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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-07-07
How Animals Live i'm Winter

Our readers know that there are two
kinds of respiratory apparatus lungs
which lnhale air, abstract oxygen from
it, and give IN return chiefly carbonic
acid and gills, which absorb the oxygen
dissolved in water, and also give off
chiefly carbonic acid, which is more
readily dissolved in water than the
oxygen.
The former apparatus is possessed
by MANN ais, birds, etc, the latter by
fishes; and rs lungs are incapable of
taking oxygen out Of water, and gills
can not take it rom the air, or, in
other words, as lungs can not breathe
water, and gills cannot take it from the
air, animals with lungs are drowned in
water, while fish are drowned III the
air.
a small number of amphibious an
imals, however, possess both lungs and
gills, and can therefore breathe either
all or water, and thus live in
both
1t has been, however, observed that
muskrats and other swimming animals
with lungs, could travel considerable
distance under ice without reaching
any breathing hole on the surface, and
it was for a long time a problem how
they succeeded in living so long and
travelling so far without access to the
atmosphere. The problem has been
answered by S. Newhouse, in work
called the "Trapper's Guide"
He noticed that musk-rats had the
curious method of travelling long dis
tances under ice. In the winter excur-
sions to their feeding grounds, which
are frequently at great distances from
their abodes, he found that they took a
breath at starting, and remained under
water as long as they could. They
rose t. the ice and breathed out the
air III their lungs, which remained in
bubbles against the lower surface Of the
ice
They wait till this air recovered
oxygen from the water and ice, and
then take it in again, and kept on till
the operation had to be repeated. In
this way he learned that they can travel
almost any distance, and live any length
of time, under the ice.
The hunter sometimes takes adyant-
age Of this habit Of the musk-rat in the
following manner:
When the marshes ponds where
the musk-rat abound e first frozen
over, and the ice is thin and clear, on
striking into their houses with his
Ratchet, for the purpose of setting his
trabs; he frequently sees him come up
to renew his breath in the manner de.-
cribed above.
After the animal has breath under
tie ice, and before he has time to take
in the air again, the hunter strikes with
his Ratchet directly over him, and
drives away his breath.
In this case, he browns in swimming
few rods; and the hunter, cutting q
hole in the ice, taking MIN out.
Mink, otter and beaver travel under
the ice in the same way; and hunters
have frequently told US of taking offers
in the manner We have described, when
these animals visit the house Of the
musk-rat for prey.-PhiLa. ST. Night.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-07-07
SOME FEARFUL FIGURES.
How Much a Man Can Drink and
Smoke In Eight Years.
Maeon @. Ielsgraph.


THAT is finely colored pipe" we
remarked to well known gentleman
of Macon, yesterday, as he sat on the
curbstone at one of our hotels, putting
wreaths of smoke from a well Drowned
meerschaum.
Eyes," he replied, "and it has cost
me about FIVE hundred dollars to give
it that color"
How sof"
"Well, [ kept a faithful account for
eight years, of my expenditures. and
as have not always been what you
might call an upright, moral man, the
account is fearful one"
We knew the methodical habits of
this bachelor, and hence were not sur
prlsed at his statement. In addition
to the itemizing of his expenses, he
had kept a full journal of his doings,
and could tell how many headaches,
how many days sickness, how many
times drunk. and thus it was an easy
task to jot down at the end of the day
how much whisky he had drank, or
how mony ounces of tobacco he had
smoked. No old maid is more precise
or systematic than he.
Il stopped drinking two years ago,
but have continued to smoke. And up
to the time let up on whisky found
that | had smoked up HOG p unds of
t lbacco in this pipe. / smoked one
| pound week, and at times, when
troubled with neuralgia, / smoked four
ounces day, which was a pound and
three quarters a week"
/ aN hat did that tnha1nn cost yp,, 81
Ten years ago Durham was ship
ping his tobacco in barrels instead OF
bags, as at present, and | paid from 81
per pound 10 IS cents, and then &c
cents, but averaging the price at "a
cents, the 400 pounds cost me $500 fol-
eight years, or S97 50 per year."
How mueh whisky did you drink in
the eight years
Sixteen barrels. l drank a quart
per day. | was paying $12 per week
at certain hotel in Florida, and the
bar-keeper has boosted that for many
and many a week 1 paid him "a pei
day for whisky, ginger brandy, ETC.. and
with the board that makes $40 per week
Sixteen barrels at 500 per barrel is
81 600, but that does not cover the cos
to me, as l paid % cents per drink fol
lots oft. | calculate that my whisky
for eight years cost me $1,000, if no
more"
The nervous system of this gentle
man does not seem to have been i'm
paired by this excessive use of tobacco
and liquor. He holds that but few
men could stand it, and when his hand
commence to tremble he will cease tt
smoke.
This is remarkable case and W,
need not point out the moral. 1t is ap
parent to all.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-07-07
GRABBED AT THE BRINK.
Gwendolen Mahaffy Gives George w
simpson an Answer 10 His Pro-
nnSal
Chicago Tribune.

