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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-10-05
A Curious Problem.

A correspondent of kaowledQe having
asked how much space would be required
on h earth on the assumption that, be-
ginning with n single pair, the human
race had multiplied during 5000 years
at the rate of 30 children to each pair.
sons and daughters being born alter
nately, and each husband and wife being
at the time OF marriage respectively 81
and 20 years old-there being also no
deaths-the editor replied that the pop
u~lation, taking 80 for each pair at tho
average age of 40 years, would be 2,199,-
9l5, followed by l41 digits, which digits
might be represented without apprecia-
BILE lnexactness by cyphers. Now, as
Stunning that ten persons could stand on
a surface Il yard square, 10000, 900
could stand on a square mile, and or The
entire earth, whose surface is about
200, O00, 600 square miles, some 5000
millions of millions. Dividing the num-
Der just obtained by this, the result is
1865, 526, followed by 1876 ciphers. 1t
would require this inconceiyable num-
Der of worlds like our own for the popu-
lation on the assumptions made.
Let us see. says Mr.. Proctor, how
large a single globe would suffice to give
standing room to this population, ten to
the square yard. Such a globe must
have a diameter exceeding the earth's as
the cube root of the above quantity ex-
ceeds unity, or roughly. as 7 followed
by 43 ciphers exceeds unity. (In real
ity it will be larger considerably, but
this is near enough in sucn a problem
as the PRESENT. Now the diameter of
the orbit of Neptune, roughly exceeds
Che earth's diameter nearly 700, 600
times. Hence the diameter of the -
CURED globe exceeds the diameter OF
Neptune's orbit more than a hundred
billions Of billions Of billions Of times.
Surprising the furthest star visible III
the great Rosse telescope to lie some
thirteen or fourteen millions OF times
further from US than the nearest. which
lies about 20, 900 times further than
Neptune, the distance of that star.
1000, 900, DOC, 900 times further thar
Neptune Tor a light journey of some 40
0OO. 900 of years., would be but the
100, 600, 000,f 900, 900, 600, 000.O Doth
part of the lius Of such a globe as
would be rec cd to hold the popula-
ton We are considering. A sphere hay
ing a radius equal TO 100 millions Of
years light journey would not suffice
even to contain so many human beings.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-10-05

convention to meet at Darlington, on
September u, to elect two senatorial
delegates, who, with two similarly
elected in Green county, should repre-
sent the senatorial district comprising
the two counties in the conventions; this
cali also embraced call for two assem-
bly, district conventions, to meet at the
same place on the same day, to elect
two delegates each to the convention.
The practice has prevailed in Lafayette
county ever since the organization of
the Republican party therein, that the
county committee of the county shall
call the county and assembly district
conventions precisely as this call was
made, and that the Republicans in the
several towns elect only one set of dele
gates to attend the county conventions;
to elect such senatorial delegates as the
county is entitled to, and the assembly
district convention to elect assembly
district delegates. The custom has also
universally existed in this county, that
the county convention shall be called to
order at II O'Clock noou of the day on
which it is called; that it organize tem-
porarily and appoint the usual commit
tees, including n committee on creden-
tials, and then adjourn till 2 o'clock D..
M, when the county convention pro-
ceeds to transact its business, and elect
the senatorial district delegates to which
the county is entitled, then the county
convention takes a recess for a sufficient
time to enable the assembly district cou-
v%ention to organize and elect assembly
district delegates, and transact such
other business as may come before it,
after winch the county convention comes
to order and is adjourned. OF the east
ern assembly district in the county little
further need be said. The delegates
from the towns were almost unanimous
for delegates to the congressional con-
v~ention who favored Mr.. Hazelton; such
delegates were elected by it to Monroe,
and were admitted to that convention
without objection. As to the western
district we ask more particular atten-
ton.
This assembly district comprises the
following towns, and upon the basis of
representation which obtains in the
county, viz: one delegate for every fifty
votes, and for any remainder over
twenty-five cast in the town at the last
Presidential election, each OF such towns
is entitled to the following number of
delegates, tO-wit:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-10-05
A Warming to Hnggers.

