Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-08-05

The youth who's all gymnastic with brain
mats unelastic, stuffed with knowledge
peripnfastic, comes to see us III our sane
tuh; ne delights in erudition, and his
present modest mission is 10 show COM
position which in college fairly .yanked
He then proceeds TO tell us that whatever he
should sell us would be breezy as a
scribers.
That his trenchant style of writing should be
made both bright and biting, and would
surely prove the blighting OF the alder
manic bribers.
But we get his worth specific when he asks in
words terrific, with nerve that's so
pacific that it leaves us sort of weak, If
we should have objection, when he felt
q production to write up comic Sec
ton, If he did the work in Greek,
IN. Y. World.
The young Princesses of Wales are
expert tricycle-riders. doing sometimes
forty or fifty miles a day.
Mauve is favorite color in England,
and was selected by the Princess of
Wales for the costume she wore at the
state ball.
Seven thousand men are encamped
along the southern border of Kansas
awaiting the legal opening of the Okla
homa country.
A prize of 800, offered by New
York illustrated paper for the best idea
for y cartoon, was won by Daniel Fan
shaw, a Brooklyn street-car conductor.
A Nova Scotian has cut the branches
from the tallest spruce tree on his place
and nailed the American flag to the top
He tells his neighbors that it is the next
question in politics.
A little negro called Curt" at Mar
shall, Mo-, whose father was a soldier
and was killed in the war, recently re-
ceived $1,000 pension money. His first
purchase was SOS finger ring, his
second $500 horse and buggy.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett's
Little Lord Fauntleroy." of whom the
50. Nicholas readers all know, is in
sense Photographic, the real boy being
Herbert Hodgson. son of Mrs. Bur-
nett's brother This brother, jeweler.
lives in Norfolk.
A professional beggar died recently
in Rio Janeiro and left fortune of
S200,000 A Rio journal remarks that
the discovery should occasion no sur
prise, as it is well known that many of
the beggars in that city are worth more
than those who bestow aims ON them.
Pierre Lorillard has spent 100000 so
far on Tuxedo Park, and he intends to
lay out $300,0 more. The Tuxedo
Club, for the delectation of which the
park is being put in order, has 260
members. Mr.. L. lately offered the
boys living near the park 81 head for
every copperhead snake killed there.
The much-dressed heroine of this
years summer resorts is a 5-year-old
heiress of millions. She has with her
over hundred dresses, many French
hats, watch, and much iewelry, with
even diamonds. Eighteen trunks are
necessary for the wardrobe of herself
and family of dolls.
The recently discovered milestone
mine near Buffalo Gap, Dakota, is one
of the most important and promising
finds of the year. The home rock is of
superior quality. Specimens have been
sent to the principal hardware dealers
of the East, and such replies as have
been received are of the most encourage
ing character.
The following gives the language of
the various precious stones: Amethyst,
peace of mind; diamond, pride; emer-
aid, success in love; ruby, cheerful
mind; sapphire, chastity; topaz, fidelity;
turquoise, success and happiness; opal,
pure thoughts; pearl, purity and inno-
cence; garnet, fidelity in every engage
ment; blood stone, | mourn your alb
Sence.
The late King of Bayaria's favorite
beverage was u mixture of white wine
and champagne, prepared in bowl
with a thick layer of fresh, strong
scented violets floating on the top. The
violets gave delicious perfumed flavor
to the mixture, much to the Kings taste,
as Ludwig was so fond of scents that
the air around him was generally redo
lent of perfume. The fancy cost him
quite Flo daily.
Mrs. Mark Hopkins recently gave a
100000 parsonage and $50, 900 organ
to a church at Great Darlington, Mass.
The parishioners don't know what to do
with them, for they cannot afford to
raise the pastors salary to enable him
to keep up his 100000 establishment,
and the organ gets out of order so often
that it entails much extra expense to
keep it in repair.
Lightning struck house in Volun-
town, Conn, the other night, and, after
ripping up things generally, the current
divided into two. One went to house
near by, killing goat on the way;
struck girl, burned her stocking and
shoe off, and blistered and partially
paralyzed her leg. The other current
went off at right angles from the first,
damaged a pig pen, and knocked down
q horse in an adjacent barn,
If Florida has many more boys like
Mortimer and Roland Bunting of Madi-
son her future is assured. These little
fellows-they are - and II years old
have this year rented twelve acres of
land and planted it with corn and cot
ton, have worked the crops carefully,
and have good prospects of an abund-
ant yield. This besides raising enough
vegetables to supply the large family of
| their father, who is an invalid.
George Lubish and G. Mccarthy, of
San Francisco, were rivals for the affec-
| tions of young woman, and agreed to
| settle their respective claims according
to ring rules. In the presence of over
half hundred friends they fought
thirty-six rounds without any advant-
age on either side. The contestants
then agreed to settle the controversy by
means of the dice. The dice rolled out
in favor of Mccarthy, and he departed
with the girl on his arm.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has an
nounced to her intimate friends her
permanent retirement from the literary
world. THE author of Uncle Toms
Cabin is no longer the strong woman
of a few years ago." says the Boston
| Transcript, cher constant watching by
the bedside of her dying husband having
practically shattered her health, as it
has reduced the robust physical frame
to merely skeleton. For more than
eighteen months, with scarcely an inter-
ruption, has the affectionate wife re-
manned at her husbands side, reading
and singing to him as he fingers through
| the days and nights waiting for the end
that is not far off. Mrs. Stowe is rs
years of age, and, although she retains
a lively interest in the current events in
order that she may crafty the desires
of her invalid husband, the famous
writer is content that her work is done.
The returns from her work have for
tunately placed her in comfortable cir
cumstances.
Paul Hamilton Hayne, the Southern
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