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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-10-13
The Immortal Waltz.

Ten or fifteen years ago" the Phila.
delphia Press quotes dancing master
as saying, "the waltz was not quite 80
Objectionable as at present. Dancers
OF to-day come into altogether too
close contact. In the old time gen
tleman merely touched lady's waist,
at the same time holding her right
hand in his left. Now he throws his
arm clear around her form, pulls her
closely to him, as though fearful Of
losing her, brings his face into actual
contact with her soft cheek, and, in
word, hugs her. Such action is alto
gether too familiar, but still custom
and society sanction it, and, instead Of
improvement for the better, we see
year after year marked advance in
the improprieties in the dance. In
the old days the waltz was compare
lively modest; now it is just the re-
verse, and the waltz is calculated TO do
more injury to the young than many
of the vices preached against from the
pulpit, and deeply deplcred in private
lite"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-10-13
,p/aI- -Ale-zAsuaJQ >A1a<<

comet said to be current in London,
was first promulgated by Richard
Proctor and Piszzi Smyth, two gentle
men who are supposed to be astrono-
mers of good sttainments, should
have attributed such fears as they ex-
press to bowling dervish of Asia
Minor or some equally trustworthy
suthority. The theory they are said
to favor exhibits IS valuable system of
reasoning as that of the Chinese, who
belabor their tsm>tams whenever an
eclipse takes place. That the comet
may succumb in the inconceiysbly
vast attractive power of the sun is not
oaiy possible, but highly probable; but
why the destruction of the world should
necessarily follow such a result passes
my understanding. The comet as com,
pared with the sun is an insignificant
body, and its collision with the sun
would be bsd thing for the individu-
ailty of the comet, inssmuch as the
sun Is capable of absorbing multitude
OF such bodies without any perceptible
increase III size or perceptihle change
IN lis nature. | am surprised that
men occupying such positions should
decend to the level of vulgar alarmists.
| agree with them in so far as appear
ances Indicate the return of the comet
next year and its probable collision
with the SUM-"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-10-13
TELEGRAPH TICKS.
important and Interesting Items
from the Wires During the Week.
WARRINGTON.

The papers in the possession Of the dis
trict attorney relating to the star-route
jury bribery were sent 10 the attorney
aeneral.
AFTER deducting all expenses there will
be net revenue of more than 100000
from the business transacted by the mon
ey-orjer division of the post-officc the
last fiscal year.
The Life-saving Service has issued a
pocket-book of instruction TO mariners in
case of ship-wreck to be used in co-operat-
ing with the life-saving crews on shore.
THE board OF officers of the Engineer
Corps hss been ordered to reassembe at
Milwaukee to further consider tae plans
for the improvement of the channel of
the lower Fox river.
GEE. MCDOWELL reports to the war de-
partment from the Presidio, San Fran
cisco, that Indian matters seem to be quiet
on the Arizona frontier, and that the only
trouble expected is from possible return
OF the Chiricahuas, now in Mexico, for
which ample prep aration has been made.
TIE annual report of Gen. Suter, OF
the Engineer Corps in charge of the Mis-
souri, river improvements, shows an eX-
penditure of $389,254 for this WORK, and
it is estimated that 81, 1888 900 can be
pro6tably expended during the next
fiscal year in the continuation Of the i'm
provements.
The expenses of the marine hospital
services for the past fiscal year were $4l3,-
928, and 36 l84 patients received relief.
OF the 2.090 pilots and 273 seamen of the
revenue marine service examined for
color blindness. G3 of the former and 49
of the latter were found to be color blind.
AFTER long investigation by the secret
service buereau, William f. Salter aud
Wlmot IL. Ward, of Washington, have
been jailed for conspiring to steal bonds
and plates from the bureau of engraving,
in order TO bring about this dismissal of
Colonel Irish, the superintendent.
JuDGE TARBaLL. Deputy First Comp
troller Of the treasury. has been for sew
eral days confined to his home with i'll
ness. Owing TO the absence from Wash
ington of First Comptroller Lawrence,
Judge Tarbell is acting First Comptroller.
For some time he was unable to perform
even the duty of signing warrants Presi
dent Arthur has been informed of the
situation, and will probably designate
some treasury officer Temporarily to per-
70 m the duties Of the First Comptroller.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-10-13
Il Innocent Sort OF a Bog.

