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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-22
How TO be Happy.

Sidney Smith with his inimitable
humor gives the causes of many of our
daily grievances, and tells us how we
may be happy and cheerful.
When you are in a melancholy fit,
first suspect the body. Appeal to rhu-
barb and calomel, and send for the
apothecary; a little bit of gristle stick
ing in The wrong place, an untimely
consumption of custard, excessive goose
berries, often cover the mind with
clouds and bring on the most distress
ing views of human life. | start up at
two o'clock in the morning, after my
first sleep, in an agony of terror. and
feel all the weight of life upon my soul
1t is impossible tina. can bring up
such family of children; my sons and
daughters will be beggars; l shall live
to see those whom love exposed to the
scorn and contumely of the world But
stop, thou child of sorrow, and humble
imitator of Job, and tell me of what you
dined. Was there not soup or salmon,
and then plate of beef, and then duck,
lanc-mange, cream cheese, diluted
with beer. claret, champagne, hook,
tea. coffee. and noyeau? And after all
this you talk of the evils of lifep These
kinds of cases do not need meditation,
but magnesia. Take short views of
life? What am to do in these times
with such a family of children? SO |
argued and lived detected and with
little hope; but the difficulty vanished
as life went on An uncle died and left
me some money; an aunt died and left
me more; my daughters married well
| had two or three appointments. and
before life was half over became pros
porous man. And so will you. Every
one has uncles and aunts who are NOR
tai; friends start up out of the earth;
time brings thousand chances in
your favor; legacies fall from the
clouds. Nothing SO absurd as to sit
down and wiring your hands because all
the good which may happen to you in
twenty years has not taken place at
this precise moment. Nothing contri-
butes more certainly to the animal
spirits than benevolence. Servants and
common people are always about you;
make moderate attempts to please
everybody, and tie effort will insen-
sibly lead you to more happy state of
mind. Pleasure is very reflective, and
if you give it you will feel it. The
pleasure you give by kindness of man
ner returns to you, and often with COM
pound interest. The receipt for cheer
fulness is not to have one motive only
in the day for living, but number of
little motives; a man who from the
time he rises till bedtime conducts him
self like gentleman, who throws some
little condescension into his manner to
interiors, and who is always contriving
to soften the distance between the poor
and ignorant, is always improving his
animal spirits and adding TO his happi-
ness.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-22

are in any degree conversant with the
political views of the colored people of
this country, that countless numbers OF
them have been instructed to believe
that their citizenship depended upon
the continuance of the Republican
party in power. A most grievous error,
indeed.
Every colored man in this country
who is citizen, is so for the very same
reason that every white man is citi-
zen-because the constitution makes
him SUCH"
Mrs. Frances F. w. Harper, of Phila.
speaks truly in the following words
ITO some the aspect may be gloomy
but we have no right to despair. Let
this not be time of inaction and dis
enlargement If for the next twenty
years the colored people take no fever
SD interest IN the success or defeat OF
either party, but will do all they can to
build up an intelligent and virtuous
manhood, and tender, strong and
true womanhood, we can afford to wait
for political strength while developing
moral and spiritual power. Power will
naturally gravitate into the strongest
hands, be they white or black; and to
strengthen our hands, and base our
race life on those divine certiludes
which are the only safe foundations for
either individuals or nations, is of more
vital Importance to us than being the
appendages of any political party"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-22
A new political party has been orga
The Telephone.

