Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-02-15
6raut County Aerald.
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Advertising can obtain the same terms from the.
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Gn authority to make contracts and transaer bus
ness for this paper.
HAZEL GxErx AND VICINITY Mr.. Geo. Mill
Headquarters north Of Empire Hotel
FENNIAoRE AND wINovlLIE; Mr.. Joe Morrison
Headquarters at Squire Rooney's. Fennimore. wher
all orders may be left in his absence.
Mt. IDA Mr.. II. Buggins as TnE HERAL
agtn for the town of Mt, Ida will tran sact bus
ness at the postoaice in said town.
A New York suicide has been sent t,
Jail for not making a better job of it.
A daily paper u a ..leathe
mems banquet This viii doubles.
be a tough feast.
Gambetta's father is about to publish
his sons letters. There are worse thing
than trunk straps.
The oldest English baronet is Sit
Moses Mcntefiore. who is now in hi.
one hundrcdth year.
america wants a man. shreiks I
correspondent of u leading journal
Well, how would DR.. Mary Walker
do.
South Carolina young men carry the
fore paw of a RABBIT in the left breasi
pocket. This is a rabbit of foolish
ness.
Miss Lillian Russill, the rising young
actress, will leave for Europe as soon
as her health will permit, to recuperate
the same.
Massachusetts, farmers pay out three
hundred thousand dollars each year il
poisonous food with which to regale tn,
ravenous potatoe bug.
A new disease, called azoture, ha.
made its appearance among the cattle
of Staten Island. A name like that
would he dangerous anywhere.
1t is proposed that the Rhode IslanC
legislature donate a dictionary to eacl
member. From this it would seem
that legislators are much the same til,
world over.
The creditors of the Mutual Life In
surance Company of New York, are Il
have a dividend of five per cent. Thi
is generous considering that INSURANCE,
officials must live.
Out of two hundred and eighty-ont
clerks, appointed on probation las
August, in the pension office, two hun
bred and fifty stood the test and reeeiv
ed reappointment.
Theodore Tilton is preparing a new
edition of his novel tempest Tossed
1t may be well to state, in order to pre-
vent mistakes, that this is not Il record
of the celebrated trial.
The Senate committee on foreign
affairs will report fayorably the reso-
luton directing the president to Civ,
notice of the termination of the fishery
clause to the Treaty of Washington.
Many of the mono-metallic journal,
are harping about the .'buzzard dol
lar" yet it would startle a blind man tC
witness the avidity with which each anC
every one would take buzzard in tlieir'I
if opportunity offered.
A North Carolina negress drank
quart of the staple article of ''mountail
dew" manufactured in that state and
died in four hours. From this it would
seem that North Carolina whiskey com
mences operation right from the wire.
Frank X. Foster, of Massachusetts,
has presented to the Senate committe,
q startling exhibit of the suffering, temp
tation and ~depravity. of the working
class in that state, and Massachusetts
is no worse than any other state whose
inhabitants are to a large extent labor
ing people.
Fashion notes say the drapery o
dresses next spring is to follow tn
old Greek models. This will result in
rare saving to the occupants of oches
ira chairs. Greek drapery on the stree
is much better than Greek drapery OF
the stage and saves the cost of a seat il
the front row.
The Milwaukee Sentinel has built VI
a reputation rs being one of the hes
dailies in the Northwest but this reputa
ton stands in danger of serious damag,
if it persists in its course of apologizine
for the guilty parties in the Newhal
House disaster. A good deal of abb
bodied explanation is quite in order from
the Sentinel.
Disappointment is the lot of mankin,
and o Virgins has proved a blanl
fraud. Virgins viii be remembered a
the weather sharp who had ordered
choice selection of fury for the ninth o
the month. Either manufacturing hat
ceased or the stock had become depict
ed on account Of heavy orders previous
II, as the expected terrors failed to pu
in an appearance. Mr.. Virgins, il
Wildesque language, has sank into "a,
blank oblivion of unkuowable nothing
ness.
Congressman Ben Butterworih OF Obi,
was not far onto the way when he sal,
in speaking of the Gubernatorial nomi
nation, which it was thought would b
rendered him. II think | ought to de
vote the rest of my life to acquiring
fortune for my family. would rattle.
leave to my children a handsome leg
acy, so that | could know they woul,
be comfortable, then to leave them til,
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