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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-09-05
A yelocipede that Runs on the Water.
Detroit Post.

Prof. Il. p. Harrington, OF this city,
has invented, completed, and tried sat
isfactorily Il machine which is certainly
q novelty in the way of locomotion. In
appearance on side view it presents
considerable resemblance to bicycle,
but it is intended to run on water in
stead Of on land. The wheel is four
feet in diameter and seven inches
through. Near the outer rim ere six
teen paddles, similar to those used on
the paddle-wheel of u steamer. The
interior of the wheel IS supplied with
air-chambers for buoyancy, and water
chambers tor balance. The saddle is
placed further back and lower than in
the improved land-bicycle. Treadles
Tor the feet arc provided, and these
are connected with gearing attached to
a crank turned by hand, so that in pro-
pelling the machine either the hands or
feet or both together may be used.
The buovancy Of the wheel is about 400
pounds. Running back of the wheel
are shafts, connecting, not rs in the
bicycle with smaller wheel, but with
TWO artificial fish of cedar resting on the
water side by side. These fish serve
the same purpose IN balancing the ma
chine rs the small wheel does in the
bicycle, and also serve rs q rudder to
guide the direction of the machine.
The whole weight of this novel appar-
atus is about seventy pounds. Mr..
Harrington has tried it successfully,
and finds no difficulty in propelling it or
keeping 1T balanced in the water,
though its possibilities MS regards speed
have not yet been fairly tested. lie
will soon exhibit it on the river, and
will give an exhibition Of its powers at
Orion Lake next Friday.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-09-05
CnsnnnYe,a Treatment

The Philadelphia Times, although in
dependent in politics, gets in some
fatal thrusts upon the Hayes admins
tration in the following pungont way:
Another chapter in the annals of the
Hayes administration is opened to-day
by tho rtatement Of Casanave, ~ mem
Der Of tho Infamous Louisiana return
ing board. Casanave, although color
ed man, is the member of the board
who had the least to 90 with politics,
and il the only ono who neither before
nor hlnce the counting process has
made living outside OF politics. He
was q wcll-to,do undertaken, and il was
hoped when no was appointed that no
would give - mild flavor Of respectable
ty to n board otherwise composed of
two politicians and professional
gambler, all Of whom were VIGOROUSLY
ION the make" C,sanave was the cat
with whose paws they proposed to pull
tho chestnuts out of the fire,
md only lately has he be-
gun to geo how badly his paws were
burned. While Anderson, with His son,
fatherin.law, brothei-in-aw and coterie
Of friends, have been drawing $4,000
II year, Wells and family (including his
father, who must bo - hundred years
oId) about $40, 900 year, and konner
and family about $4,000 year from
tho government ON account of their POI
lltical services in the presidential cleo.
ton of 1876, poor Casanave returned to
his cotiinmakng to find the business
gone to the mischief, and then, to
crown all, he was required TO foot the
bills Tor keeping himself and associates
out OF the penitentiary, where they bo-
longcd. The details of this story are
told in his pleasant way in our Wash
ington dispatches, but the worst
refers to his adventures in the effort to
induce the administration TO take the
burden of debt of his shoulders. Casa
nave reasoned ~ most mon would, that
the men who were enjoying the spois
oi the crime that he committed had nm
interest even greater than his own in
covering up the dirty wo'l k done in
their behalf. 10 certain extent tho
administration seems to have shared
this view. The president received him
courteously and passed him on; Me-
Crary said he would pay the whole
amount himself, but he wasn't able;
and Sherman actually planked down tho
magniicentsum ofone hundred dollars.
When Casanave pursued them further
they were even more liberal, and finally,
through the kind offices of some of tho
legal gentlemen who represented Mr..
Hayes before the electoral commission,
seventeen hundred and fifty dollars
were raised. They drew the line at that
amount, however, and hence Casanave
shakes tho dust Of his feet from tho
capital, covering the administration
with profanity, and half inclined to turn
states evidence. 1t Is an entertaining
story, and still most disgrnceful to those
who figure in it from tho highest and
the lowest And the end is not vet
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-09-05
Filtration.