There is n lease" on the practice-book
OF a well-known physician of West Oak
laud which ought to constitute q warm
lng, and is, beside, al interesting sur
gical example of :" the discohesive YIELD
ing Of the hexions in old age'-as the
doctor has it.. Some months ago o
young man arrived in Oakland from
Montana. He proceeded at once to the
home OF his parents. The door was
opened by the young mans grandmoth-
er. then nearly 20 years of age, and for
whom he entertained a most commend
able affection. The young man was a
great fayorite with tho old lady when he
was a mere child she had made much of
him, had sympathized in his boyish
troubles, and had furnished him the sin
ews OF war for many a youthful frolic.
He had been a good and grateful grand
son, and naturally, rs they had been
parted for several years, the greeting
was an e~ilusive one. Bat the old lady
failed 20 realize that her favorite was no
longer q budding STRIPPING. The full
grown, bearded man before hor, with
Drawn on his shapely limbs and toll
~toughened muscle on his sinewY arms,
N"S tAAAtf ENNAltlN AttNltA dAu AUIe luhu
q little stronger than the boy whom she
had kissed and sent to bed for the last
time eight years before. And on his
part the young man did not realize that
"gran'ma WAS no longer the vigorous
lady whom he had played with romping-
~ as a merry schoolboy in their far-off
Eastern home.
To his glad, grateful, grand, flial
breast he caught her aged form and
Rugged her tight with the warm impul-
siyeness Of tempestuous youth. Had
she been the usual sweetheart, there
might have been no worse result than a
fractured section of the whalebone stays,
or momentary cessation of not too nee
essary inspiration. As it was, the old
lady said, SIMPLY, "Oh, my /" and sank
back upon his shoulder in n dead
faint" When she recovered from that
she complained Of 3 grievous pain nher
right side. A physician was sent for,
and his examination showed that three
ribs had been dislocated by the "grand
flial hug" and that the situation was a
critical one. owing to the old lady's ex-
tremc age, and to the fact that she was
rather portlv, and bandaging would,
therefore, be deprived Of much of its eff
fect}yenesS. The Oil lady has been IN
der medical treatment ever since, and is
not at present suffering much pain. Her
d~isconso!ate aui u~nreasonablv self-re-
preaching grandson is her most devoted
attendant-SaE Francisco Chronicle.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-10-05
sensnalism.

No n OF the Mohammedan races has
carried out the license given TO sensual
passion by the Koran and the adhering
tradition 10 sucL an extent rs have the
Ottoman Turks, and no race has suffered
so much from that license. The evil
consequences are far-reaching and bale
full in the extreme. Ii is to feed the
Turkish sensuality that the slave-trade
throughout the empire and in the in
terror of Africa is maintained. The
beautiful, fair daughters who are pur-
chased from the Georgians and Circas-
slams also find their way at last to the
harems of Constantinople. Brusa,
Smyrna, Adrianople, Aleppo, Bagdad
and other towns and cities of Asia Minor.
One of the direct results of this sensual
ity is that the Turks have degenerated
physically during the past 200 years.
That the conquerors of Constantnople
were a hardy race, of great physical
strength, there can be no doubt that
the great majority OF modern Turks are
of an effemmate type is equally certain
very many of them are of fine appear
ance, bat they are physically weak,
without elasticity, giving the impression
OF men who have lost their vitality.
The same may be said even more en-
~phatically of the Turkish women they
are small in stature, of a sickly complex
ion, easily fatigued by slight exertion,
and became prematurely old. After the
age of 40 all feminine beauty is gone /;
the eyes have become sunken, tho
checks hollow and the face wrinkled
and there remains no trace Of the activ-
ity and strength often seen in English
women of Go or even 20 years of g
Another immediate result of the prevail
ing s~ensuality is the mental imbecility
of multitudes of the Ottoman Turks;
great multitudes among them are intel
~lectually stupid. Many even of tho
young men have the vacant look which
borders close on the idiotic stare. Severe
mental application is to them almost a
physical impossibility. 1t is well known
that in all branches Of business where
considerable mental activity is required
the Turks employ Christians Il work for
them. This is owing not so much to a
lack of education, or to n general want
of energy, rs, III many cases, to n mental
incapacity which often amounts to real
imbecility. Obvious illustration of the
special topic now discussed is furnished
by the royal family itself. Sultan Abdul
Mejid, Sultan Abdul Azz, and the de-
posed Sultan Murad We're all men OF de-
PRAYED minds, vicious habits, intempcr-
ate and sensual in the extreme, and were
alike devoid OF moral character and men,
tai capaeity. Mental incap9eity, how
ever, from the CAUSES alleged, is not con-
fined by any means to the wealthy and
a~ristocratic classes it is found in all
grades Of society. Tho British quar-
terry ReCieW.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-10-05
Railroad Schools.