The Tamarack Swamps, near Sharps-
vile, Penn, were supposed to be an in
nocent sort Of bog until the New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio railroad
company undertook to lay a solid roa1
bed across them. At FIRST few thous-
and cubic yards of earth were dumped
upon the surface by the contractor
with carless generosity, as much as if
to say: THAT will satisfy your appe-
tite, my soft friend" But, when the
earth Immediately disappeared and
left no trace behind, coarser diet was
SUBSTITUTED. The company purchased
from furnace the accumulated Gin
ders of ten years, aud since January
about five thousand carloads of this
substantial provender have been
dropped into the swamp's voracious
NAV without visibly decreasing its
capacity. Occasionally at night there
are evidences of repletion, but III the
morning the murky water presents an
unrniiled face and asks for more.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-10-13
A Whim of To-day.

Fashionable DANES have now an odd
fancy about earrings. Two of a kind
are no longer scrupulously held to be
a pair, but odd stones are used as a
pair You will see a pink pearl on one
ear, and black one on the other, or
you will see diamond on one ear and
a clear white pearl on the other. A
Turkish grandee, who was in this
country some years ago, commented
upon the poverty of design in the ear
rings of American women. He said
shat the earring, As a future of per-
sonal decoration, did not seem to be ap-
preciated that the odalisques in the
hsrems wore the most beautiful ear
rings of any woman in the world, and
that, what was better, they design
them, there being no more exquisite
taste in jewelry than that of the Sui
tana. If the fashion of Cleopatra's
days fs adopted, it is not likely that
her extravaganza in jewelry will be
initiated, for the pair of earrings she
wore before Antony is said to have
cost over half millioa dollars.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-10-13

UNDER the operation of new tax
law in Vermont, which requires the
appraisal at full cash value of all
property under oath, the real estate
has come up on the tax books from
$71 900, 900 to $106 100000 in one year,
and the value of personal property has
risen from SIS ,000, 600 to over $46 000,-
600. OF course there has been no such
addition TO the actual wealth of the state,
as this increase in the assessed valua-
ton of real and personal property
would seem to indicate. The real
estate is worth no more this year than
it was last, and the Vermonters are not
such a thrifty class of people as to be
able to multiply their personal prop
erty by three in a twelvem onth. The
real secret of this augmented valuation
is the requirement of the new law to
list all property under oath, with the
penalty attached of double taxation if
person fails to do it. The new law
has added nothing to the real value of
the property of the state, but it has
had the good effect to bring out to view
large amount of personal property
that has beer heretofore secreted by
the owner in order to escape the tax
gatherer. 1t is notoriously true in
every other state besides Vermont that
a good deal of valuable and remuner-
ative property is annually hidden
away from the assessor by men who
call themselves honest.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-10-13

A MONTANA man, who is vouched for
by the Helena papers as "of we'll
known veracty," has discovered in the
Yellowstone National Park gorge
where the atmosphere ia absolutely n
nonconductor of sound. The gentle
mans first intImation of this very
singular condition of things was receiv-
ed on his attempting t. call out to his
companions, who was some distance
behind. Although he experienced all
the sensations of uttering lustry yell,
not II sound was heard. His horse at
tempted to WINNER, but the deep, dead
st Illness was uubroken. While he was
mcditating ON the situation panther
Jumped from some bushes near by, and
Crouched for spring. The Helena
man brought his gun to his shoulder
and pulled the trigger The animal WAS
badly wounded, and dragged itself into
the bushes; but neither the report of
the gun nor any other sound was heard.
What place for sewing society,"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-10-13

THERE is still some wit left in Ire
land, though it has lost much of the
exquisite for which it was once cele-
brated. There has been n good deal
Of fun in the land courts. Recently q
suitOr, being questioned as to the quail
ity of the manure used on his land
stated he used both tolid and artificial,
the former Of which he preferred, and
that he only employed the other when
believed the ground required stimu-
lam The opposing counsel vigorous
ly cross questioned him a. to the
meaning of the word stimulant. The
farmer replied: at is just the same as
if you took II glass of brandy before
you came to court to make yo talk the
more" The court was convinced, the
loquacious barrister sat down. and the
farmer retired saying, "wid all OF his
larnin', divil much that gintleman
made of me.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-10-13