Scene-A theatre. Seated in the
orchestra, lady and gentleman, the
former much enamored Of the latter;
in fact, DESTROYS Of winning him. The
lady, however, has flirting tendencies,
and INDUCES them with handsome
party in the circle. The escort Is not
unobseryant Of this little by-play, and
finally asks smiling: "Do you know that
gentleman with whom you are flirting"
An embarrassed negative is the reply.
Then excuse me moment The es-
cort Immediately crosses the theatre,
and puts similar question to the other
conspirator: Sir, are you acquainted
with the lady at whom you have been
smiling this last half hour?' No. "
Would you like to be- pleasantly.
Very much SURPRISED, Certainly.
Then come with me- A moment
later the escort introduces the not
altogether comfortable pair. Then the
mild expression leaves the insulted gen
tleman's countenance, and ne says,
sternly: Now, air, YOU may accom-
pauy this lady home With a bow he
takes his leave, and the woman who
loves him never hears Ills voice again
EXCHANGE.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-09-05

gar woman" remarked the officers wife
contemptuously, land as such she de-
serves ones pity. Nevertheless / shall
some day have my revenge" "And
what DO you mean to do to her." in
quired an astonished listener alarmed
at so much seeming concentration OF
purpose. "Oh," answered the lady,
dreamingly, and with the manner of
one contemplating the far future. Erred
meaning her husband-may very
likely some day command the regiment;
and then if she ever has any children,
and if one of them should happen to be
a boy, and happen to 60 into the army
he might possibly be in Fred's regiment,
and then won't We bully him?' "Sweet
is revenge, especially to woman"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-09-05
Russian Asia ana the sucx Canal.
lnnd0n Eclio.

The passage OF Russian government
vessels through the Suez canal recalls
u fact which has disappeared from
many English minds pamely, that
Russia also has possessions iii Asia
and may ON that account expect 70 he
heard in the settlement Of future dill.
culties connected with Egypt, An idea
seems To prevail among the lmperaliSts
that Great Britain, through her Asiatic
possessions, enjoys almost exclusive
rights with regard 70 the canal;but they
forget that il the mere possession II
Asiatio territory involves such rights
Russia has even stronger claim than
ourselves. The Russian Empire in
Asia, measured hv mites, is 1T least
fifteen times longer than the British
Empire in the same region, and her
actual coast line is larger than our own,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-09-05

inches in height, and weighs on an av-
erage two hundred and thirty-fve
pounds. He is one of nineteen broth
ers and sisters 10y the same parents
fourteen boys and five girls--and strange
to say, Mr.Duukin is the smallest of the
boys. David Dunkin, father of this
family, was born in Prince Edwards
county, Virginia, and removed to Gar
rard county, Kentucky, when eighteen
years old, where he was married to
Elizabeth Kinney. They afterwards re-
moved TO Howard county, Missouri;
thence to Monroe county, where he
lived forty years, until his death, in
l966,at the age Of eighty-four. Mrs. Dun
kin died in 1861, aged sixty eight years
Of this remarkable family all lived to
he grown and rear families, except two.
The father was six feet six inches high,
and weighed 265 pounds, while the
mother weighed 165 pounds. The six
girls were of medium size. Of the sur
viving children two brothers live in
Randolph county, one in Monroe coun-
ty, one in Atchison, Kansas, two in CAL
itornia, and one sister (the wife of
Wesley Sumpter, deceased) in Carroll
county, Mo. One Of the brothers
(Willlam, deceased) was six feet five
inches high, and weighed 250 pounds.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-09-05
How the Women We're Saved Mt Beau
fort.

