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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-10
Bull-Fightjng i'm Mexico.

The bull-fghting of Zacatecas is said
to be the best in the republic. OF
course Betsy and have been-not from
any remnants of Mother Ewes curiosity
lingering in our breasts, but as dutiful
Journalists are in duty bound to see all
things. There are two plazas de torros
here, one in town and the other in the
adjoining village, Guadalupe. Both
are fine structures, built to stand the
wear and tear of time, and capable of
seating immense audiences. And the
bulls are no sickly, half-starved shams
like those of Saltillo, but bound, paving
and believing, into the arena, magnifi-
cent specimens of strength and fury.
In the course of one peaceful Sunday
afternoon the January air was
like our Northern October, and we
thought of church bells and Sabbath
scenes at home we had the pleasure p
of seeing three horses disembowled,
five bulls killed, and one man disabled
for life; and the beastly entertainment
was not concluded when we left. Bull
fighting Is regulated and protected by
law here, and detachment of soldiers
are always in attendance to preserve
order. The government orphan asylum
furnishes a fine brass band for the ma
tional Sunday divertisement-boy from
II to Is years of age, who are paid for
their services by the manager of the
bull-ring. Gentle woman" patronizes
the barbarous performance and appar-
emily enjoys it.-Cor. Springfield Re
publican.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-10

Our little city of the prairie never haC
more glorious celebration of the
Fourth .han on last Friday The town
was thronged with over 200 visitors by
train from Lancaster and from every
other neighboring village in like pro-
portion.
On the stand at the grounds were the
orator of the day, Mr.. ID. r. w. Viii.
liams, of Helena; Mr.. Omar j. Arnold
of Mt Ida, president; Mr.. Geo. w
Parker, reader of the Declaration; Rev
j. M. Phelps, chaplain; Mr.. w. L.
Brown, Rev. w. f. DeLap, of Boscobel
and the Glee Club consisting of the fol
lowing persons-Mrs. Phelps, Mrs. Shra
der, Miss Elida Orchard. Miss Puma
Waters, Miss Lima Byerey, Mr.. JEFF
Vedder, Mr. Joseph Him, Mr.. Ora
Dixon, Mr.. Matt Birchard, and Mr.
Nathan Orchard of Boscobel; and the
Boscobel Light Guard Band.
The exercises of the day were opened
with music by the band, after which tn,
president in short address stated why
we celebrate the fourth of July, anC
called our attention to the greatness Of
our country, its resources and improve
ments, and its growth in population
from three millions to fifty millions
Rev. j. M. Bhelps offered fervent anC
eloquent prayer. After singing by the
choir, ID. 4. w. Williams was introduc
ed and delivered an Grafton. Dr. Brown
then spoke eloquently, which was heart
lily applauded.
Other and interesting features of tn
day were the antics of the Broom Bri
gade and Mulligan Guards on the oper
grounds near the grove.
Everybody present had a good time
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-10
Making His Living IegitimateIy.

There is much in the present bull
market to remind one of the man down
in Indiana who was the only man in
his village having any loose cash capt.
tai. He was one day explaining to an
Eastern man:
"The only stock afioat in our neigh
borhood are five shares of an old saw
mill which hasn't paid these last ten
years. On Monday morning | circulate
the report that syndicate has bought
the mill, and viii at once put it in re-
pair. This sends the shares up to 20,
and / sell ont.
That's legitimate.
"On Wednesdays let it be under
stood that the syndicate is busted, and
that nothing will be done to the mill.
This sends the stock back to 10 and ]
load up"
and what do you do on Satur'
days?p
aOh, those are my regular days for
working up q feeling in the county
that l ought to be paid bonus fol
converting the sawmill into a dis
tillerv. Wall Street Netes.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-10
Sunlight and Human Health.

