Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-04-08
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Brazilian students.
| 1t is recherche to call them ortho-
graphical tournaments.
The Mayor of Philadelphia has
prohibited fortune telling.
The Sultan of Turkey employs
in his palace 5000 servants.
There arc only thirty seven daily
papers in all England, Ireland and
Scotland.
The authorities of Elmra, New
York, refused to allow "mediums" to
lecture in that city.
The British tax on male servants
| yields revenue of more than one
million dollars annually.
The Financial Chrosicle estimates
that there is now over sS00,0o0,000 of
specie in the United States
1t is reported that a great MANY
of the Dartmouth Alumni are oppos.
ed to intercollegiate literary contests.
The San Francisco capitalists re-
Gently bought 100000 acres of land
in Oregon, at the rate of 81 gold per
acre.
An ordinance prohibiting the
ringing OF church bells has been in
troduced in the New York Board of
Aldermen.
All the teachers in the San Fran.
cisco schools are to be examined UNI
der oath as to the means used to oh
tain their positions.
1T is estimated that not less than
1000, 600 bushels of wheat are
shipped yearly from points west of
Lake Michigan eastward
A great scheme is on foot in
Philadelphia for having all the SOL
diers of the Union ride to the Centcn-
NAL and back free Of charge.
Bessie Turner talked sensible
when she declared that she would
never marry "literary man"-that
is, if Theodore Tilton is a fair sample.
1T is known by scientific analysis
that guano is not the deposit of sea-
birds, but is composed Of fossil of
sponges and other marine animals and
plants.
Philadelphia has 10000 Jews in
heY midst, but only one in her prisons,
and that for trivial offense; which
the Jewish Messenger thinks should
be made 4 note of.
The annual boating race between
the crews Of Oxford and Cambridge
Universities, England, has been won
by the Oxford boys. All London
was ont to witness the contest
The title "reverend," it is point
ed out in a London paper, in no way
declares a man to be a clergyman.
Two hundred and fifty years ago the
English Masters in Chancery were
styled reverend.
The champion Woman's Rights
advocate is growing up in the shape
of Boston girl of Is who declares
with an emphasis, which shows she
means it, that she "won't be mother,
and will be a man."
A lady at Memphis says she
dosen't want any icwclry, hasn't
looking glass in the house, and
wouldn't take a silk dress as gift.
She is undoubtedly one Of the great
est living curiosities of the age.
Says the official organ of Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society: "One
of the delegates to the woman's mis-
sonary meeting, recently in session
in Milwaukee, was called home by a
dispatch stating that her husband had
a child. 1t was left on the doorstep.
The only state in the Union that
countenances gambling by a license
system is Nevada AN effort was
made this year to repeal the license
act, but it still stands as a bulwark to
iniqnity, the Legislature having been
"lobbied" by gamblers TO let the pres
ent law.
The following figures show
where the coin goes: The Bank Of
France holds $500, 900, 900 in specie;
the Bank of Prussia, $3.50, 100000;
and the Bank of England 5000, 000,-
600. This is said to be nearly double
the average amount held by these
banks four or five years ago.
There are 600. 900 common drunk
ards in the United States; Of the
10000 idiots in this country three
fourths are the children of drunken
parents. Ninety.nine hundredths Of
the criminals and paupers were found
to be Incorporate The liquor annual
" sold amounts to $15o,000,0o0.
The Partisan devour 100000 Of
apples every winter An eminent
French Physician thinks that the de
crease of dyspepsia and bilious affec-
tons in Paris is owing to the increas-
ed consumption Of this fruit, which he
maintains is an admirable prophylatic
and tonic, as well as a very nourish-
ing and easily digested article of food.
The Missouri Legislature has Just
afforded a singular comment upon the
social equality Of the sexes. In a
bill making seduction felony, after
providing a penalty for the male Sc
Queer, the paragraph thus proceeds:
cor any female who, under promise
of marriage, shall seduce any umar-
rled male of previous chaste character
shall be guilty OF felony"
Marriage with deceased wife's
sister has always been discountenanc.
ed by the English law, and repeated
attempts to bring about a change in
this respect have failed The House
Of Commons has passed recognition
act seven times during the past fifteen
years, bnt it never became law. An
act Of this kind was rejected by the