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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-05-24

MEMORIAL SERMON the aus
pices of Tom Cox Post, g. A. r.,
sermon commemorative of Decoration
Day will be delivered in the NJ E.
church next Sunday morning. Rev. L.
E. Clough has been asked to remain
over and preach. As it is not probable
he will be able to do so, it is expected
Rev. r. Pengilly viii preach.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-12-09
WHAT AN EDIror CAN no.


NJ. Leon Meunier, Of the Courier
deS EtatS UniS, devoted all his ener-
ries for years towards popularizing NJ.
3artholdi'sidea in presenting the Statue
of Liberty to the United States. In
conjunction with the late NJ. Laboulaye,
he wrote increasingly in the Paris press
that the Americans and the French
only understood the idea of popular
liberty, and by his letters he impressed
on the people of France that Americans
were not forgetful of Lafayette, Roch-
ambeau and the other representatives
of France during our Revolutionary
war. M. Meunier was delegated by
the Republic of France to convey to
the people Of the United States their
warm expression on the part of the
French Republic for American Re-
publican institutions, and his knowl-
edge Of American affairs in the French
press has paved the way TO q mutual
understanding. 1t was proud day
for him, when, as one of the French
visiting committee, he saw the unveil-
ing of the Statue of Liberty on Bedloe's
island, and its formal presentation to
the American people, on the 2Sth Of
October last.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-12-09
Jeaerson,. royal Hospitality.

Thomas Jefferson, toward the close
Of his life, was 50 inhrm and poor that
he applied to the Legislature of Vir-
ginia for permission to disposeof his
large estate by lottery. He hoped by
this method to realize sum sufficient
to pay his debts and to give him COM
petence.
Public duties prevented him from
looking after his estate during many
years, and profuse hospitality had ex-
hausted his means Mr.. Jefferson was
the most popular of American citizens,
and people came from far and near to
see him, prompted by curiosity or
affection.
Life at Monticello resembled, for
years, that in hotel at a fashionable
watering place. Members of Congress,
oficeholders, clergymen, lawyers, doc
tors, artists, foreigners and people Of
fashion flocked to see the great states
man and to partake Of his hospitality.
Fifty guests were entertained in one
night, and whole families came in their
carriages and remained for months
One family of six persons came from
Europe and made visit of ten months.
Then they made short tour through
the States, returned to Monticello, and
remained six months longer.
A gentleman asked Wormley, Mr..
JeffersOn's favorite servant, pointing
to the three carriage houses, each Of
which would contain q four horse
coach, "How often were these filled in
Mr.. Jefferson's time?"
every night in summer, sir" an-
swered the servant; "and we often had
two or three carriages besides under
that tree"
at must have taken all hands to
take care of your yisitorsP"
eyes, sir, and the whole farm to feed
them" said the slave.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-12-09
HOW THEY USED TO DO.

Here are some of the "reminiscences
Of Capt. Isaac Bassett, the venerable
assistant doorkeeper of tho Senate:
"In olden days candles were used in
the Senate aud sperm candle in COM
mon brass candlestick stood on each
senator's desk. These and two large
brass oil lamps on either side of the
Vice President formed the whole light
Of the chamber. / had to ill these
lamps every day and we pages had to
put the candles and candlesticks on
each senators desk. The pages had to
go around the Senate during the even
ing and snuff the candles. For this
we used big iron snuffers, and during
long night session we used two candles,
and in the middle of it we would have
to take out the old ones and light new
ones. A night session of the Senate in
the past formed wierd scene. The
1ickering shadows would fall upon the
senator's face as he spoke, and when
the light burned low, forms would DO
hardly distinguished. The mellow
lamps cast u soitened light over the
marble of the chamber, and made the
whole look like aghostly Senate, pre-
sided over by Il spectral Vice President.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-12-09

A Hightstown farmers horse had an
experience Saturday that it will not
care to repeat. Driven to this city and
left standing in front of grocery
store, it took occasion to poke its head
into a basket in the back of delivery
wagon and to abstract therefrom three
or four compressed-yeast cakes and the
best part of sack of Pillsbury flour,
The result of this amateur bread
making was not made apparent until
the animal was driven home, when the
yeast proved to be as good as ever, and
the horse began to experience sensa-
tions commonly known to bread-pans.
The veterinarian who worked over the
horse for twelve hours AYERS that it
was at least eight feet in circumference
for some time previous to obtaining
relief, and is quite sure that if it is an
intelligent beast it will hereafter take
its staff of life unleavened.-Trenton
On. J. American.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-12-09
Anour MAnrnA wAsn1NaroN.

