Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-02-25
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The new flag will have forty
seven stars in it's field. with the
possibility that there may yet be
fifty in all. When Arizona finally
gets in she will be represented by
the forty eight starjand eventually
Hawaii, Alaska and Porto Rico may
be claiming their right to a star
each.
Hoch, the modern blue beard,
seems to have solved the divorce
question.
A Washington debating society
has discussed the whipping post
problem and decided that it is a
necessary evil and a good thing.
When the United States attorney
for Oregon was bounced he asked
an explanation from the admins
tratiOn.
The Magazine How to Make
Money" has failed. There's Ono
thing new about that way of MAX
ing money.
Col. Pete Hepburn has been
burned in ehigy. When one con-
siders the price of fuel this is not SO
much less compliment than the
loving cup which was presented to
him.
Colonel Henry Watterson failed
to find Paris as gay as it used to be
and now he says the cooking is not
as good as it once was. Someone
will be rude enough pretty soon to
remind the colonel that he is not as
young as he used to be.
J. Ogden Armour holds the grain
market, it is said, in the hollow of
one hand. Yes, and every once in
awhile he gives it squeeze.
The irrigation committee of the
house will make trip of inspection
next summer, to which the Senate
committee will also be invited. An
irrigation committee ought to be
able to make something stronger
than water flow on trip like that.
The Wisconsin assembly is con-
s1dering bill to impose tax of
five dollars a head for bachelors.
The amount of the tax insures that
no bachelor will marry to escape
the tax. At least those who have
talked with their married friends
on the cost of a modern wife will
not.
Secretary Shaw recommends that
the treasury vaults have alarms.
They should be arranged to go off
whenever a supply bill is intro
duced in congress.
The Cars salary is 81, 800 600 a
year and yetthere is scarcely any
one who would take his job.
In the memorial speech on Nc
Kinley Secretary Hay said "Our
history shows how surely an Execu-
tive courts disaster and ruin by as
Stunning an attitude of hostility or
distrust to the legislature. And
yet Mr.. Hay did not preventive
presidents letter to Senator Cullom
on the arbitration treaties.
The Philadelphia Record says
"Women are the most persistent
bargain hunters" Having had to
give up man hunting, bargainsIare
the only game left them.
There are many poets in the U. S.
Senate. There is Aldrich, Dryden,
Scott and a Bard from California.
In forging both his fame and his
fortune General Lew Wallace
provided that the pen is mightier
than the sword.
Two Omaha women believing that
Cleanliness is next to Godllness'
spent their nickel for stove polish
and proceeded to starve to death.
The president belongs to the
heavy weights and at last he has
tackled something in his own class.
The Standard Oil company isabout
as big game as the presidentIh has
hunted.
Twenty thousand good Republi-
cans" says the New York Tribune,
will march in the Inaugural parade.
Washington is glad of the recon-
mendation of character that the
Tribune gives them. The police
have not forgotten the trouble the
paraders have given them in past
Inaugurations.
There is an overwhelming amount