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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12
PlcKINGs FROM SCIENCE.

IT has been found, says the Evening
Post, by careful experiments on plants
grown in a confined atmosphere that
they distracted nitrogen from the air
around them to the extent of thirty
cubic centimeters.
A MICROSCOPIC lens has been made in
Germany that will reveal the presence
of an object l-s20th of millimeter in
diameter. The glass used in its con-
struction is given the peculiar virtue
by combining with it phosphoric and
boracic acid.
IN the Chemical News A. p. Smith
bases his opinion that the violet flame
produced by common salt in a coal fire
is due to the chlorine on the evidence
of the spectrum of the flame, and main
tains that it is not due to copper, as pre-
viously suggested.
II. E. VAN DEMAN, pomologist to the
United States agricultural department,
declares that there are in the southern
parts of California, Arizona, New Next
co and Texas millions of acres which
can be made to produce as good dates
as those grown in Arabia and Persia.
A GERMAN physician proposes that
the manufacturers of preserved meats
should be compelled to stamp their cans
with legible date mark. For year
or so, he says, canned meats may re-
main perfectly wholesome, but after
that it deterioates in a way defying
alike precaution and explanation.
PROF. MoLLER, of Carlsruhe, has
made series of observations on the
height of clouds, and finds that cirrus
and cirro-stratus clouds have an average
height of thirty thousand feet, while
cumulus clouds range from four thou
sand or five thousand feet at their lower
surfaces to sixteen thousand feet at
their upper surfaces.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12
PURELY PERSONAL.

ANDREW LANG has never been in ro-
bust health. and now he is said to be
fast becoming valetudinarian.
MURAT lIALsTEAD has ten living chill
dren-seven sons and three daughters
and has buried two sons.
PAsrEUR is famous for his absent
mindedne4s. 1t is said he would fire.
quently forget to eat his dinner if some
one did not remind him of il.
DAVID DUDLEY FIELD at eighty-six
says that even if the figures standing
for his age were reversed they would
make him too old for his feelings-and
the adage says that "a man is no older
than he feels"
HENRIK lBsEN was little boor in his
boyhood and even his brothers and sis
ters disliked him. In revenge for his
meanness and unsocial ways they used
to pelt him with stones and snow-balls.
Mrs. MAY FRENCH SHELDON, who is
about to invade Africa in search of the
novel and curious, was a Pittsburgh
belle in her youth. 1t is even declared
that she was the most beautiful woman
that ever graced the society of the
Smoky city.
NINE. SARAH BERNHARDr expects to
return from her tour in America mill
lionaire She is to receive $500 a day
for hotel expenses and 5000 for each
performance, in addition to a third of
the gross receipts. She has good
grounds for her belief.
THERE is not richer or more sought
after man in the New York clergy than
Dean Hoffman, of the German theolog-
ical society. He is philanthropist and
is worth something over S., 600, 900. Be
sides being a lucky and learned book
collector, Dean Hoffman is charming
speaker and judge of curious bric-a-
brac.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12
The First Stem.

Perhaps you are run down can't eat,
can't sleep. can't think. can't do any
thing to your satisfaction. and you won
der what ails you. You should heed the
warning, you are taking the first step
into Nervous Prostration. You need a
Nerve Tonic and in Electric Bitters you
will find the exact remedy for restoring
Your nervous system to its normal, heal
thy condition. Surprising results follow
the use of this great Nerve Tonic and
Alternative. Your appetite returns, good
digestion is restored, and the Liver and
Kidneys resume healthy action. Try a
bottle. Price soc. at Jos. I. Bennett
Drugstore.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12
WRITER'S OF FICTION.

