Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-09-11
orial Notes.

A large apple may have large
worm in it. New York has had Gro
ker and is likely to have Devery.
A man named Feldsmith recently
attempted suicide twice in one day.
A careful investigation revealed the
fact that his wife composes liberty
poems instead of gastronomic ones.
The democrats paid SO much at
ten0ion to the weeds in the repub-
Hcan fences that they have
quite forgotten the dilapidated con-
dition of their own boundaries.
A London publisher who has issu-
ed a cast of characters similar to the
dramatis personae Of the playbills
has found the scheme a good one
and his books are selling.
Unless you repent and believe in
the Hon. w. J. Bryan you cannot be
saved, the Commoner says, and the
Commoner is the democratic bible.
Great Salt Lake is at the lowest
level since observation of it have
been recorded. In nine years it has
lost six feet in depth and in some
places has narrowed nearly mile.
Free trade theorists would find
conditions in Africa to suit them.
All the exports are ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
and all the imports manufactured
articles.
The army surgeons in the Phil
ippines have succeeded in stamping
out dysentery and adobe itch among
the troops. The first was conquered
by strict sanitation and the Sec
ond by thoroughly drying cloths
after washing and ironing them
with very hot irons.
A would-be assassin threw bomb
at an inofensive capitalist in Syria
the other day. The capitalist was
very slightly injured, one Of his poor
laborers was nearly killed and the
would-be assassin has gone to his re-
ward.
The Commoner says The gentle
men who imagined that the democ-
racy needs recognizing should con-
suit an alienist''. The editor should
take heed. Everyone Knows that a
drunkard thinks he is the only sober
man and the fool is sure wisdom is
confined to himself. Mr. Bryan
should not place himself in either
category, even by implications
The first railroad dining car was
called the Delmonico and was built
by the Pullmans in 1866.
They had an earthquake in Min
danao just after Gen. Miles an
nounced his intention to visit the
Philippines.
Col John A Joyce and Mrs. Ella
Wheeler Wilcox are still quarreling
over the authorship of Laugh and
the World Laughs with YOU. Our
knowledge Of poetry is rather limit
ed but we prefer to read it TO quar-
reling over it's authorship. Perhaps
Bacon wrote Shakespeare plays and
Col. Joyce wrote the poem referred
to, but as to the latter-we have
very little sympathy with a twenty
year squabble over stick of pep
permint candy.
The people like man. Mere ora
tors may please and amuse them, as
other artists do, but when they find
man they are apt to strick to him.
Mr.. Roosevelt has honesty, ability
and courage, as is shown not only by
his present speeches but by his lifes
work, and the people won't forget
that he is not only pleasant but has
common sense.
1t is estimated that this years cot
ton will aggregate $1,000 bales
which is slight decrease from the
crop of last year. 1t is usual to fig
ure a bale as containing 500 pounds.
Once in while we read of the
'Populist'' Will some student of
ancient history kindly tell us who
they we're, where they lived, and
what they did?
Justice Shiras expresses his views