Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-08-02
GLEANINGs.

delaware promises to send out
100000 baskets of peaches this
year.
England has 43, a84 women en-
.ployed as outdoor laberers, it APP
pears from recent census.
The profits Of the Methodist Pro.
testant Book Concern for the last
iour years have been S2,o36,O6.
Ten thousand law suits inyoly.
ing over S30,000,O00 OF property arc
now pending in the Chicago, courts.
"A Norwegian family, CONSISTING
of father, mother and twenty-one
children, landed at Sheboygan, Wis,
lately
In a recent hailstorm at Buffalo
stones foil, five of which aggregated
the weight of five and a quarter
pounds,
An erring Indiana sister has been
tarred and feathered and ridden on u
rail out of Perry county by party
of her own sex.
Charlotte Guiliard was the first
notable female printer. She was in
business for 90 years in Paris--from
1906 to 1856.
There is q boy in Sullivan ooun-
ty, Pa, three months old, who weighs
forty pounds. He weighed twenty
eight pounds at birth.
-Fifty-one Josephite Mormons
have abandoned the fraternity" at
Ogden, Utah, to return to their
homes in New England.
"A dog in Ripley county, Ind,
has taken fancy to venerable gan
der, and the strangely assorted pair
abide together by day and night.
If men would but follow the adj
vice which they bestow gratuitously
on others, what reformation would
be effected in their characters
A Boston Sunday-school teacher
Ga lady Of course) has not been alb
sent from her class single Sunday
during the past forty-six years.
The supply of fresh water in
New York city is running short, and
orders have been issued for economy
in it's use. 1t is estimated that So
100000 gallons are wasted daily.
w estport, Maine, wants q doctor
to come there, so as to offer some in
ducement for an undertaken to set
tie. Funerals are managed entirely
by amateurs at present.
"A well-mated couple step, united
over the clefts fife, like the crystal
seekers of the Alps, who, by bind
ing themselves together make sure
against falling into the chasms of ice.
1t is estimated that eight hun
dred young men in Baptist colleges
in this country are studying for the
ministry-two hundred and forty Of
whom are in theological institutions.
1t is said that the man who won't
take paper because he can borrow
one, has invented machine with
which he can cook his dinner by the
smoke Of his neighbours chimney.
The Chinese only pay their ply
sicians whom they are in perfect
health as soon as they get sick the
doctor ceases, and it is therefore for
his interest to euro them as quickly
as possible.
"A poor woman in Buffalo, com
PEELED TO beg to save her husband
and children from starvation, drop
ped her bank book the other day,
which showed that she had lust de-
posted 1925.
The Hawaiian Legislature has
fixed the salaries of the Judges Of that
kingdom upon q liberal and wise ba-
sis. The Chief Justices receives SO
600 per annum; the two Associate
Justices receive each $4,000.
Miss Louisa Stratton, of Cass
county, Ind, challenges any man in
the State to blowing match with
her. She proposes two-horse team,
each competitor to drive the horses
and hold the pillow.
Miss Phelps, whose success be-
gan with Coates Affair."" is said to be
making more money than any Ameri-
can female writer; and yet during
her school days she was considered
the most stupid in her class.
In Holland there are Il, 900 wind
mills in constant use for the simple
purpose of drainage. They are said
to be almost Of colossal size, each lift,
ing from 100000 to so, 900, 900 gal
Ions Of water every "a hours.
"A gentleman, whose nose had be-
come distinctly colored with the red
wine he was wont to imbibe, said one
day to his little son at the table -
You must eat bread, my boy bread
makes your cheeks red" The little
boy replied "Father" what lots Of
bread.you must have snuffed up"
"A new kind of paper has just
been invented in England, which is
specially adapted for various kinds of
clothing. Wool and skins are among
the animal materials employed in its
composition, and flax, jute and hemp
are vegetable constituents. 1t can
be sewed as easily as woven fabrics,
and is especially serviceable for
quilts, curtains, tablecloths and shirts.
There is girl by the name of
Hattie Brown in the County mfr
mary Of Shelby county, O., so it is
said, who has living reptile in her
stomach which makes itself perfectly
at home in its snug quarters, some
times venturing SO far as the throat
and protruding its head, to the great
discomfort Of the poor child.
An Indiana paper says negro
in New Albany is turning white
This singular change commenced first
on his body. The white is gradually
encroaching or the black, and the
black gradually disappearing before
the white. His neck is now partial