Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-12-02
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daily.
Mrs: Jenny June Croly has re-
signed from the editorship of Demorssts
Monthly.
The Buffalo Express has come out
with new word, "soliped," but does
not furnish the definition.
The sand thrown up by the Charles
ton earthquake is deep black, pale blue,
light brown. pale yellow and silvery.
An orchard near South Glastonbury,
Conn.,, contains twelve thousand peach
trees. and is the largest one in the
state.
Abraham Lincoln. grandfather of
the great Abraham Lincoln, was slain
by an Indians tomahawk just one hun
dred years ago.
Miss Kate Field will pass the early
winter at Old Point Comfort. In one
way and another Kate manages to get
a good deal Of comfort out of life.
Dwight L. Moody will this winter
pursue his evangelical labors in the
south. 1t is not known as yet whether
he will be accompanied by Mr.. Sam
key.
A grape-grower in the Allegheny
valley, Pennsylvania, claims to have
raised eighteen thousand pounds of
grapes from five acres of ground this
year.
Since the recent revolt among the
convicts at the San Quentin, Cal,
prison. the directors have issued an
order forbidding female visitors within
| the walls.
Artiticially grown ducks are said to
be the plumpest in the Boston market
| AT one duck-pond at South Easton,
Mass, seven thousand have been hatch
ed this season.
Francis K. Pendleton says his father,
Minister Pendleton, has no intention of
resigning. He is said to have become
closely attached to his home and his
duties in Berlin.
Now it is the Boston Traveller that
prints q list of men and women in San
| Francisco who are worth ST., 100000 or
more. The entire number of million
aires thus given is 104.
There are more daily papers in Phila-
delphia than in New York city and Bos-
ton combined, while New York city has
more places of amusement than Boston
and Philadelphia combined.
Queen Victoria's health is said to be
better now than it has been for several
years, and more guests are being enter
tanned at Balmoral than at any time
since the Prince Consort's death.
Prof. Whitney, of Yale college, has
been working too hard on the new
dictionary. and in consequence will
have to give up his classes in the Shelf
field Scientific school for several months
at least.
Mrs. Anna Woerishoffer, daughter Of
Mrs. Ottendorfer and widow of Charles
T. Woerishoffer, the banker of New
York, has just given to several charit-
able and scientific societies the sum OF
| 100000.
Hand bouquets most in demand for
the society season will be of very long
stalked roses that will hang loosely,
being supported by banks of smilax and
maldenhair fern. Corsage bouquets are
to be of Russian violets.
The United States and Canada sent
forty-two representatives to the recent
congress of naturalists in Berlin, out o,
total of 429 foreign delegates. En-.
gland sent seventeen, Japan sixteen,
Italy fifteen. and South America twelve.
| Amelia Steele, who claims to have
been the wife of Joseph Gall, Brook
Ign ophcian, who died recently, worth
$4,000, received but $1,000 from the
estate, and proposes to begin an action
in the Supreme court for larger slice
of the pie.
A Massachusetts citizen tells of voy.
age he made from Europe many wears
| ago Anchoria fashion. He was on q
sailing vessel, and, as the winds were
unusually light, the vessel drifted away
up into the Iceland channels, and when
New York was reached had been on the
water 103 days.
An awning on the first building south
of the Delaware and Hudson cut on
Broadway, Albany, N. Y, projects
across the track of the company, so that
trains can not pass without wrecking it.
The agent of the property refuses to re
move it, and the cut must remain use
less until the matter is settled.
A gentleman near Stilesboro, Ca, dis
covered recently what he at first thought
would amount to big treasure. II
was an old stone image or idol, about
eighteen inches in height, and from ap.
pearances must be very old, probably
being one of the last relics of the ancient
idolatrous ''mound-bullders," traces Of
whose existence have been discovered
all along the Etowah and other Georgia
| rivers.
At medical convention the physical
decay of women was recently a melan-
| choly subject. When women's gymna-
Sums, riding-schools, and lawn-tennis
courts are increasing in popular femi-
nine favor, and the vim for the exertion
OF shopping has not utterly disappeared,
there seem to be indications that the
| physical condition of women may have
been misunderstood by the learned
medical men.
There appeared before court in
Sparta, Ca, the other day, q negro
named Cooper Lamar, who was capt
ured off the coast of Africa and brought
to America on the Wanderer twenty-six
years ago, and consequently was one
OF the last negroes ever stolen and
Struggled into slavery. Notwithstand-
ing his twenty-six years. residence here.
he knows but little of the English
tongue, and had to be questioned by
signs.
Cardinal Jacobini, Papal Secretary,
who has been in ill-health for some
time, is to take years rest. He is only
"a and has a good constitution, but
has broken down under too much work.
His substitute will be Arch bishop Vamu-
tell, now Nuncio atLisbon, a very able
man and skilled diplomat But the
strongest man at the Vatican is the
Pope himself, who regularly works
from twelve to fourteen hours a day.
and is wonderfully decisive and method.
ical.
| A young woman picking her way
across the railroad tracks in Indian
apolis saw brakeman wave his hand
to her from the top of departing
freight train. She smiled sweetly and
waved back. Then the brakeman
waved more violently, and the girl
smiled more sweetly and stopped and
tried to get out her handkerchief, to
| fttingly carry on the Irritation. The
next thing she knew she was yanked
off the track by fagman, just in time
to escape 4 backing train, which the
brakeman had seen and had tried in
vain to warn her of.
Gen. Schoield, after careful investipa-
ton, announces that the bit of land on
which the Statue of Liberty stands is
Bedlow's island-spelled with a 10 in
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