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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-11
LabOuchere's Love Purchase.

The Philadelphia Times publishes
this story as from an English party,
showing the way Labouchere came iuto
possession of Mrs. Pigeon; "Well,
Labouchere did the square thing. at any
event. He met Mrs. Pigeon when she
was playing as Miss Hodgson in Lon
don, and became greatly interested in
her. He was then, as now. a mar of
wit, of political and professional status,
worth a pile of money, and what you
would call in this country a 'genteel
rounder.' So he sent his solicitor to see
Pigeon. who was a little man, or what
you call in this country q calsominer,
working at $3.50 a day, and the solicit
tor said to him, See here, Pigeon, this
wife of yours won't live with you any
longer, and Mr.. Labouchere is very
much interested in her, and, if she conld
be turned over free to him without n
embarrassment and with the certainty
you would not institute criminal pro-
ceedings or any other calculated to in
yolve her in disgrace, he is willing to
pay you f1,000.' Whereat the male
Pigeon responded: We'll, l don't
know so much about that; she may not
care to live with me, but l prefer TO
live with her. oh, WE'LL rejoined the
solicitor. Il am sorry we cannot come to
terms; | am authorized to hand you
1000 sovereigns and will do So
Well said Pigeon, Il don't care if l
do Whereupon the solicitor handed
him Mr.. Labouchere's check of a 1000
sovereigns and took his leave. The
next morning the male Pigeon went to
the bank and had his check cashed, and
found himself, for the first time in his
life in possession of a large and glitter
ing pile of money. Hardly had he with
delighted footsteps retired when Mr..
Labouchere appeared and asked at the
counter if a check of his 1000 sover-
eigns had been presented that morning.
He was told that it had. He requested
that the check should be given him,
which it was. Whereupon he departed
to the home of his beloved, and gayly
6ourished the check before her admir-
ing eyes, informed her hat he had her
and there was his receipt. From that
time on the male Pigeon has avoided his
former partner, who, by the way, says
she has not even seen him in eight years
and she has been recognized in such
circles as she can find entrance as the
wife of the distinguished editor of the
London Truth BY the by, | hear to-
day from trustworthy authority that the
divorce proceedings in Virginia will
probably be quashed, and that some
more open-handed way of dealing with
certain real estate transactions in the
vicinity of Richmond will be resorted to.
1t is evident that there is no foundation
for il%l-natured scandal in reference to
this Pigeon business in tile Ricomond
court, it being born in the desire of the
Laboncheres to comply with a law of
the State, without obeying which they
cannot transfer some property which
they w in that section"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-11
Pitifui Plea,

A st. Louis girl thus appeals to a
journalist; II have worn one gown four
times this season, for the number of
parties | go to exceeds the number of
gowns | wear as four to one, aud | am
not ashamed of wearing one costume
many times. But / am ashamed when
| see that beautiful pale blue silk with
that familiar 'garniture of Lace des-
cribed with microscopic accuracy, SO
that all my friends may know that /
have been dancing again in that same
old rag. Won't you ask the managing
editors to insist that the reporters shall
not describe the same gown worn by the
same girls week after week to our
shame and confusion, but if they must
put us in,' let them put us in afresh
and arrayed in new habiliments.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-11
The One Who Suffered.

paid a visit to Mrs. Theodore Tilton
q few days ago. She is a kind of
cousin, though not of blood kin, and
has always been a favorite relative with
me. She is, and always has been, q
lady OF rare refinement and gentle love-
illness. Those who have only known
her in connection with the horrible
Beecher trial, know nothing whatever
about her. Well, | found her boarding.
house on Bedford Avenue. Brooklyn, at
ter II little search, and she welcomed
my visit rs OF Old. She is fearfully al
tered BY these awful years. Her per-
sonal beauty, ice very marked, is al
most gone-only here and there a trace.
The soft, bright, innocent eye remains,
but that alone. Her delicate hands,
once SJfi as velvet. are now hard with
toni; the iHsjt0us brown harris very graz,
ANA the punk auu White Of the Old beau
tlIul complexion replaced by a dull sal
low. But hcr life is full Of peace and
rest which ''the Grid cannot give
The seYen-tIHies-ur&ted furnace ~ puri-
fled, not consumed (saye the Qross),
and to-day she has what others have not
"a conscience void of olIcnse toward
God and man" Oh! in the day when
accounts are settled-and they will be,
thank God-let me be in her company,
81 ! there, like her, venturing all to keep
everything right with God. Iwrite this
word for my dear cousin, of whom / am
prouder than in the days when she was
not the forsaken creature she is, but the
center of an admiring social circle,
where all acknowledged her charms.
! cannot say that slime ut last sets all
things even" as Byron does, but |
know eternity does. And so | bid her
goodbye, with the radiant smile of the
reflex of the deep soul-peace lighting up
her faded face and for a moment glorf-
flying the ravages of grief and despair.
George Barnes ia Stanford Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-11
A Lost Alligator Recovered.

