Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-02-06
Pen and Scissors,

Alexis laughs "good, hearty
English laugh, with broad Russian
accent"
Joaquin Miller is going to South
America, aad will not lecture in this
country.
Illinois has furnished as many
Presidents as any other State save
Virginia.
Three sisters in Stonington,
Conn, were married on New Years
to three brothers.
Father Hyacinthe is reported to
be hopelessly sick of consumption at
Munich, in Bavaria.
Charles Read, it is asserted. fire.
quently spends eighteen hours out of
twenty.four in bed.
"A celebrated author says that no
letter is ever commenced without the
first page being an apology.
There are over $4,000 miles of
railroad in the United States, of
which $3.50 were built last year.
"A lot of the prettiest little cof-
tins for Christmas you ever saw"
was Kentucky advertisement,
"A single hair from Louis Ma
| poleon's head is said TO have been
sold for 500 at recent fair in Lon
don.
doe Jefferson's receipts last year
were equal to all the salaries of all
the clergymen in New York put to,
gether
Tho phenomenon OF animal phos-
phorescence is due to the slow com.
bination of oxygen with the adipose
tissue.
There are eight million tobacco
users 10 the United States who each
use twelve pounds of tobacco and
l67 cigars annually.
Twins were recently born, one
in Indiana, the other in Michigan.
They were born on the cars, as the
train crossed the line.
There is q girl in New Haven
who has been engaged to member
of every class that has been gradual.
ed at Yale since 1857.
1t has been remarked as some>
thing wonderful that condors have
this winter been seen on tho noun
tains in the interior Of Cuba.
Mira. abby Sage Richardson has
been readingin Boston, and the news.
papers there speak very respectfully
of her abilities as an elocutionist.
Emil Ritterhaus, tho most eminent
Of the younger poets Of Germany,
has poem on Lake Erie, in which
he talks about the pAIm-trees and al
ligators of that region.
-Enterprising circus mon in Geor-
ga reap golden harvests by painting
de:ermed cow pea. green, and show.
ing it as the famous Cundurango from
Sogth African mountains.
Present appearances indicate q
heavier European immigration than
ever the present year, Passages are
said to BIO secured six or eight weeks
in advance by all sailing and steamo
ship lines.
- Emerson says that OF all books
a22sR85dl9e55, nYGaE ggbHSart shf IS i6to" one
book Of the world. Out of the circle
Of religious books he is the one IN
parallel mind.
The amount of public lands given
by Congress to States and specula-
tors, nominally fer railroad purposes,
is over 207, 100000 acres, being near
Iy forty times the extent of the State
of New Hampshire.
The Spectator agrees with Bay
ard Taylor that Faust" should be
considered and studied as a whole;
the second part is necessary to com.
plete the story commenced in the
first. 1t commends his translation.
When Rufus Choato was alive,
people ascertained at which hotel the
great .barrister stopped by looking
down the register until they found
two blote and spatter that no one
could read, which stood for his name.
"A bill has been offered in the
Utah legislature regulating marriage.
1t provides that males of fifteen years
and females OF twelve years may con-
tract marriage, with the consent of
parents or guardians. No allusion is
made to tho plurality system.
Says Theodore Tilten of tho
Franklin statue in Printing-house
Square, New York "The whole i'm
age looks as if some clever ship
wright had cut it in wood for tbs fg-
ure head Of an ocean steamer, TO sail
from the port Of Philadelphia"
- The ceiling of the new Paris
Opera will be made Of copper, con-
sistibg of plates screwed together,
and capable of being at any time dis
jointed. This roofing will be move
able, so that the height of the thea
ter may DO regulated at pleasure.
- joaquin Miller is reading his
poems to California audiences. He
lately recited his "From Sea to Sea"
ut an entertainment. given at San
Francisco by Ossian Il. Dodge, and
subsequently repeated tho piece at
performance to raise funds for the
relief Of a distressed journalist.
A Northern schoolmaster in
Taxas lately received the following
note from O bakers dozen Of bis af-
fectionatc pupils: ave, the under
signed require you to treat to BUSH
ell Of pecans, five pounds raisins and
three Of candy. If you refuse, we
will put you in the deepest hole of
water within one milo Of the school
house"
"A wealthy and eccentric New
Yorker has a curious collection of in
struments with which suicides have
been committed. Pistols, daggers,
razors, and bottles that contained
poison figure in the collection, for