Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-01-14
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There is monstrosity in Shenandoah
County, Va, which is half monkey and
half calf
! There are 452 women editors in En-
gland-more than in all the rest of Eu-
rope combined.
place where old Roman coins are
manufactured has been discovered in
Connecticut.
The full name of Los Angeles, CAL, is
La Puebla de Nuestra Sonora La Reina
de Los Angeles.
A Wisconsin man has been sued for
damages because his bees trespassed on
neighbours sheep pasture.
A man in Crowley, Tex, claims TO
have THE biggest hog ever raised in this
country. 1t weighs 900 pounds.
A valuable fragment OF Homer's
Odyssey has been found at Vienna
1t dates from the second century.
Pearlie Gleason, little girl only nine
years old, took the first prize for oil
painting at the Los Angeles fair
Nothing but part of the foundation
now remains of the house in which
Shakespeare spent the latter portion of
his life.
Cassius NJ, Clay. though not far from
u.s. is managing large farm in Ken
lucky, and nearly as vigorous in mind
and body as he was in his prime.
Congressman John b. Storm. of Mon
roe county, Pennsylvania. occasionally
exhorts from the Methodist pulpits in
the absence Of the regularly ordained
ministers.
A new sect has sprung up in Canada
whose doctrine is that women have no
souls, because the Bible nowhere men
tons women angels. The leader is a
Frenchman.
A Masonic trowel made of solid silver
for General Lafayette, and which he
used at the laying of the De Kalb monu-
ment in 1925, is in the possession of a
family living near Camden, s C.
! Mime. Modjeska has sent TO the New
Orleans exposition doll dressed by her
| own hands as the Scottish Queen Mary,
and the costume is an exact copy in
miniature of her own dress in the last
act of MARY Stuart"
The Princess of Wales, who is still
wonderfully pretty (says Edward King,
writing from Paris), has been several
times in the Bots with her prettier
daughters, and the young Processes
wander about town in the mornings as
| no Partisan girl would dare to do.
| Miss Cleveland's conversation is said
to have oracular quality of her writing.
To one lady she said; Il wish / could
observe Washington life in its political
phase, but | suppose ] am too near tho
centre to get an accurate prospective of
that. Those who live on Mount Athos
do not see Mount Athos. =
Miss Maud Powell, who has recently
met with some favor rs solo violinist
at Theodore Thomas Philharmonic con-
certs, is daughter of the superinten-
dent of public schools of Washington.
Mrs. Annie Louise Powell, who has sung
for Mr. Thomas, is also q Washington
lady, though not related to the former.
The improved kind of explosive known
as cocoa powder is said to possess such
superior value for many purposes that it
has been introduced into the famous
Krupp factory. 1t is asserted that, with
equal pressure. this substance gives
greater velocity TO ball than can be at
Z tanned with ordinary powder, while its
smoke is found to be less dense and TO
1 clear off more quickly.
! The Smithsonian Institution contains
the small nugget of gold, little larger
than pea, that first met the eyes of
James Marshall in the saw-mill wall at
Sacramento, and was the beginning of
/ those discoveries in California that have
added nearly 81 ,500.0o0,000 to the
worlds stock of precious metals. The
nugget is kept in a glass case, and is an
object of curiosity to all visitors.
There are two well-known house
decorators in New York City who are
brothers, of the same height, weight,
complexion, and build. wearing clothes
of the same color and style, and lunch
ing together, without speaking a word
to each other, every day at Delmonico's.
The ordinary mortal cannot tell them
i apart, and one never knows which of
the two he is talking to.
\ brewer in Toledo, o., said to carry
on the largest business of the kind in
the State. has had incorporated a brew
ing company with capital of $500 900,
I and has distributed one-half of the shares
gratuitously among his employees. 1t is
| explained that the owner. fearing that
he would not long live to enjoy his
| wealth, has taken this method of divid-
ing it among those who helped him ac-
emulate it.
The Euphrates River, once a mighty
stream, seems likely to disappear alto
| gcther. For some years the river bank
below Babylon have been giving way
so that the stream spread out into a
marsh, until steamers could not pass,
and only narrow channel remained
| for the native boats. Now the passage
is being filled up, and the prospect is
| that the towns on the banks will be
ruined and the famous river itself will
be swallowed up by the desert.
The Duke of Abercorn, says the Lon
don Truth, was peer and landowner
of the best type. He had been promi-
nent figure in society for more than fifty
years, and he was certainly one of the
most popular men of his time. Prince
Albert was particularly fond of him and
often consulted him with advantage
about both public and private matters
The Duke and Duchess of Abercorn both
figure prominently in "Lothair,n and
they were great favorites of Lord Bea-
consfield, whe regarded them as ideal
specimens of the "high nobility"
A writer in the New York Tribune is
told that Robert Bonner is making a
curious provision for continuing the
Ledger after his death in the same style
in which he has been conducting it for
about thirty years. He holds, it is I'M
derstood, that it will take his successor
fully three years to learn his methods SO
as to select the class of literary matter
which has given the Ledger its peculiar
success. He has, therefore. begun to
collect extra material with the design OF
securing enough to last three years after
his death. Already about enough copy
for one year, or fifty-two numbers, has
been accumulated.
Now that cotton is coming in the oil
mills are busy. Nothing about cotton
need be wasted. The fiber having been
separated. the seeds are again Limited, >
all the cotton adhering to them being
removed and sold to the cotton men.
Then the husks are removed and used
for fuel in the furnaces on the premises
After the seed is ground cooked and
pressed, the oil being extracted, the re,
fuse forms an oil cake, which is shipped
in large quantities to Great Britain fol
food for cattle. Last of all. the ashes
have virtue OF their own, and are sold