The Cincinnati Price Current has pub
lished peanut number, and gives
some interesting .tatistics as to the cul-
tiyAtion of this dccile fruit. Few peo.
pie have any idea of the extent Of the
peanut business or its increase in the
United States. The consumation in
1878 was 1'OGG,0O0 bushels, in 1889
it was $4,000, in 1890 it was ], ,927,-
600 bushels, and last year 2,108.000
bushels. The available supply for the
coming winter according to Mr.. Muir
ry, the editor of the Price Current, who
is a good judge Of peanuts, is 2, ,280, 900,
Of which there are 10000 bushels that
we did not eat las. year, 100000
bushels from Virginia, 100000 bushels
from Tennessee, and 10000 bushels
from North Carolina.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-10-13

Boston and Antwerp and Rio Janeiro,
Brazil.
THE Suez canal ia TO be improved and
enlarged.
TIE Turkesian Gazette states that the
Afghan troops have revolted against the
Ameer.
In consequence Of the failure of the
council to sell bills, business in silver is
completely disorganized.
THE revenue receipts Of many prov
inces of Spain have exceeded the expeu-
ditures.
ENGLISH legal assistance will be useless
to Arab Pasha, as the pleading before the
court-martial will be made in Arabic.
TERRIFIC lightning and rain stroms, ac-
companied by slight shocks of earthquake,
occur ed on the Isthmu. during the last
days of September.
THE Paris Figaro publishes report
that the Pope, while walking in the gar
dens of V aticsn, wss fred at by soldier
but not hit. The report has not yet been
confirmed, and is dit credited at the tall
an Embassy in London.
SENIOR YGLEsIs, Peruvian minister of
war under Pierola. has announced his op-
position to the provisional government ut Of
Calderon and Montero. The latter has
formed new cabinet at Areqsipa. Gen,
Patricio Lynch h ls increased the export
and import duties on all merchandise so
per cent.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-10-13


THouGH it was the teachings of the
great leader ot the tractarian move
ment DR.. Pusey, recently dead, which
brought many Protestant divinss over
to the Roman Catholic church, he
himself remained outside its pale to
the last. Seme years ago Cardinal
Newman addressed him very pathetic
letter, appealing TO him to consider the
question more deeply, and many peo-
Pile wondered that the master remained,
rs it were, lowering like meteor be-
tween two worlds, while the disciple
had become one of the most fervent
and devoted children of the Church of
Rome. DR.. Puscy had been for years
kind OF ecclesiastical enigma. Never
theless, the purity of his life and great
ness Of his intellect won him host of
enthusiastic admirers. He had n
special hatred of the Photographic art,
and never permitted = photograph of
him to be taken.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-10-13


HENRY AUGUSTUS BLAKE, of Bridge
water, Mass, was briefless lawyer
with rich wife. She was content to
support him III idleness, and when he
desired to make an extensive western
tour she furnished him the money for
the expenses. He was all. cnt year,
and she had frequent letters from him,
while he received regular remittanc es
from her. Lately he wrote that he
was going into rough mining dis
trict where there were no posto tiices,
and that she would not hear from him
for months. But she did, and within
few days, through a marriage notice
in II Providence newspaper, which said
that he had become the husband of
Caroline Hale, who had recently in
herited 1925, GOO from her grandfather,
the late Congressman Artemus Hale
He had used his wife's money to get n
western divorce in order To marry n
wealthicr woman.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-10-13
GENERAL NOTES.