For some considerable time past the
astronomer royal and his assistants
have been weekly reporting the signifi-
cant fact that the recorded sunlight
during the seven days has been, upon
photographers who need be affected by
this intelligence. What can it possibly
matter to the world at large if there is
not sunshine enough to discolor piece
of sensitivized paper? AS matter of
fact, however, the discoloration of SEN
sitivized paper is but one Of the many
processes due to the chemical energy
of the sunlight. And prolonged alb
sence of sunlight is very serious mat
ter. Its effects upon the health are
direct and perceptible. We get no
ozone, and we become dull and listless,
as if we had been sitting up all night.
When thus out of tone and below par,
we are consequently deficient in that
vital energy which would otherwise en-
able us to shake off any ordinary all
ment. Nor is this all. Absence of
sunlight for any considerable period is
almost invariably followed by epidemic
outbreaks. When the sun is active,
| fifth o. all kinds putrefies as it collects.
When there is no sunshine the filth col
lects, accumulates in masses, and fer
ments. These fermented accumulations
are source OF pos tive danger as soon
as the sun resumes its activity. De-
composition under bright sun is COM
paratively harmless. Slow decomposi-
ton in the dark is especially hostile to
health. We need no chemist to tell
US all this; but at the same time, it is
as we'll to bear the chemistry of com
mon life in mind When the astron.
omer royal reports total absence Of
sunshine we ought to be especially
careful, and, it may be added, children
suffer more from the absence of the
suns rays than do adults. Adults have
only to keep alive; children have tc
keep alive and to grow, which entails {
double amount of chemical work. Now
if there be no sunshine, we can best
supplement its absence by exercise
And yet, strange enough, the absenct
of sunshine is regarded by most mothers
as a sufficient ground for keeping chill
dren within doors. 1t is, on the con
trary, the very reason why they should
be sent out and kept out as much a.
possible. Observer,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-10
yanderbilt's Barber Shop.

Host of the Socialists in this city are
Germans. The Socialists believe in the
assassination of monarchs. Our Amer
lean monarchs are millionaires. Will
lam II. Vanderbilt is despotic by two
hundred millions. Still, he lets Ger
man draw keen blade over his throat
every day. There is a quaint and Jolly
old German, with huge red nose, q
perfectly bald head. and an immense
mustaehe waxed at both ends, who may
be seen any morning of the year going
down Fifth avenue with the march of a
dissipated Prussian grenadier and the
smile of a happy infant. He is gentle
ness itself. Everybody who knows him
calls him Jackey, but he owns the full
name of Jacob Aber. Every morning
about o'clock he stops at the magnif-
cent residence of William II. Wander
bilt, greets the servant who opens the
door blandly, and goes at once to Mr..
Vanderbilt's barber shop.
So much has been written about his
house that it seems hardly as though
anything new could be told, but many
changes take place, and in the south
wing, adjoining Mr. yanderbilt's dress
ing-room, there has been fitted up a
barber shop. 1t is small, and in the
middle of it is BARRIERS chair, made
of dark mahogony and mlaid with moth
er-of-pearl. The base-boards of the
room, the cornices, and the door and
window frames are of the same shade
of mahogany, and the mother-of-pearl
decorations are identical with those on
the chair. The chair is of the reguIa-
ton barber-shop pattern. Old Jakey
shaves the two hundred millionaire, and
then drifts down the avenue, nodding
gracefully to stage drivers and giving
the occasional policeman whom he
meets the Fifth Regiment salute. He
shaves several other wealthy men on
his way down, and finally ends with
Commodore Garrison, on Park avenue.
Then he goes back to his humble home
in the lower Bowery, and smokes a
strong German pipe and plays penuchle
with his wife until o'clock in the af-
ternoon.
Then he wanders up town again and
visits one or two old gentlemen who
prefer to be shaved before dinner rather
than In the morning. He returns again
to the Bowery, goes to fayorite lager
beer saloon in Roosevelt street, and sits
in one particular chair and at one par
ticular table every night until IL o'clock.
Then he stalks off to bed. He is close
to go years of age, and is said to be the
best barber in New York. He gets his
own prices for his work, and probably
has older customers than any other bar
Der in the world. He shaved Fernan-
do Wood thirty years.-Nea0 York let
ter.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-10
An Earthquake.

