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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31
4 Chinese Policeman in Denver.

Concerning Denyer's naturalized Chi
nese policeman, Louis Johnson, alias
Kan Yum Yu, the fact that Johnson is
the first Mongolian who ever wore the
star Of policeman in America, was
early developed III the conversation, and
is worthy of note. Johnson is married,
and, more important, mis- wife il an
American, lady in all senses Of the
term.
!" married her" said johnson, .'in
Louisville, KY. III 1873 She was
Miss Burt, and lived on Twenty-first
street. 4 good family? Oh, yes. First
class. She is of German descent, and
was working girl, but assure you in
every way IN excellent woman-oh,
yes!'
Keeps you pretty straight, doesn't
she?'
You bet. She objects to my going
among the Chinese, and make me do
just a. Americans do-just the same
How do you like that?"
"Oh, | don't object. You see / con-
slider myself civilized, and my country
men are not. Many of them are bad
people. They are envious and under
handed. When they see that China
man has good thing they try to get
il away from him by undertaking
him"
Are they immoral?"
Most of them are bad. SO my wife
doesn't want me to associate with my
countrymen here"
What do Cinnamon pay for the Chi
nese women?"
They are bought first in China.
Young girls are preferred. They are
stolen on the streets in Chinese cities
and sold 10 slave dealers there, who
again sell them TO men who ship them
TO America. They ara bought there for
from $50 to $500 BY wholesale, and re-
tailed iii San Francisco for from $500 to
SS00-young girls bring the best prices.
They then belong to the men who buy
them, who keep them till they get old
and then sell them to Cinnamon, with
whom they live as their wives. Their
owners collect all the money the Ho-
men receive. except what they steal,
and feed and clothe the women
How many Chinese women are there
in this country r
well, / should sag there are about
10000. They are scattered pretty
thickly over the Pacific coast
DO all the Chinese smoke opium ?"
Most of them.n
do your
"oh, I hit the pipe occasionally when
I nave headache
docs your wife :"
Not much
"How many Chinese are there in
Denver ~
about 800"
Johnson says it is his determination
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31

q pair of fifteen-dollar fur gloves, a
fifty-dollar journey and twenty-five
dollar investment, all for set of china
which you can buy anywhere on the
BoWery or Grand street for ten dol
lars How does that look, my dear,
as viewed in the light of political econ
omy?"
And Mrs. Symington answered only
by her tears.
"There, there, Eella, don't fret" said
her husband, kindly. Let the thing
go for what it is worth Forget it,
"But / cant help f-ffretting," sobbe d
Mrs. Symington. Zone thing is quite
certain, however, never will be such
2. fool again | will not spend another
cent for ceramics until / have econo-
mized enough to pay for this outrageous
swindle.n
Gently, my dear, gently said her
husband. "Now you are going 70 far.
Aunt Grizzle was honest enough. You
said you wanted her china, and she
sold you her china at your own
terms"
"But I didn't mean this china" said
Mrs. Symington.
Glow was she to know what you
meant ?" said Mr.. Symington. 'tChina
is china, and to me one piece IS as good
as another"
And Mrs. Symington was too broker
down and spiritless even to argue tht
point with him.-Bazdr.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31
Southern Humor.

Every people is known by its jokes.
Men at least restrained in their mirth,
and give therein the largest play to
their likes and dislikes. The humor Of
Harry Fielding, Tnackery tell US, is
wonderfully wise and detective; it fash
es upon rogue and lightens up ras-
cal like peliceman's lantern. The
same may be said of the humor Of
Rabelais, though the objects of its ridi-
cule are not always cheats and scamps.
The difference between opera bouffe
and Anglo-Saxon farce represents the
difference between the life of the
French and the life of the English.
With Americans it is not the snob and
the husband who are satirized; our do
mestic jocosity embraces chiefly the
small boy, the widow and the mother
in-law, reserving for its most palpable
hits the bully, the visionary speculator,
the gamester, and the commercial
agent. Thus American humor may be
divided in two classes-that which re
lates to fighting and that which relates
to money. In the South this general
classification grows still narrower, gain
ing however, IN whimsicality and local
color what it lacks in breadth.
There can be no mistake of the origin
of the old story of the traveller who asked
a Mississippian whether it was worth
his while to carry pistol, and was told:
swell, stranger, you might move
around here more'n year an never
need pistol, but eff you should happen
to need one, you'd need it pow erful Z
Equally characteristic is the record oil
well known Tennessee case. The
principal witness for the common.
wealth testified that he was sent to get
fresh pack of cards, that he got them
and, returning, sat down in the grass
Here he baked in his testimony, and
would go no further. At last, after
cross-questioning and coaxing had beer
exhausted, the judge threatened with
| fine and imprisonment, whereupon he
said: please, your honor, if must tel
you why | drapped in the jimsor
weeds, | suppose | must. 1t was Just
your honor, to Look over the kerds, anC
mark the bowers" The following Incl
dents no less reflect the local color o
the ante-bellum days: Two Kentucki
ans went to settle their bill at hotel il
Boston. There being dispute abou
the amount, one of them grew angr,
and began to swear, when the othel
said: Remember, John, who you are
Remember you are Kentuskian, Pa,
the bill and shoot the scoundrel. -
Henry lVdtterson IN Scribaef for april.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31
The I.nckr Horse. Shoe