There are thlrty-three "railroad
schools" in Russia for the instruction
Of employees, established because not
very long ago il was impossible to get.
Russians with education enough to he
intrusted with the higher places, and
ever at this day one-half Of all the loco
motive engineers in Russia are Germans.
Twenty years ago, OF four road masters
on a line about twenty-five miles long,
two did not know their letters, and had
clerks to write their reports. The
schools turn ont chiefly enginemen and
firemen, road masters and t~elegraphers.
most of them sons OF railroad employees.
The course OF study extends over three
years, with a two years ~"practice
course" in some cases. The schools are
hardly yet ont Of the experimental stage.
One of the oldest, founded In 1874, has
30 far twenty-five graduates in railro5l
service,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-10-05
GRANT COUNTY, WISCONSIN.
STATISTICS.

N~IAIIotIIS-
Population s7.s52
Areain spare miles,..-.......... 1856
State valuation Of property fer 1881, sI1. Ts4, eco
GRANT COUNTY, one OF the oldest and largest
souuties IN the state. Is situated in the extreme
southwest corner-in size being about the sam e
area as the state of Rhodeisland. Itsdrst settle.
ment dates hack to 1897.
Inc county now ranks seventh IN population
ana twelfth IN wealth. The principal products
are Corn. oats. Catilcand Hogs. Of the latter i'm
mense quantities are shipped every year.
GRANT CoUrY, 10 Scttlers still offers advantages
edGaftal II not superior TO any county in the state,
atG Is desttnedtogrow in the future aS in the past.
me eonntyis traversed by three ailroads. one
the county scat.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-10-05

1t appears that six of the over-zealous
friends of Mr.. Reyes met at a school
house, about one and a half miles from
Benton village, (though every Republi-
can caucus ever before held in the town
was held in the VILLAGE, on Monday
evening, September 18th, and elected
seven Reyes delegates to attend the
Western Assembly District Convention;
thus for the first time in the history of
the party in the county, raising the
question that one set of delegates from
the town to the County Convention are
not the proper delegates to attend the
Assembly District Convention. II is
fair TO the better element of the friends
of Mr.. Keyes in this town, to state that
they refused to participate in the secret
and fraudulent aucus Mr.. Beck, per
haps the most active Reyes man in town,
when asked to participate in their secret
caucus to undo what the Republicans Of
the town had, OF Saturday evening,
fairly done, as he testified before the
Committee on Credentials Of the Monroe
Convention, refused to have anything to
do with it; saying that the Keyes men
in the town had been fairly beaten, and
he would not be a party to this attempt
to misrepresent them. The affidavit of
twenty-five of the most prominent Re-
publicans in the town, was read before
the Committee on Credentials of the
Monroe Convention, that they never saw
any notice of this caucus, or knew of its
having been held until the day following.
That it was intended to be and was Sc
a,.ntlv HOLD - axi1an4 g.. A. IL.
where it was held aud the notice given of
Its being held. These notices, three in
number, were put up on Monday, the
same day the secret caucus was held;
one on the door of the school house
where 1t was held, n at q little black
smith shop in the country. used only by
miners for the purpose of sharpening
their mining tools, and entirely unfre-
quented for days, and the other on IA
fence in the country, fifty or sixty rods
from any house. The attendance of
only six individuals at this secret meet
ing, all Reyes men, in this town where
so much interest had been taken in the
matter, and where Mr.. Hazelton's
friends had been so signally triumphant
on the Saturday night before stamps
the scheme as unfair, secret, and a
dulent, and its work should be repu-
dated by every fair-minded man.
This secret meeting in Benton is the
starting point of AL the trouble ut
Monroe, and deserves the careful scru-
tiny of every mar desiring to arrive at
right conclusions as between the res
pective claims of the individuals claim
inc nominations at Monroe
We now come to the proceedings of
the Republican county convention and
the assembly district conventions held
at Darlington on September 18th. On
the 30th OF August, the entire Republi-
can central committee of the western
assembly District of Lafayette county,
made 4 written call for an assembly
district convention of that district, Of
which 1 e following is a copy:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-10-05

