Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-15
THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW



In st. Petersburg newspaper there
recently appeared the following adj
vertisement: ''Ihe wife of present
member of the Douma, having given up
all hope Of getting intelligent occupa-
ton, seeks a place as chambermaid."
The admission of Oklahoma as q
State means an increase in the author
lied number of midshipmen at the Ma
val Academy of twelve, or from 9S5
to 997. The number of cadets at West
Point will be increased only six.
Mrs T. P. O'Connor, wife of the
Irish advocate of home rule. is said to
be convinced that English women viii
have the full right Of parliamentary
suffrage within the next seven years
Mrs. O'Connor was a Texas girl.
The British government will devote
$4,000 to start the cultivation Of New
Zealand hemp in the island of St
Helena, the inhabitants of which have
been reduced to practical restitution by
the withdrawal of the British garri-
son.
The sum of $4,000 was left to.
Henry Baxendale in England by his.
father if he would return to the Ply
mouth brethren, but as he had allied.
himself with a fraternity vowed to the
simple life, he refused to accept the be-
quest.
King Anderaya Of Bunyoro, in Cen
trail Africa, himself a Christian, has
written to one of the missionary So
cieties of the baptism of his father,
Kabarego, who was notorious in Cor
don Pasha's day as the slave-raiding
King of Bunyoro.
f. l. Marston, who is known in Eng
land as the Staffordshire Sturgeon,
and is only nineteen years Of age, is,
one of the most successful Baptist
evangelists Of that country, this being
his eighth year of Christian work in
behalf of others.
Many Chinese monasteries are en-
dowed with land or a tribute Of rice
but seldom so as to be self-supporting,
and the monks, armed with gongs, go
down into the cities to beg for susten-
ance and most of them have become
very capable beggars.
Martin W. Littleton, leading coun--
sci in the Thaw case, is well known in
New York for his sharp and acid wit
At a recent dinner Mr.. Littleton, in a.
sparkling speech, said Of a certain
jurist: 'It's a pity he doesn't know q
little law, as then he'd have smatter-
ing of everything"
Mrs Elizabeth Custer intends to-
build a home for impoverished literary
women as a memorial to her husband,
who fell in the Little Big Horn fight
with the Indians thirty years ago. Mrs.
Custer has recently bought site for
the proposed home in Bronxville, West
chester County, New York.
Having been fined for neglect of
duty, postal subordinate in India adj
dressed his chief in the following.
terms: 'Your honor may be right, I
may be wrong; l may be right and
honor wrong, let honor give me back the
fine, and then at day of resurrection,
when all hearts will be open, if am.
wrong, l will most gladly, sir, return
your honor the money"
Public streets in the towns of Java.
are daily swept and kept clean by ma
tive convicts. They GO to work chained;
together in parties Of twenty or thirty
under the superintendent of bare
footed native soldiers clad in ill-fitting,
uniforms, who would instantly shoot.
their charges down if they tried to es-
cape during their working time, when
they are unclaimed.
Justice o. W. Holmes, Of the United
States Supreme Court, has purchased
the home of his father, the famous
poet, Oliver Wendell Holmes known as.
the Marshall estate, in Beverly Farms,
owing to the deep and abiding effection,
he has for the beautiful spot, because
of the tender associations that have.
chung to it from the time the "Autocrat
Of the Breakfast Table" made it his,
summer home.
Mandy was a young colored girl
fresh from the cotton fields Of the
South One afternoon she came to her
Northern mistress and handed her a
visiting card. de lady wha' glib me
dis is In de pa'lor," she explained.
"Dey's anodder lady on de do STEP"
Gracious, Mandy!" exclaimed the mis-
tress "Why didn't you ask both OF
them to come in?' "Kase, ma'am,"
grinned the girl, "de one on de do
step done forgit her ticket"
Within twenty miles of New York's
City Hall there is a population OF
100000 Jews, more than in all Ameri-
ca besides. 1t is the greatest aggrega-
ton Of Jews in any one spot on earth,
being one-eleventh of the entire Jewish