Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-05-08
Editorial otes.

will be held SOOn 1t is worth remark
ing that the states which send the
same men to congress for many sue
cessive terms are the states which not
only secure the best representation
but which frequently contribute the
most to national legislation.
France places tax on posters and
bill boards Such tax in this coun-
try would not only serve to increase
the public revenues but might save
some beautiful scenery from the van
dalism of the bill-poster.
The Agricultural department rec
ommends that the first flies which APP
pear during the summer be summar-
lily dealt with, as fly generations fol-
low each other at ten day intervals,
with 12O-fold increase. Therefore one
original progenitor killed at the be-
ginning of fly time is equal to several
million later on.
We cannot agree with Senator Hoar
in all his contentious but in many
ways he is grand figure in the q. S.
senate. He has suffered abuse and
ridicule for what he believes to be
right and it required rare courage to
register himself as the solitary oppo-
nent of the Chinese exclusion bill.
Fergus county, Montana, is attract
ing attention on account of it's sap
phire mines where the gems occur in
veins instead of small pockets as is
usually the case. About $4,000 car
ats Of these stones were taken out
during the last month.
There is new industry in the pro-
d1ction of corn oil, nearly 5,0OO,O 900
gallons being exported last year. 1t
is used in making paint, soap, leath-
er-dresslng, artificial rubber, etc..
and the oil cake or residue is valuable
as a cattle food.
Trade between the United States
and Porto Rico is growing remark
ably. We now take over half of the
exports of the island and supply four
ffths of all the imports. This year
the Porto Ricans will buy $40, 10000
worth of goods from us or five times
rs much as when they were under
Spanish rule.
The selection of the Duchess of
Marlborough, nee Vanderbilt, by the
Queen of England, to be one of her
attendants at the coronation ceremony
has angered many of the English peer
esses but it is intended, it is stated,
as delicate compliment to American
womanhood.
The Rhode Island society of the
Cincinnati has offered gold medal
to the person who composes the most
appropriate air to which the words OF
america may be sung. The society
believes America should have a ma
tional anthem of her own instead of
using her own sir as "God Save the
Queen" with slight change of tempo.
The ocean steamboat trust is an
nounced as settled, though the new
plan does not destroy the identity OF
the existing lines, each being con-
trolled by a blanket corporation own
ing r. ority of the shares in each
compay The worlds shipping will
be redu to system and the OBJ
ject will I to provide daily service
between New York and England,
whereas now the sailings of the differ
emit lines are at cross-purposes. The
whole plan is stupendous in it's scope
and possibilities.
Reports from every branch OF indus
try show that there is no sign of abate-
: ment in any of the lines of industrial
prosperity. The prices of all manu-
featured products are on the rise and
take all natural products Win Inem
alphabetically.
The democrats hoped to present a
solid front of opposition to the repub-
licans in congress and thus strength
ell their cause with the country, but
the habits of eight years of continual
strife could not be shaken off and
their different ''isms" have provoked
chisms that point toward republican
success.
Dean Swift in "Gulhver's Travels"
made the most remarkable fore-Shad-
owing of a coming event that has
ever been recorded, He spoke of .the
discovery of the two moons Of Mars,
C.aro +bo +i,,oo Of tboi,, rouOlI1tinnC