About 10 o'clock on a still winters
night, in 1857. was sitting writing on
third floor of one of the great houses
that extend along the Chiaja of Naples.
toward the hill of Posilippo, where the
vast masonry foundations of ancient
Roman villas project far out under the
clear blue waters of the Mediterranean.
Suddenly, with no preliminary warning,
| experienced a peculiar sensation of
something new and terrible that was
passing around me- It was difficult at
first to realize what it was. 1t was not
like the vibrations of heavy passing
carts, not like the shaking of storm,
but a rapidly increasing irresistible
movement, as if the earth had been
seized and shaken in sport by some
Cyclopean hand. All the bells of the
house rang violently. The chandelier
above my head swung to and fro like a
pendulum. The floors creaked and
strained as though about to start from
the walls. The doors seemed ready to
fall from their hinges. Although the
duration of the shock appeared consid-
cradle to the strained and startled
senses, it in reality hardly exceeded
eight seconds; but, after brief inter-
val, second shock succeeded, lasting
twice as long, and of such violence that
it was estimated by observers that, had
it continued only about four seconds
longer, the whole of Naples would have
been in ruins. As it reached its climax
l saw the walls bullying out as if about
to fail inward upon me, and unable to
bear longer the protracted suspense of
waiting patiently for catastrophe that
seemed inevitable, / made for the
arched stone staircase of the house, and
at first, with difficulty maintaining my
footing on the swaying steps, reached
the street after the vibrations had died
away. The wide Chiaia, extending a
mile along the shore, and which two
minutes earlier had been silent and de-
serted, was now thronged with a dense
crowd, all dressed in white night
clothes, and all hurrying terror stricken
toward the famous church of Posilippo,
the favorite shrine of the superstitious
Neapolitans. 1t seemed like a sudden
rising of the sheeted dead, thronging in
a moment the streets OF the sleeping
city. But soon the silence of the terri
fled crowd was broken by the loud cries
of women calling for mercy and pro-
lection to the patrons of their idola-
trous devotion. In the southern dis
tricts of the Neapolitan kingdom some
$4,000 persons persisted in this earth
quake, amid the ruins of many villages
and towns. In Naples | remember
hearing that about eighty small subse-
quent shocks had been registered, in
the course of the succeeding fortnight,
at the Royal Observatory. During
several succeedi~g nights the native
population lighted great fires and
camped around them in the streets.
The legacy of terror left by earthquakes
among Superstitious populations and
the difficulty of exact observation when
in the utterly helpless expectation of
sudden death, or mutilation and en-
tombment, have certainly rendered the
records of earthquakes, before the in
vention of self-recording instruments,
peculiarly liable to exaggeration and
the growth of sensational fables. -
Leisure Hour.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-10
The Usual WAY.

my dear" said lady, meeting a
friend on thu +; have you read
the last translai / the latest French
book? 2"
"No, not yet but have heard that it
was too abominably dreadful for any
decent person to read. Have you read
it yet?'
~Oh, yes, and enjoyed it very much.
1t is positively shocking | do wonder
why they allow such things to be pub
lished. They really ought to be sup
pressed.
"That is so; the officials ought to do
something about it. / should think the
publishers would be ashamed of them
selves"
@Oh, they don't think of the morals
of the community; their only idea is
making money"
Well, If it is really as dreadful as
you say must go and get copy at
once. g God day, love.
@Good-by. dear. "-Teras SJtir1qs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-10
Slightly Embarrassed.

A New Yorker who was in Virginia
CITY last summer received a call one
day from sharp-eyed, wiry little clap
WHO said he had few Government
bonds to dispose Of, and would make a
VERY reasonable discount for cash.
"But, lny man. the hank Will buy
them"
Il guess not.
@Why?"
Because the cashier would he down
on me the mint / showed up"
Il can't understand why"
Stranger. you don't tumble worth a
cent, and it becomes necessary for me
to explain that these bonds have been
gradually acquired by stopping stage
coaches and asking passengers to shell
out 1t so happens that the cashier OF
our leading bank is one of the gentle
men who has shelled, and reckon
he'd remember the bonds even if be
had forgotten my phil"
The New Yorker refused to invest,
even at 80 cents on the dollar - Wal
| Street Neics.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-10
Canaaa,s Treatment Of the Indian.

Canadian statesmen say that the In
dams in the States would not cost any
more than they do if Congress boarded
them all at the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
whereas in Canada each Indian costs q
little less than would keep private in
the army. There are about quarter
of million Indians split mp into little
bands, whose reserves are sprinkled
over the lard Ike the lakes Of Maine.
The Government Keeps an account with
each band, sells for them what lands
are not wanted, and holds $4,000, 900 IN
trust for them.
1t instructs them in farming, provides
them with implements, seeds and cat
tie. iustructs their children, and feeds
all who need food with pork and grain.
Already the home farms, where the
savages were shown how to till the soil,
are rapidly being closed up, and the
rations of food are being withdrawn
| from one band after another as the In
I dams manifest ability to store and pre-
serve their crops through the winters.
Nearly all the Indians do something
toward self-support. Some make
| baskets, some make snowshoes and
toboggans, others sell furs, others
make barrels, others catch fish, and SO
on. Five years ago the Blackfeet were
on TIE war path. Now almost every
| family has a house and farm. -Nelc
| York Sun.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-10
Brother Shinbones Deals.

