Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-01-10
GLEANINGS.

- NSSA
London prints list of about
three hundred Americans spending
the winter there.
"A nugget ofgold weighing SSS
ounces has been found in Berlin.
South Australia.
Choking your wife to death in
New York city is termed murder in
the third degree.
--Georgia is n prominent Baptist
State, having one hundred and eigh-
teen thousand of them.
In France the weather is report
ed intensely cold, interfering serious
~ with the army operations.
Tho total number of deaths in
Chicago during the year now closing
was 7,224-2S6 less than last year.
The lady occupant of brown
stone mansion in Brooklyn went up
on the roof of her house, the other
day, and, using mortar and trowe,
expertly took down and relaid de
iSVsiNO CHiuluey.
"A courageous lady named Tile,
saved the life and property of her
husband, at Philadelphia, afew nights
since, by putting 8 burglar to flight
after he had made the husband insen-
sible with chloroform.
Every girl student of the tele-
graph school conducted at the Coop
er Institute, has found employment
as soon as she graduated. Women
are rapidly taking the places OF the
men on all the lines.
DIR. Playfair stated, in recent
address, that in Great Britain alone
1000 persons perish annually, and
at least 100000 others sicken griev-
ously, out of mere ignorance of the
laws of health. He properly insis-
ted that physiology shonld be taught
in all schools.
The rumor OF o personal disa-
greement between President Grant
and Secretary Boutwell,, and that the
latter has determined to resign, has
been renewed at Washington
Both gentlemen, however, declare
the rumor utterly false.
The celebrated Edith Lola Mon.
tez, Familiarity known TO the public
as Princess Editha, has become hope
lessly insane, and has been taken
from the Homeopathic Institute, in
New York, where she has for some
time been undergoing treatment,
and committed to tho Insane asylum
on Blackwell's Island.
"A white child about four years
old, was taken from a gypsy woman,
near New Albany, Ind, two years
ago. Five mothers, who have had
children stolen from them, have Wis
tied this child to see if il was not
their lost one. il is now thought
that it may prove to DO Lille Bow
ers, who was stolen from Sandusky
city about three years ago.
Vice President Colfax has re-
ceived from the United States Con-
sui at Jerusalem a box containing
a Speakers mallet of olive wood,
with heads of oak from Abraham's
oak, at Hebron; q chalice of olive
wood from the Mount of Olives and
an inkstand and sandbox of asphalt
from the Dead sea, all beautifully
carved and polished.
The Episcopalians are erecting
beautiful church in Salt Lake City,
from funds, it is believed, furnished
principally by Christians in Now
York and Brooklyn. The dissenters
from Brigham Young are also build
ing a fine lecture room within block
of the new church. The Methodists
are arc trying to purchase land for
the same purpose.
Leroy Beaulieu, an intelligent
French writer on political economy,
recently published a work containing
statistical historical and economical
researches upon the principal wars
that have broken out between 1853
and 1866. The total cost of the wars
that have occurred during this period
is placed at 50, sec, 100000 in money,
and 1,743, 49l men. The wars which
were the subject Of this investiga-
ton are the Crimean, the Italian,
the Danish, the rebellion in the Uni.
ted States, and the Austro Prussian
The rivers of the Mississippi sys-
tenn have diminished in the volume
of their waters eighteen per cent. in
a few years. They have widened
out somewhat with a consequent de-
crease of depth. Rivers once navi-
gable are now abandoned, and large
boats cannot run from st. Louis TO
st. Paul in low water seasons as they
used. Many theories are advanced
to explain this phenomenon. The
only correct one is that, as the
amount of cultivated land increases,
more Of the rain is absorbed and
thrown of in the form Of vapor there
by, instead of running into some
stream.