Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-01-17
GLEANINGs.

ing LIQUOR prohibition.
The great lakes cover over
$4,000 square miles.
There are $4,000 doctors in the
United States.
For the first time in ten years
Princeton, Ills, saloon keepers are
allowed to sell liquor.
Bindings are out of fashion on
gentlemen's clothing. Double-stitch-
ed eoglngs nave superseded them.
| Nebraska is jubilant over the
discovery of immense coal fields in
that State along the valley of the
Missouri.
1t is estimated that there are
So 900 white people in Tennessee
who can neither write their names
nor read the Bible.
A smart lad hearing his mother
remark that she was fond of music,
exclaimed. Then why don't you
get me drum"
A Michigan census-taker has
found man, five years married,
who does not know his wife's name.
He has always called her "say."
The Chinese relieve neuralgia
and govt by applying oil of pepper
mint over the part affected, with
camel's-hair pencil.
For over thirty years an old
gentleman at st Adams, VT, has
made practice of getting out of
bed every night at IL, IL, 2 and 1
o'clock to enjoy comfortable
smoke"
An Ohio widow was requested
by the dear departed's aristocratic
relatives to give false name when
she went out washing, SO as not to
disgrace the family. Such thought
fulness is touching.
The superior court in Cincinnati,
decided that q wife has Il vested
right in her husbands society and
companionship, and can maintain an
action for damages against any per-
son who tcmpts him to stay from
home.
In Switzerland, q milk-maid
who is a good singer gets more sal
airy than others, because, under the
infuance of music, COWS "give down"
better and give more milk. An
Orange county farmer is trying to
hire Parepa Rosa and Kellogg to
sing round his pump.
King Williams exhaustive de
mands for men are visibly enlarge
ing women's sphere in Prussia. By
recent order of the Minister of Ed
ucation, women who provo thom-
selves qualified are to be accepted as
teachers Of modern languages in the
public Schools profession hither-
to monopolized by the masculine
gender.
The Honolulu neutrality-suspicious.
ing the past season, some of the ships
cruising near the Attic got so near
the supposed situatian of the pole
that their latitude was scarcely worth
working up. We predict that
whaler will be first to discover and
60 through the long sought north
west passage.
"A story is told that the King of
Greece received General Sheridan
with the exhilarating remark that he
was glad to take by the hand a coun-
tryman of George Francis Train
Phil made better time in leaving the
region where such compliments grow,
even than that of his famous ride
from Winchester twenty miles
away.
Many eloquent warnings have
been uttered from the scatfold: At
the recent execution of a murderer
in Missouri, he said to those who
had assembled to witness his igno-
minious death "Whisky and the
bearing of pistols have ruined me-
If you do not want them to ruin you,
if you do not want to be imprisoned,
and in the end brought to the scaffold,
don't drink liquor, don't carry fire.
arms.
-" Light swearing artillary" is
the descriptive term applied by the
Hartford Oourant to the phrases in
vented by woman to serve the pur-
poses of profanity 10 conversation
that is, to give emphasis to senten-
ces otherwise weak. "Gracious,"
good gracious" gracious me-"
goodness, words beginning in "g"
seem to be favorites, )"sakes," "sakes
alive" claws, are given as samples
of the mate rial most popular in this
pin-feather stage of "cussin'"
Minnesota papers tell sad story
of little girl and boy who wander
ed away from the house of their feth-
err in Morrison county, in that State,
and subsequently were found dead
by the Indians. The boy lay on bis
back, having apparently died with
out much suffering. The girl had
taken her rings from her ears; and
and wrapping them with lock of
her hair in a small piece ofcloth, had
put the little parcel in her pocket,
and then lain down and died from
cold, hunger and exposure.