Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-08
GRANT COUNTY, WISCONSIN.
.TATISTICS,
GLEANINGS.

Clay, which contains about 10000
acres.
Freckles are in fashion in England.
Laeouchere says they are the outward
sign of inward iron.
The London Underground Railway
-uus isl2l trains during its working
lay of twenty-one hours.
A splinter of deer's hoof, with pow
.rful microscopes and polarized light,
s as wonderful to see as the rain
bow.
In the Montana cattle towns news
paper, a shave, and a glass of whisky
.ll cost the same price, namely, %
cents.
Mrs. Cagley. the wife of an English
Life Guardsman. is said to be the COM
ing London beauty. She was Miss
Campbell, and the daughter of music
Healer.
Merchant travellers in southern states
amuse themselves in beating the local
authorities out of the tax on drummerc.
They frequently do it. The ayerags
drummer is pretty sleek.
Murder hole is the name given 10
= mysterious hole in the ground near
Salem, Va. 1t is forty by sixty feet in
'ize, ane 196 feet deep. The average
Temperature at the bottom is forty-four
degrees.
The leading hotel at Hawkinsville,
Ca, will not take lady iboarriers. The
landlord says he wants all the merchant
travellers, but he doesn't want any
trouble. He calls his house the Drum
mers' Stag Hotel.
Mrs. Matthew Webb, widow of the
swimmer swamped at Niagara Falls,
complains that she never received the
IS. 900 known to have been subscribed
for her benefit by friends of her hus-
band in England.
A Georgia paper relates a case of
fox standing his ground. fighting
dog and a man in open ground until
killed-the first time fox was ever
known to face danger when there was
a chance to run away.
Little or no jewelry will be worn by
fashionable men, and even watch chains
are to be discarded. The nearest thing
to watch chain is plain gold thread,
which goes around the neck and comes
out through one of the button holes.--
Providence Journal.
The time-honored custom of sending
the editor slight token of the wedding
feast is about to be revived OF this
we are truly glad. Bless You, it gives
an inspiration to our pencil to write
from behind basketful of the frag-
ments of a wedding feast CdrterUilie
(Ga.) american.
An old Derby hat may be converted
into dainty work basket Cover tho
outside with shirred satin of any color
and tic broad band of the same about
the crown, with a bow and ends on
one side. Line the inside with any
pretty material, and make handle of
twisted ribbon Handy Housewife.
1t is said than when Sarah Bernhardt
plays Lady Macbeth she so keeps to
literal historical accuracy that she APP
pears on the stage with her feet as
heaven fashioned them. This is akin
to the actor who when he appeared in
.Othello" so entered into the spirit of
the part that he BACKED himself all
over. ~
The Mississippi steamboatemen have
a general superstition against all boats
whose name begins with the letter M.
One captain says, 81 have never known
a boat on the Western waters that
commenced with the letter M that has
not either burned up, sunk, or been
blown up, or been financial disaster
to her owners.
Military critics attach great impor-
lance to the discovery of a German
acronaut, who claims that, by the use
of compressed carbonic acid, he can
ascend or descend at pleasure, and says
liz can go up or down until he meets
current of horizontal air that suits him.
he adds that he can reach an enemy's
territory and ascend again without q
fresh supply of gas.
1t turns out that the new an9sthetic
muriate of cocoaine. which has been
found so useful in delicate operations
on the eye, was formerly used by spec
lalists to blunt the sensibilities of the
throat. Muriate of cocoaine, by the
by, is muriatic acid combined cheni-
cally with the active principle of the
South American cocoa plant.
Once kite-fyer attached to the tail
of large kite kitten, sewed in can
vas bag with netting over the mouth
to give it air. When the kite was at
its greatest height-some 200 feet or
more-the mewing of the kitten could
be distinctly heard by those holding the
string. To the clearness of the air was
attributed the hearing of the kittens
voice, and no telephone patent was APP
piled for.
wooden WOOL is now used as a
cheap and useful dressing for wounds
and is being prepared extensively as a
Commercial staple for surgical dress
hgs. 1t is finely ground wood, such
as is extensively used in the manufac-
ture of paper. 1t is clean-looking,
delicate fibered, soft, yellowish-whits
substance, having an odor of fresh
wood, and absorbs an immense guam
sity of liquid.
The natives of West Africa are still
somewhat given to cannibalism. In
1859 human flesh was exposed for sale
on the public market at Duketown,
Old Calabar. Only a year or two ago
chief of the Brass district, named
Imamy killed two Acreeka people, who
were sacrificed to the names of his
fathers. In Brass. as In Bonney. they
eat all enemies taken in war, and they
put forth. as justification for this,
that devouring the flesh of their enc
mics makes them brave.
Sleepless people, says the Health and
Home, should court the sun. The very
worst soporific is laudanun, and the
very best is sunshine. Therefore it is
plain that the poor sleepers should pass
as many hours of the day in the sun
shine and as few in the shade as pos
sible. The injurious effect of the shade
is very noticeable in the plants growing
in secluded places and ladies who are
accustomed to carry sunshades. The
invigorating power of sunshine is in
finite, and he whose skin is tawny sell
dom requires pill.
A lady sends us the following: "a
beautiful thought came from my little
boy of eight years this evening. We
were watching our lovely sunset, and,
afterward, the stars made their APP
pearance. one by one, until there was
a myriad of bright, twinkling orbs. He
said: Mamma, don't you suppose
that God has bored lots of holes in the
sky so that we can just see how beau
tiful heaven is on the other side, and
don't You guess that it is the angels
floating by them that makes them look
as though they were winkingP"-At-
bdny Times.
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