Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-20
Personal Pot POurri.

Julis Verne Is catching III the Zuyder
Zee.
Madame Anna Bishop is teaching
singing in New York.
Ben Perley Poore is to write biogra-
ply of the late Gen. Burnside.
Anna Dickinson commences her theat-
rical tour at Hartford, Conn, Jan. 3.
Foster received plurality of 24,062
votes in Ohio. Not many, but enough
to count.
Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, has
been confirmed by the Senate as minis
ter to Spain.
Mario, the great tenor of times past,
employs his leisure time carving and
carpentering.
Mr.. Tilden is spoken of as an "inno-
cent old man" Ifsuch be innocence It's
folly to be wise.
Senator David Davis fighting weight
is 400 pounds. Should he put his foot
on measure that ends it.
Geiteau's trial is fixed for the 9TH of
November. 1t is not a very long time to
wait providing justice is to be done.
Maggie Mitchell has made a big hit
in her new play of the Little Savage
as has Lolita in her new play of Bob. !"
Hon. j. X. Graves, Senator elect from
Dubuque county, Iowa, received, in a
Democratic stronghold, majority of
1900.
Sir Bartle Frere states that in one
year diamonds to the value of S17, 5OO.-
900 have passed through the Cape Town
post-office.
Capt. c. H. Sullivan has been ap-
pointed by the fish commissioners, as
superintendent of the state hatchery at
Milwaukee.
Brother Thomas has been declared a
hereto by the Rock River conference.
Brilliant preachers have poor show in
that conference.
Il. l.. Carver, of Pt. Andrew, Wis well
know in that section as postmaster and
merchant dropped dead while at work on
the river bank recently.
Queen Christina, of Spain, is near
sighted and always forgets to take her
glasses when she attends a bull-fight.
A pity others could not do likewise.
Glare Louise Kellogg. since her re-
turn from abroad, affects the Spanish
style of dress, and wears quantities of
black lace and stiletto in her hair.
Iroquois faltered in going up the rise
at the Newmarket races. 1t is quite
safe to say that the hearts of his back
ers faltered at the same time. They had
reason; Iroqouis came in third.
Cyrus w. Field has written to A. J.
Drexel, of Philadelphia, that the memo
rial window to President Garfield in
Williams College is now assured, and
that the designs are nearly ready.
Prof. Goodwin Smith has been black
balled as an honorary member of the
st. Georges society, Toronto, Canada,
on account of his favoring annexation
OF Canada and the United States.
Lothair Won Faber, proprietor of the
famous "A. w. Faber" pencil factory
at Stein, near Nuremberg, Germany,
has been made baronet by the King
of Bavaria. So much for making good
pencils.
Secretary Window prefers to be sem
ator from Minnesota rather than Secre-
tary of the Treasury. This wish will
undoubtly be father to the deeds of the
Minnesota solons when in legislature
assembled.
Francis Miles Finch nominee on the
New York Republican state ticket for
Judge of the court of appeals is poet
That is a decided Improvement Even
bad poetry is better than the average
stump speech.
Ex-Governor Rice of Massachusetts,
| has bad luck in the matter of intended
brides. OF two ladies to whom he has
been engaged at different times. one
died very suddenly and the second has
recently gone insane.
MIR. r. A. Harlan, a son of Justice
Harlan, and valedictorian of the first
class at Princeton College, has been
appointed to a 81, 900 clerkship in the
Post Office department. Valedictorians
from Other colleges need not send in
their names however, as all can not be
so fortunate