Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1878-01-04
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Never discuss your family affairs III Il
hOrse-car The glass pares III the Win
dows are good conductors Of sound.
The forgctful man at this season Of
the year works himself into fever as
he impctuously traverscs various peck
cts III search Of the glove lie holds
between his hard-set teeth.
A Roman Catholic priest in charge
Of colored congregation in Savannah,
says of the $4,000 colored people in that
city, only 200 are Catholics.
Yes" said u dealer, "I'll give you
something for the fair if you'll have it
acknowledged ia the papers. The adj
vcrtiscmcnt will lie worth II good deal
more than the goods" That's about the
size of it.
A NewY ork servant girl felt 50 much
rcmorse after the theft of u ten-dollar
bill that She threw the monepin the
fire. Good for the national debt; that's
all that appears commendablc in this
conscientious twinge.
An exchange remarks that q eat
many people find amusement in study
ing hill-boards. And it may be added,
says the Worcester Press, that their num-
Der is greatly in excess Of those who find
any amusement in studying board bills.
What we want to know is how q child
twenty-five inches around can get away
with II heaping plate of Christmas good
les twenty-five inches around. We
should also like to know Just what
ought to be done for the child about
two hours aftcrward. Rome Sentinel.
a new theatre, the property Of six
wealthy Cinnamon, is nearly finished in
San Francisco, and will soon open with
ninety-two actors and Six cooks. They
will sleep and eat on the premises, and
receive u combined salary of 81 500 y
year, with board.
10 remove glass stopper, put q drop
OF two Of glycerine in the crcvice about
the stopper. Set it on one side for an
hour or two. When you do give il n
twist you will be surprised to see how
kindly the refractory stopple yields to
your fingers and how easily it is re-
moved.
The human body expands immensely
with age. When eleven young men are
seated on one side Of u car, they can
easily sit up little closer to make room
for pretty girl, bat six Of them can
manage to monopolize an entire side of
the ear when III old woman comes in.
lIoarsencss can be removed tempo
rarily by dissolying III the mouth u small
piece of boraX about the size of n green
pea, or about three-fourths of q grain,
and slowly swallowing it. II produces a
profusc secretion of saliva, and affords
relief. Good for singers or speakers
The benefits of advertising were new
or better illustrated than ut Hartford the
other day. A man went into Il newspa-
per office TO advertise for 4 missing cuff
and cuil-hutton, and i'll explaining to
the sympathizing clerk his theory of
how the loss occurred lie found he had
buttoncd both the cuffs upon one wrist
band
What's in u name? A Chinaman in
san Francisco found there were thirty
days. He stole Frisco mans door
plate and fastened it on his own door as
an ornament He didn't know that the
name would betray him, as he thought
that was merely carved on for the beau
ty Of the thing. The Chinaman now
languishes in the Bastile, another VIC
tim to the mysteries Of English orthog-
raphy.
DESTRUCTION OF FERNs.-The rage for
ferns is now 50 universal that, if it long
continues, the rarer and prettier kinds
will almost disappear, \ collector,who
knows what is going on in the botanical
world, says that commissions have been
sent to England to gather five hundred
specimens of each of the rare plants of
Great Britain To I've sent to the United
States. AT that rate plants will soon
become 50 scarce that no one can find
them. In some parts Of our country
! by the destruction of forests, the exter-
mination Of birds and the drying up OF
streams, the inhabitants are doing all
They can 70 convert whole sections into
| deserts.
MR f. G. BANGS, the actor is now Mt
his home III the northern part Of the
city, and his physicians think with three
or four weeks rest he will be able to re-