Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-30
GLEANINGS.
This seasons orange crop in Florida
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ADSOOO III hNSSld.
Penjdeh is accurately written and
pronounced Punjdeh, and means "five
villages"
OF the works called for in the great
library of the British Museum, less than
10 per cent are novels.
The foreman of the Ann Arbor
Courier office has just completed his
first half century at the case.
The largest vineyard in the world is
in California, and contains between
5000, 900 and 1000, 900 vines.
The southern part of Africa has TO-
600 tame ostriches, producing $1,000
600 worth of feathers annually.
The Black Hills tin region is found
to be much larger than was supposed.
New locations are constantly opened.
Protracted drought and extensive ir-
rigation have reduced Tulare Lake, in
California, from a length of forty-two
miles and breadth of twenty-five miles
to length of twenty-five and width
of fourteen miles.
Prof. Doremus, it is said, makes
| S25, 900 year from chemical analyses
of patent medicines and other similar
articles. He does all his work with
| his left hand, his right arm having
been amputated in youth.
The only goose ranch--a farm de-
voted to the breeding and care of
geese--in this country is located on
the eastern shore of Virginia, and
covers nearly 5000 acres. It's flocks
number in the neighborhood of 5000
| birds.
1t is alleged that Miss Cleveland
speaks four languages huently. Her
| brother, the President. however, seems
to be proficient in holding his tongue
in one, his native English. The latter
must be regarded the superior accom-
plishment in these days.
DR.. Heber Newton says, Taking
the average human life, he would be a
bold man who, rightly weighing the
manifold daily blessings which come
like the sunshine and the dew, would
venture to pronounce the lot of man
rather OF pain than of pleasure.
So acute is the sleeps sense of hear
ing, it is said, that it can distinguish
the cry of her own lamb among a
thousand others, all bleating at the
same time; and the lamb, too, is able
to recognize its mothers voice, even
though it be in the midst of large
| flock.
Thirty-onc years ago gypsy fortune
teller told young woman in Rock
land, n. T., that she would be married
within year, and before the thirtieth
year of her marriage would have four
teen children, three of whom would die
before the birth of the fourteenth. The
prophecy has been fulfilled to the letter.
The length of the wire used in the
construction of the submarine cable,
now in operation, is computed to be
ten times the distance from the earth
to the moon. The total length of the
| cables now used is 6S, 600 miles, each
cable containing an average of forty
strands of wire, and making over
$500, 600 miles.
A serious epidemic of whooping
| cough has run through the islands of
the FIJI group. The malady has car
ried off all the very young native
| children, and left decrease in the
population of 5000. A few years ago
| $4,000 persons in Fiji died from an
| epidemic of measles. Since then the
| local government have done much to
instruct the people in the laws of
health.
The Hon. Mildred Coleridge (daugh-
ter of Lord Coleridge) requests Mr..
Yates to contradict in the World Lion
dom the report that she and Mr.
Adams. yariously known as Charles
Warren Adams and Frank Mantell
Adams, have been married. The re-
port is false. when my marriage
does take place" she says, ''it will be
publicly announced in the ordinary
manner"
1t is reported that Richard Grid, of
San Bernardino county, proposes to
donate the Chico Ranch to the State,
and erect thereon State Industrial
| School at his own expense. The ranch
| embraces 81 900 acres, and has upon ii
10000 cattle and 500 mules and horses
| The gift, if made, will reach the muni-
ilcent value of nearly $1,000, 0o0.-
Visalia (Cdi) Times.
1t is not generally known that YER
mont has gold mine. 1t is called the
Crooks" and is located at Plymouth.
From an annual report it appears that
the mine produced from September.
1888, to January, 1885, sos, 070 in
gold, and paid four dividends aggre-
| eating $4,000, the yield varying be-
tween 1888 and 5000, while the
cost declined SOL to 1920 per ton
for mining and milling.
In poor family of Goffstown, n. H.,
the mother recently died. When the
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| of his office the father was asked the
name of his wife. The only reply
came, Mother" No other name
could be rccollectcd. The daughters
were called in and the same answer
was received. They had never known
their parent by any other name than
Mother" This is literal fact, ac-
cording to the Nashua Telegraph.
81 passed through funny town the
other day. said gentleman yester-
day, who is Just home from the South.
at was place called Fulton, on the
Illinois Central Railroad, and is built
right over the dividing line between
Kentucky and Tennessee. The main
street of the town is the dividing line.
On the Kentucky side of the street
local option is in strict enforcement,
but you may cross over to the Tennes-
see side and find dozen saloons in
full blast "-LouiSriHe Commercial
A st. Louis bachelor sat down to a
table in his room to write a letter,
when an immense black spider adj
vanced toward him upon the table. He
took 4 straw from a broom and drew
it gently over the spiders back and
legs for ten minutes, when it went
away. The next evening the spider re-
appeared and went through the same
antics with the broom straw, to his
evident pleasure. This was kept up
all the winter, the big spider coming
out regularly every night for a frolic
with the broom straw.
A Baltimore gentleman owned
Skye terrier which recently proved that
it could feel ashamed of dishonest
act. At the time in question the gem
tleman was seated at his table. The
little Skye saw outlet near the edge
of the board, and yielded to the temp
tation TO steal the meat The outlet
was slyly seized and taken under the
sofa. The gentleman pretended not to
see the act of theft. But the con-
science of the little terrier soon got the
better of its hunger. 1t brought the
outlet back, laid it at the feet of its
master, hung its head in shame and
skunk away.