Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-04-10

AeAAAAAOS
Gus season at Chicago April 9th.
1t takes sand to propose to a girl,
but it takes rocks to marry her.
Gov. LaFollette has fixed upon
Friday, May 9th, as Arbor and Bird
day.
If beauty is only skin deep a lot
of people ought to be turned inside
out.
"A school teacher always thinks
she can please a little boy by kissing
him.
Keep in the straight and narrow
road and you will avoid the rush OF
the crowd.
The poor author is doubly poor
when he is compelled to borrow his
thoughts.
There is o sort of melancholy
comfort about seeing other people go
to the dogs.
-Ressmeyer G Casper call your at
tention to reliable harnesses IN
another column.
In the Dead Letter office at Wash
ington may be seen many foolish
things entirely uncalled for.
Every town has a few buns who
are like wheel barrows: they never
work unless they are pushed.
-Practicing what you preach bores
your friends about as much as prac-
ticing what you don't preach.
"A fair quality of onyx has been
discovered on the Platteville mounds.
The matter will be investigated.
If you call a woman "a poor little
thing y it has the same effect as send
ING her a dozen roses and comes
cheaper.
Go at things that must be done
with the feeling of an athlete delight
ed at the chance of being able to try
your strength.
--.sMy idea of success" said the
backwoods wise man, sis to have
men run after me who used to run
away from me-"
After all there is no home more
poorly managed than the n in which
they have to go out in winter and
borrow matches.
The world is full of people who
suppose that business consists of get
ting goods at a reduction, without re-
gard to quality.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned father who took a whip and
held heart-to-heart talks with his son
out in the barn.
Every individual in this world in
tiuences some one person, and the
greater we make ourselves, the great
er we make some one else.
The people who rush through life
at breakneck speed are very much
surprised when death overtakes them
to find that they are out of breath.
1t is estimated that there will be
in the neighborhood of five hundred
miners employed within a radius OF a
few miles of Platteville this season.
The almanac says that Venus now
rises before daylight. Venus has evil
IDENTIFY married a a who refuses to
get up in the morning to make the
fire.
1t may be a source of consolation
to Jim Younger" who has been de-
clared legally dead, that he is not,
like many of his victims, actually
dead.
The average man never fully
realizes the truth of the adage about
a fool and his money until after after
he has bumped up against some other
mans game.
-Bevans & Co. took in II cases of
eggs at their Tennyson store Friday
afternoon and Saturday. Biddies in
{ at locality are certainly energetic
and progressive.
MIR. and Mrs. John Clifford and
daughter are back to Lancaster to re-
side for the m m Conductor
Clifford and wife brought his aged
parents over Saturday.
Tnd;cations are that thare will
soon be three new rural mail routes
run from Platteville. One route will
90 to Elmo, Elk Grove and south,
second toward DickeYville and third
TO the north.
The management of the city op-
era house has arranged with Citizens
celebrated orchestra to furnish music
for a dance to be given Immediately