Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-09-18
Many PeOp:e llc, cps Tip.

All l., SdlO the NuiGCI, Tie ON,
man who takes tips? NO. not at all
you, for instance, tell your tobac-
conist that ia few days Smith, the
millionaire, will be in to see him
that Smith was looking for a good
dealer, and you recommended him to
go there Well, Smith goes there and
leaves heavy order. Hence. YOU are
not surprised when you receive little
later a box of good cigars. with your
tobacconist's compliments, but if those
cigars are not tip, what are they?
Brown is a buyer for big manu-
factory The firm he patronizes is
sending him every week or two boxes
of toilet soaps, cases of perfumery,
dozens of golf balls, and barrels of
CLANS Those are Browns tips-the
gratuities he gets for his patronage.
"Robinson sends rich friend to his.
tailor with note of introduction, and
the rich friend buys four suits. Isn't
Robinson being tipped when the tail
or, the week following. makes him a
present of a set of English tiannels?"
The waiter made a disdainful ges-
ture and CALCULATED:
"Pish! Tipping, they say, is un-
American, and a waiter OF proper.
pride and independence would scorn to
accept quarter or half in return for
the serving of a meal. But l say that
tipping runs clean through our social
system. from top to bottom, and all
of us. excepting only the elevator
man, are taking tips Of one sort or an
other all our lives. Philadelphia
Record.
This Ia Fiction.
The man closed the bathroom door
and locked it. He looked with fierce
determination at the bathtub, half
filled, and, setting his jaw. Kissed:
''I'll do it or break leg!'
Picking up couple of dumbbells
weighing ten pounds piece, he sprang
into the air and landed on the water.
Then he stepped out again, unmind-
full Of the pain the jar had given him.
BENDING over the tub once more, he
laughed triumphantly.
1T have accomplished it at last" he
cried. IT have put a three-inch dent
in that water"
But Of course this is fiction He
lived in Cincinnati, and the water, at
present writing, is far too muddy to be
denteo.-C Commercial Trib-
une.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Milwaukee has a bowling club. four
of whose members weigh ZOO pounds.
Too blind faith must not be placed
in the alternative effects of drugs, de-
cIared the president of the annual con-
gress of the British Homeopathic So
ciety recently.
The Brazilian coast city Of Bahia
has about 100000 inhabitants. who live
in 1900 homes. For each house So
month water rent must be paid.
A Roman bowl of Samian make,
said to be 1000 years old, has been
brought up from the sea bottom OFF
Beachy head by Brightlingsee oyster
dredger.
The soil Of the larger part of Man
churia and Mongolia is of a sedi-
mentary formation. The winters are
very cold in Manchuria, the ground
being frozen to the depth of several
feet.
Not until Henry Wits time were
either raSpberries or strawberries or
cherries grown in England, and we do
not read of tulip, caulifower and
ounce being cultivated, or the carrot,
before the seventeenth century.
Longed for a Pretty Face.
A native of Dublin, but a resident
of London, arrived in Philadelphia a
few days ago. His last stopping place
was st. Petersburg, where. he spent
several weeks. He says he is delighted
~ as hn is, Ia oriy, fnv
the sight of pretty faces, which in st.
Petersburg are as rare as they are
plentiful here. On one OCCASION in
company with friend, he walked the
entire length Of the Nevski PrOspekt
-four miles,, the Chestnut street of the
Russian capital, and during the stroll
saw but two pretty women. And Rus
sian ladies', he declares, do not dress
| nicely. He explained these two facts
by saying that they Were mainly Tar
tars. and was somewhat nOnplused
when innocently asked by his cynical
| listener: aren't all women tar
| tars ?'-Philadelphi Telegraph.
Better Than His Father.
General Fred Grant few months
| ago received letter which he showed
| his army friends in Luzon as a joke
| at his own expense, and which there
fore may properly be promulgated
The generals son. u. s. Grant Third
| is a cadet at West Point. now a first
| class man and cadet adjutant. But
earlier in his course his father became
anxious about him and impaired his
anxiety by mail from the Philippines
| to a professor in the academy, con-
| temporary of his own, begging him
| to send exact and confidential Informal
| ton as to the cadets standing. The
answer which relieved his anxiety was
as follows:
! s'Dear Fred: You needn't worry.
| The boy stands higher in everything
than you ever did in anything."-New
| York Times. ..s
Siamese Dress and Jewels.
, Now that ladies wear SO many jew
els in the daytime sequence of color
| should be thought out. The Siamese
arrangement may, perhaps, afford sug-
| gestions In that country on Sunday
red silk with a parure of rubies is
worn, Monday brings silver and
~ .