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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-04-11
A Tiny Baby.
Fairfield tlowa) Ledger.

Fairfelds greatest curiosity Just row
is the little daughter of DIR. Mrs. j.
s. Lowell-heretofore mentioned in the
Ledger-and a veritable mite of thing
she is. The day of her firth she
weighed about =! pounds, and now,
although she is more than 10 weeks old,
weighs scarcely 3 pounds. Our reporter
had no idea what three pound baby
looked like. so he gave the little stranger
a call to see for himself and tell his
readers. In height, or rather length,
the little girl measures nearly sixteen
inches, is not Mt all fleshy, is we'll form
ed, and, indeed, rather a pretty child,
and shows the ordinary intelligence Of
a babe of her age. We are not possess
ed of an uncommonly large hand, but
u ring that fits our smallest finger was
passed over the child's hand and arm
to the elbow. Its wrist is about the size
of n lead pencil, and we believe we
have seen rye straws which were as
large its fingers. Its foot is not rs large
rs our thumb, and its limbs below the
knee, about its diameter. 1t has a
heavy head OF hair, eats heartily, can
cry Justify, Is healtny, ana although II
has grown but little since birth, gives
every evidence of an unusual amount
of vitality. 1t Is indeed, curiosity,
and over 400 people have called on the
little one, and this ought to set at rest
any doubt rs to her popularity, for we
believe no person in Fairfield was ever
honored with SO many callers in so
short II certainly one so young
The parents, well-known in this city,
the father being a practicing homeo-
pathic physician, are of medium size
and robust, healthy people, as are their
other two children. Thoy fool an un-
usual love for this tiny little babe, and
bestow upon it the tenderest care and
hope that some day it will rival in size
those who may have been larger in
bahyhood
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-04-11
Does Mixed Farming Pay!

A Missouri correspondent of the
Western Pmd discusses leading ques-
ton with farmers, in the following in
structive manner: We see in the agri-
cultural papers, frequently, letters ad.
vocating "mixed husbandry" as the
safest and surest path for the average
farmer to pursue. Ten years ago
commenced farming without experience
on virgin soil. "Mixed husbandry" was
my motto. That is, / bought a few
COWS, few hogs, and span of mares,
intending the latter for double duty
raising colts and blowing prairie, and
all the running round besides. plant
ed corn, sowed wheat and oats, watch
ing closely the old farmers and follow
ing their example. Two years exper-
fence cured me Of raising wheat. Two
more, and dropped oats from my list.
| thought it best to let those who under
stood raising wheat and oats raise them.
| was becoming specialist without
knowing it. l sowed few acres TO
grass, planted more corn, bought few
head of young cattle now and then as /
was able, and every fall cut up my corn
for the stalks to winter them on. For
a year or two | thought my method of
farming could not be improved upon.
Continual toll will tell in time on the
strongest. | turned my cattle ON the
range in the spring. | had not num-
bers enough to pay for herding, but de-
termined to hunt them up every night
and yard them, and did so once or
twice.
But my blowing hurried me, my cul-
tivation did the same, and my grass got
too ripe before it was cut. AS soon as
got time to look up my cattle, four of
my best steers We're missing, and were
never heard from; and so, year by year
the losses ate up the profits. | found,
too, when | put up lot of steers to fat
ten, many that | thought were fine
steers, were fine corn cribs. began to
SEQ that had not brains enough to
carry on mixed husbandry. If / left
the farm to hired hel p and gave my at
tention to stock, the farm failed to pay,
and | was not quite ready to do the dig
ging while the help took charge of the
stock. / therefore determined 10 be-
come as near Il specialist as | could in
farming. sold my corn raising ma
chineiy and sowed my land TO grass. and
SO eliminated the drudgery at one
move. | can now double my stock if
choose. | shall have time to take bet
ter care of them, and study the stock
business. shall let my neghbor raise
my corn, and if he devotes his time to
it, that is, becomes specialist, he Will
succeed. 1t don't pay to cover the
farm with the machinery necessary for
"mixed husbandry," even though one
was capable of understanding well its
various departments. Farmers should
learn lesson from the arts and profess
lions. The tendencies of the times are
towards specialities. Scientists have
learned that fame is only found by fol-
lowing one path. Ten men, years ago
twas said, can make ten pins faster
than one man can make one pin.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-04-11
THE sPAT OF TWO EXPRESSES.
Why the Empress Of Austria Did Not
Grace the Wedding Mt Windsor.

