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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04

More OLD Women Than Men.

1t is curious fact that the number
of women who reach one hundred years
and upward is nearly double that of
long-iived men, remarks the Buffalo
Courier. They lead less exposed and
often more regular lives than their hus-
bands and brethren, and if their consti-
tutiens are not broken during their first
half century, are likely to attain good
old age. 1t is only necessary to look
around in any community 20 verify this
fact. Certainly Buffalo furnishes no
exception to the fact. Out of the seven
or eight thousand graduates of Harvard
College since 1912, only four have ac-
tually risen to par" while fifth lack
ed fortnight Of completing his centu-
ry. So few persons reach one hundred
years of age, and stories of great longe-
witty are so exaggerated th.t Sir George
Cornwall Lewis boldly declared few
years ago that no one ever lived one
hundred years. OF course, this state
ment was little piece of counter ex-
travagauce, but it is certain that fewer
persons live to reach the age of one
hundred than is popularity supposed.
Out of the many thousand Revolution
ary soldiers and their widows on the
Governments rolls, two or three entered
and even passed the second decade of
their second century, and these are
the Oldest American cases. English
seventeenth century annals tell of q
Countess of Desmond W. :, at the age
of one hundred and forty, was in the
habit of climbing trees to pick che rrie,.
but it is to be feared that this old lady
was given to pulling the long bow about
her birthday.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04
Remember This.

II you are sick Hop Bitters will surely aid Nature
In making you well when all else fails
If you are costive or dyspeptic, or are suffering
from any other OF the numerous diseases Of the
stomach or bowels it is your own fault II you re
main III. for Hop Bitters are a sovereign remedy
In all such complaints.
II you are wasting away with any form oil
Kidney disease, stop tempting Death this moment
and turn for a cure 10 Hop Bitters
II you ore sick with that terrible sickness Ner
vousness, you win find Balm In Giead" In thu
use Of Hop Bitters
II you are frequenter or q resident OF Q
miasmatic district barricade your system agains
the scourge of all countries malarial, epidemic
bilious and intermittent fevers-by the use Of
Hop Bitters
II you have rough, pfmply or sallow skin, bad
breath, pains and aches, and feel mlserably gen
orally, Hop Bitters viii give you fair skin, rich
blood and sweetest breath health and comfort
In short, they cure all Diseases OF the Stomach
Bowels, Blood. Liver Nerves, Kidneys. Brights
Disease 500 VIII be paid for case they VIII NOT
cure or help.
That poor bedridden, invalid wife. sister, mother
or daughter can be made the picture Of health, by
a few bottles Of Hop Bftters, costing but bifie
VIII you let them sufferl
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04
The Match Monopoly.

Cleveland special to Chicago Tribune:
A gentleman connected with the Dia-
mond Match company, one of the
greatest monopoles In the country, i'm
parted startling information to your
correspondent to-day. When the tariff
bill was before congress Mr.. Swift,
president, and o. G. Barben, vice-presi-
dent of the Diamond Match company,
appeared before the committees and
worked the Hobbies to have the tax on
matches retained. At the time it was
thought that this action was to better
tine condition of the Diamond Match
company, who had driven all the small
manufactures out OF business by COM
bining all the large match manufactu-
ries in this country and Canada. Now
it appears that the action was take1
with the hope that the opposition
would cause the match tax to be abol-
ished, instead of continued. The Dis-
mond Match company operate large
factories at Akron, Ohio, Wilmington,
Del, Chicago and other points in the
United States and Canada. At the
Akron factory alone the company
turned out in the month Of March 81.
600 gross of matches, gross being LA
boxes, which retail at s cents each.
This is the greatest amount ever turned
eat IN this factory in the same period.
The profits heretofore at Akron have
been about 100000 per year. When
the stamp tax is abolished the COM
pany will put in the pocket as clear
profit 81 A cents on each gross, which
heretofore went for stamps. This will
make an extra profit of $4,000 per
month, or the enormous sum of 81 600
600 profit in one year. This is for the
Akron factory only; six other facto-
ries have the same or nearly the same
capacity. According to thee figures,
the men who form the Diamond Match
company will all be millionaires at the
end of the next twelve months. They
do not anticipate that the retail price
on matches will be reduced for year
at least, and do not care if the biggest
kind of a reduction comes after that
time, as all imm ediately concerned in
the company will have become indie
pendently rich, and will be ready to re-
tire from business. The Diamond
Match company proved Itself one Of
the greatest monopolies Of the age.
For years they delighted in paying the
stamp tax, and secured stamps to inn
mense amounts from the government
al q discount, and drove out all small
manufacturers of the american CONT
nent. The company is composed of
Mr.. Swift of Wilmington, Del; o. G.
Barber of Akron, O.; J F. Hopkins of
St. Louis, Mo-; ]. K. Robinson of Ak
ron, O.; and half dozen others in
Eastern States.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04
Making SpartanS of the Girls.

