Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-03-02
ODDS AND ENDS
London has es.ooo Germans.

Strong City, Ran. has one lawyer.
New York city has 10000 tenenasnt
residents.
Dlo.ting paper is made Of cotton rags
boiled in soda.
Lancaster county, Pa, is our greatest
tobacco county.
Turkeys have been known to live thirty
years in Indiana.
Plants in a room nc.d fresh air, but must
be kept from cold draft.
Successful experiments in growing tea
have been made near Panama.
Cover n nail with soap and it will then
be easy to drive IL into hard wood.
The people Of this country spent moro
shan Si4 90. go last year for flowers.
In England locomotives have neither
bells. headlights nor ''cowcatcherx"
More than million people are treated
in the hospitals Of London each year.
The tallcst aud shortest people in Europe,
the Norwcgians and the Laps, live side by
side.
Try cloth. wrung out from cold water.
put about the neck at night for sore
throat.
It is curious that butterflies and bees
family.
San Bernardino county. Cal, cxpends
81 600 a month on its horticultural COM
mission.
Every ugly man thinks. while he may
not be pretty. there is something distin-
guished looking about his face.
The iron mines OF this country produced
nearly Is, 0oo. 900 tons last year. The cap
ital invested is about sil0, Zoo. 600.
Carriages were first introduced in Eng
land in 1880. and were for a long time used
only for the conveyance Of the sick and OF
ladies.
Yuma county. A. T.. viii soon have
good system OF irrigation. Two canals
will irrigato several thov sand acres of rich
bottom land.
You will never offend any one by ridicnl-
ing the average man. for the reason that
every one who hears you thinks be Is above
the average.
IL you haven't got religion enough To
make you anxious that somebody else shall
get to heaven ron haven't got quite enough
TO get there yourself.
For Secretary Rusk's dspartment-that
Of agriculture 30, 900 has been appropri-
ated for the pursuit aud study OF birds and
bugs, and 1000 for chemistry.
Introductiea of Nersnos Into Australia
The history OF Australian wool growing
began Ia 1sga, when Mr. John Macarthur.
of Sydney, landed at that port herd OF
II - 1rf -
Coed Hopc. The success which crowned
hisventarc. in the shape Of a rapid improve
ment in the quantity and quality Of the
wool that these sheep produced, was 40
great that Mr. Macarthur ten years later
sailed FOR Europe 10 secure some specimens
OF Spanish merinoe, for which be believed
the hot, dry climate Of pastoral Australia
was particularly adapted. The Spaniarsls.
however. knew the value Of their aocks
and had made the exporsstson Of rserinos
. capital osTenzs. Therefore the Austra-
Ian Jason. disappointed In his quest for
this f'sece, which. II not itself golden. he
believed sFenid put nneh gold into fis
pocket. returned 10 Enrlsnd. where his en-
thusiassic accounts Of Australia reached
the interested ears Of The farmer king.
George III.
As AeArthur's lack would have II. the
king. soma yesTs before. had been pre-
rented By his cousin II Spain with rssfr ~
the finest Ct there fne1inos. and from the
increase thereof he rraciousiy esse 10 the
| Australian four splendid animals. With
which he ct sail r5Ecing Tbsss high
bred sheep landed ssfelr IN Australia ard
fuliy realized al the expeef atoms Of their
owner. They improved The grade a wool
| and - increased and multiplied fksk ~
the end Of is<a. their progeny had sprrsd
ali ever Australia. Tassssnis and New
| Zealand ard numbered so1 90. 90 ipdi-
vt<saalS, representing. with The lard upon
| which thsy rs<turrd ~ ics<t ktu. oofeo
| --a6dnsg Dieksn%cr In Ser5bnrraa