Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-10-17
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.


creases one and a half millions q year.
OF Maryland's twenty-three counties
all but seven are upon navigable wa
tiers.
In twenty-three years of Atlantic
steaming the Britannia burned $4,000
tons Of coal.
Bicycles are not out of date in Hol-
land, which imports over $1,5OO,OOO
worth year.
Alone among all the royal heads Of
Europe, Emperor Francis Joseph Of
Austria makes no use of automobiles.
John Bigelow, the American minister
to France in 1861-1S67, who is nearly
ninety years old, is in Paris on his an
nual visit.
Despite all the laws passed to re-
strict their use, more than fifty billion
cigarettes were smoked in the United
States last year.
ELEPHANTS are probably more abundant
In the basin of the Congo, where the
swamps afford them protection, than in
any other part OF Africa.
The total quantity of fish taken by the
Scotch in 1907 exclusive of shellfish)
was 9,O7S,O59 hundredweight, of the
gross value Of 5,425, 525.
The Argentine Republic contains
more horses than any other country,
the proportion being about 112 to ey-
cry 100 of the population.
The rediscount bank provided for by
Congress recently was organized in
Mexico with a capital of $10,000,OOO,
one-half of which was furnished by
French capitalists and One-half by
Mexican banks.
immigration into the United States
continues in very small volume-the
July figure of 27,57O arrivals repre-
senting yearly rate of only about 800,
600 compared with the rate Of over a
million prevailing before the panic.
In South America the dream of finan-
ciers and railroad builders is that, at
some future time, travellers may land
at Pernambuco and be taken across the
continent to Valparaiso in less than
four days and without change of car
| riage.
1t is estimated that London theateI
managers lost during the season Of
1908 no less than 100000 in the pro-
duction of plays that have been unsuc-
cessful, and much Of this amount on
dramatic enterprises imported from the
United States.
The Shellfish known as abalOne
abounds in southern California water
In quantities sufficient to export at the
rate of hundreds Of tons per annum.
A market for any amount could easily
be found in China, where the natives
consider it a great de!icacy. 1t T. ed
to be dried for the market, but is now
being canned.
1t is announced by the University of
Strasbourg that Prince August Will
helm, the fourth son of Emperor Will
lam, has passed his examinations for
the degree of doctor in the science of
government with the Endorsement Very
good" on his papers. This is the first
time a Hohenzollern has taken the de-
gree of doctor.
An improved dynamite for blasting
has recently been put on the market
which has a great advantage in that
the freezing point of the nitroglycerin
is lowered to 30 degrees Fair: more
over, when the temperature continues
4 - cs,,I- uAi 6yrT mi
freezes with extreme slowness. When
frozen it can be thawed with a small
| fraction Of the time and expense Of or
binary dynamites.
An English landowner, annoyed by
nut-pickers, has put up the following
notice, which has proved effective i'll
keeping trespassers off his grounds
"CAUTION-All persons entering this
wood do so at their own risk. The
-CORYLUS AVELLANA abounds here
The "Corylus avellana," although it
sounds so dreadfully fierce and venom
Gus, is nothing more horrifying than
| the common hazel nut, described by its
| Latin name.
| When Voltaire was sojourning in
London a crowd gathered to mob him
as he passed along the street. For what
reason? Because he was a Frenchman.
| Boldly confronting the mob he mounted
a stone and addressed them. Brave
Englishmen he cried, "am 1 not suf-
ficiently unhappy in not having been
born among you" This speech was 60
effective that the crowd carried him on
| their shoulders to his lodgings.-John
| Bull Magazine.
August is busy month at the mont
de plete, as the French government
pawn-brokinge establishment is called. Its
Golfers are crowded with jewelry, silver
plate and all sorts of valuables. This
is not due to wave Of impecuniosity
but merely to the fact that Parisians