Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-07-18
Gleanings from our Exchanges

sand.
Vermont is to have brass band
convention.
Every seventh man in london
is pauper.
Opium eaters number about 400.
600, 900 men.
The United States has 36s col.
legiate institutions. 'a~ha.l 7"
"A four legged turkey has made
its appearance in Paris, Ky.
-Liobig is writing a book on
"what no knows about beer"
"A stylish bonnet in San Francis
co costs more than q mule.
New York devours nearly a
thousand barrels of eggs day.
-Ohampagne punch, dispensed by
lovely girls in ringlets and decollete.
"A robin in detroit has been
taught to whistle Yankee Doodle.
The latest style at large wed>
dlngs is not to display the presents.
London is said to contain two
hundred female students of medicine.
Philadelphia proposes to erect
monument to the memory of Martha
Washington.
-Bean>bags have superseded but
ton-strings, and the girls are delight
ed with the new pleasure.
Great Britain spends as much ia
two days on liquor as she does in a
year on foreign missions.
There were manufactured in the
United States last year over half
million sewing machines.
B. G. Yaucey has also taken to
Journalism, and become editor of
the Atlanta (Ga.) Intelltgencer.
dresses, takes the place of the in
spring strawberry and placid oyster
at New Orleans church fairs.
Prince Napoleon with 20,OOO,OO
francs having no hope for France, ex-
poets to make America his home.
Another daily, a one-cent eve.
ming paper, to be called the Witness,
will be issued this week in New
York.
The report that General Pleasan-
ton, Commissioner of Internal Rev.
enue, has resigned, is unfortunately
contradicted.
Paper is made from hop vines
at Marseilles, France, and is said to
be strong, flexible, white and soft,
and much liked in that region.
The Green Bay State Ga.ette,
one Of the ablest political papers in
the State, pronounces in favor of G.
c. Washburn for Governor
The Rev. Robert Collyer, of
Chicago, has given in his adhesion
to the Darwinian theory-that man
is decended from monkey.
Good members of "upper ten"
society, New York, will not die now,
unless they can be protected from
moths in camphor wood collins.
Curious, but said to be true:
that piano-making ranks thirdsin the
value of production among the man
ufactures of the United States.
of those who engage in business
on their own account, only three out
of hundred succeed in avoiding an
entire collapse of their first effort.
Not on squeezing terms any
more, is the way Prairie du Chen
young lady describes the present un-
happy relations between herself and
her late lover.
Theodore Tilton says Victoria
Woodruff is one of the most upright.
truthful, religious and unsulied souls
he ever met. What sort of society
mas THEODORE been adjoining all his
1aysP
"A country editor who carries
weapons is searching for
The writer on health who sent the
EDITORS wife circular recommend
ng that carpets should be taken up
and beaten every month.
The Boston TrdScript relates
aow hen of that neighborhood was
shut into an empty barrel and came
out, after four weeks imprisonment,
about starved to death, but able to
travel, with slight grogginess about
the legs.
A block of marble-the largest
ever quarried in this country-has
arrived in New York from San Fran
cisco. 1t weighs seventy tons, and
and is 10 form the new basin Of
fountain at Central Park. 1t costs
10000.
A constable, in Vandalia, Ill;
was sent to arrest couple of thieves;
while in pursuit of them a piece of
fire from his pipe dropped in his pocket
and purned up the warrant; also his
pocket handkerchief and likewise
his coat-tail.
Dakota Territory is bounded on
the north by British America, on the
east by Minnesota and Iowa, and on
The west by Wyoming and Montana.
The Missouri river, probaly the long
est navigable stream on the CONT
nent, furnishes 1900 miles of naviga-
bic water to Dakota alone.
The Grand Jury of Dakota coun-
ty report that after an expenditure of
s25, 694 81 on the sheriffs house and
Jail, the latter is "but poorly venti-
lated, or rather not ventilated at all,
and so constructed that the foul air
arising from the vaults escape into
the jail, rendering it totally unfit to
be occupied"
CoNvERsATIoN.-How intellectually
would the tone of conversation be i'm
proved if it offered no exceptions to
the example of Bishop Beveridge:
"Resolve never TO speak of a mans
virtues to his face, nor his faults be-
hind his back" A golden rule, the