Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-19
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All members of the family of the
Car of Russia speak the English Ian
guage.
The late Emery A. Storrs is said
never to have worn necktic a second
time.
/ Vital statistics lately published show
| that in Germany the average life of
men has increased during the last
thirty years from 41.9 to 1879 years, or
5 per cent. In women the increase is
given at per cent, the advance being
from 41.9 TO ASP.
Minnesota's dog census shows a
canine population Of SO. 900 in the state,
valued at $197.375. OF these St Paul
owns 224 dogs. valued at $1,000, and
Minneapolis S02. valued at So, 445.
The cheapest value placed upon Min
neapolis dog in tho list is 92 cents, and
the highest Sl2.
A $500 maidstone brought from Ire
land to New York has been in the pos
session of the Piles family. of Sullivan
county, for 200 years. 1t is gray in
color is full of pores, and seems to be
as light as so much paper. One thou
sand persons have used it. and its pres
ent value is $500.
The highest mountain in the world
is Mount Everest, belonging to the
Himalayan range, in Thibet. 1t is 30
600 feet, or five and three-quarter miles
high. The highest mountain in South
America is 25.3S0 feet high. Mount
st. Elias, in Canada is the highest
mountain in North America. 1t is 49,
600 feet high.
The last meeting of ex-President
Jefferson Davis and his cabinet as
body was in large brick house at
Washington, Ca, which stands on the
site where Stephen Heard, in revolu-
tionary days, built fort from which
| to fight the Indians. The pen with
which President Davis signed his last
order is now in the possession of I. M.
Green, of Washington.
Field Marshal Moltke, who spends
his vacation at his country seat, Crei-
sau, devotes his time there entirely to
agriculture. He takes especial pride
in his magnificent park, the beauties of
which he is fond of pointing out to Wis
itors. He walks regularly every day to
the kapelleuberg, a neighboring hill,
where his wife and sister are buried,
and where he, too, is to find his last
resting place.
In his new book lies Cheers Voisins, !"
Max O'Rell says that when the French
man pawns his watch he takes it to
''his aunt, /" but the Englishman carries
his to ''his uncle" French drivers
take the right hand, but English the
left. Frenchmen call the English chan
mel the "Straits of Calais" but English
men call it the ''Straits of Dover" In
England you are "wet TO the skin,"
but in France Ito the bones"
| In September, 1S25--sixty years
ago-mess beef was SS7S per barrel in
the New York market; butter, Is cents
per pound; wheat, $1.10 per bushel;
anthracite coal. $40 per ton; coffee,
l62 cents per pound; corn. AZ cents per
bushel; cotton, upland, IA cents per
| pound; flour, 1913 per barrel; hams,
st cents per pound; raw sugar, 81
cents per pound; bar iron, SS7 so per
ton; Scotch pig. $42.50 per ton.
K. Colpitts Robinson. in his new
work. The Geology of Genesis, refer
ring to the creation, speaks of the great
deep hitherto wrapped in total dark
ness. Darkness upon the face of
the deepp' exclaims Knowledge. "Why,
| the whole surface (such as it was) of
the earth under the conditions postu-
lated must have shone with an eiful-
gence in some sort comparable with
| that of the sun himself.
Information has been received by
cable that Fall, the glass founder of
! Paris, has at last cast q crown glass
disk Tor the Lick telescope in California
which is without flaw, and which will
be forwarded to Clark & Sons of Cam
bridgeport for finishing. This disk
will enable the Clarks to complete the
| great lens, so that there is now pros
pect of the speedy erection of the tele-
scope Success was reached after about
thirty unsuccessful trials.
+ There is soon to be established in
Washington weekly newspaper, the
venture of twenty resident correspond
ents, each one of whom is to contribute
an article week over his own name.
The writers are to choose their own
topics, express their own views, and
handle men and things in their own
way. There is to be no editor-no one
to say what shall be printed and what
left out, nobody to condense and no.
body to point up or pad out.
Paganini is described by Karoline
Bauer in her memoirs as haggard
man. who seemed only to consist of
! olive-colored skin and rafting bones.
The black clothes he wore were liter
ally dangling about his skeleton. His
gait was languid, as if the whole fabric
must collapse the next moment and
drop at least some of its joints. His
face looked like mummy head, COW
cred with a brown skin; his cheeks
were hollow; from the deep sockets of
his eyes shone forth dismal black fire;
long. thin hair in ringlets Unframed
like serpcnts this death s-head.
The bed of the ocean, says a recent
writer. is to an enormous extent COW
cred with lava and pumice stone. Still
more remarkable is it to find the floor
OF the ocean covered in many parts
with the dust of meteorites. Between
Honolulu and Tahiti, at a depth of
1850 fathoms-oyer two miles and a
half-a vast layer of this material ex-
lists. Failing upon land this impal-
pable dust is indistinguishable, but
accommodating for centuries in the sea
depths it forms wondrous story of the
continuous bonn bardment of the planet
by cometary bodies.
The explorers in the Congo Valley
are surprised by the crudity of life
there. The natives have no domesti-
Gated beasts of any sort, nor do they
raise or catch any animals to eat, as
they know nothing of flesh as food.
No semblance of clothing is worn, and
diet is practically confined to sponta-
neous products of the soil. Letters
from missionaries say, too, that the
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