Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-10-05
The Age of Dirt.

If we are to credit the statements
of new weekly journal in London
called --latest Ne,cs, England is really
in bad way. The opening article
in the first number contains the ex-
traordinary greeting, part of which
is as follows:
at is the age of dirty speech and
unclean writing. Walk the streets
OF London by day or by night, and
the oaths and obscsnity will sicken
you, while the doubtful double enten-
Dire Proyokes silvery laughter in
many drawing-room. As to dirty
writing, no journal now, no work of
fiction, no drama, pays unless it con-
tains illusions to sinful passion, IN
less it portrays the passion of sense.
Our popular novels, especially to
their endless shame be 1t said, those
written by women are full of the
details of illicit passion, and eagerly
devoured by hosts of unsuspeeting
girls. The drama has for some time
been a vehicle for the exhibition of
the ankles of certain young ladies
who keep broughams on Is shillings
week. The popular songs Of the
day all turn upon such vices; the
stationers shops the portrait of the
everlasting lorette languishes side by
side with venerable bishops and
grave statesmen go into society's
bathrooms, and the style eff dress la
dies adopt approaches the simplicity
of that worn by Eve in Paradise /;
the records of our hospitals are full
of the dire effects Of the vices of the
day; everywhere we see evidences
of this miserable sensuality which is
eating into the heart of society
this is verify the Age Of Dirt"
Echo MISUNDERSTANDING has Hea-
ven given US an equal share ?-Air.
What does a rumor often do when
it flies ?-Lies.
Which is the loveliest flower that
grows Prose.
Whose children are we apt to
think the sweetest flowers ?-Ours.
What in manner is sure to please7
Ease.
What will frequently overcome
the most austere ?-Tear.
What loses It's flavor when we bor-
row it?-Wit.
What is it that wealth seldom ex-
tinguishes ?-Wishes.
What traits are difficult to exter-
inmate Inmate.
What did Cleopatra to her bosom
clasp ASP.
Tho British ship Lady Ann clear
ed last week from Sacramento for
London with wheat-being the first
vessel from that port direct to Lon>
don in two years.
The amount of specie held by
all the National Banks of the United
States on the 9Th instant amounted
to 81, 184, al. 46.
Local observers place the num-
her of visitors to the Hoosac tunnel,
during the past three months, at co.
900.
-Postofiee Department nov re-
ceives, transmits and delivers 720,,
100000 letters annually.
In Trowbridge, Vt, is a man by
the name of Diamond, who 10 the
father of thirty precious gems.
There is farm in Hardwick,
Mass, on which there are fifty miles
of stone wall.
There is ten>year old newsboy
in Cincinnati who supports both
parents and two brothers.
"A wag proposes to publish a
new paper, to be called the Comet,
with an original tale every week.
Over one hundred vessels were
wrecked off the English coast du>
ring the late gale.
Admiral Topete will probably
command the fleet about to embark
from Spain to Cuba
The report recently received Of
the murder of twenty missionaries
in China is denied.
| Thomas John Penn, the last
defendant of William Penn, died re.
Gently.
Boston is growing old. She cell
ebrated her 239th birthday, last
Wednesday week.
| The Avondale Relief Fund is
| likely to reach 100000,
| Six hundred and Ave horses
were eaten in paris in June.