ONE of the many English novelists of
the day, A. Conan Doyle, is an oculist
in active practice.
HERMAN MELVILLE, author Of many
famous American sea stories, is now an
old man living in retirement IN New
York.
LOUIS JANvIEB, Haytian negro, has
recently published in Paris a novel
which is said to show considerable
ability.
GRANT ALLEN, the clever English
writer, has just received the extraordi-
nary prize Of five thousand pounds for a
new story.
EDGAR FAwCETT is much opposed TO
the use of dialect in literature, and
says that if he had occasion to put q
rude Maine fisherman in a novel he
would make him converse in classical
periods.
Mrs. HUNGERFoRD, the Duchess" Of
current fiction, is brown-.iaired
woman with merry eyes and a youthful
disposition, though She is the mother Of
six children. She has written twenty
seven novels, besides countless maya
zine articles.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12
FOREIGN ARMY NOTES

THE British canteen system has been
adopted in the barracks of Germany,
with view TO keeping the soldiers
away from the liquor shops.
THE army of the pope for 1891 is made
up as follows: Two generals, two
colonies, major, two captains and four
lieuterants and sixty men. This num-
Der includes the famous Swiss legion.
THE Canadian militia department
has decided 10 increase the capacity of
the cartridge factory at Quebec. so that
the Martmi-Henry ammunition for
Canadian use can be manufactured there.
DIR. CoRPUT, who had been charged
by the Belgian government to examine
the sanitary institutions of Germany,
states in his report that the annual
army death rate is in Germany, 3.9T; in
Belgium, 4.OT; in France. 9, and in
Austria Hungary, 6.94 per cent
TURKISH soldiers are very poor marks
men. Recent target contests in the
Turkish army demonstrated the fact
that not one soldier in twenty could hit
a man at twenty PAGES. A target about
four feet in diameter, placed thirty rods
away, was hit on an average only once
out of thirty shots.
EVERY French soldier will receive
shortly from the ministry of war
package containing an'iseptic cotton,
bandages and two safety needles He
will carry the package with him into
battle, so that if wounded the materials
for dressing his injuries will be at hand
for the field surgeon.
URUGUAY has reduced her standing
army to one-fourth its former strength.
Before New Years the Uruguayan
troops consisted of two infantry regi-
ments cf one thousand each and one ar
tillery and one cavalry regiment of one
thousand each. The artillery and cav
airy have been abolished, and each of
the infantry regiments has been cut
down to FIVE hundred men.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12
CHlLDREN'S WISE SAYINGS.

Can you count far now, Tommy?"
"Yeth. ] can count ath far ath J =
Harper's Young People.
"A little girl sent out to look for eggs
returned without success, complaining
that all the hens were standing about
doing nothing.
My dear child, what are you cry
ing so for?'' ''Oh, dear! My father has
gone and lost me, and know my mother
will scold him when he gets home"
"A little girl who was studying
English history was asked what the
Prince of Wales would be when the
Queen died. please, sir, an orphan, :"
replied the scholar.
Time is money, my boy. Remem-
Der that" Il think there must be some
mistake about that, father. It's so hard
to pass in some localities"
I'm what part of the body is the
iverP" asked teacher, while examin-
ing the class il physiology; and she
was good deal surprised when the tall
boy replied: South of the lungs"
What are you crying about, little
mani" Il gotter stummich ache !"
"Does it hurt much o. "Oh, l don't
mind that; but ! on'y had one piece %
pie. Couldn't had more stummich ache
if I'd eat two Observation-Disclosures"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12
ABOUT THE RAILROADS

But one mile of railway was built in
Iowa last year.
THE Aroostook (Me.) Pioneer says
that 81, zoe, 900 has already been prom
Used for the Burleigh railroad in that
county.
THE maximum speed which French
passenger trains are permitted to make
is about seventy miles an hour, and
this is uncommon.
THE locomotive engine is said to have
a maximum life of about thirty years.
The annual cost of yepairs is from ten
to fifteen per cent. of its first cost.
SPEAKING of railroad nicknames
Chauncey NJ. Depew says he has heard
the Pittsburgh. Fort Wayne & Chicago
road called Paddy Finnigan's Wife and
Children"
THE highest bridge in the world is
about to be constructed between Shum-
la and Flanders, in Texas, and will be-
long to the Southern Pacific railroad. It
is to span the Pecos river, and will
measure 1000 feet from cliff to cliff,
and the central part will be 37S feet
above the water.
PRESIDENT MoFFATT, of the Denver
& Rio Grande road, travels about the
country in a private car which cost
$4,000, which is more than he paid for
his home at Denver. But he says,
jokingly, that his wife makes it so
uncomfortable for him every time he
comes back from trip in this palatial
coach that he wants to give the blessed
thing away.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12
Being Polite.

