Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-10-28
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.
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Greenland to teach the Eskimos how
to fish proftably by modern means.
There is no important seaport be-
tween Portland, Me-, and Portland,
Ore, that has not one or more through
railway passenger trains from Chicago
daily.
Under the revised law governing the
employment of women and children in
Italy, night work is forbidden for all
females and for males of less than fif-
teen years.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton Of Chicago, the second largest in
the world, has a membership of over
$4,000, sustains eighteen branches, and
owns property valued at $2,O22,000.
China is very particular that the
quality of the foreign goods it buys
shall be fully up to sample, but pays
very promptly for what it does buy.
A Chinese merchants word is as good
as his bond.
In 1905 the sum of $27,608,000 was
expended by employers in Germany for
the direct aid of their employees. More
than two-thirds of this was given as
voluntary contributions by private
firms and individuals.
New York city has twenty more
school buildings for the opening Of the
new school year than there were last
fall, and they will accommodate 10000
children. Before the close of October
there will be four more schools for
$3.50 pupils. The total enrolment
this year is 100000.
Tea drinking in the German army is
to be encouraged in future, on the sug-
gestion of the Emperor. In many cam
teens tea has been regularly served
| for some time. The new military in
structions state that the serving out OF
| tea as well as of coffee on long march
es at the field kitchens /. is considered
advisable.
Every year the annual Of the Swiss
| Alpine Clubs tells of the fatal Alpine
accidents for the preceding twelve
months In 1907 there were fifty-eight
deaths, but no guide or porter met with
fatal accident, and of the thirty
tourists killed on the higher mountains,
twenty-five were without guides, and
seventeen persons were killed while
| gathering edelweiss.
Old-time hotel rates in England were
low. For instance, in the days Of
| Queen Elizabeth the charge at the
George Inn" for feather-bed, night
was 1 penny. Dinner cost siXpence
| (12 cents) and offered choice of beef,
mutton or pigge or fish," In Stuart
times each room owned name, instead
of a number, chiefly those of inn signs,
such as the Cross eys room, the Bell
chamber, the Adam and Eve room, and
| so forth.
When the British Association paid
| it's visit to South Africa three or four
| years ago the eminent seismOlOgist,
Prof. John Milne and the celebrated
| Cambridge pathologist, Prof. Sims
| WOodhead, took clubs and balls to the
| Victoria Falls on the Zambesi river,
and there the man of earthquakes es-
tablished a noble record by being the
| first to drive a ball across the falls,
representing a very excellent carry of
a hundred and sixty yards.-London
| Standard.
| After being conducted through an
old church by the verger visitor was
so pleased with the officials courtesy
and information that he insisted on
giving him a liberal tip. The man
shook his head sadly. THANK you,
SIR" he said, outfits quite against the
rules" 'I'm sorry for that" said the
visitor, about to return the coin to his
pocket But" added the verger, eff
1 were to find bit lying on the floor
it would not be against the rules for
me to pick it up"
| Numerous cases of snakebite have
been reported by the weekly State pa
pers during the summer, and there is
every reason to believe that the crop OF
reptiles has been the largest seen here
| in many years The manager Of one
of the big plantations in COahOma
| County, who has been clearing up new
| ground at every spare moment, states
that he has killed more than 700 snakes
since the blowing season began, several
of them rattlers, cottonmouths and
moccasins.-Jackson (Miss.) Clarion
Leader.
Matrimonial troubles were under dis
cussion. The oldest son of rich man.
ufacturer remarked: Il hold that the
correct thing for a husband is to be-
| gin as he intends to go on. Say that
the question was one of smoking. Al
most Immediately | would show my
intentions by lighting a cigar and set
Ting the question forever" "And I
would knock the thing out of your
mouth" cried the imperious beauty OF
/ tho oro11n GsnO Won know" rpiOined