Since the recent decision sustaining
the patents of the American Bell Tele-
phone Company, Professor Bell has
been making experiments with view
to improving the telephone so as to
make it capable of transmitting sound
over longer distances than is now posi-.
Bile. He is sanguine that the useful
ness OF the telephone has by no means
reached its natural limit, but predicts
that it will soon be possible to carry on
conversation between New York and
San Francisco. In cities, he thinks all
wires should be placed underground.
He does not belieye in the relay system
for strengthening the current along the
line, but believes that the sound can bs
so intensified at the receiver as TO be
heard In the remote corners of a large
room. When sound is intensified it is
at the expense of distinctness and clear
articulation. This fault can probably
be corrected in measure, so that if
persons desire il, they will be able to sit
some distance from the telephone and
hear all that comes through the re-
ceiver. The transmitter can also be
made to convey sounds brought to il
from distance. Besides his direct ex-
periments with the telephone, Professor
Bell has long been actively interested
in efforts to promote the education of
deaf mutes. He has, in this connec.
ton, invented an instrument for accu-
rately measuring the hearing capacity
OF the human ear. This instrument has
been tested in some of the New York
public schools, and it is estimated that
ten per cent of the children attending
them have slight defects of hearing.
One per cent of this number are so
deaf that they derive no benefit from
the usual methods of instruction. The
scholars know, of course, when their
hearing is bad, but the teachers, as
rule, do not, and often think a child
dull when it is only deaf. If the teach
ers were aware of the infirmity, and
understood it, the pupil whose hearing
was defective could always be given
position in the room and classes which
would enable him to profit by the in
struction which he is now, in many
cases, losing.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-22
Salaries in Difrerent Countries.

In Hungary each member of the i'm
perial legislative body receives for every
day of the session about 81 40, beside
Sio0 annually for lodgings; in Austria
about So day during the session.
France pays her senators and deputies
about 50, 25l per annum; Holland
about $3.50 per annum and travelling
expenses; Belgium. $S4 a month dur
ing the session; Norway about SO 80 a
day and travelling expenses; Portugal,
$3.50 per diem. Members of the Cant
dian parliament receive. for every ses-
sion lasting over a month, $1,000 and
10 cents mileage; Brazil gives to her
senators 800 for the session, and to
the representatives 81. 200 and travelling
expenses; Mexico allows the members
OF both houses $4,000 per annum; the
Argentine Republic even goes as high
as $500. and in the United States
both senators and members of the
house of representatives receive 5000
annually, with mileage at 20 cents per
mile.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-22
Bismarck's Work.

Prince Bismarck has long been known
as hard worker, and there are few
Government officials in Europe who
have so little time at their disposal as
his clerks. The Prince gave some Gu
rious particulars to the German Reich
stag on this subject during debate on
the budget on the 4th inst. His duties,
he said, are of such miscellaneous
character, being connected both with
home and with foreign affairs, that he
cannot limit himself to any fixed hours,
but must have his clerks at hand from
eight in the morning till ten ut night,
and even later. He constantly re-
ceives dispatches and other communica-
tions throughout the day which must be
at once disposed of, and even after ten
O'Clock his clerks have to prepare the
work for the following day. so that
they usually do not leave the office until
midnight. And yet, the Prince added,
the salaries of his clerks are far lower
than those which their qualifications
would enable them to earn in private
life. They are obliged to know several
languages, and to be well versed in the
law, and are selected from among the
clerks in the foreign office on account
of their trustworthiness and accuracy.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-22
City vs.. CaunfrY Life.

The following from the Chicago
Journal gives some interesting statis-
tics in regard to the relative increase of
population in city and country districts
with theories to account for the same:
Recent statistics show that the popu-
lation in English cities is increasing
more than twice as rapidly as the popu.
lation in country districts. The ratio
OF urban increase in England between
1871 and 1881 was over IL per cent,
while the increase in the rural popula-
ton was but u trfle over per cent. for
the same period of ten years. Vital
statistics on the same subject relating
to population in the United States have
not been recently published, but a
cursory glance at the census returns
furnishes indications that the ratio of
increase in the two classes of popula-
ton is substantially the same in this
country that it is in England.
The cause of this disproportIon be-
tween the increase of urban population
and of rural population can not be at
tributed to the fact that the young men
of the country who aspire 10 become
distinguished, or to be rich, or to pur-
sue avocations less toilsome than that
OF agriculture, leave the country and
flock to the cities for a residence. The
number of this class is less than is gen.
orally supposed, and it is quite count
erbalanced by the number who remove
from cities to the country, or TO small
villages, or who cmigrate to distant
sections
The reason why the population in
cities increases faster than the popula-
ton in rural places is that sanitary
regulations render city life more con
ducive to health and longevity than
country life. An abundance of fresh
water, which people can get. in every
city dwelling by simply turning stop
cock, is great agent of health. The
sewerage, waste and cloacal system of
cities promotes regularity of bodily
habits, which IS disturbed in the coun-
try by the lack of these vital convent
ences. A city resident resorts to medi-
cal advice and physic at the first APP
proach of illness, while a resident in the
country almost universally neglects the
earliest attacks of disease, which often
acquire deadly vigor and malgnity
from the delay in procuring physi-
clans aid. Modern civilized science
has contributed to physical comfort.
which promotes health and prolongs
life, to a degree in cities which is i'm
possible in sparsely settled places, and
in rural districts, where families can
not cooperate in procuring these APP
planes, which are expensive and
otherwise lmpracticable for single fami-
lies. There is little doubt that if the
cholera shall approach the American
shores the present year, it will be found
to be less destructive and fatal in cities
than in rural villages and in country
places.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-22
Suspended Animation.

