Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-28
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Gleanings.


gests the removal Of the warlike
Indians to Alaska.
"A new comic paper is to be
started at Dublin under the appro-
pirate title of Blarney.
-Wisdom is the olive which
springs from tho heart, blooms on
the tongue, and bears fruit in the
action.
"A Georgia Judge has had to re-
quest the lawyers not TO eat peanuts
in his court, as the noise disturbs the
course OF justice.
"A writer on physiology announc-
es that if people would avoid quar-
rels, they should not sleep together
under the same bed-clothes.
There are already fifty-seven
couples at Niagara Falls trying to
make people think that they have
been married for years.
There are said to be clerical il.
telligence Offices in London, where
clergymen advertise themselves for
vacant places.
A boy caught catfish in Iowa
river near Oakland, the other day.
that weighed thirty-three pounds
and was over five feet long.
There is man in Florida nine
feet and six inches high. He enjoys
good health and is evidently long for
this world.
Within twenty years the manu-
facture of clocks at Thomastown,
Conn, has increased from 10000 to
10000
The total shipment of treasure
from California since January LIST
amounts to $16,830, 900, including
$4,000, 900 overland to New York.
"A Paris correspondent estimates
that twenty thousand sane people
are imprisoned as lunatics 10 France,
simply to get them out Of the way.
Charity is never lost-it may be
of no service to those it is bestowed
upon, yet it ever does work Of
beauty and grace upon the heart of
the giver.
Among the attractions announc-
ed for fete given last week by the
ladies Of the Emanuel Church, New
Orleans, were "the coolest champagne
punches"
Prince Pierre Napoleon, it is
said, will spend next winter among
the Rocky Mountains, hunting and
fishing. lie is an adept at shooting.
"A sharp young lady says there
is nothing more touching than to see
a poor but virtuous young man strug-
Cling with weak moustacho.
An exceedingly patornal man,
living in Dennis Lake, Florida, aged
81, is the father Of sixty children, the
youngest Of whom is . months old.
An exchange says "Trying TO
do business without advertising is
like winking through pair OF green
goggles. You may know that you
are doing it, but nobody else does"
Apple orchards in Sangamon
county are being infested with
borcr, which threatens to materially
iniure the present good prospect for
that crop of fruit. In many orchards
the leaves are withcred as if burned.
The wheat harvest is begun in
the Carolinas, Georgia, Virginia, Ten
nessee and Kentucky, and is satisfac-
tory, both as to quantity and condi-
ton. Harvest hands are getting
good wages down South this year.
So plentiful are the grasshoppers
in Salt Lake City, that the stencil
arising from the accumulation of
their dead bodies is terrible, and is
seriously affecting the health of the
city.
An Indianapolis man, missing
quantity Of his corned beef, found
his neighbours watch at the bottom
of one of the barrels. He revenged
himself by putting it up at raffio, in
aid of church to which the robber
belonged.
Ono of the Beecher girls used to
say that she had three rules to guide
her in copying her fathers MSS:
If letter was dotted it was not an
i; if a letter was crossed it wasn't t;
and if a word began with a capital
letter it didn't begin a sentence.
"A Sunday School teacher in Gal
latin, Columbia county, New York,
few Sundays since, asked nice
little boy if he had learned anything
the past week, and was stunned by
the answer from the boy that be had
learned "never to trump his partners
ace"
An exchange says; IA farmer
near Upton was drinking out of
brook, few days ago, when a water
snake over foot long went down
his throat quick as lightning. The
farmer experienced no bad effects,
and the next day the snake left his
stomach lin the usual way "
This is to be wonderful year
in Holland, for this is the year of the
blue tulip. A prediction exists that
in 1870 some successful horticuitur-
ist will raise a blue tulip, and prize
Of many thousand francs awaits the
producer Of the rare flower. Already
there are some six hundred different
kinds of tulips in Holland.
"A huge Greenland shark, taken
off the Bell Rock, and exhibited for
a few days in Edinburgh, has been
stuffed and placed in the collection
of British fishes in the museum
This monster, measuring about fif-
teen feet is one Of the largest, if not
the very largest, whose capture is on
record.
Three very old Bibles are in OK
istence in Schenectady. One is the
property of Mr.. Robinson, an En-
glishman, and bears the date 1913.
1t is well preserved but the owner