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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1878-11-22
WISCONSIN
PATIENT TRAINING REWARDED.
Mrs Carpenters Canary Bird Taught to
Produce the Music 0fa Waltz.
New York Sur

Swinging III II gilded cage in the coy
parlor of Mrs. G. w. Carpenter, Of
Newark, N j., is Il brown and yellow
canary bird ii looks like an ordinary
bird, behaves like an ordinary bird;
but listen TO It for a second, and you
will hear tune, occasionally varied by
genuine bird warblings
"Dck is about years DID," Mrs.
Carpenter said yesterday, 'and
when he feels like it, will sing the Ger
man waltz, a few notes Of which you
just heard, through correctly lie has
q mate down stairs that sings nearly as
well as does Dick, but he is melting now,
and doesn't sing. Dick has also been
melting, and isn't in good condition.
When he is, lie will sing that waltz by
the hour; but whenever he makes II
mistake, lie will break into mere can
AIRY werble and then begin again.
wish lie would sing now. Perhaps We
can get him to-
Thereupon Mrs. Carpenter played the
waltz on an organ, using stop that gave
il tone much like birds. She played
the waltz through and as she ceased
viz blld 1SstiIi Viz NdlAA Iltdl ~
through, but it made false note, and
then warbled sweetly. The organ
sounded again, and then the bird sung
again. This time Dick sung the waltz
correctly, and at the end of his song
gave himself great airs, evidently proud
Of his skill.
GLOW did We teach him " said Mrs.
Carpenter in answer to the question Of
the reporter. Mrs. Carpenter took
Dick when ne was just oil the nest, and
put him into dark room, where he
saw no light and heard no sound. Then
daily she played the waltz to him, two
Or three times day, for fifteen or
twenty minutes each time, AT the end
Of month or two the bird began to
sound note Of the waltz, then another.
Soon il combined them, and after a
time lie whistled an entire strain. 1t
was nearly year, however before his
education WAS complete. 1t requires
considerable patience 70 teach bird.
These birds are a cross between linet
and canary, and are heartiar bird
than a thoroughbred canary. would
not like to part with either Of my birds.
When the Kellogg Opera Troupe
We're here, Miss kellogg was delighted
with Dicks performances. She said
If she owned hiRl she would not take
1000 for han.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1878-11-22
FoRTf.SINTH CONGRESS-.


Following is 4 list corrected accord.
ing 70 the latest Geographic adyiecs of
the senate rs il will exist after the 4th
of March, rs far as elected up to date,
with an indication Of the politics 81
senators not yet elected, as shown by
the political complexion Of the legis-
latures chosen. Republicans (in Rom
any, So; democrats Gin auiics1, -; indc-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1878-11-22

Paradise, New, il not 70 political
candidates All that its name implies.
Two men who we're running for Office
went there and made speeches. after
which they lodged III the only hotel. Iii
the morning they found that All their
clothing, except the shirts they had on
their backs, had been loosely taken by
tile miners and paWned for whisky. OF
course any show Of resentment would
have been iniadicions
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1878-11-22

ALTHOUGH one occasionally hears Of
horse which Will drink cider or whis-
Ky, 4 tobacco chewing horse il rare
animal; set Springfield. Mas, boasts
iii two Ut tile latter class. a physician,
who II 4 lover of tie weed, la trained
tR3 horses I'll chew.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1878-11-22

a NEw FRuir. The salmon berry,
III Il rival Ii strawberr ics, ii i ncwHn-
mant for notice. II comes from claim
boldt county, IT the northern extrem-
ity of our state. II appears % DO
species IL raspberry of giant size
and well pronounced strawberry flavor.
Ii bears continuously from March 70
mid-June. California Correspondence d
baltimore SIM.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1878-11-22

