Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-09-05
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Chrysanthemum smoking Is the lat
est thing in England. Cigarettes made
OF chrysanthemum leaves and cascaril-
Ia bark have been found to give relief
In cases of epilepsy, and one doctor
recommends them as a substitute for
tobacco.
Mice are employed as signals on sub
marine boats. Should there be the
least leakage Of naphtha, the mice give
warning by incessant spueaks, as they
nave a great dislike for the odor of
naphtha. In the British navy an al
| lowance is made for feeding the mice
On the submarines.
The taste for horsefesh Is growing
In Paris. In 1904 $4,000 horses, asses
and mules were slaughtered there for
food and last year the number was
$4,000. A little over a year ago chip
pophagic" slaughter house was opened
by the Municipal Council in the Rue
les Morrillons, and now the horse
butchers are petitloning the authorities
to allow them to extend the space avail
able-at their own expense. All the
town has to do is to supply the terri
tory.
At SolOvetsz, In Russia, Is a remark
able fortified monastery. It is enclosed
on every side by a wall Of granite
powders nearly mile in circumfer-
ence. The monastery itself is very
strongly fortified, being supported by
round and square towers about thirty
feet in height, with walls twenty feet
in thickness. The monastery consists
| in reality of six churches, which are
completely filled with statues Of all
kinds and precious stones. Upon the
walls and the towers surrounding these
churches are mounted huge guns which,
in the time of the Crimean War; were
directed against the British White Sea
squadron.
A description Of the class day exer.
cises at Northwestern University con-
| tains this mention of the pipe Of peace
smoking, which illustrates the manners
Of co-educatiOn Lewis r. Horton,
president of the senior class, filed the
pipe, touched a match to it, and it
went slowly from one pair of lips to
another. Giving off an Odor Of mild
tobacco, it passed from one coed to
another. None refused her puff A
few coughs were heard at the end Of
the ceremony. The men took their turn
and the pipe passed back to Horton,
who, after a long drag handed it to
Miss Sarah Shute, president of the
junior class"
In a Western divorce court recently
a woman sued her husband for divorce
on the ground that he was a camera
fiend of the most terrible kind. The
moment he returned from business and
finished his dinner he disappeared into
the darkroom, and she never saw him
again until midnight, when he tumbled
into bed He slept until o'clock in
| the morning, then swallowed a mouth
full of breakfast and dashed to the Of
flee. He belonged to q camera club,
and every Saturday afternoon and all
day Sunday he was either out taking
photographs or developing them. For
two years the unhappy wife endured
this state of affairs. Then she declared
that she could bear it no longer. The
Judge tried to smooth things over, but
in vain, and the separation took place.
Brussels has a dog detective it Is
proud Of. For some time in the darker
parts Of the city cyclists have been as
saulted and their wheels stolen. A
special police service was organized to
stop these crimes. It so happened that
one of the officers charged with this
service possesses a dog whose natural
intelligence has been Quickened by the
best professional training which his
master could give him. The dog was
pressed into the service. On Monday
evening, as his owner was unsusplcious-
ly passing some piles of masonry on
waste ground, the dog became restless
ly alert, and rushing among all the
ms and outs, soon led the officer to
the hiding place Of five Of the worst
thieves known to the Brussels police.
The spectacle of five men being 'shep-
herded" to Jail by one police officer and
a dog attracted much attention.
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NewsbOy's Quick Wit.
A newsboy jumped on Linden ave
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