Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-24
ENTERTAINING PARAGRAPHS.


TWENTY years ago an iron theatre YVES
shipped to Australia, from England, In
convenient sections, so rs TO DO put up
easily On arrival there.
A WOMAN at West Cornwall, Conn.,,
falling to induce her husband to move
out of house which she did not like,
deliberately destroyed it by fire.
LET us not despise homely persons.
They serve to remind us that out
slight variation In our facial lines would
have irremediably marred our beauty.
A WRITER on dogs says that every one
given to sedentary pursuits ought to
keep dog, as the necessity of giving
exercise to the dog will exercise the man.
The following is an epitaph from a
tomb near Versailles: Except in 1889,
during which for several days she took
lessons on the piano, her life was without
a stain.
II WISH" says DIR. Schliomann, that
l could have proved Homer to have been
an eyewitness of the Trojan war! Alas,
can not do it. Still the doctor has not
lived in vain.
DURING the reign of Napoleon L a
book of birds for children was suppressed
because it contained the phrase: "fhe
cock is rather the tyrant than chieftain
of the farm-yard.
EVERY shell fired by nm army during
siege operations costs, with the powder
with which the mortar is charged, the
sum of eight dollars-enough to support
poor family for fortnight
One of the modes Of punishment in
China is to compel criminal to die OF
sIeeplessness, by keeping him awake
week, night and day Ten days is sure
to prove fatal and is terrible agony for
the victim.
An official return puts the feminine
models" in Paris at 675. The pay for
sitting is from so cents to $40. Most
of the models are Italian; thirty are
american; lbs have been in the hands of
the police.
THERE is a man in Newark, n j., so
close that when he attends church he
occupies the pew farthest from the pulpit
to save the interest on his money while
the collectors are passing. the plate for
contributions.
Tue stages and theatres of tho Greeks
and Romans were 50 immense that the
actors, to be heard, were obliged 70 have
recourse to metallic masks, contrived
with great mouths, to augment the
natural sound Of the voice.
A GENTLEMAN in Buckingham County,
Va, has among his domestic animals
large rat, which was caught twelve
months ago by cat; but, instead of
devouring it, the cat nursed and fed it,
and they now play and sleep together,
like cat and kitten.
A SAD story is related by The Pittsyl-
vania (Va.) Tribune. A young man in
that county bought house. fitted it up
from garnet to cellar and purchased his
wedding outfit. But the wedding didn't
take place. On the day fixed the bride
married another fellow.
The Milwaukee Sun speaks Of a per-
son who .'turned as pale as the ace Of
spades. We always supposed the ace Of
spades was red, and was hard to distin-
tinguish from the jack of-diamonds. as
we believe that card is called where the
figure wears crown orristowa Her.
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ANoTHRER of the Blue Laws in We
olden time was: 'sNo one shall run ON
the Sabbath day, or walk in his garden. J.
or elsewhere, except reyerentially to and
from meeting. No one shall travel, cook
victuals, make beds, sweep house, cut
hair or shave on the Sabbath day. No
woman shall kiss her child on the Sab
bath or fasting day."
IT is melancholy fact that crystal
palaces do not pay. That at Sydenham
has been financial failure, and now the
Alexandria Palace, on the northern
heiDhts of london with ito l,aoutif,t
park of four hundred and seventy acres,
is announced for SALE The expense of
keeping up these places is SO large as TO
absorb all the profits.
YIoroR HUGO wrote to those friends
who fixed commemorative tablet on the
house at Besancon where he was born:
II thank my -countrymen with
profound emotion. / am a stone of the
thoroughfare humanity traverses, but il
is the right road. Man is master neither
of his life nor his death. He can only
offer his fellow-citizens his efforts TO
diminish human suffering, aud to show
his unshakable belief in the extension of
freedom
New HAVEN brute saturated cotton
with alcohol, tied it to dogs tail and
then set fire to it. The dog started on
the run to go under the brute's barn.
Then it dn't seem SO funny to the
brute. He madly howled at the dog and
ran after him, but before he could over
take the animal it got under the barn,
but somehow the cotton went ont and
didn't set the barn on fire. This was
poetic justice. Barn was insured for
twice its value