Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-12-23
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.
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There are about $4,000 square miles
Of coal fields in England
The revenues from the Prussian in
come tax in 1907 were $59,5O0,OOO.
The first submarine boat was tried in
Plymouth Harbor, England, in 1774.
The postal business of the world is
increasing at the rate of Z per cent per
annum.
The British railways in 1907 are re
ported to have had a total length OF
%, 101 miles.
Substantially one-third of the entire
industrial capital of Brazil is invested
in cotton mills.
Efforts are being made in Brazil to
stimulate the consumption in Europe
and America of Paraguayan tea, known
also as yerba mate.
A lighthouse of bamboo, which is in
use in Japan, is said to have great
power of resisting the waves, and does
not rot like ordinary wood.
t<ANSOIulllS W w IlIIdUl tOIOOhCS1
the noted English scientist by 1881 the
worlds supply of wheat will be unequal
to the increase in population
The National Council of French
Women, which has membership Of
more than 10000, has been circulating
monster petition in favor of woman
suffrage.
By a Japanese florist there has been
discovered a marvellous rose. The color
is delicate pink when the plant is in
the shade, but becomes crimson when
exposed to the sun.
1t is a not unusual sight in England
to see a motor bus belonging to one
city running with load of excursion
lists around the streets of another town
twenty or thirty miles distant.
In proportion to the population, the
little kingdom of Belgium probably can
claim the greatest number of organiza-
lions advocating woman suffrage. At
the last count they numbered 1913.
Miss Clara NJ Howard has been APP
pointed to the international fellowship
founded by the Society of American
Women in London. She is instructor
in rhetoric and composition at Welles-
ley College.
An Austrian journal tells of plant
called Parkid biglobosa, recently dis
covered in Africa, which produces a
fruit containing 20 per cent reducing
sugar, which puts it in the first rank
of sugar-producing plants.
Ore of the papers handed in at the
examination of students training for
employment as teachers described Oil
yer Cromwell as "a man with coarse
features and having a large, red nose
with deep religious convictions be-
neath.'
The Queen of Swaziland, in Africa,
when last seen by white people, was
clad in regal robe of OK hide, rather
the worse for wear. To this simple
garment were added bangles for her
wrists and ankles. She sat on the pal
ace floor and took snuff continually,
wrapping around her shoulders an
opera cloak of bright green and purple,
the diplomatic gift of an English no
bleman
The oldest structure in the world
originally built for a railway station
is the now disused L. & N. depot in
Lexington. 1t was begun in 1888. From
the northwest corner OF the building
the first passenger railway car west Of
! the Alleghenies started on its daily run
to Frankfort. 1t has been used for
almost three-quarters Of century, and
present generation of the old order Of
things in Lexington and central Ken
tucky.-Lexington (Ky.) Herald.
The case of the cure of Leonie Lee
vogue at the shrine of Lourdes has been
published in Italy with the sworn med
zeal certificates. Mile. Leveque is a
school teacher and, according to the
announcement, had suffered from an
liberation for fifteen months, growing
weaker after each surgical treatment.
She was finally taken to Lourdes, when
too weak for further medical expert
menting and, when alone in her room
at the hotel, was suddenly cured. Mile.
Leveque has returned to her school
teaching.
An italian journalist is said to have
discovered the Bible which was used
by the Emperor Napoleon during his
! exile on the island of Elba. 1t is of a
common type, illustrated with large
wood engravings, and bears on the back
the latter IN" surmounted by the i'm
perial crown. 1t was found in the
Chapel of the Madonna, on the island
of Elba, and near which the Emperor
stayed for seventeen days at the begin
ming of his exile. It possesses interest