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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
Millions for All,

There is enough gold floating in the
sea to make everybody rich This
information is the result of an an
alysis of ocean water recently finished
by M. Alphonse Berget of Paris,
professor in the oceanographic insti-
tute. He has confided his discovery
to the Paris correspondent of the
Chicago Daily News, who makes haste
to spread the glad news. THE an.
alysis revealed about fifty milligrams
(.77 grain) of gold in each ton of sea
water" explained the professor.
THAT seems little enough, but con-
sidering that it takes line of figures
a column wide to give the total mum.
Der of tons of water in the ocean it
is easy to see that an immense
amount of gold is held in solution.
If each of the 1,50O,OOO,OOO inhabitants
of the world had his share it would
equal $24,000,000 apiece.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
Record Rental for a Store.

A new high record value in store
leases in this city was established
when F. M. Andrews of. the Greeley
Square Hotel company announced
that the ground store on the Thirty
fourth street corner of the new hotel,
which is to occupy the entire easterly
side of Broadway between Thirty
third and Thirty-fourth streets, had
been leased from the plans to drug
company of Boston for 81 years at
$4,000 year, says the New York
Times. 1t is virtually double the price
that has been asked for high-class
ground-foor stores in the choicest re-
tail districts of Thirty-fourth street
and Fifth avenue. The store will con-
tain about $500 square feet, so that
the renting value averages about $40
a square foot.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
FirdinQ Mummies in Mexico.

Mummified remains of persons who
existed hundreds of years ago have
been dug up in the work of excavating
that has been going on in the old
catacombs of Guanajuato, Mexico.
The people whose bodies were discov-
cred must have lived long before the
settlement of the republic, and the
finds have occasioned much interest
among scientific men. Some of the
bodies were decked with beads and
ivory trinkets that were in vogue be.
fore the coming of the Spaniards. so
these people must have lived in that
part of the country many centuries
ago. The mummies were discovered
under an old cemetery while exca.
vations were being made by some
prospecting miners.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
Absurd hIndoo rerrers.

Self-renGaciation is one of the fea-
lures of Hindooism. A writer says:
'The ascetic life is the natural fruit
of the pessimism of India. In no 9TH
er country is such transcendant merit
attached to modification of the flesh
Ascetics press their martyrdom to al
most incredible limits; they will pass
their days outstretched upon bed Of
spikes; they will hold up an arm till
it withers in the socket; literally they
treat the body as though it were a
slave. The devotee is saluted every
where as maharaja, men of wealth
and position constantly In their de-
clinirg years resign their possessions
to their heirs, and wait for death in
nakedness and poverty by the Gauges
at Benares; nay, it is no uncommon
thing that young men, the products Of
our universities, should relinquish
their interests and their ambitions
and join the wandering army Of devo-
tees who, literally in sackcloth and
ashes, seek grace in an unending
round of pilgrimages."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
GOOD POINT ABOUT THE RICH
ostentation at Least Causes the Rest
of Us to Hustle if Only for
Short Time.

It is great mistake to believe that
the rich are holding us down. AS
matter of fact, they are pulling us
up. If there were no rich people to
keep our eyes glued upon the great
gulf between having and not having
none of us would hustle. We have
to have the rich mans n'ansion prod
ding us, his power scourging us and
his automobile butting us, to get any
where at all. We have to see his
wife and dat Inter in silks and jewels
and realize what our own wives and
daughters without these things think
of us as providers, to peel our coats
off and get into the game. None OF
us can go out driving with such as
we have and suffer the rich man to
whiz past US in prism glass and bur-
nished brass, throwing dust in our
hair, without doing better in the
great arena of human endeavor for
the next two or three days, anyway.
Blessed are the rich, for they fill
us with shame and new resolve and
make us to wonder what in the Sam
Hill we have been doing all these
years.--EXchange
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
How Women Buy CIGARS.

when women buy cigars they often
show more common sense and finer
discrimination than the average man."
writes Carl Werner in Harper's Week
ly Woman is, by nature, better
shopper than man. In buying neck
ties or shirts or slippers or suits Of
clothes for her boys, for instance. she
has a man beaten forty ways. And
those articles are not in women's
sphere by any means. 1t all comes
down to the fact that woman, first by
instinct, and second by constant prac-
tice and experience, is a better all
round shopper than her mate. She
has learned how to ask intelligent
questions of the salespeople-has
learned, in short, all the little tricks
and turns that enable one to get the
best value for the least money with
the least possible waste of time or
words"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
PhotoQraphs From Kites.

