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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-11-23
Cause and Cure of Badness.
Boston Medical Journa


O. Lassar has continued his obser
vations on badness, the nature of pre-
mature badness, and has further con-
vinced himself OF the communicable
ty of at least the form associated with
dandruff. When the hairs which fall
off in such cases are collected,
rubbed up with vaseline, and the oint-
ment SO made is rubbed among the fur
of rabbits or white mice. badness
rapidly makes itself visible on the
parts so treated. That this is not due
to the vaseline was shown by annoint-
ing other animals with the vaseline
alone, which produced no effect what
ever. He considers that the disease is
spread by hairdressers, who employ
combs and brushes to their customers,
one after another, without any reg
ular cleaning these articles after
each time they are used. During fire.
quent visits to the hair-dressers, it
can scarcely fail that brushes are
used which have been shortly before
dressing the hair of one affected with
SO common complaint as scaly bald
ness. Females he thinks, are less of
ten affected with this form of bald
ness, because the hair-dresser more
frequently attends to them at their
own homes. and there uses their combs
and brushes. In order to prevent, as
far as possible, the commencement of
alopecia premature, the hair should
be cut and dressed at home,
and with ones own implements,
and these thoroughly clean.
When it has begun, the following
mode of treatment is suggested: The
scalp is to be daily we'll soaked with
tar or fluid glycerine potash soap,
which is to be rubbed in for fifteen
minutes firmly. The head is then to
be drenched with, first, warm water,
and gradually colder water. A two
per cent corrosive sublimate lotion is
next to be freely applied. The head
is then to be dried, and the roots of
the hair are to have half per cent.
solution of napthol in spirit rubbed
into them. Finally, pomade of one
and a half to two per cent carbolic or
salicylic oil is to. be used on the head.
This treatment has now i'll many
cases brought the disease not only to
a stand, but the hair has been to a
considerable extent restored.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-11-23
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
WA kSHiNGTON.

The aid of the Austrian minister at
Washington has been asked to secure a
transfer of the late electrical exposition
at Vienna to the worlds fair at New Or
cans next year.
DIR. WYMAN treasurer of the United
States, reports the net revenue for the
fiscal year at 1898, ,2S7, ,4S1. He recon-
mends that an appropriation be made to
pay express charges on mutilated United
States currency and for the distribution
of fractional silver.
COLONEL CASEY says that the Washing
ton monument had reached height of
400 feet, and that when ten feet more is
added the work of laying marble will
stop for the winter, but that the dressers
viii continue all winter if the weather
is suitable for delivery of material.
The Commissioner of Pensions has
suspended DIR. Azel Ames, the Secretary
of the Boston Board of Medical Exami-
ners of the pension office, to await the
result of an investigation of charges
connecting him with scheme for sell
ling the stock of a company in connec-
tion with his official duties.
JUDGE LAWRENCE Comptroller of the
Treasury, has rendered a decision in
which he denies the application of
agents of the States of Minnesota and
Nebraska, for..5 per cent. on the value q
81 % per acre of the estimated quantity
of Indian reservations, prior to the ex-
tinction of Indian occupancy and sale
by authority of law.
EX-SENATOR FERRY, of Michigan,
whose friends made such tough fight
for him in the Legislature of his State,
two years ago, is now living in retire
ment in England 1t is known to few
that he was greatly shaken by the disas-
ter of last year. 1t was known to still
fewer that the Senator was a sufferer
from the opium habit, one of the insid
ious vices which undermine the health
of so many apparently healthy persons,
SECRETARY TELLER has rendered an
important decision in reply to the ques-
ton of the commissioner of pensions
asking for proper and uniform con-
struction of the Revised Statutes con-
cerning pensions to dependent mothers
The secretary maintains that If the son
were "a minor the father was entitled to
his services, and if the latter were dead
the mother was so entitled, and there
fore a dependent father or mother should
be allowed Il pension.
LIEUTENANT GARLINGToN resumed his
testimony in the Proteus Court of In
quiry. He said he never saw the in
structions given to Captain Wildes, of
the Yantic, until his return to st. Johns
His own instructions ordered him not to
stop at Littctown Island on the way
up, and he obeyed them. His party
went south in boats hoping to meet the
9antic and find some way of returning
to help Greedy. General Hazen then
took the stand, and testified that the
supplemental memorandum formed no
part of Garlington's instructions.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-11-23
Wonderful Presence of Mind.
Napa (Cal) Register .


