Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-03-16
BRIEF ITEMS.

The new 2-cent stamps will bear the
profile of Washington.
Queen Victoria viii open in person
the International Fish Exhibition at
South Kensington next May.
The late Prince Gortschakoff is said
to have been the first who referred to
Turkey as the 'Sick Man of Europe"
Anna Lsuisa Cary's sister, Mrs. Ada
Cary Sturgis, who is 3 fine singer, is
seriously i'll at her home in Durhana,
Maine.
Virgins tremendous cyclone was
only wiggle. He should now wiggle
into hole, and pull the hole in after
him.
"a dudu," says New York author
lty, rs young man who wears one
eye-glass, a little stick, fashionable
clothes, but 70 brains"
Mrs. Samuel Bright, the sister in-law
of John Bright, the British statesman,
now visit G iu Washington, is as deaf
as Harriet Martineau wss.
The exlled Egyptian rebel leader
Arab Pasha-is devoting most of his
time at Ceylon to the study of the
English language, and rathor enjoys it.
1t was Nathaniel Thayer, of Boston,
who died recently, who betrayed the
expenses of Prof. AgassiZ visit of explo-
ration and research to South America.
1t now turns out that the new wife of
Ex-Governor Sprague, of Rhode Island,
recently married in West Virginia, is
a divorced young lady, pretty and
lively.
If Virgins storm had come as he
predicted, he would have been, accord
ing to the signal-service scientists, a
successful charlatan." As it il, he is
an unsuccessful charlatan.
Philadelphia has "Last Mans Club"
formed by dozen gentlemen a year
ago, and its president, Charles N. Ellis,
Is the fist to pass away, he having
died on Tuesday last.
Mr.. Schuyler Colfax, after lecturing
at Providence last Thursday evening,
was entcrtsined at dinner by the
Brown, Harvard and Boston Univer-
sity chaptere of the Beta Theta Phi
society.
A pathetic story is published in
France to the effect that the late Louis
Blanc's cat, which he was wont to pet,
died of grief few days after his death,
having refused to eat or drink.
The intimation by DIR. McCosa that
he would tike to retire from the presi-
dency of Princeton college will cause
regret among the alumni of the institu-
ton and the friends of education gen.
orally.
Cardinal McClosky, of New York,
celebrated on Saturday the thirty ninth
anniversary of his elevation to the epis-
copacy OF the Roman Catholic church.
He is now nearly rs years of age,
having been born in Brook Ign, March
20, 1910.
Hiram H. Hobbs, of South Berwick,
Me-, who was graduated in Bowdoin
college in the class of 1924, is the old
est living member of the York county
bar-having been admitted in 1927
tifty-six years ago-and is still in ex'
cellent health.
Elk Congressman, John NJ. Thomp
son, of Batter, Pa, has been arrested
charged with increasing a note from
800 to $1,000. In consequence of hi'
high position. the arrest causes much
excitement, and few persons are will,
ing to believe him guilty.
Four of Iowa's best knows an mos
estimahle ladies--M1s. N. G. Deering
Mrs. c. c. Carpenter, Mrs. w. P. Hep
burn and Mrs. d. N. Cooley--have
been appointed vice presidents TO,
Iowa of the Garfield Hospital enter.
prise of Washington,
Mrc. Gladstone, The wife OF England
great statesman, is a very plain rer
son in dress ard manners, and is s
great friend of the poor, to whom she
devotes money that less thoughtful
women lavish upon themselves in dres
and jewels.
Judge Thurman makes the larges
property return in Columbus, Ohio, "fol
the reason" says the Marion Mirror
chat he is an honest man."
Max Heinrich has made very grea
success in the part of Elijah" in tn,
New York Oratorio Society's perform
ance of Memberships oratorio.