Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-04-02
GLEANINGs.

Dynamite has thirteen times the force
OF gunpowder.
In the spermaceti whale the teeth are
fixed to the gum.
Esquimaux dogs will draw asledoe .
distance of sixty miles day.
In Southern California the nome-
granate ilourishes as it does in italy or
in the Holy Land.
George Hurst. proprietor OF the San
Francisco Eranliiier, owns As. 600 acres
of land in California
In Ihibet one woman may have ty.,.
three, or even four husbands, but never
more than the last number
Novels constitute nine-tenths of the
books read in England, and nineteen
twentieths OF the books read in the
whole world.
1t was formerly the prevailing opin-
ION that the bodies of persons killed by
lightning did not decompose and be-
come corrupt.
A French scientist has written a
pamphlet which proves theoretically
that the future man will have large
brain, but no natural teeth.
At the University of Virginia there
is no prescribed course Of study. no
entrance examination. no vacation. ex-
| cept the summer one, and but six holt
days.
The CHILEAN miner is considered the
strongest man in the world, and he
hyes principally on the lentil, the
cheapest and most nutritious food
known for its weight.
Over 800 styles of stoves are now in
actual use, and the number is constant
" increasing. There are nearly 100
kinds of fireplace heaters. differing
from one another mainly as regards the
/ CRATE.
The late Mark Pattison, speaking of
the deslrability of condcnsing as much
as possible in writing, once said: 81
think 1t must have been the scanty sup-
| ply OF paper which made the classics
what they are.
A 2O0-acre park, midway between
Minneapolis and St Paul. now in pro-
cess OF construction, will be the only
neutgal ground between those two
cities, which were fifteen miles apart
ten years ago.
| Ire musk beetle, according to an
English observer, has the power of
emitting or suppressing its odor at
pleasure, but when dying the scent Is
continuous. and after death more pow
erful than at any time during life.
The discovery has been made in Lon
don that snails, when bruised in milk
and boiled, are used in the manufacture
| of cream. A milkman who has retired
from the business pronounces them to
be the most successful imitation SHOWN.
A Beren County N. j., farmer has in
his possession between $500 and 5000
in Continental money, which he found.
1t is supposed that the father OF the
| present owner received the money from
| Washington's army for supplies when
it passed through the Saddle River Val
| ley.
The so-called flying-tish, contrary to
the general opinion, are not capable of
| flying, and the impulse to which they
owe their long shooting passage
through the air is delivered, while they
are still in the water, by the powerful
masses of muscle on both sides of their
| body.
Susan b. Anthony is now sixty-four
years old, and her face is no more
wrinkled than when she was fifty. Her
hair has few gray strands mixed with
| its black, and she combs it down over
her ears in an artistic curve, and winds
it up into good-sized waterfall at the
back.
With the progress OF science, many
believe that the photograph will yet be
| so perfected as to reproduce every OBJ
| ject on the surface of the moon, thus
enabling the inhabitants. of this world
to form correct estimate of the life
conditions existing ON our satellite 240,-
| 600 miles distant from us.
Arkansas City editor has just patent
ed pair of triple shears. 1t is an in
strument with three sets of blades, two
OF which when properly manipulated
will adapt themselves to the columns
Of any newspaper and cut both sides,
while the third set will chop the clip
pings out at the proper place.
On Cape Cod and in other districts
| along the New England coast it is firm.
| ly believed that sick man cannot die
until the ebb tide begins to run. Watch:
ers by beds of sickness anxously note
the change of the tides, and if the pa
tient lives until the flood begins to set
in again he will live until the next ebb.
DIR. Finally, the Cuban physician, be-
lieves that he has demonstrated that in
oculation with yellow fever may be
made by the sting of the Cuban day
mosquito, and that the fever thus i'm
parted will vary in duration and inten-
sity in proportion to the number of
| punctures and the quantity of poison
retained by the insects sting.
! A MELVILLE, Md, man has 81 note
of Continental money, upon which is
printed the following: This bill of 81
shall entitle the bearer hereof to re-
ceive gold or silver at the rate of four
shillings and sixpence sterling per dol
lar for the said bill, according to the
resolve of the Provincial convention
of Maryland, held at the city of An
napolis, the 9TH day of December,
1875"
| A New Orleans doctor calls attention
to very simple fact which merits at
tentiun from tfiediciic takers. If the
medicine is mixed with very cold wa
ter, and few swallows of the water
be taken as a preparatory dose, the
nerves of the organ of taste become
sufficiently benumbed to make the med
icine nearly tasteless. The method
will not disguise bitter tastes, but acts
well in oils and salines.
1t has been discovered by a Dutch
scientist that The gum which collects on
the branches OF certain trees especials
ly the cherry, peach plum and others
bearing stone fruits due to disease of
the tree. The disease is produced by a
highly organized fungus, whose action
cause the formation of the gum, and it
is quickly reproduced in sound trees
when they are inoculated with pieces
of the gtirii containing any of the fun
gus.
In spite of the annual expenditure of
over $3.50, 600 for repairs and the build
ing of new jails, Russia is much exer-
cised how to find room for the over
growing number of prisoners, who
amounted in 1882, to $500, and in
1888 to 97,337. In Siberia great suffer-
ing is caused by the want of accommo-