Chicago Tribune
Can you not answer me, Gwen
dolen?'
Up from the meadows the soft breezes |
of a perfect June evening were waiting
the faint perfume OF the cowslip. and |
as George ". Simpson and Gwendolen |
Mahatfy stood near the gate both felt |
that crisis IN their lives had arrived
"a moment had come which would |
IN the misty future that stretched sway
before him, ike one of William NJ !
Evarts letters, be either bright beacon
of nope and joy to look back upon with
giadness or q desolste landmark ike the
hghtnlng-riven trees that one never
beholds without feeling of sadness. |
Secure III the consciousness of his own
merlt-that sterling merit which always
hes IN strong arm, clear brain and
large Iceland yet with modest diff
dence concerning his own worth, the
young man stood there in the gloam.
ing, with half-reluctant, cat-on-the-
oack-tence expression that lent an
added beauty to his pure young face
and made more pleadingly tender the
earnest, father-is- ming-up-the-front-
steps look with which he regarded the
beautiful girl who stood by his side.
He had asked her to be his wife-to
leave parents, sisters, brothers and all
the endearing influences of a happy,
Christian home where two girls are
kept and so out with him into the wide
| world as helpmeet and companion.
He had told in fervid sentences of the
great love he bore her-a love that
would ever be the guiding star Of his
life, he said, cheering him when the
black clouds of adversely and despair
hung heavily in the horizon of his
| hopes and without which his whole
existence would be one arid, trackleSs
waste on which lay the whited skele-
tons of Ambition and Hope-gastly
remnants of a life whose final wreck
was all the more sad because
+ the happiness which it might have
held had love not flown away with
knocking laugh when pleaded with so
passionately.
When II came to ornamental lying,
two rows of tiuting up the back, George
took first money
Gwendolen had stood in graceful
pOise as he spoke, one ear thrown
| sllg ltly forward, and her right foot
covering the door-mat, and, now THAT
he had finished. was looking down in
maiden shyness, while the rosy bushes
that chased each other under her
dazzling complexion would have told,
if anybody could have seen them, of
the emotions that were agitating her
young soul But no words came from
her hps-those rosy-ripe portals that
opened with such languid grace when
there was piein the nouse-and George
began to fear that perhaps he had talk
ed her to sleep. Presently, however,
she drew quite close to him, pat her
hand in his. and, resting ner cheek
upon his shoulder, she said: Eyes,
George, | will marry you"
But when2" asked the young man,
a horrible fear that his bluff was to be
called chilling his very blood.
Il will marry you repeated Gwen
dolen, when bicycle rider is elected
President"
Turning away to hide his emotion,
George mttered in a low, piratical tone:
"Thank heaven, | AM safe"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-07-07
the Consumption Parasite.
DR.. Foote's Health Monthly.

