Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-09
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.


The weight of the human heart aver
ages from nine to eleven ounces
The prejudice against hospitals is
disappearing among the Parisians. At
present about one-half of the cases Of
illness are treated in them, whereas ten
years ago the proportion was only one
quarter.
A woman of Wahring, Bohemia, and
her two daughters attempted to COM
NIT suicide because the local newspaper
had limited not only that they were ex-
| travagant in dress. but that they
dressed with bad taste.
Liverpool has a library Of 100000
volumes. The number of books taken
home during the last year was 1862
600, while 1,410,444 were used for ref
erence in the library In other words,
each book was ON the average used ten
times.
The rubber industry in Hawaii Is
still in the experimental stage, but eX-
perts believe the opportunities for prof
1T are going to be large. Preliminary
experiments by the government indi-
cate high yield from even young trees.
Over 100000 rubber trees have been
planted in the islands, and still other
plantations are being established
Electrical mining is now considered
the most improved method of mining in
America, as well as in Europe, and up
to-date mining engineers are adopting
electrical power wherever possible for
driving hoists, mine pumps, chain
breast underwriting machines, mining
locomotives and other appliances.
The Protestant Episcopal Church
has eighty-five bishops, including the
presiding bishop, in the United States |;
two in China, two i'll Japan and one
each in West Africa, Cuba, Hayti, Bra
| Zil and Mexico. The Methodist Epis-
copal Church has nineteen bishops and
seven missionary bishops. The Meth
odist Episcopal Church South has elev-
en- bishops
The fact that the number of stock
holders in thirty-one leading industrial
| and railroad corporations of the United
| States is now 326,S47, or 101 ,230 more
than before the panic, is one of great
| significance. The wider the distribu-
ton of the stock ownership of the cor
porations of the country, the better for
the corporations and the country
Wall Street Journal.
In a recent address before the Utica
Chamber of Commerce Secretary Cor
telyOu told the story Of manufacturer
Of hammers in central New York, who,
having been asked how long he had
made hammers, replied: 81 have made
them for twenty-eight years" swell.
then" said his questioner, you ought
to be able to make a pretty good ham,
mer by this time" mo, SIR" was the
old manufacturers reply, 81 never
made a pretty good hammer. 1 make
the best hammers in the United
| States"
The two municipal savings banks of
Hanover carry only savings accounts.
The total amount of deposits in these
two institutions is 81, 257,909 marks
| ($21, 719,3S2). The total number of
accounts in the two banks is very large,
being 1865, making the average for
each account about $3.50. The profits
| of these institutions, after the creation
| of q reserve fund which shall amount
to 10 per cent of the deposits, go to the
city, and are used for charities and cor
rectiOns and for identifying the city
| streets, squares and parks.-Consular
and Trade Reports.
An Italian scientist believes that day
| light alone determines bird migration.
The summer migrants, he says, come
| North to take advantage of the longer
days, and go South again to avoid the
short and dark ones. They require all
their time to get sufficient food for
| themselves and their voraciouS young.
Hence the extra daylight of the North
| in the summer is an advantage to them.
Iii winter the short days do not allow
them time to get sufficient food. Most
birds require daylight for feeding. The
scientist does not credit the old eX-
PLANTATION that migration is due to cold
and want of food. Many species start
southwark while the weather is warm
and food abundant.
As a rule, the building in which Il
wedding reception takes place receives
little consideration in a description of
the ceremony, the decorations for the
occasion coming in for far more notice,
if space enough be left after what has
to be told Of the bride and bridesmaids
and their costumes. Not so, recently,
in the case of the little house which is
tucked almost at the waters edge in
Turner street, Salem. There has been
little change in its appearance since
Hawthorne knew it and named one OF
his novels after it; but even on the
occasion Of a wedding it was perhaps