Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-01-20
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.
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the State of Washington has won in q
contest by throwing a baseball 1872 feet
inches
A complete silk plant from the worms
on the trees to the looms, will be fea-
ture of Japan's exhibit at the Alaska
Yukon Pacific exposition at Seattle.
Nearly all the vines in Europe were
killed by frost in S91 and 800. One mid
summers day, 1893, in England, there
was frost so severe that it destroyed
fruits
AS the result of shock sustained
through falling into copper of boiling
water, boy named George Herbert
Foster, aged IL, living at Spalding, who
was practically dumb, has partly re-
gained his power of speech.
Hollow Horn Bear, chief Of all the
Sioux, is the first living man to have
his portrait on the national currency.
He made a great speech in Congress in
1889, and as he is a good-lOOking speci-
men Of his race his picture was engrav-
ed on both the So and $50 bills.
There is a coach dog belonging to one
Of the car barns uptown that takes a
constitutional when they let him out.
He runs ahead OF the Broadway car
from the barn to the Battery, returning
with the car. That satisfies him. Then
he returns to the barn and loafs dur
ing the rest of the day.-New York
Press.
Capt. Archibald Willingham Butt, the
new military aid at the White House, is
a fine tennis player and has already be-
come a member of President ROOsevelt'sa
tennis cabinet" He played his first
game as partner with his eminent Chief.
matched against the French ambassa-
dor, NJ. Jusserand, and Postmaster Gen
eral Meyer.
The swastfka is the Oldest known
symbol, having its origin in the cross
and circle. The swastika is now held
in common acceptation to be significant
Of good luck. Investigation of the rec
ords of every known race has revealed
traces of the swastika. The symbol
was early introduced into India, appar-
emily In connection with sun worship.
Breaking into houses where funerals
have just taken place and plundering
them is spoken Of by the Berliner Tage-
blatt as the latest trick of the thieves;
of that city. While this may be a new
form of criminality in Berlin, says the
writer, it is really only an imitation
Of an incident described in Dion Cas-
sius as having taken place $500 years,
before Christ
81 have heard a good many stories,
Illustrating thrift" remarked a Bronx
resident, but the janitor of some new
steam-heated fats told me one that beat
them all. On Sundays the tenants have
a great many visitors, and the janitOr-
| discovered that these visitors paid the
tenants 2 cents each for the privilege
Of taking a hot bath; 5 cents if they
did not bring their own towels.-New
York Sun.
Emerson was notable sufferer from
the vagaries of memory. His biographer
relates that he met him one day in
Boston, apparently at a loss for some
| thing, and asked him where he was
going ITO dine" said Emerson, with
a very old and dear friend. | know
where she lives. but 1 hope she won't
ask me her name," and then he pro-
ceeded to describe her as ''the mother
| of the wife of the young man-the tall
man-who speaks so WELL" and so on.
until his interlocutor guessed to whom,
! he was referring
| It is estimated that the total pro-
| duction of sugar throughout the world
is about 100000 tons per annum OF
| this quantity nine-tenths are afforded
| by the sugar cane, 25,000,000 tons Of
which are required to produce the above
| quantity of cane sugar. The average
of saccharine matter in the ripe West
Indian sugar cane is from Is to q per
cent, of which only s, per cent is avail
| able to commerce. The total value OF
the sugar in the cane, if it could be ex-
| tracted, would be about $23O,0O0,OOO,
but one-half is lost in the process OF
manufacture.
The Japanese have no use for but
| tons, buckles or hooks and eyes. Cord
serves every purpose of fastening, and
furnishes artistic possibilities seemingly
without end The Japanese have hun
dreds of knots. Some are as old as
| the time when history was recorded by
a series of knots, just as it was in
! China and Peru before the invention of
writing. There are dozens of knots in
common and ceremonial usage, and
these every Japanese child can tie. 10
name but a few, there are plum-blOs-
SONS, cherry-blossoms, iris, chrysanthe
/ mum and pinetree knots. Also there
are Fujiyama knots, turtle and stOrk
knots, the "old MANS which is easy
to tie; the "old woman's," which is diff
ficult, and many others.