Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-11-27

The fancy green and red bird s-eye
leather bags and pocket-books are be-
coming the rage, indicating that evon
the most inharmonious and inartistic,
fashion conceits are acceptable if
Everybody wears them"
The American who took twenty In
dams to Europe for an exhibition tour
has returned with fat pocket-book.
Every venture of this kind should be
ncouraged. We must keep even with
he opera singers in some way.
Discussing the suicide of animals
London paper declares that the dragon
fly ''held securely by the wings curls
its tail upward to its mouth and chews
itself viciously TO pulp" This beats
the performance of the Kilkenny cats.
Many people buy tea from Chinese
dealers on account of it being packed
in quaint little boxes. The package is
no proof that the article is genuine, as
the wrappers are made and the tea
packed by q New York firm on Water
street
In England there are but 227, 900
land owners, while undeI the system of
peasant farming of France there are
1000, 900 landholders in the republic.
A farm of two acres is quite large,
while those of quarter of an acre are
plentiful.
The religious opposition to crema-
ton is REINFORCED by opposition from
the life insurance companies. They
claim that it will interfere with the
successful contest of policies by de-
stroying the evidence as to the cause
of death.
Captain Joe," the local chief of the
Washoe Indians, says there is squaw
living in the outskirts of Carson, New,
who is nearly $50 years old. Her
grandson, at the age of go was one of
General Fremont's guides when he
crossed the plains.
Every Mussulman is entitled to four
wives and no more. The Sultan is the
only man who is not bound by this
rule Every year on his birthday he is
presented with q new wife-a sort of
annual reminder, as it were, of the
vanity of the position.
The inventor of an electric apparatus
for deaf people claims that no ear is so
dead that it cannot be made to hear,
and that in many cases the apparatus
will cure deafness. 1t may be conceal
ed in cane, umbrella handle, fan or
any such article of convenience.
OFF the Gulf coast of Texas is the
Padre Island, containing $50, 900 acres
and owned by no man knows whom.
There are scores of claimants to the
.41a - al,
duced eredulous Englishmen to sink
800 600 in ideal schemes of improve
ment.
A woman doctor in Boston achieved
notoriety by making fatal blunder.
She prepared mixture containing
strychnine for one of her patients, and
in the directions for a dose on the label
she wrote ''spoonfuls" instead of
drops" In about an hour the patient
was dead.
The exports of wheat from all Ameri-
can ports for Sept. l, 1888, to Aug. 4,
1884, were 97.004000 bushels. as
against 120, 1888, 600 bushels for the cor
responding period of 1882 SO. This
wheat exports, and furnishes one good
explanation of the present low values.
Long articles have been written
about the cholera bacillus, but med
ical writer says our real knowledge of
it may be summoned up by saying that
it is shaped like comma, that 40, 600
TO $4,000 of them placed lengthwise
would make an inch. that it infests
| impure drinking water. favors the hui
man intestines as an abode. and il sun-
posed to cause cholera.
The beautiful Japanese lacquer, sc
appreciated by European amateurs. is
growing scarce and much more costly.
This is due to the abolition of the old
laws protecting the lacquer tree, and
which in ancient times required each
family. according 10 rank. to rear a
certain number of trees. Those be-
longing to the upper classes were bound
TO cultivate 100 trees. the middle class
es seventy, and the lower classes forty
trees.