Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-07-26
GLEANINGS.

OF near Parls IN the month OF May.
| Previous to 1889, boys only
We're taught in the public schools of
III you wish TO see q woman 90
/ 1ii hke Hash, just accuse her of
using powder.
--The water power st. ANTHONY
Falls is calculated to be equal to ono
hundred thousand horses.
| "A Negro in Georgia has only
ninety-nine years to serve in State
Prison for killing white boy.
| "A Providence undertaken has q
pleasant habit Of sending his card to
all the sick persons he can hear Of.
Wendell Phillips asserts that in
Boston "every tenth person is a
criminal, and every SEVENTEEN pau
per-"
Gold is the only idol that is wor-
shipped in all lands without q tenn
pie and by all sects without hypo-
crisy
"A Southern Governor is credited
with vetoing q bin passed by the
Legislature "for bad spelling and
nonsense generally"
--"Mr. Speaker, ! straddle that
blind" was the phrase in which
poker-playing Californian legislator
| seconded the motion.
Illinois has 5000 miles of rail-
road open for business. One thou
sand more are rapidly approaching
completion.
-"What is often called Incidence"
says Henry Crabb Robinson, sis in
fact the unconscious consciousness
of incapacity.'
Ozark American splendor, look
ing like the east reflective" is one of
the lately announced styles Of female
lovelincss.
The Agricultural Society of Eng
land, composed Of tho ablest and
most important men in tho kingdom,
has >, 1873 members.
-Twenty-one millions Of dollars
are expended annually by the drink
ers Of lager beer in the United States
for their beverage.
1t has been curiously shown in
the French Academy that certain
plants are as sensitive to the influ-
ence of chloroform as animals.
The Spanish authorities are pro-
ceeding WITH great vigor against
Free Masons in Cuba. All lodges
there are prohibited by Spain.
Somebody suggests that the des
cendants of the signers of the De-
claration OF independence should
meet on the Fourth OF July, 1876.
Tho most violent radical in the
Texas Legislature is au ex-rebel OIL
GER, who once declared he would new.
or live under the hated Yankee rule.
Two hundred and eighteen Of
the students at Harvard are Unitar-
ians seven are Roman Catholics,
and seven are "New Churchmen" or
Swedenborgians.
Mary Powell in her lecture OH
the Indians says she has seen 200 In
dian babies all together and not
squall came from any Of them,
| "A young woman engaged in
millinery department in Boston has
dangerously poisoned one OF her eyes
by handling French flowers and af-
terward rubbing the eye with the
hand.
The Builders announces that
'olse chlgnons, plaits and curls can be
A. "%ve been made Of spun glass,
and 2ecGnliness and other reas-
which, toA sole 20 human hair,
ons, is prele. "sr purpose.
hitherto used Tor "a "'sh commits
The Connecticut l.. 'ta Seth
sioners have contracted w. '~noa
Green to put forty million SAIL
eggs in the Connecticut this season.
and will also stock Pennington river.
The Bangor Wig says a thrift
ty housewife in that city recently
sent word to the grocer who deliver
ed her some eggs the other day to
either come and take the eggs away
or send up some chicken coops.
Two boys, aged respectively II
and - years, started from Cedar
Falls, Iowa, few days ago, for the
plains to hunt bears and Indians
They were over taken about twelve
miles from home, taken back to their
mammas, and spanked.
"A moral old deacon harnessed
up his fatherless ward along side Of
the team, and dashed him all the way
home to make him keep up, as pun
ishment for falling asleep during div
inc service.
"A Delaware farmer curbed the
freshness Of his oxen's tails by tying
q brick to each. He considered the
plan failure when one of the brutes
swung the brick at a maddening fly
and Drained the farmers oldest boy.
"A writer suggests that bulletin
boards would add to the convenience
If city churches, thus saving the
minister the necessity Of advertising
rom the pulpit, church socials, sew
ng societies, fairs, picnics and other
"A movement in Boston, in 1890,
10 erect a monument to the dead SOL
diers of the Revolution, was opposed
by their surviving comrades, who
that they should blot out
IS nearly as possible all the unpleas-
antness of the war.
Mr.. Cuyckanickpucks Yakut-
'kolitmilks Sakiatskylitmilks Anka-
, b gamuks Observation-Disclosures
Keeps hotel at Sitka, Alaska. He
says that the Americans have the
lueerest names he every heard of,
md it is with the utmost difficulty he
IAN pronounce them.
1t is estimated that should the
entire progeny of single pair OF
birds survive, in the course of fifteen