AS Miss Annie Derry. daughter of
Thomas Derry, Esq, of Napa City,
who is now teaching the public school
of Soscol District, was walking to her
boarding place after the close of the
school Tuesday evening, on the rail
road track, indulging in pleasant
reverie, she noticed the Suisun train
rounding the curve about half mile
distant. Satisfied that it was too far
away to bring danger to her, she
leisurely continued her course upon
the track. Watching it coming toward
her without anxiety, she did not notice
her steps, when accidentally she
stumbled and fell violently to the
ground.
On attempting to rise the young lady
discovered that one of her feet was
fast beneath the rail. She made vio-
lent efforts to release it, but in vain.
What must have been her thoughts
in this situation, as she saw the distance
growing less each moment between
her and the rapidly approaching train,
can only be imagined, while she con-
tinued her frantic efforts to get free.
She waved her hands and shook her
handkerchief in distress. but her sig
nails were unseen As If by inspira-
ton from heaven, almost at the last
moment thought came like a fash
of lightning that her foot might be
extricated by unbuttoning her shoe,
which was an old one, pretty loose
upon her foot The thought was acted
upon with nervous energy, the foot
pulled from beneath the rail and she
rolled from the track not moment
too soon to escape horrible death.
1t would not be strange, considering
the great mental strain the young
lady suffered, L she Lay for some time
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-11-23
FOREIGN.

SAFvET P.AsHA, ex-grand vizier of 'rur
key, 6S years of age, is dead.
THE tunnel through the Arlberg
branch of the Alps has been completed.
, THE lord mayor of London refused
the use of the mansion-house to DIR.
Stocker for n crusade against the Jews,
THE lord lieutenant of Ireland has
been instructed to discourage gather
ings of either Orangemen or National
lists.
As the wheat crop of Canada is be-
.lieved to he mt least 100000 bushels
short, the millers are organizing to Sc
cure the abolition of the duty on imports
of grain from the United States.
A MAGISTRATE in Dublin at the head
of force of troops and police read to a
gathering of four thousand nationalists
proclamation forbidding their meeting,
and the crowd dispersed.
4 PARTY of London socialists took
possession of n hall in London where
DIR. StoCker was to lecture. They unfurl-
ed red flags, sang the Marseillaise, and
chcered for the next revolution, forcing
the spaeller to retire.
THE American bishops held their first
meeting in Rome, Tuesday, all the car
dinals being present. The subject of
discussion was proposition to ask the
United States government to base the
relations Of the church and state upon
canon law.
DR.. SToCKER, chaplain to the Ger
man court, lectured on socialism in Lon
don Wednesday. The crowd so annoy
ed him by cheers, misses, and epithets
that he left the hall with his address
half finished
DE LEssEPs said ut Liverpool Satur-
day, that a second Suez canal could
only be built near to and parallel with
the present one, and when finished. yes
sells going to the Red Sea could take one
canal and those to the Mediterranean the
other.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-11-23

GOVERNOR FOSTER will not down.
His recent political drubbing does not
seem to have cooled his savage love
for fame and glory. He is now on
the war path with the foul intent of
making great chief of Mr.. Arthur.
He announces himself for Arthur for
the ncxt president first, last and all
the time. This passage at arms took
place between him and an interviewer
Saturday;
"Thcn you think Arthur will he the republican,
Canddatet"
Think Why, there's no doubt about it. He's
the biggest man in the republican party TO day.
II we can't elect Arthur, there's n" use trying to
elect anybody. Ro nominatcdy just you wait
and see. He's sure to he nominated
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-11-23
Clothing and Body Heat.
Popular Science Monthly

