Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-11-04
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During the year ending last June nine
Oregonians died aged one hundred.

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Baby alligators are sold by the hun
drcds as ladies' pets yearly in New York
city.
Geronimo and his band are said to
have been the authors of $500 brutal
murders.
1t is fashionable thing at San Diego.
Cal, for bathers to smoke cigarettes
while bathing in the bay.
In the town of Charlottetown, Canada,
ID is a common sight on the streets to
see women smoking cigars.
| A Norwood. Ca. negro slept SO sound
ly that he was not awakened by rats
that were eating off his fingers.
Several large stove manufacturing
works are being established at Birming-
ham, Ala, by northern capitalists.
Virginia newspapers are calling on
northern and western farmers to go
down there and build up the state.
Gen. Sherman has made his home at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, and
will spend the fall and winter there.
The local option law passed by the
Washington territory legislature last
fall has been declared unconstitutional.
Miss Harriet Hosmer. the American
sculptress, now living in Italy, is report
ed to have lost much of her fortune in
Keely motor stock.
Wong Tie, Chinese desperate who
| for years has been terror to his coun-
trymen, has at last been arrested and is
now in Jail in Tucson.
Out of 1850 cans of milk, examined
one day recently by the New York
health department, 20 were found to
contain adulterated milk.
Nathan Robbins, the veteran Boston
banker. is SO years old, has occupied an
Office for sixty years, and has been alb
sent because of illness only eight days.
A Mapleton, Mass, lad recently sent
up some lanterns on the tail of his kite,
and the citizens turned out en- masse to
view what they thought was tine
meteoric display.
The only piece of land in the United
States that has been kept under English
entail is GARDENERS island, GARDENERS
bay, L. l. For two hundred years it has
fallen from father to son.
The latest gem in the line of coron-
ers' jury verdicts comes from Dakota,
where the jury found that ''she came to
| her death from felonious desire to
reach happy hereafter.
Each member of family living in
Irwin county, Georgia. has peculiar
deformity, each having to resort to
small blocks under their heels in order
to make locomotion practicable.
Boston is pluming herself upon the
fact that the whole valuation of Florida
| ($69, 000,0 00) is barely more than half
| the amount invested in the fashionable
| quarter known rs the Back Bay within
the past twenty years.
A Concord school philosopher makes
it as plain as the MONDAY sun when he
says that there are many; there is one;
and their unity by the oneness of the
many enables us to grasp the manyness
OF the one in the threefoldness of its
totality."
Millionaire Walters, of Baltimore, APP
parently has more money than he can
| find profitable use for. He has Just
bought in New York $4,000 orchid to
add to the collection of costly bric-a-
brac which comprises the $4,000 peach.
blow vase.
Louisville has forty thousand colored
people, many of whom are prosperous
and some of whom are rich. Some OF
the best real estate in the city is owned
| by colored men; there are three or four
furniture-dealers and many coal-yards,
groceries, and saloons owned by neg
roes.
Queen Victoria has been presented
with an umbrella specially made for hel
at Glasgow. The handle was a round
globe of fine gold representing the
world. studded over with precious stones
to represent her Majesty's dominions-
wants the earth.
The utterancc, ITO the victors belong
the spoils," has generally been ascribed
to Andrew jackson, but it is shown
that it was first used by William L.
Marcy, of New York. in the debate in
the United States Senate on the nomina.
ton of Mr.. Van Buren, by Jackson to be
Minister to England.
A letter, having two 10-cent confed-
crate postage-stamps thereon, was placed
in the Richmond, Va, postoffice one
day last week to be mailed. 1t was
directed to a gentleman in Manchester,
and was only some twenty-one years be-
hind time. The stamps had or them
the head of JEFF Davis.
A gentleman in Pittsylvania county,
Virginia, snapped mule valued at 800
for four hundred acres of poor, unim-
proved land. The railroad has since
brought the land up to the cash value
OF "a, 900; but the owner complains of
the railroad tax, because it is so much
larger than he would have had to pay
upon the mule.
Washington by moonlight" says a
| correspondent. lis wonderfully beauti-
full The moon tints to mellowness the
rare old marble of the public buildings.
1t takes away the rustiness of the tomb
like Treasury and puts life into the
statues. The White House looks like a
fairy palace under the rays of the moon,
back in among those old forest trees"
Miss Harriet Goodwin, a niece of
Stonewall jackson. is member of the
Shaker Society at Alfred, Me. She is
native of West Point n. Y, her mother
being a sister of Gen. jackson, and
came to Alfred from the Shaker Society
at New Lebanon, n. Y. She is a wo-
man of much culture and refinement,
and is recognized as one of the leading
and most efficient members of the Alfred
society.
The grandeur of the Muir glacier
fades into insignifcance compared with
that which guards the coast of Icy Bay,
as seen by the voyagers on the last cruise
of the Pinta, says the ALASKAN. 1t APP
pears to be about forty miles long. Its
height could not be estimated. as the
day was cloudy and its upper ridge OBJ
scured, but enough could be seen to in
dictate that it was at least three times as
high as the Muir-that is to say, eight
or nine hundred feet.
Lord Randolph Churchill, according
to an observant visitor at the House of
Commons, in speech of eight minutes
made $50 movements with his hands
He crossed his hands in front of him,
behind him. above him. below him; be
laid his hands upon every part of him
within reach; he caught hold of every
inanimate object within circle of two
yards or SO. He differs, however, from
many of our American politicians. He
didn't put his hands in anybody else's
pockets.
The Rev. DR.. Joseph Parker of the
City Temple Church, London. who has
been entertaining Mr.. Beecher, has
come 10 the conclusion that, as he writes
to the AdUdnce, you must live with