About eighteen months ago the Zoo
logical Garden loaned to the Exposition
a young alligator two feet long to adorn
the cascade in horticultural Hall and
give an appearance of wildness to the
artificial scene by the presence of animal
life of a repulsive kind. The alligator
behaved very well for sometime, and
satiated his appetite with bugs, flies and
mosquitoes. But one night he disap-
peared, and he was mourned for lost or
stolen, although the Commissioners
thought that there was no man in Gin
cinnati mean enough to carry away an
alligator. In a few months the absence
of the loathsome creature was forgotten,
and it was believed that he wandered off
and died.
Recently it became necessary to hire
the services of a gas filter at Music Hall
and Mr.. Tom Wise sent for Mr.. z. j.
Hogan to connect the street gas with the
Music Hall Building. 1t will be remem-
bered that the Elm-strect front of Horti-
cultaral Hall is about three feet above
the level of the part used for the cas-
cade and exhibit Of plants. Into this
raised portion Mr.. Hogan went boldly
with q wrench and lantern, but he had
scarcely disappeared from view when a
most unearthly yell was heard, and the
poor plumber, without lantern, hat or
tools, rushed out towhere the astonished
Wise and his assistants stood. Hogan's
hair stood up like bristles on the fretfuI
porcupine, and his eyes rolled with such
an expression of terror that the other
men shrunk from him. He could hardly
calculate: BE J-s, I'll not go in there
agin. There's the most inferrnal-lookin'
cratur l ever saw. 1t opened its big jaws
and wagged its baistly tail at me, and
wanted to ait me up. Be heavens, when
it moved | moved, too. The gas may go
to the divil."
Mr.. Wise, thinking the man frightened
without cause, undertook to explore the
cavern and beard the monster in his den.
but he was only absent a few seconds.
and made quicker time in reaching day
light than Hogan. He stayed long
enough, however, to find out that the
riptile was an alligator, and at a rapid
glance seemed to measure four feet in
length. Here, then, was the alligator
which was supposed to be lost, and
Hogan had found him. 1t had probably
crawled into this retreat and had hiber-
mated in the moist, marshy ground. The
food which Mr.. Alligator had INDUCED
In probably consisted of rats and small
bugs and insects. AT any rate, he was
still alive and increased his length dur
ing his mysterious absence about two
feet. But there seems to be a DISPOSE
ton to let him severely alone for the
time being. Later the floor was removed
and Mr.. Alligator was captured and re-
turned to the geological Garden.-Csn-
cinndti Enquirer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-11
A Count and a Colonel.

Washington Special: A full fledged
sensation is agitating diplomatic circles
tonight. There are four parties to it, a
Spanish count, a society belle, a eau
tious uncle and an irate colonel in the
American army. The count undertook
to give lessons in French to the young
lady. She took kindly both to the les
ons and the count, much to the die-ust
of her uncle. The colonel, who has a
liking for the young lady, shared the
uncle's antipathy. The four met at the
uncle's residence a few nights ago.
The young lady's eyes beamed lovingly
on the count. This angered the colonel
and annoyed the uncle. BY degrees
conversation began personal. The
young lady left the room in high dud-
geon. Then the colonel spoke his mind
freely and the count did likewise. The
uncle patted the colonel on the back as
it were. A climax was reached when
the colonel said that no foreign count
was worthy of the uncle's niece. The
count stalked Indignantly from the
house and next day sent a challenge
through a United States officer, and also
accompanied the bearer of the challenge.
A fight with pistols was arranged to
come off a week from tonight. The
lady is in the dumps, but says she will
marry the man she loves in case he
is not killed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-11
1t Was UnlOaded.

