Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-01-02

Alexis is six feet and two inches

vocalIst-the female never sings.
Gen. Spinner has found tina,
women are more honest than men.
| Alexis hair and moustache are Q
| light auburn--in other words, red.
ten. Rosecrans is at Denver
examining the practical merits of 4
narrow-gauge railway.
| The annual profits of this conn
try arising from all its industries AR,
estimated at about 81, 900, 900, 600,
Trenton, N. j., has the larges
circular saw in the world. 1t i
twenty-five feet in circumference.
Victor Hugo, his son, and hi
son-in-law, have invested their whole
fortune in the Rappel newspaper.
The latest style of wedding
cards have the age Of the contract
ing parties engraved in one corner,
"A free supply of water, it is said,
would add million dollars a month
to the present gold yield in Califor.
MIA.
John Bright announces that he
will positively take his seat in Parlia-
ment at the beginning of next sess.
ion.
Upward of one thousand books
and pamphlets have been published
in Germany on the infallibility ques-
ton.
The whole staff of the Cologne
Ga@ette, the most widely-circulated
daily paper in Germany, consists OF
six persons.
Some of the iron columns on the
Boston new post-office building are
thirty three feet high, and weigh
over twelve thousand pounds each.
We have now the authority of
the University of Cambridge for say
ing that English women are gener-
ally in o state Of intellectual semi
starvation.
Judge Brady of New York says
that patent medicine vendors can DO
held to strict legal accountability
for the assertions made in their adj
vertisements.
The Federal Assembly of Swift
zerland, has passed bill forbidding
the appointment of Jesuit commit
tees, or the employment of them as
die tatorial teachers.
Ono pleasant practice Of the Ce-
lestials in San Francisco, lately dis
covered, is to do their sick people up
in old rugs when found near dying
and let the rats eat them up.
More than 100000 of steel
pens are manufactured in Sheffield,
England, annually. Over 600 tons OF
sheet steel is made in that city for
this purpose alone each year.
An apple tree in Niagara Coun-
ty, N. Y, near Lockport, yielded
twenty-five barrels of fruit this year.
1t is fifty yeaas old, and has yielded
as many as twenty barrels in pre-
vious years.
-"The new Congressional Libra
ry Building has already" says COR
respondent, grown too small. -
The library now contains 235, 900
volumes, and about 5000 are added
to the number yearly.
AT fair In Tennessee, Mrs.
Patterson, daughter CT ex-President
Johnson, took the first premium for
butter. This is the lady who SO
gracefully presided over the White
House during her fathers admins
tration.
"A Michigan arithmetician com.
putes that the number of clothes sent
to the sufferers by the forest fires
in that State would furnish each man
with about two hundred pairs of old
pantaloons and one hundred pairs of
old boots.
--Geritt Smith is in his seventy
fifth year, and his memory is 80 per-
feet that he can repeat most of the
Psalms, and many other parts of the
Bible. His wife whom he married
about a half century ago, il still
his companion.
--Tennyson has quit the Isle OF
Wight in disgust, and removed to
secluded spot in North Wales. He
is tired of being haunted by literary
lion-hunters, not the least persistent
and annoying Of whom are said to be
American travellers.
-Cincinnatians are rejoiced to
learn that by newly suggested pro-
cess Of distillation an ordinary bar
rel of garbage can be made to yield
four gallons Of proof spirits. It
will also furnish three ponnds of
soap, but that they don't care 80
much about.
Bells have been known and used
in China for 1000 years, but the Ce-
lestials have not, during all that time,
shown any appreciation of American
manufacture. The first installment
from this country was recent ship
ment Of three large bells to Shanghai
by Troy IN. w. firm.
By a decision just rendered in
Oregon every foreign half.bree as
well as every native full-blood Indi-
an is excluded from the ballot. Sew
eral Indians have been in the habit
of voting, but the courts have decid-
ed that hereafter it must be stop.
ped.
The journal notes the arrival
in Chicago, over the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific Railroad, Of freight
train of 1l5 cars, loaded principally
with hogs and drawn by three pow
erful locomotives. This is probably
the largest simple freight train ever
moved upon a railroad.
January is the coolest ard July
the hottest month in st. Petersburg.
Each year has about 112 complete
winter days, SO spring and sutum
days, with frost at night, and 1874
summer days. The most serene