A Beaufort IN. ca correspondent of
the New York UerdM furnishes an ac-
count of the saving of the female
town, which was entirely destroyed by
Mondays great storm. AT 3 O'Clock in
the morning the guests commenced to
leave the doomed building, and at that
time the bridge connecting the hotel
with the billiard-room was II wreck, the
waves beating from two to three feet
above the walk. The male guests, with
the help OF the good citizens of the
town, secured the walk with ropes and
commenced TO save the women. The
first lady to be carried out was Miss
Gales, of Raleigh, N. c., daughter Of the
late Seaton Gales, about 13 years old.
Two gentlemen would take charge of a
lady, and together they would-under
the most perllous circumstances, the
wind blowing gale and the waves
dashing with the utmost fury against
them make their way to the billiard
saloon, and the ladies would go through
to be received mt the northern door 10y
two more gentlemen, who were to their
waists in water, and thence they would
he taken to terra trma. Nearly three
lourlhs of the guests were either ladies
or children. The children were nearly
all saved by colored hoatman named
James Davis, and jim tells with
great gus,o that GOV. Jarvis has prom
lsed that he shall never go TO the Peni-
Tertiary as long as he is COVER
nor. There is not relic of the building
eft, except the remains of one chimney,
and that is not three feet above the
ground.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-09-05
1 No mans Vow Of Vengeance.

Tia Is well-known fact that children
very often suffer for the indiscretions
Of their parents. Here Is 4 case iii
point. The other day at great mill
tary gathering, the Young wife Of 4
loving and promising etlieer was either
insulted or imagined herself to be in
suited, by certain fashionable female
leader Of society, who il spoken If as
"caprieious' BY her friends and snob.
bish by her enemies, on account Of tile
vast importance which she is supposed
to attach to each particular rung of the
social ladder. she i only very vul.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-09-05

SnERlA's first university that of
Iomask will he opened during the
present year, Tic Russian crown prince
taking part i'll Ill the ceremonies. The
will probably be TILED hy the
great number OF students recently OK.
lied.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-09-05
4 Big Family.

MIR. ]. I. Dunkin, constable " Carroll
township, III Platte county, Missouri, il
II man SIX feet and three and one.half
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-09-05

liz man learns to he suspicious, Il
only proves that lie has been to bay
schools where not much of anythind
else taught
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-09-05

The last resort A shoemakers shop.
Philadelphia Chronicle Herald.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1879-08-09
NO. A.

MEN IN PoLir1cs.-.Through what an
ordeal of calumny all political men must
60. was brought up to believe that
Andrew Jackson was murderer because
be shot certain deserters, and some Of the
older people in the house may remember
that pictures of soldiers in coffins were
circulated as campaign documents against
his re- election as President. Now all his.
torians agree that he was a hero and a
patriot, and the best possible man for tho
hour. Henry Clay was derided as
'ibertine. Theodore Frelinghuysen was
caricstured as a sour faced Presbyterian.
Abraham Lincoln was called lantern.
jawed peddler Of filthy anecdotes. Geo.
Washington was denounced by the mill
tary rivals of his day as being ambitious
and uptrustwortby. A man has to be
dead about forty years before the world
gives him his right place in history.
Therefore, let all our public men be pa
tient; they are in the company Of a great
multitude who were cursed while living,
and eu'ogized after they were dead.-[Tal-
mage.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1879-08-09

The "FREE Pass" MANN. Quad, the
humorist of the Detroit Free Press" has
but one eccentricity, or weakness" rs it is
called, and that is peanuts, Of which he-is
very fond 1t is doubtful if there has been
a moment, during the past ten years,
when his coat tail pockets didn't contain
peanuts. He never passes huckster's
stand on the street without pausing to
reach around and see if his stock Of this
peculiar vegetable needs replenishing. If
he meets child crying on the street, he
never inquiries the cause, but stops, reaches
into his coat.tail pocket, loads the fearful
youngster up with doubIe-h handful of
peanuts, and hurries on his way. Sight
ing a newsboy or a bootblack ahead,
whose countenanoe indicates cold weather
or depressed business, he gets ready
handful Of peanuts, calls "here, boy" and
the transfer is made without once breaking
his pace. Lewis claims that two cents
worth Of peanuts, judiciously bestowed,
will carry more satisfaction to the human
heart-while the action encourages it to
brace up against the world-than $500
gif: to pay of church debit Peck's
Sun.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1879-08-09
PATE NTS

