Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-02-13
Fen and D.

| Inhabitants VINO cannot read or write.
Three Texas stock raisers have
just fenced a pasture of $4,000 acres.
New York hangs one ont of
every three hundred aud five MUIR
derers.
Over four per cent. of the entire
population of Cincinnati cannot read
or write.
Thirteen thousand and thirty.
three patents were issued to inven.
tors last year.
A poor man in Sumner county,
Kansas, has only 81, 900 head of cat
tie in the world.
The census of Rome has been
completed. The total population of
the city is 100000
The velocity of the galvanic cur
rent in iron wire does not exceed 49,
600 miles per second.
Tho Leavonworth saloon-keep-
ers have raised three thousand dollars
to fight temperance with.
Robert Smith was fined $50 in
Boston for not giving notice of a case
of smallpox in his family.
I>-Josquin Miller, "the poet of the
Sierras," is engaged to be married 10
a lady of the Scottish nobility.
"A ball is proposed next month
by the Hebrews of Boston to raise
funds to procure burial ground.
An industrious nosologist has es-
timated that there are about 2,400
disorders incident to the human
frame
There is cat in Daviess County,
Ind, which has the ehills and fever
as regularly as any of the rest of tho
family.
The umbrella was one of tho
earliest Of inventions, its effigies may
be found on sacred sculptures ofgreat
antiquity.
The most definite description a
Lewistown woman could give of her
lost baby was, kinder fat, with a
calico dress on,
-Teetotalers are horror.stricken
over the discovery that they have
been drinking nine per cent. of alco-
hol in their coffee.
The London Lancet thinks thai
during the coming spring, or early in
the summer, cholera will re-appear in
Western Europe.
An enterprising New York street
peddiar sold in New Haven, last
week, over 1000 photographs of
Fisk and Mansfield.
The formal ceremony of hosting
the British flag in tho diamond field
of South Africa really took place on
the 18th of November.
Warren County CO., Teachers
Association have resolved that no
teacher who uses tobacco should be
employed in the schools.
Great preparations are making
10 London for the official thanksgiv-
ing for the restoration of the health
of the Prince Of Wales.
Tho Empeor of Germany has
knighted ana conferred the Order of
Merit on the distinguished English
painter, Sir Edwin Landseer.
A remonstrance from 10000
citizens Of st. Louis, against tho
passage Of the Temperance bill, was
laid before the Missouri Senate.
Subscriptions for q memorial 20
Cowper in the church at Berkham-
stead, England, are being solicited by
Longman, the great English publish.
or.
Tho main portion of the South
ern peanut crop comes from a narrow
strip Of land extending about forty
miles northerly from Wilmington,
n. G.
Forty years ago nearly the whole
of Ohio was a dense forest now
resolution is introduced in the Ohio
Legislature to encourage the cultiva-
ton of forests.
"A young Kentuckian who had
been dressed to represent Santa Claus,
at church fair, was mistaken for q
Ku-Klux, and knocked over by
nervous gentleman.
"A sulphur we'll has been discov-
cred at Putnamville, Illinois, which
gushes two feet out of the ground,
and prevents any one working near
it in consequence Of the stencil.
--Glashier, the mronaut has MOTTO
ed that the voice of woman is audi
BILE in balloon at the height of about
two miles. while that of a man has
never reached higher than mile.
The National Rubber Works at
Bristol, Rhode Island, have finished
q rubber belt within few days, one
hundred and seventy-fve feet in
length four feet in width, aud half
an inch thiaS, aud weighs two thou
sand pounds.
DR.. Jolly says the French con.
sumo more tobacco than any other
nation. and he attributes the enerva-
ton Of the soldiers, as evinced during
the late war, to the combined effects
of alcohol and nicotine upon the ma.
tional character.
The adnlteration of silk goods
with other flores is readily detected
by dropping little hydrochlorc acid
on a sample, when, if pure silk, a
hole viii be made; if impure the
threads left will indicate the nature
and extent of the adulteration.
"A St. Joseph (Mo) physical
says heart disease is caused by the
use of coal oil. The odor which
escapes is the injurious element, and
is, of course, more liable to effect the
cardiac organ when the light is turn
ed down-way down, as tho foolish
young people fancy it O. Sunday
nights.
Georgia, undoubtedly the most