The papers, both secular and medi-
cal, are giving considerable attention
TO what DR.. Koch has discovered with
his microscope in the tubercle. Our
article in the June number of
The Health Monthly seems to
have awakened considerable inter-
est, and several of our subscribers
have written to US about it. The Medi-
cal Record for June 80 informs Us that
at the Congress for Internal Medicine.
recently held at Wiesbaden, the subject
was discussed, Dr. Koch himself being
present with microscopic sections show
ing the tubercular bacilli. One of the
savants assumed tina. the center Of the
true military tubercle Is filed with mi
GRO organisms, partly rod-bacteria and
partly micrococci. Prof. Klebs said
that he mad for some years investigated
the question OF the iniectiousness of
tuberculosis. and had tried to discover
disease-oearing organism. Y nen in
terrogated as to how he would explain
the existence of hereditary phtbis, DR..
Koch replied that tie development of
the organisms Is greatly influenced by
the character OF the nutritiye media.
Human bodies. he said, do not always
offer equally good nurture-ground for
bacteria IL otner words. the bacillus
only grows upon suitable ground, or in
those consump tively predisposed. Those
who have copies of our "Pl4in Home
Talk" embracing medical common
Sense" will see how consistently this
theory talies with what We said in re-
gard to trichine4 In the essay on s'The
Food We Eat commencing on page
81; also what We say in another place
on parasites and worms generally. Tie
Record says: We have yet TO find exactly
what constitutes or brings about the
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-07-07
The POlled Angus.
Dr.. Foote's Health Monthly.

The N. Y. T1bune's occasional cor
respondent, writing from Western
Kansas, remarks that at Victoria the
cattle raisers are introducing from
Scotland d rival to the shorthorns,
called the Pooled Angus" A true
specimen of this breed is hornless,
with prominent bump which he uses
in place of h orns when he has an enc
my to punish. He Is so short in leg
that ne hardly stands above the grass
upon which he is feeding. His body is
round, long and massive. His color is
black and glossy. He is so hardy that
he can endure colds and drouths that
tell sadly on the shortnorn. That
which will most interest the student of
heredity is contained in the first four
or five lines of the following extract:
The Angus crosses are strongly
marked by their sire. The slenderest,
scrawny, long-horned yellow Texas
COW presents to her black lord calf
after his own heart-solid. standing
close to the ground, generally black,
and without germ of future horns.
This lack of horns, though a second
airy matter, is certainly an advantage
when the steers are to be shipped long
distances in crowded cars. The quiet,
easy nature Of the animals may also
diminish the loss Of weight more-ex-
citable breeds suffer in transit, though
perhaps the shorthorn has an equal
claim to his excellence. The Angus
CATTLE must wait some time before
their asserted superiority can DE con-
sidered as fully established, but they
have made an excellent beginning in
their new surroundings, and it seems
not improbable that they may gain
their case, and that the gray plains Of
the interior may one day be thickly
spotted with the brilliant blackness of
their mixed posterity.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-07-07

peculiar consumtive pedisposition."
So It seems our Old School brethren
are still cropping in the dark in respect
to the predisposing cSuse. Suppose
they take out their microscopes and
begin to investigate the blood of con-
sumptiye people. They will be likely
ts find the cause there. 1t is already a
wellknown fact that in sll families
where consumption is 4 prevailing dis
disease, scrufula is the cause. Living.
however, II marshy or malarial locali-
ties. or on insufficient or improper
food, may SO lessen the strength
of the blood that in its circulS-
ton trough the system it may fail TO
possess the qualities to resist the en-
croachmentS of the tubercular bacilh.
As matter of course, every tissue
of the body depends upon the blood
for its strength. Wherever, therefore.
the blood loses it he altafulness; and
then II becomes vel prepared ground
foI the reception and generation of
the bacilli.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-07-07
WARLIkE SIGNS.
NoOlwich Arsenal. in England, Rec
hive or Military Preparati ons- De
parture of the Troopship Orentes
with = Large Body of Marines

