Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-06-27
Gleanings from Our Exchanges.

DVon SlSheu Uy oU,UUU laQles IN Oef-
many.
A Goldfish breakfast and an In
dia rubber coat viii keep a man dry
all day,
The Prairie Farmer contains a
list OF lightweight wooden factories
in Iowa.
Tho census returns show a de-
crease of $4,000 in the population of
Liverpool.
A Bridgeport man, on a wager,
swallowed frog after it had been
well buttered, few days ago.
- Auburndale, Mass, is called
"Saints' Rest, from the fact that so
many retired clergymen live there.
drinking large draughts of rain
water, with plenty of "wrigglers" in
it, is the latest cure for consumption.
1t costs the people of the United
States one hundred millions of dol
lars year for medicines and doctors.
1t is suggested that the first
piece OF music performed by Adam
must have been "warblings at Eve"
The epicurean who made des-
sert of the fruits ofan enterprise pick
ed his teeth with the point of a joke.
In the last hundred years more
than two hundred thousand Of man
kind have been destroyed by earth
quakes.
The only mandatory Of hair
pins in the United States turns out
fifty tons of those useful arti cles per
month.
Psychologists have discovered
that inhaling coal gas, as also common
Illuminating gas, causes softening of
the brain.
1t will take sixty years to restore
to France the forests ruthlessly
wasted in the military operation of
the late war
A Detroit man is in trouble. He
wants to discharge his servant girl,
but she swears that she will burn his
house if he does.
A Troy editor lately returned
tailors bill with the following mem
orandum on the margin: "Your man
script is respectfully declined"
"A paper having had an article
headed with the conundrum, "Why
do wives fade ?" a contemporary "sup-
poses it is because they won't wash"
"A young woman of Providence,
r. Lis said to be one of the best black
smiths in that city. She works side
by side with her father in his shop.
A Chinese photographer in San
Francisco, being upbraided by lady
customer because the pictures didn't
suit her, briefly replied: mo half
handsome, how can p
= Oswego county, N. Y, girls
have voted not to accept the COM
pany Of any young man who uses
obacco-"unless the night ia very
dark and the no al muddy"
In Missouri, they have new
hog disease, known as the "black
tooth" The cure is to remove the
black teeth as soon as the hogs show
symptoms of languor or pain.
-"Lcave you, my friend" said
demroalized rooster, ctnging to
lamp post on a dark night, ''Ieave
you in a condition not to take care
of yourself? He, new, oil boy. new"
The Japanese have but two for
eign ministers, one of whom serves
for entire Europe, while the other
they send to the United States, as
illustrative Of the respect in which
they hold this country.
Every seventh person in London
is in receipt of public charity. The
cost of aiding this class has increased
during the past ten years sixty eight
per cent. faster than the growth of
the great metropolis.
-Four ladies were among the
jurors in the late trial at Cheyenne,
Wyoming, of J ohm Boyer, "a half-breed,
convicted of murding two men near
Fort Laramie, last October. He is
to be hung on the first of April.
Lizzie Johnson, mulatto lady
"a "nigger wench," as she would
have been called in the days when
Democracy was running the language
of the country-is an applicant for
the Post Office at Yankton, Dakota.
"A young gentleman in Pittsfeld,
Mass, has recently involved himself
in difficulty by stealing empty bot
ties from the back door of a drug
store, and then carrying them round
to the front door and selling them to
the owner.
One of Hartford's characters is
a man who throws dice with himself
whenever be wants drink, to de-
eide whether or not he shall indulge.
He has had run Of poor luck lately,
and is unpleasantly affected by the
consequent drouth.
If a woman will, she will. To
prove this statement, the case of
Mary Fitzpatrick, who, being ar
rested and locked up on Monday, in
Troy, ATTEMPTED to commit suicide
by digging a hole in her arm with
her thumb nail.
Tho combined population of the
eight largest cities in the United
States New York, Philadelphia,
Brooklyn, st. Louis, Chicago, Balti-
more, Boston and Cincinnati--are
less than the population of tho city
of London, as announced by the re-
cent British census.
DIR. Mary Walker, who wears a
mans hat, pantaloons and bloomer
skirts, has just published book
entitled "Hit," and in the preface
accounts for the crude appearance of
the work by saying that if she were
to delay its publication longer to inn
prove it, &" thousands of women wonld
suffer aponies in the waiting.