Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-10-08
GLEANINGS.

worth at least 81. 900. 100000
Gas Injuries leather. Russia and calf
suffer most aud morocco least.
The present coal beds. of the world
Will be exhausted in 1885 years.
The cost of shipping ton of wheat
to Liverpool via Cape Horn is $l4.
G. 2. Huntington. the railroad king,
is "a years old, and worth $50, 900, 000.
According to tradition. famines oc-
cur in Japan every forty or fifty years.
OF the 517 students at the University
of California, $40 intend to practice
law.
The red rose is the national flower of
England where it first appeared on the
Great Seal in the reign of Edward Nv.
Miss Katherine lyman, young Irish
girl, has written book of poems
which is attracting no little attention
from foreign critics. She appears to be
a sort of feminine Tom Moore.
A man went down to Rome, Ca,
from Atlanta and opened female
barber shop, but before the place had
taken in 50 cents a crowd of 100 indig-
nant wives had made wreck of it.
Western hog-growers prefer black,
red or mixed colored animals to those
which are white. as the latter are less
hardy than the others, consequently
are not so well adapted to hot, dry
climate as the colored ones.
A man in Rockville broke his neck,
but DIR. Storrs etherized him and pulled
the dislocated vertebra into place and
the man still lives, although in very
critical condition. There are more
than six cases on record similar to the
above.
Scotch shepherd dogs are now en-
| ployed-at the Cape in herding ostriches,
a work which they perform with saga
| city. Two men on horseback and one
dog will drive troop of 100 to $50
| full-grown birds with as much ease as
six or eight men on horseback.
Celery plants may be nicely kept for
use during winter, it is said. by stand
ing them, after being cleaned, washed
and the ends of the roots trimmed, in
tub or barrel containing few inches
of water, or pack them in box in wet
moss and keep standing upright.
| 1t is said that the Astors have paid
at the rate of $6,000,000 per acre for
land in Wall street. The land Tor the
| DreXel property. corner of Wall and
| Broad streets, which was bought dur
| ing the highest period OF imitation. cost
at the rate OF Sl4 0J0.0 0 per acre.
Montana has over $4,000. 90 acres
within her boundaries. OF which TO-
100000 acres are fine lands, suitable
for agriculture or grazing. Nearly
| %, 600, 900 acres are mountainous. but
among these 20,t00,000 acres are To-
Gated some of the richest MINING
camps in the world.
Sportsmcn who have allowed their
thoughts to run toward Alaska with
fond anliclpations OF some day visiting
a land without mosquitoes, NAV as
well give up ,ecamping. The mos
quito seems 10 be everywhere A
traveller says the peskicst, largest.
most poisonous. AND persistent mos
quitocs he ever saw are in Alaska.
A southern physician has studied the
subject of the difference between the
complexion of the northcrncrs and
southcrncrs. In tropical countries the
complexion Of ttc people is that OF con-
vaiescing from ever. and indicates
that the conditions OF the blood are no
Ion Ger susceptible % febrile influences.
The mum or o. red corpuscles in the
northern blood rapidly disappear in
tropical regions subjected 10 malaria.
Milton Mcistcr. formerly of Lancas-
ter County, Pennsylvania, and now of
Utah Pcnitcntilry. remarks in a letter
10 Il friend: II am now serving out n
six months sentence for loving. cher
ishing. and caring for my dear families.
consisting Of three of the best. noDlest.
and l0vcilest wives in the Union and
twrnty-thrce just rs good and pretty
children rs ever came from Heaven to
soiourn for Il season on this mundane
sphere"
1t is said that soft she'll crabs when
out of water are very sensitive 10 thun-
der and lightning, and whether on
train or steamboat or in crates in the
markets 10 per cent, according to
New York dealer, are killed by lhun-
dcrstorm. The cause OF this is not un-
derstood, but the dealer in question
thinks they are scared 10 death. Pos
sibly the changed condition of the at
mosphere, caused by the currents OF
electricity passing through it, may be
the cause OF their death.
The present Queen of Roumania,
now forty-three years old, has had a
romantic career. She was born in
| quaint little white country house on
| the banks of the Rhine. and was a
| great romp in girlhood, fond of out
| doosS and fairy stories, impatient of
| control. self-reliant. and with an ex-
traordinary poetic talent. Her ambi-
| ton, after much travel, was TO be a
teacher, but Prince Charles. of Hohen-
zollern, whom she had met during her
absence from home. asked her to be
his queen. 1t is fifteen years since she
married. She has seen much sorrow,
has written much poetry, and has won
much love.
/ In recent lecture on 1.-The Smallest
| Living thing" it was pointed out that
some of the organisms are not more
than .00000l inch in length, and that
the bacillus, spirillus, bacterium, etc,
multiplying by continual subdivision,
are so (practically) infinitely numer-
Gus as to be present everywhere that
the air can penetrate The lecturer
further showed from their mode of
digestion that they must be animals,
and not vegetables. In order to illus
trate the necessity for the access of
germ-ladcn air to cause putrefaction,
two TASKS of chicken broth were ex.
hibited, made seven years previously.
One had been sealed from the air, the
other exposed TO it for ten minutes a
few days previously. The latter was
thick and muddy from the swarms of
bacteria it contained, the former as
clear as on the day it was made.
Have You heard, says gossipper,
about Miss Mary Flynn, who halls from
Cincinnati? She has walked up TO find
herself famous through the attractions
of csoteric Buddhism. 1t is just a
month ago since Miss Flynn was adj
mttcd into the Buddhist community at
the native college. Colombo, Ceylon.
The recorder, describing the rite of re-
ception, says tie ncophyte took her
seat among Il circle of yellow capped
priests, who questioned her rs TO her
reasons for ;obiuring the error oil
Christianity and emDr.ciu5 the true
faith. The novice, with native modes
". explained that, having thoroughly
studied the various r'ielous systems
OF the world tower ,, %. / beleve),
she found Buddhism aiouc in accord
ance with her reason ana common
sense. On this III Ui..ma anointed heI
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