A new device has been invented by
Captain SacOney of the engineer corps
of the French army by which plans OF
a fortress may be obtained through
use of a camera attached to a kite
Photographs have been taken from
kites for some time past, without great
precision and securing only uncertain
results, but Captain Saconey's appa-
ratus has accomplished surprising
things. The camera is 10 by "a
inches and is suspended from a series
OF box kites. 1t is sent up to heights
varying from 300 tc 1900 feet, and is
controlled by cords. 1t takes a picture
of town or fort, distinctly showing
the location of various buildings, and
the engineers then construct the
ground plans by combining the known
angles and distance with the photo
graph.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
When She "Primns.n

She walks in beauty like the night,
as seme romantic singer said: her
eyes give forth starry light, her lips
are of a cherry red; across the floor
she seems to float; she seems to me
beyond compare being perfect-till
note the way she has done up her
hair. She must have toiled through
half day to build that large, un-
wieldy mass; she must have used a
bale Of hay, and strips of tin. and wire
of brass; her sisters must have helped
to braid, her mother wrought and tin.
kered there, and butler, cook, and
chambermaid all helped to wrestle
with her hair. And after all the
grinding toll and all the braiding and
the fuss, the one effect Is just to spoil
her beauty and make other people
cuss. She walks in beauty like the
night where nights are most serenely
fair; but, Julius Caesar! she's a sight,
when she's ssot on her Sunday hair!
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
LlverpooI's Big Clock.

Liverpool is to have the largest
clock in the kingdom. Big Ben's diaps
are % feet inches in diameter:
those on the Royal Liver building will
be "a feet. Big Ben requires the serv-
ices Of two men for five hours every
other day in order that its great
weights, weighing 2h tons, may be
drawn up 100 feet to keep the clock
goin. These weights occupy the
whole of the center of the West
minister tower. and they represent a
grandfather clock on tremendous
scale With Liverpoops new clock,
however, affairs will be different
There will be no weights at all, and
no enormous pendulum comparable to
that of Big Ben. Instead, it will be
an electric clock. It will not need
winding at all. the only requisite be-
ing steady supply of motive power.
London Mail.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
Shakespeare's Limitations.

He could not construct plays or in.
vent stories, though he selected good
ones with considerable certainty. He
often enriched the characters, seldom
Ga never the Incidents: even the
characters he creates are usually sides
Of himssss or humorous masks with
out soul. He must have heard Of
the statesman Burleigh often enough;
but nowhere does he portray him; no
hint in his works of Drake. CT
Raleigh, or Elizabeth or Sidney He
has no care, either, for novelties; be
never mentions forks or even tobacco
or potatoes. A student by nature, If
ever there was one, all intent, he tells
us, on lettering his mind, he passes
through Oxford a hundred times and
never mentions the schools; Oxford
men had disguised him with their
alma mater.-Frank Harris, in THE
Man Shakespeare"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
A Polish Funeral.

The able describes the pomp of
weddings and funerals. At the fu-
neral of prince three cavaliers en-,
tered the church on horseback. One
carried the deceased's saber, another
his javelin, the third his lance. Riding
at full speed, they broke their weap-
ons against the side of the bier. The
last rider then let himself fall from
his horse, as If he were dead. Priests
seized the horse and he was obliged
to redeem it. Money was thrown to
the ground. Confusion reigned; in
the scramble bishops, priests ana no.
blemen were thrown to the ground.
At the end of the ceremony the &C.
clesiastics had great feast, at which
Hungarian wine flowed copiously.-
George A. Dorsey in the Chicago
Tribune
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
A Husbands Appreciation.

