Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-02-01

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| rGmento Union.
sG~A Physician writes to the
Dublin Journal Of Medicine in support
of the old notion that people sleep
much better with their heads to the
North. he has tried the experiment
in the case of sick persons with mark
ed effect, and insists that there are
known TO exist great electric cur
rents, always crossing in one direc-
ton around the earth, and that our
nervous SYSTEMS are in some way
connected with this electrical agent.
Let the beds all head toward the
North Pole.
aA~ There is wonderful "Heaing
Pool" in Gratlot county, Michigan.
A well three and half inches ia di-
ameter sunk in search Of petroleum,
began, at depth of 200 feet, to spout
water so powerfully magnetic that
pen-knives dipped into it became
permanently magnetized, and tin
cups and glass tumblers held in the
water were galvanized with coating
closely resembling gold. But the
marvellous peculiarly of this water
is its healing power. 1T seems to be
a yeritable Pool of Bethesda.
sN- A correspondent of the Western
RuraL tells how a German woman
cooks food for "four great fat hogs"
She has a barrel sunk in the ground.
In this is placed some meal, and on
this is poured a washboiler of boiled
potatoes and carrots, which are then
rapidly mashed with "great pound
err" More meal is then thrown in
and the barrel ia tightly covered.
the whole mess is cooked by the heat
of the potatoes and carrots. These
are cooked twice day.
s@- The six degrees of crime are
thus defined -"He who steals mil
lion is only fnancier who steals
half q million is only fnancier who
steals quarter million is only de-
faulter; who steals a hundred thou
sand is rogue; who steals fifty
thousand is a knave; but he who
steals pair Of boots or loaf Of
bread, is scoundrel of the deepest
dye and deserves to be lynched.
Ey Unitarianism in England, &C
cording to correspondent OF the
Christian Leader, is at present, if not
in state of decline, at least unpro-
gressive. at seems" he says, "too
coIdly intellectual, and too little emo
tional to meet the spiritual aspira-
tons OF the English mind
s@.The Presbyterians propose to
build, at the general expense of the
denomination, great national church
edifice, near the Presidential mansion,
in Washington, and $4,000 is want
ed for the purpose.
s3- The dictionaries will have to
credit Senator Sumner with a new
word used by him during the debate
on the Virginia bill. The new coin
age is rjdiculosity. They should put
it alongside of Lowell's 'undispriva-
cied."
Ev Among the sculptors now in
Rome are seven American women,
Miss Hosmer, Miss Freeman, Miss
Stebbins, Miss Edmonia Lewis, (col-
ored), Miss Winnie Ream and Miss
Foley.
ETA correspondent Of the West
ern Rural has cleared his own hands
and those Of his friends from warts.
by rubbing them with chalk a few
evenings, before going to bed.
@-The Common Council of Elgin.
ILL.,, has passed a resolution, imposing
fine on any person who retails pork
in that town, without having it first
inspected by the city physician.
se-It is over eighty years since
Congress began to talk about modi.
flying the Thanking privilege.
n@-In a short time all revenue
stamps will be Cancelled by a new
arrangement which the Government
is now perfecting.
esa 1t ia q remarkable fact that the
lunatic asylums of all the Southern
States are full to overfowing.
s%"Lord" Ainsley is tending bar
in an obscure saloon near Boston.
nsx-Three deaths from over-skat-
inc have already occurred in New
York.
-Agassiz says that the moons
rays are gradually loosing their
heat.
delaware has more than fourteen
peach trees to every voter in the
State.
Fred. Douglass is spoken OF as
Governor for the new Territory of
San Domingo.
Iowa has ffty-two wooded mills.