ali, yil hal hal" laughed Shinbones
Smith, as he entered the humble resi-
denee of Peter Magnuff about l o'clock
in the morning.
"Wha's de matter, Brother Shin
bones?" asked Pete.
II ben ter Moo Yawk.'
And then Shinbones broke down with
laughter.
wal, tell us all bout the cuccus,"
begged Pete.
"Jes' 70 hole yo' breff minute, chile.
ben ter call on Brudder Soueezeout
Peabody. Wen / got dar / foun'
Brudder Makeup Misery and Brudder
Lemuel Potterbury Fey war playin'
pokah. Did yo' ebber play pokah ?"
Vas, / ben dar, answered Pete,
sadly.
wal, dey axed me fur ter play, an
l tole 'em dat l didn't know muffin bout
de game. Dey lowed twas berry easy
fur to learn, am dey'd show me how ter
play. Wal, l tuck a hand in Dey
luk'd at my hand ebbery time, an tole
me jess how ter bet. De funny part on
it was dat ebbery time l bet zackly de
way dey tole me / got left"
"Doggone me, Brudder Shinbones."
exclaimed Pete, didn't 30 know no
bettah dan ter do dat ?"
"Hyar, now, chile, yo' hole yo' brett
till dis hyar darby gets trough AFTER
we'd done gone played bout n hour,
SEE to Brudder Makeup, who was set
tim mex ter me, SEE |, 'Brudder Wake
up, reckon got dis hyar game bout
learnt now, SO + yer don't mind I'll try
ter play widout yo' 'sistance'"
g" 1o'm right welcome, Brudder
Shlnbones, SEE he.
Let de procession wiggle' SEE l ter
he, seq L.
so we played de mex hand, an
held two small pair an bet like de
duce on EN-. Wal, | los so GEMS.
didn't say muffin, cause de mex hand
war my deal. De way | shuffled dem
dar keerds would a. made you tired.
Don't wear out de pack, SEE Brud-
der Lemuel.
"'No, but want ter get 'em shuk
up SEE l.
wal, 1 dealed de keerds. Brudder
Squeezeout heput up de ante. Brudder
Makeup he riz it two, an Brudder
Lemuel he doubled it. ! seed 'em an
went 'em four better. Gorramightyl
Yo' jess ort ter see dem darkies open
DER eyes an famine DER hans. Brudder
Squeezeout, SEE he ter me, i reckon
dat I'll have ter see dat raise an so yo'
one better Wal, dey went right on
roun' de table raisin' it, an | stuck
right by 'em. Putty soon Brudder
Squeezeout began to look scarf.
'Brudder Shinbones, SEE he, 'yo'
got putty good hand, amt yer?'
Fair to midlin, seq l.
wal, mex roun, Brudder Squeeze
out called me. i got ace high seq
|. Den dey all looked s'prised, an
Brudder Makeup, SEE he ter me, seq
he, 'Yo're larnin' putty fast wen yo'
know how to bluff Den dem blamed
fools all showed DER hans Brudder
Squeezeout had fouh twos, Brudder
Makeup had iouh skies, an Brudder
Lemuel had foIh mines. He reached
for de pot, but l SCI, HUI on, DART
"'W'a's matter viii yo'?' SEE be; 'yo'
got a ace high.
Vas, SCI /; but it am de ace Of
clubs, an de odder keerds am dc king,
queen, jack, an ten O de same flushp
"Yo' see, chile, played that game
befoah de wah "-Ne1o York Times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-10
CASSVILLE.
FAERPLAY.

Agent. II. G. SNECLoDE, Cassville,
Wis. Notary Public, Conveyancer ana Fire In
surance Agent! Collections promptly attendedto.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-10
The Latest Market Report.

Honor-Scarce; old stock exhausted,
and the new will be a failure.
Virtue old growth nearly consumed;
young growth, prospect very unprom-
ising.
Honesty-None in the market.
Patriotism-First quality scarce, and
none to be disposed of; second quality
easily bought on speculation, at one
hundred per cent. discount.
Prudence-All in the hands of old
stock dealers, and held close.
Modesty Stock badly managed:
none for sale to street spectators.
Vice-Market overstocked
Pride-Market glutted.
Cheap; holders unwilling
to dispose of any at the present rates
Scandal-None at wholesale; dealt Il
chiefly by peddlers at retail.
Religion-Yery little of the genuine
article on hand; stock generally adul
terated.
Love-None offered excpet for green
backs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-10

The Montfort Monitor and the Ian,
caster HERALD are making vigorous
fight against ring politicians in Gram
county. Be sure you are right and thel
press on till the last clique in the politi-
cal sky is dispelled. Republican ring
rule in Grant county has had too large
success and the people are heartily sich
of it.-DodgeviUe San.
Right neighbor: THEHERALD, without
any buster or brag is down on ring po-
liticians and is an honest champion OF
the peoples interests and the right, al.
though, like some of its neighbors il
does not exhaust its wind blowing its
own horn. Heaven save the mark,
if the Montfort Monitor, which has
been malicously striving to injure Hon
E. l. Kidd, one of the best Legislators
Grant county ever had, is held up as an
enemy of ring" rule.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-10
A Very High Fever.