New York Letter: "Would you like
to see our Spartan girls?" an Astoria
German said to q reporter. The re-
porter replied that he would. The gate
leading to the Turnverein building in
Astoria was closed, and the reporter
was led through beer saloon and a
back yard to the side entrance of the
building. On entering he saw capa-
cious hall furnished with variety of
gymnastic apparatus. The American
and German q sgs adorned the walls.
Fourteen girls from eight to fourteen
wears old we're assembled IL the hall.
they wore q uniform consisting of 8
navy blue shirt, with skirt of the same
stuff, reaching TO the knees, blue draw
ers, red stockings, white linen slippers,
and belt. They were In a merry
mood. Some were swiftly sliding over
the amooth fl ,or like sylphs, others
were jumping like kids, and some were
swinging and climbing among the ropes
like n oop of monkeys. Ali screamed
and laughed in chorus.
''Tney are amusing themselves till
the teacher comes" said the German.
Soon the teacher appeared, dressed
In his gymuastic habit At his conn
mand the girls arranged themselves N
line. A regular drill followed. The
grls marched in pairs, IN TOURS, and In
Indian file. Then they ran, jumped
over string, climbed up high lad
der, swung on parallel bars, and per-
formed military evolutions with light
sticks which served as guns
These are our Spartan girls," said
the German admiringly. 81 hope they
will be worthy of their ancient proso-
types. The Spartsn women, you know,
used to hand the shields to their sons
about to 60 to battle, with the words,
Either with this or on this Do you
think they would have been SO brave
If they had not taken exercise like
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04
Musical Fishers

Sir ]. Emerson Tennent having
heard story about musical sounds
Issuing from the lake at Batticaloa, IN
Ceylon, paid visit to the plscs in 1S4s.
The fishermen told him that the sounds,
which resembled the faint sweet notes
of an Eolisn harp, were heard only at
night and during the dry season, were
most distinct when the moon was
nearest the full, and proceeded, they
believed, not from fish, but from 3
shell called the ''crying she'll" "In
the evening"" says Tennent, "when the
moon rose, 1 took boat and accom-
panied the fishermen to the spot. We
rowed about 200 yards northeast of the
letty by the fort gate; there was not 3
breath of wind or ripple, exec pit
those caused by the dip Of our oars.
On coming to the point mentioned
distinctly heard the sounds in question.
They came up from the water like the
gentle thrills of q musical chord, or the
faint vibrations of a wine glass when
Its rim is rubbed by moistened finger.
1t was not one sustained note, but 8
multitude of tiny sounds, each clear
and distinct in itselt-the sweetest
treble minging with the lowest bass.
On applying the ear to the woodwork
Of the boat the vibration was greatly
increased in volume. The sounds
varied considerably at different points
as We moved across the lake, as if the
number of the animals from which
they proceeded was greatest in par
ticular sport, and occasionally we row.
ed out of hearing of them altogether,
until. on returning to the original lGcali-
ty, the sounds were at once renewed.
This fact seems to Indicate that the
causes Of the sounds, whatever they
may be, are stationary at several
points, and this agrees with the state
ment of the atives, that they are pro-
duced by moliescs, and not by fish.
They came evidently and sensibly
from the depth of the lake; and there
was nothing in the surrounding cir
cumstances to support the conjecture
that they could be the reverberation Of
noises made by insects on the shore
conveyed along the surface of the
water; for they were loudest and most
distinct at points where the nature of
the land, and the intervention Of the
fort and its buildings, forbade the pos
sibility of this kind of conduction."
Chambers Journal.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04
You NAV Call a Woman a Heifer.

