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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-16
NATURES STRANGE BREAKS

DURING a heavy rainstorm in Indiana
mud turtle as large as mans hand
fell from the clouds near Crawfords-
Vile
AT Gordon, Ga, during thunder-
storm the other day buzzard attempt
ed to soar above the clouds, when he was
struck by lightning and fell dead to the
ground. The birds body was badly
burned.
THERE is a spring il Bear valley, near
Chambersburg, Pa, from the surface of
which bubbles of sand and air ascend
about ten inches and then burst. The
spring is ten feet in diameter. The wa
ter is pure and refreshing.
AN artesian well near Albert Lea,
Mimi, which spouts both oil and water,
often changes the programme and sends
out stream of smell minnows, which
are wholly unlike any known species of
fish found in that vicinity.
DURING a severe thunder storm nc
Gently at Anna, o., bolt of lightning
struck daughter of Z. Philip Rugan.
When picked up she appeared to be
asleep and has since remained so, it be-
ing impossible to awaken her. She
breathes heavily and her appearance is
natural
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-16
PALPABLE HITS.

EVERY man viii sooner or later meet
the man who will knock the chip off
his shoulder.-Atchison Globe.
THE man who talks in his sleep is not
as much of nuisance as the man who
sleeps in his talk.-Boston Courier.
THE world was made before some
people, but to hear them talk you
would never know it-Atchison Globe.
DON'T rob your wife all her lifetime
in order to make provision for her in
case you should be first taken away
Troy Press.
In Boston men are beginning to
emancipate themselves from the gem
tier sex. A man has started a millinery
store.-Texas Siftings.
Iris surprising how many good things
man reads in the course of an evening
that should teach lesson to his neigh
bors.-Atchison Globe.
DON'T place all your confidence in one
friend He might run off with it and
then you would not have any confidence
to put in anybody else.-Dallas News,
WHEN some wise man said Ignorance
is bliss" he said something very impor-
tant to women who are curious about
the doings of their Standardization
Globe.
MAN is satisfied to drop into the
first saloon to spend ten cents, but a
woman viii make it show her through
every store in own.+Binghamton Re-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-16
MATRIMONIAL CANDIDATES.

A NEW YORK girl Of fourteen has just
been married for the third time.
AN Atchison girl who is soon to be
married will pay the expenses of the
wedding tour.
A GIRL at Pittsburgh, Pa, has just
eloped with her first love, from whom
she ran away ten years ago after prom
ising TO marrying him.
A WHOEVER of sixty-one in Yelling
ton, Kan, welded q young woman of
twenty after an acquaintance of one
week. Just one week after marriage
she left him.
A HEBREW girl and a Chinaman were
married in Chica go the other day. The
CelestiaIs business associates to the
number of thirty were present and
struggled for chance to salute the
bride.
SUE SHo, a,Chinese laundryman at
Paducah, KY, married his assistant.
Miss Ida Rutledge, pretty American
girl. The ceremony was American
and the groom was disguised in dress
suit. The bride says it is not matter
of business convenience, but pure, un-
adulterated love,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-16
IN THE COURT Room.

A MONTREAL judge has decided that a
hotel cook is not a domestic servant.
Two ATTORNEYS in St. Joseph, Mo-,
have been retained in suits against their
fathers.
A SHERIFF at Gadsden, Ala, allowed
part of jury under his care to visit a
saloon and drink beer. His indiscre-
ton cost him $50 fine.
AN Irish judge was presented with
white gloves the other day to mark the
entire absence of criminal cases from
the calendar in his riding,
A THIEF in female costume arrested in
New York the other day proved to be a
man who had been wearing women's
clothes for number of years.
A JUDGE who is holding court at
Broken Bow, Neb., is forcing attorneys
to get up in the morning, as he has the
docket called at 1880 a. m, sharp.
STIcKLERs for justice may appear
very ridiculous, but they don't care for
that. There are three suits in court at
Ann Arbor, Mich, growing out of the
loss of four troWelS
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-16
FACTS SCIENTIFIC.