Somebody in late Lippincott's
Magazine is responsible for the follow
ing rather unromantic statement in
regard to the wife of Washington. We
are not prepared to vouch for the
correctness of the picture drawn.
Martha Washington, the magazinist
'ays, was q very pretty girl, but not q
cry good looking old woman. As she
natured she grew stout; and, though
er pictures represent her as q beauty,
10 current history Of the times says
she was a plainly dressed, robust old
woman, who looked older than her
husband. She was not noted for her
social, nor for her intellectual qualities.
She could not spell, and probably did
not read book from one end of the
year to the other. She was q sort Of o
goody-goody woman, who almost
always had knitting needles In her
hands, and who thought she did great
thing when she saved the rayellings Of
lot Of old black stockings and worn
out chair covers and wove them into
dress for herself. She was very proud
Of her husband; and they show the
little room in the second story of the
home at Mount Vernon In which she
secluded herself after his death. seeing
no one for months and allowing only q
cat to enter the room through hole
which was cut under the door.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-12-09
COMICALITIES. x
What the World Finds to Laugh
About.
why He swore on.

Solomon Levy and Moses Schaum-
burg had settlement Of accounts not
long since, and Levy paid a small bal
ance which was due. Levy had been
taking too much wine, and paid Nose
more money than was coming to him.
Next morning, Schaumburg's clerk
came to Levy's place of business and
handed him So bill. "Vat for is den
dot?" asked Levy. "Mr. Schaumburg
says that when you settled with him
yesterday you gave him S5 too much"
Levy clasped his hands and an ex-
preston of intense anguish came over
his face as he said: az wonder how
much too much l have paid ven a
man like Moses Schaumburg sends
back So eggspect l paid dot scoun-
drel a 500 bill. Ven it vas less den
dot he would have send me pack nod
dings. Ivas a ruined man. vas all
proke up. Vine vas mockery, /
schwears off ride away. Sthrong drink
vas raging"
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-12-09

The Rabies Remedy.

ID. N. Richardson, while in the city
of Paris, inquired into the great medi-
cal secret by which NJ Pasteur cures
hydrophobia. He says the doctor
takes healthy rabbit, and injects into
it some of the virus of a dog which has
the real hydrophobia. The rabbit takes
the disease and dies in all the agony
of rabies. The doctor takes out the
marrow in the spine Of the dead rabbit,
in connection with the brain. Mr..
Richardson then states:
Now take a pound or two Of beef
and boil it well in waterl Don't laugh;
but follow me in what I write, atten-
lively. Boil well the beef. Skim off
the grease. What is left is bouillon.
The bouillon is richened water, steriliged
been boiled; no germ left! Now cut
up the rabbits spinal column-impreg-
mated, they say, with rabies; cut it up
and macerate it; mix it now with the
sterilized bouillon. What for? To
makea poisoned mess Already mixed
the poison stuff and the bouillon, you
have fendish broth, an antidote for
rabies, for mad-dog poison. Take a
little syringe; take the hell-broth that |
have told you how to make and mix,
and squirt it into the human blood
with hypodermic push The helI-broth
poison you send home into the human
blood meets the hellish poison that the
hydrophobic dog implanted in your
veins-the one the other meets and
fights it out, like the Kilkenny cats, til
nothing more is left-the patient lives
Poison from the rabbits backbone
cord has met the poison Of the dogs
most rabid tooth--met itin equalfght,
as vaccine virus meets the smallpox
curse, and conquers III 4f4..
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-12-09
The First Soldier Monument.

