Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-08-13
GLEANINGS.

in velvet case.
The pearl fisheries off the Lower Cal
ifornia coast are said to have produced
$l5, 10000 last year.
A Georgian claims to have perfected
acontriyance for running street cars
by quicksilver motor.
During the past sixteen years $780,
100000 worth OF property has been de-
stroyed by fire in Canada.
A harpoon of the pattern made over
forty years ago was taken from whale
captured near Coos Bay recently.
General Gordon was never married.
He was handsome man in face and
figure and of rare personal charm.
There are more than seven million
farmers in the United States, or nearly
one-eighth of the entire population.
In some provinces of Brazil iron ore
is used in large quantities as building
stone, so abundant and ready to handle
is it.
Iowa contains more persons who can
i read and write in proportion to her
population than any other state in the
Union.
So high-priced have been peaches for
the past two seasons that 500 new
peach orchards have been set out in
Delaware within year.
An authority on the subject says that
dog show is called '.bench show
because the cage kennels in which dogs
are exhibited are located on benches.
There are in England over 800, 600
cyclists, and the capital invested in the
manufacture of bicycles and tricycles
is Sl5,000,0O employing 5000 per-
sons.
A New York chemist asserts that in
every 100 pounds of green tea used in
this country the consumer drinks more
than q half pound of Prussian blue and
gypsum.
The attendance in the public schools
of England has risen in few years
from 2,000,00 to 100000. Juvenile
crime has greatly diminished in conse-
quence.
There are published in Honolulu four
English daily newspapers, four English,
three native, one Chinese and one Port
uguese weeklies, and three English and
one native monthlies.
Charles O'Conor enuneiatcd the prin-
cip.e that IA reporter should get all
the news he can and give it to the
world, but lawyer should get all the
news he can and keep it to himself"
An iufidel colony in Missouri, after
five years experience, is falling to
pieces. The people are continually
wrangling, and "It's wise child that
knows its own father" in that town.
A congress of historical experts is
called for early in September to decide
whether the set OF bones held bv Ha-
vana or the set held by San Domingo
is the true skeleton OF the discoverer of
America.
One of the business interests of
San Francisco is the gathering OF old
tin oil and fruit cans for use in the
packing of matches. Collectors receive
4 cents each for them, and 10000 are
annually used
NJ. Lauth, of Sevres, has, after ten
years of experimentation, produced a
porcelain tar superior to the famous old
Seyres. 1t will take all kinds of glazes
and is susceptible of the highest kinds
OF decoration.
Henry Clews has a collection of pict-
ures worth i'll the neighborhood of
$780, 600. Dinners, he says, are the
highest and only rational way Of en-
tertaining. Balls he despises He is
devoted to the opera
The operation of the mechanical APP
planes in 4 watch factory have be-
come so rapid and systematic that it is
possible TO take the raw materials from
stock in the morning and have a watch
running from them by noon.
Two years ago Professor O. Sars, of
Christiana, received some mud taken
from the bottom of an Australian lake.
Recently he placed the mud in small
aquarium and produced from it quite a
fauna of fresh water invertebrates.
No machine of travel that man ever
invented can equal the speed OF wild
fowl. The canyas-back duck flies two
miles minute. The broadbills 90
slightly slower. The teal can fly at the
rate of 100 miles an hour; the wild
goose goes abouty ninety.
The lean part of good beef should be
of bright red color, with flakes of
white fat through it, not larger than
pins in thickness, with a white creamy
layer of fat on the outside. Very lean
beef that is free from fat will be apt to
be tough and tasteless.
When Mr.. Cleveland went to select
a pew in the Washington church which
he attends he was asked what part of
the building he would like to sit in.
WELL he said, Il don't want to be
so near the minister that he can see
whether or not am listening"
The saddle which General Grant rode
in from all the battles from Fort Henry
in February. 1862, until the surrender
at AppomattoX, is now the property of
Colonel A. II. MARYLAND. to whom it
was presented by the General himself,
and it is kept in the Soldiers Home at
Dayton, Ohio
John Leyeridge, born in New York
City in 1890, admitted to the bar in
1872, and a soldier of the war of 1912,
is the oldest member of the New York
bar. He is still, at ninety-fiye years of
age, in active practice, and has son
siNty-eight years of age, who is also
lawyer of repute.
In France criminals under sentence
of death are never told of the date fix
ed for their death. They are informed
of nothing until the fatal morning, when
they are awakened to be led forth to
execution, which event usually takes
place about o'clock, or in the winter
season as soon as it is light.
The diary of Lieut. Lockwood, of the
Greedy expedition, is being transcribed
by an expert lady stenographer in
Philadelphia. He wrote his journal en-
tirely in shorthand. His account of
the life in the Arctic region is thought
to be an interesting story. The tran
scription is almost completed
A dim light and rest from reading
are not always helpful to the eyes, as
the examples in the Russian prisons
prove. The deprivation of books and
gloom of the cells almost destroy the
eyesight of the prisoners. Their eyes
become inaamed, the lids swell and are
opened only with great difficulty.
BY queer coincidence the wife of
eX-Secretary Chandler is the daughter
of the former Senator Hale, while the
wife of the present Senator Hale is a
daughter of the former Secretary
Chandler, and one family now has a
son named Chandler Hale, and vet the
two families are in no way related.
Compulsory education works we'll