Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-10-22
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elght-year-olal boy out of the saddle
and dropped him on the ground.
A correspondent of the Omaha Bee
wants the nam. OF that city changed
to Terrace City, or Gate Beautiful.
Snow banks fully 100 feet high, that
have lain there Tor many years. the
Alta California says, are to be found in
the high Sicrras.
The White House letter paper is OF
the first quality. with beautifully print
ed heading. Jefferson headed his own
foolscap with quill pen.
Cardinal Newman. the head of the
Roman Catholic Church in England,
has brother, Professor Francis w.
Newman, who is pronounced agnos-
tic
Should car be run up and down
the great Washington monument it
will cost the government 5000 year.
The electric lights are in and work is
about to be begun on the iron stair
way.
There is no other journalist in Phila-
delphia who owns a trotting-horse
equal to the famous pair belonging to
Mr.. Singer of the Record. He also
owns the best Holstein COW in the
world.
There is no certainly as to when Bud
dha lived and died. The Ceylon school
of Buddhists fix the end of his career
at 543 b. c. European scholars. how
ever, are inclined to place the date
later by a century or more.
a writer in the Bulietin Generate de
1berdpeutique says that refrigeration
of the lobe of the ear will stop hic-
cough, whatever its cluse may be.
Very slight refrigeration. such as a
drop of cold water, is said to be suffi-
Gent.
Matthew Walker, of New Centerville,
Chester County, Pa, has entirely re-
covered from q broken neck, sustained
by being thrown from wagon. Ply
sicians said his life could not be saved,
but slowly the injury healed itself, and
now Mr.. Walker has complete use of
his neck.
Sleeping with the head to the north
and the physical and mental advanta-
ges to be derived therefrom is a SUBJ
ject in which interest is being revived.
A German physician of note was quot
ed many years ago as saying that he
believed he had added at least decade
to his life, beside keeping his health
perfect by this practice.
Government officials in Canada, as
well as large number of well-inform-
ed private ladies, say that if superior
women between the ages of eighteen
and twenty-five 60 there and submit to
the position of domestic service they
are almost sure to marry, and marry
well, within a short time of their ar
rival, especially ii they go far West.
A London journal, quoting statistics
to back it up, presents as a moral par
adox the statement that the most poor
ly paid working girls in the metropolis
are those engaged in the work of sew
ing and binding Bibles. 1t adds that
''lor every heather abroad who can be
induced to use the sacred volume for
anything else than gun wadding a
dozen of these girls are driven 10 per-
dition at home.
Cloves are not the fruit of the tree,
but the undcveloped flower, the stem
being the calyx and the head the un-
blown corolla. The strength lies in
the flower alone, although the green
twigs are reported to be ground up
and used as an adulterant. The Glove
tree grows from thirty 10 forty feet
high, and is green the year round. 1t
is found III the Molucca Islands, in SUI
matra, in Straight's settlements, in
Zlnzibar, Reunion Islands, and Cay
enne. The poorest comes from Fan
zibar.
In the revised Bible, published at
| Oxford. only three printers errors have
| as yet been discovered in all the edi-
tions. In the pearl 16mo edition there
is an error in Ezekiel. xviii. &c, where
! an ''e" is left out of righteous, and the
word is printed right ous.' In the
parallel 8vo edition there are two mis-
takes. In Psalms. vii, Is, shafts
appears instead OF shafts" and in
| Amos, ", "a, in the margin. overflow
ing should be "everllowing." The
usual guinea will be paid to any per-
son discovering printers error in
the book and pointing it out to the
| Controller of the Press before any other
| discoverer.
A minoralogist bought at Auburn,
N. T., recently, quartz crystal, linn
| pid and beautiful, with the faces and
angles well preserved. but showing
through a translucent plano which
made upon the largest face of the crys-
tai peculiar formation, which, he
thinks, knocks geology all askew. Be-
meath the surface are several pieces of
hay or straw stubble. 1t lies perhaps
fourth of an inch below the smooth
surface of the crystal. 1t is clear and
bright IN appearance, showing the hol-
low stem of the grass, as well as the
surface of the stems. There can be no
| question as to the identity of the hay
or the straw stubblc. 1t is distributed
quite widely through the crystal, show
ing in fifteen or twenty places.
Says Connecticut newspaper:
George Mayer is the man vino paints
on the rocks. Most people are famil-
lar with the sentences Prepare for
Eternity" and other words that appear
upon the rocks in Connecticut, New
York, New jersey, Rhode Island and
Massachusetts. But few people know
who paints them. 1t is George Mayer,
German. The writer met him the
other day and had quite long talk
with him. He travels most of the time
with his paint and brushes. He has
| put 2, 700 sentences on rocks since JAM
uary, and says that every one saves ten
souls. He claimed to have saved 500
souls in Paterson, N. j., in one day.
He says that he is called crank al
most every day. He sleeps in barns
and gets no pay for his work; but he
claims the Lord pays him. He says as
soon as he goes to work at anything
else the Lord tells him to go painting
again.
A queer story comes from New Zsa-
land. The owls in that island used to
be as harmless as doves; indeed, they
once were ''mousing owls. and, there
fore, useful. But one night settler
left sheepskin nailed to his roof. and
an owl came along and tasted of the
fat mutton left thereon. That owl be-
came shcep-killer.. alighting on
lambs back three nights later. Still
more strange, all the other owls began
to like mutton, and now the New Zea-
land bird of that species Stays thous-
andS upon thousands of sheep, their
appetites growing by what they feed
on, and their numbers increasing in
proportion to their prosperity. They
light on the backs of the sheep and
tear the poor beasts with their beaks,
going at once down through the car
cass to the kidney fat, which to the
owls tongue is the dantiest of morsels.