Leonard w. Volk, the sculptor,
claims that he himself modelled and
erected the first soldiers monument in
America. This was for the old circus
clown, Dan Rice, who twenty years ago
was a person of no small importance
and wealth and owned a famous place
at Girard, near Erie, Pa. Dan Rice
came to Mr.. Volk ain peck of
trouble" The two were old friends
and had played together as boys on the
streets of Pittsfeld, Mass, when J. G.
Holland was a sucking physician at
that place.
They've been calm me a traitor
and copperhead," said old Dan (Which
was perfectly true), IAN now I'm goin'
to get the dead wood on 'em. I'm goin'
to erect monument to the heroes of
Erie county"
And he straightway ordered a 5000
"soldiers' monument" which Mr.. Volk,
some months afterward, unveiled at
Girard in the presence of a distin-
guished company. There were 10000
people present. Governor Curtin, Of
Pennsylvania, delivered the grafton;
Ex-Governor Todd, of Ohio, was present,
and Dan Rice dined them all royalty.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-12-09

Drug Clerk Ito customer) Twenty
grains O. quinine? Yes sir. Shall l
give you something to take away the
taste of 1t?
Customer (eyes bulgiug with aston
ishmnt) Take away what?
Drug Clerk-The taste Of the
quinine, sir.
Customer (solemnly)-Young man,
quinine is bread, butter, an pie to me.
Its parents, relatives, frens; it's my
washin', ironin', clothin', and q place
to sleep in. Take -away-the-taste
--of-itl I'm a Wabash valley man,
and I'me good mind to ter comb ye
ye down.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-12-09
A Honeymoon OF Three Months.

Prospective BRIDE" How long ought
a honeymoon to last, map
Ma-"They usually last only few
weeks, but 1 knew one to last three
months"
"How delightful Who was the
brideY
al was"
"Perhaps mine will, too"
al fear not. The country is not
troubled with sectional issues now."
"Why, what difference does that
makep"
az was married to your father the
day before he went off with the three
months volunteers
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-12-09
Discovered.

ave got through goin' ter school ter
that teacher" said Jimmy Tuffboy as
he slapped his books on the table.
"What is the matter with her,
James? Is she not good teacherp"
asked his mother.
"She's good enough to the girls, but
she's no good to us fellers.'
"What has she donep"
"She jes everlastingly wallopped me
jes' cause some fellers stole all the
chalk off'n the blackboard"
"Ah, that accounts for the chalk
marks up in your room. James, you
shall go to bed without your supper"
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-12-09
A. T. Stewart and the Apples W. oman.

AZ Is SteWuTt anu inc Apple. w Omdns
There is a queer story Of the super
stition Of A. T. Stewart. From the
beginning Of his career as New York
merchant until shortly before his
death, he imagined that his fortune was
bound up in that of the little old apple
woman who had a stand in front of his
store. When his chief store was down
by the City Hall this little old apple
woman was encouraged and protected
by him, and when he moved further up
Broadway to the big white building
now occupied by Denning it is said
that he personally superintendent the
carrying of the little apple-woman's
effects to a new stand outside of it.
Here she stayed during all of its pros
perity in these new quarters, but shortly
before his death she disappeared.
Stewart looked upon her as a mascot,
and he often said, so the story goes,
that when she died or left the place his
good luck would go with her. Strange
to say, it was even so. A few months
after this Stewart began to decline, and
the apple-woman was hardly forgotten
before he was in his grave.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-12-09
Comparative Longevity of the Sexes.

Comparative Longevity of the Sexes.
The Hebrew women are the longest
lived, and the colored men the short
est. 1t appears from the gathered
statistics of theworld, that women have
a greater tenacity of life thar9 mepa
Nature worshlpS tsro-fcsratv ir.,;all itss
varieties. Among insects tho male
perishes at relatively earlier period.
In plants the seminate blossoms die
earliest, and are produced in the weaker
limbs. Female quadrupeds have more
endurance than males. In the human
race, despite the intellectual and physi-
cal strength of the man, the woman ell
dures longest, and will bear pain to
which the strong man succumbs.
Zymotic diseases are more fatal to
males, and more male children die than
female. Deverga asserts that the pro-
portion dying suddenly is about 100
women to 700 men. 1880 men in the
United States, in 1870, committed sui
eide, to 5S5 women. Intemperance,
apoplexy, gout, hydrocephalus, affec-
tions Of the heart or liver, scrofrla,
paralysis, are far more fatal to males
than females. Pulmonary consumption,
on the other hand, is more deadly to the
latter. Females in cities are more
prone to consumption than in the
country. All old countries not dis
turbed by emigration have majority
of females in the population. In royal
families the statistics show more daugh-
ters than sons. The Hebrew woman is
exceptionally long-lived; the colored
man exceptionally short lived. The
married state is favorable to prolonga-
ton Of life among women. DR.. Hough
remarks that there are from two to six
per cent. more males born than females
yet there is an excess of more than six
per cent. of females in the living popu
latiOnS.-POpular Science News.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-12-09
why She Will Like Next Months Rain.

