Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-08-27
GIFANINGS.


by way OF islands south Of Siberia.
An effort is being made TO cultivate
the nettle. with the object Of obtaining
from it a material suitable for weaving.
The expenses at Yassar College run
from $500 TO $1,000 Year. The girls
have no football teams or rowing
crews to support.
An athlete advises shareholders not
to hurry nor to spring from stair to
stair. They should step firmly, leisure
~ and keep erect.
The largest prune orchard in the
world contains 10000 trees. 1t is stu
atcd one mile from Saratoga, Cal, and
was recently sold for $4,000.
San Francisco has a citizen, the own
er of considerable real estate, from
which he derives large income, who
peddles fruit about the streets.
Dakota is also proud of millionaire
Chinaman, who resides at Rockford.
He owns mines, United States bonds,
horses and carriage and warehouse.
A long haired elephant, larger and
more perfect than any specimen hither-
to secured, is being extricated from the
ice at the mouth of the Lena Delta.
A book is said to be in process of
publication entitled ''The First Fami-
lies of the United States" wealth be-
ing the determining consideration.
1t is said that of the 1900 boats that
were engaged in salmon fishing in the
Sacramento river last year not more
than 100 will make their appearance
this season.
Floating sawmills are common on
the lower Mississippi. They pick up
the drifting logs, turn them into lum-
Der and sell the product to the planters
along the shore.
There is no such officer as Lieuten-
ant-Governor in the States of Mary
land Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware,
Georgia, Maine, New Hampshire, New
Jersey, Oregon, and West Virginia.
Victor Hugo, although over so years
of age. is said to have the teeth of a
wolf and the stomach of a lion.' He
has as many hairs on his head as when
he was one and twenty, only they are
white.
The Colosseum at Rome had seat
ing capacity of over $1,000. The build
ing having the greatest seating capac-
ity in the United States is Madison
Square Garden. 1t has accommoda-
tons for SAB persons.
The railways in England are severely
affected by the general depression.
People don't travel, because they can't
afford it. First class passengers ride
third, and third class passengers hide
under the seats and dodge the ticket
collectors.
The charcoal burners of New Jersey
inhabit long strip of wooded hills
running parallel to the coast for miles.
1t is said they put their dead in the
coal pits and cremate them, and the
pits also give evidence of having receiy-
ed living victims.
No machine of travel that man ever
invented can equal the speed of wild
fowl. The canvas-back duck flies two
miles minute. The broad bill goose
slightly slower. Teal can fly at the
rate of 100 miles an hour, the wild
goose about ninety.
The dude collar, the tall, stiff choker,
resembling 4 wristband, which has
been so much caricatured, has had its
day. Though not entirely extinct, it
only flouriShes as last relic around
the neck of few superannuated sports
and second-class Washers.
A fire in an Iowa church was extin-
guished in novel manner by quick
witted druggist. The fire was raging
in the floor under the joists, and no
water was at hand. He quickly mixed
up a pailful OF common soda in lot of
suIphuric acid and poured it down.
Sufficient gas was generated to imme-
diately eXtinguish the flames.
Luminous trees are reported to be
growing in a valley near Tuscarora,
New. At certain seasons the foliage
gives out sufficient light to enable any
one near at hand to read small print,
while the luminous general effect may
be perceived some miles distant. The
phenomenon is attributed to parasites.
The word Venzuela means Little
Venice. The explorers of old. like
tourists of modern times, were given to
tracing resemblanees in America to
what they were familiar with in Eu-
rope, and they imagined that the huts
of Maracaibo, rising ON piles above the
water, looked liked the city of canals
and gondolas.
The Medical Times thinks there is
something anomalous in an age which
is at one time charged with cultivating
muscle at the expense of mind, and at
another with forcing the brains and
neglecting the bodies OF the rising gem
Grafton. A judieious care of both
brain and muscle would be common
sense solution of the difficulty.
A French statistician has discovered
that up to the present 2,540 Emperors
and Kings have governed g. nations.
Out OF this number 800 have been driv-
en- from their thrones, Ga have abdi-
Gated, "a have committed suicide, II
have become insane, 100 fell in battle,
l23 were captured, % died martyrs, Isl
have been assassinated, and 1C8 have
been condemned to death and execu-
ted according to law.
Mrs. Mary Breneman, of LAFAYETTE,
Ind, claims to be the oldest human be-
lug in the land. According to her ac-
count and that of her relatives, she
was born at Lewiston, Del, on the 18th
of March, 1873. In 1901 she and her
first husband, William Golfer, moved
to Circleville, Ohio. making the Jour-
ney in wagon. Her youngest son re-
sides at Rensselaer,, in Jasper County,
Ind, and is eighty-one years of age.
The average public speaker saws in
an hour wlIat, if printed. would fill fif-
teen octave pages. If the ordinary
conversation of one day of persons in
private life be estimated equivalent to
four hours consecutive speaking, a
man says in one week what, if printed,
would be an octave volume Of 800
pages. In one year he speaks fifty
two such volumes, and in thirty wears
he would have an extensive library of
1,500 volumes.
Mr.. Pullman has rival in Russia,
where the employees of the large engin-
eering works belonging to the firm of
Strive & Co. have recently been plant
ed in complete settlement. The
workmen, of whom there are between
$500 and 1000 are all lodged in small
cottages, most of which are made to
accommodate two families only, while
the public institutions of the colony in
clude refractory, laundry, a hospit-
al, benefit society, q technical school,
and cooperative store.
Gordon could not help taking a
quantity humorous view of things, even
in the dark days of Khartoum. When
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