Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-07-12
Local JOttingS.

| Local JOttin9S. /
Miss Bertha Long is visiting at
Warren, Ill.
Every man is more or less a
liar when he's is in love.
w. r. Frost has our thanks for
a peck of fine new potatoes.
-Agood time is to often measured
by the size of the next-morning
head.
-Wisconsin's national guard is
enjoying the annual rendezvous at
Camp Douglas.
If ignorance were really bliss,
what a Let of people would be
supremely happy.
Time may be money, but it's
much easier to make up for lost
time than lost money.
Tuition for on-residents at
Cuba City schools has been in
creased from 50 to SIG.
Girls, it is better to marry
mere man than to cherish an ideal
and remain an old maid.
Engineer Flynn is taking lay
off and Engineer Thesis of Madison
is running the freight engine.
When business and pleasure
are combined, business generally
gets the worst end of the deal.
Now the 18th of July accidents
are over the American small boy is
ready for the greenapple campaign.
Take few hours off some day
and work out your muscles little
in assisting to clean up Schreiner
park.
Milwaukee has 6,257 saloons IL
censed for this year. The revenue
paid for city license there brings in, a
total of 1856, 42O.
-Dubuque's latest census gives
the city a total population of Al, $40,
retaining it's position as second in
size in the state. Des Moines ranks
first, Sioux City third and Daven-
port fourth.
1t has got to be fad with one
county seat mother to make crazy
quilt blocks out of samples of the
trousers worn by young men who
come to see her daughters. The
family dog furnishes the samples.
-Secy. A. J. Wiedenbeck of the
E. F. u. has mailed notices to mem
bers of the local lodge of important
business to be transacted at the re-
gular meeting to be held at the
usual place Friday evening of this
week.
"A boy sat on fence inclosing
a corn field. A city chap passing
by remarked: ''Your corn looks
kind yaller, bub." Yes sir, that's
the kind we planted, answered the
lad. 1T don't look like you'd get
more than half crop, said the city
chap. Nope, we don't expect to;
the landlord gets the other half"
The stranger hesitated a moment
and then yentured: 'There isn't
much differ'ce between you and
fool. Nope, only strip of weeds"
said the farmer boy and the city
chap moved on. Moral: Attend to
to your own affairs and let other
people do the same.
"A man once went to dinner at a
hotel where everything was served
on the table at once. He was given
some very nice steak, some excellent
coffee, and lot of other food which
he liked; but on the table was a
dish of onions, and this man didn't
like onions. So he at once jumped
up from the table and went away
without eating, preferring to go
hungry rather than eat at table
where there was anything he didn't
like. Was he a fool, you asks Oh
no friend, he was the man who
will not take his local paper because
there are some parts OF it which do
not suit his taste.
Years ago it was not uncommon
for boys of Is years of age to con-
tribute to the family support. They
were obliged to. But it is very
rare now, and the change is due
largely to false education or to no
education at all. Then the bright
est boys had the laudable ambition
to learn trades, and such ambitions
were encouraged by parents. Now
the highest ambition of many a
youth is to lead a sealskin exist
ence on a ratskin income and to &C
complish this he early learns to
part his hair in the middle, puffs it
low down on his forehead and puts a
blue flannel pen wiper on the back
Of Ills head for a cap. OF course
there are exceptions, many of them,
but they are not as numerous as
they would be with rational home