The superstitious notions concerning
the good-lucR horseshoe that have
been handed down to us by tradition
undoubtedly originated when horse
shoeing was in its infancy. History in
forms lis that the yulcanian art was
praciced by priests and other sacred
men IN ancient times. The sacred
smith not only fashioned the weapons,
but shod The horses of heroes. Tie
Druid priests are said to be skillful
workers III iron, and practiced the vul-
canian art in great secrecy. The Anglo
Saxon monks are said to have been
skillful workers in iron. The smiths
art was 50 highly priced in the days of
King Edgar that he enacted that the
priests should learn and practice it. St.
Dustin, who acquired great fame for
being cunning worker in iron, lived
in the tenth century, and gave himself
UP to solitary existence, practicing
his art in secret. The mystery con-
nected with this saint caused the sim
pie people of his day to ycnerate him.
St. Eloy was Bishop of Noy, France,
in the seventh century, and by some
means or other became the patron
saint of horse-shoers in nearly every
country in Europe.-Detroa Post and
Tribune.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31
Ser. cant Mason in Prison.
Albany Argus.


Sergeant John A. Mason, convicted of
a deadly assault on Guiteau, the as
sassin, reached here at an early hour
on tie morning of the 18th in charge
of Sergeant Satles and Private Fred
erick II. Gerhman, both Of the second
United States artillery, from the bar
racks at Washington he was not
shackled IN any manner. After break
fasting st q restaurant, the prisoner
was taken on horse car to the peniten-
tiary, which IS to be his home for eight
Years to come. He was received at the
institution BY Deputy BiglIn and Clerk
Bowers, the papers were soon signed
and the guards departed. The follow
ing record was placed on the books of
the prison: "My name Is John A.
Mason; am 81 years Of age, and was
born in Virginia; hair black, eyes blue,
sound, sble-bodied, FIVE feet ten in
ches in height, color white, by occupa-
ton a soldier, habits OF life intemper-
ate, married, has q wife and child,
reads and writes, has no religion,
health good, and has been vaccInsted-
The prisoner was attired IN ser
geant's uniform. but had been slipped
of his stripes. He has q rather spare
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31
Recognized After Fifty Years.
From the Augusta tMe.l JournaI.


Almost half century ago President
Jackson visited Boston, and people
from all over New England focked to
the Hub" to get glimpse of the hero
Of New Orleans. In the crowd was
Mr.. Joseph Piper, Of Augusta, then
young man living at Jamaica Plains.
Accompanied by friend named Ell
bridge Woodside, he passed the day in
the maze Of excitement, and toward
night the two young men found them
selves in a dense crowd by the old
postotlice. A gentleman in the vicin-
lty had his pocket picked of $1,000,
and in his excitement he accused Mr..
Piper Of committing the deed. Mr.
Piper was searched, but of course
nothing was found on his person. The
ether day venerable stranger entered
Mr.. Piper's store, and after gazing at
him few moments asked him if he
remembered the occasion Of Andrew
jackson being in Boston. Mr.. Piper
said he did. The visitor said that he
was in the throng and witnessed the
arrest Of Mr.. Piper, and that seeing
his countenance recalled the half for
gotten incident. Customers here came
in, and before the name of the mys-
terious stranger could be ascertained
he had vanished Mr.. Piper does not
know who his strange visitor was, but
has half a suspicion that he may know
something more about the 81 500 than
he ought.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31

