Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-05-20
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Mrs. Kate Chase formerly Mrs.
| Sprague) is to make an actress of her
eldest daughter.
British Minister Vests eldest daugh-
ter, now twenty-five, has had entire
charge of the household of the Legation
since she left school four years ago.
Rev. Sam Jones has met with Il ter
rible blow in the discovery that a bogus
| Sam Jones has been doing entirely sue
cessful revival work through several
towns in Minnesota.
When an English preacher goes into
politics he goes in strong. The Rev. g.
A. Denison of Taunton says II have
known Mr.. Gladstone for forty Eve years,
but | would not trust him with brass
farthing.o
The wife of the new Chinese Ambassa-
dor has startled the Parisians-she is a
sensation in dress. Such lovely silks,
such brilliant colors, and elaborate and
graceful embroidery have hardly been
dreamed Of
The marriage of a girl ten years and
eight months to a man of thirty years is
reported by good authority from SUI
vance County. Pennsylvania. The girls
father is minister, and the ceremony
was performed by his consent
There are 43.930 private dwellings in
Boston, and only two are assessed at
over 100000. There are lightweight
hotels and IFS family hotels Only five
| persons, firms, or corporations pay over
| $4,000 each in taxes, while ISL pay S.
600 and upward.
The first parsonage ever built in Wash
ington still stands on Capitol Hill. 1t
is now the home of Mrs. General Lander,
who was the tragedcnne Jean Dayen-
port, and is surrounded by Houses
memorable as the residences of the DO
litical giants of Webster's era.
Elk are rapidly becoming extinct in
Humboldt County, California, where,
not very great while ago, there were
hundreds of the animals. The people
there are at loss to account for the
elk's disappearance, especially as deer
are increasing in numbers in the same
locality.
When man and his wife wish to be
divorced in Burmah, each lights a
candle, Then they sit down and look
glum till one of the tapers burns to the
socket, and then the owner of the candle
that lasts the longest obtains the decree.
The adaptation of this custom in Chi
cago might strengthen the market for
fine sperm candles.
During the recent visit in Boston of
the Rev Mr.. Haweis reception was
given to him at private house One of
the lions of literary Boston was among
the persons introduced to him. In the
conversation that ensued the English
visitor naively remarked: Il am so sorry
that did not get to visit Boston before
yonr great men were all dead
Two French women entered into a
contest to determine which of them
could talk the faster A mutual friend
was appointed umpire, and the sum of
1000 francs was to 90 to the victor For
three hours they read from Eugene Sue,
and during that time the victor succeed
ed in pronouncing 296,311 words. Her
adversary came in a bad second with
203, $50 words.
When Spain held despotic sway over
South America, from Panama to Cape
Horn, some of her ablest Viceroys and
bravest and most brilliant soldiers were
of Irish blood, the men or their de-
scendents who, after the disastrous
Cromwellian and Williamite wars, dis
dained to take service under the con-
querorS, and went in thousands to swell
the armies of Spain.
Exercise is good thing, but it is not
Indispensable. Leopold Won Ranke,
the great German historian, is past 80,
and he has spent three-quarters of a
century in his library. During all this
time he has devoted fifteen hours a day
to study and writing, leaving the library
only to 90 to the dining-room or his
chamber. He is hale and hearty, and
has literary work mapped out for years
to come.
The Paris correspondent of the Lancet
states that when Dir. Pasteur read his
last report on rabies at the Academy of
Science M. Bouley asked whether dogs
rendered insusceptiblc to hydrophobia
by repeated NEGOTIATIONS would not
themselves be liable to communicate the
disease by biting NJ. Pasteur could
give no immediate reply. but admitted
that it was a subject for serious con-
sideration.
Miss Louie Howard is the .'angel' of
Burlington, Vt. She has given the
Howard Relief Association $4,000 and
part of the Exchange Block. She has
also assisted several young men in the
high school and in college, several now
depending upon her charity. Her homo
has always been most hospitable one
and their names are hundreds that
have enjoyed her generosity. She is
now confined to her room, only waiting
for the end, being of frail constitu-
ton.
In 1S49 tin was discovered in new
South Wales, but two years later gold
was found, and the bascr metal attract
ed no mercantile interest until 1872,
when regular mining operations began.
In the space of IA years not less than
100000 tons have been exported, and
$50, 900, 900 have been realized by the
colony. Previous to 1872 the total tin
product of the world scarcely exceeded
10000 tons per annum, but now Aus
tralia alone produces considerably more
than that In 1872 the output of New
South Wales was only $40 tons, while in
1884 it was 1858 tons.
A London paper speaks of an Ameri-
can lady who is driving in carriage
and six horses through the provincial
towns, attracting people by means of
her brass band to accept her advice and
medicine as from the world-renowned
American lady doctor. The same paper
tells of an English quack nowt travelling
in America with very lovely young
young woman, whom he exhibits as a
result of his medicine, which, he de-
clares, causes the perfection of her COM
plexion. He sells tonic, to which he
attributes the abundance of her hair,
and drugs for the increase or reduction
| of flesh to her standard.
A comparative table of the strength of
the merchant nayies of the world which
has just been published in France shows
that Great Britain possesses 22,50O trad
ing vessels, with an aggregate tonnage
of II, 100000 tons. OF these vessels l.
! 649 are steamers, with tonnage of
| 100000 tons, or rather more than one
half the grand total of burden. The
United States makes very bad second.
with 5000 sail and 100000 tons. Nor
way has 1920 vessels, with 1.50O. 900
tons, and Germany, which comes inn
mediately after her. has 5000 sail. with
q total of 100000 tons; France, Italy
and Russia bring up the rear. each with
less than 5000. The proportion. of
| steamers is, however, of greater imnort