ALABAMA.
Term exp
1855 i HtRiocF1t
1883 JpdA z Morgan
ARKANSAS.
1855 i Democrat
1855 -iEgaSt SR haflaha
CALIFORNIA.
1855 a Democrat
1881 Newton Tooth
COLORADO.
1885 A republican
1888 Henry NJ Teller
CONNECTICUT.
1855 A republican
1851 Nm w Eaton
DELAWARE.
1851 Thomas r. Bdyd9'6
1888 Eli SaNiSbU'g
FLORIDA.
1885 4 democrat
1881 ChQs " Jones
GEORGIA.
1875 4 democrat
1888 BSnj II MI
ILLINOIS.
1885 A republican
1888 DAVID DAVIS
INDIANA.
1885 4 Democrat
1881 Jos r. McDoHdtd
IOWA.
1885 A republican
1888 Sam'l j kirkwood
KANSAS.
1895 A republican
1888 Preston b Plumb
KENTUCKY.
1885 4 democrat ~.@.
1883 James Il Beck
LOUISIANA.
1888 4 democrat
1888 VIM p Kellogg
MAINE.
1881 Hannibal lIamlin
1888 James q Blaine
MARYLAND.
1883 A republican
1881 " PinckHey Whgte
MASSACHUSETTS.
1881 Henry l. Dawes
1883 George + Hoar
MICHIGAN.
1881 Isaac p Christianct
1888 Thos w Ferry
MINNESOTA.
1881 Sam'l j II Mcmillan
1854 William " indom
H0uSa of RpI
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1878-11-22

TltHEE are more tramps III Cuba than
III any other part IL tie world. Tie
long var ~ that Island disorganized i'll
dabtries
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1878-11-22
Aneedote Of Marshal Mnc Mallon.

They nrc telling two pleasant little
stories in the Paris papers which illus
tratc very prettily two sides of Marshal
MacMnhon's character. AT one Of tic
marshals official receptions III the
Elysee, MI officer il standing IL the hnf-
fct, making II somewhat Disguised face
AZ the array Of cups Of ten and ehoco-
late, and tire plates 81 cake. "llnmph
don't think much of this Why don't
they give us some cold meat, on il hit of
ham, and some Bordeaux, ia like 10
know As he stands grumbling % his
nolghbors, and slipping his chocolate
and mnnehing his cnke, he feels his
shoulder touched. Turning around lie
secs i servant standing with salyer on
which arc some cold meat, il lit IL ham
and bottle 81 Bordeaux. "Whyl
whnt does this mean Ye--to the servant.
"Fhc marshal overheard MONSIEUR"
returns the man, imperturbably. An
other time il Is young sous licnten-
ant, : fresh from Saint Cry (the French
West Point), who is standing nolan
choly and detected, IL 4 doorway. The
marshall comes mp 10 him AM SAYS;
Don't you dancer "Oh, yes. But
I'm not lucky. did ask one lady to
dance with me, and she refused. !"
Which one was t. The young man
points her out. Now, look mere young
man" says the marshal, "you ought
to find oft who people IRE, if you don't
want to run your head into i wall, and
not Ask marshals wives 70 dance, with
ont knowing them. That is Madame DC
MacMahon, who never dances. But Ill
ask her To dance with you this once"
And she did.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1878-11-22

THE children ofan old Pennsylvania
farmer, who died lately, when quite
distressed that nothing Ind been left
them. Looking about for will, they
discovered several stockings full ofgold
and silver pieces, some of them many
years old. The father had evidently
begun boarding them early in life, and
continued the practice until death put
an end To his saving.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-05-08
GLE ANISGS.

For the first time since the war the sub
treasury began yesterday silver payments for
current expenses.
The number of democratic papers in Texas
is given as 40. No candidate has a two
thirds majority of them.
Baltimore has Is more churches than any
other city in the United States, and relative
ly more than any city in the world.
marriage at common law is valid, no
matter what the state statutes provide. At
least the United States supreme court says
so.
IT is said that President Hayes had his be-
lief in the Bible shaken a little, when he
was informed that it was not written by an
Ohio man.
Up to noon on Thursday 265 petitions in
bankruptcy had been filed in Chicago, dur
ing the month of April, representing total
Indebtedness Of $l3, 100000.
takes some woman out to her husband, and
the result is, there are now two women to
every man in that distressed country.
The Rev Mr.. Darkey Jasper, of Rich
mond continues to insist that the world has
never gone round. The Rev. Mrs Darkey
Jasper has evidently never been tight
1lllDOlS mas II ,pvO square miles OF coal tleO,
averaging more than 40 feet In thickness.
She produces nearly one.sixth of all the
corn. and nearly one-tenth of all the hay
raised in the country.
Connecticut men are still as shrewd and
INSCRIPTIONS as in the days of wooden nut
megs. A hrm in that state has been de-
tected in selling mixture of common sand
and mud as a valuable fertilizer, at S32
ton.
Henry Ward Beecher at 65 is very red in
the face and puffy, and seems always in
earnest, even when he walks. There is an
idea, when you see him, that he is rushing,
as if be might lose a train. Still be laughs
and smiles, and, poor man, why shouldn't
he?
In Michigan they never hold inquests
upon the bodies of men whose pockets are
found to contain fruit tree catalogues and
wire fence samples but il the murderer be-
comes known his neighbors club together
and present him with gold headed cane or
patent tobacco box.
General Fitzhugh Lee, the well known
cavalry leader of the confederate army, has
accepted the invitation to deliver an address
at Loudon park cemetery, on commemora.
ton day early in June when the graves of
the southern soldiers are decked with flow
ers. General Lee has the natural gift of elo-
quence. On his arrival at Boston at the
time of the Bunker Hill centennial he
made little off hand speech, so suited TO
the occasion. so full of good sense and good
feeling, that II stamped him at once as an
orator. He is as a man much beloved, as
genial and sweet-tempered as he was brave
in battle. No better choice could have been
made for orator on decoration day.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-05-08
The Path Of Timur.

