Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-07-11
Gleanings from Our Exchanges.

The opium trade of India is sx-
pected to net S40,000,000 next year.
There are said to be 1000 nur-
serymen and florists in the United
States.
The railway companies at st.
Louis are going to build q great
union depot.
1t is an established axiom of
trade, that good thing we'll adver-
tised will SELL
Prof. Huxley will deliver a
course of lectures in this country
next autumn.
1t is said that ex-Emperor Napo-
leon is about to take up his residence
in Tendon.
Miss Woodhull's new republic is
to be called pantarchy. Shs is to
ware them.
--Twenty-four graduates Of Brown
University have died since commence
ment, 1870.
Half a million Observing machines
were manufactured in the United
States last year.
Nevada claims to have acres of
just as valuable diamonds" as those
found in South Africa.
Tortoise she'll, once so much in
demand, has nearly ceased to be an
article of commerce.
There are 368 collegiate institu-
tons in the United States, Is being
in New England.
-Forty-seven ships of the French
navy have been disarmed, and $4,000
sailors dismissed from service.
1t is announced that large ex-
cursion party of London editors are
coming to America this summer.
Miss Ella Cassaday, of Madison
county, Iowa, is a candidate for
County superintendent.
A deposit of emery sand was
discovered, few days ago, while
sinking a coal shaft pear Clinton, Ill.
Bismarck had to kiss sixty hand
some young ladies at a recent recep-
ton, and did it without the assistance
of clerk.
Over two hundred women are
now working farms on their own ac-
count in the states Of Iowa and In
diana.
More patents have been issued
during the first four months of the
present year than ever before in an
equal time.
1t has been decided by high iu-
dicial authority that woman can
not be Justice of the Peace in
Massachusetts.
Since our war was ended, the
United States have paid as much OF
the national debt as paid on the debt
of England in So years.
According to European medical
statistics, the introduction of CHG
mons has increased brain fever aiming
women Y per cent.
The dawn of woman suffrage has
been postponed in England. The
House of Commons has rejected
Brights bill by sixty-nine majority.
He presents miserable speci-
men of religion who labors more to
convert Christian men to his own
sectarian views than sinners to
Christ.
The Texas Pacific Railroad is to
be 1878 miles in length. For $50
miles the road will be an air line, and
in stretch of SIS miles there will be
but six bridges.
President Grant will start on his
trip to California about tho 10th of
August. All the mmebers Of the
Cabinet will accompany him, and he
will be absent five weeks.
There is a story going therounds
that boarding house keeper died
and left his property to young
man just because he never complain
cd about the hash and things.
"A pleasure party of forty per-
sons, sailing on Orange Lake, Flori-
da, recently, met with an accident,
and ten OF them, men, women and
children, were drowned.
"A Calcutta newspaper says that
the principle ofDarwinism was main.
tanned five hundred years ago by q
Mahmud, who lived in village named
GiIau, near the Caspian Sea.
of tie $4,000 graduates that
have been sent out by an American
college, nearly 200 have been Gov
errors, 500 Representatives in Con-
gress, 1870 Senator'S, and nearly 400
Judges of Supreme Courts.
"A mineralogist of San Francisco
claims to have discovered process
for amaIgamating iron and copper,
and producing a compound harder
than steel. A company is forming
to test the process.
By the presence of worm, COM
monty known as the thousand-leg-
ged worm, in a COTE pot, an entire
family was poisoned few days ago,
near CarbondaIe, I'll. Four Of the
poisoned persons have died.
Many young children and half
grown girls are afflicted with curva-
ture of the spine, which is produced,
the doctors affirm, by requiring them
to practice several hours a day on
the piano without any support for
the back or feet.
"A western editor, who doesn't
know much about farming any way,
suggests that for garden making, o
cast iron back with q hinge in it
would be an Improvement on the
spinal column now In use.
Sandy. 9Th, mon bat he cad
me leer p
Mac. "Thats naething, my laddie;
he cad me waur names than that.
Ye maun just bear it"
Sandy. "Dang it, mon but he
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