WILLIAM E. DODGE has been nominated
'or Mayor of New York by the Manhattan
Temperance association.
A GRANITE monument, in three Sec
tions, to be placed by the government on
the field in Montana where Gen. Gibbon
fought the Nez Perces in 1877, was ship
ped from ST. Paul.
AN important meeting of straw board
manufacturers was held at Lima, o., to
regulate the prices and manufacture of
that article.
A PARTY comprising the elder Wander
bilt, his two foIs, and his uncle, with
some sp ecial friends, have left New York
for Chicago, intending to spend two weeks
in an inspection of the roads controlled
by the family, going as far west as Denver
or Salt Lake.
THE official report of the financial con-
dition of the several New York state pris-
ons shows a surplus of net earnings Of
$6 269 for the past year, being s.. .704 bet
ter than for any previous year in their
history.
STARCH manufacturers are in session at
Cincinnati with a view of consolidating
their interests SO as to reduce the cost of
production and SALE The conference has
not as yet decided on definite plan Of
action.
FROM fear of an injunction, the New
York. Chicago and St. Louis railroad
company kept three hundred men and
several locomotives at work on Sunday
night at Fort Wayne, filling in the chan
mel in the Wabash and Erie canal, leav-
ing only the box fume of the City mills.
THE New York democratic ticker COM
plete is as follows: For governor, Grover
Cleveland, mayor of Buffalo; lieutenant
governor, David b. Hill, mayor of Ell
mira; congressman-at-large, Gen. Henry
w. Slocum; judge of the court of appeal,
VIM. G. Ruger. Thomas M. Patterson
was elected chairman of the state central
committee.
On an agreed case, the prohibitory
amendment in Iowa is now before the
state supreme court of that state for final
adjudication. If the court should decide
the amendment valid, it will also give its
opinion as to whether the Same is now in
fleet. or whether legislation is necessary
TO carry it into effect. Should it decide
that such legislation is necessary, the gov
'ernor will at once convene the legislature
in special session to take the needse ac-
ton.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-10-13
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

THE Hughson wagonworks in Syra-
cuse, New York, valued at $4,000, we've
burned Saturday.
THE Trades assembly of Milwaukee,
after Sunday session of five hours, nomi-
mated full county ticket, headed by
John Bently for sheriff
THREE children were burned to death at
Goodwater. Ga, during the absence of
their parents.
A TRAIN on the Midland 4 Northern
railroad was derailed at Goldsborro. N.
G. One man was killed and several pas
sengers injured.
A COLLISION of passenger trains at
Salem, Kansas. caused the infiction of
serious injuries on several persons and
the DIS ruction of both engines.
TuE American ship Hagarstown, on
her way from New York to San Francis
co, encountered n severe gale on her voy-
age. A number of the crew were injured
by falling spars.
FORTY THOUSAND B 1stonians were on
the llth carried over the rival roads to
Lynn at FIVE cents each The disorderly
conduct of the people made the Lynn
people wish that the war of rates WAS
over.
GxoEaE AMhs, nephew of the late
Bishop Ames and brother Of Mrs. Wind.
sor, state Librarian, who jumped out of
tour-story window in Richmond, Ind, ,
last week while insane, cannot recover.
A MISPLACED switch n, ar Musko gee, In
dian territory. sent a treight-traIh into a
ditch. EnRineer Spiar was crushed to a
Jelly, and Fireman Walker had both legs
severed from his body.
A COMMISSION Of experts reports in fa-
v0r Of removing the vaulted stone ceiling
in the assembly chamber at Albany and
replacing it with wood. The change will
cost 800 ,000, but il to be made.
DR.. JAMES A. MULLEN, II prominent
physician of Baltimore, died Sunday from
disease in the head and neck, caused
from the wound of a poisonous arrow re-
ceived in a fight with Indians pome years
ago.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-10-13

WHEN Walter Malley was in Jail, be-
fore his acquittal, he promised to de
vote the remainder of his life and his
money to the work of discovering the
mystery of Jennie Cramer's death.
His first step in this direction was to
furnish Blanche Douglass, his accomp-
lice in the murder, the means to es-
tablish herself at the head of den Of
vice in New York. The place is locat-
ed on Blocker street, and the notoriety
the Douglass woman secured in con-
nection with the Cramer trial is said to
be paying her will.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-10-13
The Weather.

