Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-05-31
SEXES ss IxEs.--VOL. q, NO. 81.
Miscellaneous Items.

fashionable.
1t is rather doubtful which il
killing the most individuals, coal OF
or gasoline.
killing a man is reported by tn,
Detroit Post as committing an act o
insanity upon him.
"A nursery agent in Fayettt
county, Iowa, assures his farmer Gus
toners that eternal vigilance is thc
price of apples"
"A sheaf Of "petrifed oats, loul
feet long and weighing so pounds
has been taken from the ground 6C
feet below the surface, in Nevada
county, Cal.
AT the Woman Suffrage Convon.
ton in New York the other day, Mrs.
Hazlitt, of Michigan, said that but
few wives married their husbands be-
cause they loved them.
The Grass Valley (Cal) Union
suggests that the men who go about
shooting people and then plead in
sanity, should be tried by crazy
jury that are insane enough to hang
them.
The world is safe from collision
for while longer, us the consoling
intelligence afforded us that for the
next hundred years the distance be-
tween the earth and the sun will
| gradually increasn
-Gerrit Smith said before large
audience at the Cooper Institute, a
few days ago, that wars would never
occur if rulers drank water instead
Of wine.
--Renan, the author of the "I.ife
of Jesus" will, it is believed, be re-
stored to his place as Professor in
the College of France, from which he
was ousted on account of the obiec-
tionable nature of that book.
The Revolution is angry with
the Episcopal marriage service for
"clinging to the word obey as APP
piled to the female party of the sec
ond part. How about the epistles Of
Saint Paul? Are they, too Eat log
ger-heads with time ?"
Anna Dickinson says that "there
is no work man can do but that
will be better done by having wo-
man at his SIDE" How about curry
ing kicking mule, asks cotempo-
rary.
An exchange says: young men
should never settle down for life in
the place of their nativity. They
rarely get to be men if they do, but
are always known as Billy Tom
my, Johnny and with ever so much
merit will find it difficult to rise above
the dolly statue"
A Cincinnati druggist declares
that there are no less than a thous-
and arsenic eaters in that city and
immediate vicinity, mostly young
women, who take drugs for the com
plexion.
A Buffalo man smothered his
child by rolling upon it in bed while
drunk, and the Coroner's Jury, after
due deliberatiOn, have decided that
no blame can be attached to him be-
cause he was drunk.
An English druggist proposes
that the labels on certain medicines,
in addition to the word poison,
should have the antidote printed IN
derneath, for ready reference, in case
Of accident,
"A Danbury, Connecticut, wife
cured her husband of singing "Shoo
Fly" when she was lecturing him
for being out late nights, by letting
her shoe fy at his head with such
force as to give him the headache.
The ears of horse may be call
ed induces of his mind. Intelligent
animals prick'hp their ears back. A
blind horse directs one car forward
and one backward, and ina deaf horse
the ears are without expression,
The will of deceased Philapel-
phia lady is being contested on tho
ground of insanity, just because she
had a penchant for shooting at a
mark. IT'S getting SO that person
can't even shoot his next door neigh
Dor witout being called insane.
Three hundred dollars conscience
money was received at the Treasury
Department Monday from q Catho-
lie Bishop at Alton, Illinois, with the
request that no questions be asked
about it also, fifteen dollars from an
cold soldier, overpaid by the Quar-
termaster's Department"
1t is declared that the case Of
the English criminal sentenced to
be hanged, and who could not be ex-
ecuted owing to maformation of
the neck, has done more to forward
the cause of abolition of capital pun
ishment in Britain than the efforts of
the philanthropists for a hundred
years.
1t is reported that A. Lyman,
who was cut off from the apostleship
of the Mormon Church some time
since for preaching sermons denying
the atonement of the Savior, has
been made president of the Godbeites.
The ladies at the Dayton Suffrage
Convention complained that Mr.. Val
landigham, who rendered hisadher-
ence to the cause, was too exclusive
in his attentions to Miss Anthony.
and so refused in advance their votes
when Mr.. Vallandigham next runs
for Congress.
"A Boston woman complains that
she has stopped in sundry hotels in
sundry places, and she never knew
one to have clock,in it's ladies par
Tor, or newspaper accessible to its
lady guests. But, kindly suggests
the New York Times, there is always
q mirror.
A scientific paper ondeavoring |
to show what breaks down young
men declares it is not hard study,
for in our colleges, it is not the good
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