Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-09-17
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this country.
Out of the word ''incomprehensibil
ity," Connecticut lady made 2,248 diff
feront words.
A walking-stick concealing match
box and cigarette holder is late
English device.
A statue of Garfield, to be set up in
San Francisco, has Just been east at
Nuremberg. Germany.
The ties and wood fuel used by the
railroads of the United States cost an
nually about S25, 0,000.
A freak of nature owned by farmer
at Derry, N. H., is a calf with two
noses, two tongues. and three eyes.
The royalty received by the inventor
of barbs on fence wire is said to be
$40, 600 month, or 1920, 900 year.
Drunkenness is greatly on the in
crease in Mexico, according to a state
ment in the 1tco Republics of that city.
A Manitoba farmer who tills $4,000
acres of land communicates with his
employees by the use of the telephone.
From an estimate made by Miss Kate
Field, it appears that Brigham Young
has now over 1900 living descendants.
Mrs. George II. Pendleton was Alio
Key, daughter of Francis Scott Key
who wrote the "Star Spangled Ban
ner."
In New York jewelry store window
is exhibited large knot, cut from
tree, which is the exact counterpart OF
a human ear.
The municipal schools of Moscow, it
is said, will accommodate only 1000
pupils, although there are in the city
100000 children of school age.
What is said to be the largest dia-
mond in the world is about to be cut in
Amsterdam. 1t was recently found in
South Africa, and weighs AIS carats.
A room at Harvard is decorated with
the handkerchiefs snatched by the Har-
ward boys in the Blaine torchlight pro-
cessions from the hands of the girls on
the sidewalks.
Yale, Harvard and Columbia col
leges are the most expensive in this
country. The minimum expenses are
from $400 TO $500, while the maximum
are put at $1,000.
Hop vines, usually a waste product
in this country, are said to have proved
not only good stock for fine paper, but
the best substitute yet obtained for
rags in French paper-mills.
A late device for checking the collec-
tons of street-car conductors is a pho
tographic apparatus that at intervals
photographs the interior of the car and
its passengers. Boston Post.
The oldest ex-Congressman in the
United States has been found in the
person of David Fisher, of Columbus,
Ohio. He is in the ninety-first year of
his age, and is full of "reminiscences.
A down-East veteran named John
son undertook to collect some pension
arrears lately. and was amazed to find
that his widow" had got ahead of him
on two occasions, as far back as 1868
and 1867.
A fountain is to be erected in Back
Bay Park, Boston. to commemorate
the early visit of the Norsemen to this
country. 1t will cost $4,000, and will
be ornamented with Norsemen, galleys
and bas-reliefs.
Western lumbermen are poking fun
at Tom Nast's picture in Harper's,
where a single span of horses are rep
resented as drawing a sled loaded with
fifteen large logs-a quite impossible
and improbable feat.
A new building, 130x15O, has Just
been completed for the use of the Sitka,
Alaska, public school. There are now
forty boys and sixty girls in the school,
the full quota provided for by the Sec
rotary of the Interior.
There were few clocks owned by
families in portions of Connecticut a
half century ago, says an old Litchfield
resident, and it was very common
thing for families to pay 25 cents
month for the use of their stoves.
The Office of the London Times has
been so altered and rebuilt that it is
unacceptable by any one who saw it
few years ago. The circulation is
not thought to be now over $4,000, but
the advertisements show no decline.
In Japan there are seventy-eight
normal schools and 29.254 grammar,
intermediate and high schools, with an
attendance of 3,0l7, 0S8 pupils. Many
a nation that calls itself more civilized
cannot make as good showing as this
Most of the private structures in Rus
STA are built of wood. and it is said
there are always twenty fires, at least,
in different parts of the empire. The
bulk of these wooden buildings, ac-
cording to recent estimate, burn down
every seven or eight years.
Near Cairo, ILL.,, resides q man who
claims to have discovered pure paint in
large quantities on his farm. 1t is of
several different colors-red, white,
blue and yellow-and requires no pre-
pairing but to mix with oil, after which
it is ready for use."
Recently, IN Tallahassee, a couple
were married who had only been per-
sonally acquainted for the brief period
of ten minutes. The courtship had
been carried on through the aid of the
mails. The groom, widower, re-
sides in Florida, while the bride halls
from Texas.
children of school age are remarkably
scarce, according to the following item
from Boston journal: In Warner
there is one school district which con-
tains but one pupil; four districts have
but two pupils each, and two have only
six between them.
The sign of Libby prison is in the
possession of Edward j. Bartlett, of
Concord, Mass. He took it from its
place on the building on the morning
OF the first occupation of Richmond by
the Union troops. The sign is small
one, made of tin, and bears simply the
words, Libby g. Co."
A four-year-old boy fell distance of
eighteen feet, near Eugene, Ore, late
ly, and, alighting on his head, was
thought to have been killed. The little
boy was prepared for the grave, but
symptoms of life were apparent. Res
torative treatment was applied, and at
last accounts the little fellow was fully
recovering.
The wood of the 'jarrah" tree, an
Australian product, growing principal
" in the western section, is stated to
be about the next thing to everlasting.
1t appears to defy all ordinary forms OF
decay. under the most trying circum-
stances; is left alone by the white ants,
and ships built of it do not require to
be coppered.
Bookkcepers will feel under obliga-
tons to the ingenious American who
has invented for them "a chair running
on kind of miniature railway, in such