face, but wears a heavy Hght-colored
mustache, and weighs about 165
pounds. He was never in prison be-
fore. He is locked in cell No. 40 at
present. He was allowed to retain his
army blankets. He had not been in
bed since leaving Washington, and was
much fatigued. Almost as soon as en-
tering his cell he fell into profound
slumber. Subsequently he was placed
IN cell No. 127, on the second floor, and
looking toward the east and adjoining
No. Us, Tom Billiards. cell. Mason
will be set at work in No. shoe shop
to-day. No person will be allowed to
speak 70 or correspond with him until
the lapse of one month. He appears to
be a man of strong will and quite i'm
pulsiye. His wife and child are now
IN Washington.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31

to live the life Of respectable American
citizen. He is member of the Meth
edist church, while his wife belongs to
the Christian denomination. He has
devoted most of his time to the tea
business. He was naturalized in Evans
vile.
Speaking OF his courtship, he says he
met his wife through her brother, who
was friend of his. He courted her
for about a year, and when they decid-
ed that they each loved the other more
than any one else they were married
by Christian minister.-Denuer Ne1cs
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31
Homes of the Rich.
New NnrkI Letter


Real estate operations in New York
are nearly all in the line Of apartment
houses or flats, or elaborate private res
dence. Cornelius Nanderbilt's house
which has not been described in connec-
ton with his fathers residence, stand
ing two squares from Central Park-has
cost $500, 900, while the decorations on
the inside of the house will cost $500, 900,
the woodwork in the hall alone costing
$4,000, that hall being 40 feet long by
is feet wide. You can see by this how
much more money is being spent on the
interior OF rich mems houses than on the
outside. Young Vanderbilt has bowl
ing-alley in his attic.
Mr.. Charles Tiffany has bull. $780,
600 house at Seventv-second street and
Madison avenue, of the extraordinary
size of 125 feet by 100, with its roof rs
feet from the ground. Each floor will
be distinct residence for the various
branches of the Tiffany family. The
style of this house is called Dutch Re
Nuisance, and Dutch forms are much
coveted by New Workers, who fancy
that they will be ranked with the old
knickerbocker families if they can get
up notched gable somewhere.
Edward Clark, the sewing machine
man, has called his big hotel at Eighth
avenue and Seventy-second street the
Dakota. A Mr.. Hardenburg is build
ing the Albert, another English flat
The two new houses of the brothers
Robert and Ogden Goelet, on Fifth
avenue, near the Windsor Hotel, are
to be ornamented in the style Of the
East Indies, with silk hangings on the
walls, and furniture and stuff dragged
out of the old temples of India.
The wealthy classes here are building
cooperative building, or family clubs
on the incorporated plan, and one O
these concerns, called the Hubert
Home, which is mixed landlord ant
tenant system, the stockholders being
their own tenant, is putting up sever
large houses in the upper part of thu
city, called by such names as the Rem
brandt, the Hubert and the Hawthorne
In these seven buildings there is an in
vestment of s. 100000 and there are Is;
stockholders in all. The investment
are said to be far better than railroads
banks or any other business oppor
tunity. One of these club houses COS
| $500. 900.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31
4 Fisher Caught.

"0n my last trip to the States, said
Mr.. Arthur Fisher OF this paper. Il
caught very bad cold which settled IN
to a severe case of rheumatism. | did
not know what TO do for il, 50 | rcsolv-
ed to purchase st. Jacobs Oil for trial.
Happy thought | began applying the
Oil, and in two weeks was as well as
ever Toronto Canada Globe
Il declare, +" said Julia, you take the
words right ont Of my mouth" No
wonder; they re 50 sweet, said Henry.
Tia day was set that evening,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31
--0--
Duty on Hay.

WASHINGTON, March H.-Under the
decision of the United States court the
treasury department declares hay duti-
able only at 10 per cent ad valorem, as
a non-enuDlerated unmanufactured ar
ticle. Since April Sth, 1858, imported
hay has been classified as momentum
Grated manufactured article, dutiable
at the rate of 20 per cent ad yalorem,
the excess duties to be refunded to i'm
porters.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31
An Elephant Hotel.

