Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-05-06
IN A NUTSHELL.

Afaint pocket book never won a fair
lady
The telephone has developed an en-
trey new school of hello-eution.-Phit-
ddeohia BGUetin.
Tie present debt of Tennessee is
abolt twenty-seven millions, mostly in
currd ON account of railroads.
"Oir rooms are small" said she, but
l livein my husband" YES" said
! her fiend, Il see you live in fiat"
A roman has been arrested in New
York for abducting little boy. Next
time he'll know enough to take big
one
1t is said that Col. Thomas A. Scott,
OF Philadelphia, is worth about twenty
millions. But his health is hopelessly
lost.
A French couple, recently arrived in
Putnam, Conn.,, have four albino chill
dres with pink eyes and white hair
and skin.
Alice Tilton, daughter OF Theodore
and Elizabeth, is bright, pretty young
ladyof %, but looks only II. She is
studying art in Paris.
The Prussian Prince William has
been obliged to decline 5000 wedding
PRESENTS. Oh, General Grant, you're
net adapted to royalty.-Boston Post.
The Burlington Hawkege man has
| studied the question Of free ships long
enough to become convinced that 'Sif
we could kill off all of our statesmen
this country would grow
In Paris, Mr.. Bennett, of the New
York Herald, who lives over there most
of his time, is known rs "Sir James
Gordon Bennett, the American noble
mm."
An unprincipled being, needless that
he wrecks the happiness of half the
women Of England, writes to the Lon
dn papers that it is unlucky to have
pelcoek's feathers in the house.
A New York man has discovered an
Invisible soap" 1t is the same ar
tide that small boys have used in their
morning ablutions from the most re-
mote periods.
! Whenever local politician gets Il
little hungry, he rushes off to Washing
ton with the information that the post
office IN his town is badly managed. -
Ne,c Hdueo Register.
"Yol are a fraud, sir When l
bought this horse from you you assur-
ed methat he hadn't fault Why,
sir, he's stone blind" Vender-''I
know he is; but don't consider that a
fault. call it misfortune.
VennU says the winter of 1882 prom
ises to be open and generally mild.
This is some consolation. However,
the citizens of this country can stand
most any kind of weather now.
A walnut desk which once belonged
to Washington has been discovered in
q secondhand furniture store in Staun-
ton, Va. An inscription shows that il
was presented in 1776 to Washington
by Mr.. Webster.
| Perhaps the most remarkable rarity
III photographed literature ever sold
under the hammer in this country was
lGuttenberg's first Bible, which was tho
first book printed on movable type. II
was sold recently, a purchaser paying
5000 for it.
The circus manager who advertised
for the handsomest woman in the
United States has chosen from among
the applicants Louise Montague. She
is a singer in variety show, a beauty
of tie brunette type and favoritt
of the Bowery youths. She will repre-
sent Lalla Rookh in street pageant.
A students lamp exploded in Au
gusts, Me, last Thursday evening
while an attempt was being made tC
regulate the flame, and the Journal o
thaG city says that this kind of lamp i
getting to be about us deadly as a boml
in the hands of an irresponsible nihi
list
private writer from the Sandwich
Islands describes Mauna Loa in opera
tioa, and says that stream of moltel
lava five or six miles wide and tel
miles long was pouring from thu
crater. Mr.. Freneaux, of Boston, wa
painting views of the volcano.
In the portion Of London known a
"The City," the electric light is to b,
used on the streets in the place of gas
at cost of $40, 900 Il year. The three
systems-Siemans, Brush and Jabloch
koff-are to be tested for year
A crusty old bachelor up town met
woman on a bad crossing the othe
day and she crowded him clear ou
into the mud. He writes to this de
par:ment, saying: rs it any reason
because man is man that woman
should be a hog?" We refuse to an
swg this ungallant question, and advis
him to ask the woman herself.-iSte,,
ben1le Herald
Il is noticeable that in the dispatche
announcing The arrival of Coleman
the mansion house plotter, at New
York, it was stated that latter goin;
quietly up the street about a blocl
Coleman and his companion stepped
quickly into a saloon" There can b.
no doubt that Coleman is real Fen
ian.
The Keely motor has come again t
the front. A public exhibition wa
given recently in Philadelphia, Com
mander Gorringe and others being pre-
, sent. The machine is described as al
!, odd looking collection of globes ant
tubes, consisting Of generators an,
engine. A glass of water poured int
hali dozen Handicapped tubes pre-
duoed in twenty-nine seconds pressur
equal to 1900 pounds to the squar
inch. This force applied to the engin
caused rapid motion controlled b
touching an iron disk or drawing boz
over a tightly stretched wire The e2
pertinent, it is said, was satisfactory t
thespecialists present, and the publ
asks for particulars.
Our BOarder.
When he first came to US I did nc
like him at all. | thought him ugl