Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-12-02
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A brown African goose in North AT
tleboro, Mass, lately amused it's owner
by producing an egg Of extraordinary
size. Around its longest circumfer-
ence it measured IT'S inches, and ~
inches around it's shortest. The goose
weighs nineteen pounds.
If all the minis in the United States
began to coin to-day and kept it up at
the rate at which they have worked
since 1892, making double eagles,
eagles, half eagles, quarter eagles, sill
yer dollars, halves, quarters, dimes,
nickels and pennies, they would COM
plete $1,00O,0OOOO0 on Aug. 20, 2O16,
D. D.
The kite, according to pathological
authorities, is declared to be extinct,
and it is practically SO. But vigi-
lance committee has nevertheless been
formed in Wales for the protection OF
the bird. A photographer recently
traced one Of the only pair Of kites
known to exist in South Wales to
cave in the mountains and with
lucky snapshot secured a photograph.
The home Of the pair is being kept a
secret.
No bird, beast or creeping thing will
touch a castor oil plant. 1t seems to
be rank poison to all animals. Even q
goat will starve before biting off a
leaf, and horse will sniff at it and
turn up his upper lip as though it had
the most detestable odor on the face Of
the earth. Locusts will pass it by,
though they may eat every other green
thing in sight, and there is no surer
way to drive moles away from a lawn
than to plant few castor beans here
and there.
A tale is told of a Kansas minister,
great precisionist in the use Of words,
whose eXactness sometimes destroyed
the force of what he was saying. On
one occasion, in the course Of an elo-
| quent prayer, he pleaded: 20 Lord!
waken thy cause in the hearts Of this
congregation and give them new eyes
| to see and new impulse to Go. Send
down thy lever or leever, according
to Websters or Worcesters dictionary,
whichever thou usest, and pry them in
| to activity"
| A keeper was cleaning the hyenas'
cage at Hall by the Sea, England. One
Of the animals improved the opportuni-
| to turn upon the man in an ugly mood.
The keeper promptly defended himself,
and, to teach the animal manners, gave
it drubbing until it skunk into cor
ner. One Of the spectators, dear old
lady, demonstrated with the keeper
and thought he had acted cruelty. The
man stepped out Of the cage, and, adj
vancing to the lady, said: "P'raps,
mum, you'd like to come inside and
manage him!' The invitation was not
accepted.
| Yiddish Is an archaic and corrupt
form Of German extensively spoken
| by Jews In many countries besides
| Germany itself. An instance of it's
popularity is given by a writer: In
| Jerusalem he met "a worthy man who
| denounced me for being unable to con-
verse with him in Yiddish. You are
no Jew he protested, for you do not
know the Yiddish language an
swered that Hebrew was the Jewish
| language and that / was quite willing
| to try to speak to him in it. His re-
joinder was: L have no patience with
this new-fangled idea of speaking He
| brew in jerusalem
Kansas is not the only State that
boasts Of it's corn. Listen to Missouri:
'8The cornstalk brought to town last
Saturday by A. R. Fretwell is I'M
doubtedly the biggest specimen Of corn
| ever grown anywhere in this part OF
the country" says the Sheldon (Mo)
Enterprise. "The stalk Of corn is
eighteen feet six inches in height, two
feet from the ground, has g1rtn
| eight inches, and its weight exceeds
| twenty-three pounds. To just what d.
mansions it might have grown had 1t
not been brought to an untimely end
by Mr.. Fretwell, it is hard to say. On
Saturday morning this huge cOrnstalk
| was hung horizontally along the tele-
phone cable which crosses Main street,
Immediately in front of the exchange,
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