Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-04-11
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%AANV L1lIES dS NIdlly Illus
cles IN the tail Of a dog as there are
in the human hand and wrist.
In the hospital for incurables at
Putney, England, there recently died
a woman who had been an inmate fif-
ty-one years, and had cost the hos
pital $17,5OO.
The alphabet of the various lam
guages of the world vary from IL to
202 letters. That of the Hawaiian
language has only IL letters, while
that of the Tartars is at the other
end Of the list with POP letters.
The turbot is credited by a report
on North Sea fishes with the greatest
fecundlty of any fish. In five speci-
mems, the heaviest weighing twenty
pounds, the number of eggs was from
five to ten millions each. A halibut
of ninety-one pounds contained 1921
600 eggs.
Eggs of the aptornis, a recently ex-
tinct wingless bird, bring very high
prices, fine colored specimens fetching
as much as $3.50 to $1,000 apiece. The
apteryX, or New Zealand kiwi, is
bird, which, though still living, is be-
coming scarcer from day to day, and
Its final extinction is only a question
Of years. These kiwi breed very slow
ly, only one or two very large eggs
being laid during the season, and as
yet there is no record Of the successful
raising Of young in captivity.
The public boring of a young girls
ears is in Burmah the equivalent of
her coming out" according to the AL
lahabad Pioneer. The ceremony has
just been performed on an elaborate
scale In the case of two daughters of
Maung Tin Of Mandelay. They sat
side by side on platform, attired in
the richest and daintiest costumes i'm
aginable, both of them pretty girls
and decked, of course, with flowers,
while on the head Of each was a mas
sive crown Of pure gold, studded with
gems to make ones mouth water.
Father Abbey, who died the other
day in Berne, Switzerland, was, ac-
cording to the Geneva correspondent
Of LIE Matin of Paris, "the most mis-
cradle miser in all Europe" Since
he was twenty years Of age, when he
inherited large fortune, he had lived
on charity and an expenditure of 5
cents a day. He died at the age of
cnUnnfU Qn6 hic hnHxy
ciated that it resembled a mummy.
He left securities valued at $750,0OO,
100000 in gold and silver coin con-
cealed about his house, and no rela-
tives.
The Chinese Minister at Washington
tells this dog story: There was Chi
nese who had three dogs. When he
came home one evening he found them
asleep on his couch of teakwood and
marble. He whipped them and drove
them forth. The next night, when he
came home, the dogs were lying on
the floor, but he placed his hand on
the couch and found it warm from
their bodies. Therefore he gave them
another whipping. The third night,
returning earlier than usual, he found
the dogs sitting before the couch,
blowing on it to cool it.
A correspondent of the London Field
relates that he shot a flying heron that
that had been fishing In the river
Colne at UXbridge, and as the bird fell
there dropped out of it's mouth a trout
nearly one-half pound in weight. The
fish was alive, though scored on the
back. A keeper procured a live bait
can, filed it with water, and put the
trout into 1t. After a minute or so the
fish gained strength. In a few hours
it seemed quite resuscitated and ap-
parently none the worse for it's narrow
escape from death. 1t was according
~ returned to the river to recover it.
self fully.
Tobacco, which used to be the me-
dunn of exchange in the early Colo
NAL days of Virginia, is today the
currency Of British New Guinea. The
British administrator there reports
that the medium is not the means of
a lively trade. OF the native he says !:
"He will go to work for a few weeks
or months and earn a few pounds !;
then return to his home and lead the
life of a gentleman. He is able to
purchase with the tobacco he buys
the best of food and luxuries, and
leads a most lazy and sluggish life
While tobacco remains the currency,
as it is now, l see no hope Of i'm
provement in the labor conditions with
the native"