Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-12-10
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ployed in the United States signal
service.
1t is estimated that 6S churches in
Paris possess works Of art valued at
$1,6i5.740.
Fashionable people ON Murray Hill,
New York. employ man by the year
to feed and take care of their cats.
Two hundred and fifty million per-
sons quench their thirst every year at
the London public drinking fountains.
Tie United States produces nearly
80, 900 lawn mowers annually, and ex-
ports to every civilized country on the
globe.
There are 445,000,000 acres of forest
in the United States, and this area is
reduced at the rate of 25,000,000 acres
annually.
Durham, n. c., now a famous to-
bacco town of six thousand inhabitants,
was a hamlet of less than one hundred
souls 20 years ago
Mrs. Lew Wallace uses for a paper
weight a turquoise, from the Santa Fe
mines. which is said to be one of the
finest in the world.
In San Francisco there are 800
Chinese launGries, employing 5000
men, the value OF which is roughly
estimated at S250,000.
Many of the spring chickens sold in
New York city are fattened on sun
flower seeds, which are said to impart
to the flesh a very fine flavor.
In tha raosiov g H.
are more than 1000 hotels and board
ing houses, in which some 500. 900
visitors are yearly accommodated.
A Venetian gondolier makes on an
average four francs, about eighty cents
a day, the year round. On this he will
marry, rear a family, and put some
money away.
Hercules Wilson. colored, has re-
signed his seat in the Georgia Legisla-
ture. giving rs reason that he can
make more money by laying brick at
"a to So a day.
In Germany women do the main part
of the mental outdoor work. Not in
frequently q woman and COW are
seen pulling coal cart through the
streets, man behind gently touching
them up with whip.
A new system of drying lumber by
surrounding it with common salt is
just now attracting attention. The
peculiar power of salt for absorbing
moisture is well known.
Texas is progressing wonderfully
fast In 1870 the grand total value of
farm products of the state was $40
O00,0 600 Now it has swelled to the
enormous sum of ISL, 006. 600
Over 5000 women are employed in
the railroad offices in Austria. They
get from Sl5 to $50 month. Nearly
all of them are widows OF men who
have died in the railroad service.
From 1871 to May 1874, inclusive,
the French government has expended
on the purchase of pictures and sculpt-
ures by living artists II. 700, Alp francs,
averaging more than 900, 0U0 francs
per annum.
AS many as 200 needle pointed light
ning-rod tips (made in Philadelphia,
by the by) have been fixed upon the
rods at the top of the Washington
Monument to catch any thunderbolts
that may come flashing down.
The present production of the Rus
sian petroleum field is between 80, 600
and $4,000 barrels per day. 1t could
probably be increased to so, 900 bar
rels from the same wells, provided
they were allowed to produce all the
time.
Albert Ulysses Simpson Grant Baab
has become known to fame not so
much on account of his odd name as
because he collected a purse for the
Grant monument in New York. A. u.
5. q. b. is boy OF eleven, and he has
as many pockets as names.
A number of Yankee schoolmaams
who some time ago went to the .A.gen-
tine Republic, South Amer ca, 10 fol-
low their vocation, have made excel
lent matches with eligible Argentincs,
and the demand is greater than the
supply Blondes are preferred.
New York saw a new feature in all.
vertising few days ago, when nicely
attired, good-looking girl distributed
business cards from 4 light wagon on
Broadway. This is refreshing varia-
ton from the peripatetic advertising
sandwiches of men and bill-boards that
impede travel on crowded thorough
fares.
Massachusetts will be interested to
learn that on an original map of the
world by which Alexander vi. divided
the discoveries between Spain and Por-
tugal, and which is now in the possess
sion of the Vatican. all the present
United States form blank space
marked Terra de Bacalaos," or, The
Land of Goldfish.
Mr.. ParnelPs estate in Wicklow, al
ready ricn in valuable stone, almost ex-
cuslvely used now in Dublin building,
has developed new source of wealth
IN mushrooms in great profusion and
of extraordinary size. One specimen
sent to the Dublin market weighed four
pounds and measured more than foot
within the cup.
The United States navy comprises
thirty-nine vessels. and to officer this
heet we have, on the active list, rear
admirals, 10 commodorcs, IS captains.
50 commanders. "A lieutenant COM
manders, 251 ieutcnants, 10 Junior
lieutenants, lSS ensjgns, and 76 naval
cadets; and III the staff, 100 doctors.
l2O paymastcrs, and PIP engineers.
The Journal Of chcmiStry relates
that a celebrated Parisiau belle who
made profusc use OF cosmetics, from
the soles OF her feet to the roots of her
HAIR, one day took medicated bath,
and on emerging from it was horritied
TO find herself as black as an Ethiopian.
The transformation was complete; not
3 vestige of the supreme Caucasian
race" was left, 1t took some time to
restore her to membership with the
white race.
The greatest gunpowder blast in
connection with railway works was
that by which Sir William Cubitt blew
away with one charge of 10000 pounds
of gunpowder, the entire mass Of the
Round Down Cliff, which rose to the
height of $50 feet above the level of
the sea, within q few miles of Dover
This monster blast, fired by electricity
at several points ut once, tore from
the cliffs mass of more than million
tons of chalk.
The earth has nearly $4,000, coo of
square miles of land surface, and &c.
| 0o0 900 of these miles arc well adapted
tor settled populations. To people
It, 000, 600 OF square miles as densely
US Belgium is peoplod would give the
earth population of 6,400, 900, 900. or
over four times its present population.
The United States and territories if as
denscly peoplcd as Saxony would have
u population equal to the present popu-