Fe>NIYoHa ASo WlNGvILtE; NJ Joe Morrison,
Headquarters at Squire Rooney's, Fcnnimore, where
all orders may be left in his absence.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-10-05
Total in the Convention

Primaris were held in all these towns,
and were unusually largely attended by
the people. The calls for the primaries
in all the towns in the district and in
fact in the county, were simply to %"elect
delegates to the County Convention to
be held at Darlington on September Y,
TO elect delegates TO attend the Monroe
Convention, to be held on September
IA" This was the case in Shullsburg,
where Keyes delegates were elected as
in all the other towns. The following is
the notice given in the town of New
Diggings, at which caucus, as will be
hereafter seen. two sets of delegates,
one favoring Mr.. Hazelton and one Mr..
Reyes, were elected, both claiming to be
regular, and both acting under the same
notice.
"REPUBLICAN CAUCUS
"A Republican Caucus, for the cleo
ton of delegates to the County Conven-
ton, ut Darlington, on Tuesday, the
18th inst, will be held at Leadville, on
Saturday, the 9th inst, at 5 o'clock, p.
NJ" by Order of
Clown COMMITTEE
Under notices in all respects similar to
this. caucuses were held in all the towns
in the Western Assembly District. and
in the towns outside of Benton and New
Diggings, with the following result:
I~lazelton Reyes
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-10-05


AuctiOneer-CHAREs VINCENT, Brit
i-h Hollow Wis Auctioneer and Collector. Bust
ness attended 10 promptly in all parts Of Grant
county.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-10-05

Agent IL. BUGGISS, Nj. Ida Grant Co.
VIE. Notary ruhlie and Couycyauccr. Coliec.
tfou~ Especially.
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Doctor. &C. Y. ABTZ. PotoSi, Wisconsin.
Dalce In building formerly occupied by Geo. Kin
ur1. uui boards at Residence oftiro. Kinney. 5
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-,,.utr hrat 81 esttIo ynnts~tiH- ~ @ tNo-
ylqr sfi Steers. - yelrliU- Calves aH3 COWS.
.a Address. john BENNEB.
s Stifkcr. WIS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-10-05

Agent-JEssE BROOKS, Bloomington,
Wiz. General Collecting Agent and Copvcyaucer
Titles investigated and perfected. Collections
gr-fret.
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The price d THE HERALp when subscription
are not paid until the end Of me year VIII ne
uvariab1v fWO dollars.
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RLOOJIENGyO

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FARMERS IN
srrAScr COMPANY. once at Bloomington Grant
county. WI. John Ryan. President; Thomas
Peudictou. Secretary and Treasurer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-10-05

Attorneys -UAZELrON n PE0ylS.
Boscohol, Wiz, Attorneys and Cosnsclor- at
Law. Practice in I nitcd States and all state
Courts. General collection and Real Estate
Agents. Oace On Wisconsin Aycnnc.
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OFFICE. Corner Of Maple and Madison Streets,
Lancaster, Wis.
II ~FAEQuHAEsoN. Proprietor.
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porsors wishing 10 send THE HERALD away
oro r., formed that The postage on 81 single copy Is
one cent 10 any part ofthe United States, Canada,
or any OF the countries Of Europe,
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rrtereda at the Post Office. in Lancaster. Wis, as
sccond-class matter.
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.UIsEoDA.

Hotel -SMALLEl HOUSE, John s.. Small
iuF. Proprietor. Nu-coda, Wis, near The depot.
EV"rcss office aud Livery stable attached. Meals
az lll hoUrs. Rooms well furnished,
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CASNVTLLEl


Agent j. II. G.. %SNECL0DE, Cassyillc,
Wiz. Notary Pablo. C~ouycymccr ana Fire In
sarance Agent. Collections promptly attcndcdto
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'RErUE IcAN DISTRICT CONVENTION.

