Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-05-06
CLIPPINGS fa0M oga ExcaascIs,

hahitsnt in Ohio.
Wisconsin timber grows 70,
mssts $50 feet long.
"A North Carolina horse 10 shear
ed annually for his wool.
Chestnut and hickory trees
won't grow in California.
The glacial theory has new con.
tirmstion from California.
--Sassafras tea is becoming fash
ionable beverage in the cities.
A genuine mermaid, is on ex-
hibition st Los Angeles, Cal.
The hens of this country do $780,
0cO, 600 worth of business year.
colorado has nearly q thousand
miles of irTigating canals--on maps.
Child number eighteen has re-
Gently blessed New HAVEN family.
The California working PEE pie
have S51, 600, 900 In the savings bank
And now Canada is agitsting the
question of a Prohibitory liquor law.
The great grandmothers in
Pottsville, Pa, held q reunion late
ly.
The EQUITY jsils of Maine arc TO
have workshops connected With
them.
At will require 10000, 900 visi.
tors to the Vienna Exposition to
make it pay.
A Florida school teacher who was
give minutes late was locked ave
cents by the Board.
Drunken women are 40 common
in Washington street, Boston, as
scarcely to attract attention.
"A bill to abolish the whipping
post died miserably in the Kentucky
Legislature few days since.
"A girl in Searsport, Me-, thir-
teen aud half years old, weighs
200 pounds, and is still growing.
There are twenty thousand
members of the order of the Patriots
&c Sons Of America in Pennsylvania.
The valuation of Atlanta, Ga,
which two years ago was estimated
at FIVE millions now exceeds fourteen.
"A pretty Buffalo girl sells sew
ing machines from wagon, Snd che
sells twice 90 many as any of the
men.
Members OF he coming Congress
say that they will repeal the law
which requires postage on newsps-
pers.
Two boards nailed together at
one end, with Stats Of lath across in
the form of an A, make sn excellent
coop.
The Supreme Court of CaliEoF>'
MIA decides that the lose should fall
on bank which pays "raised
cheek"
Only one OF the seventeen Maes.
achusetts people 10 without three
names, while one in every four has
four names.
The United States grows annu-
ally about 1870 000,0 bushels Of po~
bushels for every man
woman and child.
A Michigan man esva he hiss
Discovered how to 60 temper steel
and even cast iron that it will cut
glass like diamond.
More than athird Of the popula-
ton of New England ie now OF Euro.
pean birth or European descent in
the frat generation.
A beautiful girl of Montgomery,
Ala, was killed while on her knees
at prayer, the other night, by the ex-
plosion Of 8 kerosene lamp.
"A Troy dentist kissed a youBg
lady whose teeth he was
the other day. he hae
since paid $50 for the pleasure.
Tho fidelity OF former slaves is
in the case of an aged 10.
dy in Columbus, Ca, who is sup
ported entirely by former nurse in
the family.
"A Philadelphia widow excus
cd herself from weeping on the Co
casion of her husbands funeral de-
cl airing that crying always made her
nose bleed.
"A Georgia court has decided
that if q man is furnished by q deal
err when intoxicated that Dealers bar
bill for the whole year is null and
Two sisters who receive $500 O
year for teaching ia Detroit, on this
sum support their aged mother and
two helpless children, and meet eli
their own expenses.
-Vermont-where, it 10 well
known, no liquor is sold-has is. 600
4,0U0 habitual "hard-
and 10000 young men
just beginning TO drink.
New York is said to be looking
toward 9 revival Of the whipping
post SO a remedy for q certain cless
of people who have not yet learned
respect for lawful restrainte.
The man who can set ths
Thames on fire has made his appear
apce in London. He claim TO have
perfected plan By which the hydro.
gen in water can be used as fuel,
Tho "Bible Society Record"
states that of the seven million wo.
men in Spain, not ten per cent. can
read, and Rot five per. cent. oan
write and the proportion 10 little
better among the nen.
"A Chicago dentist became emo.
tlonsIly insane while repairing o
front tooth for g pretty woman, and
kissed her. She told her husband,
and be went round the next dsy
and borrowed $500 of the dentist.
Many nickle makes 8 muckle.