Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-07-13
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army officers committing suicide on
account of plagiarism. Captain Cas-
sagnade sent in a poem TO the Florai
Games, which received minor prize
and was printed with the other prize
pieces. A lycee professor accidentally
opened the book and recognized the
poem as an already published produc-
ton of his own, with the exception or
a dozen lines. He informed the prize
committee of the plagiarism and the
captain was asked for an explanation,
whereupon he shot himself. The COM
mittee went so far as to state that II
it had not been for the captains own
additions the poem would have re-
ceived the first prize. Foreign Letter
New York Sun.
Some one in Boston the other DAY
started the story that there was pre-
MUM of ten cents on the new one-dol-
lar silver certificate, series A, and that
for some unknown reason the govern
ment had called in the entire ssue. AS
a result credulous people gathered all
the new one-dollar bills they could get,
and so rapidly did the circulation OF
the issue decrease that the officials at
the subtreasury felt called upon to an
nounce not only that the premium
story was untrue, but that the govern
ment had no intention of Withdrawing
the certificates.
A correspondent of one of the New
York papers states that after having
moved several times within the past
two years in quest of apartments where
he might rest undisturbed at night, he
at last found an orderly neighborhood
He had been just month in this peace
full abode when the basement of the
house next door was rented as a bowl
ing alley and the top floor as a dancing
academy.
Recent researches with the aid OF
Roentgen rays on the movements or
the stomach of a cat during the diges-
tion of a meal showed in the most
striking manner that any slight vexa-
ton of the animal stopped with sur
prising promptness and invariability
gastric contractions and movements Of
every sort.
England is rejoicing in the prospect
Of fresh apples all the year round, as
shipments are beginning to arrive from
the Cape of Good Hope. These reach
England just when the northern hem
isphere apples become poor, and are
superior to those preserved in cold
storage
A German railroad now building in
eastern Africa. where the climate is
most dangerous to white men, recently
offered positions to civil engineers at
Slips per annum station masters
1000 and locomotive drivers 5000.
Somebody once asked Queen Vie
toria's late physician Dr. Jenner. q
anxiety ever caused him to lose sleep.
why should it," he said Il go: l d.
my best. Who can do more? Why
should lose sleep?"
A vineyard on the Moselle which
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Gently sold for 100000. which is the
highest price ever paid for vine land
in the Moselle territory or probably IN
the whole Rhine district.
Secretary Long is considered one Of
the easiest men for reporters to inter-
view He is rarely misquoted. for he
writes what he wants printed. and in
sists that nothing else shall appear
over his name.
Seventy-seven carloads OF lgricul.
tural implements are now on their way
from the United States to the Argen.
tine republic for the new harvest
Most Of them are haryesters an6
thrashing machines.
Eight hundred japanese workmer
are now employed in track work on
railways in Washington and Oregon
and they are said to give better and
more constant service than white la
Dor.
DR. George f. Poole. director of the
New York Y. NJ. c. A., declares that an
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things to inculcate in a man when
fighting his vicious tendencies.
Joel Chandler Harris. of Uncle Re-
mus" fame, does all his work at his
home outside of Atlanta He walks
into the Constitution office daily, carry
ing his copy" with him.
While the population Of France has
increased only 10 per cent in the last
fifty years. the number of state officials,
according to NJ. Turquan, shows an in
crease of III per cent.
The Buddhists of Burma have sub
scrbed and paid $4,000 for the mate
rails and fashioning of a golden casket,
in which their most sacred relic a
tooth CT Buddha, is to repose.
Andrew Jackson has been nominated