Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-31
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brookline, Mass, Is still the richest
town In the world. The annual state
ment Of finances shows that the debt
Is 81 1867 ,949 under limit There are no
unpaid taxes prior to Nov. /, 1904. Bal
ance on hand foots up to 500, 312.SS;
assessed polls, GALL; tax levy, $685.
7O7; real estate valuation, SCI, S42, 900.
A Spanish contemporary says, &C.
cording to the Indianapolis News, that
in 1904 nearly twelve thousand bulls
were killed in bull fights Of the coun-
try. The bulls killed about ten thou
sand horses. The best and most valua-
BILE bulls for the arena are raised on
the vast estates of the Duke Of Vera
qua, in Andalusia, who has made a
fortune out of this business.
For the first time in history, it is
said, one of the pyramids has been
struck by lightning. The pyramid
struck has been that Of Khephren, and
the fact is another illustration Of the
gradual change that Is being brought
about in the climate Of Egypt by the
great dam at Assouan and the irriga-
ton works made possible since British
occupation Of the Nile valley.
The Welsh is a language that looks
peculiarly fit for college yells. The
Welsh yells are fully up to the level Of
those Of this country. The University
Of North Wales has a yell something
like this: Bravo, bra-vissimo, ray, ray,
ra-o-rock! Ray-ray-o-rock! Ray-ray-ray-
o-rockw Cardiff has somewhat SINH.
lar "yell," while at Aberystwyth the
cry is "Hip-hip-hur-aber Hip-hip-hur-
aber! p-hip-hur ?Aberystwyth With
pip and pang, and zip and a yam.
Yak! Yak! Yakv'
A Hindoo poem enumerates eight
hundred purposes to which the Palmy-
ra palm alone is put Among other
things it supplies paper for writing
upon, an Intoxicating drink called
"toddy," large quantities Of sugar fruit
and a vegetable for the table when the
plants are young. Palm wine is also
obtained from the juice Of the sage
palm, which yields excellent sugar can.
dy when boiled. The pith Of the trunk
forms large part of the food Of the
natives in many parts of India. Ropes,
brushes and brooms are manufactured
from the fiber Of the leaf stalks.
William J. Hammer, the electrical
engineer, has found novel use for the
wireless telegraph. In his New York
home he is employing it to call the SER
wants. On his dining room table Is a
dainty transmitter and pole connected
by means Of flexible silk cord with
batteries under the table. Down in the
kitchen is another pole, with transmit
ter and receiver, connected with an
electric bell. The transmitters are no
| bigger than paper weights When Mr..
Hammer wants the maid he sends
wireless current through the walls of
the room. The electrical waves are
caught by the pole in the kitchen and
the bell rings A system Of signals
permits him to call for anything he de-
sires.
Kentucky possesses, in the Mann
moth Cave, one of the natural wonders
Of the world. but, while this is the
largest of its cayerns, and, SO far as
known, the largest in the world, there
are hundreds of others of inferior, but
| still Of great size. In Edmonson coun-
| ty alone there are said to be more than
| five hundred caves, and, In addition,
| four thousand sink holes of various
sizes and depths. In Colossal Cavern,
discovered in 1895, what Is believed to
be the largest stalagmite in the world
has been named Henry Clay's Monu-
ment" 1t is ninety feet high and thlr-
| ty feet thick at the base. The cavern
| is only about mile and half from
/. the great Mammoth Cave, and is said
to be in some respects even more Won
| derful than the latter, though not SO
| large.