Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-01-28
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A Japanese judge lately fined news
paper man for not crediting an article
clipped from contemporary.
Nearly 600 newspapers in the United
States bear the name of NeUs, of which
thirty-four are located in Pennsylvania.
There is demand from China for
$50 Christian missionaries at once. Con-
yerts are multiplying in all parts Of tho
empire.
An English lockmaker has construct
ed key which he says is capable OF
opening ~, 900 patent lever locks, all of
which differ in their combinations.
DIR. Albert Thompson, young Irish
physician, has been presented with the
Albert medal for removing poison in a
case OF diphtheria by sucking it away.
NJ. de Lesseps is said to look wonder
fully well, although for several months
past he has been harassed by puny syn
dicates gotten up for the purpose of
ousting him from his position as presi-
dent of the Interoceanic Canal associa-
ton.
Mr. George w. Childs, of Philadelphia,
has added an interesting item to Ameri-
can annals by his discovery that Com
modore Stewart, grandfather of Charles
Stewart Parnell, is the one who induced
Joseph Bonaparte to buy land and build
his house at Bordentown, N. j.
A boy in Cleveland fell from tree
and dislocated his neck. A surgeon
was sent for, who replaced the disjoint-
ed vertebre SO skillfully that the boy re-
covered, and is to-day as well as ever.
This operation has been frequently at
tempted, but very seldom with success.
Judging from a paragraph now going
the rounds OF the medical press, the
higher education of women does not
conduce to connubiality aud fecundity
OF 759 female college graduates only 1856
are married. OF these, IS have no chill
dren, and 1870 have had 263 children, Of
which 232 are living.
A well-known scientist says the feel
ing of one while standing on a high
mountain or on the edge of deep abyss
is to fly. Instances are noted where
persons, unable to resist this impulse,
have cast themselves headlong into dark,
yawning chasms, in the belief that they
would reach the bottom in safety.
OF all the eminent jurists who have
sat upon the Supreme Court bench of
the United states from the organization
Of the government to the present time,
only one of them has been impeached-
Samuel Chase, in 1904. He was accused
of unjust, tyrannical and arbitrary con-
duct at certain trials, but was acquit-
ted.
BY an automatic tea or coffee-pot used
by the French army it is impossible to
obtain drop of coffee unless the water
is boiling. The water is underneath
the coffee. but when it boils it rises up
through central tube and falls over
| the coffee or tea, percolates, goes down
to the lower part of the apparatus, is
warmed again and once more travels
upward.
Near Odessa two Greek merchants by
| mistake purchased the same lot in a
| cemetery. The matter was referred, after
warm dispute, to the District Judge,
who decided first come, first served"
| and that whichever died first should
have the coveted resting-place, it being
| understood that neither would take an
unfair advantage of the other by COM
hitting suicide.
The Prussian Ministry of Agriculture
| is just now engaged in prosecuting an
interesting and thorough inquiry into
the most advantageous way of dealing
with the estates and agricultural pro-
perties belonging to the State. The OBJ
| ject is to ascertain whether it would be
most profitable to cut up and sell these
properties outright or permanently to let
| them on lease.
Mrs. Livermore is an enthusiastic adj
vocate Of cooperative housekeeping.
| She, with some fifty other families, has
| experimental with cooperative laun-
| dry, and has been able to reduce the
| cost of her washing and ironing to q
cents a dozen, including dresses and the
most difficult pieces. She says the same
| economic results have been obtained in
other departments of housekeeping.
Nine. Adelina Patti will be married to
Sig. Nicolini in June next-that is to
say, in the legal period of ten months
after her divorce from the Marquis de
Caux. Nicolini's real name is Ernest
Nicholas, and he belongs to humble
French family. His wife, from whom
he has just been divorced by mutual
consent, and from whom he had been
separated many years, is an Italian lady
named Maria Annata.
The ministers, it seems, trouble the
| librarians as much as any other class of
| persons. At recent conference of libra
rians in New York DIR. Buel, Librarian
of Union Theological Seminary, was
asked how he got along He said he
was afraid that ministers were as bad az
any one else, for since he had been lib
rarian more than 1000 volumes had
been taken. "One minister" he said,
kept book twenty-three years, but
finally returned it, with note to the
effect that he needed the book no longer,
as he had obtained better edition"
A romantic marriage took place at
Blakely day or two ago Miss Mamie
Haddock of Damascus was engaged to
marry popular young society man OF
Arlington Sunday. Last night Edward
S. Shepherd, former sweetheart of hers,
paid call to offer his congratulations.
He laughingly said: "Are you not sorry
you didn't marry me?" She replied:
yes" when he proposed that they get
married anyway. She assented. Fri
day morning bright and early they slip
ped away and were married by the Rev.
r. L. Virgins. Savannah (Ga.) Ne,cs.
While am on the subject of heraldry
let me recall good story credited to
William r. Travers. 1t was told that
when A. L. Stewart conceived the idea
of setting up coat of arms he went to
Mr.. Travers for advice. Mr.. Travers
suggested an employer rampant, chas-
ing a lazy salesman with yardstick;
and Mr.. Stewart did not speak to him
again for month. This anecdote is
| probably about as authentic as the
other, which states that Mr. Stewart, be-
| ing extremely loquacious at State ban
quet at Delmonico's, Mr. Travers silenc-
ed him by calling the length of the table,
"Cash!"-N. Y. Today
Agriculture is the basis of the prosper
ity of the world. If he who makes two
blades Of grass grow where only one
sprang up before deserves well of his
country, then Mr.. Mitchell Henry, M. p.
for Galway County, deserves a statue as
public benefactor. On his estate at
| Kylemore. Connemara he has nlantod