1t is an event in a mans life to stand
on the platform of one of the grip cars
that crosses Brooklyn Bridge. The ex-
perience is all the more pleasurable be-
cause passengers are positively forbid
den to stand there, and the conductors
cannot be bribed for any reasonable
sum, as is the case in some countries. 1t
requires considerable diplomacy to re-
main there and not get peremptorily
ordered inside. The car has neither
horses nor engine. A wire rope pulls
it along. At first you 60 between walls
with the rattle of vehicles on one side,
and high above you on the other foot
passengers. When the car gets on the
bridge proper you can see through be-
tween the ties the blue water apparent
ly mile below. As | went over the
car passed above the slender tip of the
tallest mast of great ocean ship. 1t
was like standing on your head in
space. You could look down that mast
from the top to the fiat deck, and all
the cordage seemed set in the most
fantastic way. The men on deck were
represented by hats apparently moving
round of their own volition. Then we
ran over a big steamer and looked
down its tunnels. Next a.
Please step inside, sir. Nobody is
allowed to stand ON the platform. ;"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-22
How They Saved the Bank.

Many years ago, in consequence of a
conn ercial panic. there was severe
run on a bank in South Wales, and the
small farmers jostled each other in
crowds to draw out their money.
Things We're rapidly going from bad to
worse, when the bank manager, in fit
of desperation, suddenly bethought him
of an expcdient. BY his directions, a
clerk, having heated some soyereigns in
a frying pan, paid them over the coun-
ter to an anxious applicant. why,
they re quite hotr' said the latter, as
he took them up. ..Of course" was
the reply, what else could you expect?
They are just out of the mold. We are
coming them by hundreds as fast as we
can."
''Coii,ing them!n thought the simple
agriculturists. Then there is no fear
of the money running short. With
this their confidence revived, the panic
abated. and The bank vas enabled to
weather the storm.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-22
New York,s New Anuednct.

The new aqueduct with which New
York hopes to supply itself with water
is the biggest thing that city has YET
undertaken. 1t will cost not less than
S25,000.000. and is an enterprise of
truly gigantic proportions. The cal
culation is to provide facilities for de-
livering 500,000,000 gallons of water
daily from point some forty mi les
away. Practically the new aqueduct
will be an enormous tunnel, longer
than the combined lengths of the three
greatest tunnels in Europe the st.
Gotthard, the Mount Gents and the Ari-
berg. The greater part of it will be
excavated through solid rock at an
average depth of 220 feet below the
ground surface. La some places it will
be 500 feet below. Instead of crossing
the Harlem river on bridge, as the
present aqueduct does, it will be cut
through under the river.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-22
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She is not an Ent0m0l0gisf.