The thinnest veil is vestment in
the sense that it moderates the loss of
heat, which radiation causes the max
ed body to experience. In the same
way a clouded sky protects the earth
against too great cooling in spring
nights. In covering ourselves with
multiple envelopes of which we aug
ment the protecting thickness accord
ing to the rigor of the seasons, we re
tard the radiation from the body bv
causing it to pass through series of
stages, or by providing relays. The
cloak constitute for us SO many arti-
fetal epldermises The heat that
leaves the skin goes to warm these
superposed envelopes; it passes
through them the more slowly in pro
portion as they are poorer conductors :;
reaching the surface it escapes, but
without making us feel the chilis,
which direct contact with the atmOs-
phere occasions, for our clothes catch
the cold for us. The hairs and the
feathers of animals performs the same
function as toward their skin, serving
toremove the seat of calorific exchange
away from the body. The protection
we owe to our clothes is made more
etfectual by their always being wad-
ded with a stratum of warm air.
Each one of us thus has his own at
mosphere, which goes with him every
where, and is renewed without being
cooled. The animals also finds under
it's fur an additional protection in the
bed of air that fills the spaces between
the hairs; and it is on account of the
air they inclose that porous substances,
furs and other feathers keep warm.
Experiments to determine the de-
gree of facility with which different
substances used for clothing allow
heat to escape, were made by Count
Rumford, Senebler, Btekmann,
James Stark and NJ Coulter. The re
suits were got in all cases consistent
with each other, but they indicate
that the property is dependent on the
texture of the substance rather than
on the kind of material, or-as con
Germs non-luminous heat-its color
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-11-23
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

THE business portion of Belmore.
Ohio, was destroyed by fire Sunday, the
losses aGgregating $50. 900.
A FIRE at IIarrodsburg. Kentucky.
swept away hotel and six stores on
Main stress, causing loss of $4,000.
REV. j. IL. MAGoFFIN. of Cheboygan.
Michigan, died from erysipelas caused
by running a rusty nail i'll his thumb
two weeks ago.
Q. w. CHASE, superintendent of the
Michigan fish hatcheries. and six com
panions were drowned off Petoskcy by
the CapSizing of small boat.
SEVEN buildings in Duluth were burn
ed early Wednesday morning, a man
named Kennedy being sutfocated. The
losses aggregate $4,000.
WITHIN the past year Mrs J. W. Gar
rett, of Baltimore, has three times been
seriously injured by runaway horses
From the last occurrence she now lies in
a condition akin to death.
THE oil works of Slemmer Brothers,
at Norristown. Pennsy ylvania, with 5000
barrels of petroleum, were burned Tues
day evening, the loss being $4,000.
THE hardware house of Seneca D.
kimbark, Nos. 50 and 81 Michigan ave
sue, Chicago, was destroyed by fire
Thursday afternoon, the loss being
$l65. 900 on the stock and S35,000 on the
building.
JOHN WAFFEN. a German laborer on
the docks Mt Cleveland, with a wife and
five children to support, won 81 by
drinking fiftSen glasses of whisky in fif-
teen minutes. He survived his feat on
ly two days.
EXPERTS who have investigated the
capitol disaster at Madison. Wis. find
that the iron columns were not only in
sufficient in number. but were of such
miserable material that they tore like
pine boards
FLAMES destroyed clothing factory
and a wholesale grocery house at Char
| lesion, South Carolina, valued at sou,
! 900. Several women leaped from the
factory windows, one of them being
Killed, and it is thought that three 9TH
| ers persisted in the flames.
THE father of Charley Ross was induc-
ed to visit Edwardsville. Illinois. and in
! terview an amateur detective in regard
| TO a prisoner at Springfield. who offered
| TO tell the whereabouts of the long-lost
| lad. But the criminal has recently been
sentenced to the penitentiary for one
year, and refuses to say anything until
his release.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-11-23
A BOLD TRAIN ROBBERY.
Mexican Bandits Bitch a Train and
Secure Ten Thousand Dollars in
silver.

