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

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Eighty tons of mail matter are
handled daily. in the Chicago post Of
fee.
There were 225 900, 900 paper
collars "wilted' in this country last
year.
A ripe tomato is the best known
remedy for bee stings. One applica-
ton is sufficient.
One hundred thousand persons
die Of consumption each year in
America and Canadas,
Counterfeit twenties on the Unit
ed States National Bank of Washing
ton are in circulation.
Nilsson plays billiards, in fact
the pretty little songstress is quite
an expert at the game.
A snake got in bed with young
man at Hannibal the other night, and
the young man got out.
The editor of the London Spec
tator declares that no toll fatigues
like reading manuscript.
Thirty thousand Southerners are
estimated 10 have made their homes
in the city of New York.
-Thiers has refused to accept the
proffered resignation of Favre as
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The Green Bay (Wis.) Advocate
was twenty-five years old last Friday.
| 1t is Democratic and tough.
Tho Queen of England is charged
with INDUCING in the fear that she
will come to want in her old age.
Mr.. Dadd, of Iowa, is the dad
OF 10 children, eight pair OF twins,
and three that came along singy.
Indications that a great Indian
war is impending on our southwest
ern frontier, grow stronger every
day.
Fossil lions, tigers, leopards, ele-
plants, heifers, lemons, palm leaves,
and cocoanuts have been found in
| Colorado.
George Sand is so effected by
her anxiety over the condition Of
France, that she is physically and
mentally Frustrated.
An Iowa women has begun her
suicide by marking the place on her
throat where she intends to cut when
she gets her courage up.
Mrs ID. G. Croly ("Jenny June'),
wife of the managing editor OF the
| World, is said to DO the most tasteful
ly dressed woman in New York.
1t is estimated that the forth
coming monthly debt statements will
show further reduction of about
SIS, 600, 900 in tho national debt.
Paper is manufactured from hop
vines at Marsielles, France, and is
said to be strong, flexible, white, and
soft, and much liked in that region.
The story of William Tell and
the apple is said to have been distinct
ly told in an ancient Persian manus
script just discovered in the library
at Breslau.
A Memphis belle challenged a
man to marry. He valliantly accept
cd, and in twenty minutes there was
a wedding. In twenty days there
was divorce.
Canada papers report the feeling
in favor of annexation rapidly grow
| ing, and that the majority of intelli-
gent people there expect in few
years to be part of the United States,
The largest rope in the world
has been completed in Bennington,
England. 1t is about six miles long,
five and a quarter inches in circum-
ference, and weighs over sixty tons.
The local editor Of tho GAINESVILLE
Gazette states that some of the young
ladies of GAINESVILLE are in the habit
of wearing their corsets to bed with
strings tightly laced. How does he
know
In the last fifty years at least
six large Empires have come of heath
enism to Christian light and influence,
and hundreds of native preachers
are proclaiming tho Gospel among
them
Mark Ward, a boy about four
teen years Of age, residing at Anamo-
sa, Iowa, has constructed a sewing
machine with o iack-knife from pine
boards and wires that makes perfect
stitches.
The abstaining Boston people
have resorted to q tea punch They
make it with "one bottle of cham
payne, one CT whisky, one OF rum,
two of claret, lemon, and table,
spoonful Of black tea"
A Calcutta newspaper says that
the principle of Darwinism was main
tanned five hundred years ago by a
Mohammcdan saint named Mahmad,
who lived in q village named Gilau,
near the Caspian Sea-
Seth Green has just returned
from California, he having taken 20
600 young shad to stock the Sacra-
mento river. He thinks they will
flourish there. These are the first
shad ever known on the Pacific
coast.
There is colored women preach
ing in South Carolina, who during
the past five years has raised money
sufficient to build two large churches
and establish three Sunday Schons
The local paper states that she is an
eloquent speaker.
As an evidence of the wonderful
expansion Of Methodism in Ameri-
ca, the church organ states the fact
that during the past year there was
new church completed, on the av~
erage, every three working hours,
for every day in the year
In the National Medical Journal,
cupdurango reports progress, and
though asking leave to be heard
again, it doubts the propricty OF any
further tests, six cases IN which it
has been used having resulted in
four deaths and two still surviving