parture of the Troopship Orentes
with a Large Body of Marines.
LONDON July 7.-ReSolutions were
moved at the meeting on the Egyptian
policy of the government, at Willis
rooms to-day, which declared it to be
the duty of the government not to CON
sent TO any settlement OF Egyptian
affairs inconsistent with their pledge,
and that 1t is of great Importance 10
make effective provision for the pro-
lection of lives and property. North
cote supported the resolution. Ad-
mission was by ticket, issued by the
Duke of Sutherland. The Dukes of
Buceleuch, Sutherland, and Northum-
berland, Lords Salisbury, Carnaryon,
and Darlington. the MARQUEE of Water
ford, Sir Stafford Nortncote, Baron
Henry dc Worms; and Henry Chaplin
were present at the meeting
Lord Salisbury is supporting the first
resolution, said lie quite agreed with
the sentiment that the government
should be turned out, and he would be
willing on all proper occasions 70 take
steps TO that end. The measures and
actions OF the government, he declared,
We're little consistent with the honor of
empire. But his object 1t present was
to arouse the opinion of the country
to guide 1t at moment of great danger.
He reviewed the policy Of the govern
ment, pointing out the way in which
they had suffered their demands to be
disregarded, and he declared unless
they removed Arab Pasha, their whole
position in the East would be jeopar-
died, and England would lose her
ancient reputation.
Northcote supported the second reso-
luton, and both were carried.
Notwithstanding yesterday was coro-
nation day, Woolwich presented,a busy
aspect in consequence of the war pre-
parations upon a large scale, and the
dispatch of the munitions of war. in
Guiding explosives. Arrangements
have been perfected by which 10000
men can he embarked on the instant.
A complete return has been ordered of
marines available for foreign service.
The officers Of the reserves offer the
services of the men for garrison duty
at Chatham.
In the Commons the Secretary oil
State for India declined to state whether
Indian troops were ready TO proceed to
Egypt.
The Financial Secretary 10 the War
Office stated that the troopship Oroutes
left to-day with a strong draft of marines
| for the Mediterranean, but no unusual
expenditure was incurred ut the dock
yards. a number of recruits arrived
to-day, and REINFORCED the garrison
| here
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-07-07
Small POx.

Smallpox is again sweeping over
the northwest. being brought there by
emigrants. There are six cases il
Minneapolis, and special from Scott
county gays there are a number OF
cases there. the authorities are quar-
antining the infected communities. A
special from salem, Dakota, says that
three deaths and eight new cases are
reported from Bridgewater. There are
about fifteen cases in the Bridgewater
pest-house. An addition has been
built to the pest-house. A few cases
are also reported at Madison junction.
The town of Bridgewater is not proper
ly qusrantined to stop the spreading of
the disease. Persons are allowed To
enter and leave the town as if there
was not a single case in the village.
The great difficulty in ali Of these
cases is to prevent the spread of the
infection, as the victims are generally
ignorant foreigners who can not under
stand the fatal results of exposure.
They are, as a rule, superstitious and
readily WELD to the disease when the
Seizes upon them.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-07-07
from the Central College building hav-

from the Central College building hav-
ing s.opped atprecisely S:45.
a man named Pierce was carried by
the wind across square and two streets
through front window in house, and
across the room in the house, without
injury.
The bodies Of the dead could not be
recognized until washed, because of the
mud with which they were covered.
Fences and sides of houses left stand
ing in the path of the storm were plas-
tered with mud.
Three miles from Malcolm man,
after putting his wife and three children
into the cellar, was standing on the top
step of the cellar stairs, when the house
was lifted bodily and scattered over the
prairie, leaving himself and family IN
harmed.
Mr.. Magoun, nephew Of the College
President, had team standing in front
of Rev. Chamberlain's house when the
storm came. Going out 10 see it, he
was struck by the wind, when he grasp
ed tree and held on. The horses and
buggy were taken up, carried some
distance, the buggy and one horse
dropped near the Central railroad
track; the other horse has not yet been
found. Mr.. Magoun says that large
balls of fire were rolling along the
ground, which would explode and fill
the air with sparks.
A buggy was seen in the trees eight
or ten feet from the ground, wedged
AMI driven with such force that it could
evidently only be removed by cutting
it in pieces, 1t was in cluster of small
trees, and could only have been placed
in Its strange position when the trees
were driven apart by the wind.
One lady was found standing on hel
feet soon after the storm had passed
on, buried to the waist in brick, mortar
and other debris, with her clothing tori
almost to shreds, but, strange to say
wholly uninjured.
One gentleman states that the tornado
appeared to be double clouds, one red
white and blue, the other inky black
the latter preceded the first, both CIR
cling and grinding everything tina
came within their powerful grasp.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-07-07
$4,000 Reward!

Will lie p5id fer he detection and ccnyic-
tion Of any person selling Or dealing in
any bogus, counterfeit or imitation HOP
BIrTEss, especially Bitters or preparations
with the word HOP or HoPs ia their name
or connected Herewith, that is intended
to mis'esd and cheat the public, or for any
preparation put in any form. pretending
TO be the same as HOP BIITEEs. The
genuine have q cluster of GREEN HoPs
notice thisl printed on the white LABEL,
and are the purest and best medicine on
earth. especially for kidney. Liver AM
Nervous Diseases. Beware Of all Others.
and all pretended formula or recipes of
HOP BrTTEks published in papers or for
sale. - they are frauds and swindles
Whoever deals in any bat the genuine
will b. prosecuted.
HOP BITTKRs NFG. Co.
Rochester, n. Y.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-07-07
Information Wanted
petrnit Ere Pres.

