Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-19
GLEANINGS.

to have the only licorice plantation in
! the United States.
George w. Childs takes chocolate ice
cream just before retiring, and never
suffers from nightmare.
Young swells in New York anxious
TO have white skins have themselves
| bled or use cosmetics.
Since 1870 the acreage of crops in the
British Kingdom has decreased almost
two million acres. English agriculture
is thus shown to be far from prosper
Gus.
Mr.. Adirondack w. ii. HI. Murray
says he is only running his esthetic
sporting restaurant in Montreal for re-
| creation and rest, and will presently
return TO the lecture platform.
When house is to be let in Mexico
the owner sticks an old newspaper in
the window. 1t isn't very tasteful and
seldom improves the appearance OF tie
house, but it is economical and is I'M
derstood by the community.
| An observer says one of the ways by
which hotel chambermaids make extra
money is by collecting the tooth
brushes which are left in the rooms by
forgetful guests and then selling them
to regular dealers. who rejuyenate them
for the market again.
There is the authority of the editor
of the San Francisco Christian Adeocate
for the charge that no pure California
wine is put on the market. He believes
that adulteration is the invariable rule.
Some OF the vineyard men retort that
he i a reckless falsifer.
An Arizona paper of recent date con-
tilns the following paragraph: Larry
Ch,lgwhlstle. the popular and gentle
manly baker of Sun Up Corners. de-
parted for the great majority y sterday.
We trust that he has gone To the land
where baking is unknown"
The age OF an elm has been estimate
ed at 335 years; that of so ne palms at
from 600 to 700 years; that of an olive
tree at 200 years; of plane tree at
120; of cedar at 80 of an oak at
l,500; OF a view at $3.50; of taxodium
III 1000, and OF baobab tree at 5000
years.
The whale feeds by opening its ca
pacious mouth and allowing the sea
water, with its multitudinous tenants,
to fill the oval cavity. Then it shuts
its lower jaws upon its horny plates.
and, straining out the water through
them, swallows the prey stranded upon
its vast tongue.
The largest bridge in the world
crosses Lake Ponchartrain, at New Or
leans, and is twenty-five miles in length.
1t is trestle-work, on piles, and is made
of cypress wood which was first satur-
ated with creosote oil, which renders it
impervious to moisture and proof
against the attack of barnacles.
Patti told the Boston Herald that she
had worn diamonds worth $500, 900 the
last time she sang in La Traviatan in
New York, but that she supposed the
audience thought her dress was fronted
with glass beads instead of gems. She
had left most of the collection in safe
deposit vault during her tour.
When vessels or timber sink to great
depths in the ocean the pressure IS so
great that water is forced into the pores
of the wood and it becomes too heavy
to rise again. Even when "a ship is
broken up the detached portions sink
like lead. 1 is pressure makes it inn
possible for divers to descend to any
great depths.
The late David Lydig Suydam is said
to have been the only rich New York
merchant who retired from business in
his thirty-tirst year. He was absolute
ly out of business for forty years after
ward. The standard of wealth, how
ever, las been greatly raised since 1914,
and the late John Jacob Aston laughed
ut Stephen Whitney for dceming 3d.
900, 900 sufficient to entitle its possessor
to be considered rich enough to retire.
The University of Pennsyly ania has
started department of physical cul-
turc.n DIR. j. w. White, who will pre-
side over it, states that his duties will
be to examine each student. note
wherein he needs physical development
and recommend the proper mode of ex-
ercise to induce it. If his back is weak,
the rowing machine or boat is advised;
if the chest is fiat, parallel bars are in
order he ordinary trainer generally
picks out for the boat man who does
not need it.
Mark Twain says that he used to be
neighbor of Bret Harte in San Fran
cisco, when Harte was editing a week
ly journal and acting as Secretary of
the United States Mint, and Twain was
reporter on daily. The popular hit
of The Heather Chinee' nearly ruin
ed Harte in his own estimation, for his
ambition was to make fame in writing
the kind of prose sketches which have
since gained so much appreciation, and
he feared that people would INSIST upon
always regarding him as merely writ
er of funny rhymes.
The husband of woman living in
Highland Falls died insolvent and
heavily in debt twenty-three years ago,
and ever since his widow has been
striving to pay off these bills As fast
as she could accumulate funds she
would make payment, and last Satur-
day laid down in So and so gold
pieces and bank bills the last cent of
this Indebtedness. She remarked at the
time that she could never think of
meeting her God with that and other
debts unpaid. - Aewburg (M. ~
Journal.
A medal has been struck in COM
memoration of the hundredth anniver
sary of Methodism in this country, and
is sold in duplicate by authority of the
| Bishops. The case opens like book,
and in the central portion, surrounded
| by velvet, the medal is so fixed that
| both its sides are exposed when the
| cover is opened. A pastor regrets that
he lately found convert kneeling be-
| fore it in alteration, usingit for an idol.
He has heard that such a perversion of
| the object is common among the ne
| groes of the South, where the medals
are held in awe as possessing supernat-
ural qualities.
| A citizen of West Chester, Pa, is
wearing pair of boots made from
leather that was tanned in West Chess
| ter county sixty years ago. The leath-
| er is very fine calfskin and the owner
| has worn the boots on a great many
occasions during the last fifteen years.
For about forty-iive years after the
leather had been tanned and dressed it
| was allowed to hang in the garrett of
| the present owners fathers residence,
| and about fifteen years ago a shoe
| maker of West Chester made from it
| the boots that are now worn by the
| owner.
The ugly fashion lately adopted by
| New York's fashionable men of wear
ing colored shirt and cuffs and white
collar is directly traceable to the Prince
of Wales. The story, rs it runs, says
that he ran up toLondon from his coun-
| tr.- Saat OF tho hiubt af the Seaeon Hi