Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-11-08
GLEANINGs.


jeff Davis old home at Rich
mond is to be sold at auction.
Piano making is the third man
utacturing interest in this country.
Chrome printing is said to have
been practiced in China one thous-
and years ago.
The Masonic fraternity of Eng
land have sent $3.50, 900 to the Ger
man wounded.
An ola Roman law WAS that no
couple should be engaged for more
than two years.
Iowa estimates that she has q
wheat crop Of twcnty-four million
bushels.
"A party Of respectable Chicago
ladies have formed society for re-
claiming dissipated young men.
The pecuniary value of the prop
erty destroyed at Strasburg
amounts to no insignificant item
two hundred millions of dollars.
The largest organ in the United
States has been put up lately in the
Church ofthe Holy Family, Chicago.
1t was built at Montreal.
The newly discovered slate re-
gion in Minnesota extends twenty
miles, and is the only deposit west
of Pennsylvania.
One of the signs of the times
is the appearance among newspaper
advertisements of "ladies business
suits"
"A man has been sentenced to
Imprisonment for life in Ohio, for
placing distractions on railway
track.
A word Of kindness is seldom
spoken in vain. II is o seed which,
even when dropped by chance.
springs up in flower.
Henry Wilson has completed
the first volume of his history of the
Rise and FaH of the Stare Porer in
america.
1t is said that under the impetus
Of free labor the Southern States
can raise cotton enough to supply the
manufacturing power Of the world.
Carefully prepared statistics
show that in Europe during the year
1865, there were seven times as many
people killed by lightning as injured
and killed by railroad accidents.
The Chicago Board ofEducation
has ado ated a rule prohibiting teach
ers from receiving presents from
their pupils, on penalty Of dismissal
from service.
Miss Clara Barton, who did 50
much TO benefit the condition of the
wounded during the war for the I'm
ion, is now engaged in looking after
the wounded at Strasburg.
--"Carrie," Of the Boston Irare1cr.
says if women were as particular ia
the choosing OF a husband ms mon
are in the choosing of virtuous
wife, q moral reformation would
be soon begun.
Machinery has recently boeu
invented in England which weaves
from the hair Of cats and rabbits
sort Of velvet tissue, distinguishable
from silk, but not inferior ia fineuess
and beauty. 81
The Lincoln monument at Wash
ington will be a splendid colossal
statue representing the departed
President signing the Emancipation
Proclamation, 1t will cost two hun
dred thousand dollars.
The Department of Justice as
that Of the Attorney General of the
United States has been called, is soil
citing information on tho subject Of
crimes and criminals throughout the
United States. This information is
sought through the Govorners Of
States.
"A newly invented machine for
making wooilen goods is attracting
some attention in Portland, Maine.
The chief advantage claimed for it
seems to be the great quantity Of
cloth which it is capable of produc-
ing, which is stated at two hundred
and fifty yards a day, six or eight
times the quantity made by the
present machines.