A special dispatch from Corpus
Christi, Texas, of the 14th inst,
gives the following particulars:
Last night about Z o'clock the reg
ular passenger train from Saltillo,
Mex, for Laredo. with seventy-ive
passengers aboard, and large sum
of money in the express company's
safe, besides So, 600 in silver bullion
consigned to New Laredo, Mex, was
thrown from the track, when running
about twenty two miles per hour, by
having the fshplates taken off a
couple o. rails and then misplacing
them so that the fanges of the wheels
would run off the cross ties. Engi-
neer Madam applied the air brakes
the moment he felt the engine leave
the track, and thus saved the lives of
his passengers. The engine striking
the cross ties, turned complete SOM
ersault and landed upside down about
twenty feet from the rails, crushing
to death in its fall the fireman, Charles
Fessler. Engineer Madden escaped
with few injuries. By the time the
passengers had recovered from the
shock, the train was in possession of
about forty Mexican robbers, headed
by an American. The robbers devot-
ed their attention at once to the eX-
press-car, and tried, by threats of death
to compel Conductor Buel to open the
safe, which he was unable to do, not
having the combination. They then
undertook to break into it with axes,
but did not succeed. Failing in this,
they discovered the silver bullion in
the car, amounting IN value to IS, 900,
which was at once taken out and load
ed on pack-mules Before time was
had to 60 through the passenger-car,
the robbers Were frightened off by the
noise of an approaching train from
the direction of Laredo 1t seems the
superintendent of the road at Laredo,
becoming alarmed at the failure of the
train to arrive at the next station this
this side of La Jarilla, which it left on
time coupled with the fact that the
wire was cut directly after the train
left that station, sent out special
with detachment of Mexican soldiers
to New Laredo, which az
rived at the scene of the wreck only
few minutes after the robbers had
left. Inquiry has developed the fact
that the tracks of forty pack-mules
were found in the tickets near where
the robbery was committed, on the day
before, and on the train which came
down that day was over $3.50, 900 in
silver. Fortunately it was delayed by
accident ten hours and was thus saved
from pillage. Though the robbers
were all masked, their American lead
er is so well described by the passen-
gers as to make his Identification GER
tain. The Mexican government has
troops in hot pursuit of the bandits,
and is determined tomake an example
of this first attempt to rob train IN
northern Mexico There was large
number of Americans aboard the
train, who state that the robbers
showed themselves to be novices in
the business. The wreck was cleared
before morning and trains are run
ming again on schedule time. The
fireman's body was brought to Laredo
and buried by the railroad company.
Engineer Madden, it is thought, will
recover.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-11-23
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO. Nov. 90 Flour Dull and unchanged.
Regular Wheat-A good speculative business
opened shade easier then declined &c, attrbu
ted to the unfavorabie tenor of foreign adviceS
At the decline speculative demand became mora
active, and prices gradually advanced 1c, then
tluctuated and closed lic higher than yesterday.
Sales ranged: 94l56644 for seller November;
closed at 95ls; 953s for seller December; closed
at 96l4; 964@913s for seller January; closed at
97l4 91i4GJ9S3s for seller February: closed at
9Sl4; 0334G11 .o45 for seller May; closed at a4as
No. >, Chicago spring, 65ls19534 closed at 959s;
No. 8 Chicago spring, SlIR0S2lS; No >, red win
ter,9a. Corn-Demand active, unsettled and
stronger. Opened 14Gg3sc lower, advanced $50
Sc, tluctuated and closed 9s34 higher than yes
teriay; 4Sls1 4S34 for seller cash. closed 1885
q iSa4; +SlsI4Ss4 for seller November; closed,
iS34; 47asGl4sS4 for seller December; closed 4sss
45Ns6 iSjs for seller the year; closed, 4Sl4: 40
4794 for seller January; closed, 419s; 47@475S
for seller February; closed, 47l9; 50246511s for
seller May; closed. 5ISs OatS-Dull but firm
strengthened by the tone of other markets; 2Sls
9sSSs for seller cash; $3.50 for seller Novem-
ber; 2SslGlS9 for seller December; closed. %; %
for seller January; Ssl4G Gsas4 for seller May;
closed, ass4, E7e-F:rm at SO. Barley-Steady
a
and firm, mainly for deferred deliveries. receded
5l51oc early, rallied 25G35c then ruled steady to
close: II oO0ll 10 for seller cash for old IL eoG
~ for new: 10. a5G11 IS for seller November
closed, 1li5G5ilSn; 10. S71sG1t 1915 for seller De
cember closed, ul5G1l ~: 10 9oQi1.10 for seller
the year. closed higher, Ii l5111eo; II. .65B11 12
for seller january; closed, 11.9sls0l1 IS; II 50
! 6islela for seller February; closed, 12s5G
llo1ls; 12.0o@Ia02ls for seller March; 12f59
u l7}S for seller April; 123oGIs. IS for seller
May, closed. IL iS6Il.J0. Lari-Steady and in
fair demand; advanced 10a15c, and closed steady
7a5676o for seller cash, for old; 1907 IS for
new; 1897 IS fer seller November; closed.
7.osl16Ts5; 7.4sla176o for seller Decem-
| Der; closed, s.S7lS976o 755G7.6o for seller
/ the year; G.6oGG65 for seller January; closed.
7.7sls55.75; 7.7slsG7 ,s7lS for seller February;
| 80 for seller March; s.0oGSc2lS for seller May
Bulk meats-In fair demand; shoulders, 500;
short ribs, 6.sS; do clear, $50. Buttsr-Firmer;
choice to fancy crevmeries, ss939; choice to
| fancy dairies, 21SSo. Egss-Quiet; =. whis-
| key-Steady and unchanged Corn TO Brffa
10, Sic, Reciepss=-Flour. - 600: wheat. $4,000;
corn, $500; oats $4,000; rye, $1,000; barley,
| Ioi, 900 Shipments-Flour, II, 900; wheat, 5000;
corn Ioi 900: oats. 100 900; rye GOoo; barlsy S.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-11-23
Sitting Bown on Keller.