Among the kings and counselors of the
earth, which built desolate places for them.
selves" none was more renowned than
Timur the Tartar. whose name, from China
10 the pillars of Hercules, was at one time
whispered with fear and trembling. Where
ever he carried his conQ0ering arms slaugh-
ter and rapine marked has course, and be
hind him he left naught but ruined cities
and towers of human skulls
CIaviIo, the Spanish ambassador in 1903,
saw, in Persia four OF these towers, leach a
stones throw in height" and built entirely
of human skulls. the inters tees being filled
in with mud. Yet the immense empire of
the Tartar, won at the cost of millions OF hu-
man lives, and nurtured by human gore
crumbled to fragments immediately after
the great devastat0r's death.
At the time of Thurs death the traveller
journeying through Persia might arrive at
what once was flourishing and populous
city. But the destroyer had passed through
it; its houses and mosques were in ruins
and high in the air rose the awful monument
of Thurs fame. But already the husband
man had pitched his tent amid the crumb
ling ruins-the oxen labor in the burrows,
and innocent children, in their fresh young
life. play beneath the tower o. death
Yet few lhore years and so transient is
the glory of violence that even this CHASTITY
trophy has disappeared The city has arisen
again from its ruins; is again filled with the
noisy rattle of peaceful commerce.; and
nothing is left to mark the glory of the Tar.
tar
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-05-08

Saturday completed their semi-annnual set
Element of the accounts between their re-
spective offices. The treasurer's books
showed collection of 1929 from the tax.
payers OF this county, and in comparing
the accounts between the auditors and
a discrepancy of only 50 cents The collec-
tons were about the same this year as last,
the taxation being lower.
Fort Wayne Sentinel: Fort Wayne has a
population OF $4,000 people. Her total APP
praisement for city purposes is S14 600 600.
Her expenditures for the last year, including
interest on the public debt, were $13l SOS .02.
The population of indianapolis is about
1900, or 215 times that of Fort Wayne.
Her appraisement for city purposes Is
$3.50, 612.45, or about four times that of Fort
Wayne. Her expenditures for the current
year amount to S523, 1913. or about four times
those of Fort Wayne. Wonder if the dea-
con will extract any comfort from these
figures?
Kokomo Dispatch: Byron Reed is about
ready to start on his regular summer over
land trip to the Rocky mountains with his
stereoscopic and Photographic apparatus, all
in a single wagon. We commend Byron to
the wild Comanches, Flat Foots and Mad
Eaters of the plains as an artist entirely
worthy of their patronage.
Everybody was buggy riding on Sunday.
Keeping the Sabbath.
The fruit bloom was never heavier than
now in this county.
Mr.. George d. Tate is doing an immense
lumber business His yard is entirely COW
cred with lumber, most of which is walnut.
Evansville Journal: Many of our people
remember two men named 2. Z. Kelley and
George McDermot, who peddled razors in
the streets here several weeks ago, and made
themselves nuisances to all whom they APP
preached. Marshal Ayres received a letter
yesterday from George Weissenberger pro-
prietOr of hotel at Vincennes, who says
they boarded HIM out of S., and after Dor
rowing 81 90 in money skipped out and never
paid it. The marshal went to Fred Bohn's
Western house here, where they had been
boarding, and discovered that they had per-
on him. and left for parts unknown between
two days. They may as well be posted as
swindlers of the first water.
Ledger-Standard: DR.. Elijah Newland
was formerly treasurer of state, but of late
years has gone out of politics, and now de-
votes himself to the general good of the
public and 20 cutting coupons off sundry
government and other bonds upon which
semi-annual dividends are paid with regu-
larity. He is man of great integrity of
character, devoted to the cause of temper
anCe anu the frOtestanJ Episcopal cnuIcn,
edits a suburban farm in the summer and
resides in an elegant east end mansion in
the winter. is full of public spirit and
great advocate of reform and retrenchment
in county, state and national administra-
tons, is charitable, religious, very PLAIN in
dress, not greatly given to backing boots,
and enjoys good horse, gun, dog and fish
ing rod. He is physician OF more than or
binary skill, but does not practice, and lives
or what he sells his coupons for May he
always find good market for them.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-05-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The way of the fraudulent president is
hard.
Philadelphia Times: The president was
Joking about the civil service reform all the
time. 1t was too comical for anything.
Scientific analysis shows that the practice
of inhaling the smoke or cigarettes is ex-
tremely dangerous, frequently causing con-
gestion Of the lungs.
The supreme court of Iowa, in a test case,
has decided that railroad companies are liza
BILE for damages in cases OF fire caused by
sparks from locomotives.
Among the celebrities who have married
late in life was Sir Stephen Fox, who mar
ried his second wife in 1903. when be was 10
and had by her two sons, the earl of Ilcbes-
ter and Lord Holland, father OF Charles
James Fox. He survived his marriage -
Years.
Cinderella will no longer have a monopoly
in the wearing of glass slippers. The manu-
facture of these fragile articles OF foot wear
promises to become one of the industries of
Vienna. The slippers are actually woven Of
fine, flexible threads OF glass. Not only do
lines of colored light, in different hues and
distinctly definable, traverse the body of the
slipper, but with the motion of the foot Of
the wearer these hues 30 blend and inter
mlngle as to produce a magical and beautiful
effect, particularly when seen under gas
light.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-05-08
D, some have said that cen the ffeetness
EVERY DAY SPICERIES.