Bob Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle: Ella
Wheeler's latest poem is The Room
Beneath the Rafters, in which she de-
clares she ''saw the hornet come forth
from his mud-walled hanging house. -
We don't intend TO criticise Mrs. Will
cox's poetry, but when she calls mud
wasp hornet we kick. A hornet 5
nest, Ella, is made of home-spun paper,
and is built around 26S, 900 hexagonal
holes, there being, when the nest is in
executive session, about 500 hornets to
the hole. The nest grows. in good
season. 10 the size of a bushel and a
half measure. Moreover. people do
not '.lie in the trundle bedn and watch
the hornets play. as you say you did.
Alb. no; when they happen to come I'M
expectedly upon hornet at play, they
turn and fly. or would fly if they could
trade off their boots for pair of wings.
The chief industry among hornets is
The manufacture of probes and bod
kins. Hamlet speaks of making his
quietus with bare bodkin.'' Now,
when man takes about three-quarters
of an inch of hornets bodkin it
doesn't make his quietus. Land no; it
makes him jump and holler until you
can hear him mild, mild and half,
or two milds.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-22
A New Field for the Antiquarian.

The correspondent of London Jour
nal, travelling with the Afghan COM
mission, tells of a village found in re-
mote Persia, leo miles from Teheran,
so like in the general characteristics of
It's architecture to the pucblos of the
Iunis in America as to suggest the pos
sibiiity OF some connection between the
two peoples. II is the village of Las
grid, and its people ascribe great an
tiqulty To 1t. declaring that Las, a son
OF Noah, drew on the ground GRID
or circle which defined the plan of the
village, which seems 10 be one immense
structure, bearing some resemblance of
form to the Roman Colosseum, though
built almost entirely of mud and quite
without architectural professions. The
rude walls are very thick at the base
aad rise to Il hight of about thirty feet
to line of doors opening on galleries
made by filling in the spaces between
projecting branches of trees. There is
no means of getting upon these CALLER
les from the outside The ways for get
ting up are all inside, in some cases
rough steps OF mud, in other cases in
clined planes, half ladder and hall
road. The galleries are the modes OF
communication between { c houses,
and from their general level houses
rise one above another, or are stray
gled peculiarly away into odd corners,
access to them being very difficult for
the inexperienced, though the natives
get about their frail buildings and
shaky projections with all the agility
and certainty of monkeys. This strue-
turo was of original defense against the
Turcomans, the dwellings being con-
fined to the upper portions of the great
circle. But as there is now no danger
from the ancient enemy, the center,
which was filled up with strange moss
structures, is falling into decay. There
Is but one entrance to the circle. and it
is scarcely four feet in height, and is
protected by heavy stone door, work
ing with pivot and socket. The place
is one of exceeding interest. and theo-
iogians may crack the nut that these
people claim direct descent from
Noah. The Zqnis, it will be remem-
bered, hide away their villages, and
construct their houses on aplan not I'M
like that prevailing in this Indian vii
lage in Persia. This que ton of re-
semblance is worth looking into.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-22
Dakota Sherifs.

A meeting of the sheriffs of the Terri.
tory of Dakota is called for Bismark
Thursday, Jan. %, for the purpose OF
organizing sheriffs' association to pro-
mote the interests of these officials and
make more secure the life and property
of citizens. 1t is understood that some
attempts at legislation will be made,
and this meeting is intended to advise
the members of the Legislature upon
the needed changes in the laws. Round.
trip rates of one and one-fifth fare are
announced on the Fargo Southern, the
Northern Pacific, and Manitoba Rail
roads, and the same concessions are ex-
pected from the Milwaukee and the
Northwestern.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-22
Chinese Paper.

The celebrated Chinese rice paper,
that so resembles wooden and silk
fabrics, and on which are painted
quaint birds and flowers, is manufac-
tured from compressed pith, which is
cut spirally by keen knife into thin
slices six inches wide and twice as long.
Funeral papers, or paper limitations OF
earthly things which they desire to be-
stow on departed friends, are burned
over their graves. They use paper
window frames, paper sliding doors,
and paper visiting cards yard long.
1t is related that when distinguished
representative of the British Govern
ment visited Pekin. several servants
brought him huge roll, which, when
spread out on the floor. proved to be
the visiting card of the Emperor.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-22
The poetic and fervid nature Of ORR

