Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-14
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Gleanings.

There is not Protestant place
of worship in Cuba.
I'm the Connecticut Legislature
there are twenty-five members over
60 years old.
-Machine-made ice sells in San
Antonio, Texas, at two cents per
pound.
The Texas State Fair was O
magnificent success.
Connecticut had one divorce to
every nine marriages last year.
"A Colorado editor plaintively
pleads, "Gosh dang it send us more
girls"
The doctors say that fish is bet
ter than meat at this time of year.
--Mohammedans say that ono hour
of justice is worth seventy years Of
prayer.
The latest Now York extrava-
gance is to have diamonds set into
ones teeth.
--Guizot believes that the Napo-
leonic dynasty cannot be overLhroWn
for many years to come.
The port wine we drink now
days is asserted TO be moro than
three-quarters logwood.
Since the death of Noah Webs.
ter 1000 slang words have become
part Of the language Of America.
Stockton, Cal, has q century
plant about to blow, and it is already
visited by thousands daily.
There are eighty-five marine and
forty-three life insurance companies
doing business in the State.
The average cost of educatin
children in the Beloit public schools
is $40 each year.
Some one says to go to Europe
on q Cunard steamer is to go on the
waves of champagne and the wings
of cold chicken.
A subterranean lake has been
discovered at Lancaster, Pa, seven
ty feet below the surface.
"A Frenchman says that he thinks
the great fault of American women
is that they talk too loud in public.
Transmission of blood from q
mans to his wifes veins, has just been
successfully performed in England.
DR.. Abernethy used to tell his
pupils that all human diseases sprung
from two causes-stuffing and fret
ting.
The Vanderbilt steamer, Mary
Powell, recently ran 26 miles in so
minutes on the Hudson, carrying but
38 pounds Of steam.
1t is estimated that they are five
hundred millions of dollars deposited
in the savings banks of this country.
The Woman's Club have como to
the conclusion that no girl should
marry unless she has money enough
to support husband.
The Greeks are said to be tho
most sensible people in the world, as
they wear one style of dress all the
year round, and the fashion never
changes.
The people who hold that large
heads mean large intellects are con-
founded by the established fact that
man is inferior to some apes in the
proportion which his brain bears to
his body.
Mems lives should DO like the
day, more beautiful in the evening,
or like the summer aglow with
promise and the autumn, rich with
the golden sheaves, where good work
and deeds have ripened on the field.
"A would-be suicide at Cincinnati
was pulled off the track before COM
ing train bya railroad man, who war
ned him against trying TO "muss up
the engine in any such way as that.
Mr. Mace and Mr.. Heenan, tho
eminent gladiatorrs are to "gladiate"
around the country under canvas
and show the inhabitants of the ag-
ricultural districts how to mash
others physiognomies in scientific
manner.
One of the novelties OF Paris is
a hat made of wood shavings, which
sells for five cents, a really superior
quality selling for twenty cents
The best look as finely as the Pana-
ma, are of exquisite whiteness, light
and comfortable, and with careful
handling will last some days.
During the past two years over
900 human crania have been collect
ed at the Army Medical Museum
Seven hundred and thirty-four of
these crania have been measured,
and the general conclusions deduced
are that the position of the foramen
magnum is more important race
characteristic than the facial angle.
Smoking, when first introduced
into the north of Europe, was consid-
cred 80 pernicious practice that
kings and potentates endeavored, by
the most rigorous penalties, to sup
press it. Christian ~, of Denmark,
inflicted heavy fines upon smokers
In Russia their noses were cut off,
and the Grand Duke OF. Muscovy even
hanged them.
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