Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-05
GLEANINGS.

opened cablegrams cost 800 for twenty
words. Forty cents a word is now the
1 rate.
An old journalist says that no less
than seyenty-fiye newspapers have
been started and died in New York in
thirty years.
Jefferson Davis nephew having died
recently, none of his name of his family
now survive except himself. He has
peen married twice, but has no male
descendant who bears his name. his
only son having died little while ago,
| DIR. Rae, the arctic explorer. asserts
that cannibalsm took place ne surely
among some OF Sir John Franklin's
people as il did among the Greedy
party. His authority for the charge Is
the testimony of some Esquimaux whom
ne met while in the far North
Nine. Sophie Kovateyeky. of Russian
birth, fills the chair of mathematics at
Stockholm University. Most women
are said by the professional ways to OBJ
Ject to the telling of their age, but it is
to the glory OF this intellectual orna-
ment OF her sex that she holds one Of
The highest positions among the leal1ed
at the age OF thirty.
One scarcely thinks of coral as GROW
ing under the ice-swept and focpy seas
OF the New oundland banks. Yet on
the eastern slope of Banquereau Is M,
area OF bottom. several miles in extent.
so covered with growth of coral that
travis set upon it are rarely recovered.
The fishermen call it the ''stone fence. y
and avoid it as far as possible.
DR.. Marcy. of Paris, has succeeded in
measuring the motive power of the
human body as developed in every
movement. As one of the results Of
his studies he shows that something is
gained in the power of walking by
q'nckening the pace from forty to
seyenty-ilve steps per minute. But the
latter number is the extreme limit;witb
greater number of steps power would
be lost instead of gained.
1t is reported in New York that Will
| lam ii. Fandcrbilt's two older sons
William k. and Cornelius-who in
hcrited millions from their grandfather.
have squandercd their entire fortunes
in Wall street speculation, and are now,
with their families, supported by their
father. 1t is estimated that the Van
derbiltS, father and sons, have lost
500, 1000 600 in stocks within year.
The anti-tobacconists find a strono
argument in curious fact that has lust
been made public in relation to the
Greedy Arctic expedition. ACCORDING
TO Lieutenant Greely's account of the
nineteen men who persisted all but one
were smokers, and the one was the last
to die. The seven survivors were non
smoking men. Perhaps when the tob-
acco ran out TIE smokers died of broken
hearts.
No young lady is quite made, who
doesn't possess tray fitted up with all
the paraphernalia for sealing her letters.
She must ha tray of beaten copper.
with lamp such as the old poets
wrote by, with unique holder for
matches and her wax, and a seal with
crest upon it. The newest things in
letter cases are of Oriental leather, and
the little travelling inkstand attached TO
them across one end, making also a
postage-stamp and sealing wax box
Indianapolis Journal
Lord Tennyson has two beautiful
grandchildren, Alfred and Charles. sons
of Hon. Lionel Tennyson, the eldest
son of the poet 1t was to his grand
child Alfred that Lord Tennyson ded
icated his latest collection of Ballads
and Poems, in a verse beginning,
'Golden-haired Ally, whose name is
one with mine.h A portrait of the two
children has lately been painted bv
Mrs. Anna Lea Merritt, the American
artist, now resident of London.
The room in the Tower of London in
which Sir Walter Raleigh was so lone
imprisoned is SKA feet in size. and so
low that it was impossible for Raleigh
to stand erect in it. The walls of the
room are eighteen feet in thickness. and
there is only one Window an opening
lox20 inches-from which the only
thing that can be seen is the blank wall
of an adjoining building. Here Raleigh
lived for fourteen years, never being
once out of the room until the day OF
which he was taken to Great lower
Hill to be beheaded.
Ferdinand Schumacher of Akron, O..
Is known as ''the Oatmeal King" He
is German, and came to this country
thirty years ago. He settled in Akron,
o., where he is to-day one of the lead
ing and wealthiest men of the place
Twenty years ago he was as poor as
church mouse. In little wooden
shanty, on the outskirts of the town,
he prepared the first American oatmeal
in ali iron kettle. He made it satisfac-
tory to himself, and obtaining small
hand-eart peddled it about town gratis,
asking the people to give it a trial.
As means of producing an artificial
sea atmosphere in houses, the use has
been suggested of solution of peroxide
of hydrogen containing / per cent. OF
oZonic ether, iodine TO saturation, and
ESQ per cent. of sea salt. The solution,
placed in steam or hand spray diffuser,
can be distributed in the finest spray in
a room at the rate of two fluid ounces
in a quarter of an hour 1t communi-
Gates pleasant odor, and is said to be
as good purifier of a sick chamber as
ever used, besides being a powerful dis
infectant.
/ Key West is one of the most peculiar
cities in the world. 1t has population
of more than 5000, principally whites,
but has no chimneys. no show windows,
no brick houses, no fine buildings, no
planning mills, no steam mills, no ma.
chine shops, no farmers driving in with
loaded teams, no country roads, no
country railroads, no rattle of machin-
cry, no noise of any kind, except the
beating of the waves against the coral
bound shores, and yet Key West, for
its size, does very large manufacture
ing and shipping business
The Brooklyn bridge is success.
Twelve million crossings are made in a
year by the people, and the bridge col
lects l,500 day. The toll for foot
passenger is but one cent. 1t is thought
that horses and carriages have been
charged too much money, and the rate
has been reduced fifty per cent, two
horses and a vehicle paying, under the
reduced schedule, but ten cents. I'm
doubtedly the care of the bridge will
soon be intrusted TO three State officers,
instead of the fifteen Trustees who have
built and managed the structure so far.
There is now no doubt that Mr. Justin
Huntley Mccarthy, NJ. r., is the author
of the clever political play, The
Candidate, produced at the Criterion,
London, by Mr.. Wyndham. 1t is con-
sidered one of the cleverist hits of the
day. Apropos of these things, there
is said to be danger of another liter
ary law case Mr.. Hugh Conwav's
Ozark DAYS has been burlesqued by
Messrs. Longman, and one of the firm
is said to be the author of the brochure