Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-04-13
NO. 36.
GLEANINGs.


Mr., Edmund Yates, editor OF the Lon
don World, is sturdy man, over six
feet tall in his stockings.
Jumbo, like most intelligent imni-
grants, has thriven since his advent in
America, having gained nearly 4 ton in
flesh.
General Wade Hampton. of South
Carolina, says his grandfather raised
the first cotton crop ever harvested in
the South.
Heartfelt sympathy without tangible
accompaniment will never alleviate tho
pangS of hunger nor clad Shi1ering
wretch with comfortable clothing,
Canada is beginning to call herself
mother country, because her children
have emigrated TO the United States in
great numbers.
There is no bravery in carrying q
| pistol, no chiyalry in shooting man, no
| gal!antry involved in street hrawl.
Our young men ought to understand
these things, .itldRta Constitution.
Maine has discriminating legislature
| II has passed law forbidding the kill
ing of birds and game on Sunday, but
an amendment to prohibit fishing was
| voted down.
The fifteen oldest vessels in the Amer
lean mercantile service are all owned in
New Bedford. beginning with the
Rousseau, built at Philadelphia more
than eighty years ago.
\ dinner party was given recently in
London ut which thirty-nine courses
We're served, which fact caused ProfeS-
sor Blaekie to remark that there are
still some fools and beasts in high
places, "
The Rev DR. Cuyler, of Brooklyn,
says that the late W. +. Dodge, the
philanthropic merchant prince of New
! York, spent the first hour of every
morning in reading the Bible and in
praying.
JAY Cooke has completed arrange
ments for the transformation of his
beautiful former home, Ogontz, near
Chclten hills. Pa, into u young ladies'
boarding-school. The property is val
ued at about million dollars.
1t is related of Il Boston man that,
| seeing lady take out 6 cents with
which to pay her horSe-car fare in that
| city, he proilered her 5-cent ticket,
| with the remark that ''he might as Sell
have the profit as the railroad COM
pany.
Georgia is said to have contributed
one word to the English language.
William 4. Bogus, a Georgia land lot
terry commissioner, caught years ago in
rascality in connection with his office,
hiL,
Gus and false.
Archbishop Lynch, of Toronto. says
that lreland's impoverishment is due
largely to alterations in the track of the
gulf stream. He undertakes to demon
strate that during the last fifty years
the climate there has changed very
much.
Mrs. William Eyarts. of Letiiz. Pa,
| has 4 lily measuring twenty inches in
| circumference. She thinks il is the
| largest in the country, but Freddie Gcb-
harlt, to whom she has telegraphcd for
definite information, has not yet re-
| Spondcd.
As bankers, the Jews have good rec
ord The San Francisco 1rgonaHt SAYS
that of the long lists of banks that baye
robbed their depositors, not one has be-
| longed to them; and of the long list of
embeZzlers. defaulters, etc, not one is
of their number.
Clifton X. Brcckinridgc, of Arkansas,
member-elect of the forty-eighth con.
gress, is Il son of the late eN-Nice PrcSi-
dent John G. Breckinridga. Of Kentucky,
and at the time of TIE retirement of the
latter from the United States senate, in
1861, was lad of some u or ii years
of age.
Peciz's bad boy and chum have been
out-done by a couple of youths Of Syra-
cuse, n. y They tied cat and dog
together and let them fight until both
were nearly dead Then they saturat-
ed the beasts with kerosene, set fire to
them and thus killed them. The law
has dealt heavily with them.
The king of Burmah was recently
presented by the queen with an infant.
| Great was the JOY in that household un-
| til his august majesty was informed that
| the child was only girl. Whereupon
| he became so infuriated that he gave
| orders to have his mother-in-law immed-
| lately executed. OF such is the ridicu-
| lousness of royalty.
The Philadelphia Aurord, little
while before the first President retired
from his high office, printed the follow
ing: IF ever nation has been de-
| b.uched by man, the American nation
has been debauched by Washington. If
| ever a nation has been deceived by man
the American nation has been deceived
| by Washington" Those good old
times had some bad features.
What little six-year-old said about
the minister's sermon applies with equal
force to nine-tenths Of the political
| speeches made by Congressman in the
interests of '.the people," How did
| YOU like the sermon?" the boy was ask
ed "Pretty well, responded the youth
fnl critic 1.-The beginning was very
| good and so was the end, but il had too
| much middle.
Col. Alexander X. Mcclure, Of the
caustic Philadelphia Times, lectured at
| Bloomfield, Pa, the other night He
| had not been there for many years. Hs
was raised there, and worked when boy
| and man at his trade Of tanner. The
old tannery is standing yet, though fall
| ing to decay. Il tan hides still. but not
in the old way" the colonel said 10 HE
friends.
As an example of southern shfftless-
ness, lady travelling in North Carolina
tells of the manner in which the daily
work of house among the mountains
was carried on: There seems to be
only one household appliance tin
basin. 1t was first used for milking,
next the biscuits were mixed in it; then
it came into play as a wash-basin: after
ward the baby was washed in it; then it
was used for cooking hominy; and. fin
ally, the dishes were washed in it. IL
had served the diverse ends of dairy,
kitchen and nursery!f'
New York city has a police force of
2,S07 men, not counting the four Com
missioners, who are not, legally speak
ing, members of ..the force" There are
] Superintendent, Inspectors, 10 Sur
geons, Sc Captains. 143 Sergeants, 2,426
patroimen and IS doormen. For the pay
Of the members of this force the city
paid last year -, Is2, $50, Of which Sz5,-
900 went TO the Commissioners. The
salary Of the Superintendent is 5000 .
year: the Inspectors. $500; the Sur
geons, 8, 800 or p, 25O. according 70
the date Of their appointment: the Cap
tains, g, 900: the Sergeants, s1,600 the
patrolmen, 800 to 81 200, and the door
men, 500 to $500.
Mile. Sangali, the beautiful premiere