ANALYSIS of individual beets indicates
that maturity, more than size, deter
mines the sugar contents Of the beet.
WE lose two pounds of water in
twenty-four hours by perspiration, and
the more we perspire the cooler we be-
come.
THE number Of eggs in a six-pound
eel in November is fully nine million;
under the microscope they measure
eighty to the linear inch
A SUGAR, fifteen times swccter than
cane sugar and twenty times sweeter
than beet sugar, is reported by Ger
man chemist from cotton-seed meal
TIE Societe ANNOUNCEMENT pour
IIndustrie Rationale Of Paris has
awarded a prize Of twenty-five hundred
francs to Henry N. Howe, of Boston,
son Of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, for d
treatise on the metallargy of steel.
OBJECT glasses for microscopes are
now made in Germany Of glass that
contains phosphoric and boracic acid.
1t is stated that with lenses made Of
this glass an object one-twenty-thou
sandth Of an inch in diameter can be
distinctly seen.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-16
PERSONAL BREVITIES.

PRINCE BISMARCK has a particular
fordness for piovers' eggs.
The originator Of the Eiffel tower is
railroad building in Switzerland
QUEEN NICToRIA's yacht, the Osborne,
has cost just S7s5,OOO in the last seven
teen years.
THE property left by the late Sir Rich
ard Sutton, the owner of the Genesta, is
estimated at over $1,000, 600.
THF Metropolitan Michael, of Servia,
has given his consent TO the proposed
marriage of the ex-king Milan.
SIR JOHN MACDONALD seldom went to
bed before midnight and never hurried
about getting up in the morning.
THE venerable Bishop Crowther, one
of the best known missionaries in
Africa, was born a savage in Guinea
FRAU voN BISMARCK is a most charm
ing and attentive hostess in her quiet
home and looks after the comfort of
her guests with almost motherly solicit
tude.
IN some respects this is a frivolous
age. Nine. Janauschek says there is
no legitimate tragedy on the stage be-
cause people would rather laugh than
think.
THE wife of Meissonier, the great
French artist recently deceased, is said
to be the biggest woman in Paris. The
artist married her when in his seventy
eighth year.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-16
BILLINGS AND COOlN0s.


DON'T Stop! = Overheard" George,
you're the worst flirt ever knew. Don't!
Stopl Look out for my hair! Oh,
George "'-Harvard Lampoon.
ETHEL-'Don't you like those sofas
that have just room enough for two?"
Maud-''Yes, but like those that have
hardly room enough for two far better F"
N Y Continent
JAcQUEs-'.It may seem presumptu-
Gus for me to ask for your hand; know
that am poor in money but / am very
rich in love" Millicent-"Yes; well,
where can You hire a fiat with that?''-
Boston Courier.
SWEET BUT E5rPrY.-Miss Smilax-
"These compliments, Mr.. Bulfnch, are
very pretty, but they remind me so
much of the placard in a new apart
ment house" Bulfnch-"Wba is that?"
Miss Smilax-'' Empty suites. Boston
Courier.
''AND you think L will never tire of
you, George? Never cease to regard
you with affection?' tYou never will.
You are altogether too sweet to sour
on me-" She smiled blushed, cast
down her eyes and the kiss he had been
begging for was granted IN. Y. Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-16
TIE GIST OE II.

THE name Of one Of the blacklist cob
ored men in Mexico. Mo, IS Green
Brown
TIN Qualzers have three hundred and
fifty women teachers in the United
States
ONE sheet Of paper recently made was
eight feet wide and seven and three
quarter miles long.
IT takes a sailing vessel one hundred
and twenty-five days to sail from Phila-
delphia 10 San Francisco.
AFTER a Beaver county pa man
burned log he found in the ashes a
lump of silver worth $3.50.
"YoU kick the bucket and do the
rest" heads the advertisement of an I'M
dertaler in st. Louis newspaper.
A READING (Pa.) man has Just re-
ceived letter mailed to him by his
soldier brother twenty-seven years ago.
A LOCAL preacher of Pottstown, Pa,
has been living on one meal a day for
thirty years and is in excellent health.
FARMERS are travelling by the score to
Mystic, Conn, toget a look at grape
vine on which a potato vine is growing.
THERE is a church building in New
York every inch of the front of which
is concealed by a luxurious growth of
, NV
Soho, w. Va, has unique railroad
station. 1t is built around giant elm
tree, and the roof is shaped like an I'M
brella.
A MINNEAPOLIS inventor claims he
can fly to St. Paul and back within
fifteen minutes by the aid of his new
| tangled machine.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-16
PEcuLIARITlEs OF PEOPLES.

