Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-12-30
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occouinS quite center OF tne canary
bird trade.
A red-headed negro is citizen of
Marshallville, Ga. There is also one in
Franklin. Pa.
1t cost the government $1,000 to bury
the body of Senator Miller, of Califor-
mia, who died last spring.
In Cuba smokers consume on an
average of from twenty to forty ciga-
rettes, or from six to twelve cigars q
day.
The streets and squares of Berlin con-
tain upwards of forty-five thousand
trees, and the number is constantly in
creasing.
The whole French infantry will be
provided with new rifles next spring.
The cost of the change viii amount to
500. 100000.
A wall OF brown stone, topped with
bronze fence, keeps stray kline off the
S3,5O0,00 premises of James c. Flood
on Mob Hill. Frisco
During the past three years eighteen
switch girls in telephone Office in q
Connecticut town have been married to
| suUScTlDcTS On Tue line.
Senator Edmunds is put down as
only worth 100000, Notwithstanding
his practice in the supreme court is es-
timated as worth $4,000 yearly.
A hen whose head and mouth are de-
scribed as being in striking resemblance
of snakes is classed among the pos
sessions of Pensacola, Fla, man.
Mrs. Cecil Clay is the real name of
Rosina Vokes, the actress, and she
claims that her husbands family is di-
rectly related to the great American
commoner, Henry Clay.
II the Chinese nation were to pass be-
fore an observer in single file, the pro-
cession would never cease. for new
| generation would be coming on the
stage as fast as the procession moved.
The White Island volcano, in the Bay
OF Plenty, off the North Island coast,
New Zealand, is in active eruption and
sending forth vast column of flame
and smoke, rising to height of 100
feet.
A hundred years ago Meet and Chan
don thought 5000 bottles of cham
payne in one year an enormous pro-
duction. Their successors-one only of
many firms-now bottle about 100000
dozen.
A peculiar custom of the California
Indians is the annual burning" Tho
Indians surround the graves of the
dead with clothing and then set fire to
it, thinking that in this way it goes to
the departed spirits.
Dynamite has been used for driving
piles in Pesth. A cast-iron plate is put
on top of the pile and charge Of III
ounces of dynamite exploded on it. The
effect is equal to five blows of pile en-
CINE having a weight of 14a Vienna
| cwt. and stroke of 10 feet.
While working in the rock cut on the
east side OF the river near Leigh, Ia,
the workmen found buffalo's horn i'm
bedded in the rock thirty feet below the
surface. 1t was in such an excellent
state of preservation that the rings
could be easily counted on it.
1t has been supposed that the name
Columbia was first used in America
in 1875, but Col. Albert II. Hoyt has
| found it in volume of poems COM
posed in 1861, mostly by Harvard grad
yates, in honor of George Ill. and the
commemoration of George ii.
"Stop your work the moment you
feel that it is telling upon you, and take
your vacation on your feet-not on
| your back" Such is the sound sense
expressed by the Critic younger" in a
bit of a paragraph telling of the dis
comfture of some brainworkers who
overdid the thing.
A new prophet has arisen in Hart
county, Georgia. He predicts that the
world will end in 1890. and has sold all
his earthly possessions with view to a
timely settling up on his own account
He claims to be the spirit of Elijah IN
carnate, but that notion will hardly
keep him out of an asylum.
Ex-senator Chambers widow is one
| of the most lavish entertainers in De-
| troit society. The repairs and extern
sions made to her beautiful home and
| grounds make it now one of the hand
soonest in that city, but its capacity is
frequently taxed to the utmost to ac-
commodate the many who throng this
brilliant woman's court.
In Charlcstown, Mass, there is a
family. the paternal head of which is
connected with the city works, two sons
are policemen, one son occupies posi-
ton in reformatory belonging to the
city, one is letter-carrier. two daughters
are clerks in the employ of the city, and
one daughter, the youngest, hopes soon
to obtain position as teacher in pub
lie school.
A natural grotto was found in the
heart of the glacier of Arolia, in the
Erongerthal, in the Valois, by Professor
Forel, of Morges Canton of Vaud),
who with some fellow members of the
Swiss Alpine Club, explored the gallery
to a distance of $50 metres-273 yards.
1t was, in some places, % metres wide
and from 2 to 5 metres in height
Further explorations are to be made in
this grotto.
An editor out west remarks that he
has good reason to believe that news
paper men become white mules after
death, because the expression of the
countenance of white mule has often
reminded him of some deceased brother
journalist especially the respondent
droop of the lower lip. He also calls
attention to the fact that editors and
white mules seldom die and are awful
hard to kill
Nine. Patti, according to Fraulein
Louisa Lauw, deliberately proposed to
the Marquis de Caux; not he to her.
One evening while they we're sitting
chatting alone he innoccntly mentioned
that Paris reported them to be engaged
and he laughed. Very well-why
not? should be very happy. | am
sure" returned Adelina; and, with
some pleased confusion. the Marquis ac-
cepted her hand then and there.
Between Fourth and Fifth streets, on
Spruce street. Philadelphia, Pa. work
men recently came upon an ancient re-
miniscence in the shape of cemetery
that antedates local historical records
and is not accounted for by the oldest
inhabltant. The laborers first struck q
stone wall several feet below the surface
of the street, which was regularly and
substantially built and had resisted the
ravages OF time, and close by found a
vault, in which were human skulls and
bones and the remnants of decayed and
broken collins.
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