Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-02
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.
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pound and the ice cream at $40
gallon.
The new Rotherhithe tunnel under
the Thames to Stepney has cost some
thing like $10,O0O,0O0 to construct and
is the largest tube boring of it's kind
in the world. Its total length, includ-
ing the two sloping approaches, is
roughly one and one-third miles. The
length of tunnel actually under the
river is about oLe-third Of mile.
The fruit of the karite tree is now
being handled in fair commercial guam
titles for the production Of a cheap
type of vegetable grease, useful for the
manufacture of soap and candles. The
natives of Africa hull the nut, which
somewhat resembles the chestnut;
mash and boil the kernels, skimming
off the floating grease, which has also
food value.
The postal savings bank Of India
was established in 1882, in which year
the depositors numbered 80, 121 and the
deposits amounted to $685., 243. In 1907
the deposits amounted to $49, 223, 2S3,
which, perhaps, should not be consider
ed large Ia q country having pOpu
lation Of some 300,00O,000, but the av-
erage Indian farmer, mechanic, SER
want or laborer never deposits money
lin a bank, but hides it away in a pot
or box in the ground.-New York
World.
In order to encourage thrift among
Its employees the Northeastern Railway
Company some years ago established
savings bank at which deposits as low
as siXpence are received, 4 per cent
interest being paid on accounts up to
E20O and 21a per cent on sums in ex-
cess of that amount. Last year 1,040
new accounts were opened aid f104,-
672 deposited. The total amount now
standing to the credit of II, O03 deposit
ors is 1893, 762, representing an aver
age sum Of fS1 As Cd for each deposit
or.-London Daily Mail.
Hall Game is writing his life story.
He tells how he first saw life by driy-
| ing with his uncle at the age of from
| the lonely homestead behind Snaefell
| to what he thought must be "a vast
and mighty city" 1t was Douglas,
with it's 10000 inhabitants. His first
nickname was "Hommy-beg," the Manx
for little Tommy" His grandmother
christened him thus. Il think 1 must
have been much in her company" he
says. "for l have the clearest memory
of countless stories she told me Of fai
ries and witches and the evil eye. My
Manx grandmother was a poet"
Most of the leading Socialists in En-
gland are by no means as poor as So
cialism in theory demands. Bernard
| Shaw, one of the lOudest-tongued so
drives a~hard bargain over his plays,
and books, too. He owns motor cars
and mixes iii fashionable society, and
his wife also possesses a large fortune
Ramsay Macdonald and Philip Snow
den married rich women. So did Sid
] ney Webb. Henry Mayors Hyndman is
a very successful Spectator. The
| Countess of Warwick declares she
would willingly divide all her worldly
goods with the poor-if they would
only go round.
i There are, of course, many causes
| for the commercial progress made by
Germany of recent years, but surely
one Of the most important and least
often mentioned must be the fact that
the German population of the world
Is nearly 100,O00,O00 strong. The So
ciety for Teutonism in Foreign Coun-
tries has established the numbers Of
those Germans or German-speaking
people living outside of Germany as
follows: Austria, 100000; Hungary,
100000; Switzerland, 100000; Rus
gia, 1,171,3S7; rest of Europe, 1854
B94; Asia. 1927; Africa. 624,O00;
Australia, $4,000; America, North and
South, II, 063. 00O.-New York Sun.
A historic feat III bridge building is
recalled by II. G. Lehman, of Van
| Vert Ohio, in a letter to the Toledo
Blade. In December, 1864, the Union
army, while on its way from Atlanta
to the sea, found Kings bridge wreck
ed, in the Ogeechee river, near Savan-
nah. A report of General Howard is
quoted as follows: with regard to
opening communication with the fleet.
the engineer department, under the di-
rection of Capt. G. B. Reese, chief en-
gineer, was instructed to rebuild Kings
bridge. which was effected by the morn
ing of the 18th (December). The work
was q most remarkable one, being COM
pleted in about two days time, consid-
ering that there was little left Of the
old bridge excepting the posts. This
bridge measured 1000 feet in length"
William H.. Allen says: THE fact
that SCI, 100000 was given to the so