Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-05-23
Gleanings from our Exchanges.

AShON III mtAICO.
Gen. Sickles is to marry beau
tiful Spanish lady. So says rumor.
An inch of rain falling upon an
acre OF land weighs about 100 tons.
A Protestant Church has been
dedicated in the City of Mexico.
Applications are now made for
patents at the rate of from 500 to 600
week.
The Saratoga hotels will charge
five dollars day during the coming
season.
Thirteen tons Of wild pigeons
were lately shipped from Minnesota
to Chicago.
Nearly 2,75O,o00 immigrants
have landed in the United States
during the last ten years.
The total expenditure in Europe
for education, science and art, is more
than slOO,OOO,OOO per year.
Henry Ward Beecher has an.
nounced that he does not believe in
the resurrection of the body.
Every house TO let within twenty
miles of New York is advertised
Fifteen minutes from the ferry"
Worth. the man-milliner. has
made arrangements to take up per-
manent residence in New York.
1t is said that the chewing of
coarsely cut gentian root after every
meal will cure the taste for tobacco.
Tho wheat-raising belt is said to
be shifting to the southwark. Texas,
it is predicted, will become the empire
wheat-raiser.
Gen. Hooker and Chief Justice
Chase are going to the Michigan
magnetic springs for the benefit of
their health.
There are over thirty-two hum
dred applications on file for clerkship
in the Treasury Department, but not
one vacancy exists.
Halls Journal of Health saws a
sixpenny sandwich, eaten leisurely in
the cars, is better for you than a
dollar dinner bolted at a "station."
The Grand Master of the Masons
of Ohio has suspended the charter of
Masonic Lodge because its members
elected liquor-dealer for master.
General Cluseret has promised
Mr. Washburne to protect the Amer
leans in Paris, saying 81 shall per-
haps one day need your protection"
The head cook OF the Parker
House, in Boston, has a yearly salary
of s., 900, and the President of Har-
ward University is paid 5000 annu-
ally.
1t is curious fact that the ESSAY
which Provost Paradol, the late Min
lister Of France to the United States,
recited, when graduating at college,
was "On Suicide"
Some Of the London writer's are
trying to discover a family resem>
blance between the late Adah Isaacs
Menken and the heroine of Charles
Reade's "Terrible Temptation"
The Southern negroes are so
much attached to circuses that they
date all remarkable occurrences,
births, marriages, deaths, etc., from
the time tho ''circus was yer last"
Statistics show that there is
about nine times as much coffee con-
sumed in the United States as in
Great Britain, and nearly three times
as much tea consumed in Great Brit.
ain as in the United States.
They never will get through
abusing Mr.. Greeley's handwriting.
The other day he wrote puff for
''Anna Dickinson's lecture on Joan
of Are" The compositor set it up,
"Any Dutchman can play the Jews
harp"
The Ohio legislature recently
passed law that the books in use in
tho public schools of tho state shall
not be changed oftener than once in
three years, and then only by vote
of two-thirds of the respective school
boards.
Iowa has bad the following gov
ernors since 1888: Robert Lucas.
John Chambers, James Clark. Ausel
Briggs, S. Hampstead, J. w. Grimes,
Ralph P. Lowe, S. j Kirkwood, VIM.
M. Stone, and Samuel Merrill. But
two Of these were Democrats, Messrs.
Briggs and Hampstead.
That was thoughtful economy
of the Irishman in the pit of Dublin
theatre who, seeing some people
about to throw an obstreperous fell
low in the gallery over the railing,
and, being much exasperated by a
bad orchestra, cried out loudly:
"Don't waste him kill fiddler with
him."
England has learned a great
many things from America. Legal
codes, monitors, sewing machines,
telegraphs, rifles, revovers, rocking
chairs, blowing, reaping, moving,
washing and cow-milking machines,
ax-handles, and other of orr inven-
tons, she has freely adopted.
"A party ia Philadelphia proposes
to furnish to applicants the degree of
d. D. S. from "frst-class institutions"
Of that city at cost Of $50, and pos
sibly from some for less-say about
$40. The document would be sent
by express, G. o. D., if desired.
Such diplomas are supposed to distin-
guish the regular practitioner of den.
tai surgery from the quack.
A letter from Alabama asserts
that the members Of the Ku-Klux
have entered upon a systematic
course of unwarrented persecution
upon Country Judges and Sheriffs,
their object being to compel them
to resign their offices, and to obtain
control of the country Boards of
Supervisors, and thus have the man
agement of elections entirely in their
own hands.
One of the peculiar features OF
the Colored REPRESENTING, a paper