Cdlcago Herald Messrs. A. s. and
Fred Trude conducted lible suit In
judge RJgers' court yesterday for Mrs.
Catherine Moore against Daniel SEeen-
lie. The defendant keeps a green-groc-
er's shop On south Desplaines street,
and plaintiff lives in his neighborLeod
and formerly dealt at his store. Trou-
BILE arose between them on account of
an unpaid bill for potatoes. 1t was
charged that Sxeenie called Mrs. Moore
a thief, a fraud and heifer, and that
he had said that Mrs, Moore did not
pay her debts. The evidence for the
plaintiff was put in, and Sweenie was
called to the stand and denied ali of
the charges but one. He said he went
to Mrs. Moore's house to collect his bill
and she threatened to kick him down
the steps" He went down without
kicking.
Afterward he said he was standing
talking to a girl, when Mrs. Moore went
past them. See that ould heller, SEE
OF TO tn CURL. Oh, thot 'twas no harum.
Oh wus born In the North of Oreland,
where heifer meant"
Il object" interrupted Mr. Truce.
sit makes no difference what heller
ment In the North of Ireland. We
are"
skaIt makes no difference what it
means anywhere" said the court. at
isn't slAnderous. It's not slanderous
to call woman heifer or horse or
3 mare, or anything of that kind.
There's only one thing charged IN that
declaration which Is slanderous, that's
thief If you want to 60 to II = jury
on that, you can"
They did go the jury on the word
thief. and the jury found for the de-
PENDANT
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04
A City in the Sea.

Cedar Key is little city in the sea.
The town takes its name from num-
Der of diminutive islands, otherwise
called keys, and they lie between the
mouths of the Suwanee and Homo
sassa rivers. A large number of these
keys are settled; one some, one family,
others more, but on Way Key is the
incorporated town OF Cedar Key. This
little island contains about forty acres,
and il four miles from the mainland,
and hence we call it little city ia the
sea. 1t is the terminus of the Transit
Railroad, which runs from Fernandina
to this point.
After leaving the main land the ride
to this city is simply enchanting. The
lovers of the beautiful in nature have
here fairy land more beautiful and
lovely than fancy can create or language
picture. If one looks to the west the
sheen of the sea is like molten gold,
and if to the east, like silver; while as
far IS the eye can reach are innumer-
able little islands, like vast emeralds,
of every size and shape, presenting q
scene of indescribable beauty. Nor is
the morning scenery less attractive and
charming, for the train leaves the key
just at that hour (7:30 o'clock when
Aurora is robed in the most gorgeous
garments. and when her beaming smile
tints the heavens and the waters with
the glow of pink, and makes the dew
of the grass and the foliage of the
shrubbery which clothes the "multi
tude of isles" glisten like myriads Of
diamonds.
Cedar Key is compact little city Of
about 1000 inhabitants, and is growing
every day in population and business
The rumbling of trains, the rafting oil
drays, the blowing of whistles of boats
and steamships, the racket of hammers
and the whirl and roar of great saw.
mills are the daily experiences of this
busy little city. But the principal in
dustry is lumber. There are mum
Der Of large saw-mills here, and over
/ 500 hands and 100 mules are emaloy.
ed in "logging" on these islands, while
at least ten vessels are constantly char.
tered to carry the lumber to the United
States and Notwithstanding Times
Union.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04
Gleanings.

