Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-17
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.

The bee can outfiy the pigeon.

cisely the same design for 1900 years.
Hasheesh, which in it's effect is much
the same as opium, is prepared from
the gum taken from hemp.
Tillman Ford, of Salem, Ore, pro-
vided in his will that gold watches to
cost $125 each should be given to thir
ty-nine intimate friends.
In 1871 Benjamin Franklin founded
the Library Company of Philadelphia,
which he called "the mother of all
North American subscription libraries"
The regattas at Henley are held in
July Henley is in OXfordshire, about
thirty-ive miles from London. AS long
ago as 1929 the Oxford Cambridge race
was rowed there and in 1889 the first
regatta.
The treatment by vegetables is the
latest dietetic fad. 1t is affirmed that
vegetables have a considerable inf1u-
ence upon the physical and moral we'll
being of those who eat them and that
they will cure many maladies.
The fact is not generally known that
some of the most imposing snow noun
tains in the world lie within the limits
Of the United States. 1 refer to the
great peaks of Alaska, at least one of
which, Mt. Mckinley, is over 10000 feet
high, while Mt ST. Elias is over $4,000.
There are three black fox farms near
Atherton, Prince Edward Island, where
these animals are raised for their skins.
These farms contain twenty, twenty
five and thirty foxes, respectively. The
ranging from $500 to $500 each, ac-
cording to quality.
One of the seven fine old oaks In
Salcey forest, Buckinghamshire, has
missed that visitors to the forest made
a picnic fire in the hollow trunk, and
the result was the complete destruc-
ton Of the tree, which is said to be
eight hundred years old. Salcey is the
second great royal forest and has be-
longed to the crown since the conquest.
London Daily Mail.
Pierre Lott, who has ransacked most
parts Of the globe in search Of inn
pressions, and whose sketches of East
ern life are among the most delightful
things in modern literature, has lately
visited Egypt and found disillusion-
ment in the land of the Pharaohs. He
tried hard to project himself into the
fronnIIfl al hTIf
noises Of the present kept breaking in
upon his meditation.
A remarkable custom which has been
uninterruptedly in force for three hum
dred years has just been observed at
Ideford, a secluded parish q few miles
from Chudleigh. 1t is that of picking
up aims from the donors tomb in the
churchyard. The rector and church
warden stand at one end of the tomb
upon the fiat top of which they place
coins.A The recipients of the charity
come up one by one to the other end
Of the tomb and pick up the money
London Standard.
Denmark has nearly 100000 farms
and farm gardens of ten acres or less,
and about 100000 farms of between
ten and fifteen acres. There are less
than 1000 farms in, the entire king
dom of 500 acres or over, the aggre-
gate of these last named being less
than a million acres. There are 1885
cooperative dairies, with 15S,170 mem
bers, and a cooperative egg exporting
society with 500 local centers. The
business transacted by these co-opera-
tive concerns is Recommendations
Farmer.
Boston has taken a whack at the
automobilists, following New York's
example in excluding from It's parks
motor cars equipped with tire chains
or metal covered tires. The Metropoli-
tan Park Commission of Boston has de-
cided that the anti-skid devices on the
heavy cars tear up the parkways fast
er than an army Of men can repair
them, and has decreed that from now
on any chauffeur operating a machine
with spiked, chained or studded wheels
shall be mulcted to the tune of $50.
Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, in his
recently published book Of "Recollec-
tions," tells a story Of Lord Guillamore,
famous in legal history as Chief JUS
tice O'Grady. In case before him the
leading counsel for the defense of the
prisoner argued that there was no case
before the jury. Lord Guillamore was
about to pronounce judgment when the
junior counsel asked leave to address
a few words to the court. The judge
replied, Il will hear you by and by,
Mr.. -" The young man said, "But,
my lord, it is on this point that 1 wish
to address your lordship." Lord Guilla-
more rejoined, Il will hear you by and
by, Mr.. - Meanwhile, for fear of
accident, 1 will direct the jury to &C
quit your client"
The women of Concord, n. H., are
struggling to have the word male"
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