Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-03-09
GLEANINGS.

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spring goods.
| Over 80, 600, 900 cans of tomatoes were
canned in this country last year. half OF
the work having been done in Maryland
and Virginia
California fruit ranches command
high prices. One, of forty acres, has
Just been leased to some Chinese fo1
S67.50 an acre, or 200 for the whole
place.
The New York Times is of the opin-
ion that wedding presents are made for
show purposes. They swell newspaper
account of wedding to great and graf
flying proportions.
Lebanon county, Pa, has man 4e
years of age, who never had any hair or
teeth. The Philadelphia Press, which
tells the story, is very trustworthy on
most subjects.
A large trade in new American cider
has sprung up between New York and
Liverpool. The English article is in
ferior and brings less price than the
American.
Two propositions are being considered
| to protect the obelisk in Central Park,
| New York, from the weather. One is to
place a plate glass sheath around it, and
/ the other to build a museum with
dome for the shaft to stick up in.
The IShenpao, a Chinese newspaper,
| gives an account of man thirty-four
years old with thirty-two children-six-
teen pairs of twins. The father is a
/ poor farmer and the children are sup
| ported by their neighbors.
Silver coins reduced in weight by
abrasion are redeemable at their full
face value; but clipped and punched
coins are bought by weight as bullion.
There are few clipped coins still circu-
lating. Let them be retired.
Miles away from the coast in a GER
tain part of Texas, high and dry in the
rank prairie grass, lie the remains of
| once gallant ship. The vessel is sup
| posed to be of Spanish build, and is
| thought to have been driven inland by a
tidal wave. So long has the vessel been
there that there are not even traditions
concerning her.
House lizards have long been known
| to be very sensitive to the strains OF
music, but scientific writer says that
it is not due to the sense of hearing, but
to the sensibility of the cutaneous sur
face of the reptile to sound waves, and
that double chord struck with suff-
Gent force upon pianoforte will shock
one to death.
When John Eicholtz died at Urbana,
Ohio, he left behind him the accumula-
tions of forty years. On his farm were
10000 bushels of barley, thousands OF
bushels of corn partly rotted, old
horses that had never known harness,
vehicles with solid wheels cut from logs,
and among the curiosities was an old
pump mounted on wheels like cannon.
California has spring which emits
free sulphuric acid, a trace of nitric
acid, chlorine gas and ammonia. The
overpowering stencil which permeates
the circumambient atmosphere is SO
potent in resisting close inspection OF
the premises that the exact source OF
this sulphurous conglomeration has not
yet been ascertained. In the opinion OF
the residents Whereabouts, hades is not
far distant from that locality.
DR.. Neuber, at the late Congress OF
German Surgeons, spoke highly of the
antiseptic virtue of peat or black earth,
which is filled into bags made of loose
gauZe and laid over wounds. The bags
are held in place by bandages of the |
same material. There seems to be little |
or no necessity to change the dressing
All secretions are rapidly absorbed by |
the earth or turf, and the healing pro-
ceeds very rapidly.
The application of science to the frus- |
tration of justice has been remarked in
fhn re L Al
whose distinguished features were a |
''cast'' in the right eye and broad sur
face scar on the left cheek. A skilful |
occulist Strengthened the eye and an
eqaa Skg iaaStH a. cut out the
would forever have been lost had be not |
betrayed himself to a woman and thus /
indirectly to the constabulary.
Lime Kiln philosophy apropos of the
death of Elder Spooner: "He was hon
est, an darfore poo. He was con-
scienshus, an darfore ragged. He was
full of mercy, an pity, an sympathy,
an darfore had the reputation of bein'
weak in dc second story. / doan' adj
wise any man to be wicked, but desire
to carelessly remark dat de real good
man who am obleeged to turn his paper
collars am Stunned by society and LATED
at by de world"
In the town of Ledyard, Conn, are
fifty Quakers who own property. They
have scruples against oath-taking and
most of them will not even affirm.
Last year law was passed making the |
penalty accumulative for failure to re-
turn property lists, and these lists must |
be sworn to or affirmed Ten per cent
is added for the first years neglect,
twenty for the second, and so on. The
Quakers must therefore lose heavily or
sacrifice principle, unless the Legisla-
ture changes the law, as it is asked to do. |
A learned professor and geologist,
travelling along the Danube recently,
found miserable fisherman cooking
his dinner under the celebrated tablet Of
Trajan, carved by order of the Roman
Emperor, on the solid rock, seventeen
ago. The smoke of the fire
was blackening the inscription, and the
Professor, enraged at the dissertation,
attacked the offender with hammer and
and kicked fire and dinner
together off the ledge into the river
below
A man sans hair, sans teeth and sans
pores in his skin, is exciting the wonder
ofthe medical fraternity of Philadelphia
He is forty-eight years old, has wife
and eight children, who partake of none
If their fathers peculiarities. except
hat not one of them has perfect set of
teeth. The strange being experiences
great inconvenience from his inability
% perspire, because his body, being de-
orived of natural means of cooling It
self. becomes intensely hot, and he is
obliged to pour water over his clothing
@ keep himself cool. He has good
health and never has been sick.
A Boston lady took off her jeweled
ornaments and laid them upon her
bureau. A few minutes afterwarI no
me having meanwhile entered the apart
nent, she missed valuable diamond
ing. Search for it was fruitless and its
mysterious until weeks
lfterward, when around the body of = |
mouse the missing ring wasi
onnd. 1t is thought the mouse had put
his nose into the ring. and, being fright
med, fastened to escape notice, and
hat in so doing the ring was forced
'ack over the forelegs, and there it re-
Named II
In England women are still hanged.
Fhe latest victim was Louisa Taylor.