An Atchison man went into the
kitchen last Sunday morning, where
his wife was stringing beans. Mary,
he said as he sat down, 'you are the
only person who ever lived who has
treated me like human being, and l
want to express my gra titude. My
mother always acted as though she
expected me to disgrace the family.
and so did my sisters. My school
teacher predicted that I would be
hanged, and wherever I go people act
as though l am not up to standard;
that l really should be different.
Therefore l have been thinking more
and more of the fact that I always
seem satisfactory to you. To a man
who has been pecked at as have
been it is source of great satisfac-
ton to know a woman who really
thinks I'm as near right as other peo-
pie, and want to express my apr
probation. "-Atchison Globe.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
An Octouenarian,

The London omnibus is now eighty
years old. 1t was on July 4, 1929, that
George Shillibeer, after being success
sively a midshipman in the British
navy and coach builder in Paris,
placed on the London streets the first
two omnibuses ever seen in England.
A large crowd assembled to witness
the start, and general admiration was
expressed at the smart appearance of
the vehicles, which were built to carry
% passengers, all inside, and were
drawn by three beautiful bays, har-
messed abreast. The word omnibus"
was painted in large letters on both
sides of the vehicles. The fare from
Yorkshire Stingo" to the bank was
one shilling; halfway, sixpense. News
papers and magazines were provided
free of charge.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
Buffalo Girls Homesteaders.

Three girls from Buffalo, N. Y,
were visiting at North Yakima last
year when the government threw
open tract along the Columbia river
for settlement. They entered home
steads, and on committing next
month, after IA months residence on
the land, they will be worth several
thousand dollars each. The girls got
40 acres each, their claims adjoining
another homesteaded quarter section.
The claims will come under the
high line ditch of the Hanford irriga-
ton project, greatly increasing their
value. The young women are Leona
Swank, WinAred Stevens and Bessie
Cook. To obtain supplies the girls
bought a horse between them, all
three riding the mount to White Bluff,
five miles distant-Tacoma Core
spondence, San Francisco Chronicle.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
NOT ALL GOODNESS OF HEART
Pullman Potter Had Good and Suf-
ficient Reasons for His Prof
fered Services.

What numbah, lady?" asked the
pleasant looking porter of the WON.
an who entered his Pullman an hour
prior to train time.
Upper 16," answered the mild pas
sen err
g pper 49," The porter's exclama.
ton was almost a shrek, and his vel.
low face screwed itself into wrinkles
of concern.
i know it's hard" sighed the WON.
an, as, with a softening of her heart, she
Ielt that this mental was expressing
for her the Indignation she would
have liked to voice herself.
Il don't b'lieve this ca-ah's all sold
out like that" he scolded. "You just
nave seat theah, lady, while | goes
into the office; l kin suah git you
something bettah!"
The world was not so bad after all.
There was goodness in human ma.
ture which exceeded her most opti.
mistic dreams. For here was this
man, belonging to department of
service not noted for it's eagerness to
coddle patrons, taking such kindly
interest in her comfort.
The porter returned, with a lag in
his step and discouraged shake of
his head
BEST we kin do, lady; got an aw.
full crowd comm on heah tonight"
well, it's too bad; but thank you.
Just the same, for your trouble"
beamed the recipient of this unusual
attention.
"Ya-as'm, suah it's too bad!" NUT.
tered the porter, as he started for
the linen cupboard. 81 was goin' to
sleep in uppah 16 mahself!"-Puck.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
Dogs in Red Cross Service.

The important part played by dogs
in the Red Cross service is told in
picture and in story in Popular Me-
chanics. The Red Cross in France
has department for the special train.
ing of dogs, and through it's efforts
they are taught to search out the
wounded and draw attention to their
location. Untiring work has trained
them not to bark or howl when com.
ing upon wounded soldier. but to re.
trieve some object belonging to him
and carry it to the first Red Cross
worker that can be found. When the
worker takes the object from the
logs mouth the animal turns about
and leads the way back.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
An AIrboaE.

