Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-07-12
6raut County Arrald.

6raut County Nrrald.
How Conkling looks-sour.
Some one has been taking a plaster
cast of the will of Augustus. 1t ought
to be easy enough to break that will.
A liquor license in Bismark is 81, 03O
per annum. That is getting right
down TO meat.
Halls Journal of Health for June is
received. 1t contains good table of
contents including many hygenic hints
of value.
Mrs Langtry goes to Australia next
year She might have gone this year
and been followed by the gratitude of
suffering people.
The sheriff of Waukesha county was
recently taken for burglar. The mis-
take was quite natural, but rather
rough on the burglars.
Postmaster General Gresham has
prohibited the delivery of money to the
Louisiana lottery. Even the name of
Gen. Beauregard couldn't save the con-
Germ.
Iowa ladies near Mount Pleasant,
have started a new industry in the pro-
pogation of silk worms. They are fed
on the small twigs of the orange hedge
plant.
The July number of the Electra;
well edited monthly journal, is received.
Its standard of contents is fully up TO
the average: Isabella Leyburn, Louis
vile, Ky.
New York managers of gardens have
put up the price on the pugulists and
in consequence the pugilists will not put
up their dukes for the amusement of the
populace.
1t is reported that Governor Cleve-
land, of New York, and Tammany
have buried the Ratchet. Yet it is not
so deeply covered with earth but it can
be reached handily.
Leadville miner is said to have died
recently from pyaemia, caused by foul
vaccination. 1t would appear from this
that even Leadville ischary of admitting
the effects of bad whiskey.
Lincoln, Nebraska, saloonists who
keep open after ten o'clock are brought
before the mayor. To an outsider it
appears rather hard on the mayor to
keep him up in this style every night.
Dennis Kearney is at it again. Den
mis- says he believes in the people.
Now if he could only induce the people
to believe in him his ambitions would
stand in a fair way of being realized.
The brother of Parnell, the agitator,
has the largest peach orchard in the
world. The agitator could profit by
initiating the example of his kinsman,
and settling downto peaches and cream.
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Now another medical authority says
the much derided cigarette is the least
injurious smoking ofany tobacco, if used
with mouth piece. The cigarette can
assume perpendicular position once
more.
The assisted emigration continues.
1t is thought that the secretary of state
is writing diplomatic note on the SUBJ
ject Bets are even to as to which will
be emptied first, the Irish poor-houses
or the secretary's brain.
People near Diametta, Egypt, are dy-
ing like sheep from the cholera. The
scare has spread westward and an
Oriental steamer was refused a landing
at Brindisa, Italy, by the populace, on
account of its having come from an
infected district.
The latest rumor is that President
Arthur is planning to carry the Hi
nois delegation next year for himself
and Governor Oglesby. Chef. may do
it, but the question that is now animat-
ing the conference is, what will Logan
1 be about all that time.
This is rather rough on the Bourbon
heirs to the visionary French throne,
who have been hourly expecting the
demise Of Count de Chambord. With
; his usual obstinancy the Count is slowly
recovering and the great expectations
are knocked in the head.
Secretary Chandler has issued an
order forbidding the wives of naval Off
GERS cruising in foreign waters from
taking up their residence near where
the ship stationed. The secretary has
evidently been there himself and wants
20 give the old fellows chance
Mile. Litta, whose real name was
Miss Maria Won Elsner, died at her
home in Bloomington, ILL.,. last week.
! At one time it was hoped the gifted
songstress would rally, but the disease
had too firm hold and the fatal ter
mination had been anticipated foI
some days.
1t is announced that the negroes
around Mound City, H., are excited
over the lynching of Cam. 1t is rath-
er late day for an excitment of that
kind. Besides il might be well for
them to produce their authority for the
statement that Cain was lynched.
When Cain killed About then. per.
haps it is another Cain, rs he is said to
have been raised good many times
since the Palestine homicide.