Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-06-26
Editorial Notes.

an indication Of the condition OF bus1-
ness this is proof that the wave of
prosperity is still rising.
The report on the mule camp at
New Orleans has been made public,
showing that $18,O0O,OO0 orth Of
horses and males were stlpped from
that port, about $4,000 animals be-
ing sent in no less than 166 voyages.
The station was not used for recruit
ing men or operating in any way
against the neutrality laws.
The association for promoting sci
entifc research among women has Of
fered two prizes of 81 900 each for the
best scientific essays written by wo-
men. The head of the prize commit
mittee is Miss Ellen HI. Richards, In
stitute of Technology, Boston, Mass.
Nixon need not feel bad at having
offended Tammany. Grover Cleve-
land was hated by TammanY and it
has been said that he owed his cleo
tion by the rest of the country main
ly to that hatred. Tilden brought
Tweed low and was made governor
and practically elected president.
People are judged largely by the enc
mics they make.
In calling attention to the other tri-
umphs OF the republican party it will
be remember that when it succeed
ed to office five years ago the finances
of the country were in perilous con-
dition and that now the credit of the
country is the best in the world and
that, in spite of the fact that we have
carried on foreign war, the national
debt is actually less than it was when
the republican regime began.
It is stated that DR.. E M. Koonce, an
ALASKAN missionary, drove 1900 miles
on dog sled on his way to attend
the recent Presbyterian conference
held in New York.
Western rural correspondence say
that it is impossible to hire good work
men even at higher wages than usual.
Thus the testimony of prosperity con-
tinues to be volunteered from all
sources.
A magnificent silver punch-bowl
has been sent from the rural delivery
division of the Postoffice department
to Chas. Emory Smith, ex-Postmaster
General by "those benefited by and
friendly to the service" One of the
panels of repousse work on the bowl
represents Mr. Smith at his desk in
the department.
DIR. Assmann, German scientist,
has sent balloons recently to the I'M
precedented height of II 1-2 miles.
Human beings could not live at that
and the balloons were fitted with aut-
omatic registering devices so that
when the highly rarified upper at
mosphere was reached and the bal
looms exploded by the expansive force
OF the gas in them parachutes brought
the recording apparatus safely back to
earth
Some time ago we spoke of the rec
ord of Mr.. Patterson of Colorado who
had addressed the United States sem
ate about six hundred times at that
writing. Now his record shows 738
remarks, elaborate and incidental, in
a senatorial career of only four
months.
A Frenchman has devised a cable
laying pillow which cuts the earth to a
depth of three feet and lays cable at
the bottom of the cut at one opera
ton. 1t is designed for use across
the desert of Sahara to connect the
Lake Tehad region with civilization,
at the same time obviating the diff
culties experienced with pole strung
wires VIII CHI are cut by hostile ma
tives.
A German syndicate has been try
ing to secure the exclusive right to
opium in China by paying bonus Of
of SIS, 900, 900 but tits not likely that
the concession will be granted al
though China needs the money badly
now to pay off her European indemni-
ties. The British introduced opium
into China in their efforts to get a
market for the product of the poppy
fields of India and the terrible effects |
Of the drug were unknown in the
Celestial Empire" before the advent
of civilization.