Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-01-21
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Freight trains in England run at
twenty-five miles an hour.
More scholars than school houses is
the cry all over the Union.
Prof. Huxley says that he admires
John Calvin above all other theologians
who have lived.
The humane Mr.. Bergh has CON-
menced crusade against putting red
hot shoes on horses feet.
There has been very little wife
beating in Maryland since the whip
ping-post law went into effect.
The first Michigan sawmill was built
fifty years ago. and the cut since then
has averaged $500, 600, 900 feet year.
Sarah Bernhardt weighs more when
living in England than when in France,
and likes to play in London on that
account
There is a law on the statute books
OF Pennsylvania which requires house
keepers to scrub their pavemcnts every
Friday. 1t was passed in 1867.
In Cannon Ball Creek, ID. T., are
millions of curious stones rounded by
the wear of the water SO that they
look Eke bombs. Some of these can
non shot from natures foundry would
weigh ton.
The arctic plants which a Greeley
survivor brought home with him are
from six inches to two feet in height,
and under magnifying glass present
very beautiful appearance. All but
two bear flowers.
In pack of cards with which two
Cinnamon had been playing poker at
Stockton. recently, were found five
aces, eight kings, six skies, and so on,
showing that the Mongolians under
stand the intricacies of the game.
Lieut.. Derby, who was the active
man at the He'll Gate explosion, is a
son of John Phoenix Like his
father, he graduated first in his class
at West Point. His sister married
Lieut.. Black, who also graduated first
in his class.
just 100 years ago the famous Gen.
eral Oglethorpe. founder of Georgia,
died at his English homo in Essex. He
once said to John Wesley, equally cele-
brated as the founder of Methodism:
II never forgive. Then hope you
never sin, replied Wesley.
Alfred Cobb, seventy-seven wears
old, of East Dcerfied. Mass, has re-
quested that when he dies his body be
taken to his tobacco barn and there
kept for three days, when it be taken
to a hill near his house, saturated with
kerosene and burned. He is of sound
mind, and is a strong advocate of
cremation.
Cycling is giving to the present
generation of England remarkable
knowledge of their own country,
which railroads were causing them TO
lose, and has infused fresh life into
many once famous inns on the old post
roads. The most popular cycling
ground is the great Bath road, and
men frequently go 80 mics and back.
A correspondent asks: III man
gets l cent the first day of 4 month,
and he is TO get it doubled every day
for thirty-one days, how much will he
have coming to him for lGc thirty -tirst
day?' The amount 10 be paid for the
thirty first days WAGES would be over
Sl0,0O0,C00. The total amount TO be
paid for The entire thriy-one days
would be over $4,000, 900.
In the Philadelphia eli cal and !>ur-
gtcal J0srHai Il sensible doctor suy-
gests that night carriage lamps, in
stead OF being put at the sides of
wagons, where they can serve only 10
illuminate the h"rses' tails and cast
black shadows in the roadway, be
made to project from the horses col
lar or the ends oil he shafts, where
they would DC OF real service.
Canon Farrar SAYS that his profits
from ali the books mat Ire has written
have not exceedcd $4,000. This. too,
he went on 10 say. WAS IN face of the
fact that his works have sold very
largely. lie ascF hes the Smalness of
the earnings TO The fact that he always
considered his literary l,bor rs one of
love. and never cared to trouble him.
self 10 mako such business arrange
ments us would insure him the largest
financial returns.
''Will" Cartoons last volume of
poems having been severely handled
by New York critic. !, Western
champion OF the poet remarks that
1.-THE critic is poor. sallow. Shiny
lizard-beyond doubt some widowed,
corpse-faccd creature, begotten in the
shadow of Trinity Church and reared
in the tony but sunless and sinking
retreats of Il city where sewer-gas
furnishes literary inspirations and din
ncrs ut p. III. the brain-food."
Emperor William OF Germany was in
excellent spirits ut the late army ma
neuvrcs in Wurtemberg, and said
laughingly 10 a young Prince in the
Red Uhians one rainy morning: "lf
you and your comrades llatier your
selves that one iicld-day will be stop
ped on my account, You are very much
mistaken. / feel strong enough to go
through two or three moro for the
mere pleasure of it. Ii the Emperor
lives until March, 1887, he will then
have been eighty years in the army.
Sarah Cousins, of Sussex, concealed
the birth of her child twenty years.
On opening the box the police found
the dried body, wrapped in a weekly
newspaper dated Jan. l, 1865. She
said that twenty years ago the child
was born without any other PERSONS
knowledge. 1t did not cry, and she
thought it was dead. She put 1t in
box and carried it from place to place
about the country with her for ten
years, when she took it to the house
where it was found.
George Ii. Boxer, president of the
Philadelphia Union League. and author
of Francesca da Rimini," is hand
some, suave, and very popular. 1t
was reported recently that he had been
taken suddenly Ill, and friend rushed
excitedly 10 the house to learn his con-
dition. They tell me George is dam
gerously sick" he said to Mrs. Boxer,
who met him at the door. "Oh, no,
the lady answered composedly; If he
were, you would SEQ. every pretty SER
vant-girl in the block crowding the
sidewalk"
Pasteur has so fully measured the
strength of his attenuated preparations
of inoculative virus against hydropho-
bia that he is about to commence
their application to human beings.
But Pasteur is an honest investigator,
and acknowledges that even with the
most powerful lenses he has not been
able to discover 4 microbe of hydro
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