The new seaside resort called South
Atlantic City has novelty IN the shape
of an elephant, intendend as restaurant
tits sixty-ive feet in height and eighty
six feet long. not counting the tail. 1t
is twenty feet across the back. Six
horses abreast can walk between the
hind legs, which are ten feet in diameter
The trunk is thirty-four feet long and
ten feet in diameter The tusks are
twenty feet long and ten feet in diameter
in the thickest part. The eyes are disks
of glass twelve inches ia diam ter. and
are to be illuminated with the electric
light. The figure faces the ocean, about
fifty yards from the beach. Winding
stsirways in the hind legs lead up to q
dining-hall twenty feet wide and fifty
feet long. The kitchen IS located in
the head, and the trunk carries off the
refuse into feeding trough, and from
thence by an underground pipe into
the ocean. The builder has patented
the idea, so as to prevent any imitator
from putting up buildings in the shape
of animals.
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SPRING FEVER.

Persons should not think lightly Of that feel
ing Of extreme debility, so common in the spring
of the year. 1t is often the forerunner of i'll
health. It renders the system very susceptible
TO disease, and is caused by the blood being filed
with poisonous humors. The blood by all means,
should be kept healthy othcrwiss its power to
assimilate nutritious food becomes impaired, and
dyspepsia liver-co complaint, headache nervous
debility. extreme langour, weak kidneys, want Of
physical and mental endurance, and general pros
tration is the result. Since prevention is better
than cure don't wait for the nnal result Of spring
time indisposition, when the FIRST symptoms Of
langour are manifested, but begin using Dir.
Guysott's Yellow Dock and Sarsapasilla. AS a
spring medicide, it excels all other remedies,
gently but surely expelling the poisonous blood
humors with which the system becomes impreg-
mated, by the incidental effect Of changeable
winter weather. 1t makes the blood red, rich,
and pure, causes it TO circulate with moe vim.
enables it to renew the wasted tissues, and car
ries strength and vitality to every weakened part
Of the human system, restoring impaired bodily
functions, and checking all decay of the urinary
digestive, and pulmonary organs which, if neg
lected, too often ends 10 premature grave.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31
TEKKIRLEs rEEERlNGS.

Or. H. " PlsRcE. Buffalo. \. VI have i
friend who suffered terribly purchased bot
tie Of Your "Fayorite Prescription, and as re
suit of its use, she is perfectly well.
]. BAILEY, Rur,ictt. q Y.
pr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and
Pleasant Purgative Pellets purity the bleed
and cure constipation
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31
rHE TURN or THE YEAR.
~ ROSE TERRY COOKE.

The DAYS are brief, and dark, and cold
The barren field are brown and sere
The world Is chill, the world = Old,
And speeds the flying year.
The birds and flowers are gone away,
Or sleep in mother earth's warm breast.
Rnt amid the storms must stay
And toll and never rest
Hush, heart unquiet and dismayed'
Soon shall the sun IN strength return
Why dost thou mourn of LIE airall
soon the black year will turn.
The darkest day preludes the light,
However man III depth bewails
After the longest loneliest night
The morning never fails.
What If thy year lie near its end
If falling heart and flesh be faint
What If thy lovers kin and friend,
Be deaf q thy complaint
Even nj turns the faithful year
III the slow days Of storm and gloom
And Spring begins her journey here
IL tempt the earth q bloom.
I'D hall lie sun unyeil biz face
And iii these Inists in radiance burn
Wait hut this hour take heart 81 grace
Thy year begins ~ turn
~
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31

MENsMAS's PEPToSizEp BEEF ToSlc, the only
preparation Of beef containing its entire nutritious;
properties 1t is not mere stimulant like the
extracts Of beef, but contains blood making,
force generating and fife-sustainins properties,
invaluable for INpIGE sTIoN DYSPEPSIA, II erSous,
prostr.ton and all forms Of general debility also
in all enfeebled conditions whether the result 81
exhaustion, nervous prostration, over-work, or
acute disease, particularly if resulting from pull
monary complaints. Caswel, Hazard u Co.
Proprietors, New York Sold by druggists.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31
One Experience From MANY

had been sick and miserable so long, and haG
caused my husband 50 much trouble and expense
no one seemed IL know what allied me that wa,
frame Of mind rot i bottle Of Hop Bi;tcrs anl
used them unknown to my family. soon begar
to improve ard gained So fast that my husband
and family thought il strange and unatural but
when | toldthem what had helped me, they said
liurrah for Hop Bitters! long may they prosper
for they have made mother well and us happy. -
This Mnther
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31

