Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-05-09
aleanings from our Exchanges.

marriages as one to fourteen.
San Jose Valley, California, new
or had a frost until this year.
-Star-gazors can now see on pleas
ant evenings five great planets.
Chicago claims to be the chief
lumber market in the United States.
Two Michigan women voted at
the late election, no one raising any
objection.
The prospects of the tobacco
crop in some portions of Virginia
are very bad. "a, s...
They are talking in California OF
building 100000 ship canal by
the aid of lottery.
Wall street gives $4,000, 900
annually in charity, which covers .
multitude of its sins.
One hundred ladies Of Colmar
have vowed to wear mourning till
Alsace is French again.
"A patent cow>milker, with India
rubber squeezers, worked by crank,
is on view in Broadway.
CASTELAR,, the leader of the Span
ish Republicans, has recently inherit
ed very large fortune.
Immigration into Kansas for
1871 promises to largely exceed that
Of any other previous year.
in the city of New York there
are 10000 Jews, mostly German.
They have forty synagogues.
Chicago is enjoying the luxury
ofstraw berries. The tempting things
cost only two dollars per pint.
I'm Switzerland, a law is proposed
making it unlawful for any one un-
der fourteen years of age to smoke
tobacco.
"A clergyman and his wife in
Portland, Me-, have recently suffered
greatly from poisoning, caused by
eating canned tomatoes.
Capt. Hall announces that he
will take no fat men on his Arctic
expedition, they being less capable
than lean ones TO stand the cold.
These are in the world about
120,0 miles of railway, that have
cost SO, 900, 600, 900, and give employ.
ment to over 1000, 900, persons.
Tho English Bible revisers have
nearly finished their work on the
Gospel of st. Matthew, and the re-
vised version will soon be published.
The Austrian Government has
appointed a number of Postmis-
tresses, but they receive only two
thirds of the salary paid to Postmas-
ters.
-McMurry, the tightening calcu-
lator of Williamsport, Pa, is clerk
in the Treasury Department, and
receives the salary of eight clerks.
The Michigan House of Repre-
sentatives has passed bin compell-
ing the attendance at school of chill
dren between the ages of eight and
fourteen.
There are to be several yacht
races across the Atlantic this sum-
mer, and in one of the larger yachts
a party of ladies are to be among
the passengers.
"A New Hampshire lady, Mary
Brockway, recently celebrated her
1O4th birthday in East Washington
by splitting and carrying into the
house half cord of wood.
Eastern papers say that very
few trout are caught in the small
streams this season, and they attrib-
ute the scarcity to the droth in 1870,
which dried up the brooks and killed
the fish.
The steam plows used in the
United States, are made in England,
and imported at cost of about $10,-
900 in gold each. The price, Of
course, includes the custom duty on
imported machinery.
Detroit is worrying herself about
wooden pavements. One gentleman
who spoke at q pavement meeting of
the citizens, the other night, de-
iced the Nicolson as "six inches
of typhoid fever laid down in the
streets"
The Ohio Legislature has passed
a bill providing that horse-thieves
shall be punished with imprisonment
of from one to five years. In Iowa,
when they catch genuine horse.
thief, they let him explore the limbs
of the nearest tree, being sure that
be is so fixed that he will not fall.
Colonel Jerome Napoleon Bona,
parte, of the American branch Of the
late ruling dynasty in France, has
arrived at his homo in Baltimore.
This gentleman who was at least
born in America, entertains no hope
for republicanism in France, and is
of opinion that the Emperor will BIO
ultimately restored.
DIR. Mary Walkers presence as
solicitor for political favor around
the public offices was resented. The
President expressed for her the kind
hest feelings, but refused TO see her
in the masquerade of a boys's attire.
Mr.. Boutwell, stated that she would
be officially recognized ifshe conform
to the dress of her sex; but to this
suggestion she gave no ear-she de-
fed the judgement of men, her warm
friends, and made the best represen-
tatives Of her own sex sorrowfully
turn from her presence.
A bachelor once remarked to a
young lady of our acquaintance, that
all he should ask for in wife would
be good temper, health, good I'M
derstanding agreeable physiognomy,
figure, good connection, domestic
habits, resources Of amusement, good
spirits, conversational talents, ele-
CANT manners, and money. Scr
tainly You are not very particular,
said She, and your modest demands
ought to be easily supplied, but /
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