II never did enjoy rain storms"
said Mrs. Simplemind to her husband
the other morning from behind her
newspaper, "but believe I shall enjoy
the showers next month"
"Why've you got case of water on
the brainp" inquired her lord.
"No, but yellow is my favorite
color, you know, dear, and the rain
next month will all be yellow"
"Yellowl Yellow rainl What in
the deuce are you talking about,
womanp Are you going crazy%
mo, dear, but the paper says that
the reigning color for November will
be yellow."-St. Paul Herald.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-12-09
THE OLD, OLD STORY.

~. 4
The man stands on the tfpsy boz,
With all his reason fed,
And glares up at the stoveplpe Joint
he holds above his head.
~ II.
His hands are black with polish paste,
His face tattooed with SCOT;
And down his arms and down his back,
Sharp pains unnumbered shoot
Ton thousand ways. ten thousand times,
Hes tried to make flt;
1he moro Of ways and times he's tried,
The more be u from It.
W. y.
His wife and children are outside,
An petrlhed with fear.
Awaiting the catastrophe =
That comes this time Of year,.
aNs t} ".
Then comes q burst Of adjectives,
And then amadman's roar,
And man and box with earthquake shocks.
And stovepipe, food the floor.
$500 - - =
The doctor comes with arnicA.
And little blister cup; ~sN- ~ 8
The tinncr comes, as usual,
And puts the stovepipe up.
0h1a BY Lu B. CAKE.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-12-09
and plead with him, I would tell him
to meet the trials and hardships of life

and plead with him, I would tell him
to meet the trials and hardships of life
bravely--to brace up and be man.
But no; perhaps he would turn on
me in his desperation and frenzy /
was physically no match for this man;
there might be two dead men in the
room next morning instead of oneI I
shuddered at the thought.
He had changed his position in the
room, so that / could no longer see him
unless / should rise up in the bed,
and this would attract his attention
to me. Fearing my own safety, and
undecided as to what / should do,
] waited and listened for some mo-
ments--wretched moments they were,
of terrible suspense
Now and then heard a muttered
blasphemy. was sure could smell
some powerful drug but could not tell
what 1t was. At last unable longer to
endure the tortures of suspense, Tarose
to a sitting posture. At the same
instant he turned out the light and
with an oath of fiendish exultation
sprang into his bed.
/ do not know how long I sat there,
bewildered and stupifed, staring at
the impenetrable darkness around me.
I vainly endeayored to reconcile and
account for the mysterious conduct
and appearance Of the strange man.
For a while 1 heard him rolling
uneasily upon his bed, and then all was
still. The air, now laden with the
odor Of some strong drug, seemed close
and sitting, the darkness was oppres-
sive, the death-like stiffness was pain
full. At last 1 heard breathing faint
and low at first, then more distinct,
then labored and heavy. The power
full narcotic had begun it's fatal task!
The victim Of his own mad deed now
slept the sleep that would end in
death.
Reproaching myself for my stupid
inaction, 1 sprang from my bed and
hurriedly lighted the gas. Near itlay
the vial partly emptied. Ipicked it up,
nervously raised it to the light and read
on the label: "Dr. Squedunk's Corn
| Cure"
| No, I didn't kill him as he slept
neither did draw the razor across my
own throat, but l must admit that, as
/ Icrawled back into bed with disgust
bigger than a bay steer, seriously
contemplated both.
| But how about the razorp ] idn't
ask him, but suppose it was ignomini.
ously misused to pare his corns.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-12-09
AfRlcHs DIAMOND FIELD
The History Of the Discovery Of Precious
Stones on tho Orange.