London Correspondence OF the Baltimore sun.
! have heard an explanation OF the
refusal Of the Empress Of Austria to
to grace the wedding ceremony at
Windsor with her amiable presence. II
is certainly not the distance from the
Royal Borough to Royal Meath; no,
this is ii, on dill: Her Imperial Majesty
last season had selected Leicestershire
first among English counties in the an
nals Of hunting, as the scene Of her
Nimrodian proves. On her return
journey to Vienna she repaired to
Windsor to say farewell to Queen Vic
toria. 1t was Sunday. The snow was
thick upon the town and tower, but such
little inconvenience are beneath the
notice Of the illustrious lady, vino faces
wind and weather as CALAMITY as she
does the most formidable "bullfnch"
to be met with in thirty mile run. In
royal visits it was "the thing" to an
nounce beforehand the hour Of the ar
rival and departure, and the empress,
who had come by the ordinary train,
took leave of the queen and set out in
one Of the royal carriages TO catch the
train that was timed to pass Windsor
Station within ten minutes of their
adieux. II was showing and blowing
and altogether uninvitiug for even such
n short trip rs the journey to London;
but the queen, either through forgetful-
ness or something else, made no offer
of prolonging her hospitality to her i'm
perial sister. So, naturally, things took
their course. However, winding down
the somewhat steep descent from the
castle, one of the horses lost his footing
on the slippery road and fell, and be-
fore the cortege was again en- route the
up-train had arrived and departed. The
empress, adhering to the strict etiquette
of the court, nevertheless went on
straight to the station, and was fain to
accept the hospitality Of the station
masters parlor, with the accompanying
creature comforts indispensable even to
II travelling sovereign on u cold after.
noon in an English winter. The EN-.
press, they say, still remembers with
satisfaction the homely meal and the
cosy fire ut Windsor Station; she re-
members, also, the fact that the royal
carriage was not sent back to invite her
return to the castle, and that no inquiry
was made by her royal sister as to how
she got over tho little coatretenlps. Hence
the very unmistakable refusal to &C
cept the invitation to the coming nun
tials from the high-spirited lady now
hunting the fox mt Summerhill, and
taking captive the hearts and freeing
the tongues Of the finest peasantry in
the world" by the graciousness of her
manner and the boldness of her eques.
trian feats ON the "crack" hunter of
the " crack hunting county of Ireland.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-04-11
CObbett md TnlleYrnnl.

AT last this modern Judas and | got
seated ut the same tireside. expected
that he wanted to expostulate with me
no tho severe treatment he had met Mt
my hands. had called him an apos.
tate, II hypocrite and every other name
OF which he was deserving; | therefore
leave the reader to imagine my aston
lshment when heard him begin with
mplimenting me on my wit and learn
ing. Having carried this species of
ilhttery NJ far M he Judged it safe, he
asked me with vast deal of apparent
seriousness, whether | had received my
education Mt Oxford or at Cambridge.
Hitherto | had kept my countenance
pretty well, but thus abominable stretch
OF Hypocrisy, and the placid mien and
silver accent with which il was pro-
nounoed, would have forced IL laugh
from Quaker in the midst of meeting.
| do not recollect what reply | made
him, but this ! recollect well; | gave
him to understand that was no trout,
and consequently was not to be caught
by tickling. This information led him
to do something more solid. He began
to talk about business. | taught Eng
fish and, rs luck would have it, this was
the very commodity that Bishop Peri
CORD wanted. lie knew the English
language rs well as did, but he wanted
TO have dealings with me in some way
or other. did not care to take him rs
scholar. | told him that, being ell
gagged III translation for the press, |
could not possibly quit home. This diff
iiculty the lame liend hoped over in n
moment. Hewould gladly come to my
house. did not want French spy to
take survey either Of my desk or my
house. My price for teaching was So Il
month; he offered me $40, but refused;
and before left him | gave him clearly
to understand that vas not to be pur-
chased.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-04-11
4 Robe of Glass.

