Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-08-06
PEN AND SCISSORS.

A Wisconsin farmer lately har.
vested nine bushels of potato bngs.
An immense new freight depot
ior the Union Prcifc. Railroad ia
soon to be built at Omaha.
There are one hundred and
thirty churches in St. Louis. fifteen
OF which are Presbyterian.
Ezra Cornell is about to give
100000 to the labor department
of the university which bears his
name.
In Australia, spring begins
August 20; summer, November 20 /;
autumn, February 20, and winter,
May 20.
With the exception of Nebraska
and Nevada, every State in the
Union reports citizens born in every
other State.
The Princess Imperial of Ger
many, Queen Victoria's oldest daugh-
ter, has seven children, three of
whom are sons.
Miss Dodge, of Boston, Miss
Carrie Spooner and Miss Burnham,
American ladies, were among Miss
Missions bridesmaids.
The density of the four sattel-
lites of Jupiter has been ascertained
to be nearly fifty per cent. greater
than that of the planet itself
Fifty millions of paper collars
and cuffs arc made annually in Troy,
N. 7. and seventeen thousand peo-
pie are employed in doing it.
White wells are very fashiona-
bic in Paris, and, of course, will soon
be here. They are made Of plain
white tulle, dotted with black.
Twenty ocean steamers now
ply between New Orleans and Flu
rope, so large has the foreign COM
MERGE Of the Crecent City become.
MIR. Watson, the new President
of the Erie Road, thinks that the
Atlantic and Great Western Rails
way will be a narrow gauge road.
The Prussian Government has
begun the distribution of bronze
medals TO the women who attended
the wounded during the late war.
Charleston, S. c., has walked up
to new life. Building operations
are going on with q tremendous
impulse, which surprises everybody.
England paid the United States
last year for cotton Sl84, 100000,
and making this up into fabrics
she cleared $l8s,000, 900 of net prof.
it,
james +. Murphy. of White
county, Illinois, has threshed 900
bushels of oats from 20 acres of
ground, and 504 bushels of wheat
from 40 acres.
Harvard College still leads in the
number of It's students 1,2l6) while
Yale (755) is surpassed by Oberlin
{ 1920 and by the University of
Michigan (1,110).
An appreciative listener slipped
500 into ST. Louis clergyman's
hand the other day, as he was leav-
ing the church, as q reward for his
excellent sermon.
The Italian Government has
already opener negotiations not
only with Germany, but also with
Austria and France, on the subject
of successor to Pope Plus TX.
The census OF the population is
terminated in Paris. A diminution
is shown since 1866 Of about 5000
inhabitants-ah insignificant mum
Der in comparison TO the total of L.
1000.
"A total mortality of 1869, for
the seven days between June 80 and
July 5, is entirely without example
in the history of New York City.
The Tines says: The annual death
rate which it represents, of 81 per
1000, is fair ratio for period of
deadly pestlence.
"A Pennsylvania paper states
that tablespoonful Of quicksilver
was lately found in an old grave in
York county, supposed to have ta~
ken by the dead man during life, in
the form of blue mass as medicine
with heavy doses in that neighber-
hood, some years ago.
"A correspondent of the New
York Herald has discovered that the
source of the Mississippi river is not
Lake Itasca, as Schoolcraft asserted,
but a smaller lake which the said cor
respondent christens Dolly Warden.
1t is perhaps good thing that Jour-
nalism has taken the geography of
the world in hand.
The Lynchburg (Va) Republic
can says that Mrs. Woodson, the
mother of "Stonewall' Jackson, lies
buried in the neighborhood burying
ground of the late James Westlake,
ESQ.,, near Hawks Nest. Fay cite
county, West Virginia. The grave
is uncared for, and the b1rying
grounds are in ruins.
"A "phosphated candy" has just
been invented, prepared by combin-
ing the acids or salts of phosphorus
with sugar, thus ingeniously present
ing ar acceptable form of assimila--
Bile phosphorus to those who need
some repair OF the nervous and brain
forces. 1t is pleasant way Of TAX
ing phosphorus as a medicine, and
has been deemed worthy of q pat>
emf.
The Tenno of Japan can trace
his pedigree back for 1000 years.
Queen Victoria's genealogy is traced
back to the foundation of the Saxon
Heptarchy, A. d. 827, only a little
more than 1000 years, and the
Kings of France are reckoned back
about 400 years earlier, but they
both paic before the antiquity Of
the reigning family in Japan.
Orange is said to be the proper
color TOR spectacles, instead of green
or blue, for persons of weak eyes.
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