A little excitement occurred on Sat
urday last in the auction store in Blakey
block, where watches, jewelry, ~revolvers,
etc, were being disposed of to the high
est bidder. A young man in the crowd
asked permission to examine q revolver.
The proprietor handed one down from
the shelf. The weapon looked innocent
and handsome, and the young man dur
ing the examination naturally pulled
the trigger, and like all unloaded pistols
it went off. There was a little commo-
ton. a badly scared customer and pro-
prietor. 1t seems that the a~uetioneer
lad handed down a s~elf-coeking revolver
the firm kept ON hand in cast of '.emer-
gencies'' by mistake. - huilsbarg Free
DrcSS
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-11
4 Novel Messenger.

Saturday morning, Dec. 16, Mrs.
Michael Mcdonald. who lives southeast
Of Adamsville, stepped out to the wood
pile for m armful Of wood. she trod on
n stick which turned and threw her to
the ground and broke one of her legs
about five inches above the ankle. Her
husband was at a neighbours helping to
thresh, and she was alone with TWO
,mail children, the oldest not over four
Years ~ aee. atrs. VI. c-omprehendcd
t.e predicaraeae she was n-She was
wita03t e messenger whereby to sum
M IN heip Size craw. cd 80 the house.
when, fortunately, a neighbours dog
came to the place; coaxing him into the
house, she wrote a note stating her ac-
cident aud tied it about the beasts neck.
enclosed in an old apron. Thereupon
She turned him u of doors, and fiogged
him well, so that he scampered home,
where the apron vas taken from his
ueck. and the message was discovered.
which brought the desired assistance.
She is now dong as well as could be ex-
peeted. -Minerat Point Tribune.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-11
MODJESKA'S VIOLA.
Just How II Looked to Clara Bell and How the
Audience Liked II.

Stst y II Apohou 10 NiAI4 Dell anu HOW the
Audience Liked II.
Modjeska, as dressed in a boys cos
tune for Rosalind, at Booths Theatre,
made no great display of limbs, padded
or otherwise, and was altogether a
lovely picture. A round. black velvet
hat, with a border cut in squares. sur
mounted a flossy dark wig, The doub-
let was black and fell a few inches be-
low the waist. The tights were drab
silk and visible only from the hips to
the knees. Below that were tight-fitt-
ing lcggings, or boots, of brown leather
A cape of dark cloth, faced with satin
of the same color, hung from her
left shoulder almost to the floor, and
gave a charming picturesqueness. Mod
jeska is not as young as she was ten
years ago, but her figure is trim, her
movements as 1.-THE, and her face as
delicately expressive. Last Monday
night, Modjeska made a complete sur
render of her legs to the public, the oc-
casion being her first appearance as
Viola in Twelfth night She wore
drab tights from hips to heels, when
disguised as a page, and they were un-
broken in their smoothness, except by
simulated garteis just below the knees
The display was most satisfactory, and
yet the actress was so nervous that the
performances got general newspaper
condemnation the next morning. 1t is
true that as Rosalind she had done with
out skirts, but in that case her limbs
found refuge. at least to their lower
halves, in leggings, while her entire
legs were making their debut. They
seemed possessed by stage fright, for
they moved jerkily, and were painfully
self-conscious. The ease and grace of
the lamented Nelson's walk and pose
in this same character of Viola were
lacking. Modjeska'scostume was jaunty
and beautiful, but suggestive of q bur-
lesque outfit, and l wondered when /
saw a clerical old chap chasing her all
round the stage with the focus of a
opera-glass, whether he realized that
though he was studying Shakespeare,
he was enjoying exactly what those
wicked people do who go to see the
British blondes.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-11
TrOllepe's POsthumOus Work.