The aeroplane is an airboat rather
than a flying machine. says ST. Mich
olas. The only action of the bird that
it initiates is the birds soaring. in
nearly the same sense in which a boat
floats or a duck swims. With the
duck, however, there is one difference.
It shares the balloon principle. e
cause it's body will not sink when 1t
stands still, whereas 80 aeroplane
will fall unless it is constantly urged
forward. The duck is lighter than its
bulk of water, as the balloon is light
er than its own bulk of air. To call
an aeroplane a flying machine is
therefore exactly the same as to call
a boat a swimming machine (keeping
in mind the swimming of the duck
and neglecting that of fishes and OF
human beings).
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
HostrIsh Took Head for Hequ.

A trained ostrich recently discon-
certed it's exhibitor at a music hall
by continually endeavoring to break
away from all restraint and to climb
over the footlights into the orchestra.
The widely advertised act came to a
sudden end, and the professor emerged
from behind the curtain and apollo
gized for the actions Of his pet in
about these words: "Lydies and gen
tlemen-Hi ham very sorry to disap-
point you this evening. We are COM
PEELED to cease our engagement until
the management hengages a new or
chestra leader. The one at present
hemployed ere as no air on top Of
is head and my bird takes it for a
hegg. "-Tit-Bits.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
An Ace Up His Sleeve.

Munich has once more become the
scene OF painful incident" through
ignorance on the part of young man,
the son of high official, as to how
to hold his cards when playing, says
the Munchener Post. A game was in
progress at club when some one
saw the young man draw an ace from
his sleeve. When the excitement
caused by the operation had some
what subsidized a prominent citizen
prevented criminal proceedings by
bundling the card sharp into an au-
tomobile, which took him without stop
across the Bavarian frontier.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
Beecher Wished Him Well.

AT a conference a young minister
said to Henry Ward Beecher:
"Mr. Beecher, my congregation has
delegated me to ask this question Of
you: We have in our congregation
one of the purest and most loyal men
you ever saw. He is upright, honest,
generous, the heartiest supporter Of
the church we have-the friend Of
the poor, the beloved of little chill
dren, veritable saint-but he does
not believe in some of the generally
accepted dogmas. Now, where do
you think he will go after death%
Mr.. Beecher was equal to the occa-
sion. Hesitating a moment, he said:
Il never dare say where any man
will go after death, but wherever this
man goes he certainly has my best
wishes"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
Chinese Cows,

The cows in China are not very
many generations removed from the
wild state, as it is only since the for
eigners have come in that the people
have used milk. So the only way
they'll give down their milk is to
calf. Consequently in order to milk
COW there it takes two men and
calf. One man holds the calf and the
other the pail. They let the calf get
a start and then the first man sudden.
ly grabs the calf away and the other
fellow jumps in and gets all the milk
he can before the surprised COW re-
allies the change. The operation is
repeated until they get all the milk
they want. Then they drive on to the
next place.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
Illuminating in a Royal Attic.

How treasures of bygone kings and
queens were discovered in Castle
Frohsdorf, the seat of the Carlist lead.
err Don jaime de Bourbon, is told by
James F. ]. Archibald in Harper's
Weekly. The author was invited to
visit Don Jaime, and the two ex-
plored the treasures of the castle.
Among relics found were: the last Of
the French Bourbon flags; chair EN-.
broidered by Marie Antoinette; tresses
from the head of Marie Antoinette
and little note written by her in
prison and rolled into a pellet; the
skirt and suspenders worn by the
Duke of Palma on the night of his as
sassination Thousands Of miniatures
and portraits and countless other
treasures are being brought to light.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
Tobacco and TheoIooy.

1t was Frenchman who discovered
a vital connection between English
tobacco and English theology. NJ Mis-.
son visited these shores during the
closing years of the seventeenth CEN
fury, and in 1897 he wrote book en-
titled Memoirs of Travels Over Eng.
land" Everywhere he went he found
men and women smoking. 1t was this,
he asserted, that made the generality
of Engliskmen SO taciturn, SO thought
full, and SO melancholy. Smoking
makes men profound theologists, for
no men in the world will smoke pipe
better than an English clergyman, and
all the world knows that the English
theology is the most profound theology
Of all."-London Chronicle.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
The Cellar Button.