In farmhouse, with It's large table
and bureau bearing Bible and tvs or
three old Dutch books, and the clumsy
rifle leaning in the corner, after the
evening reading of chapter in the
Boer fashion, a trader named Niekirk,
who CHANGED to be present, told the
vrouw Jacobs that the great white
shining stones they had just Cen hear
ing of reminded him Of the pebbles
the children played with, picked up
along the banks of the neighboring
Orange River. AS he spoke, there
entered O'Reilly, an ostrich hunter.
They tried one of the stones on the
window glass and scratched it all over,
the scratches remaining there till t is
day. 1t was agreed if it turned out a
diamond all were to share equally. On
his way to Cape Town O'Reilly showed
the stone, and was laughed at for his
credulity; it was even taken froin him,
and recovered with difficulty from the
street where 1t had been tlrown; but
"he laughs best who laughs last" for
in Cape Town the pebble frcSD the,
banks of tlo Orange was pronounced
diamond, and bought by Sir Philip
Wodehouse for $500. Ten more such
were easily found by the vrouw Jacobs,
and early in the next year, 1868, several
were picked up along the banks.eg the
Vaal, among them the renowned Star
| of South Africa by Hottentot shep-
herd, who sold it to Niekirk, the trader,
for e4OO, who disposed of it on the
same day for $4,000. Then the rush
began in earnest, first to Pniel and the
river diggings on the Vaal-Pniel,
which stretched with its sea of tents,
its hive of men and checker of claims,
down to the loud and busy river, and
up again to the populous height Of
Klipdrift. Here and there, but rarely
upon the slope, canteen Of dirty can
vas, or plank-built store with roof Of
corrugated iron; upon the slope, all
pocked with holes, so that all looked
like some rude and careless cemetery
Within three months of the first dis.
covery there were 5000 digging there
The Cornhill Magazine.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-12-09

A little Magazine street girl asked
her mother the other day how it was
that Adam and Eve came to leave the
Garden Of Eden, and was told that the
devil entered the garden in the form of
a serpent and tempted them, and God
banished them. The little child pom
dered over the reply for few moments,
and then looking up, said; mamma,
why didn't God send the devil away
instead of Adam and Ever They were
in the garden first" New Orleans
State.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-12-09
what lie Rowed with.

Swapping Uncle-"No George, I'll
not help you with solitary red. You
must paddle your own canoe.e
Despairing Nephew" But what
with, unclep"
"Askull-like did" Ia
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-12-09

tits said that IL brass founders will
stir powdered glass into melted brass
when in the crucibles, that sound,
nice castings win be the result. The
claim is that the glass flux win collect
all impurities, which rise to the top and
can be skinned of, while otherwise
the same impurities would be poured
into the mould with the metal.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-12-09
Postscript to a Girls Letter.

"When you write next answer me in
confidence two questions: Can you
lace your boots with your corsets ON?
And can you put on your bonnet with
your bodice on9 / want to know.--M."
London Truth. ~
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-12-09

There are seventy-three students
now in Harvard annex for women,
with more to come, "a
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-03

We present above an admirable portrait
of Hubert Howe Bancroft, the senior mem
Der of the firm whose vast book and pub
fishing establishment was burned in San
Francisco on Friday. Mr.. Bancroft is the
author of Bancroft's Histories of the Pacific
States of the Americas and THE Native
Races of the Pacific States" Twenty -one of
the forty-nine volumes of these works have
been issued at q cost 10 him far in excess
of any possible return from the sale of the
books. Indeed, it is purely a labor of lit
erary love. To make it complete, he has
collected from all parts of the civilized
world large library of books and rare
manuscripts relating to the Americas.
This unequaled collection fortunately
is stored in fire proof building
erected especially for it. 1t contains
$1,000 maps, books and manuscripts and 400
files of Pacific coast newspapers. The last
volume issued of the history treated of
California from 1910 to 1S45, inclusive, and
was reviewed in the RECORD UNION Satur-
day. The edition, not sent out, was de-
stroyed by the fire of Friday, as also about
half the stereotype plates and some of the
old maps. 1t is probable that it will be put
in type again. Mr.. Bancroft is an Ohian,
ard aged 80. He has travelled throughout
Europe and both American continents
several times in search of material for his
great work. The fire of Friday was
heavy blow to him, but he is a man of
pluck and is not likely to suecumb.