Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1878-07-05
Useful and Funny.

tight are d novelty.
When life was slower anu surer there
were fewer suicides.
The stove manufacturers, il is est.
mated, are able to turn out about the
number Of stoves that the country can
absorb.
An Allegheny county IN. W wife
recovered $500 from the dealer who
sold her husband the liquor which
caused an Erie train to amputate his
leg.
Photographing is being perfected
rapidly. They have just succeeded il
photographing Occident while moving
at full speed. Electricity is the agent.
Mr.. Spurgeon on precocious moral
lists; Young men nowadays, whose
whiskers have scarcely grown, consider
themselves the proper persons to decide
questions regarding religious matters,
and in proportion to their ignorance is
their confidence and audacity III sheer
ing at everything sacred"
The experiment Of ladies" CARRIAGES
was tried on the English railways, and
it didn't work, some ladies going so far
as to prefer the smoking compartments
70 being alone.
There are dwarf3 among 0shes as
well as among other animals. a whale,
supposed to be years old, was captured
oil the coast of Norway by party of
fishermen about year ago. 1t was
placed IN large aquarium at Brussels,
| and although treated well has not
grown amy larger, and is now only three
feet long.
An Intelligent resident of London,
Ont, mistook the rising Of the moon
for Il fire, and turned out the fire brig
ade. As the intelligent iiremcn were
proceeding to the scene Of conilagra-
ton the new steam fire engine was over
turned in u ditch and badly wrecked,
and two of the firemen were seriously
injured.
Before the panic Of 1873, thousands
were quitting farming and moving into
the cities and villages. The growth Of
cities and villages all over the coun-
try was abnormally rapid Now the
tide has turned the other way, and the
unemployed and surplus population of
cities is turning its attention to farm
ing. This is right. Any family with
twenty acres Of good land, well worked,
is sure Of not suffering from positive
want. Any family with forty acres is
certain of II fair living, and amy family
with u quarter section is in the way to
live handsomely by and by.
FGgao says that upon the appearance
Of rolling chairs ut the Paris exposition
nobody could be induced To ride in
them. At last an old gentleman, being
much cntreated and being promised
that the trip should cost him nothing,
took his seat and was wheeled about.
Everybody he metsmiled then laughed
then laughed louder and presently he
had i large surrounding. In disgusth he
lett the CHAIR and then found hat a pa-
card upon it said that it was especial
y useful for men suffering from the
results of ovcrdrinking;"
The "WillofPeter the Great" has been.
published III the atlantic. The first copy
appeared in the Courier des Etats iais Of
New York, and was said to have been
made from thc original, obtained "by
All attachc of the French Embassy ut
st. Petersburg secretly and ut great risk
ami expense. This is said of an in
strnmcnt which, il il exists ut all is de-
posted among the secret archives Of
the Russian government" The docu-
ment is not accounted genuine III Eng
land, or indeed anywhere clsc--m short
il is forgery SO very clever that it is
transparent.
On June q Leo NIL gave audiences
III tho hall Of consistory to upward Of
5000 officers Of all ranks of what the
clerical papers now describe rs the dis
banded Pontilieal army. They were in
troduced by General kanzler, late com
mander-in.chief. The Pope said he re-
Jolccd to see represented in them the
loyalty and the iirmncss Of the valorous
defenders Of glorious flag, glorious for
the reason that it belonged to the most
holy of all CAUSES that of the church
of Jesus Christ. Wishing them better
times, he cXhorted them to be ready to
share persecution and misfortune with
the church and lis head.
The difficulty Of providing horses with
forage III war has set the ingenious To
work endeavorlng to compound con
densed horse biscuit, and Colonel
Ravelli, an ltalianoilicer, seems to have
been very successful in this respect. BY
direction Of the minister Of war, very
careful experiments have lately been
made with cavalry horses. and il com
mission report that not only when the
biscuit is administered with proper care
il is consumed with appetite and easily
dlgested, but THAT the horses fed upon it
actually increased in vigor. There i
really nothing new IN dis, for three