A boilermaker is not usually a puny
man. Like his friend, the blacksmith,
he has plenty of muscle, but one. of
his trade i'll Los Angeles broke hia
collar bone while trying to- button on
his collar. Let us consider the collar
button. 1t is tiny thing, yet nothing
of mans invention has developed such
perversity. Designed for a perfectly
legitimate use, it has become an OBJ
stacle to his moral progress, an In.
centive to profanity, wrecker of be-
lief and a destroyer of domestia
peace.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
Commitment to the Nation.

speaking of compliments" said
Rev. James A. Solandts of Newark, N.
j., what l consider the highest COM
pliment ever paid the American
heard given by a guide while we were
on top of Mount Vesuvius last year.
was with a party of Americans who
had taken the climb to the summit OF
the famous mountain, and when we
neared the top we were told we might
have a drink of anything we desired.
The guide surveyed us critically and
said: you people all look like Amer
leans, and l know that you don't want
anything else to drink but lemonade"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
Astronomical obserxatorles.

The astronomical observatories are
found by British astronomer to have
increased from go officially recognized
in 1859 to 230 at the present time. OF
those now existing the United States
and the British empire have 1O5, Ger.
many 81. Austria 16. Italy 49, Russia
IA, France II. and the remainder are
scattered in Belgium. Denmark.
Greece, Finland, Holland. JAPAN Mex.
leo, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain.
Sweden, Switzerland and the South
American republics. The northern
hemisphere has twelve times as many
as the southern.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
Pleasant Meals.

Shakespeare very truly wrote that
'unQuiet meals make i'll digestions, .
And meal times should never be made
unpleasant Wives must not [-ter-
tain their husbands at dinner Win the
days domestic grievances about chill
lren or servants, nor ask for money,
and husbands must not retail the wor-
vies of the office, the fall in stocks or
their own personal troubles. Be
cheerful at meals, everything will
chen taste better-and digest better;
leave the worries in the drawing room
you can return to tackle them ever
so much better if you Danish them
from the dining roJm-Home.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
"New" Things Not TO His LIkIno.

Taylor Arnold of Nine Mile Prairie,
who owns more land in Galloway
county than any other man, bought
his first umbrella while he was in
Fulton Monday. II had to do it," he
told a representative of the Gazette
Il came off up here to stock sales and
left both my raincoats at home, and
when the rain came up had to buy
an umbrella to keep from getting
soaking wet. Before today l never
carried one of the things over 100
yards in my life. ana hardly know
how to use this one. l can say some
thing else mighty few men can say"
Mr.. Arnold added. Il am sixty-three
years old and l have never owned a
watch."-Fulton (Mo.) Gazette
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
counteractInq Lack Of Sunshine.

A house built in Brooklyn was des-
ignated, as far as could be, to counter
act the lack of sunlight. which the
houses situation made unavoidable
The chief means for giving the i'm
preston of sunshine were yellow tint
ed walls and amber glass skylights
Monotony In the yellow tones was
avoided because the location of each
room offered some peculiar problem
which was best solved by tint diff
ferent from that of the rest of the
house. 1t is said that even on gray
days there was enough of the strmu
lating effect of sunshine to prevent
dull spirits. and the effect of the de-
sign on the health Of the occupants
was most benefcent.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
Municipal Ownership of Graveyard.

Malevolence and benevolence are
oddly blended in the will of Herr Colt
fried Feller, a wealthy brewer of
Thun. He bequeathed to his native
town sum of no less than $3.50, 600
but accompanied the beQuest by the
condition that a certain person whom
he disliked should not be reelected
to the communal council. while an.
other of his pet diversions was to be
deprived of certain municipal Office
which he held. The council met, and
after considering the will were forced
to notify the executors that they
could not accept the beQuest.