Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-29
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.
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Panama Hats, Bay Rum and Shovels."
In the French schools in Algiers and
Tunis the Arabic boys sit with the
French In school, but out Of school
they do not mix much.
An old-fashioned pillow on the side
walk In front Of store in Dey street,
New York, attracted a crowd One
man asked how 1t was used.
Sign on the window of a New York
East Side bakery: "Look out for the
dog" Underneath, which wag wrote
In chalk: "And don't get the rabbis."
On the wall Of an entrance to an old
tenement house in Washington street,
New York, are written these words in
charcoal: "Buttonhoes made and
floors scrubbed, upstairs to you're
right"
The Amazon stone, found In small
quantities near Colorado Springs, Colo.
Is greatly in demand. - A firm in Ger"
many ordered all that could be pro-
cured. The stone is green in color and
hard as flint.
A seed store In Cortlandt street,
New York. has grass plots shipped
daily from Jersey City. The plots con-
sist of shallow boxes filed with earth
In which the grass is grown. The plots
are sold by the foot.
Anarchy Is mark Of disease In the
view of a Memphis physician. He
finds anarchistic ideas conclusive evil
dence Of insanity, and would commit
all anarchists as dangerous lunatics,
thus making them harmless.
A marble bas-relief commemorative
the great fire In New York in 1885
forms part Of building in one Of
the old streets of the city not far from
East River waterfront, but it is seldom
seen, as it stands in the shadow of the
Third avenue elevated line just below
the track.
An old lady near Bromberg, whose
ten sons have all served in the German
army, had the idea of having them
photographed in a row, and sent the
picture to the Kaiser. She has receiV.
ed a letter of hearty thanks and cor
dial wishes from the Imperial Cabinet
by his majestys order.
In one Of the old buildings in John
street, New York, on the top floor,
reached by an Anticipated stairway the
first steps of which start from the pave
ment, is an office on the door Of which
is a sign. Under the tenants name are
these words "Ofice hours, twice
week, from IL to r."
An immigrant hotel in a narrow
street between Church and Greenwich
street, New York, has a veranda IN
front, where immigrants sit in the
evening, smoke German pipes, wear
wooden shoes and drink beer. In the
basement are a bank, billiard table
and an intelligence Office. Open all
night.
Paris is suffering from a plague of
curious flies, known as st. Mares
Billions. They are not poisonous, but
are very ugly, being over half an inch
long, with enormous heads, and feelers
like cock-chafers. Nobody knows where
they come from, and, curiOusly enough,
the plague is confined to Paris, and has
not reached the country.
Makes is Noted for it's emery stone,
which is carried over to Syria in sailing
vessels for storage in the Government
depot. whence its expectation takes
place. Quarries of marble also exist In
Naxos. which is particularly adapted
and employed in Greece for decorative
building, but only on a small scale OF
late, owing to want of capital.
''The Swamp Angel" was the name
given by the Federal soldiers to an
eight-inch PARROT gun which was
mounted on a battery built on piles
driven into swamp outside Of Charl.
eston, S. c., and used during the siege
of that city. 1t burst August %, 1858.
After the war it was bought with some
condemned metal and sent to Trenton
to be melted, but having been identified
was set up on a granite base on the
corner of Perry and Clinton streets, in
that city.
"The wedding, reception, honeymoon,
automobile, driving, riding, dinner,
ball and opera costumes Of the Arch
duchess Marie Henriette and all the
other costumes which go to make up
trousseau of great beauty and value"
saws a Vienna paper, "were recently ex.
hibited by the makers at their Karls
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view at the same time nearby a price
less art collection, entrance to both
places free. 1t was curious to note
how many women went to see the
trousseau AID how few cared for the
other works Of art That was proof
Of the patriotism Of the women-for,
surely, no woman cares what another
2ne wears"
Mrs. Emily E. Woodley, who was