Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-07-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

south Carolina has ladies' society
with the restoration of Mount Vernon
to its former condition, for its mission.
The Bench Show having had its
day in New York, it is now proposed te
get up Dude Circus, with prize Of
five hundred corsets for the one with
the most parabolic back. N. T.
Graphic.
-Genesee Valley, N. Y, once cele.
brated for the quantity and quality Of
its wheat products, seems to be under
laid throughout by vast bed of salt,
much of it not over five hundred feet
below the surface.
"A Delaware boy recently lost one
of his feet in consequence of wearing
tight shoes. These produced assesses,
which gradually ate up the bones OF
the foot, so that surgeons were obliged
to amputate tn T. Sun.
The law of New Jersey requires
railroad companies to make a return to
the State of all fatalities that occur on
their lines. During the thirteen years
between 1869 and 1882 there were l.
902. 1t is probable the fatal accidents
in other States reach no smaller pro-
portions, SO that the aggregate of sta
tistics would be appalling, though little
attention is paid to the factors as they
occur from time to time. Philadelphia
Press.
Near Rome, Ga, is about an acre
of the evergreen known as the Pente-
verian, or Aqueous tree. 1t is pecu-
liarity of the tree that whenever its
body is touched by the human hand or
body in the summer season or in warm
weather, simultaneously with that
touch a shower of water falls from the
leaves, which continues to fall as long
as the human and vegetable contact
continues. atlanta Constitution.
When western editor visits vii
lagos in his neighborhood, he is wise
enough to speak of each particular
town as ''the coming metropolis" The
inhabitants, of course, lay that fatter-
ing JUNCTION to their souls, and forth
with each citizen exclaims: '.Send me
a dozen copies of your valuable paper. "
Of such is the strategy of western
journalism.-N Y Commercial AdUer-
User.
Mr.. Gould, like every poor man,
can afford the luxury of joking. A
newspaper reporter went to him the 9TH
er day and asked if the report was true
that he had given Tiffany a 100000
contract to decorate the interior of his
residence, to which Mr.. Gould replied
that the amount was incorrectly stated.
1T should have been $3,000.000, he
said. Then the reporter asked him as
to the truth of some absurd rumors
about what he was going to take with
him in his yacht cruise around the
world. Il have decided" replied the
great monopolist, :" to take nothing
with me but the Brooklyn bridge"
The daughter of German Baron
committed suicide in New York, re-
Gently, driven to that course by destitu-
ton. She had been cast off by her father
for having married against his will.
After the death of her husband, which
occurred in a few months, she fitted
herself as nurse and physician by tax
ing course construction in the Royal
Medical College, of Saxony. She then
came to this country, but though she
was an unusually intelligent and accom-
plished woman she failed to find enough
employment to keep her from want, and
at last took her life in despair.-N. Y,
Tribune.
"A bridegroom, alighting at the
house of his intended bride in the Rue
St. Denis in Paris, few days since,
was struck by bullet fired from a re-
volver, and fell bleeding to the ground.
Before the would-be murderer could be
seized he had swallowed prussic acid,
and in two or three minutes expired.
He proves to be the uncle of the bride,
man of about seyenty-five. A letter
was found upon him stating that he
loathed the man chosen by his niece,
and had therefore killed him. The
bridegroom, whose wounds were seri-
Gus, was carried into the house where
the wedding party were ready to start
for Marie