Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-08-01
Gleanings from our Exchanges.

The cotton crop is going to count
100000 bales.
Three thousand bar-rooms sup
ply Boston with rum.
st. Louis has forty-eight school
houses, valued at SI,730,OOO.
The colored vote of South Caro-
pa is estimated at about $500.
Buffalo is laying out magnifi-
cient park, to contain 1000 acres.
Michigan University expects no
fewer than 300 women students next
year.
The famine in Persia is leading
to the quite common result, Gambia
ism.
The number of soldiers widows
on the pension list June 18th was
113, 2G6.
Mrs. Peter Mattimors was burn.
ed to death, in Toledo, recently, by
kerosene.
A shrub has been discovered in
Guinea which affords a juice superior
to gu1ta percha.
Nine acres of ''run out" tobacco
land in North Hadley, Mass, produc-
ed 20 tons of hay.
Editorial excursions are being
massed all over the country for trips
north and south.
One county in Iowa reports
three men made insane by the excess
sive use of tobacco.
The work on the Fox and Wis
consin River improvement at Port
age, has commenced.
1t is said that Phil. Sheridan was
made an LII. D., on account of his
knowledge of cannon law.
The census returns of Great
Britain show that the surplus of f.
male population is on the increase.
The number OF bathers at the
public bathing houses in Boston dur
ing the month juno was 293, 500.
By the recent vote in Massachu-
sets, 3O5 towns prohibit the sale of
malt liquors, and 80 towns permit it.
The female population of Edin-
burgh exceeds the male by nearly
10000. In Glasgow the excess is
10000.
f. b. Carpenter, the artist, is
painting historical picture of the
high joints" called THE Treaty of
Washington"
An Iowa nonar so1,s that o,,,;.u
ton westward this year is one humid
red per cent. greater than it has been
for years past.
1t is stated that the house in
which John Calvin lived and died in
Geneva, is now occupied by Roman
Catholic school.
In 1881 five suits for divorce
were entered in. Middlesex, Mass lin
1871, IA; in 1851, Al in 1861, &c
and in 1871, POI.
1t is reported that 900 people
of color are asking help from the
American Colonization Society to
emigrate to Liberia.
If the tree planting continues in
Iowa for ten years, at this years
rate, 1885 will find the state beauti-
full with great forests.
A silk factory is about to start
in South San Francisco. 1t has orr
dered fifteen bales Of raw silk from
China to commence with.
A Norman, who has tried it, saws
that indigo bound on the wound is a
sure cure for rattlesnake bite, scor-
pion and bee stings, etc.
Military men in Europe are
busily discussing the influence which
the American war has had upon the
Improvement of the means of war
fare.
p. S. Gilmore's grand jubilee,
which takes place in Boston, in June
1872, will consist of two thousand
instruments and twenty thousand
voices.
"A Flushing (L. ~ lady has
caused notice to be served upon all
the saloon. keepers in that village for
bidding them to sell liquor to her
husband
1t is a notorious fact that COM
mercial firms who have enjoyed the
greatest renown and have made the
greatest fortunes have had the short
est titles.
1t is reported that Benjamin j.
Tossing, the popular writer, is to as
sumo tho editorship of a new "HiStor-
zeal Monthly" to be established in
Philadelphia.
The fools who have been sending
after queer" or counterfeit money,
will be pleased to learn that full lists
Of names are being made out for pub
lication.
1t is estimated that the people
of the United States pay 500, O0O,>
900 a year for medicines and medical
services, exclusive Of $25, 900, 900 for
patent medicines.
1t appears that all the male
members of the Beecher family are
in favor Of woman suffrage, while all
the female members Of the same fami-
~ are opposed to it.
A serious gentleman was set al
aback the other day when he asked
farmers wife how she made sau-
sages, and received for an answer,
"take your in'ards, scrape EN-, scald
and stuff EN-"
A waterproof life-preserving
dress has been invented. 1t can be
worn over other clothing, keeps it
free from moisture, contains several
air-tight compartments, and will keep
weight of 300 pounds afoat
Tho modern Berkshire is the re-
suit of crosses of the old Berkshire
with the Siamese, Chinese, and Nea-
politau. The same author states
that the "improved," Suffolk origin
ated in cross of the old Suffolk with
the Berkshire and Chinese.