Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-08-20
GLEANINGS.

1 succcssiuA operation.
Fully one-half of the names of the
mailing offices stamped on letters and
postal cards are illegible.
German inventive talent is improv-
ing. one Saxon genius making forty
inventions during the past three years,
seven-tenths of which have proved
practicable.
] Mr.. Ruskin is to deliver series of
lectures on The Pleasures OF En-
gland, but only to private pupils and
sucl as viii listen to them with be-
coming reverence.
Victor Hugo was exceedingly vain.
One day a gentleman dining at his
table asked whom he considered the
greatest poet OF our epoch. The an
sMer was; The second greatest is
Alfred de Mussctn
One OF the largest steel manufacrur-
ers in Pittsburg. Pa, expressed the
opinion the other day that a year hence
not solitary keg of iron nails will be
made this side o. the Mississippi river.
The wages paid in Adelaide, Austria
liza, aggregate 800 900 week less than
they did one year ago at this time.
There are l, 800 rentable houses in the
city, and tue amount of the poor fund
has had 10 be raised from 800, 900 to
$50 900.
A Pittsburg man says that if he was
to choose pet dog for his children he
would have bull terrier. They will
stand any amount of abuse and ILL
treatment from their masters, and will
resent the slightest advances from a
stranger.
Two Troy men have invented a ma
chine which. it is claimed, will practi-
cally revolutionizc matchmaking. 1t
has been operated to make $4,000 per-
feet matches in a minute and its capa-
city is expected TO reach $4,000, 600 in
ten hours.
There is an old lady living in Athens,
Ga, now 81 years of age, who has
never entered church or spoken on
the subject of religion. When this
topic is preached she always gets up
and leaves the room. No one knows
what is her belief.
1t is scarcely possible. it is said, to
procure moist sugar which is not in
fected with an animalcul:e of the acarus
genius, most disgusting class of crea-
lures. In many samples they swarm to
that extent that the mass of sugar
moves with them.
Helen Hunt jackson is an admirer
of the brilliant Colorado wild flowers.
and it is said that once twenty-three
varieties of wild-f1owers, massed each
nnlAP I'D
this lady for the ediiication of some
eastern friends invited to luncheon.
Fogg says anybody who wants
handsome wife can have her for all he
cares. She is no better to her husband
than are the grounds about country
residence. Anybody can admire the
wife or the grounds as freely as the
posScssor, and without the expense OF
caring for her or them.
Thirteen State Bureaus of Statistics
of Labor are now in existence. Tie
Oldest, that OF Massachusetts, was cs-
tablished in 1869 Mr.. Wright. now at
the head of the National Bureau, being
still its chief. The Bureau of Pennsyi-
vinia, next in age, was established in
1872, Joel Il. McCamant being its chief.
W eat, now the most important
cereal crop cult, ated in all parts of
the world, and one of The principal ar
tices OF human food. was derived from
4 wild form of grass, and can only be
improved and maintained by careful
culture. Although widely disseminat-
cd, it IS nowhere found growing wild.
Sam Carson, son of Kit Carson. the
celebrated Indian tighter on the plains
in the early days, while investigating a
house in Los Angeles, rcputed TO be
haunted, week or two ago, discovered
the trouble. An immense swarm of
Lees had made their home in one of
the walls, and stored it with large
quantity OF the finest honey.
No "Hcrmoinc, say the Beacon. n
''cotilon dinner does not mean the
guests should follow the leader, over or
under the table, or indulge in romp
that might smash the china. 1t simply
you out between the acts-beg pardon,
of course-and waltz in the hall, then
you return with renewed appetite to
eat another truf1ie.
An enterprising Frenchman has in
vented q revolver which, though so
small rs to be conveniently carried in
the est pocket, can be fired ten times
without rcloading, and with greater
ease and certainty than those of the
old pattern. The whole length of the
weapon is four inches, which can be
reduced to two and five-cights by un-
screwing the barrel.
In Paris telephone ticket at half a
franc is issued at any of the post-offi-
ces, which entities the holder to five
minutes conversation with persons at
any other of the city post-oilices, or at
any of the Telephone Company's sta
tions. The Telephone Company offers
at the same rate, conversations at any
of its eeven stations with persons at
any other station. or at the residences
of any of its members.
APittsburg philosopher says: There
is something wrong with the way in
which young men of to-day shake
hands. | either get shake which
mpresses me with the idea that the
other party doesn't care whether we
shake or not. or | suddenly feel my
hand grasped with a vise-like grip
which makes my back ache. The
young man of to-day wants to show
either his languidness or his muscle. "
The late Franz Abt. the song-writer,
was surprising gourmand. "A
goose" he used to say, lis very
pretty bird, but it has one great fault:
it is little too much for one. and much
too little for two" Coming out of
restaurant one day, looking supremacy
happy, Herr Kappelmcister" said a
friend to him, ''you seem to have dined
we'll" YES, had fair dinner; it
was'a turkey" .'And was there good
company around the board?" YES,
good-but small; just two, indeed, the
turkey and myself.
Mr.. j. Bailey Denton has predicted
that the year 1885 will be remarkable
for sort of water dearth in the East
and South of England. He shows that
the rainfall in 1884 was not more than
two-thirds that of the average, while
proportion of rain evaporated was I'M
usually great. and he Therefore main
tains that this year there must be a
lowering of the subterranean water
supply, and p reduction of the Weld of
the springs which supply the rivers,
entailing an increase of the evils of the
pollution of the streams.
Lord Lytton's practical disappear
ance from the political arena in which
he bid fair TO become a prominent fig
ure has caused good deal of talk of
late. says Labouchcre. 1t is not true,