Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-01-16
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"A brass band composed of TWEEN.
" women is being organized in Gin.
oinnati.
New Orleans girls complain that
the young men "don't tease them
enough"
Each of the oldest four grad.
mates of Harvard College has been in
Congress.
California farmers are putting in
twenty per cent. more grain than
last year.
The mines in Idaho district are
producing ore at the rate of forty-two
tons per week.
Tennessee has 9,704, 233 acres of
improved land, and l3,S74,Sl of un.
improved land.
--Thirty-two pounds of iron have
been made into wire more than Ill
miles in length.
An enterprising New Highlander
is running high-pressure steamboat
on the river Ganges.
One hundred and FIVE shorthand
writer's do the newspaper reporting
IN tho Houee of Commons.
1t takes over $4,000 worth of
grindstones, besides coal and other
things, to make 423, 1000 axes.
The Atchison and Nebraska rail.
road is to be completed to Lincoln.
Neb., by the first of next July.
Prof Lowell's new word, undis-
privacied, is called "a four-story poll
lysyllable with 9 French roof"
"A nice marriagable tidy girl will
bring five dollars in Persia any day,
thus adding to the parental income
and comfort.
The Treasury Department the
other day received rhyming appl-
cation to redeem a So bill, partly
masticated by an absentminded to-
bacoo chewer.
-Bostonians delight in affirming
that if one of their city were alone
on desert island, and set out to
build a house, he would fit up the low.
er part of it for a store.
A Kansas man sent for q clergy.
man to preach his wife's funeral ser
mon and incidentally to marry him,
at the close of his discourse, to
young woman he had selected.
Tho coffee trade Of Baltimore
showed a marked increase, last year,
the imports Of Rio exceeding those of
the previous year 6S, 1874 bags. The
sales for tho year were 54S, 47O bags:
Two brothers who own 1000
acres of cranberry land in Black Riv-
err Falls, Wis, have dug during the
past season, twenty-five miles of
four and ak feet bitches on their pro-
perty.
"A horrible story comes from
Montreal, where the dead body of q
woman was found partially eaten by
rats, while the remainder of the fami-
ly were lying around helplessly in
ebriated.
"A resident Of Newport, r. l.,
claims TO be the owner of tom cat
whose weight is thirty pounds.
Thomas is said to thrive on flour
dough, of which he devours fabulous
quantities.
A new process of making steel
has been invented by Frenchman,
which requires from an hour to an
hour and half, and is so conducted
that it can be arrested at any mo-
ment, and any desired quality of steel
obtained.
"A young lady in a California
skating rink was astonishing crowd
OF the people with her excellent skat-
ing, when che stumbled and fell,
knocking out all her teeth. II ia
consoling to know that they were
false ones.
The word "gormand" is said to
be derived from German, a glutton-
Gus King of the Danes. The Nor
mans were more temperate than the
Britons, but were won over to the
habits of gluttony by the people
whom they conquered.
The New York Mail asserts that
many fashionable ladies who are par
tial to low. knocked dresses, and have
not pretty neck, wear false neck
Of alabaster, which, when a heavy
necklace is worn with it, can hardly
be detected from the real article.
On Christmas evening Henry
Ward Beecher preached discourse
on art, literature, and politics in
which he claimed that the "ChrIst
Spirit" had made advancement in lit
erature, and cited Dickens and Thack-
cry as notable instances thereof.
The "pnnny" editor of the New
York World says: "The snow in
Utah lies from ten to fifty feet deep
rather too thick to Utah.lise for
sleighing."' The best physicians of
the metropolis are in attendance up
on him, but his recovery is still doubt
ful.
- The supply Of India rubber 10
said TO be inexhaustible. Each tree
can be tapped for twenty successive
years, and yields on an average three
table spoonfuls a day $4,000 OF
these trees have been counted on
tract Of land thirty miles long by
eight wide.
"A gentle and studious youth OF
nineteen, in Paris college, has in~
vented steam guillotine, warranted
to decapitate sixty men an hour. 1t
is in steel and bronze, the knife NOV
ing up and down without ceasing.
The body is to fall in reservoir of
lime the head in bath of oil.
In the report Of the Civil Service
Commission the word "male" nowhere
occurs that is to say, the competitive
examination for clerkships are open
to women on precisely the same
terms as to men. Women with
geniuses for husbands are thus hav-
ing their opportunities to support
them improved.