Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-06-04
GLEANINGS.

Inc houses and stores IN Santiago de
Tuba are so built that the walls can be
almost entirely thrown open. while the
interiors have courts that are unroofed
and unobstructad TO the sky.
Joaquin Miller has snapped off a
manuscript copy of one OF his poems
for the duplicate of silver design he
saw at the New Orleans Exposition.
The silverworker wanted pay in Mil
ler's poetry
Those persons who are ''peach'p
crazy around Quakertown, n. j.. are
renting land ut from S. to $40 an
acre per annum. The terms run from
ten to twelve years the usual life of
an orchard in that vicinity.
Over one hundred different answers
have been received to the --latest math-
ematieal question, resurrectcd by New
York and Philadelphia journals: Two
girls meet three girls, and all kissed
How many kisses were exchanged"
The somewhat remarkable statement
is made that the city OF New York,
covering only $4,000 acres, supplies to
q per cent. of the population of the
country 10 per cent. of all the water
used for domestic purposes through
out the land.
San Francisco has .'lumber bone
yard IA place where the extensive
syndicate which controls the greater
part OF the lumber cut on the Pacific
Coast sends any cargo that may arrive
which appears to be in excess of home
demand, and at the first favorable OPP
portunity ships it to any part of the
world.
A New York lady of leisure and
money sailed for Paris recently to con-.
suit a celebrated dog doctor about her
poodle's health. The eur has a bad
cough, and is described as being las
ugly as a dingy door mat" He is six
teen years old, and his mistress is anx-
ious that he shall live until he is
twenty-five.
The Western weed, loco. acts upon
horses and cattle almost the same as
alcohol does upon man. Upon eating
it they lose all appetite for normal
food, become apparently intoxicated at
times and finally die from n disease
strangely like delirium tremens. From
sion: "As bad as a locoed horse
Albert Hector, says the Liberty Reg
lister, is quite queerly constituted in one
respect He sheds all OF his finger
nails and two of his toe nails yearly
The old nails arc gradually crowded
off the fingers by the new and tender
nails growing behind and under them.
Bert Is unable to explain why his nails
leave him in this way, but they do.
Two Frenchmen, the brothers Fore,
have invented anew kind of harp, made
entirely of wood. Instead of strings
the inventors use strips of American
fir. The sound is produced. as in the
ordinary harp, by the contact of the
fingers, but the. player wears leather
gloves covered with rosin. The tone
of the instrument is said TO be OF re-
markable purity.
There Is no financial nonsense about
the Presbyterian pastor at Palmyra,
Mo. On the first day Of each month
he draws his check upon the bank for
his monthly salary in advance, and the
bank regularly honors the check and
charges it up to the deacons, who are
personally responsible for the salary
Thus no delay or default in paving the
subscriptions can affect him.
As an instance of the great age to
which elephants sometimes live, it is
said that when Alexander the Great
had conquered Porus, King of India,
he dedicated TO the sun a great elephant
which had fought valiantly for the
King, and let him go with this inscrip-
ton: Alexander, the son of Jupiter.
dedicated Ajax to the sun" The ele-
plant was found $50 years afterward,
still bearing the above inscription.
Pennsylvania has state tax on
watches, the results of which, as re-
ported by the Secretary of Internal
Affairs, are amusing. The population
OF the state is about 1850, 600. The
number of voters last November was
100000. But in all this population and
this army of voters there were only
1886 watches, gold, silver and ''com-
mon. So it would appear that there
were last year 4454, 404 Pennsylvan-
ians, not one of which had watch.
Colonel Napoleon Crosby, of Geor-
| gia, relates that upon one occasion his
| company was forced TO march for sew
erai days over the unhroken snow, and
his eyes became so weak and inflamed
that he blackened his whole face with
| SCOT to couHteract the brilliant rcflec-
ton from the snow. He says, of
course, it was failure, but he per-
sisted that it was great relief, and in
less than day the whole company
| presented an unbroken line of black
ened faces and cyclids.
William z. Hopkins, of Lawrence,
Mass has in his possession love let
ter written 22l years ago by James
Chalmers, one of the judges in tae
time of Charles L., to Lady Ursula
Fairfax, whom he afterward married.
The letter of whose authenticity no
doubt can, it is stated, be raised. is
| still in perfect condition. II is dated
Lon, Is Nov, 1868, and it is adj
dressed: TO his entirely loved and
highly honored AIistressc Ursula Fair
fax
The most peculiar part of a wedding
festival among the middle classes in
Persia is the closing. At the moment
the bride leaves her fathers house n
shout of ''Kel lei lcl'' announces the
fact. All the guests carry lanterns on
high poles to lead and light the way.
AS the procession approaches the home
of the bridegroom several sheep are
sacrificed in honor of the bride. They
are slain at her feet as she steps over
her husbands threshold for the first
time. Then invoking blessings on the
pair, all wend their way home, and the
festival is over.
Adirondack Murray now keeps a
restaurant in Montreal, and he finds
time to study Dominion politics. lie
writes to the Boston LcrGti that there
are large class who believe that
Canada is destined to be something
more than a colony of the British En-