1t is never too early to begin to be
polite know little girl, who is only
twelve years old now, who for at least
five years has written letter acknowl-
edging any courtesy received that she
could not acknowledge by voice. She
always answers all letters within rea-
sonable time; every little gift no mat
ter how small, is acknowledged at once,
and this has become such habit that
if any thing prevents her writing it dis
tresses her greatly. Being polite is
as much of habit as is cleaning her
nails or brushing her teeth. No one
will ever hear that little girl, when She
grows to be a woman, say that she had
no time to write letter if it is impo-
lite to neglect writing it. No one will
ever hear her say that she has no time
to return a call or acknowledge any So
cial attention. She will make time,
for she will feel that it is as much a
part of her duty to acknowledge and
return social attentions as it is to keep
her house clean. or care for her chill
dran, or. do any of the things that our
mothers have to do.-Interior
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12
FOR LITTLE PEOPLE.
WINDING MOTHER.

Boys, just listen. for moment.
To word have 70 say.
Manhood's gates are just before you.
Drawing nearer every day;
Bear In mind while you are passing
ger the intervening span,
That the boy who minds his mother
Seldom makes a wicked man.
1here are many slips and failures
In this world we're living in,
Those who start with prospe' : fairest
OFT are overcome by sin;
But I'm certain that you'll not. e,
II the facts you closely sean,
That the boy who minds his mother
Seldom makes a wicked man.
Then be guided by her counsel,
IL will never lead astray
Rest assured she has your welfare
In her thoughts by night and day.
Don't forget that she has loved you
Since the day your life began.
All, the boy who minds his mother
Seldom makes wicked man.
Mortimer c. Brown, in Yankee Blade.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12
GILBERT DID NOT SEE IT.

New York Herald "The most OK
traordinary thing in London is the Eng
lishman's sense of humor." says Mar
shall Wilder. You have to search
hard to find it. The American joke is
lost upon him. One day met Gilbert,
the wittiest man in England, and the
gruffest."
How d. do, Wilderp"
"How are you, Mr.. Gilbert?"
Feeling well to-day?"
pretty well, MIR. Gilbert. But | am
afraid you will not see as much Of me as
you have"
Indeed, how IS that?'
81 lost tooth this morning"
"Ah, that's to bad. When did you
lose it?''
And this from a man who is supposed
to see joke at the longest kind OF
range
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12

American Grocer;-C Classical She Cat
the piano) do you admire
most, Mr. Plungely, Beethoven or Chop
IMP" He Slightly perpleXed) Jaw
you don't happen to have-aw-heard
'aud you wink the other eye, have you,
Miss GwacepN
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12

Mr.. James Lambert. of New Bruins
wick, Illinois, says: 4 was badly afflic-
ted with rheumatism in the hips and
legs, when l bought bottle of Cham
berlain's Pain Balm. 1t cured me in
three days. / am all right to-day and
would insist on every one who isl afllic-
ted. with that terrible disease, to use
Chamberlain Pam Balm and get well
at once = For sale by Jos. T. Bennett,
Druggist.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12
Not One in Ten

OF the people you meet from day 10 day
has perfactley pure, healthy blood. The
hereditary scrofulous faint afiiicts the
large majority of people, while many
others acquire diseases from impure
air, improper food and wrong indul-
gences. Hence the imperative necessi-
ty for reliable blood purifier like
Hoods Sarsaparilla. which eradieates
every impurity, and gives to the blood
vitality and health. II cures scrofula,
salt rheum. humors, boils. pinlples, and
all other affections caused by impuli-
ties or poisonous germs in the blood.
All that is asked for Hoods Sarsaparila
is that it be given fair trial.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12
Rheumatism Cured in a Day,

mystic Cure for Rheumatism and
Neuralgia radically cures in to days.
Its action upon the system is remark
able and mysterious. 1t removes at once
the cause and the disease Immediately
disappear. The first dose greatly ben
efits. rs cents. Sold by Stone g.
Hassell. Druggists. Lancaster. 4Sly
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12

Fret not your life away because your
hair is gray, while young, as YOU can
stop all grayness and can beautify the
hair with Halls Hair Remover and be
happy.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12
Rare California Views.