CASSLKroN, OAK, Oct. 10.-It has
been raining twelve days, and no
thresihng has, been done during that
time. One-quarter of the wheat and
three-fourths of the oat crop is on the
field yet. Wheat in shock is badly
srown, and will hardly pay for thresh-
ing. This will reduce the average
heavily.
NoTE-No other portion of Dakota
reports rain or damage of any conse-
qutnce.
LINCOLN, Neb, Oct. 10.-R ecent rains
have been a bonanza to Nebraska
stock raisers. New grass fattens cat
tie better than corn feeding would.
Grass on the prairie has grown three
or four inches the past ten days. A
much larger quantity is in stock than
ever before.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-10-13
Washington.
FINANCIAL.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.-In order to
facilitate the issue of new gold cerif-
Gates, secretary of the treasury New,
to-day, gave orders for printing ccr-
titicates of the denomination oftwenty
dollars, fifty dollars and one hundred
dollars with engraved signatures like
the legal tender notes. These will be
sty led department series" and will be
issued from the treasury at Washing.
ton, All the higher denominations Of
these certificates will be issued as at
present, bearing the signature of the
assistant treasurer of New York, and
will be issued from the sub treasury
there.
Total amount of ) per cent. bonds is-
sued to date is $3.50 $4,000.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-10-13
Care of the Eyps.

Continual reading is apt to ipjure
the sight. Such reading as confines
the eyes without interruption to the
page Is more injurious to the eyes than
such that requires occasional pauses
in order to keep up with the scope OF
the thought. Novel reading is harder
on the eyes than history or philosophy.
A broad page taxes the eyes more
than narrow page, unless it is divided
into two or three columns. Writing is
easier for the eyes than copying, as
in the latter work one must read as
well as write and compare the copy
with the original. Reading on the cars.
or when in motion is injurious to the
eyes, as they are strained in trying to
overcome the shifting of the page.
Reading in an uncertain, changing or
fickering light Is trying on the eyes,
and should be avoided.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-10-13
The Coolest SPOT,

The coolest place on earth is not, az
hitherto been believed by meteorolo-
gists, Yatusk, in Siberia, but Verko-
yansk, in the same region, lying in 671
degrees north latitude, on the river
Yana. It's lowest mean weather tenn
perature is As 8 10 degrees below zero
centigrade. This is the cold pole of
the earth in Asia, the corresponding
pole in America being to the north
ward of the Parry Islands, and the
line joining these two places does not
pass through the north pole itself,
which Is thus, in all probability, out
side the line of greatest cold. On the
other hand, the greatest heat in the
tropics is not q. the equator, but some
distance north and south.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-10-13
IngeniOu, Burglars.

Chinese burglars have an ingenious
method of preventing all opposition
from the inhabitants of the house they
intend to rob. They prepare a com
pound of some patent ingredients, set
it alignt and blow it into the room
through hole in the wall. The drug
completely paralyzes the unluckly in
mates, who can neither speak nor stir,
although they are sufficiently conscious
to watch the thieves coolly carrying of
all valuables. As water Is supposed TO
absorb this poison, many wealthy peo-
pie sleep with q basin of water at their
heads
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-10-13
FOREIGN.

CHoLKsA is epidemic in parts of Borreo
and Sumatra.
FIRE al Smyrna caused a loss of So
COO.
THERE is no fear of trouble between
Brazil and the Argentine Republic.
INsURaRST Arabs attacked a French
outpost on the Algerian border.
ARRANGEMENTS have been completed for
two lines of steamers to run between
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-10-13
The Latest New York Nomination,

NEW YORK, Oct. IU.-lbe state CEN
trail committee, in session to-day,
unanimously nominated Howard Car
roll for congressman-at-large.
THE CANDIDATE.
Carroll, when he first came to New
York, went TO Chester A. Ar.hur's law
Office looking for situation. Mr.. Ar
thur took an interest in the young
man and introduced him in the New
York Times Office. His rise in journal
ism was rapid, his ability and brilliancy
as a writer manifested themselves from
the start. He is, it is said, the only
writer ever connected with the Times
who has been permitted to sign his
initials to his letters. His correspond
ence from the south attracted much
attention and was widely copied by
other papers throughout the country.
About year ago he married a daugh-
ter Of Starin, the wealthy steamboat
man and ex-congressman.
The first ballot stood: Howard Car
roll, IA; Corporal James TanHer, 6;
Congressman Ferris Jacobs, Jr., z:
John A. King, i. Mr.. Crosby with
drew the name of Congressman Jacobs,
saying that gentleman himself was not
candidate, but that his friends bad
put him into the field confident he
would not refuse the nomination if
rendered him. A second ballot was
taken, and on this every one of the
twenty-eight members voted for Mr..
Carol.