Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-09-05
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millions.
famine is impending in South
ern Hungary 80
Five thousand shipwrecks CO.
cured last year.
New Haven mas 3O4 manufacture
ing establishments.
AT Nabapt they bake whole pigs
stuffed with clans.
-Mormonism is making but lit
tie progress in England.
The Swiss Government has abol-
ished capital punishment.
A "grandmamma"at Nahant is
but thirty four years DID,
-Cucumbers thirty-six inches
long are exhibited at Wyandottc.
New York will have second
"Black Crook" spasm in the fall.
"A recent discovery is that of tan
hing with the liquor offorests leaves.
"A Gold Hill (Nevada) paper
publishes items and news from "out
West"
Julia A. Holmes has started a
"woman's printing school" at Wash
ington.
baltimore has put up two thous-
and buildings in the last eight
months.
Horace Greedy will make tour
of the great central Western States.
during September.
There are no more rings in Wall
street. "Syndicates" is the new ii.
Ito of such organizations.
Miss Ada Shriver, of DAYTON
O., has been appointed Professor of
Painting in Michigan University.
II is stated that the prices of inn
proved farms in California have de-
cllned within the last three years.
Ole Bull is reported to be sori-
ously i'll, and it is said that grave
fears arc entertained for his recov.
cry.
Tho number ofConfoderate flags
in possession of the Government at
Washington is five hundred and forty
two.
Tho Overland Monthly estimates
this years product of the precious
metals on the Pacific coast at So,
600, 900
The women of Massachusetts,
pay taxes on 1872, 900, OO0-nearIy
one-tenth of all the taxable property
of the State,
The number Of languages spoken
in tho world is 30,064. The inhabit-
ance Of tho globe confess more than
1000 different religions.
A San Francisco doctor adver-
tised for good office cat" He has
already received 243 feines. with the
Southern counties yet to hear from.
The great tunnel through the
Sierra Nevada is to be five miles
long. nineteen feet high, and twenty.
one feet wide. It's cost is to be S15.-
100000
Get your smoked glass ready
for the eclipse, which is to be a total
shrouding of the sun and visible in
the United States. II will come off
in June, 1854.
The British Quarterly ReUiew
says that perhaps no preacher of
modern times has said go many wise
and good things as Henry Ward Bee
cher, or said them so we'll"
The California Silk Companv's"
factory, at South Francisco, was
started short time ago and thous-
ands of silk-growers are visiting TO
see how the machinery works
In Kansas wife who purchases
personal property from her husband
in good faith, and for q. good and
sufficient consideration, is in equity
the owner of that property.
will NJ. Carleton, the new verso
maker, is journalist, and only
twenty-four, resides at Hillsdale.
Mich. seventy miles west of Toledo,
o., is the son Of a plain and laboring
farmer
Here is the frce-love marriage
vow as finally adopted; "Wo prom
Use to love each other, and live in
the same brown stone front till We
are tired of each other and see some
one we like better"
Sturgeon, the famous English
preacher, having been offered S10.>
600 in gold to write a life of Christ,
sent word that as good life of Christ
as could be written was to be found
in the New Testament.
-Dio Lewis declares that the pres
ent system of employing doctors is
wrong, and advises people to make
contracts with them at 5000 a year
for each family, and n deduction Of
two dollars for each case of sickness?
The number of foreigners a
short time ago computed to be in
London was nearly 100000. Ofthese
so, 900 were Germans, 100000 French
90, 900 belonging to the other conti>
mental countries, and 10000 were
Americans;
"A man who was driving q COW
through the streets Of Waupun, Wis,
was so much illustrated by sudden
bow from lady, that, in return, he
made bow to the COW and threw a
stone at the lady. Imagine his feel
ings
aeA- "What is the annual corn crop
of kertucky?" asked a foreign tourist
Of Kentuckian. 81 can't exactly