Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-05-28
GLEANINGS.
Henry Ward Beecher hates dogs and


times their own weight each day.
chartered oppressor' is new
Western name for blasted monopoly. y
1t is said that Japanese women have
never seen and do not know the use of
pins.
Notwithstanding all the talk. Chinese
lepers are as rare as hens teeth in San
Francisco.
There are now nearly seven million
children in the United States who do
not know their letters.
Tennessee has great natural resourc-
es, including 10000 square miles of
timber as yet untouched
Nine. Ristori wants to buy a Boston
residence. She has one in London, one
in Paris, and one in Rome.
1t is estimated that two large parties
given recently in Boston were produc-
tive of distributing 100000 among
artisans and others.
Small tobacco pipes are frequently
unearthed in Ireland, and are supposed
to ante-date the introduction of tobacco
in Europe by Raleigh.
Gainesville, Ga, claims the honor of
having more boys between the age of
ten and fifteen years than any other
town of its size in the world.
An Andersonville, Ca, physician
boasts of having watch 213 years old
and clock over $50 years old, both
running and keeping good time.
Hira Bates and wife, now residing at
South Hanover, Mass, were both born
on the same day. August 5, 1896, and
within few hours of each other.
The journal of Health says the ill
health of school children is more large
ly due to lack of proper care at home
than to inadequate hygienic provisions
in the school-rooms.
Cincinnati has under discussion the
building of an elevated belt railroad
around the city, the length of which
will be seventeen miles and the esti-
mated cost $5,000,000.
Under the cellar of famous inn at
Bath, England, called the Sedan Chair,
which was lately demolished, the work
men discovered fine mosaic pavement
belonging to Roman times.
The tonnage of the effective armored
fleets of the leading naval powers of
Europe is as follows: England, 329, $50
tons; France, POI, 7S9; Germany, 74,O07
tons; Austria, 3,110; Russia, S3,621,
and Italy, 59,905
Since the birth of the first Prince of
Wales in 1884, more than six centuries
ago, the title has been borne by seven
teen persons, but the present possessor
of it is the only one who has lived to
see son attain his majority.
A Montana man has introduced in the
Territorial Legislature bill to regu-
late inheritances, which provides that
no person shall be allowed by will, be-
quest, or inheritance as heir to any es-
tate, money, or property, exceeding the
value of Sl,000,000.
Gone to join William Tells apple:
Another famous legend has struck q
snag 1t is now asserted that when
Rome burned fiddles had not been in
vented and consequently Nero could
not have INDUCED in the musical pas
time attributed to him.
The latest novelty is ginger ice-
cream, in which the heat of the ginger
counteracts the chill of the cream, and
the frigidity of the cream nullifies the
fire of the ginger, producing a happy
medium most gratifying to the epicur-
can palate. -Ne0toa On J.) Register.
Ministers need no longer preach
against roller-skating. The rink has
had its day, and its new rival, the
toboggan slide, viii ruin the roller
skate trade. Tobogganing is the sport
of the future, and it will be useless for
any man to try to resist it.-N. Y.
Times.
The cocoanut will not flourish away
from the seashore, and no magnet is
truer to the pole than is the root of the
cocoanut tree to the ocean, for when
the roots break through its husks it
points directly toward the sea, no mat
ter in what position the nut is placed in
the ground.
The venerable Professor Leopold Won
Ranke is great favorite in Berlin So
ciety. His conversation is brilliant and
epigrammatic, and he is always good
natured. In religion he is an ultra
orthodox Lutheran, in politics con-
sentative Royalist, and in all things an
intense Prussian.
The Washington monument has had
strange visitors since its erection. A
gaunt and hungry cat climbed to the
top; five rats have made the ascent to
get the crumbs from the workingmen's
lunches; wasps build their nests and
pigeons roost at night 494 feet above
the habitation of man.
The Connecticut legislature has pass
ed bill offering 10 cents to any per-
son planting, protectingand cultivating
elm, maple, tulip, ash, Eastwood, oak,
black walnut, hickory, apple, pear or
cherry trees, not more than sixty feet
apart, for three years, along any pub
lie highway of the State.
The temperature of the mines on the
Comstock vein is exceedingly high. At
depths of / 800 feet and 1000 feet the
thermometer placed in fresh-drill-
ed hole will show 1870 d,.rrees. Very
large bodies of water lave run for
years at $50 degrees, and mailer bod
les at 10 degrees. The temperature
is kept down to 10 deg e.; by forcing
in fresh air cooled over ice
John c. Emo h:4d a ~ :cr uncom-
Portable time when he wen. 20 the Que
bee opera house tine o.hrr night to
hear the "Chin cs OF Normandy"
When the old miscr, Gas al. gloating
over his gold, repeated 4 az: There
are no defaulting ban presidents
| here" all eyes were irs.itrtiyely turn
ed toward Emo He III he'd up to the
roots of his hair and did 4at !ook at his
ease again until the cGrt;,il ;ell for the
| last time.
There are great mass handsome
men in Texas. The free. oi4:-door life,
with much Notwithstanding, gives
them good forms, clear eyes and COM
plexions. There is great Ical of ma
tive intelligence and ec.. thinking.
The women among the ~ -lo.do class
es appear to live mostly Indoors. Even
in cities very few are seen on the street
or in the stores. They are aot rs often
rosy-cheeked as the mon, but much
oftener powdered.
The city of Charleston, ii lis corpor-
ate capacity, is about 10 tisdertake the
driving of the deepest WEI III lhc world.
1t will be driven in the m;a part of the
city, and, as it is eXnecic 10 furnish
4,0OO,0 900 gallons o. water -er day, it is
calculated, with the tsu sIlHi ar wells
already down, TO furnish 4 sufficient
supply of water for the w,tolc city for
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