The Rev. DR.. Henderson, who was q
colonel in the confederate service, has
been transferred from the Methodist
Church South to take charge of a
Methodist Church in jersey City.
Senator Logan is visiting his stock
ranch pear Albuquerque, N. NJ. The
ranch comprises $4,000 scrss and is
stocked with 5000 head of cattle. Mr..
Logan intends to increase the number
TO about 10000 head.
Mrs. jackson, of Florence, Italy, the
widow of the New England sculptor,
John Adams jackson, is the guest OF
E. F. Waters in Boston. Mr.. Jackson
has brought with her several of her
husbands works and they will be placed
on exhibition at an early day.
Mr.. Dana was fatigued from much
sightseeing when Il San Francisco re-
porter called to interview him the other
day. I'm tired now" said the editor,
"but if you will come when shall have
recovered from fatigue you may inter-
view me on any subject under the
SUM-"
Colonel E w. Cole, the Southern
railway manager, says that the story as
to his suffering from softening of the
brain ought to divide the honors with
tne Texas meteor yarn. .Colopel Cole
is in good health. He lives in CHAT
tanooga, where he is building "the
finest blocks of buildings in the South. -
Professor A. F. Bandolier, of High
land, ILL.,, who was recently reported
captured by the Apaches in Sonora,
has arrived at Fort Apache, A. T., alive
and well.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale and wife
took a hurried departure from Boston
on Saturday, for Europe, on receipt of
news that their daughter is seriously
i'll i'll Germany.
Ex-Governor Fenton, of New York,
his daughter, granddaughter and niece,
who nave been spending the winter in
California, have arrived at their home
in jamestown, n. Y.
The real name of Louise Michel, the
French anarchist woman, is said to be
Nine. They're, and she has two sons.
She is now awaiting trial for treason
able acts and utterances.
There are Elk BIS in tie German
Ministry Bismarck, Busch, Butcher,
Bretticher, Blanchard, and Bozanowski
and it is curious that they are all suffer
ing at the present time from alleged
overwork.
The son of Sir James Puget, the ia.
nous English surgeon, was recently
married il S.. Paul's Church, London,
to the Deans only daughter. II was
the second marriage performed there
in 125 years.
The report is renewed in Washington
that the President will shortly go to
Fortress Monroe to endeavor to drive
the malaria from his system by the
salt air, and the steamer Dispatch Is
under waiting ORDERS.
Cong George z. Adams, of
Chicago, has been in Washington re.
Gently, to select residence for next
winter. Thomas B. Bryan, formerly
of Chicago, has sold his residence there
to Theodore Lyman, a new Boston
member.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04
A Military Examination.
An ANEcporR OF LINCOLN.


A sergeant of infantry, whom 1 shall
call Dick Cover, commanded his COM
psny in a great many battles in the
west in she early days Of the war. His
company officers mad all been killed,
but right loyalty did Dick handle his
men. At the first hull in the campaign
the officers of his regiment, of his brig
ade and of his division, united in rec
ommending him for heutenancy in
the regular army. The commanding
officer joined in the recommendation.
Mr.. Lincoln ordered the appointment.
Forthwith, Sergeant Dick was or.
dered before an examining board
here in Washington, for the reg
ular army officers VI ere tenacious Of
what they thought their superiority.
Dick presented himself in soiled and
failed sergesnt's uniform, his face and
hands bronzed and cracked by the
winds and suns of q hot campaign.
The c,irled dsrlings of Washington
society, the perfumed graduates oil
West Point, who had never seen a
squadron set in the field, conducted
the examination to ascertain if Dick
was fl to be an officer in the regular
army. They asked him auctions as to
engineering, mathematics, philosophy
and ordnS nee, of hsrbor warfare, Of
field campaigns and all such stuff. Not
question could Dick answer. "Whsi
is an echelon?' was asked. 81 don't
know" answered Dick; 81 never saw
one. "Wnat is an abstis?' was the
next question. Dick answered
you've got me again. "Well, what is
hollow square?' continued his to-.
mentors, Don't know" said Dick, sor.
rowfully; 81 never heard of one.'
"Well," finally said young snip, in
eyeglasses, "what would you do in
command of company if the cavalry
should charge on your" They had al
last got down to Dicks comprehension,
and he answered with resolute face
and a flashing eye. "Pd give them
I'LL, that's what I'd do, and I'd make
a hollow in every mothers son OIL
them" A few more technical ques-
tons were asked, but poor Dick was
not able 10 answer them, and
the examination closed. The report
was duly sent to the secretary oil
war, who submitted it to Mr.. Lincoln,
saying that evidently Dick would not
do for an officer. Mr.. Lincoln went
through with the report, and found
that Dick had rot answered d single
question, but he came to where Dick
said what he would do if attacked by
cavalry, and then he did what sensible
Abe Lincoln did in all such matters,
he threw the report on his table and
made little memorandum in pencil
ordering the secretary of war to APP
point Dick Cover lieutenant in the
regular army. Dick achieved distinc-
ton afterward, and was everywhere
known in the army as a man without
fear, who never made mistake.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04
Long but Pleasant Sentence.