New YORK. Nov. 20-The Hen
Erickson, n j., Republican will con.
tain an interview with VIM. Walter
Phelps, membere to the next con-
gress in which he gives expression TO
a general wish among the republican
members of the next house that ex
Speaker Keifer should refuse to be
candidate for the empty honor of re-
nominotion. 1t seems that Phelps has
written to Keifer at the suggestion of
members of different parts Of the
country, some Of whom have served
before and others who enter
congress for the first time.
They believe that their party will
be strengthened by taking new de-
parture, and that the house Of repre-
sentatives is the best place to begin
the new movement in the selection OF
new names for the old positions He
said the reason why Phelps was Sc
lected to carry on this correspondence
was because he is not personally ac-
quainted with the ex-speaker, and be
ing New Jersey republican he has
not been involved in any et
the factional quarrels of the party.
He is therefore acceptable both 10 the
stalwarts and half-breeds. In this in
terview Phelps expresses the opinion
that the ex-speaker having the vel
fare of ths republican party at heart,
will not fail to recognize it, and its
future success depends on united ac-
ton, which can only be obtainoa by
mutual, full and friendly concessions
and the avoidance of any action that
will tend to keep up the disagreements
of the past two or three years.
Phelps in the name of the party
and the country appealed to Keifer TO
announce to his friends that he would
not accept a denomination. He felt
sure Keifer's example will be followed
by the sergeant-at-arms and other
officers of the last house. Keifers
reply is not yet to hand.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-11-23
DEFENDING HER NAME.
Duel, between French Noblemen about
Mrs. Frank Leslie.

The London Globe reports the fol-
lowing: "A little piece of informa-
ton, though not important in itself,
may prevent some errors in the ac-
count of an incident that is sure to
find its way into English papers. On
Tuerday morning the Marquis de Leu
vile, whose name had occasion to
mention last week, fought duel on
the Belgian frontier with a nobleman
who was supposed to be Lord Antile-
sey. The Marquis de LeuvilleS real
adversary was Count Almensegg, well
known in Paris and London society,
and an aSsiduouS frequenter of the
German baths, where high play pre-
walls in private, if not in public
Whatever may be stated to the CON
trary, the quarrel that led to an en-
counter was not political one, though
both parties would wish it to appear
SO. 1t arose from the name of fair
American being taken in vain by
Count Almeusegg. The combatants
met near the Bel lgian town of Furnes.
The Marquis seconds were NM. Rod
ocanachi and Navassour; the Counts
were two Englishmen, Messrs. How
ard and Vaughn. Aftersome splendid
fencing on both sides, NJ. de Leuvllle
wounded his opponent in the arm.
The latter was conveyed to Furnes to
an inn that bears the unmiStakable
English sign of 'Ye Red Rose, and
shows still traces of the architecture
that obtained in the days of York and
Lancaster wars. The former proceed
ed to Boulogne whence he crossed
over to England The Marquis de
LeuvIlle is an Anglo-Frenchman, and
one of the best known all over the
world. He was to have married Mrs.
Frank Leslie. The match has been
broken off solely on the score of re-
l.gious differences. NJ. de Leuville
secedes to the Roman Catholic Church
while Mrs Leslie remains Presby-
terian. Whatever else the chron-
iquers of tomorrow may tell about
the matter is incorrect"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-11-23
Tells Who o'DonnelI Was

ROCHESTER,, n. Y, Nov. 20. The
Post Express publishes letter from y
man who says he knew O'Donnell,
soon to be tried in London, FIR the
killing of Carey. He says: ODon-
nell was one of the caiefs of the
Mollie Maguires, of Pennsylvania,
and that he in conjunction with Dan
Kelly, Jim Carroll and Red Shirt"
was in several Jobs" Three of his
confederates were hanged. ODon
nell, who formerly called himself
Thomas Moran, is the only one alive