or silver
existed in Maine. A coppar belt.
some two miles long and from 200 to
400 feet wide, has now been discov.
cred about the middle Of the south.
ern psrt Of Maine, directly on the
coast. Some twenty miles to the
northward Of this copper belt, silver
has been found IN flakes. masses and
filaments. A shaft has been sunk
some hundred feet deep, and it is
reported that the ore increases in
richness with the depth.
An INFANTILE VIEw.---This is the
view taken Of it by an infant of st.
Joseph, Missouri
Little Freddie was undergoing the
disgreeable operation of having his
hair combed by his mother, and he
grumbled at the manoeuvre.
"Why, Freddie" said mamma, "you
ought not to make such a fuss. |
DON'T fuss and cry when my hair is
combed."
EYES," replied the youthful party,
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