Sitting Bull has received four wagon loads
of cartridges to be used in farming.-Dan-
bury News.
The winds may be tempered to the shorn
lamb, but man with a straw hat has no sort
OF influence on the weather.
Dean Swift proposed to tax female beauty,
and to leave every lady to rate her own
charms. He said the tax would be cheerfully
paid, and be very productive.
The late Mark Hopkins having left no will,
his immense property must go to his wife
and his adopted SON. 1t is believed that this
one thing will set the legal profession back
full % years-Danbury News.
When you hear a country church choir
singing, There will be no more sorrow
there" you may conclude that either the
aforesaid choir will not be there. or they will
not be permitted to sing.-Oil City Derrick.
These are the days when the woman of
the house lights down like an apparition in
the midst of the domestic garden, swinging
a broom, tapping her skirts, kicking side
ways with both feet at once, swapping her
eyes, humping her back and screeching,
''Shew there. Shew!" It's hens.-Chicago
Journal.
Small boy (entering shop)-'I want
penny's worth o canary seed" Shopkeeper
(who knows the boy )-"ls it for your moth
er?' Small boy CONTEMPORARY mo; it's
for the bird"
AT 20 you know everything; at 30 you
have your doubts; at 40 there are some
things you don't know; at 80 you are sure
of your ignorance; and after that YOU read
Mr.. Beecher's sermon on everlasting punish
ment and hope he is right,-Boston Courier.
Canvas suspenders now seem to be worn by
most all ladies. There's no give" to them,
and that's the reason you occasionally hear
a button fly off when a lady grabs fer her
skirt-Free Press Now they will be called
canvas back ducks wOrse'n eyer.-Philadel-
phia Bulletin.
There may be no such word as fail in any
extant edition of the bright lexicon youth.
but when a young man returns home at 3
o'clock in the morning and tries to unlock
the front door with cork screw IT requires
the highest of editorial courtesy to refer to
it as an unqualified success.
"Can you tell me where Washington's
monument is?'' asked a rural gentleman in
Charles street. Baltimore. the other day.
Just lift your eyes off the ground" said
the person addressed, rather tartly, land
you'll see it." "Well, hev lifted my eyes,"
said the rural party, looking his informant
calmly in the face. IAN 1 don't see nuthin'
but darned old tool"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-05-08
LfckshingIe-s Umbrella.
Oil City Derrick.l