A stranger who walked with limb,
and carried a cane freshly cut from the
woods, halted citizen on the steps Of
the city hall and inquired
tHow about the reunion?"
Its all right, guess"
81 suppose all the big Generals have
been provided for"
ooh, yes"
"And tn Brigadiers and Colonies
have been taken care OFF,
yes"
And the Majors and Captains and
Lieutenants have been assigned places.
II presume so"
and the sergeants and corporals and
privates are going to march, receive
honors and show off the best they
CAM
That is the programme. Have you
been left OUT"
well, dunno yet, but l shouldn't
wonder. Say, have you read up pretty
close on the programme
81 have"
HAnd has anything been said about
the heroes who drove suffers wagons
through the iron hail Of death-any-
thing about the suffers who opened up
business for the boys when the shrieks
OF the dying were drowning the roar of
battle?"
'I-I-don't think so. In fact, am
sure of it."
That's me; and here CO." said the
man, as he gave his right leg a tremen-
dous slap. "A reunion which doesn't
provide four-wheeled buggy for suit
Ter who sold peaches for $ a can to
save this Union can go to Texas sir
to Texas and be hanged, sir-be hanged
siris'
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-07-07
Railroad Disaster.


New York, July "A terrible acct
dent occurred this morning between
Branchport and Little Silver, on the
Rye, New York and Long Branch di-
vision of the New Jersey Central rail
road. by which six persons were killed
or fatally injured, and about twenty
persons were hurt. The accident oc-
CURED at about $40 a. M, to the ex-
press train that left Long Branch at
SIS. The train, which was running at
a high rate of speed, left the rails of
the trestle-work crossing Parker's creek
at the point where 1t meets the switch
connecting the main line with the track
driving into the Monmouth park race
course. The first car left the rail, but
kept on the bridge for several hundred
feet, when it plunged over the bridge
pulling with it the four coaches follow
irg. The rear trucks of the Pullman
car left the track, and the car swung
over the side Of the bridge, but did not
go over.
There were about $50 passengers on
the train, mostly cottagers from Long
Branch and Asbury Park, who were
coming to the city for days shopping.
AS the cars began to jolt over the ties
THE PASSENGERS WERE PANIC STRICKEN.
When the crash came, one of the train
men said, no one had any hope of es-
Gaping alive. Ali thought they would
be drowned. Four cars fell sideways
into the water, which was only four
feet deep. This left the windows on
one side free, and through these the
passengers crawled out. Those who
were most severely hurt were assisted
out by those who were not injured.
Tue disabled passengers were placed in
boats and taken ashore. The passen-
gers in the smoking car were more
badly injured than any of the others.
That car, as it fell, struck mass of
stone near the northern end of the
bridge. The jar was consequently
greater than to those cars which fell in
to the water.
GEN. GRANT
was in the smoking-car, and was one of
the first to escape from the train.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-07-07
Fnts rnrise Extraordinary.

Most Of our readers. if not all will remember
that little oyer a year ago he magnificent
structure at Buffalo, n. Y, known a Per,e's
Palace Hotel was entirely destroyed by fire. We
doubt. however. if many Of those who saw no
tice Of the conf igration the tiIne prepared
for the announcement, just made by the Proprie-
tors that since that occurrence ano.her structure
six stories high and one hundres feet square, has
been completed, and that it is now epen for the
reception Of patients. ! ct such i the fact.
10 the erection and furnishing If thi. massive
and elegant building, nothing has been united
that would in any manner tend to benefit TIE af-
ficted, or to add Is their comfort Ten physicians
and surgeons. eminent in their respective special
ties constitute the professional staff Of the nst-
tuition, and persons suffering from chronic and
other ailments viii doubtless find here a veritable
lnvalid's Home. All inquiries AZ to terms, etc
receive prompt attention and should be addressed
10 Worlds Dspenslry Medical Association Buff
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