Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-07-05

scattering grass seed on the brown
spots in the court yard Monday be-
tween showers. There's some re-
ninders of the reunion remaining
that'll not be erased this season.
I'VE undertakers are peculiarly
situated" remarked a well-known
mem Der of the fraternity to Herald
man recently. If we call on sick
friend he imagines that we have mer
cenary motives and want the job Of
burying him. If we don't visit him
and he dies his family thinks we've
given him an unnecessary slight, and
some other fellow is called in to pre-
pare the remains for burial. That's
the way it goes. An undertaken
hardly knows what to do when his
friends are sick. It's many a time he
would like to call on them, but is de-
tered from so doing on account of
the grewsome nature of his profess
sion. If he goes he is criticised-if
he doesn't he looses. So there you
are
1t is reported that there is a search
ty of mosquitoes this summer and
that the shortage is due to drouth.
Mosquitoes, like so manv other spe-
cies of animal and vegetable life, re-
quire a certain amount of moisture.
The moisture. 20 be really congenial
to mosquito life, must be in the form
of mud puddles, but owing to the
great lack of rain they have been very
scarce. The absence Of the dreaded
mosquito, who is always looking for
some human to devour, has made re-
cent midsummer evenings decidedly
pleasant. The ominous metallic" ping"
has not been heard, and the attend
ing bite not felt People have con-
sequently been able to venture out on
their lawns after the sun goes
down.
Rev. Father McNulty OF Mt. Hope
must have taken hearty laugh all by
himself the other day after passing
through an experience in this city
that he will not soon forget. The Sc
cret of the whole thing is that he was
absolutely taken for a German. Think
of it! Ii was Al Holman of the Hub
clothing house who was so deceived
and his friends have given him the
laugh ever since Father McNulty
was over the other day and purchased
bill ot goods at the Hub. Mr.. Hell
man saluted his customer in German.
and the genial priest who is a fluent
talker in this language, picked up the
conversation and continued it in
the same strain. In talking with
Judge Goodsell day or two AFTER
wards. the advantage derived from
being able to converse in more than
one language was the topic of dis
cussion, and the clothing man re-
referred to his experience with the
German priest from Mt. Hope as an
example. The Judge questioned a
little and lehman was rather nom
plussed when Informed that his Gus
toner was about as much German as
a bag Of potatoes.
County Judge Goodsel puts in a
portion of his unoccupied moments
in waging war upon the sparrows
that make their headquarters about
the court house, with one Of these
new-fangled air guns. He was sitting
in the west door Of his Office Tuesday
forenoon watching COR something to
appear upon which to test his marks
manship as Charley Churchill passed
through and out, bound for the rear
OF the building. There's nothing
diminutive about the ex-clerk of the
court and Registrar McBrien at his
desk near by took occasion to remark
that Churchill would made an ideal
target to shoot at. The Judge
assented and without computing the
distance from his unsuspecting vic
tim, let FER go just for fun. Then
was laughable scene enacted The
little leaden missile went a whlzzing
and landed fair and square at point
on Charley's anatomy situated about
two chains ana three links in a south
erly direction from the base OF the
brain. He went into the air ike a
schoolmaster who sits down on a pin.
hastily clapped his hand.on the place
where his mother used to hers and
was heard to calculate something he
wasn't taught at Sunday school. The
Judge made bastv retreat only too
soon to escape being struck by good
sized rock hurled at him by the irate
attorney. Then followed apologies
and explanations about mot knowing
II was loaded. etc. " and the curtain
was rung down. Il Is rumored that
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