Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-09-30
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an entirely new idea OF princely hospi-
tally.
Gerald Massey, the English poet, has
entered enthusiastically into the home
rule fight.
A resident of Morrisburg, Canada,
has trunk that is two hundred and fif-
ty years old.
The Zanzibar princess, the sultan's
sister, gains a living in Berlin by giving
lessons in Arabic.
This years wheat crop in Great Brit
ain is estimated at 60,000,000 bushels,
from 2,286.000 acres
About seyentv-fiye cars of powder are
consumed every year in the Black Hills
for blasting purposes.
Several nickel mines are being deyel-
oped in the vicinity of Winnemucca,
New, by London parties.
Senator Hearst, who has plenty of
money and to spare, proposes to start
an American daily in the City of Mexi-
co.
1t is said that the police of Cardwell,
arrest every stranger who
hasn't his initials printed on his boot
tops.
The eight members of the Fraser
family in Pictou, N S., are 597 years old.
The mother died nearly at the age of 100
years.
The New York Mail says that Mrs.
Langtry's marriage in New York next
winter is now decidedly among the pos
sibities.
The aggregate wealth of a party of
twenty Cinnamon that recently arrived
in New York city from Havana was
100000.
The story is revived that Henry Will
ard is coming back to Wall street. He
and his wife are said to be worth $780,
600 between them.
Only one of the ten thousand veterans
that took part in the Grand Army en-
campment at San Francisco was arrest
cd for drunkenness
A Bridgeport, Conn, man was aston
ished the other day by receiving an in
vitation to the wedding of his divorced
wife of only two weeks.
Mr.. James p. Voorhees,, youngest son
of the senator, will go on the stage
again this season and open as a tragedy
star in Washington.
c. p. Huntington, the millionaire, is
having built at the home of his child
hood, Litchlield, Conn, Gothic chapel
for the Unitarians of that place.
There goes one white man who
never lied to an Indian" This is the
compliment paid to Bishop Whipple the
other day by an nntutored savage.
At wedding in Grinnell, Ia, the
groom was native of Bath, N. Y, the
bride of Bath, N. H., and the officia-
ting clergyman, DR.. Magoun, of Bath,
Me.
At recent meeting of eminent sci
entists in Buffalo, one of the papers read
declared that thinking men lived thirty
three years longer than those who did
not think.
The first anti-slavery man sent to the
United States senate on that issue is still
living. Joseph Cilley is the man, and
he remains upon his old family home
stead at Nottingham, N. II. He is sc
years old.
Florence Nightingale, Mrs. Sickert,
the daughter of Golden, Mrs. Craw.
ford of Paris, and Mile. Raffalovich
have just been admitted to the Golden
Club, the first women ever enrolled in
its membership.
Sunset Cox writes to an Ohio friend
All hAf,o op1 In
into the old arena. The odor of the
sawdust comes over me, and / feel like
vaulting through the hoop. etc., to fl
out the scene.
Miss Sarah Bruce and Miss Mary Anr
Bruce, two sisters, who lately died il
England, left by will 100000 reals to
the secretary of state for India, in trust
for the education of motherless and
fatherless girls.
Mr.. j. w. Clayton, well-known
business man of Atlanta, Ga, estimates
that at least 10000 people have emil
grated from that city in consequence
of inability to procure employment
since prohibition is enforced.
A gentleman in Athens, Ca, thirty
three years old, never fired a gun in his
life. There is gentleman living in
Schley County who shingles his own
hair, and does it as quickly and as
tastefully as the best skilled barber
could.
Judge Blanchard of the Georgia SUI
preme Court is entitled to draw 500
per year from the state as crippled
Confederate soldier, his arm being of
above the elbow. He declines to re-
ceive the stipend. but is the only one SO
recorded.
Two experienced miners named Hart
sucker and Tinsdel claim to have dis
covered, near Ambraw river, copper
mine which was worked by the mound
builders, and have located claims.
There is great excitement in Oakland
over the rumor.
Mrs. Mary Whitmore, dressmaker
of Bar Harbor, claims to be an heress
of an English estate worth 100000
600. This is probably shrewd device to
conceal the actual profits she has made
during the season from the trade OF
summer visitors.
Bay Allen, for long time travelling
passenger agent for the Grand Trunk
railroad, and lately in the same posi-
ton on the st. Paul, Minneapolis and
Manitoba road. has been licensed to
preach, and will 90 to India as a mis-
sionary in October.
Archduchess Valerie, the youngest
daughter of the Austrian emperor, is
to wed the Duke of Modena. She is
not a beauty, but is described as hav-
ing n delicate bloom and youthful
brightness that makes her very attract
i've. She inherits her mothers love OF
horses.
During her stay in Rio, Brazil, Sarah
Bernhardt performed twenty-five times.
The total receipts were S61, 900, of
which $4,000 went for expenses, leav-
ing $4,000 for the manager, and $780,
600 for Sarah. She was recalled during
her performances more than two hun
dred times.
John O'Mally, of Dallas county, Ia,
is 112 years old, has chewed tobacco
and smoked since he was boy, takes
nip of old Kentucky when he feels
like it. and says that he never recited
more than three verses at time in
Sunday-school, and did not go to sea
as cabin boy.
Samuel Lee, of Attleboro, Mass, was
recently arrested for bigamy. He is a
young man, being not over 20 years old,
and was first married three years ago
to Miss Clara Powers, a maiden of Is
summers. His second marriage was
with Nettie Rollins, aged II years, at a
nelghboring town several weeks ago.
Last year the richest American ner-
chant, d. B. Clahin; the richest Ameri-