Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-13
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.


One or the electrlcal plants III OeI-
many employs COCO workers.
Some 100000 tons of moss peat are
located in the boys near Lake Tezcoco,
in Mexico.
Il think the milk is put there to test
people and see If they can resist taking
it," said Mr.. Plowden to boy charged
at Marylebone, London, with stealing
can of milk from a doorstep. The lad
was discharged with a warning.
All persons who have crossed from
America to Europe are familiar with
the Fastnet Rock, the first spot of Erin
that they see on the eastward voyage.
Thereon has been erected a new light
house which has cost the record sum
of $4O3, 200.
calais, 10000 inhabitants, important
seaport; principal industry, tulle net"
so run the French geography books,
and any one who has visited the town,
except as a transitoTy passenger to
Dover, will remember the tulle factories
where half the inhabitants earn their
living.
Gen. James Evelyn Pitcher, editor OF
the Military Surgeon, is the new oil
rector general of the National Volun-
teer Emergency Corps The corps was
organized in 1900, to render aid in time
of national calamity or in the event
Of war. The corps is now being reor-
gained on the lines of the medical
corps of the United States army.
The new royal Dutch West India Mail
steamship Coppcname arrived in New
York not long ago on her maiden trip
from Dutch Guiana with the first cargo
Of Surinam bananas-3,O00 punches.
The cultivation of bananas was begun
in Dutch Guiana two years ago, with
the assistance of the Dutch govern
ment, and has been a success.
On a particularly blustery March
morning, the story goes, DR.. S. Weir
Mitchell walked round the Philadelphia
City Hall square with a young editor.
As the two men held on their hats and
leaned against the blast DR.. Mitchell
said: "I think a shorn lamb should
idence then might be induced to temper
the wind"
Jewish chess players have retained
the championship at that game for the
last forty-two years. Steinitz held it
for twenty-eight years till 1891, and
Lasker has been champion ever since.
DIR. Lasker attributes this predominance
Of the Jewish genius in chess to the
fact that its rules are entirely based
upon those of self-defense in the strug-
gle of life, and Jews are adopts in this
art.
Everything has its cause, if we can
but find it." said ]. Mckee Borden, sec
rotary of the department of charities,
at a banquet in New York. "Once, in
a miserable slum, 1 heard two little
girl beggars talking why is it, said
the first, that the poor is allus more
willin' to help us than the rich? The
second answered promptly and bitterly
Them wot don't mind givin' is the ones
,Uot stays poor
DR.. Max Verworn, professor of ply
siology and director of the physiology
cal institute of the University of Got
tingen, has been appointed Kaiser
Wilhelm professor at Columbia Uni
versity for the year 190S-09. The ap-
pointment was made upon the recon-
mendation Of the Prussian Minister Of
Education. Prof Verworn is one Of
the most distinguished of living physi-
ologists and has received high honors
In Germany.
1t is only a few years since butter
was unknown in China, and even the
milk from the COWS could not be pur-
chased. But recently Chinese restau-
rants have taken to the serving Of
European style dinners" and the bet
ter class Of Chinese are becoming large
consumers of butter and other Euro
pean luxuries. In the ports where
fresh butter is obtainable this is given
the preference, but in the interior Chi
nese cities timed goods are being large
ly useG.
The demand for employment by edu-
Gated women is greater proportionately
In England than in any other country
Nowhere in the world is the dilemma
OF a woman accustomed to luxury and
suddenly thrown on her own resources
so distressing as in England. This
problem was discussed recently at a
great conference in London. where rep
resentative women Of England, Ireland
and Scotland met to decide on the best
means to help educated women to earn
a living wage.
The Khedive of Egypt, whose great
fad is locomotive driving, had mar
row escape the other day while rum
ming an engine on the state railway.
He suddenly found his way blocked by
a wagon loaded with pig iron. The
royal engineer showed wonderful pres
ence Of mind. He reversed and used
his full brake power and stopped just
short Of the obstruction. He then left