Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-10-24
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.
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More than 1000 English tradesmen
are this year entitled to use the royal
arms over their shop-fronts.
Oil discoveries in Orange River Col
ony, Africa, seem important A broad
oil belt stretches across the colony.
At the present moment the countries
of Europe are spending on their armies
and navies as much as 100000
day.
The town of Amherst, Nova Scotia, Is
supplied with light and power from
the waste products of a nearby coal
mine.
A palm which grows in South Ameri-
! ca has a leaf measuring fifty feet long
and twelve feet broad-the largest in
| the world.
| The establishment of a Scandinavian
steamship service to America is being
actively urged in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
European shipping companies are
suffering severely because trade and
| traffic in the Levant and on the far
Eastern lines are almost at a stand
still.
The management of the steam roads
! entering Paris is considering q propo-
sition to electrify all lines for some
considerable distance into the suburbs.
Trained falcons to carry dispatches
In time of war have been tested in the
Russian army. Their speed is four
times as great as that of carrier pig
cons.
Professor Rubner, of the University
of Berlin, has just invented a register
ing apparatus which enables one to cal
| culate the number OF noise waves strik-
ing upon the ear in any given period.
Garlic, onions, shalots and leeks have
long been cultivated in almost all coun-
| tries, and their origin is very uncer-
tain. That of the scalliOn is better
known. 1t grows spontaneously in ST.
IBERIA. One finds chives in wild state
| throughout the northern hemisphere.
Tea is now elevated to the dignity
of a germ destroyer DIR. Mcknight,
the medical Investigator, has found
that typhoid bacilli placed in old or
lukewarm tea are greatly diminished at
the end of four hours and have COM
pletely disappeared at the end Of
twenty-four hours.
| The new Turkish Minister of Educa-
ton says: 1--WE have compulsory edu-
cation at present, but we lack primary
| schools. We shall establish them. We
shall develop the existing higher edu-
alton. The study of history will now
be allowed. We want a regime Of lib
erty, and particularly of liberty of the
press, even with all the evils it means,
| for it is a necessary evil"
According to q speech delivered by
| Catherine Waugh McCulloch before the
Michigan constitutional convention
short time ago, the condition Of mar
ried women in that State is far from
what it should be. No Michigan wife
| legally owns her clothes if they were
purchased out Of family funds or earn
| ings by her husband, unless he dies. If
he dies the statutes Of Michigan give
her not only her own clothes but his
| also.
Defoe's knowledge of the umbrella, a
correspondent suggests, may have been
acquired in Spain, which he visited on
business (his line being Spanish and
Portuguese goods) long before he wrote
Robinson Crusoe." 1t is noteworthy
that John Macdonald, footman con-
temporary with Jonas Hanway, men,
toned in his autobiography that he
brought his own silk umbrella from
| Spain and was denounced by the hack
ney coachmen of London as French
man when he took bis walks abroad
with it.
1t would seem that the school board
at Bloomfield, N. j., has invented
new occupation for women. The pupils
of the public schools are furnished with
free text books. Each summer two
women go through the eight school
buildings of Bloomfield and put every
book in order. At the end of the school
| term the books are sorted by the teach
ers, grade by grade, and all needing re-
pair are left in great piles on the Office
floor The two repairers take their
paste pot, awl and needle and make
them all as good as new again before
the summer is over.
Miss Elizabeth Russell, who founded
the Kwassui girls school at Nagasaki,
/ Japan, in 1879, celebrated her seventy
first birthday short time ago. She
is still connected with the school,
where she does the work of three peo-
pie. Beginning with handful of girls,
| the school has grown until at present
the enrolment is considerably Eore
| than one hundred. It numbers among
/ its graduates some of the best known
| uonan in the IananeSe emnire. several