ALI physicians recognize the power Of
Imagination in curing disease, and q
hew instance of it is given in the Med
zeal Record by a doctor living in New
Jersey.
Being called to prescribe for patient
living in the hills above Keyport, who
had long been afflicted with epilepsy,
and whose mind was now somewhat i'm
paired, / noticed, he says, remark
able pallor of countenance, and that
the surface of the body was very cold
to the touch. SO produced a clinical
thermometer to ascertain the temper
ature.
Theyoung man evidently looked upon
it as part of the treatment. SO rapt
was he that when l went to withdraw
the thermometer he gave a start like
one rudely assaulted.
"How did it affect you?" queried l.
"Very well indeed" he replied; Il
think it has made me feel much better.
And then, raising his hand with an air
of benediction, he added: 1T had such
quoting influence.
| An hour afterward / visited young
domestic in ano her family, who was
convalescing from a mild attack of
typhoid fever, where the temperature
had ranged from 100 to 102 degrees for
several days. While here l related the
above incident to her employers, who
| laughed heartily, but the girl, with a
look of scornful superiority, cried out
"Pooh he mustn't ever have seen one
before! Why, l have had two at a time
in my mouth, and thought nothing OF
it"
"Why was that ?" asked l.
when / was on Randalrs Island.
"Yes, but why =? what were two used
for?"
Because because, blurted she ii
confusion, my fever was so high they
couldn't tell it all ON one~
This girl belonged probably to large
class of people in country towns who
seem to regard diseases as accomplish
ments, and to think that person the
most entitled to honor who has suffered
most. Youths COMPANION.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-10
MIR Blaine a Temperance Man.

Gen. Neal Dow is the author of the
Maine Law and the patriarch of prohi-
bition; put he is not crank. He is a
practical man, and has done more for
the cause of temperance than any five
hundred of the self seeking, windy fell
lows whose chief aim seems to be to get
their own names into print. General
Dow supports Blaine and Logan. He
declares that ''the friends of temper
ance should not put another ticket in
the field The Republicans have NOM
mated, in Mr.. Blaine, a lifelong and
consistent prohibtionist, and we should
give him all the help we can
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-10
Not in the Seorning BUSINESS.

Senator Cullom, of Illinois, received
from the Secretary of the Senate q
promise that one of the soft berths in
that venerable ship of state would
be placed at his disposal. The Senator
was in high glee, and for hours and
hours would sit and ruminate over the
delicate problem whom to designate for
appointment to the promised place. At
last he hit upon politician of promi-
nence, the editor of an influential news
paper who had served his country in
the high Office of clerk of one of the
branches of the State Legislature. The
gentleman was sent for. He was re-
ceived by the Senator with great cordi-
ality, and invited to come to the Capitol
as soon as lie had recovered from the
fatigues of his journey, to assume the
new and important duties that awaited
him. He was u man of fine address
and imposing presence, and when ac-
companied by his Senator, he walked
into the Secretary's office to receive his
commission Il stranger not acquainted
with the facts would have been puzzled
to point out which was the Senator and
which the expectant officer The Sec
rotary handed ont the appointment
with a deprecatory smile, remarking
apologetically that it was the best he
could do The Senator read the ap-
pointment over and discovered to his
horror that the salary only amounted
to thousand dollars per annum.
Mr.. Secretary" said he, in torrent
of rage, this is outrageous. We
couldn't think of accepting so insig-
nificant place. Ny friend here would
scorn to occupy so inferior position. :"
Hold on, Senator" said the Western
editor; I'm not in the scorning bust
ness this winter. This place is not
what l expected, but the weather is
very cold, and I don't care to go home
and give the boys a laugh at my ex-
pense. A thousand dollars isn't much,
but it will do to start in on. Mr.. Sec
rotary, | am ready to go to work"
And to work he went. He occupies
the important position of-but no, he is
an editor, and for the honor of the
craft we will not give him away
Washington Hdtchet.