AMERICANS are the greatest meat
eaters.
THE Zulus of south Africa are fond Of
eating carrion.
THE favorite dish of the aborigines
Of Australia IS the intestines Of ami
mails
TIE Indians of Alaska are reported
to be fond Of strawberries soaked in
seal oil
IL the Solomon islands the market
quotation on good quality" wife is
ten thousand cocoanuts.
ONE Of the peculiar customs Of the
East Indian coolies called Lascars IS the
putting Of a ring on the great toe when
they marry.
THE colonists Of Topolobampo, Africa,
are troubled with tarantulas, cent?
pedes, scorpions, mosquitoes, gnats,
buffalo flies, feas and bedbugs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-16
KILLED BY a LANDSLIDE.
Two Score of Indians Lose Their Lives by
an Avalanche in the Far Northwest.

Two Score of Indians Lose Their Lives by
an Avalanche in the Far Northwest.
TACOMA, Wash, July ia bout 6
O'clock a m, July Z, those working
and living near the North Pacific can
merry at Skeena River, Wash, heard a
great rushing noise in the direction of
the high, steep mountain at the back
of the cannery. In a moment an
avalanche of rocks and earth and
trees was upon the doomed settle
ment, carrying away everything close
to the cannery. The occupants of the
houses had time to get outside of the
buildings, but, before they could escape
from the advancing torrent of debris,
were caught and carried along at a fear
full velocity. In all nine houses, with
their occupants. were destroyed, includ-
ing the mess-house and residence of
the foreman Of the cannery. In the
messroom at the time of the catas-
trophe was the young wife of the fore
man. She was carried along and dashed
to death. The Indians claim that
among those destroyed were about forty
Indians of the Post Sampson, Sitka,
Metlakatlah and Kilimat tribes.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-16
Tho News Condensed.

The corner stone of the Christ Pres
byterian church at Madison was laid.
AT Waukesha Judge Sloan sentenced
John Bernhard to the states prison for
life for the murder of Henry Schley.
John Coburn, of West Salem, has
been appointed worlds fair commits
sioner to succeed II. NJ benjamin, Mil
waukee, resigned.
Frank Arbicl1 fell on the railroad
track near Ashland in drunken stupor
and was run over and killed by a train
A jury at Waukesha awarded Miss
Hurd $500 damages against the town of
Milton for injuries received On de-
fective sidewalk.
The book agent who committed sui
eide at Waukesha and who gave h is
name as j. J. Kelly has been identified
as Alonzo Donohue. of San Francisco.
He was graduate of West Point.
At West Superior the jury in the case
of John Richardson. charged with the
murder of Charles Allen. brought in a
verdict Of not guilty.
George w. Cans has been appointed
superintendent of logging on the Me-
nominee Indian reservation.
Fifteen loaded freight cars of an extra
train going west on the Racine division
of the Chicago, milwaukee, &5 st. Paul
road were wrecked near Beloit June
ton, causing great loss of property.
The board of trade firm of Mohr,
Zinkeisen & Co, of Milwaukee, made
an assignment.
S. Elliott has been appointed post
master at Saratoga, Wood county, vice
0. B. Hamilton, resigned.
The state board of control has APP
pointed p, y. Lamoreaux warden of
state prison, vice Weeks, removed.
a little 3-year-old daughter of Widow
Randall, of Lynxville, was cholzed to
death by swallowing beans given her
to play with.
One farmer in Brown county is said
to have received 81 900 in cash for the
right of way of the new railway.
l. S. Love, who made the first reaper
turned out in Wisconsin, died at his
home in Beloit. He was 81 years old,
and first engaged in manufacturing in
1871.
James Martin, an extensive stock
breeder at Richland Center. sustained
loss in a storm Of three blooded horses,
which We're struck by lightning in a
pasture. Three other horses were IA
tally hurt.
Max ellis and Rhinehart Peters, of
La Crosse, were crossing the Mississippi
river at Dubuque Ia, on freight
train, when, in passing under a low
bridge, they were struck and both
fatally hurt
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-16
4 Family Drowned.

Capt. Neils johnson, together with
his wife and child, were drowned
through the capsizing of the scow Sill
yer Cloud near Port Washington. The
three others of the crew chung to the
wreck until after daylight, when they
were rescued in an exhausted condition
by fishing tug from Port Washington.
The Silver Cloud was bound from Bal
ley's harbor to Milwaukee with a cargo
of lumber and sprung leak.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-16
Roards T..at Are 80 More.

