Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-08-09

Texas has so postmistresses.
| KANSAS has over 20 newspapers.
Victoria has been queen for SO
years.
Cuba now yields revenue of
S31 ,O00, 900. -,
o-TJapanese saw-mills are run by
cooley power.
kinds Of tulips.
II Ten thousand a week ia the
emigration record.
Paper napkins, three for cent
are Germany luxury.
i - England consumes more tea
than the United States.
Illinois has one mile of railroad
to every 754 inhabitants,
| 1t takes 5000 horses a year to
supply Paris restaurants.
There are more than million
paupers in England and Wales.
"A breed of dogs that cannot
bark has been discovered in Australia.
In the Connecticut valley now
the staple crop is said to be tobacco.
1t is said that the connecting
link between animal and vegetable
is hash
The wheat harvest of France
will be about one-fourth below the
average.
Much Of the hair now worn by
the ladies 10 cut from the heads OF
convicts.
The Swiss Minister at Yeddo.
Japan, says that every woman
throughout the empire Is able to
read, write and cipher.
AT recent spiritual seance the
medium was asked what was the
greatest amusement of spirits in tho
other world. The answer was,
Reading the obituary notices"
In Philadelphia, lately, young
man named Fischer was amusing
himself by exploding mpsket caps
under hammer, when q fragment
struck . little girl in Tho neck,
" hkbl bAI
"A man in Vermont has succeeded
in making folding globe. Ii is hol-
low, and can be shut up and carried
in small space. Much ingenuity is
displayed in the construction.
Phillip H., Of Spain, attempted
to connect tho Pacific and Atlantic
oceans by cutting canal through
the Isthmus of Darien, fifty years
after tho discovery of America, but
failed. Thus it will be seen that the
present enterprise has three centuries
Of failure before it.
Tho slang expression chunky
dory" is Scotch, and is a synonym
of the Latin "non compos." He is
"unco' dour in the uptak," is the full
expression, and means half-witted.
TO obtain a good nights sleep,
sponge the entire length of the spine
in hot water for ten or fifteen min
utes, this will reduce the circulation,
quiet the nervous system, and induce
sleep better than any drug.
Gen. Parker, Commissioner of
Indian Affairs, renews a recommend
alton of his in regard to the civiliz-
alton of the Indians, by advising
that the boys between certain ages
be made apprentices to farmers and
mechanics, and after they have learn
ed habits Of industry that they be
sent back to their tribes.
The best sentence of Sir Archi-
bald Alison's history is this: ma
pole0n was not a great man because
he wac great General he was a
great General because he was a great
man" We may add that no one
can have any clear knowledge of his
greatness without careful study of
the st Helena memoirs; they are in
dispensable to correct appreciation
of the grandest intellect the world
ever saw.
A nice little boy in Pittsburgh
went to the circus the other day.
and amused himself throwing stones
at the elephant while he was drink
ing. When he got through, the boy
tried to propitate him by offering
him piece Of gingerbread. Before
accepting the cake, tho elephant
emptied about sixty gallons of
water, beer measure, over the boy,
and ho sluug him into the third tier
to dry off. This boy is very indif-
ferent to circuses now.