Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-07-05

uoou iof thirty days unless obDer"
wise ordered. : ,Ja = a6-
There are $50 Young Mems
Christian Associations in this coun-
try.
Tho free-seat system is spread
ing among the Presbyterian congre-
cations.
"A man weighing $50 pounds,
contains III pounds Of water in his
| issues.
Two hundred and sixty girls are
employed in the government tele-
graph offices in Russia.
Spotted Tail and Red Cloud are
politely termed Maculated Caudal
and Vermillion Nimbus.
In Texas, when a man shoots
another they call him eccentric"
but in New York they call him in
sane.
The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press
dares to say that "nine tenths of the
sensible women in that State are OPP
posed to female suffrage"
In the Northwestern States
there are not less than two hundred
thousand Norwegians. They are all
Professionals.
The New Orleans Times is in fav-
or of abandoning to women the entire
business, of acknowledging in
this country.
Somebody suggests that the de-
scendants of the signers of the Dec
laration of Independence should meet
on the Fourth of July, 1876.
"Cash" boys are no longer employ
cd in most of the large dry goods
stores in Now York. Girls are taking
their places, and it is said they make
excellent substitutes.
Tho Revolution settles the dish.
washing question by quoting from
I'd Kings, xxi, 13 al win wipe
Jerusalem % q man wipeth dish
wipine it, and turning It upside
down
When the war ended Kansas
had no railroad at all. Now she has
moro than . thousand miles of rail-
way within her own limits, and an
abundance Of railway connections
with ovory part of the country.
a French society Of hundred
persons have each, by special agree
mcnt, boquoathed their bodies to the
disseoting room, to forward the pro-
gress OF the science of Anatomy.
1t is said that of all the Ameri-
cans who joined the Cuban army of
liberation at the commencement of
the insurrection, but fifteen or six
teen remain, the remainder having
either left the army or been killed.
"A woman offered the customary
prayer at the opening Of the Connec-
ticut House, on Friday, for the first
time in the history of the State, and
one of the New Haven papers admits
that she "made most commendable
invocation.
The New York correspondent of
the Springfield Republican says that
"Mrs. Richardson remains quietly at
her Jersey homo, among friends, re-
sisting as best she may the effects of
the terrible mental and physical
strain to which, for the last few
months, she has been subjected"
An old lady walked into the
office of a judge of probate and asked,
care you the judge OF reprobates ?"
81 am the judge of probate, was the
reply. "Well, that's it, | expect"
quoth the old lady. "You see, my
father died detested, and he left sew
eral in6dels. and / want to be their
execltioner.
According to statistics, 329 per-
sons were bitten by mad animals ia
France from 1863 to 1868 inclusive.
One hundred and twenty-nine of
til csc died from hydrophobia. eau
terizing the wound Immediately with
hot ron is the surest preventive Of
a fate result. Muzzing dogs is
shown to predispose them to mad
ness.
Ohio has got an Enoch Arden,
but he didn't look in the window and
catch the idea and lie down under
the fence and die. He jumped through
the window and smashed up the
household utensils, and punched the
head of his successor. People arc
different about such things.
Iron rust is removed by salt
mixed with lemon juice. Mlldew,
by dipping in sour buttermilk and
laying in the sun. Ink stains may
be sometimes taken out by smearing
with hot tallow, left on when the
stained article goes to wash. Freez-
ing will take out old fruit stains, and
scalding with boiling water will re-
move those that have never been
through tho wash.