Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-11-18
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\ A desolate town In the heart of Ari-
iona bears the somewhat appropriate
name Of Total Wreck.
1t is estimated that about ono hundred
thousand species of lowering plants are
now known 10 botanists.
4 medical writer in Harper's declares
4 mat life IS but q temporary victor over
the causes that produce death,
4 sydney paper AYERS that the Prince
q Wales gives 10 Indies diamond latch
Keys which arc worn rs 4 sort of decora-
ton.
An amateur once asked List how to
I play the piano with soul. The genial
master replied: "You must first Of all
have a soul.
a English syndicate is negotiating
Tor the purchase Of 81, 900 acres of land
IN Tehama county, California for graz
ing purposes.
A Philadelphia oplician SAYS that
there are more people wearing glasses
/ IN that city that in Boston and New
York combined
Marx Walton died 203 years ago, and
the fishing clubs Of London are taking
steps 10 set up statue of him in Win
chester Cathedral
The biggest big gun in the world
is a ll2-ton believer, with which Hum
bert Of Italy, expects to salute the first
king who assaults him.
A wcll-known ocullst who has exam
lncd the eyes Of | 600 persons who work
I Il
IN no case any particularly injurious eff
fccts.
A Burlington, VI, man takes railroad
rails, has them painted black and the
ilange bored for wires, and then uses
them for fence posts. The effect is said
to be unique and striking.
The typewriter, now in such common
use, dates back TO 1914, when Henry
Mill got patent for it in England. but
il was not really made practicable until
1867 II now seems Indispensable.
Skunk meat is a great delicacy for the
| Cinnamon and SiWaslles indians near
| False creek, British Columbia. The
animals arc very plentiful in that re-
gion, and they are being hunted with
great eagerness.
John Mctircgor, California coach
| man, has by the death of an uncle in
| England fallen heir to fortune Of 500,
| 600. This is better than running away
| with the daughter ef q millionaire with
an irasclDlo temper.
The earth is supposed to lose time at
the rate Of half second in century.
| Therefore, says the Boston Journal,
If the earth ever ceases to reYolye on its
axis il will be more than 100000, 900
years before it viii STOP.
An oak that was cut before 8hak-
speare's day furnished bit of timber
now in use Is bench in an English
farmers kitchen. The timber did duty
as a roof beam in church for 364 years.
1t is still rs sound rs can be.
Albert Fink. the famous Commissioner
of the trunk-line pool, and the most
potential railway official in the United
States, is German by birth, 81 years
Of age, and a widoWer with one dauph-
ter in her teens, to whom he is passion
atelv devoted.
Statistics more or less accurate show
that John Bull is by no means the beef
eater that ne is cracked up to be. En-
glishmen eat but IN average OF forty
five pounds year while the Australians
average 100 pounds, and citizens of the
United States 1870 pounds
George Hartman, New York boy
Is years old, is Il professional cracks
man, rel0ices in an alias. and has been
several times arrested. Six years AGO.
when only years old, he was the assis-
tant OF a noted burglar, employed to
conceal himself in stores and open the
doors atnight
The president of tho Pttsburg, Pa,
Window-Glass Workers federation has
gavcl which has been used in OPEN
ing knights Of Labor meetings at Read
ing, Pa, in 1878; Philadelphia. 1875;
ST, Louis, 1879; Chicago, 1879; New
York, 1882; Cincinnati. 1873; Philadel-
phia, 1884; Hamilton. Canada. 1885;
Cleveland. 1886. and St Helen's, En-
gland, 1886
A correspondent in Mexico explains
why the Mexican calls the American a
''Gungo She SAYS that when the
American army invaded Mexico a IA
vorte song IN the camps was Burns
Green Grow the Rashcs, o. The
MeXicans heard 1t repeated 09or and
over, and finally began TO call the
Americans by the first two words, which
they pronounced grin go Hence
"Gringo
The four Acken brothers Of Middlesex
County, New jersey, are fine mon. Will
liam is cight-three years old six feet
three inches in height, aud weighs 250
pounds; Henry is cightY-one, six feet
four and weighs 20; Samuel is seventy
nine, six feet five. and weighs 225;
Theodore il seyenty-three six feet six,
and weighs 239 pounds They are in
excellent health, and vigorous beyond
their years
Sunset Cox and his wife ono day ask
ed Constantinople lady Of high birth
to take dtiYo with them and she con-
sentcd. Is soon, however. rs they
drove on to the street the driver was ar
rested and the carriage ordered back
by the police. This was owing to the
existence Of 4 law in Constantinople
that no natifc woman Of noble family
shall be seen driving in public with for
eigners or persons not of the Moslem
faith.
The mother Of Paganini is said to
have seen wondrous vision respecting
the future OF her marvellous son. She
related her dream to him i'll these terms:
MY son, you will be q great musician!
For an angel, radiant with beauty, APP
peared TO me in the night and said that
any REQUEST | might make should be
granted. So | asked that you might be-
come the greatest of all yiolinists, and
the angel promised that my request
should be fulfilled"
Walter Gordon of Atlanta is said to
have made three snug fortunes in six
years. In Georgia Pacific he and his
brother, f. G. Gordon, drew out &c.,
900 each in clear cash. one-fourth of
which Walter Gordon invested in plan
tations. In Sheffield they cleared $780,
600 each, and hold large blocks Of the
stock, now six for one and rising. just
before leaving for New York they
cleared $4,000 by the sale Of their
Tennessee Railroad TO the Louisville u
Nashville system.
There i 4 valley in Chautauqua coun-
II. New York, called "No-God hollow"
and this is the way it came by its name:
An evangelist went into the valley and
worked very earnestly for some weeks,
and apparently without any good re-
suits. One day in speaking to one of
the residents OF the place he said: Il
! do not believe there is God in Che