Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-10-06
SELECTED MISCELLANY.

Frederick Douglass health is declin-
ing.
We must learn to infuse sublimity
into trihes; that is power.
The world does not require so much
to be informed as to be reminded.
Slumber not in the tents of your col
umns. The world is advancing, advance
with it.
All the scholastic scaffolding falls as
ruined edi6ce before one single word
faith.
Action may not always bring happi-
ness, but there is no happiness without
action.
To correct an evil which already ex-
lists Is not so wise as to foresee and pre-
vent it.
Next to an effeminate man, there is
nothing SO disagreeable as manish
woman.
Be courageous and noble minded;
our own heart, and not other mems
opinions of US, for our true honor.
Common sense does not ask an inn
VI,
beore it, and plays the game.
Pleasure may be aptly compared to
many very great books, which increase
IN real value in the proportion they are
abridged.
We think our civilization is near
Its meridian, but we are yet only
at the cock-crowiug and the morning
star.
Nothing makes the world seem so
spacious as to have friends at dis
lance; they make the attitudes and
longitudes.
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost. That is
where they should be; but put founda-
tlons under them.
There were never in the world two
opinions alike. no more than two hairs
or two grains. The most universal quail
ity is diversity.
The Cincinnati Gazette speaks of Miss
Margaret Mather's acting as ragged
and unfinished"
Mr.. Thomas B. Aldrich, editor of the
atlantic Monthly, is home again after a
tSau eSuAs
The Hillsdale (Mich.) rowing crew
have arrived at Philadelphia on their
way home from Europe.
II is proposed to tender Herbert
Spencer farewell banquet at Delmen.
ico's before he returns to England.
Mrs. Ole Bull has just returned from
Norway, with much fresh and import
ant material for the Life of Ole Bull"
which she is preparing.
Senator Pendleton's new house on
Sixteenth street, Washington, has mas
sive gilded sunfowers at the top of the
lightning rod.
Herbert Spencer spent last week in
Washington seeing few callers, but
going about much. He visited Nit.
Vernon.
Robert Browning and his sister are
going to Switzerland and thence to
Italy.
The duke of Connaught, the queens
son, appears to have taken no risks and
gained no fame in the Egyptian foray.
The supreme court of Connecticut
has decided that women may be admit
ted to practice law in that state the
same as men.
Ex- Vice President William A. Wheel
er has given So 600 to the Auburn
Presbyterian theological seminary as a
scholarship fund.
Tom Thumb says he has travelled
100000 miles. The things that he prldes
himself on are his ability to play bill
lizards, sail a yacht, and drive team.
A son of ex Governor Perham, OF
Maine, recently made a bycicle trip
from Paris, in Oxford county, to the
state college in Orono, distance OF
some $50 miles.
Hon. Adam Woolever, one of the
leading and wealthiest lawyers of AL
lentown.. Pa, is dead. He was the VIC
tim of abcesses which broke out all over
his body.
The monument erected to the men,
DRY of Frederick Hecker, German pa
triot and Union soldier, was unveiled
with imposing demonstrations at st.
Louis recently.
Sergeant Mason who tried to shoot
Guiteau, is still confined in the Albany
penitentiary. He is looking thin and
haggard, and is evidently very much
depressed in spirits.
Byron Adonis is the name of the
chairman of the platform committee OF
the national liberal league. If Byron
Adonis does not belle his name, free
love will be the principal plank in his
"liberal" platform.
The English premier, Mr.. Gladstone,
was confined to bed all day Saturday,
from cold, He was slightly better at
night. He is at present the guest of
Lady Frederick Cavendish, at Pen.
maen Mawr, Wales.
Judge William Brown and wife, of
Rockford, ILL.,, celebrated the thlrty-
sixth anniversary of their wedding, on
Tuesday last, III an impromptu way, at
the Clifton house, Freeport, in which
city the judge is holding court.
The women-suffragists are carrying
on brisk campaign in Nebraska Yes
terday at Lincoln, nearly every pulpit
was occupied by women-rights speak
ers, who nave been attending the ma
tional suffrage convention there.
The school ma'ams of New York
have been depleted by an epidemic of
matrimony. More than thirty of them
got married during the summer vaca-
ton, and thus, by the school law, dis
qualified themselves for public school
teachers.
Mrs. Maxwell, better known as Miss
NJ. E. Bradnon, the English novelist, is
just passing the prime of life, and en-.
joys the most vigorous, robust health.
She lives in fine house near London,
and is fond of driving a team of spir-
tied chestnut horse
According to the Cincinnati papers,
Levy, the cornet player, is creating a
perfect furore at the exposition there.
Ghe audiences demand at least four
pieces for every one on the programme,
and the great trumpeter smilingly &C
cedes, and everybody is happy.
Rev. R. R. Williams and wife, Rev.
Lewis A. Eaton and wife, Rev. c, II. d.
Fisher and wife, Rev. w. 81. Hale, Rev.
A. A. Newhall, who are going to mis-
sionary labors in India, Burmah and
Siam, under the auspices of the Amer
lean Baptist missionary union, sailed
for Glasgow Saturday from New York.
The New York Tribune says: ''The
public has taken kindly interest in
the welfare of the twia brothers, Gar
field and Arthur Chaplin, of Gllbert's