In the large basement room of the
home OF 5. lSaacs at No. 1884 Mission
street, between Tenth and Eleventh.
is now weaving the most wonderful
fabric ofwhich the voluminous history
of unique feminine apparel furnishes
any account 1t is the material, as
flexible rs the finest of silk and rs dur
able rs Blue Jeans Williams favorite
stuff for trousers, fora lady's dress, and
it is woven by the world-renowned ar
fist in glasswork, Professor Theodore
Greiner, out of innumerable colored
strands of glass first spun by himself.
Compared with the completed garment,
the mythical glass slipper of the fabu-
lous Cinderella will sink into az vulgar
an insigniticance as an exhausted Napa
soda bottle. A Chronicle reporter called
on him recently, and me very court
ecusly showed him the entire process.
Breaking an extra piece ont of the
soiled bottom of an already broken
tumbler, he submitted it to the heat of
a blowpipe until it became incandes-
cent and soft. Then with "stickn OF
glass he touched the molten portion,
and with an expert motion, which may
be described as a flip, he carried i
thread SO fine that it was almost in
visible till it caught OIL the disc OF a
slowly revolving wide wooden wheel of
nineteen feet circumference. Alta GER
tain number of revolutions the strand
was complete, and the wheel was
stopped and It i removed. Il then con-
sisted of innumerable softly glistening
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-04-11

threads, finer than the finest of floss
silk. These strands are spun of all
colors. and are then washed in solu-
ton of water and beet-root sugar, which
toughens them. The spinning is all
done, and occupied many weeks. The
weaving is done on an old fashioned
hand loom, the warp being nineteen
feet long, and the wool four feet, so that
the material will cut to advantage.
Only about ten inches a day can be
woven, and the whole piece will not be
completed until sometime in April
San Francisco Chronicle, March q.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-04-11

Prussia, and which will be expressed in
a separate instrument.
"His Majesty the German Emperor,
King Of Prussia, will provide her Royal
Highness the PRINCESS Louise Margaret
with princely apparel, jewels, and an
outfit suitable to Princess OF the ROYAL
Prussian House.
"ART. 5. Her Royal Highness the
Princess Louise Margaret, in accord
ance with the existing practice in the
Royal Prussian House and the House
and family compacts, with the concur
renee of his Royal Highness the Duke
of Connaught, her future consort, re-
nounces formally and permanently, in
favor of the male line of the Royal
Prussian Margravian Brandenburg fam
lily, all contingent rights of hereditary
succession to land and people, inasmuch
wise that, so long as male descendants
o! the Royal Prussian Margravian
Brandenburg line shall be living, she
shall have no claims whatever and no
right thereto.
"But if (Which may Almighty God
forbid) all male descendants of the Roy
al Prussian Margravian Brandenburg
line shall have died out, then whatever
appertans to the Princesses Of the Roy.
al Margravian Brandenburg House in
virtue of testamelts, settlements, laws,
and compacts of the aforesaid House
shall not be lost, but shall be reserved
to her Royal Highness the Princess and
her heirs.
ART. g. The present treaty shall be
ratified by her Majesty the Queen Of
the United Kingdom Of Great Britain
and Ireland, and by his Majesty the
German Emperor, King Of Prussia, and
the ratifications shall be exchanged at
Berlin III soon as possible.
DIN witness thereof tho respective
Plenipotentiaries have signed the name
and affixed thereto the seals Of their
arms.
"Done ut Berlin, the Goth day of
February. in tho year Of Our Lord 1879.
l.. Il. "ODo WILLIAM LEOPOLD russell.
l.. S. "SCHLEINITz."
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-04-11

ably marry big man; and she will, in
a variety Of other ways, indicate her af-
lection for the magnificent as compared
with the Insignificant. All this may be
regarded as sort of protest on her
part against her own littleness. 1t is
another proof that people would like to
be just what they are not, and to get
just what they lack. Though her fol-
bles and eccentricities are many, she
can be forgiven them. in view of their
causes. At the same time she may be
recommended to make herself little
more agreeable. She would be more
agreeable, if she were less egotistical
and aggressive. Perhaps we should say
that we have spoken of typical little
women, not of all little women.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-04-11
Little Women.
Liberal IieyIew

