Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-04-08
IN A NUTSHELL.

AOOASC0, VI lAC IoOl :
Errand, has purchased country res
ldence at Chautauque Lake, N. y.
A St. Louis girls foot, thoroughly
heated through this summer, will be
better than hot brick in bed next
winter
The amount of pin money required
by the married women depends on
whether she uses diamond pins or roll
ing pins.
1t is estimated that more than $780,
100000 in cash entered into the con
struction of railroads directly and in
directly in 1880.
In boiling eggs hard put them in
boiling ten minutes. and then put them
IN cold water. 1t will prevent the yolks
from coloring back
Rev. Simeon Parmelee, of Oswego,
n. T., is in the Tooth year of his age,
and IS believed to be the Oldest Congre-
gatlonal minister in the country.
One of our recently young married
bellies, who at once went to house keep
ing, put the cake she had baked for a
party out of doors few evenings since
to be frosted.
Professor T. c. Chamberlain, of Be
lott College, Chief Geologist of the
State of Wisconsin, has been appointed
by Major Powell director of the United
States Geological Survey.
THE senate of Connecticut has passed
bill giving to women a right to vote at
school meetings, and making them eli
gible for members of Boards of Educa-
ton. No registration is required.
Samuel J. Tllden's niece, Miss Sim
mons, nice 500, 0,000-girl, has made
herself famous by composing the
raquet galop to which the giddy youth
of the United States and Europe are all
dancing.
Two canons have been brought to
Charleston, South Carolina, which had
evidently been used III the Revolution
ary war. Divers and wreckers oper-
atlng in Town Creek found them. They
are ten feet in length and six-inch bore.
e'What is the first thing to be done in
case of fire." asked Professor Stearns.
Sue the insurance company" prompt
ly aswered the boy at the foot of the
class, whose father had been burned
out once or twice.-BorlngtJn Hack.
eye.
Secretary-of-War Lincoln is said to
have more visitors than any other mem
Der OF the cabinet His list is swollen
by troops of colored people who pour
IN simply ''to shake hands with the son
of the man who issued the emancipation
proclamation"
The man who invented the cherry
tree-hatchet-W Washington story was Il
bitter enemy of boys Boys are told
that George was Il great and worthy of
imitation. Result more boys thumped
for chopping trees than you can oscillate
Il piece of timber at
A device has been introduced in the
sleeping rooms of some of the fire en-
gine houses in New York by which the
4 bed clothes arc automatically pulled
off the beds and lifted up toward the
ceiling on a night alarm of fine. This
should be utilized in families where
there are growing boys. 1t is indubt-
ably a long felt want. There's millions
in it.-BOston TRANSCRIPT.
EASY SOLD"
| Sighed Mr.. Jones: my dear Miss Nav;
dreamed an auctioneer, one day,
Cried going going, gone"
thought was the slave he sold
And y0u-you bought me with thy gold
10 kneel before thy throne
you're easy sold ;" smiled sweet Miss May
For when | heard the fellow say
You're gong, going, gone
thought, alas: he little knows
Hes selling one who never goes,
| And" Mr.. Jones had flown
-Norristo,cn Herald
AFTER being out "a hours, the jury
III the kalloch case, at San Francisco,
brought in verdict of not guilty. The
, verdict received much applause, and
| the defendant was heartily cougratrl-
lated by his friends. When Kalloch
riage to go home an immense crowd
took the horses from the vehicle and
pulled him to his home, some three
miles
True philanthropy: Mrs. Magoffin
had been reading in the newspaper of
man who died, leaving a young and
attractive widow to whom he devised
his entire wealth. "Now that's what
| call true philanthropy" she remark
ed, removing her spectacles and look
ing at her husband as if she expected
to be contradicted. ''Why SOP he
amiably asked. Because" said she,
'.he left his property in such a way
| that some other man will be sure to en-
JOY it."
The Bank of England was incorpo1at-
ed in 1649. 1t covers five acres ofgrouud
and employs nine hundred clerks.
There are no windows on the street
| Light is admitted through open courts;
no mob can take the bank, therefore,
without cannon to batter the immense
wall. The clock in the center of the
bank has fifty dials attached to it.
Large cisterns are sunk in the court,
and engines in perfect order are always
IL readiness in case of fire.
Posey county, Indiana, claims to have
raised the largest cow in the world.
Her name is Lady Posey: breed, mixed
Durham and Big English. Her
measurments are: Greatest height, 5
| feet 10 inches; girth s feet inches;
length 10 feet inches, or including tail
II feet. Her form is good; and though
not fat weighs 5000 pounds. Her color
is red and white, red predominating.
Age, six years. Her present owner
| lives IN Stark county, Illinois
The cement commonly used for fast
ening the tops of kerosene lamps is
plaster of Paris, which is porous and
quickly penetrated by kerosene. An
other cement which has not this defect
is made with three parts of resin, one
of caustic soda and FIVE of water. This
composition is mixed with half It's
weight of plaster of Paris. 1t sets firm
ly in about three .qnarters of an hour
| IL is Of great adhesive pawor not uer-
meable to kerosene, a low conductor Of
heat, and but specifically attacked by
hot water.
A marriage service was in progress
at st. Johns church, New Orleans. A
closely yelled woman with an infant in
her arms walked up the centre aisle
just as the clergyman asked if anybody
objected to the union. II do" said
the intruder, pulling off her veil, and
laying the baby at the feet of the bride
groom. Here is your child. You
are my husband l am lawfully your
/ Il Al