Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-29
GLEANINGS.

The recent census of Paris shows
that it has 2.739, 92S inhabitants, and
that but 100000 were born within its
limits.
Englishmen claim that the change
able climate of America prevents the
manufacture of perfeeting writing pa
per in this country.
Vanity in thieves says inspector
\ Byrnes .'is valuable aid to detectives.
/ don tbelieve that four thieves could
keep quiet over job they had jointly
been engaged in any more than | be-
lieve | could fly.
/ A Boston man, who claims to know,
says that the Bennett-Mackey cables
have cost thus far about 1900, 600, and
that the expense of mending the first
break was - 0.000 The company pay
$4,000 day for the use of the steamer
Faraday.
Stetson, the hat manufacturer in New
York, is believed to carry a greater
amount of life insurance than any other
man in the world His policies aggre-
gate $4,000, one-half of which are on
| his own life. Vanderbilt's insurance
is $500, 200, Jay Gould's 500, 600, Don
Cameron's and George PulIman's 800,
| 600 each.
Mr.. Sparhawk. of West Randolph,
! VT, took out a policy OF insurance on
| his factory one day recently. While he
was in the act of paying the money that
made the insurance val d, the fire bells
rang. ''How fu my if that should be my
| place, said Mr.. Sparhawk. And sure
enough, the property destroyed was the
| Sparhawk property insured in the
nick of time.
| One must abhor the plot of Anarchist
Reinsdorf to blow up Emperor Will
lam, butone must also acknowledge him
brave man. He told them in court
that his motto was: ''Be We faithful
even unto death, and he carries it out
by personal confession and trying to
shield his acomplices. When taxed
with new charge he drew himself up
to his full height and exclaimed: II have
nothing further to say. Deal with me
as you please.
Around the lower end of Avenue A,
New York. there are many Bohemian
cigarmakers. Every day these .Bohe-
mians dine on one kind of food. They
send out cans for beer just before noon.
These are placed on the stove and then a
quantity of stale bread broken into
them. The stuff is boiled up and the re-
sulting stew is eaten heartily. They
say it is nutritious and economical, but
the average man would about as soon
take into his stomach mixture of can
ned nitro-glycerine and billy goats.
Hattie c. Cummings of Dixie, w. T.,
has addressed the following to the
Waitsburg Times: l want a man of the
following description: Red hair, blue
eyes; one that has pride enough to
dress good, but not above his means.
| He must be tall or short, thick or hea-
w set man; small feet, one that doesn' t
wear fine shirts much. He must be
good featured, of light complexion, and
| one who is not afraid to cut too much
wood for the cook. | don't want one
that will go to sleep while at work.
want and that likes to hoe potatoes,
work in the garden, and won't play
baseball. If there is any one of this
description please answer through the
Waitsburg Times No dainty store
NlOi No HOCu Apply.
A well-cducated person who possesses
college sheepskin, reads his Bible and
Shakespeare and the daily papers, sell
dom uses more than 500 or 1000
words in actual conversation. Accurate
thinkers and close reasoners, who
avoid vague and general expressions
and wait to find word that exactly
fits Their meaning, g ploy a larger
stock, and eloquent speakers arise to a
command of 10000. Shakespeare, who
displayed a greater variety of expression
than probably any writer in any
language, produced all his plays with
about $4,000 words. Millions works
are built up Of 5000, and the Old Testa-
ment says all it has to say with 5,462.
In the English language there are, all
told. 1000 words.