Anthony Trollope is said TO have left
o than n complete story, of which
not a page has yet seen the light. He
used to say of himself that he had pro-
duced more volumes than any other
writer of this OF any other day. His in
innate knowledge of the feminine mind
and nature, shown especially in the
scenes between women alone. was once
illustrated by the question addressed to
him by n who was sitting next to him
at dinner: "Mr. Trollope. how do you
know what we ONE say to each other
when we get alone in our rooms?"
Trollope made more than $500, 900 by
his pen during the last five-and-thirty
years.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-11

An enterprising orange-grower in
Florida recently sent an order TO q New
York butter factory for several barrels
of skinned milk. He wanted ii for a
wash for trees TO kill off insects. but he
could not obtain it. 1t was all used for
making ''full cream cheese.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-11

An experienced farmer recommends
that oats be soaked sufficiently Il swell
them before feeding to stock. Ground
oats are in proper condition at all times,
but millers are not partial to grinding
oats, and many farmers feed them un-
ground. When soaked the husk is
partly torn away, and facility of diges-
ton increased. Poultry will carefully
pick on the soaked grains from the dry
when allowed a preference in the matter.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-11

A New Jersey farmer has been con-
vinced that the common wire-worm is
the cause of scab in potatoes. He has
always found these worms in the bills
of potatoes that were marked with scab.
To prevent it. he would use no fresh
manure or other fertilizers that contain
these worms.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-11

A man named M~cDonough, at Butte,
Montana, the other day laid off his coat
containing $3.50, and proceeded to whip
a mar with whom he had a dispute.
When he got through he found that
somebody had stolen his money.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-11

The Jersey COW Bomba, 10. $3.50, own
ed by A. B. Darlington, New Jersey.
under a special test, superintendent by
a representative of the American Jersey
Cattle club. produced in seven days q
pounds ia ounces of butter. Her feed
was good pasture six quarts of middlings
and corn meal each day.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-11

BERLIN. Jan. 4.-The foundations
are taking the form of a great public
catastrophe. The distress is increasing
hourly. The military and civil authori-
ties are making the greatest exertions
to mitigate the misery Of the disaster.
There is no signs yet that the crisis of
the calamity is reached. The high tenn
p~erature and rains continue.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-11

Breeding Shetland ponies has become
very profitable. They are in great and
increasing demand as playthings for
children by those who are able to in
dulge in such luxuries. An eight thous-
and acre ranch in Texas is entirely de-
voted to raising these ponies. They
are very hardy and eat but little more
than SO many sheep,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-11
Raising q Fund.

SPRINGFIELD. Jan. Steps are be-
ing taken BY gentlemen here 10 raise
5000 for the destitute widow of Frank
LEmbard, the campaign singer. Quite
a sum has already been raised. The
citizens of the state are asked to con
tribute freely.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-11

CLINTON, Jan. S.-Dr. Burgott, of
Kenny, Dewitt county, and Miss Anna
Allen, of Weldon, were married today
on 3 train while in motion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-11
ORGANIC
WEAKNESS!
ORGANIC

Immediately cured and full vIgor restored. This
sfniction-which renders life a burden and mar
rage impossible-is the penalty paid by the
victim OF improper indulgence. Young persons
are too apt to commit excuses from not being
aware Of the dreadful consequences that may
ensue. Now who that understands this subject
will deny that pro-creation 10 lost sooner by
those falling into improper habits than by the
PRUDENT Besides being deprived OF the pleas
ure OF healthy offspring. the most serious and
DESTRUCTIvE symptoms OF both mind and
body arise. The system becomes derauged. the
physical and mental functions weakened, loss OF
progressive power, nervous irritability. dyspep-
sis, palpitation OF the heart, indigestion, consti-
tutional debility: wasting Of the frame, cough.
consumption and death.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-11
A CURE WARRANTED

Persons ruined In health by unlesrned pre-
tenders, who keep them trihing month after
month. taking poisonous sndinjurious compounds
should spply Immediately.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-11
MARRIAGE.

Married persons, or young men contemplating
marriage, aware OF physical weakness 0oss OF
provocative power, impotency), nervous debility,
or any other disqualification, speedily relieved.
He, who places himself under ths care of DR..
Fishblatt, may religiously confde in his honor as
. gentleman, and confidently rely upon his skill
as a ply sician.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-11
DIR. FISHBLATT.