Lien me yer umbrella minnit"
Such was the exclamation of Jones as he
rushed into the Office of Squire LickshIngle
yesterday.
Certainly, certainly" said the squire,
laying down his newspaper and taking
fresh chew of fine cut glad to accommo
date you and he opened drawer in his
desk and began rummaging through his
legal forms and blanks.
Jones darted into the corner, seized the
green Bingham relic and was preparing to
fly with it.
"Stop, stop, stop" said the squire. raising
his hand msjestically; mot too fast, young
man. Wait till l make out the necessary
papers"
Jones dropped the umbrella. On his corn,
of course. After pumping bis lame foot up
and down, and tying hard not In his coun-
tenance, and undoing it again, he echoed:
'The necessary papers"
Eyes" SAID the squire sternly, 'the nee
essary papers," and he Continued his search
among the blanks.
The right one found. he filled il out in a
Jiffy and handed it to Jones to sign.
As Jones read the paper his knees knocked
together. IL was a mortgage on his house
and lot as security that he would return the
umbrella in good order within fifteen min
utes. He ALTERED:
"Wh.why, squire, ] only want to borrow
your umDrella 10 run dCFOSs tue SLIccb VIII.
I'll fetch it back in two seconds
The Squire showed his spectacles up over
his bald spot until they formed two sky
lights in his intellectual roof, and looking
Jones full IN the face, said:
"You only want to run across the street.
You'll return il in two seconds. Young
man, that's what they all say. | take no
stock in it. Man wants but little here be-
low, but by the good Samaritan, when he
wants his umbrella, he wants it. 1 have
known people in my time who have listened
to the song of the siren, who came to borrow
umbrellas until she has transformed them
into people without an umbrella between
them and the pelting storm. | am
not one of that kind. i have lived
a long time / have accumulated a
fortune. Why? For the simple reason that
had not spent my substance In buying
umbrellas That umbrella which you hold
in your hand is certainly not of uncommon
beauty, nor is il OF great value. III is simply
a gingham umbrella. A green Cne at that.
But it answers the purpose for which, etc L
have had il since / boy. Why? be-
cause no man, neither the son OF man, has
ever taken it beyond the range of my vision
without first signing over bis estate that he
would return it in good condition. 1t may
not seem neighborly, but it's business. Here
is the mortgage; there is the umbrella; with
out beats the rain of heaven. You have
your choice;" and the old man resumed his
newspaper.
Jones thought of his wife and babies and
the pleasant home that was all his own
Then he looked at the rain that was pound
Jog at the doors and windows, as IL 10 get In
out of the wet glance at his new over
coat. and Jones was decided.
..I'lI risk he said. and stepping to the
desk with measured tread aud slow, he
clapped his name to the mortgage and was
off with the umbrella.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-05-08
LOVES HOURS.
BY VIOLET FAME.

The hours that we have passed together
Would scarcely make one golden year,
One golden year OF SUNNI weather
Midst other years OF darkness drear,
Though spread upon the grass, our kisses
Would warm a space as broad as this is
From there to here!
Stolen from world of death and sorrow,
These happy hours of life and bliss
Enough of heavenly joy can borrow
That angels could they look at thisl
Would surely shroud their wOnd ring faces
To see how much of heavens traces
Lurl<ed in a kisSi
o, some have said that cen the fieetness
OF these dear hours we call our own
May lend them something more of sweetness
Than would have chung 10 them alone.
All! who can say? For who has sfriven
To guess which pathway led to heaven
Once heaven is known?
Yet, shOuldst thou deem that they have guess
ed IL,
(The sageS who have told us this.)
Then would to heaven that could test IL
And cling forever TO thy kiss,
Then should know II It's the tieetness
OF these dear hours that make their sweet
ness,
Or whether their exceeding fieetness
Flows from their own surprising sweetness.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-05-08

about quarter of an inch thick. close to the
hollow of your feet (no cloth between feet
and poultlce); keep il on for 10 or 10 hours,
then take oil the poultice and the cure is
complete" Get one ounce OF iodide
of potassia, put it in a quart bottle
of soft water, and take for dose
two thirds OF a common sized stem wine
glass three times day, half an hour before
meals. Avoid strong drink and gross diet
Should the glands OF your neck get sore, you
must reduce the dose. You must take regu-
lar rest, and take four bottles of the medI-
cine before you stop, and then quit 1t for
two weeks. Then take two bottles more,
which will in all probability complete the
cure. You must keep your bowels open. /
would advise all rheumatics to try the poul-
tice first, and if it fails to effect cure, then
to try the recipe which cured Mr.. Boswell,
of Louisville, Ky, gentleman well known
and highly respected in that city.