Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-11-13
For the Grant County Herald.
"AIl's not Gold that Shines"

,.rials. If [ understood the Professor, he
l,.igns to take the control of children from
beiT parents and give it to the teachers or
.r,s school officers. Now let us see how
10 thing will work in practice: We will
'.Ia The family of Mr.. Snooks, that con-
a1 Of himself, wife and daughter Polly,
y" bacht GIRL of IA, and the baby; Mr..
csonls is at work two miles from home at
20 5n0 cents per day, with the laudable inten
'ioo of raising funds to pay the State for
royerning him the past year; the baby is
nddeuly taken with the Group, aid Mrs.
soooks decides to keep Polly at home to
,aLe care of baby At the close of school
,be teacher discovers that Polly is absent;
card is filled out and directed to the
snook family, requiring them forthwith, to
.Iow cause why Polly was detained-some
bov is directed to go and serve it; if he is
:brewd boy and has been brought up to
mind bis own business, he will probably
l.scine the service; bu. suppose that by
rHe means the important document is
l4red on Mrs. Shocks; tow, what she
soulI say or do, we do not pretend to say
ills would depend much on her temper,
.ducation and disposition, and something
on whether she was woman's-rights' wo-
man: and if she was not, she would, NO
doubt, have sense enough TO know that
.he had perfect right to keep Polly from
school to tend the baby, the opinion of
learned Professors to the contrary notwith-
sanding, and as natural consequence she
would feel herself insulted.
s formerly spent many years in teach
4 nr, and this is perhaps the reason why |
nke so much interest in the Professors en-
desyors to enighten the +" old folks at
home. But a, long ago-as | taught, there
was no known way of acquiring profound
knowledge of the sciences than by hard
study; it was before the electric telegraph
and this other great invention of putting
I and Uowing learning into the pupil, had
been invented.
( As the Professor is writing expressly for
The instruction of parents, and has prom
red to continue the same subject until we
understand it, $50 far as we can with our
limited capacities | would say to the sold
folks at home," don't {; il to read The Pro
kssor's editorials.
When the late brilliant comet appeared
in the Heavens, all eyes were turned upon
it; so should it be when a dazzling genius
appears in the literary world, especially if
be cordescends TO instruct parents, and
those advanced in life with regard to their
duties, gratis.
An eminent physician has said that ey-
cry physician ought to have at least one
hearty laugh every day; and by reading
he Professors editorials, you may safel,
calculate on one week, unless YOU are in
clined to melancholy; in that case you
would be apt TO have slight attack Of the
tues.
From one of the Professors edtorills,
learned that he and some others were en-
gagged in petrif, ing the human mind.
hope he will not succeed in this rash un
dertaking, and my prayer is, cool Lord
deliver the world from SO great calamity
Bat should the Professor succee in car
ging out half his plans for pouring ligh
INTO the darkened understandings of the
"Old folns at home," he can then lay hi
hand upon his heart, and say with more
truth than Daniel Webster did, al thinl
have done my countrysome service"
LUTHER Brown.
PATcH GROVE, Nov. Sd.
A PErRIFIED WIFE.-A few days since
agenteman residing in Rising Sun, lndl
ana who had married a second time, wish
cd to remove the body of his wifi
to new cemetery. Preparations wer
made to that effect, and iaborers opene'
the grave in the usual ma nner; but whe
they resched the coffin they gould not lif
it, so great was the weight After obtain
ing considerable assistance, however, tn
men succeeded in raising the coffin from
the tomb. They then could not resist thu
temptation of peering into the coffin an'
learning the reason for its unusual weight
and found, instead of the remains of ;
corpse, stone figure, the exact counter
part of the woman who had died. Thu
strange story soon spread, and hundred
and thousands of persons were present t.
see the strange spectacle.
The husband took the body of his de
parted spouse home and has it there now
where it is visited by hundreds Of the Gu
fiOus and scientific. The body seems t.
hsve been petri6ed, and TO have become
perfect stone woman. The probability
that the body has become adipocese, ant
will before long melt or crumble.- Gin
1nnuti Inquirer.
CLEVELAND BEEF AHEAD.-The con
tracts for Beef to supply the British arm.
and navy have been made. Proposals 10
seven thousand tierces wer
advertised for and were awarded a
follows: Col. N. NJ. STANDARD, of Cleve
land, three thousand tierces; Craigin d O.
S0fChicago, fee hundred tierces, and til
balance between Adams of Baltimore, Al
burger, of Philadelphia, and Dominick, 0
CINCINNATI. The prices for the CLEVELAND
packed beef are higher than for that pack
ed at either of the other cities. The aver
age price is e2 less than that of last year
Cleveland thus stands at the head of thu