Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-03-19
GLEANTNGS.

Deer last year.
American canned frogs are in great
demand in France.
Bradstreet's says good times are
coming, but slowly.
Dubuque Conservatory girls carry
their lunch in music roll.
Col. Tom Ochiltrees favofite book is
The tales of Baron Munchausen.
OF the 176 varieties of snakes in the
United States only twenty-five are VEN
omous.
One of Harlem's wealthy ladies pays
her coachman extra wages on condition
that he will address her as my Lady"
Texas has set apart thirty million
acres OF land to provide for general ed
ucation. This is as large an area as
the whole of England.
Wolseley missed by long way his
| proposed Christmas dinner at Khart-
oum. But he need not despair
Christmases are coming.
A New York legislator has bill se-
| curing beer brewers to put label on
every bottle or beer barrel stating the
| ingredients of the liquor contained in
! it.
Connecticut, in proportion to popu-
lation, still holds the lead in inventive
| genius, having taken out $50 patents
last year, or one for every 694 persons
in the State.
The country needs war. The mill
| tary service of the country at the pres
npf Il
| for the young lieutenants who come
pouring out of West Point every year.
Mr.. Ruskin holds very strong opin-
ions on the subject of second proposals.
He says no man should be so c0nceited
as to expect that he is to be accepted
the first time he chooses to say the
word
TO cure hiccoughs caused by drink
ing beer take another drink. Keep
this up until the hiccoughs stop. It's
sure cure--if kept up long enough.
Have place to sleep handy before You
begin.
A game of billiards in South Ameri-
ca must be an interesting spectacle.
The tables are 8 feet by 16, and the
balls weigh from IS to 16 ounces. The
cues are big clubs, weighing 2 or 8
pounds each.
1t is proposed in Connecticut to re-
peal the general railroad law in that
State and allow no new road to be con-
structed unless in the opinion of the
Railroad Commissioners there is pub
lie necessity for it.
The information of cremation So
ciety at Buffalo, whose members in
clude more than fifty leading physi-
clans, business men and society people,
is another sign of the growing feeling
in favor of the system.
Senator Chace, of Rhode Island, is
typical Quaker in dress and speech and
believes in the reign of peace to such
an extent that he will not nominate
candidates for West Point or Annap-
oils, nor vote for military appropriation
bills.
A Bridgeton, N j., little school miss
was heard the other day attempting to
read the line, ..Pledged to no party's
arbitrary sway" Her version of it,
however, made her say: Pledged to
no party's obituary" and there she
stepped.
Carroll d. Wright, the new Labor
Commissioner of the United States, is
described as "a tall, finely-formed man,
with black mustache and pleasant
smile. He has a wife and family and
is pleasant fellow and cultured gem
tleman."
The light emitted by insects when
examined under the spectroscope, is
very beautiful, but is without bright or
dark bands. When the intensity di-
minishes the red and orange rays dis
appear and the spectrum is reduced to
yellow and greenrays.
The champion checker-player of the
world is deaf-mute, Mr.. Jones Wiley,
a Scotchman. He has done nothing
but play checkers since he was Is years
old, and is now 60. Saved from the
distraction of the game he has been
able to give full attention to the game.
1t appears the latest wrinkle in the
way OF ornamentation for wedding
breakfast table is to have the photo
graphs OF the. bride and groom inclosed
in block of transparent ice. The dis
| play of GOODNESS between them would
be much more appropriate about year
later.
An Indianapolis lawyer, distrustful
OF his own literary powers, borrowed q
formula for a proposal of marriage
from Ready Letter Writer" The
young lady in the case, learning his
| inspiration, sent in reply the formuls
set down in the same book for declin.
| alton.
Fanny Ellsler left an estate of $780,
900. The most graphic description of
her dancing was given by Vermonter
on his return from Boston, where he
had been astonished by her agility.
lie said: ''She is as much quicker
than lightning as lightning is quicker
than stone wall. "
| Victor Hugo is not satisfied with or
iginating startling and impressive liter
airy works; he is bent on designing a
great house which he is 10 build on a
| piece of land near his present residence
He has paid 337, $50 francs for the lot,
and is likely to have unique, if not
tasteful dwelling.
A Boston girl who is teaching in Col
orado, writes home as follows: 1T
have forty scholars, of all ages, and
teach almost everything grammar,
history, physiology, mathematics,
manners, morals, common sense, per-
sonal cleanliness, fancy work, and gen.
eral civilization"
Barnyard fowls are now employed in
a novel capacity by Nevada gold-seek-
ers. The hens are picketed, and, be-
ing hungry, begin to scratch and eat.
After three or four days honest toll
they are killed and their craws exam
ined for gold. As much as So has been
found in one craw
AT the solicitation of the British
Government President Lincoln looked
after personally the copying and sign
ing of a second original copy of the
Emancipation Proclamation for the
British Museum, and it is now preserv-
ed among the great historic papers
owned by that institution.
Prof. Agassiz's gifts to Harvard col
lege during the last thirteen years
amount to more than 100000. This
| Is the gentleman to whom a floating
paragraph ascribes the statement that
''he hadn't time to think about making
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