Little women are prone to fascinate
big men, but perhaps they have con.
siderable amount OF power over men in
general. But they are endowed with no
such power for witchery 80 fur rs their
sisters are concerned Indeed, there is
II certain amount of chronic antagonism
between little women and other women,
and this prevents them from fraterniz-
ing together with that cordialitv with
which women who are in no way physi-
cally remarkable can. The ordinary
woman will probably tell you, if YOU
appeal to her for an opinion. that the
little woman sis conceited little thing
giving herself all manner of airs and
gracos." This statement NAV not be
quito correct, but those who generally
make it have good cause for belief in
its accuracy. The little woman is in
the habit of treating them with degree
OF scorn, not 10 say contempt, which is
calculated to have most irritating eff
feet upon their nerves. The constant
contemplation Of her own insigniticancc
has rutlled her temper, though her very
smallness Is III some cases i point in
her favor rather than against it. But
constant lighting, even il 1t is only with
shadows, has decidedly exasperating
tendency. Now she is continually do
INK battle with what she and some 9TH
ers may be disposed to consider her
weak point. 1t is easy to see how
koenly she feels the sting Of being
small. She not only assumes an ag.
gressiye attitude towards great portion
Of humanity Oh that account; She al.
lows tho fact to influence her i'll the
matter Of taste and her everyday life.
II She has house, she will have every.
thing in it on MS big scale rs possible;
she will love big horses and big dogs
she will, as We have already said, prob
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-04-11
Who ARE Guests of n Hotel.

Major General Winfield s. Hancock
went, with his family, in November,
1873, to live ut the st. Cloud hotel, hay
ing made special agreement with it's
proprietors M to tho price he wns to
pay for rooms and food. One night in
March, 1874, while he and his family
were ut u theatre, u thief entered his
apartments and stole large amount of
Jewelry belonging TO himself, wife and
daughter. Tho Messrs. Rand, who kent
the hotel, refused to make good his loss.
lilo began two suits against them, one
individually and one Ms administrator
of his daughter, who had died in the
meantime. Mrs. Almira Hancock, his
wife, began suit on her own account To
recover 1882, M the Value of the Jew
els lost by her. Tho cases were tried
before Mr.. Horatio L. Averill, as ref
cree, who reported that the relations of
lin keeper and guest did not exist be-
tween tho plaintiffs and the defendants.
This report being confirmed by the
court II was appealed from by the
plaintiffs. Tho general term of the su-
prome court yesterday rendered de-
clson III tho case Of of Mrs. Hancock,
reversing that Of tho referee. The
opinion which was written by Jadge
Ingalls,, Is very long, and discusses al
most every phase Of the relation Of u
hotel guest to hotol.keopor. Its gist
lies in the declaration that IL person
who makes q special agreement with a
hotel proprietor by which, in considera-
ton of remaining certain period ut
the hotel, he obtains special or reduced
rates, is not thereby made M ordinary
boarder and deprived Of tho privileges
and protection of n guest. York
Times, 10th
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-04-11
A Cats Extraordinary Vitality.
Baltimore American

A remarkable story is told by the
captain of the bark Kate Howe, which
arrived yesterday morning, from Liver
pool. The Kate Howe was laden in
Charleston during last November, with
cotton, for Liverpool. Just before
sailing, cat which belonged on board
was missed, and the vessel started on
its voyage; and forty-seven days after.
the matches were taken off at Liverpool,
when the cat crawled slowly forth, pre-
senting most wo-begone and emaciated
appearance. Pussy had been nudged in
between two bales of cotton during the
voyage, and had been unable to move
or to obtain food or water during the
whole time. The animals head was
flattened, and one of its legs was twisted
over its back, and although after few
days Of careful nursing it recovered its
wonted appetite, its former beauty it
is feared, has departed forever.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-04-11
A Pet Robin.