The state board of charities and re-
form and the state board of supervision
have ceased to exist under law passed
by the last legislature abolishing them
and creating the state board of con-
troll. The state board of charities and
reform was organized in April, 1871,
and the state board Of supervision about
ten wears apO.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-16
EIGHT KILLED.
Awful Result of the Explosion of Nap
tina Launch.

Awful Result of the Explosion of Nap
tina Launch.
New YORK, July Is. - A yachting
party composed of number of New
Workers left Thirty sixth street, Brook
Ign, at o'clock a. m. Sunday. They
were on board the steam launch Ag-
with the day they had some exciting
adventures. 1t was along about 2
o'clock in the afternoon when one of
the party saw man clinging to a
buoy bobbing up and down in the
water off towards Coney Island. The
buoy is great distance from Coney
Island. They lowered small boat and
with great difficulty they contrived to
get the man from his dangerous rest
ing place. The rescued man said
that he was Capt White, of
East Rockaway. He had been on the
Ethel, naphtha launch. This launch
he said, had been chartered by a Mr.
Dennis, a wealthy retired diamond
merchant of Brooklyn. A party of
eight had started on board early in the
morning from Rockaway for a days
fishing. The Ethel had cruised about
until it reached point some way out
from the shore of Long Beach. Then
White said terrible explosion occurred
1t seemed as if all the bottom of the
boat was suddenly lifted up and blown
into the air Every person on board
was hurled into the water. He sank
with the rest. When he came to the
surface he saw nothing but wreckage.
There was not a body in sight. He
swan to buoy and chung there until
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-16
Died from an Oneration.

Prot. II. c. Rowland, principal of the
Alexander school, connected with
schools at Eau Claire since 1865, mem
Der of the first board of education and
president of the public library, died in
consequence of an operation for stran-
gulated hernia. Eighteen inches of the
intestines were removed. He leaves a
family.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-16
70 BOOKS zGIVEN AWAY

We will send the entire list Of Twenty Valuable
Books enumerated and described below, 20 every sub
to this paper for the ensuing year. who RENTS
Bentg cents In addition 10 the regular subscription
price These books, each of which contains a com
plete hrstcass novel or other work ~ we'll known
and popular author, are published in neat pamphlet
form printed from good readable type good paper
and many Of them handsomely illustrated They com
prise Of the finest works written by OF
the greatest and most popular writer's, both of Ameri
ca aud Europe Each one Is complete Ia itself.
NJ as Mrs. Caudie's Curtain Lectures. By
DoUGLAs JERRoLD. Very old and very funny. The
younger well as older generation should read them
No "a Adventures Ofa Bachelor. BY the au
thor Of Buah Beanpoles Adventures ia New York.
A great humorous book by popular author.
No 2B How to Make and Save Money on
the Farm. 3 valuable compilation Of useful facts
hints and suggestions for farmers and gardeners
No 37, From the Earth TO the Moon. 4
No. 2ls. The Little Old Man OF the Baug
n0lIes. Novel BY EMILE GABoRIAU.
40 B57 a Dangerous Woman. A Novel By
Mrs AsN s SrErHRSs
NJ ~ The Linden Farm Bride. Move.
10 III simon Derrick's Daughter. A Move.
10 gi2 The Baron's win. ANovel. y sTI
M 2p The Peril Of Richard Pardon. A
NJ 25o BInckbird nm. A Novel By ESTHER
No IS The Guardians Plot. Novel. By
n. al. The Gray Falcon. Novel. BY n T.
N. ~. The sorrow OF a Secret. Move.
No -. Percy and the Prophet. A Novel.
10 81 The story of a Wedding Ring. A
No 236 Martyr Wares Temptation
Sovel. By Mrs HESRY WooD
No. 2s5. A Modern Cinderella. Novel BY
the author o. d" Dora IhoTne.o
No. "a The Island Home. Novel By N. T.
No zss The Fatal Glove. ANovsL By CLARA
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-16
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


William Wendt, whose occupation is
that Of chimney sweep, and who is
familiar figure on Appleton streets,
sampled some liquor that acted unusu-
ally strange after it was down He
finally reached his home, but instead of
going in he climbed up a neighboring
tree TO witness an imaginary game of
baseball While high among the
branches he fell asleep and lost his
balance. In his descent his pantaloons
became fastened on a crooked limb.
where he hung with his head down
ward. He cried loudly for neighbor,
who went TO his assistance.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-16
Accidentally Shot His Child.

