Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-07
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.


water with the same amount or power.
The tobacco industry of France is
government monopoly yielding $685.
100000 year.
In Austria and France the provision
Of rescue apparatus in mines is made
compulsory.
A great deal of the Oriental tobacco
trade is controlled by British-Ameri-
can concern.
Hamburg has more firemen in pro-
portion to her size than any other city
In the world.
Five hundred and fifty dollars has
been paid for single specimen Of the
Antimacus butterfly
New York city's water supply will
come from a watershed of 900 square
miles when the Catskill system is COM
pleted.
New York city has twice as many
telephones as London, four times as
many as Berlin and six times as many
as Paris.
Adolph Zinert, a Frankfort, Ger
many, slaughter-ho employee, has
killed 100000 hogs during the last
twenty-seven years.
After eliminating the immigrant in
crease to the population of New York
city it is growing annually $500 by
natural accretion.
In the Lincoln School at Santa Bar
bara, CAL, the pupils are taught to
bind all books that get out of repair,
to cane all chairs needing it and to
mend any and everything at home or
in school that needs mending.
According to the story told by New
York retail tobacco dealers, there are
five thousand more cigars being
smoked daily in the metropolis than
there were six months ago. They say
that this is one Of the signs Of pros
perity's return.
Turnips and radishes came origin
| ally from central Europe The beet
root and the beet, which have been
greatly improved by cultivation, are
considered as the same species by bot
anists. The beet, only the stalk Of
which is eaten, grows wild in the Med
iterranean, Persia and Babylonia.
Miss Ina Richmond has been ap-
pointed manager of the Magherafelt
gas-works in Dublin, Ireland She is
the first woman to hold that post She
first entered the postal service. Later
she studied gas manufacture and dis
tribution She Is said to be one Of the
best equipped experts In her line Of
| work In Ireland.
Softness and other unfavorable
qualities Of aluminium may be over
come, it is now claimed, by alloying it
with magnesium. An alloy Of this
kind, to which the name Of magma
lium" has been given, is now manufac-
tured In Germany, and It's makers be-
lieve that its use will shortly super
sede that of pure aluminium.
By a decree of the government of
Peru, issued by President Pardo, the
time Of the seventy-fifth meridian
west Of Greenwich was on July %
for the whole of Peru. The meridian
is only a few minutes from that Of
Lima, and runs almost exactly through
the middle of the country. All time
pieces throughout Peru will now COIN
eide with those In the United States
where Eastern time is kept. Peru is
the first South American republic to
adopt the world standard.
It is declared by the Voisin brothers,
Of Paris, that the Wright aeroplane
can never have any value for practi-
cal purposes. They remark that the
Wright aeroplane is the mOnocycle Of
aviation. Any one can work tricycle.
within half an hour. One can learn to
ride a bicycle In a few hours But to
ride a monocycle takes long time and
the native gifts Of the acrobat. So the
| Wright aeroplane will never be any
| thing but a bird for amateurs and
sportsmen." The Voisin brothers be-
lieve In their "triplanes" on account
of their stability.
At Wang Kong village, in the San
WI district, there was a certain god
in the Tin Hau temple, over which
there was a hole in the roof, exactly
above the head OF this god. One Of the
worshipers noticed this and said to the
other villagers that he had had a
dream that, as the gods head was suf-
fering by the leaking Of the water
from the roof, to any man who sub
scribed money to have the temple thor
oughly repaired the god would prom
Use prosperity and a good harvest. A
big sum of money was therefore sub
scribed within a few days, and huge
illumination accompanied by a theatre
cal performance will take place In q