Graduate OF one Of the most eminent Colleges of
the unlted states, has effected some of the mos.
astonishing cures that were ever known; MANY
tronbled with ringing in the head and ears when
asleep, great nervousness, being alarmed at GER
tain sounds, with frequent blushing. attended
sometimes with arrangement Of the mind, were
cured immediately.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-11
YOUNG MEN

Who have become victims OF solitary vice. that
and destructive habit which annually
sweeps to an untimely grave thousands of young
men OF exalted talent and brilliant intellect. who
might have otherwise entranced listening senates
with the the th1nders OF their eloquence. or
waked to ecstacy the living Tyre, may call with
full confidence.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-11
DR.. FISHBLATT

Has discovered the greatest cure in the world
for weakness of the back and limbs. involuntary
discharges, impotency, gcndral debility, nervous
ness, languor, confusion of ideas, palness Of
sight or giddiness, diseases of the throat. nose.
or skin, affections OF the liver, lungs, stomach or
bowels-those terrible disorders arising from
solitary practices more fatal to their victims than
the songs Of the sirens to the Mariners of Ulys-
ses. blighting their most radiant hopes or antici-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-11
Deformities,
Spinal and
Chronic
Diseases

Dyspepsia, Asthma, Angina, Pectogis, Chlorosis,
Loss OF Voice, rheumatism, Rheumatic Govt,
Liver Disease, all kinds of Sexual Weakness,
Headache, Nervous Irritation Of the
Brain, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Disease Of the Heart,
Diseases, Commissions, Hysieria. Neu-
ralgia. Thrush. Congestion OF the Spleen, Irrita-
tion OF Stomach, Diseases OF Kidneys, liberation
and Displacement OF the Womb, Morbid Appe.
lite. Wakefulness, General Debility.
Delta chief., 1883-08-29

are the parasites of belief in divine Law
giver, Ruler, and Awarder, were pro-
foundly and profusely religious. A COM
monwealth or state without Lawgiver,
law, and worship, in its private and
public life, was conception which, not
to the Hebrew only, but to the Greek and
Roman, was impossible 10 thought, and
beyond the stretch of imagination. 1t
has been reserved for these latter times.
1t is the delirium of men who, having
known God, have turned their faces from
Him. The theory that the recognition of
God can be removed from the acts and
legislature of the commonwealth is to
strip the political order of mankind of
its divine character. 1t is to relegate
religion to the private life of men, and
desecrate the public life of the state.
Such desecration no christian ever i'm
agined to be possible till the lawless One
should come, who shall exalt himself a
bove all that is called God or worshiped
Even the Emperor in the days of per-
secution was hominent a Dec secund-
um-solo Dec minorem.
Delta chief., 1883-08-29
Why People Take Medicine.
IN, In nritI.h onartrrlr Rcricw.

DR. Crafts In British Quarterly Review.
II is TO be feared that to most people
medicine is not an erudite science or a
learned art. but is little more than the
commonplace administration of physic
They cannot understand medicine with
out drugs, and its virtue and power are
popularly measured by the violence of
its operations. Its very name is in ordi-
nary parlancc synonymous with physic
Take from it its pills and potions. and
for them you take away its whole art
and mystery They do not believe in n
scheme of treatment, however deep-laid
and skillful. which does not include n
certain statutory dosage. So that, as n
rule. medical men are practically COM
PEELED TO give their patients visible
object of faith in some form of physic.
which may be at most designed 10 effect
some very subordinate purpose, And
IL is remarkable how strongly even
among the educated classes this feeling
prevails. Cure by the administration
of mixtures and boluses is SO fixed and
ancient tradition that il is only very
slowly that the world will give it up.
The anxiety of the friends of the patient
wants to do more than follow the simple
directions of. f..nursing. which have been
SO carefully inculcated and possess ap-
parently so little eremedial power. There
is nothing of the unknown about them
IN which n fluttcring hope of great ad-
vantage can nestle. Thus it is necessary
to educate the world into a belief in
medicine apart from drugs, which finds
its power of curing in adaptations of
the common conditions of life and ap-
plications physiological facts-a med
icine which takes into its hands the
whole life, and orders and fashions its
every detail with scientific detiniteness.
Its found in everyday practice that this
popular misunderstanding of the modern
spirit Of medicine constantly checks the
little tentative advances of a more scien-
tific treatment, and it is necessary that
1t should be generally understood how
powerfully the various processes OF the
economy may be affected by the man.
ipulation of the conditions of common
1ifa