A man named Tomskie, who lives at
Kimberly, accidentally shot his S-year-
old son while handling a revolver
which he supposed was unloaded. The
bullet entered the little fellows stom-
ach and lodged in his back. The boy
was in very critical condition.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-16
&c sentence for knhns.

T1FFIN, O.. July 13.-Judge Ridgely
overruled the motion for new trial
for Marvin Kuhns. the Indiana horse
thief who was convicted Of numbering
his pal William NJ. Campeau, in Fos-
toria last November, and sentenced
Kuhns to life Imprisonment at hard
labor in the state penitentiary at
Columbus
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-16
Plenty of wild Came.

There seems to be plenty of wild
game in the woods near Marshfeld.
Men engaged on the new railroads or
driving along the highways frequently
run across it. Frank WEIGH, on the
logging train engaged in hauling tim
Der on the Port Edwards road, saw
eight bears cross the track at one time.
Deer are frequently seen.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-16

WAsHINGToN, July 13.-The comp
troller Of the currency has received the
resignation OF National Bank Exam
iner Drew, of Philadelphia The resig-
nation was at once accepted.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-16
Logging Company Beaten.

At Durand Judge Bundy decided ad-
versely to the Mississippi River Log
ging Company in its suit against the
town of Frankfort and Pepin county
in regard to the payment of the per-
sonal property tax levied by the town
last winter. The company had en-
joined the sheriff from selling their
land, which had been advertised by the
county for non-payment of said tax, as
provided by statute.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-16
Republican Editors to Meet.

During the winter of 1S9O-'9l a num-
Der of editors of republican papers met
in Madison and appointed an executive
committee to take charge of the work
of organizing a republican editorial
league for Wisconsin. This committee
has issued an invita- ton to each editor
of republican paper in the state TO
meet at the capitol on Tuesday, July
2S, to effect a formal organization.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-14
FEE AND SALARY REFORM
THE Leading QUESTION OF THE DAY
General Discussion of the Subject In the
State ss-P Sentiment United In
Favor of the Reform-when shall
the Law Take Effect?
TTerre Haute Gazette.1

lAtfTG Dhule GALette-I
The n imperative demand of the
times, so far as legislative action goes. is
for a just and fair salary bill. Let the
fees be as now, but let the money collected
go into the county treasury and ali ofic-
ers be paid salaries. They should be fair
and just, and even liberal salaries, but
they should be salaries, and the people
should know Just what they are. Then
the fees should be collected and turned
over to the treasury. There ought, in fact,
To be some system whereby these fees
should be collected much more fully than
they have been in the past. The court house
ought TO pay its way like a business estab-
lishment, iitigants paying all expenses, as
dancers pay for the music TO which they
dance.
1t will be easier and more lust TO make
the law become operative after the terms
OF all officials now in office shall have ex-
pred. That it would be easier to have
the law with that provision in 1t is OBJ
vious. That it will be Just TO do il is
scarcely less obvious because something
in the nature OF a contract exists between
the people and the officials they nave
elected that the compensation should be
whatever it was at the time of the cleo
ton.
But the law must be carefully considered
and passed and no subsequent legislature
will dare repeal or tamper with it. The
people of the state are very much in earn
est about this. The Gazette is sure of this
statement, for it is in pretty close touch
with the people, and besides, no matter
what anybody else thinks, it is in favor of
the bill because it is just and right. In
this, as in all things, the democratic party
stands By the plain people of the land.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-14

EDNUNDs, one OF its warmest advocates,
The failure ofisthis. measure is a serious
blow to the administration, but it is a
distinct triumph of patriotism, justice and
deceucy. The bill was a transparent
fraud. 1t was conceived in sin and brought
forth in iniquity. 1t was a product of
cant, hypocrisy aud false pretenses. Urged
in the ostensible interest of free and hon
est elections, its real purpose was to per-
petuate the republican party in power re-
CARELESS of the popular will, by methods
as obnoxious to free institutions and by
agencies as odious as those which pre-
vailed to deprive the country of its choice
for president in 1857. 1t involved a
terrible menace against the peace and
prosperity of the entire republic. Public
sentiment was everywhere overwhelming
ly against it. 1t was emphaticaIly repudi-
ated by the country on Nov. A.. It's death
is an event upon which the American
people, without regard to party, may well
be congratulated.