Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-07-06

two of R1tilesnake Pete's horse ssho,
and pluckiug cut part oftthe animals
tail as souvenirs.
DIR. A H. Barber is in the city shsk-
ing hands. att, ndIng to business and
telling his neighbots about the Worlds
Fair. He is an excellent sight seer.
A lot OF pleasant locals. concerning
good people and Fourth of July hap
penings, picnics etc efe. still hang on
the office hook. We are sorry but
national holiday plays havoc with an
editors plans. They will appear next
week
w. d. Burr and his brother from
Ellenboro met with serious accident
on the Fourth. They were engaged in
firing an anvil cannot in honor of the
day when a premature explosion oc-
Cured and one had his face badly burnt
with powder and the other lost a joint
from his fore fioger. While the hurts
are painful and serious enough, it is
fortunate that they were not more so.
They were in the city in the hands Of
our physicians yesterday.
The Editors sanctum was graced last
Saturday by the presence Of three wide
awake young ladies, Miss Fanny Wag-
ner of this city, Miss Margaret Kudobe
of Sitter, who is a favorite teacher
in the Dubuque schools, and
Miss Laura Zehetner of Dubuque,
who is wide-awake cOmpositor in a
live printing Office in her home city.
Miss Zehetner and Miss Kudobe are
spending their vacation with Miss
Kudobe's people who have recently
made Sitter their home.
An exchange says: John Hanson
Creig, of Danville, Ind, is undoubtedly
the largest man in the World. He is 81
years old and weighs 907 pounds. He
IS six feet and five inches high, meas
ures feet and four inches around the
hips. eighteen inches around the ankle,
Twenty-Five in chts around the knee,
and sixty-six inches around the thigh
next to the body. He requires Al yards
for a suit of clothes, and three pounds
of yarn for stockings. Mrs. Craig is a
good looking blond and weighs $50
pounds.
The new Chicago directory is in the
hands of the printer and contains $40,
900 names, and since they use the ratio
of to l they claim a population of
100000 or 100000 more than is
claimed by the city of New York. If
the Chicagoans are correct they can
now boast the largest city in the world
and the most populous in the western
hemisphere. London must look out
for its laurels or 1900 will see her take
second place to a city only go years old.
Centuries don't count any more. It's
enterprise that wins.
We guess Charley Chappell was
about light when he tried last fall to
get the County Board to put bounty
on rattle snakes killed in the county.
They are certainly becoming more nu-
merous than for years in certain sections
of the country. They are especially
common along the banks of the Missis-
sippi river and moi day passes but
some are killed by section hands along
the line of the C.. b. & N. Railroad.
The fact that farmers are allowing their
hogs much less range than formerly
seems to account somewhat for the rap
id increase in the number of rattlers
for hogs are deadly enemies of all
snakes and especially so of the rattle
snake. When a hog finds one he sell
dom fails to kill it. The deer used to
do the same thing but since they are
practically extinct in this county, their
task has fallen to the porkers and as
soon as they are closely penned up we
may expect the deadly yellow back to
take possession of the unfrequented
bluffs and cliffs along our rivers and
small streams. The county may have
to adopt Charley Chappell's plan after
all.
The annual school meeting held last
Monday unanimously reelected DR.. S.
E. Hassell as secretary of the board.
After the reading of the minutes DIR. A.
H. Barber's report as treasurer for the
past year was read and approved. The
estimates of expenses for the coming
year made by the board were then
given and allowed. A motion made by
A. c. Morse was carried to the effect
that special meeting be called at tie
school house, Monday evening. July
q, at o'clock, for the purpose of
considering the ACCESSIBILITY of fur
nishing more room for school purposes,