Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-07-19
Gleanings.

cody power. "a
Canada has Just had her first col.
ored juryman.
-England consumes more tea than
tho United States.
"A Stockholmp photographer claims
to reproduce colors.
Paris boasts the cultivation Of
900 varieties of tulips.
Robert Il. Lee will make tour
of tho Northern States.
There are 287 incorporated col.
leges in tho United States.
kansas has now more than two
thousand miles Of railway.
Nearly 10000 Norwegians emil
grated in 1869 to this country.
Much of the hair now worn by
ladies is cut from the heads of con-
victs.
"A practical man wants to make
q lager beer vault of the Mammoth
Cave.
-Glycerine is an important ele-
ment in the manufacture of artificial
wine.
Dakota contains 10000 square
miles of territory $4,000 more than
Illinois.
The list ofviolent deaths in Eng
land and Wales counts up $4,000 the
past year.
Tho Methodist papers are discus
sing and condemnins Sunday camp
meetings.
: Three hundred tons OF fish have
been taken from Spirit Lake, in Iowa
this spring,
"A "Congress Of Philosophers" is
TO sit in Munich, on the 2Gth of Sep
TENDER next.
I'm the last election in Washing
ton Territory, fifteen women voted
in Thurston county.
The Reformed Presbyterian
Church Of New York proposes to
fight secret societies.
-Beecher says that ninety-nine
out Of one hundred chlrches are
built to please architects.
There are in the United States
1867 registered stills for the distilla-
ton of brandy from fruits.
--Beecher declares in favor of
statue to punish adultery by impris-
onment in the Penitentiary.
1t is said that Kansas will more
than double her population this year
The immigration is very great.
There are moro American YES
sells now in the Thames river, Eng
land than ut any time since the war.
1t is said that there is danger of
the total extinction OF elephants, the
hunters are killing them off so fast.
-"Washington's body servant"
hasn't all died yet, but one of him is
living at Syracuse, aged one hundred
and thirteen.
The machinery used in the State
of Massachusetts is capable Of doing
the work Of more than o hundred
million of men.
Nebraska is the only State that
was born with gold spoon in its
mouth--that is with 400 miles of COM
pleted railroad.
a great many persons in eating
cherries swallow the stones, which is
a very dangerous practice and some
times causes sudden death.
The Honepeck gold mines, fifty
miles west Of North Park, Wyoming
Territory, arc panning out five dol
lars day to the man.
The London Spectator in talking
up the late Fenian invasion, says we
arc more prompt to enforce the neu-
trality laws than England is.
The following sentence Of only
thirty-four letters contains all the let
ters in the alphabet: "John quickly
extemporized five tow bags"
A man in Decatur advertises for
an intelligent and respectable woman
to become o candidate for Congress
in the Sixth District of Alabama.
"A dog in Ripley county, Ind,
has taken a fancy to n venerable
gander, and the strangely assorted
pair abide together by day and night.
The flow of immigration into
Texas does not abate in the least.
Every steamboat up Red River is
crowded with people, and thousands
are on the overland route.
One of the latest notions is the
birth card, resembling a wedding
card, but bearing the name OF the
new conner, and the date Of his ad-
vent, with the initials of his parents.
-Veritable transcript from there
cord of will admitted to probate in
the State Of New York al be-
queath my body to tho grave, my
soul to its Maker, and the remainder
of my property to my wife"
The Chinese pirates are the most
urbanc, atfablo men in the world.
Recently they chloroformed an entire
ships crew before ushering them in.
to that undescribed country from
whose bourne no traveller returns.
Here are two conundrums that
a Western debating society has been
anxiously and frantcally trying to
solve: "Is it necessary that femails
shud receave a thurry literary educa-
ton ?" "Ort femails to take part in
politix ?"
THE PROSECUTIONS AGAINST CHRIS
TlANs AND IMAGE WoRsHIPERs IN
JAPAE.--The late prosecutions against
native Christians in Japan seems not
to have been directed against that
faith alone, but against Buddhism
also, or in other words against image
worship in general. The japanese
are worshipers of nature, no images
are to be found in temples Of what
may be called an established religion.
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