Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-11-08
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It is said that American tourists
spend a million dollars a day In Eu-
rope.
Two Of the big department stores Of
Chicago are now owned and controlled
by women.
Fully one-third Of the land In Great
Britain is owned by members Of the
House Of Lords.
All males who sell newspapers in
the streets Of Moscow are compelled
to appear in uniform.
The dolphin is the swiftest fish. For
short distances it can swim at the rate
Of twenty-five miles an hour.
Not every one knows what flower is
meant by the pimpernel in the famous
lines:
The white lake blossom fell into the lake,
As the pimpernel dozed on the lea.
Every year layer Of the entire sea,
fourteen feet thick, is taken up into
the clouds; the winds bear their bur-
den into the land, and the water comes
down in rain upon the fields, to flow
back through rivers.
Plants with white blossoms have
larger proportion Of fragrant species
than any others; next comes red, then
yellow and blue; after which, and in
the same order, may be reckoned vio-
let, green, orange, brown and black.
A typical South African household,
described by Olive Schreiner, had an
English father, half Dutch mother
with a French name, a Scotch gov
erness, a Zulu cook, Hottentot house
maid and Kaffir stable boy, while
the little girl who waited at table was
a Basuto.
1t Is a pretty English wild flower Of
the primrose family, and commonly
known as "poor-man's weather glass;"
because its petals are SO sensitive to
moisture that they droop before the
coming rain. Garden burnet is some
times COMPOUNDED with this English
plant, because it is called by the
French "pimpernelle." But the PIN
pernel which "dozed on the lea" is a
slightly poisonous, acrid plant, not at
all suitable in a salad.
The battle Of the behring's was the
comical name given to fight between
an English force and French de-
tachment not far from Orleans in 1929.
The English were conveying a large
quantity Of supplies, mainly herrings,
for it was Lent, to the army that was
besieging Orleans. The English had
sixteen hundred men, the French six
thousand. The former repulsed the
assailants and saved the herrings, go
the battle was named in honor Of the
supplies.
A memento Of the Kaiser's recent
visit to Morocco is a splendid full.
blood negro Of gigantic stature whom
the Emperor brought home with him
| from Tangier. The negro was selected
for the Imperial Guards on account Of
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ed as tambourine player, but as he had
been used to flowing Arab attire, he
took badly to the light tunic, and still
worse to his jingling hand instrument,
with which he publicly raped the
bandmaster on the head during his
| first performance. The Moor has now
been withdrawn from the band, and
the Emperor is bordering what to do
with his ''black diamond"
Some recently invented chrome
Photographic cameras by Lucien Bull
Of Paris take successive pictures at
rates Of from one thousand to two
thousand per second. The source Of
light is the spark Of an induction coil,
which, it is calculated, endures only
about one two-millionth Of a second,
so that with improved mechanism the
successive images could be taken at q
far more rapid rate than is now en-
ployed. Six hundred images per Sec
ond, however, suffice to show clearly
the moving wings Of dragon-fy, and
with eleven hundred or twelve hun
dred images per second, sharp pictures
have been obtained Of bees and house
flies in fight.
Habit in Annetito