A Rel ablican District Convention for
the I'd - Western Assembly District, of
Lafayette County, Wisconsin, viii be
held in the court house, in the city of
Darling ION, IN Tuesday, September
18th, 1882, AT TWO O'CLOCK P. M,
for the purpose of electingt two delegates
to represent said district in the Republi-
can Congressional Convention to be
held at Monroe, on Tuesday, the 18th
day of September, 1882, each town being
entitled to the usual number of dele
gates.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-10-05
ADDRESS.
0fthe Regular Congressional Convention held at
Monroe, Wis, September nth, 18th aud 10th.

To the Republican Voters Of the Third
Congressional District Of Wisconsin:
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derstood nothing could be done before
that hour.
This secret convention was composed
as follows:
Shullsburg's regular delegates u
White Oak Springs, regular delegates ........ /
| kendallr eonlar delrgnins 1
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1882-01-13

SCOT FOR TERTILIzING. The
Gardeners Chronicle contains the fol-
lowing on SCOT as fertilizer: 81 have
long had great faith i'm SCOT as man
ure,and have here covered box placed
near the castle, into which the sweep
puts all the SCOT from the chimneys
and Aues, fl ON time to time; this, in
the course of the year, amounts to an
incredible quantity Of manure, and
very handy and useful we find it. When
a piece of ground is dug we give it a
dressing with SCOT, and then. in gar.
dening phrase, break it down for the
crop; this really means running har-
row or rough rake over 1t, and it mixes
the SCOT with the soil nicely, and the
result is always satisfactory in the
crop. Last year our onion crop showed
unmistakable signs of the maggot; /
Immediately had the piece dressed
with soot Heavy rains set in just
after, and soon the onions were on
their legs and the maggots gone"
OvER-FEEDINa WITH HAY.-Now
that cows are about going into winter
quarters, hint about feeding hay may
not be out Of place. We often hear
dairymen talk as if the height of skill
i'm taking care of cows i'm the winter
was to get all the hay down that 1t Is
possible to cram into them. 81 give
my cows all the good hay | can gel
them to eat" is the bosstful remark
often heard from a spirited and aspir
ing dairyman, though in doing 30 be II
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1882-01-13

THE MILK OF THE Cow TREE
Alexander Humboldt remarks That
among the many very wonderful nat
ural phenomena which he had during
his extensive travels witnessed none
impressed him in more remarkable
degree than the sight of a tree yield
ing an abundant supply of milk, the
properties of which seemed to be the
same as the milk OF "a cow. The adult
Indians would go each morning with
their slaves from the village or station
on the slope OF the mountain chain
bordering on Venezuela, where Hum.
boldt was stopping, to forest where
they grew, and, making some deep in.
cisiOns into the trees, in less than two
hours their vessels, placed under these
incisions, would be full. All present
would then partake of the milk, on
which the slaves grew fat, and guam
tity would be carried home to be given
to the children and to be mixed with
cassava and maize. The tree itself at
tains height of from fOrty-1ve to
sixty feet, has long alternate leaves,
and was described by Linden as Bros
jnauna 9aIactode1adg0n The milk which
flows from any wound made in the
trunk is white and somewhat viscid ;
the flavor is very agreeable. Some time
ago, on the occasion of NJ. Boussing-
ault going to Soath America, he was
requested to take every opportunity
Of investigating this subject. At Mar
acay the tree was first met with, and
for more than a month its excellent
qualities were daily tested in cUnnec.
ton with coffee and chocolate; but
there was no opportunity for chem
ical analysis Nor does such appear
to have occurred till recently, when,
amid the many curious things exhib-
tied by the Venezuelan Government at
the Paris Exhibition, there happened
to be several TASKS of this milk, and
after long period M. Boussingault
has been enabled to complete his analy
sis Of this substance, which is unique
In the vegetable world. In a memoir
laid before the Academy Of France he
gives u detailed analysis, and con-
cludes by stating that this vegetable
milk most certainly approaches In Its
composition to the milk of the COW; it
contains not only fatty matter. but al
so sugar, caseine and phosphates. But
the relative proportion of these sub
stances is greatly in favor Of the veget.
able milk, aud brings it up to the rich
ness of cream, the amount of butter
in cream being about the same proper
tion as the peculiar waxy material
found in the vegetable milk. fact
that will readily account for It's great
nutritive powers. ..a