Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-10-01
GLEANINGS.

VNV,UOV Inc Teht sum Is pTODdDly
multiplied by about four.
1t is in Sweden as elsewhere; the
record of the past year showing more
works of fiction published than of any
other class.
A Philadelphia horseman says Mr..
Bonner is crank on the subject of
horse-shoeing, and that he has known
him to shoe Maud s. twice in one day
and four times during the week.
A Georgia dog chews gum. When
tired of chewing it will take the gum
out a. its mouth and stick it tightly on
the top of its nose with its foot. to keep
from losing it. Georgia is. bound to
keep before the country.
OF all the Lompoc tribe of Indians.
of whom fifty years ago there were
some 1000 in Santa Barbara County,
California, there is but one survivor,
and he is old and feeble, existing upon
charity in the city of Santa Barbara.
One of the celebrated protest against
J selling slaves came from DR.. Gordon,
Of Massachusetts, in 1776. IF God,n
he says, "hath made of one blood all
races of men | can see no reason why
black rather than white man should
be a slave.
When Historian Bancroft was stu
dent in Germany sixty years ago, he
says that he was regarded by the ma
tiyes with as much curiosity as a North
American aborigine would have been.
Perhaps young Mr. Bancroft refused
to drink beer.
Our national air of Yankee Doodle,
says Webster, was composed by Brit
ish officers, in ridicule of American
troops. Yet ere long the last of the
British army laid down its arms at
Yorktown while this same air was
played in tho ears of officers and men.
There is hardly first-class machin-
list, civil engineer, carpenter, draughts-
man, blacksmith, tanner, or any 9TH
er kind of skilled workman or artificer
within radius of 100 miles of where
we are now writing. This" walls the
Warrenton, n. c., Gazette, fought
not to be-"
1t is said that there are more female
physicians practicing in Philadelphia
than in any other city of the United
medical instruction of women is here,
and yet this is the only city whose
medical society will not admit them as
members. Philadelphia Cal.
During the last hundred years the
English race has multiplied Iyefold,
the Russian fourfold, the German two
and-a-half fold, and the other Euro
peasl races i'll smaller proportion,
Italy having nearly doubled, and
France and Spain having added only
about so per cent to their population
The tcnets of the Mehdi's religion
are very strict. If married man is
guilty of immortality he is put up to
his waist in the sand and stoned to
death. If he steals his hand is cut off.
Singing and lasciviouS dancing, such
rs used to be in Khartoum, are put a
stop to. Every man must pray five
times day.
Suit for $500 damages has been
brought against Wisconsin bee
keeper by a sheep farmer, who claims
| that his animals are so ANNOYED when
running at pasture by the bees as to
injure his flock of thoroughbreds to
the extent of the above amount. Much
interest is manifested in the result of
the suit among bcekeepers.
The will of the late Joseph w. Tor
rey, of Boston, contains the following
peculiar provision Il desire that none
of my family shall make any parade
| over my funeral or waste any money
| in the purchase of mourning apparel,
| fully believing, from observation, that
widows weeds are too frequently q
badge of by pocrasy, and the more con-
| spicuous the hablimcnts of woe the
more marked the insincerity."
According to celebrated French
chemist, lead should not be used for
water pipes, cisterns or kitchen uten-
sis, as it has been demonstrated that
| leaden pipes or vessels not only take
up particles of lead through mechani.
cal action due to friction, but attack
the metal because of the affinity oil
several of their constituents, the re.
suit being generally lead carbonate.
Rattlesnakes are not much to bt
feared, because they cannot attack un
til they have coiled themselves up, and
can then spring scarcely one-half their
length. Besides, they invariably give
timely warning by their rattles. They
very seldom pursue person and as
seldom run away. Rattlesnakes,
screech owls and prairie dogs live to.
gether in peace, and might also be
said to be chums.
There are several accounts of the
origin of the nane Emerald Isle'' foi
Ireland. but that which seems to have
the weight of evidence on its side is
the claim on behalf of Mr.. William
brennan, one of the ablest writers
among the United Irishmen. He was
born in 1854 and died in 1920. He was
the author of several poems. including
that under the title of Erin, in which
he uses the title referred to.
About four years ago Mr.. Gould, Of
| Placer, Cal, received from the Agri.
cultural Department package OF
japanese tea seed. He planted and
carefully cultivated it, and now at his
ranch can be seen what is curiosity
In this country-a large plat OF tea
plants. They have done remarkably
well. and he has raised quite guam
tity of superior tea. The fine growth
and excellent quality of this tea looks
as if its culture might be engaged in as
profitable business.
The Maine bird-catchers, who drive
thriving trade in native song-birds,
use cage divided into four compart.
ments. In one is captive, which,
when taken into the fields, utters a
call to his wild brethren, one of whom
is very likely, in flying about the cage,
to enter one of the open doors and sci
free a spring that shuts the door, The
favorite bird is the red linnet, or cred
froll, which is hardy, easily content
ed. and sweet singer; it mates with
the canary, and an excellent cross
breed is the result.
Judge Emory Speer, whose appoint
ment by President Arthur TO Federal
Judgeship in Georgia reused much To-
cal resentment. has had case before
him that would round off chapter in
novel. One Dick Morris was con-
yicted before him of 'moonshining, ="
and Speer gave him one year at hard
labor and $1,000 fine. Morris and
Speer were old college classmates, and
the former, after his return to his cell,
moralized upon the fate that had order
ed so wide divergence in their ways.
Springfield Republican.
The making of cheese is a very inn
portant occupation in Switzerland,
where the riches of a man are estimat-
cd according to the number of cheese
he possesses. A strange custom in the