Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-04-09
GLEANINGS.
David Davis despises roIling-skating.

Dafiu DAVIS desplses rolling skating.
George Eliot's biography has already
brought in to its publisher $4,000.
The Rothschilds never employ a man
who has the reputation for ill-luck.
The desire for Egyptian curiosities
has assumed the proportions of craze
in London.
Miss Lulu Hurst has made $50, 900
within a year out of her wonderful
magnetism. .
Brooklyn is said to contain more
gambling houses than any other city in
the country.
The city Of Berlin budget will this
year cover Sl5, 100000 1t is the high
est on record.
The twenty-ffth child has been born
70 a man and wife in Dillon township,
Tazewcll county, III.
Gen. Phil Sheridan has d recipe for
curing cold. 1t is Stay at home and
sit in front of the fire. ~
A mule owned by farmer in Terrell
County, Ca, has been actively at work
for the past thirty-four years.
Silver and gold hoop bracelets are
again worn outside the glove. Three
or four are often worn on one arm.
Ii was discovered after his death that
Signor Brignoli had barely enough
money to buy the necessities of the sick
ROOM
The new treasurer of Habersham
County, Georgia, has given his bond
Tor $4,000. There is just $3.50 in the
treasury.
Cameron, the correspondent who was
killed in the Soudan, was unmarried,
but his aged mother was dependent up
on him for support. The London Stan
dard, for which he was working, has
granted her handsome life pension.
One of the funny bills in the Calfor-
MIA Assembly is one which gives to any
young man under twenty-one years of
age, who learns trade by serving an
apprenticeship for three years and is
moral young man, $3.50 out of the State
Treasury.
The latest thing in stockings does
away with garters or supporters from
above. The hosiery is kept in its place
by lacing from under the knee to the
upper bulge of the calf. Thus the cir
culation of the blood in the limbs is not
impaired.
The New York World publishes the
portrait of the handsomest woman in
New Jersey, whereupon the Buffalo
Express cruelty comments: 1T repre-
sents a person who is nearly up to the
average standard of feminine beauty as
recognized in the United States. y
An eccentric individual residing in
Detroit keeps his face clean shaven and
his hair clipped close by smuggling, and
his cheeks, chin and upper lips are
marked with many scars where they
have been scared by the red-hot plate
or steel with which he plays the bar
Der.
During q lifetime Of fifty years man
on the average spends 5000 DAYS in
sleeping and the same amount in work
ing; 1900 days in eating, 800 in walk
ing, is i'll 500 days, and the remainder
of the half century-ne nearly nine years
lis frittered away in recreation and
amusement.
,
found in the third volume of Mr.. Cross
biography, she refers to remark which
Prof Huxley made on those good peo-
pie of London who have pursued him
with false witness in their anti-viyisec-
ton zeal. He declares himself to be
especially vexed with the ''profiigate
lying of yirtuous women
The oldest apple trees West of the
Missouri River are said to be those on
the Alpowaix. Some of them are over
a foot in diameter. The seeds were
brought over by Rev. Mr.. Spaulding,
the missionary who was stationed at
Lapwai many years ago, and father of
Mrs. Eliza Warren, the first white child
born on the Pacific slope.
BY the recent decision of Maine
Judge all ponds in that State contain
ing more than ten acres are public
ponds. and the right to cut ice upon
them free TO all. In this particular the
owners of the shores have no greater
rights than other persons who can
reach the ponds without trespassing
upon the land of others.
London women and girls who make
up fashionable society have entirely
abandoned the bang and all methods
of wearing the hair down ON the fore
head. They brush their hair straight
back, showing the whole of the fore
head and temples, knot it carelessly on
the very top of the head, and wear it
without the faintest suspicion of curl
or crimp.
The follow who threatened to make
up faces at the other fellows sister had
better beware if the bill defining as
saults is passed by the Legislature. 1t
provides that whoever annoys another
by looks or gestures is guilty Of assault.
1t is a question whether, under such a
law, the carryingof an extremely home
ly countenance wouldn' & be actionable.
-Be5aSt (Me.) Age.
Superintendent Bennett, of Piqua,
Ohio, has been investigating the extent
to which tobacco is used by boys in city
schools. He finds that in two grades
of Is boys from twelve to fifteen years
old, 81 habitually smoked cigarettes,
and only could say they never had
smoked. OF 90 boys from ten to twelve
there were 6S smokers, and in the A
c class many had begun the practice.
Prof. E. C. Marshall says: | have
had occasion lately to read up in French
everything that | could find on the sub
iect of bridges. | discover that the
French have more suspension bridges
than any nation on the globe. Their
engineers are putting up suspension
bridges everywhere, and at least one of
the structures approximates to the size
of the Brooklyn bridge. SO numerous
are such bridges in France that it is
impossible to secure an accurate list of
them on this side Of the water.
A company has been organized to
build an artificial lake at Mortified,
Staten Island, to cover 1000 acres of
land and hold 100000 gallons of wa
ter. Hundreds of brooks and springs
will empty into the lake, and it viii
have ten miles of woodland for wa
ter she'd The dam will be 4,400 feet
long and twelve feet high. 1t is pro-
posed to convey drinking water to New
Jersey by means of iron aqueducts laid
across Staten Island Sound. NeU York