Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-07-12
Gleanings,


st. Louis.
Texas has lifty-fvo postmistross-
es.
There are 287 incorporated col
leges in the United States.
Tho Funded Debt of the state Of
Ohio is S10,O0O,000.
The eight hour bill was defeated
IN me Massachusetts Legislature.
california straw berries are SO
big they plug Thorn to SEQ if they
arc ripe.
"A halfponny paper is projected
in London, which is expected to cir
culate from 100000 to 100000 copies
daily.
Wendell Philips asserts that in
Boston "every tenth person is Grim
inal, and every SEVENTEEN pauper. y
One of the Sorosis ladies says
that the only way to reach mans
heart is through his stomach. If you
feed them we'll, they will not fail to
think well of you.
1t has been ascertained that the
precise weight of the earth we iDhab-
it is 1886, 195, 670, 900, 900, 900, 100000
tons-or, in words quito as compre-
hensible-one quadrillion, two hun
bred and fifty-six thousand, one hun
dred and ninety-five trilions, six hun
dred and seventy thousand billion
tons avoirdupois.
A bill has been introduced into
the French Corps Legislatif for the
suppression Of the Hotel des Invalid
es. The nine hundred old soldiers
living there are to be sent home or
remanded to the care Of charitable
institutions, and the War Department
is to occupy the building with its Off
ces.
An Iowa paper having inserted
an item relating that woman of
that State had helped her husband to
raise seventy acres Of wheat, and
noting the item copied by its ex-
changes under an evident misappre-
hension of facts, now explains that
the way she helped was to stand in
the door and shake broom at him
when he sat down to rest, and terri
flying him IN other ways.
A letter from Saratoga to the
Boston Journal says the style is am
azing this year. The Grecian bend
Of former sessions is nowhere this
year. The huge dresses worn leave
the impression that q lady got up in
style must have about hor person
good sized lobster basket. Plain and
smooth hair is scarcely seen. But
the frizzed, porcupine, widc-awako
style is the rage. The letters that
come in daily indicate full and bril-
liant season.
According to French statisti-
clan, taking the mean of many nc
counts, man fifty years Of age has
slept G,000 days, worked $500 days,
walked 800 days, amused himself f.
600 days, was eating 1900 days was,
sick 500 days, etc. He alto 1900
pounds of bread, 10000 pounds of
meat, 1900 pounds of vegetables,
eggs, and fish, and drank 1000 gal
lous Of liquid, namely water, coffee,
tea, beer, wine, etc, all together
This would make o respectable lake
Of 800 square feet surface and three
feet deep, on which o small steamboat
could navigate. And all this solid
and liquid material passing through 6
human being in fifty years
According TO statistics propal-
ed by j. p. G. Shanks member of
Congress from Indiana, there were
in service on the Union side during
the war 81 ,944 officers and 2,073,1l2
white and 1855 colored men total
1885, 051, OF these woro killed in
action 1881 officers, or in every 81,
and 40,307 men, or ! in 55 died of
wounds received in action 2,069 Off
GERS, or l in ID, and 81, 1924 men, or
] in % died Of disease 1,723 officers
and 149,043 men; died from other
causes known, officers 388, and mon
IL, 845, unknown, officers, 1908 and
men Ga 094 total deaths in the army,
officers in 8, men in s. died in
prison officers in 81, men, in 5
captured, Officers ] in II, men | in
II escaped from captivity, officers
in 18,. men l in 76 prisoners who
joined the enemy, officers / in 1888,
men ! in so.