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

Fanny Ferns once popular books
are now ont of print.
Miss Muloch says that it takes he
roine to be economical.
There are said TO be 1871. 217 illit-
crate voters in the United States.
Montreal policemen are required to
| speak both English and French.
Eighty million dollars is spent annu-
ally for public schools in the United
States.
| Twelve petritied clans were found at
a depth of 250 feet while boring oil at
Purissima, Cal.
| DIR. Koch has received grant of
| 500, Geo for his labors in the cholera
infestes districts.
Rum is made from sweet potatoes in
Louisiana. Seven barrels of potatoes
| yield barrel of rum.
There are $50. 900 miles of telegraph
lines in the world. of which the United
States has AS, $40 miles.
| The value of the butter made in the
State of New York annually is esti-
mated at over SOC, 100000.
| 1t is predicted that the volume of
telegraph business will be doubled
within the next five years.
Maiden is the name of young town
in Montana where all the babies born
thus far, except one. are girls.
Pennsylvania has 3.846 post offices.
more than any other State in the
Union. New York comes next with
3,131.
The Southern Pacific railroad COM
pany has in store in San Francisco,
1000, 600 feet Of lumber and 5000 tons
of coal
The navy Of this great and glorious
country numbers less than 100 vessels.
but we have / 500 officers and ought to
feel safe on that account
William Henry Forman. editor of
the Manhattan Magazine, says that the
cost of producing one number of the
periodical is little more than $1,000
Mr.. Chamberlain thinks the Wiscon-
sin man of the near future is to be al
most German, while the New Eng
lander will be at least half an Irish
man.
There is exhibited at Baltimore a
curious Australian fish called the 90
by. 1t is said to climb out of its aqua
rum with great ease for several hours
upon terra tirma.
T. c Schneider, of Baltimore. has
just finished new micrometer. to
measure the wave length of light. 1t
is said to be the finest instrument of
the kind in the world.
Lorillard, the rich horseman. is re-
ported rs often saying he would rather
win $500 purse with q horse of his
own breeding than the richest stake in
the country with another's.
Carrots, potatoes, parsnips and beets
are heat-producing, while vegeta-
bles that form above ground, such as
asparagus, lettuce. peas, beans. corn,
cabbage and tomatoes, are cooling.
Strychnine and nicotine must be
among the very slow poisons, since an
old fellow in North Carolina. ia years
old, has been Il slave to whisky and to-
bacco for the last nincty-four years.
Sheffield, Ala, was farm six months
49, n ~ uuACftbc OOu8uJ III IOr So, OUt.
sold it in lots for $2l6, 900, and now. as
the Louisville q Nashville Road refuses
to build to it, the place has collapsed.
Paper is made in France from the
hop vine, and it is claimed that the
fiber secured is the best substitute for
rags yet obtained, as it possesses great
length, strength, flexibility and deli
cacy.
There is an old fellow in Hamilton
County, Ohio, who is nearly 102 years
of age, and has been chewing to-
bacco for the last seventy-five years.
Nothing less than strychnine will kill
some men.
Scientific men now have q theory
that animal life originated in the arctic
regions. If it attracts attention and
proyokcs discussion the result will
doubtless be more scientific expeditions
to the land of ice.