Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-07
GLEANINGS.
Louis Kossuth is lying at the
point of death in Turin, Italy.

ounce, fine blonde hair is worth $25
| e. p. Whipple, the essayist, is
proposed as editor for Eyery Sattur-
England uses $4,000 tuns of
q year.
San Francisco has lawsuit con.
-oHcted by two hundred and seventy
lawyers.
--Brooklin, N. Y, has popula-
ton of 400 600, and a city debt of
s36, 100000.
England has had snow storms
this winter accompanied by thunder
and lightning
Gov. Fairchild keeps open house
for the reception Of his friends every
Tuesday evening.
Mr. Beecher has finally accepted
the $50 900 salary which his congre-
CATION has repeatedly offered him.
A Nova Scotia genius has in-
vented stove-pipe damper that
regulates itself by the thermome-
ter.
The Michigan state prison had
during the last year, an average of
645 inmates, aud cleared Sl6,221,
over all expenses.
Broad river, in South Carolina,
was frozen over in January, An
instance of the kind has not occur
red before in thirty-seven years.
Indiana is emphatically a rail-
road State. Out of ninety-three
counties in the State, seventy-one
are crossed by one or more railroads.
There are two reasons some
people do not mind their own bust
ness. One is that they hav'nt any
business, and the second, that they
have no mind.
Tho Chicago Tribune q short
time since, devoted a whole column to
tho description of dog fight, and on
Wednesday had a column and half
Of some cock fights.
An old lady read about the
strike Of the wire drawers in Wor-
cester, Mass, and said that of all
new-fangled things, wire drawers
must be the queerest.
Nebraska is expanding $500, 900
on State Prison, and $50, 700 on
the State University. These figures
indicate that Nebraska hopes to
raise twice as many criminals as
scholars.
Ladies paper-skirts, costing but
fifteen cents, are becoming quite
common. The paper is of great ten
acity, and does not easily tear. 1t
is Of various colors from snowy
white to doleful black.
California, looking over 1870, re-
ioices that il has seen during the
year the shipment of tho first bale of
home raised silk, the raising of the
first successful crop of cotton, and
the manufacture of beet sugar.
DR.. Hammond advances the
novel idea that Spiritualism is dis
ease, hysterical and cataleptic in it's
nature. He processes to be able to
cure the worst case of medium by
treatment Of iron and strychnine.
Dewey, the man who was hung
up for while last fall by vigilance
committee at Charlton, Iowa, has
been prosecuting his hangers, and
finally has succeeded in obtaining a
Judgment for So, 600 damages against
three of them.
The Boston Journal, noticing
Hoar's Educational Bill, says that
there are 2 872 III adults in the
United States who can neither read
nor write. The question of compul-
sorry education is bugbear only to
those who make il so.
Starr King, when asked to de-
fine the difference between Univers-
alists and Unitarians, replied that
"Universalists belved that God was
too good to damn men eternaIly, and
the Unitarians believed that men
were too good to be eternally damn
ed"
Tho latest sensation at Winona
is baby with three heads. With
the exception of the heads, the babe
is perfectly formed. The mother is
doing as well as could be expected
under the circumstances, and the
doctors think that the babe will
i've.
Josh Billings says: The lice
man is like little pig he is weaned
young, and begins to root early
He is the pepper sass Nv creation,
the alspice Nv the world. One hUe
man in village, is like case of itch
in a district skule. He sets every
body to scratching at once.
The hunters of Siberia, when
pressed by hunger, take two pieces
of board, and placing one on the pit
Of the stomach and the other on tho
back, gradually draw together the
extremities, and thus allay in some
degree the cravings Of the appetite.
This is supposed to be very ccono-
mical kind of board.
"A common open buggy, propell-
ed by steam like locomotive, is ex-
hibitingiD New York. Beneath the
seat and occupying the body of the
vehicle is the boiler, which holds
three pals of water. The cylinders
and other parts of the machinery
are placed between the axle-trees.--
The inventor claims that with the
fire produced with a single hod of
coal he can ran thirty-three miles,
with twenty pounds steam pressure,
on an ordinary road.
1t is remarkable, says the New.
York Tribune, that our Welthiest cit
liens are all at an age when most
men are too infrm for affairs, and
yet they are not only bale and Wig
orous, but actively engaged in con-
Quoting their immense business
William B. Astor is nearly 70; Al
exander T. Stewart, 20; Cornelius
Vanderbilt, IS; Daniel Drew, IL;