Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-09-23
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The order of Foresters has member
ship of 647, or in this country
Catholics have invaded Mormondom.
and will erect a college at Salt Lake
City.
Cake after the soup is d new and
queer feature of some Newport din
ners.
The production of quicksilver in Cali
fornia has dropped to the lowest point
for many years.
A Kentucky court has decided that
when girl jilts her lover she must re-
turn ali his presents.
Six skeletons of very large sizes were
recently exhumed from an Indian
mound near Alameda, Cal
The raisin crop tributary to River
side. California, will aggregate 200, 00O
boxes, valued at 100000, or $500 an
acre.
The lumbermen at Fairfield, Me-, ex.
pect to cut upward of twenty-five mil.
lion feet of lumber during the coming
winter.
Sheridan's famous horse that carried
him to Winchester is now in the Gov
eminent Museum at Governors Island,
New York Harbor.
The popularity of the old plantation
songs is rapidly dying out among the
negroes in the south, being superseded
by gospel hymns.
The largest flat in the world is stu.
ated on the corner of Mott and Eliza
beth streets, New York, and affords a
home for 1900 people.
An examination of the funds of the
Baltimore sub-treasury reveals an excess
of four cents in funds and securities,
amounting to over 81, 100000.
They have rug at Cottage City, N.
j., made in the year 691, or 1,195 years
ago. 1t is a pretty old relic, and was
obtained from the mosque of Mecca.
Buffalo is to have the largest clock in
the world. The dial will be twenty
five feet in diameter, and the center
of the dial 361 feet above the street.
The longest drought that ever occur
red in this country is said to have
taken place in 1862, when no rain fell
from the LIST of May to the lst of Sep
TENDER.
Every morning the aged president of
William and Mary college rings the col
lege bell, and, though no one responds,
the college is still open and retains its
charter.
The San Francisco mint employs at
present three hundred hands. 1t is the
largest in the W rid, having coinage
capacity twice that of Philadelphia and
thrice that of the English mint
A Boston colored man is stated to
have a second set of ribs below the
regular set, extending to the pelvis. He
also apparently has two hearts and can
regulate their pulsations at pleasure.
A citizen of Norwich has a beautiful
pet rattlesnake with sage green head
and finely marked body. He handles
her fearlessly, but rat that she struck
the other day died in twelve minutes.
A party of explorers claim to have
discovered near Magdalena, Sonora.
Mexico, a pyramid with base of 1850
square feet and height of 750 feet.
The celebrated Cheops is but half as
large
In the stomach of shark lately cut
| open at Long Island were found two
undigested skulls of sheepshead, four
blue-fsh, and 1926 menhaden that had
been swallowed by the animal without
a scratch.
There is a movement among the
business men of Chattanooga, Tenn, to
form stock company of two thousand
members, each to take $IUU worth OF
stock, for the purpose of erecting q
large cotton factory.
Max and Paul are the favorite BOYS
names in Germany, and Anna and
Martha the favorite girls names. One
boy out of every eight or nine is called
Max. Of 1850 school girls, 538 are call
ed Anna and 455 Martha.
Nineteen years ago a man in Du Bots,
Pa, lost his voice so that he could
speak only IN whisper. A year ago
he hurt his arm, and since then has oc-
casionally found relief from the pain by
placing it on large driving belt that
generated considerable electricity. Re-
Gently while doing so his voice suddenly
and completely returned and has since
been good
German photographers have succeed
ed IN photographing a projectile in the
course of its. flight, and some of these
photographs show the head of condensed
air which precedes every shot 1t is
said to be this ''head" which prevents
even skilled riflemen from hitting an
empty egg-shell when hung on long
thread. The air blows the shell out Of
the way of the bullet.
AT the recent convention of homeo-
pathic physicians at Saratoga, a doctor
from Springfield, Mass, telling of his
success with diptheria, is reported to
have said: Il have cured hundreds o.
cases with sulpho-carbonate of soda,
and never lost one, while my neighbor,
high dilutionist, has lost every case
he had" "Name him! Name him!'
cried the delegates, and the doctor did
name him, and now there are two
Springfield physicians that are bitter
enemies.
From the site of the ancient city of
Susa Frenchmen have Just carted away
| forty tons of relics fragments of frieze,
bronze coins, and statuettes in bronze,
ivory, terra Gotta, and marble. 1t is
the biggest archaeological haul made
for long time. At first the expedition
encountered much opposition from the
natives, owing to p report that the
Frenchmen wanted to carry away the
body of the prophet Daniel, which is
| supposed to be buried in cave in the
neighborhood, great object of pilgrim
ages.
j. b. Ward. aged Is years, who died
recently at Lumpkin, Ga, was the most
remarkable colored man of the age
During his long existence ne was never
heard to utter an oath, never accused Of
| lying or theft, never had dispute or
/ quarrel with his wife, never had whip
| ping during slavery, nor was he ever
known to take a drink of whisky. He
was always faithful and obedient, peace
| able and reliable He and his wife had
sixteen children, and they lived to see
one hundred and twenty descendants,
who are now living.
There are people in Exeter, N. H..
who are incapable of imagining the ex-
istence of anything outside of that city.
An example of their overpowering ig-
norance is shown in story of an old
man who had never left the borders Of
the town and believed that Exeter com.
prised the better part of creation. One
day he was induced to go to Hampton
beach, and there, going out boating,
lost his oars. and foated over to the Isle
of Shoals. When the hotel proprietor
kindly assisted him to land and inquired
where he hailed from, he innocently re-
piled, Il came from America, sir, y
supposing. of course, that was sufficient
to indicate Exeter.