obtained for new inventions, or for improve.
ments in old ones. Caveats, Trade Marks and
all patent business promptly attended to.
INVENTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN RE
JECTED may still, in most cases, be patented
by us. Being opposite the U. S. Patent Office
and engaged in PATENT BUSINESS EXCLU-
SIVELY, we can secure patents in less time
than those who are remote from Washington
and who must depend upon the mails in all
transactions with the Patent Office.
When Inventors send model or sketch we
make search in the Patent Office and advise as
to its patentability FREE OF CHARGE. Cores
pondence confidential, prices low, and NO
CHARGE UNLESS PATENT IS OBTAINED.
We refer to Hon. Postmaster General D. NJ
KEY, Rev. F. D. Power, to officials in the U. S,
Patent Office, and especially to our clients in
every State of the Union and in Cauada. For
special references, terms. advice, &C., Address
G. A. SNOW & CO.,
OPPOSITE PATENT OFFICE.
Washington, D. G..
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1879-08-09

SATURDAY N1GHr-Saturday night makes
people human, sets their hearts to beating
softly, as they used to before the world
turned them into war drums and Jared
them to pieces with tattoos. The ledger
closes with crash, the iron. .doored vaults
come to with bang, up 60 the shutters
with will, click goes the key in the lock.
tits Saturday night, and business breathes
free again. Homeward, ho! the door that
has been ajsr all the week gently closes
behind him, the world is all shut out.
Shut out Shut in, rather. Here are his
treasures, after all, and not in ths vault,
and not in the book--save the record in
the old family Bib!e-and not in the bank.
Maybe you are bachelor, frosty and 40.
Then, poor follow, Saturday night is moth
ing to you, just as you are nothing to
anybody. Get wife, blue eyed or black.
eyed; bat, above all, trus-eyed. Get
little home-no matter how little-a sofa,
Just to hold two, or two and half, and
then get the two or two and half, and
then get the two or two aud half on it,
Of Saturday night, and then read this
paragraph by the light Of your wife's eyes,
and thank cd and take courage.-Brtck
Pomeroy.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1879-08-09

CnARAcTER1sr1cs OF rnE PR1NoE Tn
PER1AL.-The late Prince Imperial, 10 his
early teens, read chiefly histories which
treated Of his great -unc!e'e battles. No
boy ever cared so little for novels Be
yond the historical romances Of Alexandre
Dumas and Walter Scott he scarcely
touched any works Of fiction at all. His
temper was always exquisitely sweet,
Whenever it was possible to grant peti
tion, the Emperor was sure to do so # It
came through his sons hands, for he dotted
on the boy, and would have let him have
his own way in all things. The Empress
was rather frmer, and kept the young
Prince under curb which was good for
him; and it was chiefly owing to her wise
and even guidance that ne became what
Frenchmen call "un jeune homme bien
eleue,'' and English hmen perfect gentle
man.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1879-08-09
Proceedings Of the Parish
School Board.
YERM1L1oNy1LLE, July 2lst. ls7!

