Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-01-20
ALL SORTS.

TIE Eastern publishers nave contrlD~
uted nearly 1900 volumes for a public
library at the new settlement ut Rugby,
Tenn.
Col. WILLIAM P. JOHNSTON. son of
Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, is Presi-
dent of the State University of Louis
lana.
FIGURES have been compiled to show
that lazy man will live no longer than
O worker. He simply sees moro circus
professions and bcgs more tobacco.
In Venice there is no wealthy class,
and. as the Only manufactures seem TO be
OF fancy glassware. travellers sometimes
wonder how the 10000 Venetians live.
A BLACK ash tree with beautifully
figured grain, taken out of a marsh In
| Canada, when cut up sold in New York
| for So, 600; the stump was sold for S100
The product was rse4 fol veneering.
WHEN boy walks with girl as
| though he we're afraid some one might
see him, the girl is his sister. Ii he
walks so close to her as to nearly crosd
her against the fence, it is the sister Of
some one else.
A BoYIsH novice in smoking turned
| deadly pale and threw away his cigar.
Said he: "Tbar's something in that air
cigar that's made me sick" 81 know
what it is" said his companion, pulling
away. "What?" ''Fobacker."
PARENTAL affection suffers pang
when children marry Would You be-
LAYING your poor old father?" said an
Irishman to his youngest, lyon who are
the only child I ever had who never
struck me when was DOWN"
ST.. LOUIS owns eighteen parks and
squares, embracing 2, 10T acres, costing
| 81, 405. 900 originally; and on which 81
| 072, 600 have been spent. Forest Park,
| the largest of the lot. contains BIT
acres, but Tower Grove Park, the gift o.
| Henry Shaw, and improved under his
| personal supervision, is fer the finest.
A LITTLE boy, having heard mis-
sionary tell how the natives of South
| Africa live, on going home said, "Ma,
wish / was little South African boy Z
"Why, George, exclaimed the moth
| er, whatever put such an idea into
your head2" "'Cause their mothers
don't wear slippers, said little Georgia.
IT is beautifully remarked that a
| mans mother is the representative of his
Maker. Misfortune and mere crime set
| no barriers between her and her son.
| While his mother lives man has one
friend on earth who will not desert him
when he is needy. Her affection flows
from pure fountain and ceases only at
| the ocean of eternity.
Mr. O'RAFFERTY is sitting in his
room with his head tied up and his arm
in sling, when little boy sticks his
head in and asks, Me feyther STINT me
to inquire how yer eye was coming on
this morning" "Tell yer feyther to at
tind ward meeting himself, and call
the Chairman liar, and he will fond it
all out widout askin'."
mo" exclaimed Mr.. Penheeker-
mo, madam, | object most decidedly,
| Once and for all | say 1.-THE girls shall
not be taught foreign languages. "And
why not, said Mrs. p, with a whitening
sarcasm. Because, " said Mr.. p. with
more whitening sarcasm, "because, Mrs.
p, one tongue is enough for any
womani" Mrs. Penhecker responded
| not.
IT is not what we earn, but what we
save. which makes us rich. 1t Is not
| what we eat, but what We digest, that
| makes us strong. 1t is not what we
read, but what we remember, that makes
us learned 1t is not what we intend,
but what we do, that makes MS useful.
| 1t is not few faint wishes, but life
| long struggle that makes us valiant aud
successful.
In sailors meeting in rough part of
| London the sailors, however uncultnred
they may be, are permitted to take part
III exhortation and prayer. At n recent
| meeting a man thus expressed himself in
| prayer: " Lord some o. these ere peo-
| pie say as how they were brands pluckt
from the burnin'. Lord l was a blazin'
tar barrel, l was; but Thou didst fetch
me out. Lord"
Dr.. WIN. SHARswooD, of Philadelphia.
IS giving his time and efforts toward
| founding a great museum of practical
art and applied science in connection
with the University Of the South at Se-
vance, Tenn, owned and controlled by
the dloceses of the Episcopal church
comprehended in the ten States living
south and southwest Of Virginia and
Kentucky.
QUEEN VICTORIA still shows herself
heartily interested in art and invention.
In Scotland she happened to drive past
field In which new reaper and binder
was being tried. She stopped her car
mage Immediately, making inquiries as
to the working and construction of the
machine, and expressed herself greatly
pleased with the opportunity of knowing
something about this implement.
THERn is some pleasure in superstition
an ornament and at the same time keep
all bad spirits away. And when bride
Is about to leave her home it does no
harm certainly TO throw an old shoe after
her. AS Tenny \ sings:
For this thou & fran all things seek
Marrow Of NJ and laughter.