Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-04-25
Gleanings from our Exchanges.

Inc London Post Office employs
nearly 1000 female clerks.
There are 100000 more womer
than men, we are told, in England.
The Illinois penitentiary is losing
only about $4,000 per month.
Many mich cows and horses lust
now are being imported from Canada
The small pox is said to have
made its appearance in eastern cities
Smoking is prohibited, under
penalty, in England, at railway sta
tons.
The latest novelty in funerals il
TO lay Brussels carpet around the
grave.
Physicians recommend billiards
as healthful exercise for young
ladies.
Pullman is going to introduce
his drawfng-room palace cars upon
English railways.
The expectation of oysters for
seed to England is a new feature in
the American oyster trade.
There We're ten thousand Access
sions to the total of Iowa church
membership during the past winter.
Miss Phelps says there is no use
quarelling with a woman, the press,
railroad company, or the telegraph.
An act of the Mississippi Legis-
latnre makes it a misdemeanor to
assign passengers on railroads to par
ticular cars.
Over one handred girls have
graduated from different American
Colleges within the past year. The
majority Of them are medical STU
dents.
The Omaha Tribune calls loudly
upon the thirty-five thousand old
maids in New England to consult
Horace Greeley and then go West
and buy farms.
Two young Atlantans ran a foot
race on Sunday for the honor of
escourting belle to church. Il he
winner found she had Just Como with
another fellow.
The Western States are, one
after the other, abolishing the old
rule of paying women school teach
ers less than men for the same SER
vices. This is simple justice.
"A New Variorum of Shaks-
pearo," edited by Horace Howard
Furness, is highly spoken Of by the
English and American critics. The
first volume has been published.
"A new mode of suicide has been
invented in Illinois. A man filled his
mouth with gunpowder, and putting
caps between his teeth, chewed them
until an explosion took place.
The Irish immigration to Amer
lea, formerly so extensive, is now
rapidly on the decrease. English
and French immigration is increasing.
whilst that from Germany is the
largest.
Some time ago certain persons
in the State of Camden and Amboy,"
and few other human fossils living
somewhere in Pennsylvania, memoir
ialized Congress to abolish the De-
partment of Agriculture.
Minnesota comes forward with
four sisters who have run a two-hun-
dred acre farm tor the last FIVE wears.
and have 81 800 in the bank, In tho
whole five years they have had no
male help.
Western editors have fallen into
the habit, when organ grinders are
around plying their avocations, of
publishing little item to this effect:
"Organ grinders make five dollars a
day in Memphis"
Virginia, the "Mother of Presi-
DENTS" the hotbed of arietocracy par
excellence, and once tho nursery of
slaves for the cotton States, has fur
nished the first colored page for the
House of Representatives.
1t is reported that the Harpers
have suffered to the extent of $40, 900
70. Nast's caricatures of the Pope
all the school books they publish
having been taken off the list used in
the Now York public schools.
"A sharper in Connecticut is adver.
Using to give $4,000 to any person
who will adopt an infant two weeks
old, adding that ten cents must be
inclosed to defray postage. The
stamp business is what he is after.
Robert Hoe is making arrange
ments to establish mandatory of
his largest presses in England. He
says this has been rendered necessary
by reason of the difference in the
cost of material and in the price of
labor.
"A wealthy Virginian recently
killed woman whose life was heav-
lily insured in one Of our city compan-
les, and it is said the company is
about to bring a suit for damages
against the murderer for destroying
its property.
The human body according to
DR.. Nichols, in the Journal Of Chem
iStry, contains phosphorus enough for
four hundred ordinary two-cent pack
ages of matches, but not quite sui
phur enough for them. There is
water enough to "drown the individ-
ual," or rather, another individual.
"A play is being performed in
theatres out West, one of the sensa-
tions in which is an earthquake. By
placing a keg of powder under the
building, and touching it off at the
proper moment, the effect Of an earth
quake is produced so natural that the
audience can hardly tell the differ
ence.
An English chemist has been ex-
perimenting for the purpose of as
certain how much of various kinds of
food must be eaten in order to make
one pound of flesh. He comes to the
conclusion that it requires % pounds
of milk, 100 Of turnips, so ofpotatoes,
so of carrots, 9 Of oat meal, II barley
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