Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-08-12
IN A NUTSHELL.

10 not Judge oi mans character
oy the umbrella he carries. 1t NAV
not be his.
California spectators in stocks who
invest large sums are called high
rollers"
There are upwards of $500 tenement
houses in Boston. and about one-fifth
Of the population resides i'll them.
We expect shortly 10 be forciblv alb
ducted by railroad man. and paid $40
TO so 70 Chicago.-N Y. Commercial.
1t is reported that the west end OF
| Coney Island has been bought hv n
company which intends to build mil
lion-dolar hotel.
| The only legal way to sell bibles in
Austria is to take 4 substitution and
then send the bible to the subscriber bv
mail The postage Is one third the
price of the bible.
The Baltimore S,m says there arc L.
vessels at that port loading and char
tered to load refined petroleum for Eu.
rope, with an aggregate capacity of IL
400 bushels.
n man who stopped at the Barnet
House few days ago registered as
Blalmar IJdaden Hiolgersen. Have we
another sweet singer Of Norway among
us? Heaven forbid. - Burlington
Hdbkege.
Life Ill the MAJ ket-''Isn't that a
beautiful color?" said fish dealer rs
he cut In two large salmon. YES. :
said Flotsam; Il expect he's hlushing
At the extravagant price he's getting for
himself"
Speaking of the New York Coll.p,sr-
ears statement that CARLYLE was Il
crank, the Boston Giobe adds that he
thought everybody e.se was Il puir
meeserable wretched dunn fule.
The Boston Posts definition Of fam
lily secrets: They what your cook
tells your neighbor's cook over the area
fence in the morning before you're
up"
An endcayor to abolish the teaching
of Spanish in the San Francisco evening
schools has just failed. The language
is found to be too useful to business in
that region to be given up.
The ex-Duke of Nassau, recently or
dered fifty nightingales at Vienna 10 be
sent to koenigstein, near Ems, where he
set them free, and whore he hopes they
will make themselves ut home and
multiply, their predecessors having en-
tirely disappeared from that vicinity.
New Orleans has sixteen steamers
engaged in the Mediterranean fruit
trade. During the present year they
have landed no less than 320,o00 boxes
Of oranges and lemons, and about 20 600
more boxes have been brought III by
sailing vessels.
A Herdic coach was seen at the South
End the other evening CARRYING one
passenger and displaying the sign
Full. The public mind is agitated
with doubt. Did it refer to the passen-
ger or driver? Boston Transcript.
After the choir in one of the churches
in Ithaca, N. Y, had performed Il
rather heavy selection, the minister
opened the Bible and began reading in
Acts xx: "And after the uproar ceased. ="
-Neic York Musical Critic.
One letter out Of every 500 sent il
unclaimed in the office Ia which it goes.
One letter i'll 2S3 sent turns up in the
Dead Letter Office. One letter out Of
3.100 sent is held for postage at the Of
flee of mailing and this amounts to
nearly SOC, 900
\ person overheard two countrymen
who We're observing a naturalist in the
field collecting insects, say one to an
other: What's that fellow doing, john"
"Why, he's naturalist" Whats
that?' 'Why, one who catches gnats,
to be sure"
A blind man departed in very an
cry state Of mind from the mayors Of
flee i'll Philadelphia on Wednesday, be
cause he had been refused permit To
carry pistol He said he wanted it
for selfprotection, and could easily tell
where to shoot by hearing.
Boston seems to be the favorite mar
ket for horse mackerel A fish Of this
species, weighing between 500 and GOO
pounds, which was caught near Gardi-
ner's Island, in New York Bay, WAS
packed in ice and sent to the Boston
market instead of to New York.
The petition of a wife for divorce,
filed in Cincinnati, says that the parties
were married in that city Sept S, 1880,
and yet alleges gross neglect Of duty
and willful absence on the part Of her
husband for more than three wears.
How he was married while absent re-
mains To be shown.
AS an article Of food, the lobster is
the most important of all crustaceans,
and dates back to the early ages of the
world. Latium was famous fer its lob
sters, and Atheneus, whose cook book
is the Oldest in the world, mentions APP
icius, who spent most of his time at this
place on account of its Holsters.
The tricycle. has been adopted by the
Birmingham police force for the pur-
pose of facilitating the WORK Of the
summoning officers, to whom its use
will for the present be exclusively con
fined. Should the experiment prove n
success, it is expected the use Of the
machine will be further extended.
Cremation, is no longer popular, |
see" remarked Job Shuttle this morn
ing. 'Well, | sh'd hope not. Its bad
enough to think Of your soul burning
up, let alone the body" "Mrs. Shuttle,
| wish you wouldn't accent that word
your, and look at me so sharply"
And the meal was finished in silence
New Haren Register
fAANN
machine has lately been exhibited by
Herr Faber, before the Physical society,
London. 1t is designed TO more per
fectly initiate, mechanically, the utter
ances of the human voice by means of
artificial organs of articul ltion made
on the human model, and it is worked
by keys, like musical instrument. A
bellows made of wood and india-rubber
serves for lungs; a small windmill is
placed in front of the bellows to give
triIliDg sounds; the larynx is made of
single membrane of hippopotamus
hide and india-rubber; and mouth
with two lips and tongue and an in
dia-rubber nose complete the organs of
the apparatus. Fourteen distinct
sounds are uttered by it, and by COM
bining these, any word in any language
can be produced-als9 laughing and
whispering.
M Go0d Preaching