VERM1L1oSv1LLE, July 2lst, 1879.
Pursuant to adjournment the Board met this
day. Present: DR.. 7. B. Hopkins, president, H
NJ. Bailey, secretary pro tem, DR.. NJ. L. Lyons
DR.. F. S.Mudd, Sidney Greig, Ones. Broussard,
J. o. Broussard and R. +. .Grier. Absent Alex
Delhomme.
The Board being called to order. the minutes
Of the last meeting were read and adopted as
recorded.
The Board proceeded after due consid Grafton,
to make the following assignment of teachers,
to-wit:
" Liggins, teacher cold school Vermilionville
Miss Ida Spooner, white school, Royville.
Greig, white school, St. Pierre Carencro.
N Martin, white male school,, vermilionville.
Marcel Melaneon. white school, Broussardville.
Hugh Wagner, white school, Shiloh Chapel
Mrs II a Kennedy, white female school, Yer
miiionville.
c Denniston, colored school in 2nd ward
Miss Matte S. Rand, white school at Ed l.
Broussard's.
Alex Meaux, white school, in upper end of 5th
ward.
Moses 3. Williams, colored school near Royvillc.
1t was moved and seconded, that the resolu-
ton passed at the last session of this Board, pro-
hibiting the opening of any schools without the
approval OF this Board, be and is reconsidered.
1t was further moved and seconded that said
resolution be and is hereby stricken from the
records.
1t was further moved and seconded, that all
certificates issued to teachers, by former exam
lining committees of this Board, be and are here
by extended for one year longer from this date.
1t was moved and seconded, that the contract
with ". B. Bailey, for publishing proceedings
of the Board, be and is renewed for twelve
months longer.
1t was moved and seconded, that the action
Of the Secretary in issuing warrants for school
house rent in the first ward, be and is approved
by this Board.
On motion, the Board adjourned to Saturday
the 4th day Of October, 1879.
T. B. HOPKINS, President.
II. NJ. BAILEY, Secretary pro tenn.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1879-08-09

A NIAGARA FALLS OF A PERsp1RAr1oN.
Robert G. Pillow, son of the late Ex
Confederate General Pillow, lives on an
Arkansas plantation, across the river from
Memphis. A few days ago, accompanied
by Aleck, one of the colored men on the
place, he was out hunting wild hog that
had been seen in the vicinity. Pillow
had gun and Aleck had armed himself
with pint bottle filled with whisky.
The hog was found and shot. aud just
as Pillow went up to the writhing animal
an immense cotton mouth snake, whose
bite is fatal as that Of rattlesnake, fas
tened its fangs on the calf Of his leg
Pillow is not easily frightened. lie took
in the situation in moment, and instead
Of exhibiting alarm he turned to his com
parion and quietly remarked "Aleck, /
think I'll Try little Of that whisky now, ,
whisky being considered an infallib'e
remedy.
He poured every drop down his throat
without stopping to venture any remarks
as to its quality. Then shouldering his
gun he rapidly walked to the house, a
ha|fmile distant, whore he drank the
contents Of three ordinary glass tumblers
filled With whisky. He was soon in what
he calls "Niagara Falls of psrspira.
tion," which rapidly expelled the poison
and saved his life. For a day o. two after
he says he was the sickest man in Arkan
sas. -Mcmphis Aualaache.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1879-08-09

JUST LIKE THE MAN.-Mrs. CIigho
went down to the Sandwich Springs the
other day with some friends, and after she
had departed her husband looked around
the house to see what he could do to busy
himself. The front steps looked rather
brown, and be pulled off his coat, hunted
up paint and brush, and in An hour he
had completed as nice job Of painting
as any housewife would care to see. He
had a right to chuckle over it. andto
imagine how pleased his wife would be,
but no one can tell what an hour may
bring forth. Even before she had opened
the gate on her return the wife got red in
the face, hourislied her parasol around,
and called out:
"You grea, big IDIOT! Won't you never
learn anythings
"Wh-what's the matter newt" he
gasped. ....''. reg
"Ma,ter! Why, have inYitea dozen
people to come in this evening and eat
strawberries and play whist"
"Yrs; we'll, can't thay come Z"
"Can they I! Hasn't every blessed one
Of them got TO come in at the side door
and see that sitting room carpet all full Of
holes, and the back hall all torn up? I'll
die before I'll let 'em and if you don't get
soapsuds and rag and take that paint off
I'll hire it donep' a1
Mr.. CIigho was jus. an hour and half
at tho job, aud when men went past and
asked him what he was doing he softly re-
piled that he was using soap suds to ex.
terminate red ants. 1t ylsss