The poetic and fervid nature Of ORR
entails is illustrated in the addresses
presented to Lord Ripon on his return
home from India. 1t may be that they
are servile, but. after the noble stand
made in India for the natives by the
Marquis against European officialism,
they are to a great degree deserved.
"For a thousand years said one
deputation, ''Indian history has recorded
no such ruler" "Thy lovely name is
the countty's lamp and eye" But the
richest of them comesshort of the adu-
tatory eloqueucc of the Shah of Persia
on his presentation to Queen Victoria
Heretofore, he said. 1.-THE years of
my life have been numbered from the
hour of my birth. Hereafter they shall
be reckoned from the moment beheld
the beauty of thy countenance.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-22

Insanity is ON the increase Statistics
show this. Many cases are brought on
by overwork, anxiety, excitement, men,
tai trouble and nervous prostration; it
is also inherited. Invariably sleepless-
ness and constipation manifest them
selves before one becomes insane. Con-
stipation induces dyspepsia, jaundice,
bad breath, piles, pimples, low spirits,
headache, etc. DIR. Jones Red Clover
Tonic relieves constipation, thereby cur
ing these diseases Price, 50 cents.
I. W. Bryan.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-22

President Gartield's bronze statue,
which was ordered for the Pacific coast
of a Nuremberg, Germany, artist, i:
completed. 1t is of heroic size, the
figure being ten feet high. 1t repre-
sents the late president standing erect
with his head uncovered and clothed
in civilian dress. On the sides of the
pedestal are figures representing wal
trophies and the American eagle. The
front face of the pedestal bears in large
raised letters the name Garfield
The statue will soon be shipped to San
Francisco.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-22

The best on earth, can truly be said
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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-22

Sergeant Mason. WHO attempted to
kill Guiteau by firing into his cell, and
in fact narrowly missing the assassin.
is living in peace and retirement on his
farm in Virginia, purchased with the
900 contribution which was raised
by voluntary subscription during bis
confinement in the Albany peniten-
tiary.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-22
SUMMoNs-JAeon Rorsrn, Ct. al.

Circuit Court-Grant County
Thomas Webb, Plaintiff vs. Jacob Roeser and
Margaretha Roeser, his wife aud John Bonn.
Defendants.
The State of Wisconsin. to the said Defendants.
nd each Of them
Iou are hereby summoned 10 appear within
twenty days after service OF this summons. ok.
elusive Of the day Of service aud defend the
above entitled action in the court aforesaid and
In case OF your failure 50 to do. judgment va be
rendered against You according to the dema1,l Of
the complaint ORR Is LOWRY
Plaintiffs Aftorucgs.
P. o. Address; Lancaster Grant County y il.
consin. {2td
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-22

According to tradition, sack was
the last word uttered before the confu-
sion of tongues ut Babel. therefore all
peoples retain it. For instance. IN
Saxony it is ''sace;n German. sack
Welsh. sack Irish, .ssae;" French.
"sec; Latin, ''saccus;" Italian, s.sacco. .
Spanish, ..saco;a Greek. .'sakkos;"
Hebrew, .'sak;" Swedish, sack and
80 on throughout the whole world.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-22

All III, of La Porte, Cal. is the veal
thiest Chinaman in America, having a
modest $2,000,000 to his credit. His
family consists of a wife and six chill
dren. and he has sent them back 10 the
Celestial kingdom to live permanently,
whittier III will follow them as soon as
he settles up his business. He made
his money in the mines and in trade,
and is going home to enjoy it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-22
A GREAT DISCOVERY. -

A GREAT DISCOVERY. - Mr.
VIM. Thomas, of Newton, Iowa, says
my wife has been seriously affected
with cough for twenty-five years, and
this spring more severely than ever be-
fore. She had used many remedies
without relief, and being urged to try
-. Kings New Discovery, did so, with
most gratifying results The first bot
tie relieved her very much, and the sec
ond bottle has absolutely cured her
She has not had so good health for
thirty years"
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