Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-01-06
ALL SORTS.

A MnwAUKEE policeman has fallen
heir to $50, 600.
A MOTHER with twenty-nine children
has passed through Dalton, Ga, going
West.
THE Ohio editors meet Jan. 10 at
GAINESVILLE and take an excursion to
Washington.
QUEEN VICTORIA is expected to pass
through Paris on her way to Germany
in February.
A PANTHER killed in Coahoma county,
Miss, measured eleven feet four inches
in length.
In one grove in California are 1880
trees, none measuring less than six feet
IN diameter.
VENNoR, the weather prophet, used
to be workman in an Az factory at
Ballston, n. Y.
Two OF Gen. Garfeld's sons are to
enter Williams College next year. One
is II, the other is Is.
Robert TooMBs, of Georgia. has given
1000 acres of Texas land to aid in form
ing university in that State.
JOSEPH SELIGMAS, the New York
banker, gave away $25, 600 on Christmas
day-$l 900 each to ten public charities,
and $500 each to thirty.
GEN. SLOVENIAN, who lives at Los An
geles, Cal, is making money out OF
grapes. He has Just sold his crop Of
the present year for $4,000.
4 THIEF at st. Louis was chased out
upon the great bridge by policeman,
and, rather than be arrested, dropped
ninety feet and was drowned.
The st. James Gazette asserts that
Siberia is far richer country than Can
ada, and enjoys climate neither warmer
in summer nor colder in winter.
THE proper caper at London din
ner parties now is to have real fruit
trees in the dining room, go that the
guests may gather their own dessert.
They claim to have parrot in Gov
entryville, Chester county, Pa, known
to be 60 years old. 1t has been owned
by members Of one family for that
length of time.
They are just now introducing the
bank-check system in Austria, the Gov
eminent having ordered an inyestiga-
ton of its laerits with view of its OIL
cial adoption.
TIE common punishment in Wash
ington public school has been confne-
ment in the boiler room, where the
temperature is 10. One little girl was
made seriously ill.
l.. j. JENNINGS, the London CORE
spondent of the New York World, says
that the English demand for American
canned goods is being ruined by the
poor quality Of the goods now sent
over.
A MAN in Montgomery county, Pa,
whose family already contained thirteen
children, was electrified one day last
week when his wife presented him with
three more (triplets), all bright and
healthy.
LARGE quantities of whisky are being
taken out of bond in the Pittsburgh
district, the demand for fine grades
having increased greatly. ALL the dis
tilleries are running, for the first time in
several years,
IT was reported that President-elect
Garfield was sick with dyspepsia. Pack
ages of medicine are being sent to hna
from all parts of the country by persons
who would not have an Office it it was
offered to them.
EVANGELIST MoopY's seminary at
Northampton, Mass, is full, containing
now about 100 pupils, including the In
| dian girls. The latter are making ex-
cellent progress in their studies. They
are very fond of music.
JOHN w. MAcKAY, the California mill
ionaire, has announced his intention of
giving $4,000 to endow q scholarship
in Bowdoin College, and a Philadelphia
gentleman who does not desire his name
published will do the same.
THE champion fish story comes from
Nevada, it being alleged that party OF
seven men who went fishing in Pyramid
lake and violated the provisions Of the
State law for the preservation of fish,
had to pay fines amounting to $4,000.
JAMES w. ENGLISH, the newly-elected
Mayor of Atlanta, Ga, was rebel sol
der, who gave up at Appomattox and
came into the city in May, 1865, with
80 cents in his pocket. He began
work there carrying brick at 80 cents
day, but is now one of the city's heavy
men.
THE bridegroom in mock marriage
at Holton, Kan. thought It was all In
earnest. He had pestered the bride
with his attentions, Notwithstanding
numerous rebuffs, and she had conspired
with her friends to make sport of him.
A wedding party was gathered, cere-
mony was performed by pretended
clergyman, and the victim did not know
that he had been imposed upon until the
time came to retire for the night. Then
they undeceived him.