Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-04-04
Gleanings from our Exchanges.

gu 1ioithe can speak every ula-
iect and language Of Europe.
-Janesville has boy fourteen
months old, who is learning to smoke
Like Dickens and Thackerav
Alice Gary leaves an unfinished nov.
ell.
A Virginian humorist is writing
a comic history of the war of the
rebellion.
There were l18 steam boiler ex-
plosions in this country during the
year 1870.
There are over forty women
editorialIy connected with the New
York press.
The library Of the Wisconsin
historical society now numbers over
40, 900 volumes.
"A couple Of first cousins married
in Linn, Iowa, and ten of their twelve
children are cripples.
Some of the students at the Iowa
Agricultural College make rather
more than expenses.
Peters Pence, since the begin
ming of the year, have been sent to
Rome TO the amount of 100000.
There is only one church bell in
Charleston s. G all the rest having
been melted up in war times for can
non.
st Louis has $4,000 oolored pee
pie, according to the census and
almost one half of Ter population is
foreign born.
Over two hundred girls have
graduated from varioas American
colleges this year. The majority of
them are physicians.
There is something tho matter
with the planet Saturn. The German
astronomer, Strive, says that It's in
ner ring has fallen on its body.
AT recent assemblsge Of news
paper men in Chicago, speaker said
that the managing editor of the great
est newspaper in the world would yet
sit in his chair in Chicago.
Eleven years ago petroleum was
unknown as an article of utility.
Now tho total capital invested in il,
at home and abrCa d, is 500, 900. 900
of which the American capital is $40.
900, 900.
DIR. bio Lewis, in his new book
entitled, "Our Girls" advocates tho
use ofsun-baths IN summer, saying -
Zone good bath in the sunshine is
worth more than many baths in wa.
ter, valuable as these are"
"A bill has been introduced into
the Ohio Legislature TO make the
purchaser and drinker of Intoxicating
liquors liable to the same pans
and penalties as are prescribed by
law for the seller of such liquors.
Mrs Partington says that Ike,
having become enameled of a siren
of Boston, has led her to the mental
alter. He didn't appear the least bit
decomposed. On the back of his
wedding cards were little cubebs with
wings.
The editors in Congress number
House. not counting the Vice Pres.
dent and the Speaker and we count
nine of the Representatives az being
still active members Of tho editorial
profession.
Initial steps are being taken by
influential Masons for the establish
ment of an industrial school at Wash
ington for orphans of members of the
Masonic fraternity. Many Senators
and Representatives cordially APP
prove the enterprise.
"A beet-sugar factory company,
at Blackbawk, near Madison, Wis,
raised, last year, one hundred and
sixty acres of beets, with an average
yield of ten tons per acre; and is now
running through about one ton of
beets per hour, night and day.
Mr.. Bret Harte has been positive
ly engaged TO write exclusively for
the house Of James r. Osgood 4 Co.
1t is understood that Mr.. Harte's
future productions will have their
first appearance mainly in the pages
of Every Saturday and of the Atlantic
Monthly.
Mothers will be interested to
know that turpentine is a sovereign
remedy for Group. Saturate piece
of flannel with it and place the fan
mel on the throat and chest. In very
severe cases from three to five drops
on lump of sugar may be taken
inwardly.
A Washington school boy CON.
plains thusly :-"When Boy goes to
School in the morning an Forgets to
Sharpin his Pencil Why then Of
Corse he Hast to do it in School An if
he dos his Teacher takes his knife
away from him. Then he goes home
An tells his Father and he Makes a
fuss. But he never gets his Knife"
An exchange lets fly the follow
ing. "Pulverized alum and common
saltput on piece of cotton and chuck
ed into hollow tooth, will shut up
its aching so quick you will want to
hug Us for telling you, but you can't
unless you have certificate of good
moral character, are married wo-
man, and over twenty-five"
Those who spend q winter in the
artic regions must stick to raw meat
and train oil. DR.. Hall says he has
eaten in one day fifteen pounds of
raw meat, washed down with two
and half pints of train oil. While
men thus live, they can defy King
Cold. A whale in those regions is
godsend, one whale being equal to
600 oxen, and affords the best eating
that DR.. Hall has ever enjoyed.
An Illinois newspaper having
claimed the youngest compositor in
the West, a lad or eight years, the
Lancaster (Ohio) Gazette says: "The
writer of this was compositor at
the ago of seven years, setting col
,,r,r 0f MICA q day in 1922, on the old