Robert Collyer writes friend: 81
am getting pair of wings grown to fly
across the sea this summer, to hide
myself away among the moors and
rest among heather, you know, and
hear the larks, and drink at old wells
and eat oat bread and milk, and hunt
up old cronies, and tumble around in
river 1 know of, and 60 to an old farm
house 1 know of. and to the church
where was ba ptized, on one or more
Sundays, and hear the parson preach
he does not mind that am a hero
tic, and il he did 1 should not care
and there is little tavern where the
landlord knew my folks forty-fve years
ago, and I shall put up with that land
lord for a spell, and it is pleasant
place aud haunted by pleasant ghosts
as ever anybody didn't see; and l shall
toddle through some woods | know OF
between an old abbey and an old to-
wer, where I used to go a counting"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04
A Mad Dog in Church.
Charlotte Observer.

The Presbyterian congregation at
Davidson College had their nerves bad
ly unstrung last Subway night. The
people had gathered in the Presbyte-
RAN chapel to attend divine service,
which was being conducted by DR..
Lattiumer. There was a large congre-
CATION present, including many ladies.
DR.. Lattimer was just reading a chap
ter in the Bible, wnen bowling, yelp-
ing canine burst into the church right
into the midst of the terrified congre-
CATION The scene that followed may
be imagined. D.. Lattimer stopped
in the middle OF a sentence, and in a
second was viewing the scene from his
perch on the top of the pulpit, encour-
sgingly, but somewhat excitedly. call
ing upon the congregation to "Kill it
Kill il p The men and women stood
on top of benches, and there was some
pretty loud shouting and screaming
done. One of the students present,
vino had evidently healed himself for a
combat with mad dogs, pulled out pis-
toll and made the interior OF the sane
tum echo with the sound ST battle.
Two sho.s were fired st the aninal,
both woupding him severely and dis
abling him, when the men fell upon the
dog with sticks, and quickly dispatched
him. The CARCASS was dragged from
the church, but it was some time before
every body settled down again, and
MANY of them, indeed, had no ears for
preaching the balance OF the night.
The ladies stood the ordeal remark
ably well, only one OF them going off in
a faint, but it might have been wore
had MT the voice of the pastor, stand
ing on the pulpit, been heard above all
the din and tumult. The dog had been
shot at and wounded outside the church
and, bloody from the wound, frothing
at the mouth and barking ike mad, II
bounded in among the unsuspecting
congregation.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04
OF Course He Could Sell it Cheap.

"Boss, does yer want to buy ham?
asked q negro of a white man.
"What is it WORTH
"Wall, as it's yerseI, yer may take il
fur fifty cents"
"That won't do. You can afford tc
sell it for less, for 1 believe you stole il
anyhow"
"Boss dean 'cuse me SO rash. Haye
little mu:sy bout yer pusson. But,
tell yer, boss, if yer won't say nothing
bout it, I'll let yer hab it for forty
cents"
The white man agreed ald paid over
the amount. The negro, ust as he
crossed the street, was accosted by an
acquaintance, who said:
"What did yer let dat man hab dat
ham so cheap fol?"
"Oh, 1 could ford it, case 1 stole il
out'n his own smoke-house. '-Arkan,
sas Traveller.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04
iowa County Democrat.
IF 1T BE TRUE.

If it be true, and who shall dare deny
The universal voice of prophecy
If it be true, that just beyond the river
Which we call death, the soul shall live forever
In fair country bathed in morning light.
II we are soon to range that realm of bliss,
Should nv proud soul be welded unto thisa
IL it be true that we are children all
OF one kind Father, at whose gracious call
We come to live in peace with one another,
That every child of sorrow is my brother
If il be true that virtue hath no guise,
Nor gold the power to purchase paradise.
II the dear Father loves the weak akd poor,
Nor turns aside from any humble door,
n he would seek his childreR's happiness,
Why in my4abor should venture lessl
If soon beneath tie very turf I thread
This mortal form shall slumber with the dead.
And resting on its cold and crumbling pillow,
Shall no more feel the toss of passions billowi
II head and hand no more have power TO move
To thoughts of mercy or to deeds of love,
Should / this lingering moment consecrate
To thoughts unkind or deeds of scorn or hatei
IL it be true-and this / surely know,
That I shall reap the very kind | SOW.
That must stand alone-not for another,
And answer for my self-not for my brother;
Then should ] waste my lite in fruitless care,
For what another's conscience has to bear,
Save. if may, to bear some humble part,
To lift the burden from an aching heat.
Buffalo Sunday Courier.