Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-12
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.


The Army Scripture Readers Associ-
alton has sixty-two readers working in
the British army.
The German Baptist Brethren have
organizations in forty-one Of the States
with 1,154 churches, an increase OF
fifty-eight over the last report.
The Established, the United Free
AID the Free churches of Scotland have
taken steps to place their theological
colleges under one management.
The net enrolment Of the United So
ciety of Christian Endeavor Is now TO-
4O4 societies, q gain Of 1885, with
about $4,000 members during the last
year.
Although 10000 native Christians
have been massacred In China II the
last eight years, there have been over
100000 added to the Protestant mis-
sion churches.
In the last year the people Of Can
ada paid over $23,OOO,OOO for life in
surance, while the whole world gave
little over $22,0O0,OOO for foreign mis-
sion work.
The publishing department of the
Christian Endeavorers at Boston did
business Of $66,579 during 1907-'OS, Of
which amount little over $4,000 was
turned over to the society for its gen.
eral expenses.
The immigrant station on the Gulf
Coast, which the Woman's Board Of
Home Missions of the Methodist
Church South will establish and main
tain, will be named in honor Of the
late Rev. Sam p. Jones.
The Baptist Educational Society of
Kentucky has taken charge Of Bethel
Female College at Hopkinsville, KY,
and it will be placed under one general
management with several other institu-
tons of the same denomination.
During the singing Of hymn that
starts Happy birds that sing and fly"
q thrush flew down from the roof OF
st. Peters Church at Rickmanworth,
England, and settled on the hymn book
The roof of the nave Of Salisbury
cathedral in England, which is being
repaired, is covered with sheet lead
that contains large percentage Of sill
yer, and to prevent fraud the workmen
are obliged to melt it on the cathedral
premises.
The skulls of two missionaries, DR..
Chalmers and D. f. Tomkins, Of the
London Missionary Society, who were
killed by cannibals at Goarabari, New
Guinea, seven years ago, have been re-
covered by Judge Murray, who took his
life in his hands to get them.
King Edward VII. is the most heav-
lily insured man alive. On the same
principle, ]. Pierpont Morgan's life was
not long ago extensively insured at
Lloyd's by a number of stock compan-
les which were threatened with loss n
the event Of his death. This insurance
has since been allowed to lapse.
The Sultan of Turkey has practically
denied to Christian churches the right
they have enjoyed since 1874 to pur-
chase and hold real estate In their own
names, one case in point being that or
an American, who held land in Cesarea,
which he has forced to deed to the
Sultan on the purchase price being
refunded to him.
Worn out and attenuated cab horses
will soon be an unknown quantity In
the streets Of Paris. A society known
as the Assistance aux Animaux,
working with the proprietors and driy-
ers' societies, seeks to provide Paris
with cabs drawn only by horses in
perfect state Of fitness, and driven by
men who have given every proof OF
their competence and intelligence. A
staff Of inspectors will be employed to
watch at the gates of the cab yards
every morning and demand the imme-
date return to the stables of any AMI
NAL which seems in an unfit state.
Mascots have had their place in the
world for many generations. Cats, as
with the ancient Egyptians grass
boppers, as in Italy, and various other
specimens of animal life have in their
time been counted as sacred or lucky
by different peoples. So it is only
continuance Of old customs that has
caused baseball teams to take along an
animal or a small boy when they go
upon the diamond to try their skill
with other players. The custom has
spread to such an extent that to-day
there is not a vessel in the navy OF the
United States that has not some kind
of mascot. This assertion will apply
with almost equal force to the otner
navies of the world.
Every industrial collapse which the
country has had brought some need
ed financial Improvement. The panic
Of 1887 compelled Congress to establish
the independent treasury, in which the