An immense Stock Of Table Linens,
Napkins, Towels, &C., arrived this week
at JAMES MoRGAN's Dry Goods and Mil
linery House, Milwaukee, direct from
Europe. Mr.. MORGAN is at present in
New York, and purchasing Spring
Goods in company with his resident
buYer
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31

Last week at Los Angeles married
woman eloped with her coachnsn, in
consequence of which her husband
shot himself. The next his daughter
who was also in love with the coach
man, went insane, while the servant
girl, who was IN turn gone on the Ge-
.unct husband, tried to drown herself
three times. We shall get out an extra
as soon as we learn of the course tax
en- by the house-dog in the matter
Derrick Dodd.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31

and all be punished. Having thus
vindicated propriety, his Majesty
assumed the garb of woe, and is under
stood to be still inconsolsble for the
loss
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31

Down in Texas when they want to
express loathing for q man, they say
he's mean enough to hand a pint bottle
filed with water to a friend, in dark
night
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31

For dyspepsia liver complaint and general lc=
bility, Aliens Iron Tonic Bittcrs are without
a rival. They are powerful tonic and act upon
the system like magic. We can say nothing that
will equal the universal favor with which they are
received. OaWha Hotaid Sept. !, 1850.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31

Young man: is it wicked 70 bet on
u horse racer" Don't know about the
wicked part Of it, but unless you're in
the ring its drattedly foolish.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31
4 had Cough

NEweaMESTaw$. o.. Zee. T.. 1851
piso's Cure for Consumption has cured my wife
Of the worst cough that ever was in this country.
and am glad e certify TO its gooi qualities.
JNN. W. RODNEY.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31

4 man going through life without
making an enemy is hike needle go
ing through piece Of cloth, without
thread.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31

The Mormons must go; Two old
friends. eminently respectable citizens
of Chicago, who hadn't met in several
months, encountered each other at a
Cincinnati hotel. After . little chat
one Of them announced his purpose Of
changing his residence to Canada His
friend expressed great surprise, where
upon the former whispered the ex-
plaration in his ear: What aonsense,
OLD boy" was the responsive exclama-
ton. "Don't think Of it. All folly.
Don't you know that the anti-polygamy
bill applied only to Mormons y
Mr. Ro5t y. Bartol. # Dayton, o.. writes ]
wish everyone 70 know that DR.. Guysott's j elbow
Dock and Sarsaparilla has cured me Of severe
dyspepsia and urinary troubles 1t has made me
ctr
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31

An exchange inquiries. Does hanging
prevent crime Z" II certainly does.
Who ever heard Of man committing
murder after he was hanged9
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31
Generous 10 fault" may be said Ct
some men. At least, they are generous
enough 10 their own faults.

49,
There was young lady quite fair
Who had much trouble with her hair.
So she bought Garboline
And a sight to be seen,
Is the head of this maiden | declare.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-31

\ police court is a very accommodate
ing place to transact business. II YOU
haven't the money 70 pay cash, the
judge generally gives you time.
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CantataS! OpGrGttaS

New wind up the musical season with the per
Torrance II one q err popular Cantatas. Spec
linen copies promptly mailed for the rrlco here
mentioned.
coo,,oa ,FpSerhs bondage 500 Ruth and
odClCl Naomi tSl.oUN, BeshaFzer tSl.O0l,
Proiigal Son (55c.l, or the easy Daniel looc.l y
Esther (50c.l.
c,1 Beunett's May Queen lStl, Roots
oecuIdI lIaymakcrs tsA Or New Flower
Queen a. rts.l.
o44 Barber If Bath (5Ns). ralo-
Operettas mita (Sl.2l RohinAsonade Jsoel
Sleeping Queen tSNt.l Cups aud Saucers t2aetsA
Diamond Cut Diamond tSl.0al
For the Young p rn'S Fay i ST. p 9%.
Rehearsal ,aocl, Guardian Angel t50e.l Home IN
FARMLAND t60cl, Lesson in Charity (60e), Little
B5-Psep l60c.l Quarrel Among Flowers (3ae.l
Spring Holiday t60t.l Three Little Kittens t5oel
Twin Sisters l5Nt.l.
Light Operas ra ss I,sI y. ur M9 sSs5
Billee Taylor (5ne.l Little Duke tSl], pnaiort
(,0c.> Pirates ,Sl.0W.