Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-06-03
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.


Celery contains sulphur and helps TO
ward off rheumatism
A Paris insurance company refuses
risks on men who dye their hair.
Fully one-third of the land in Great
Britain is owned by members Of the
House of Lords.
More inventions are being made in
electrical appliances than in all other
industries combined.
A Housekeeping machine attached to
an automobile makes a practical money
coming outfit for use in rural districtS
Babylon was probably the first city
to attain a population of 100000.
The area of the city was 225 square
miles,
There is no speed limit for autos out
side the city of Shanghai, China. With
In the city thirty miles an hour Is al
lowed.
The use of muslin windows instead
OF glass in dairy construction Is said
to help materially in the fight against
tuberculosis.
The Society for the Destruction Of
Vermin is an English organization,
with the object of warning on the rats
In that country.
German women collect what are sup
posed to be the smallest potted plants
In the world They are cach growing
In oh hn cir ~
Nearly 500 men fall out from the
ranks Of the British army every year,
owing to weak hearts and other defects
brought about by the illogical system
of physical training in the army.
Three German cities-F'rankfort
Rostock and Cologne public
parks covering about half their area.
Berlin, on the other hand, has less
than per cent of its area taken up
by parks.
Some of the schools of domestic arts
and sciences now show hOusekeepers
how a card index system can be used
system is substituting for the old scrap
recipe book and the big cook book It
self a box Of index cards.
The Chinese government intends to
purchase, Immediately, forty torpedo
boats and four gunboats. For the re-
organization of the navy and the pur-
chase of new ships and guns various
nations actively competed, and the
report states that the orders will prob
ably be divided between representatives
from Great Britain, Germany and
Japan.
privilege" seen so often Of late In
the phrase special privilege" has been
used commonly to signify a right, i'm
munity or benefit enjoyed by a person
beyond the common advantages Of 9th
er persons. Primarily, however, the
word signifies an ordinance in favor
Of an Individual, and this is in keep
ing with its derivation-'privus," ones
own, private, and ''lex," law. 1t is in
this old sense that Chaucer used the
word.
With the assistance Of thirty-two
hens Miss Maud L. Loud, WestcheSter
county, New York, is paying her way
through college. During November,
December and January Miss Loud sold
to private customers in New York City
225 dozen eggs at % cents a dozen.
Along with her studies she did all the
work required in caring for the fowls,
collecting and selling all the eggs with
in twenty-four hours from the time
they were laid.
The extraordinary resuscitating pow
er Of light recently received curious
illustration in the silver mines at Lau-
rum. A mine had been abandoned
1000 years, when some poppy seed was
found beneath the Stag. The Stag being
removed, in a short time the entire
space was covered with the most gor-
geous show of peoples. After their
twenty centuries rest they had bloom
ed as vigorously as If they had been
borne by flowers of last year.
In the anthropological section Of the
British association a number Of bronze
weapons and implements from Persia
were on exhibition. To a discussion
which took place upon them Prof. W.
M. Flinders Petrie made an interesting
contribution. Two objects which re-
sembled polo sticks he suggested as
being actual. polo clubs, there being
evidence Of the game, as we'll as golf,
having been played in the Byzantine
empire.