Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-08-15
Gleanipgs from our Exchanges.

'iAiaSeo aES ioslnS pop
ulation.
The President has abandoned
his California trip.
New York's beer consumption is
55,555,5O gallons yearly.
Daniel Drew is "worth" s37. 600 :
600. What man to draw upon.
The peach crop of Moth CARROLL
ma is predicted at 100000 baskets.
The telegraph circuit around the
globe will be completed this summ err.
"A Massachusetts, family boasts
ola living canary twenty-seven years
old.
"A woman in Washington, who
swore in Dutch, was fined SIS 10 Eng
lish.
Colorado is finding fossil lions,
lemons, elephants, cocoa nuts and
things.
An instance of cause and effect:
The Ohio river low and milk in Gin
cinnati scarce.
The University of Vermont has
voted to admit women to it's classes
and course of study.
The number of dead and missing
by the New York steamboat sxplo>
sion now foots up SO.
One county in Iowa reports
three men made insane by the ex>
cessive use of tobacco.
Nearly twelve hundred dead an
imals were last year removed from
the streets Of New York.
Drink sweet oil mixed with
horse-radish, and you can be bitten
by mad dogs with impunity.
The Christian Union follows Beech
err by declaring that there IS no
such thing asan actual devil.
Throughout the length and
breadth of Wyoming Territory there
is not brewery or distillery.
Snow fell in the Casadaga VAL
ley, in Chautaugua Co., on the night
of July 2lst, to the depth ofono inch
A son of President Grant is
about to commence career as an
engineer on the Union Pacific Rail-
road.
There are twenty-seven regular
ly organized German societies, in
Cincinnati, that are opposed to the
Sunday laws.
Milk cans, placed to dry in the
hot sun, acted as burning glass, set
ting fire to a building st East Lyme,
the other day.
The "Star of diamonds" weigh
ing over l07 carats, has been picked
up by one of the lucky hunters in the
South African fields.
1t is reported that the Pope has
had number of fainting fits recent
ly, and that they have caused the
gravest fears for his life.
The late City Treasurer of De-
troit, Colonel Leadbeater, is default
er to the amount of S27, S04, as is
shown by an investigation, just COM
pleted.
London correspondents report
Napoleon as favorite with the work.
ing classes of London, which he Wis
it's nearly every day, and as growing
very fat.
-"Queon Mary" shoes have a
large silver buckle, high fiat heel, and
wide black silk bow at the instep.
Those who wear them generally fall
down stairs.
John Bul! begins to find fault
with Lord Napier, of MagdaIa, for
his profuse expenditures in India.
and the Colonial papers are wagirg
bitter warfare for and against tho
hero.
"A man in Los Angeles county,
California, recently became sudden
ly bereft of the power of speech with
out any apparent cause. To add to
his misfortune, he is illiterate, being
unable to read and write.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, notorious
for its anti-American sympathies du-
ring our rebellion, now hoists more
bunting bearing the stripes and stars
on the Fourth of July than English
flags on Dominion Day.
The average life of sixteen print.
ers who are inferred in the Printers
Lot at Mount Hope Rochester, N. Y.
is thirty-two years. The oldest died
at fifty-four, the youngest at twonty-
two, one half between thirty and
forty.
During the past year 1874 divor-
ces were granted in st. Louis, thirty
three being for adultery. In the same
timc there were two manslaughters
and onemurder in the seconddegree.
Fifty persons were arrested for keep
ing brothels.
Senator Morton made speech
to the merchants of Cincinnati onSat-
urday, in which he takes hopeful
view of the future business of the
country, founding it upon the nego-
tiation of the new treaty with Eng
land.
A fall Of black rain occurred, re-
Gently, near Worcester, England. II
poured down like ink for a quarter
Of an hour, covering sheep and other
animals in the fields with an adhe-
sive substance as black as SCOT. No
explanation has been given.
"A Bridgeport, Connecticut, doc
tor having prescribed a hot foot.bath
for child three weeks old, the igno-
rant parents put the babe into water
so hot that it took the skin of the
legs entirely off, with part of the
flesh. The child cannot live.
The Belvidere Northeastern SAYS:
"Abner Scott, of Capron, ILL.,, re-
Gently washed a pig. the skin of
which was diseased with scurvy, and
in the operation allowed some of the
wash to get on his person, and now
his entire body is covered with the
disease.
Cayofain Inhn Melka who in