Enclose stamp for catalogue. Sam
pie of views will be sent upon receipt Of
twenty-five cents.
California Art Gallery, Santa Rosa,
Cal. 48ly
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12
To Farmers!

Horse Bills and Sale Bills, of every
kind, printed at the Herald Office on short
notice and at reasonable prices
A free notice of all bills printed given
in the Herald.
Our facilities for doing all kinds of
job Work are unsurpassed.
IF you cannot come in write out what
you want, state price you wish to pay,
send by mail, and we will put in shape
and guarantee a satisfactory job.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12

Yonkers Statesman: Some men think
they know everything until they get
home late at night and their wives ask
them where they have been.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12

Reading Surgeons declaration, that
ga cigar is thing TO thank God for" a
school-boy bought cigar. He was af-
terward seen hanging over fence, but
he was not giving thanks.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12

Itch, Mango, aud Scratches on human
or animals cured in 80 minutes by Wool
ford's Sanitary Lotion. This never
fails. Sold by Stone q Hassell Drug
oists. Lancaster, A.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12

Boston Transcsipt:-The quertion is
asked, "What is the difference between
a woman and ladyP" A lady is one
who listens to your conversation with
appearant pleasure; woman is one
who confines her attention to the other
fallOw
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12

A student was visiting Young lady,
and little while after she shivered and
remarked that she ought to have some.
thing around her. He never got home
until four o'clock
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12
Tourists.


Whether on pleasure bent or business.
should take on every trip a bottle of
Syrup of Figs. as it acts most pleasant
ly and effectually on the Kidneys. liver
and bowels, preventing fevers, head
aches and other forms of sickness. For
sale in SOC and 81. bottles by all leading
druggists.
Yankee Blade: Customer-rll give
you dollar for that book. That's ev-
cry cent it's worth.
Cierk-I-I-
Customer (interrupting) A dollar OF
nothing.
Clerk Very well. sir. Thanks.
Cash! [ was trying to say that the re
tail price of the book was seventy five
cents, but YOU wouldn'. allow me TO.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-12-16
STARVATION
In the Wrstohed Homes Of Strik-
ss'is ing M nsrs in Indiana.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Are Affected by the War Now Being
wsgsd Between Capital and Labor.
ONLY ONE MEAL A DAY
L. the Portion Of the Goal Diggsrs and
their Famllles--An Appeal for Aid.

Ii ths Portion Of the Goal Diggers and
their FamilIes--An Appeal for Aid.
BRAZIL, Ind, Dec 14--Dismal indeed
must be the Christmastide OF the thou
sands who depend for q livlihood on en-
ployment In the Indiana coal fields, for
the bitter fact has TO be faced that hum
ger aud misery tenant the wretched
huts in which the striking miners and
their families are huddled together.
The cry Of the barons is mo surren-
der" and the men, although almost in
starving condition, are determined to
keep on fighting. 1t is an absolute fact
that the strikers and their families have
been for the last two weeks trying to
keep soul and body together on one
meal day, and that a very scant one.
This is true Of close on 10000 men, wo-
men and children who are affected by
the strike. At Harmony, Clay City,
Lodi, Watson, Perth, Carbon and
Knightsville the scenes which confront
one are pathetic in the extreme.
An appeal has been issued to the
miners of the country, signed by the
national executive board of the Coal
Miners Association of the United
States, asking every miner to tax him
self not less than twenty-five cents a
week for the relief of the strikers.
Every local secretary in the United
States is directed to call meeting in
his district at once in order that the
fund may be started without delay.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-12-16

