Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-01-31
GLEANINGS.

Washington Territory wants to
become State.
Prussia is teaching its school
eachers how to shoot.
During the past year seven cen.
tenarians died in Maine.
Harvard has established a pro.
censorship of political economy.
The celebrated hanging tower of
Pita, Italy, threatens to fall
The cholera is committing fear
ful ravages in Southern Russia.
The GALAXY pays Mark Twain
$4,000 a year, just for fun.
There is not school of any de-
scription in Patrick county, Virginia.
-Beecher is accused of being
Swedenborgian without knowing it.
Look out for counterfeit 20s on
the City National Bank, New York.
-359, SCI acres of Government land
were taken in Dakota Territory, last
year,
Saturn is now the morning star.
and will continue so until the close of
March.
The Crown Prince is at the head
of the woman-suffrage movement in
Germany.
Michigan is called the Massachu-
sets, and Iowa the Vermont of the
West.
A soldiers monument is to be
erected on Boston Common at an ex-
pense of $4,000. !.
The Sheboygan, Wis, Manufac-
turing Company turns out $4,000
chairs per year.
Board in Japan can be had for
two cents day, and skilled labor for
eight to ten cents.
London congratulates herself be.
cause she had last month no more
than 10000 paupers.
"A Kansas City (Mo.) "moke" re-
Gently sold the body of his deceased
wife, for dissection.
"A New Orleans dispatch says
negro children will hereafter be ad-
mitted to the public schools.
One of the stations on the Pacif.
ic Railroad is kept by widow, and
she can run locomotive.
"A stocking-supporter, to be used
in place OF a garter, is the latest pro-
duction of inventive genius.
Reputation is what men and
women think of us. Character is
what God and angels know of us.
The social evil question is the
basis of lively argument in Cincin.
natl, the point being as to license.
The Connecticut schools, some
of them still use quilts. They are
down on these new-fangled steel
pens.
In East Tennessee the current OF
opinion is said to be decidedly
against its formation into a new
State.
"A man we have heard of is so
short that when he is i'll he don't
know whether he has headache or
corns.
Best informed members express
the opinion that no steamship sub.
sidy bill can get favorable action at
this session.
Bret Harte, according to a San
Francisco letter, is to take up his re-
sidence in Boston, and write exclu.
sively for the atlantic.
An Iowa doctor gave a woman
fourteen kinds of medicine in one
day to break her chilIs. She hasn't
had any since. BE ran away.
The Chicago Tribune asks and
receives $22, 600 for column of adj
vertisements one year The BUSH
men of Chicago are keen to pay it.
The Washington (Mo.) Gazette
says: There is only one man left in
this country who has not the Kan.
sas fever, and he has bilious fever.
I'm the Maine House of Repre-
sentatives there are 40 farmers, 20
lawyers, % merchants, doctors, 2
and one editor.
"A Wisconsin paper mentions a
case where burglars broke into store,
but the goods were marked go high
they wouldn't take any away.
After a wedding, it was former
~ a custom to drink honey dissolv-
ed in water for thirty days-a moons
age. Hence the origin of tho honey
moon.
WATERFOWL wis has rival to
Tom Thumb, in the person of boy
fifteen years of age, who is twenty
eight inches high and weighs nine
teen pounds.
Young girls with ideas clear up
TO the top oftbe scale, are requested to
take notice that the most fashionable
marriages now are those which are
conducted with the greatest simpli-
,ity.
The Cestercian order of Monks
cultivate a farm of twelve hundred
acres, nine miles southwest of Dnbu.
lue. In the center Of the tract the
argest monastery in America is be-
ng built.
1t is claimed for Maine, by its
citizens, that in her laws in regard to
.he property of married women, and
The admission Of evidence in crimi-
lal trials, she has the most civilized
code in the world.
The Medical Record records the
somewhat remarkable fact that, of
he 81, 1922 soldiers who were wound
ID during the rebellion, only four
eases of gunshot wound of the heart
we're reported.
During 1870 the deaths by MUIR
lcr in New York, were al /; deaths by
suicide, 1l2; deaths by drowning,
l67 deaths by accidents, 76l: NAM
Der Of dead infants found in the