Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-03
ALL SORTS.


IMMENSE quantities of deer, antelope
and mountain sheep arc being killed in
Wyoming Territory.
IT is said that five large panthers in a
herd have been seen within three or four
miles of Benton, Ark.
In South Carolina there are 46, 225
members OF the Methodist Church, and
189 local preachers.
WENDELL PEIrrIps says that no re-
form, moral or intellectual, ever came
down from the upper classes OF society.
Mgs. JESSIE FREMoNe has organized
classes IN history among the grown-up
sons ard daughters of poor settlers in
Arizona.
DURING the late cold weather the
Catawba river, In North Caroline, was
frozen over, for tine first time in twenty
seven years.
A New ORLEANS merchant says that
the loss to the orange interests caused
by the cold weather viii probably reach
$3.50, 900.
The copper men of Lake Superior
boast that they make more money than
the gold and silver men of the Pacific
States.
THE Union loss during the Rebellion
was 1877, 1874; the rebel nearly 200, 600.
This is stated to be the recently-veri6ed
official account.
ENGLISH railways are adopting bright
nickel-piated engine trimmings, just as
American railroads hayeabandoned brass
ornaments.
RICE culture begins to attcact atten-
ton in Eastern North Carolina. 1t has
been tested on high lands, with good
success, in Pasquotank and other coun-
ties.
THE Empress Eugene is avery wealthy
woman. She has estates in Hungary,
Spain, France, Switzerland, Italy, and
England. She has, beside, the product
Of savings and speculations, and the in.
surance on the life of her late husband.
The Zulu King, Cetywayo, is still
confined in the old castle at Cape Town,
where, guarded by two soldiers, his only
occupation is to sit on the ramparts and
gaze at the vessels in Table bay, or
watch the trains go by between the suter
walls of the fort and the sea beach.
THE Prince Of Wales seems really to
like Gladstone, who, If he were not at
times a little rigid and cold, would
among some of the people of Great
Britain be considered as Carlyle, Rus
kin and Reade are frequently spoken OF
as some OF the good old fellows" He
always seems to be o walking treatise on
something or other.
A DENVER merchant gave dollar to
tramp who tottered barefooted into his
Office on cold day. Going out imme-
diately, he saw the beggar take good
shoes and stockings from under the
steps and put them on. He admins
tered whipping, and, when sentenced
to pay fine of $40, declared that he had
never bought SO much pleasure for SO
little money.
A BUG has turned up in Asia Minor
which feeds upon the eggs of the locust
Where a cluster of locust eggs is exam
ined the destroying insect appears in the
midst of them. Loeusts from time I'M
memorial have made themselves dis
liked in Asia, and the new bug, which is
believed to deposit its eggs in the live
locust's body, has general sympathy and
encouragement.
GAMBETTA is fat. His complexion is
that Of an Italian. His fine hair is
sprinkled with gray. His lips, which
are resolute and compressed, are shad-
owed by black mustache, and he has
also a short gray beard. His dress is
far from being that of a dandy, but he
wears white flower in his button-hole.
When he speaks he makes but few gest-
ures- those vehement.
In 1911 Holland offered reward of
25, 900 guilders (about 100000 for the
discovery of that Northwest passage
which Prof. Nordenskiold has at last in
our day accomplished. This offer was
long forgotten, but it was never recalled
and it is now probable that Holland will
pay the promised reward to the success
full explorer, little though he dreamed OF
the possibility of such compensation
when he started on his enterprise
Or late the question of tattooing has
been revived i'll the British army to act
as check against desertion and prevent
the re-enlistment of bad characters.
Some time ago, when the assertions
were at the rate of 5000 year Gone
artilleryman had enlisted and sold his
kit eleven times in two years, before he
was detected), Sir James e. Alexander
submitted to the Horse Guards small
instrument, with a spring, to tattoo In
simultaneously and with hardly any pain,
q man above the left wrist. India ink
rubbed on the punctures left the impress
sion OF neat, small Queens crown, iii
blue, the size Of sixpence, and in
delible.