reaches the door she will open IT, not
with an outcry, but she will stagger
back from the door as he comes in. and
inher look there viii bs the prophecy
Of woes that are coming, want that
will shiver In need Of ere, hunger that
will cry In vain for bread, cruelties that
viii not leave the heart when they have
crushed itsbut pinch II again, and stab II
again, nm til some night she will open tho
door Of the place where her companion
was ruined. and she will fling out her
arm from under her ragged shawl and
say, With almost omnipotent eloquence:
"Give mo back my husbsndl Give me
back my protectorl Give me back my
alll Him Of the kind heart and gentle
words, and the manly brow-Give him
back TO mel" And the wretches, obese
and filthy, will push back their matted
locks and they will say: "Put her outl
Put her outr' Obi self-righteous man,
without God You are in peril. Seek
after Him to-day. Amid the ten thou
sand temptations Of life there is no
safety for, a man without God.
But Imsy be addressing some who
have gone astray, and so l assault that
other proposition that the dissolute can
not be reclaimed Perhaps you have
only gone little sstray. While speak
are you troubled? Is there voice with
in you saying: what did you do that
for? Why did you 60 there? What did
you mean by that2' Is there mem
ory In your soul that makes you trem-
BILE? God only knows all our hearts.
Yea If you have gone so far as
to commit iniquities, and have gone
through the whole catalogue, invite
You back this hour. The Lord waits
for you "Rejoicel O, young man, in
thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee
in the days Of thy youth, but know
thou that for all these things God Will
bring the into Judgment" Come home,
youngman, to your fathers God Come
home, young man, to your mothers
God. o, wish that all the batteries
Of the gospel could to-day be unlim-
bered against all those influences which
are taking down so many of our young
men would like TO blow a trumpet
Of warning, and recruit until this whole
audience would march out on n crusade
against the evils Of society. But let
none Of us be disheartened. o,
Christian workers, my hearts, high with
hope. The dark horizon is blooming
into the morning of which prophets
spoke, and of which poets have dreamed,
and of which painters have sketched
The worlds bridal hour advances. The
mountains will kiss the morning radi-
ant and effulgent, and all the waves Of
the sea will become the crystal keys OF
q great organ, on which the fingers Of
everlasting Joy shall play the grand
march of world redeemed Instead
of the thorn there shall come up the fiji
tree, and instead Of the briar there
shall come up the myrtle tree, and the
mountains and the hills shall break
forth into singing, and all the trees Of
| the wood shall clap their hands!
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-12-16
An Old Mans Fatal Experiment.

WIcmrA, Kan, Dec. l4.--Lena Bron-
son, who was the teacher of a country
school about thirty miles west Of here,
was taken with the grippe a short time
ago. She lived with her father and
grandfather, the latter nearly 90 years
old, who had practiced medicine in his
youth. He tried all his old remedies on
his granddaughter without effect and
finally came to the conclusion that
bleeding was necessary. This the girls
father would not permit, but while he
was away Saturday the old man went
TO work and severed an artery. When
the father returned he found his daugh-
Ter dead and the grandfather has since
died from the shock ..rr
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-12-16
STICKS AND STONES
Used with Telling Effect on McCarthyitss
by ParnellItes at Waterford.

Used with Telling Effect on McCarthyitss
by Parnellites at Waterford.
DUBLIN, Dec. 14-Messrs Davitt and
O'Brien, who went TO Waterford Sun
day in support of Mr.. Keane, the anti
Parnellite candidate, were met on the
Kilkenny side by |. about COO Mccarthy
ties. who escorted the leaders across
the bridge On the Waterford side they
were met by a mob of Parnellites
armed with sticks and stones The
Parnellites first smashed in the drums
and instruments of the McCarthyites
and then turned their weapons against
the main body OF the antis The police
then put stop TO the fight Mr. Davitt
received severe wound on the right
temple A number Of others were
badly bruised
After things had quieted down Messrs.
Davitt and 0'Brien were escorted to
Mr.. Keane's rooms, where the situation
was talked over MIR. Davitt here in
formed the committee that owing to the
scenes he had Just witnessed he had
changed his mind and II they still
wanted him as a candidate he would
make the contest in Mr.. Keane's place.
Mr.. Davitts position was approved by
O'Brien and the formal announcement
of Davitt's candidacy will be expected.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-12-16
1b,y rh.v,d Ou, Dynamite.

GRAND JUNCTION, Col. Dec 14-A
fatal accident occurred Saturday night
on the Rio Grande western railway,
thirty miles west of this city. Dennis
O'Neil, section foreman, lost his life
and three section men were fatally in
iured A landslide had fallen on the
track and in removing the debris giant
powder was resorted 10. The dynamite
was frozen and IL was placed near fire
for the purpose Of thawiag II out One
Of the sticks exploded wi;h the above
result An the msu were Italians OK
cept thr foreman.