have pet robin nearly years old,
which fell from its nest before it was
lledged. For tho last seven years his
Giving" has been anything ordinarily
found upon the family table, he having
became altogether too aristocratic to
stoop To common robins food. During
Lis first winter, whenever the cook was
frying doughnuts, we noticed u peculiar
teasing note, uttered only when he was
specially anxious for some new kind of
food. This led us to try his taste for
hot doughnuts, when we found they ex-
actly suited him, and tho hotter the
cake the more voraciously did he eat T..
As further test of his power of scent
and peculiar taste we found that ~ soon
as II paper Of raisins or any such fruit
was brought into the room, though it
had not been opened, he began teasing,
just M II cat perceives the arrival of
fresh meat while it il still wrapped in
the paper. For any kind of meat, fresh
or salt, boiled or fried (aave mntton),
he shows evident pleasure, and, though
retaining his regard for flies and spiders,
he is not ut Nil anxious for them. In
the summer, when his cake becomes too
dry to suit his palate, he dips the whole
bit into the bathing dish to moisten il;
nor il this merely accidental, for the
dish stands NJ the further side of the
cage, and it IL n custom with him to
carry il and dip il in. As result of his
soft diet and peculiar life, his bill has u
projection upon its point At least three
sixteenths of an inch long, and tho nails
Of his hind toes, if Strengthened, would
be considerably more than one inch
long. During the hot weather it il no
unusual thing for him to bathe thor
oughly five or six times daily, often rs
late NJ after tea, and very generally his
goodnight song Is sung by gas-light; in
deed, during the winter months he
often sings till 10r. NJ. During Janu-
nry and February, his notes are very
soft and sweet, becoming louder and
NJ the season advances, until tho first or
middle of July, when, during the pro-
cess Of melting, ho is silent--save tho
welcoming chirp, which is ever ready
until the middle or last of September.
During this time there nre many DAYS
when he has no porceptibe tail or wing
feathers, and not moro than halfa dozen
ON his head and neck. Whether Or not
this shedding of 40 many at once is due
to his food and surroundings. cannot
say; but II has ever been SO.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-04-11

BAsuToLANp, where the latest insur-
recton has broken out against the
British dominion in South Africa, be-
strides the main range of the kath.
LAMBDA or Drakenberg mountains, and
is m extremely broken country. Basu-
toland (Cafiraria) has an area Of some
ten thousand square miles, with ma
tive population estimated ut nearly
one hundred and thirty thousand. The
last conflict of the English with the
Basutos was in 1852, when Gen. Cath
cart defeated them i'll the Borea noun
tains, and treaty of peace was signed
mt Williams town in 1858. Basutoland
was proclaimed British territory in
1865, and formally annexed to the Cape
colony in 1871. The territory Of the
Basutos is divided into three sections
by the Comet and Orange rivers. The
central western sections are called the
Double mountains the most wester-
~ Of the latter being known as the
Maluti mountain range, Of which the
highest is Machache. Champagne
castle, lofty peak Of the kathlamba
range, is on the northwest border Of
Basutoland and is 10,357 feet high.
Little is known Of the interior Of Basu-
toland, which is in Typography South
African Switzerland. The western from
tier, formed by the Caledon river, ad-
joins the Orange Free state. 1t is not
improbable that the natives Of Griqua-
land may next join in the revolt against
the British, i'll which case, with the dis
affection Of the Orange and Transvaal
states, territory OF $4,000 square
miles may become the great theatre Of
n long and bloody war
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-04-11

THE Memphis Avdd,,che says of the
murderer Of the actor Porter at Mar
shall, Tex: Jim Curre is we'll known
here, especially to the police authori-
ties. His record is indeed bloody
one. Nine years ago he killed in cold
blood two men and woman at Els
worth. Kan. Being compelled to flee,
he came to Memphis and found en-
ployment as engineer on the Memphis
and Charleston railroad and afterward
on the Little Rock railroad. His pic
ture appearing in the Police Gazette, to-
gether with the offer of reward of
$500, caused him to quit this section Of
country. When next heard from he
had located at Marshall, Tex, and was
employed as detective by the railroad
company at that city. He was one of
the party who attempted to arrest the
Bass gang, who robbed an express train
near Marshall little over year ago.
How he squared" himself for the
crime he committed in Kansas is not
known. 1t is reported his brother is.
or was lately, mayor Of Galveston.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-04-11

A MEMBER of the rhetorical class in 4
certain college had just finished his
defamation when the professor said
Mr.. . do you suppose a General
would address his soldiers in the man
ner you spoke that piece?e Eyes. Sir
| do was the reply. 'sif he Was half
scared TO death.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-04-11
NINE. R0NAPARTE'S ILLNESS.
Last Days Of Il Very Noted Woman.
baltimore Eyoning Bullrtln,

HAIlImnrc Eyoning Bullctin,
Nine. Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte,
widow Of Jerome Bonaparte the young.
est brother Of Napoleon l.. died lit
her home in Baltimore, April 4,h.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-04-11
Happy Close o. i Great Discussion.

Il is finally decided that Wster's
dictionary il the best Philadelphia
Times.