Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-11-16

merclal travellers never visit 1t until |
after dark
mo, my daughter didn't do moth |
ing at the exhibition; she amt much
of scholar, you know; but every |
body said she was the best dressed
girl in her class"
A mutf is defined as "a thing which
holds a girls hand and don't squeeze
it." Correct: and any fellow is "a
muff' who will hold a girls hand with
out squeezing it.
DO you love me very much, AL
fred2" asked Boston wife. Bunker
Hill Monument may fall, but not my
love. Then when you SO by the mar
ket, don't forget the beans =
A pretty woman III hardware store
announced that she wanted masher,
when all the clerks made rush to-
ward her, but retired demolished when
she added "a potato masher."
One of the most trying moments in
a mans life is when he is getting his
picture taken to send to his best girl,
and is Just assuming his most angelic
expression, and fly ahghts on his
nose.
At recent wedding in this city, the
six ushers were chosen from rejected
suitors of the bride 1t was grateful
act to give the unsuccessful suitors
an opportunity to witness the life pun
ishment inflicted upon their successful
rival.
A number of society ladies have de-
o,lol +lo+ 10 too
much exertion, and have abandoned
that game.
A Syracuse young lady enjoys her
self by making her little brothers hap
py: and when her sweetheart calls she
sets him to work pulling tatfy for
| them.
A young lady being asked why she
I.a bod heep hoe T,vi ;"y;ted rep!ied u forgot
all about the party, and ate onions at
dinner"
4 woman applied for place as
street-car driver. Can you manage
mules2' asked an employer. Il should
smile" she said 'Tve had two hus-
| bands
Mrs. Clara Neymann, of New York
will address six woman suffrage meet
ings this month, under the auspices of
the Massachusetts, Woman Suffrage
Association.
A new method of making up
ladies faces will soon be in vogue, a
vein of natural paint having been dis
covered in the county of Westmore-
land, Penn.
A correspondent writes; "There
are ground squIrrels, ground mice,
ground hogs, etc, but | seee no men
ton in any of my books of ground
dog. Is there such an anlmal? In
quire at the sausage factory.
The minister who ties the connubial
knot gets fee varying from 81 to $50;
the lawyer who unties it charges from
500 to $500.
General James r. Cannahun, Ad-
jutant General of Indiana, addressed
a letter to the Secretary of War, pro-
posing anational encampment of state
troops to be held in Washington next
May.
The vote on the proposition to abol-
isk convict contract labor from the
New York State Prisons, with but a
few districts to hear from, gives ma
iority of 234, 976 in favor of the prop
osition.
Upon an affidavit for criminal con-
dsct towards his wife, Daniel B. Yer
milye petitions the Governor of Min
nesota to issue requistion upon Gov
! ITo,~,,i4@, - Tll,,aIc fa, Cat,
eral Myers.
Eighty thousand children IN the
North of England form the "Dickey
Bird Society" They are pledged to
protect birds. never to destroy nest,
and to feed birds in winter
Argument has been commenced in
the Supreme Court on the suit brought
by the heirs of the late Sarah Ann
Dorsey, of Louisiana, for the purpose
of setting aside the will by which Mrs.
Dorsey left her property to Jefferson
Davis. 1t is maintained that the tes-
tatrix was subject to undue influen,
ces.
James Gordon Bennett, Buffalo
Bill" Cody, Sir William McCormac,
WHO is Queen Victoria's doctor;
Tom" Sun, an old trapper; Capt,
Bogardus, the crack wing shot
"Boney" Earnest, the wealthy ranch.
man, of Rawlins, w. T., and DIR. Car.
yer the marksman. are about TO meet
in Chicago to go and hunt the wild
whangdoodle and the grizzly bear in
the Rockies.
Goliah's sword is on exhibition in
Prussia. The weapon Is ten yards
long, and when Mr.. Goliah attended
military ball and got his sword tan
gled up with his legs during a waltz
he must have felt terribly confused
but not more so than his partner. Go.
Ian and his sword were terrors In ar
unpleasantness. He would watch hi.
opportunity, and when he saw fifteer
men In a line ne would make terri
BILE lunge with his sword and impalt
the whole caboodle of 'em. Goliah il
dead now. His death was caused BY
rock without rye.
THE surrender of seventy-nins
Chiricahua Indians at Silver Greek
Ari. in accordanc with the terms
made with Cen Crook last May, vii
disturb the gentlemen who have al
along contended that Crooks expedi
ton into Mexico was a failure. Th'
report of the officer to whom tht
capitulation was made shows that al
of the missing Indians are now ac
counted for. Some are dead, The
Chief Juh being of the number; soms
have returned to American territory
by another route, and those otherwist
u l.
report to the United States authorities
The suicide of Mr.. Arthur B. John
son. the millionaire politician of Utica,
early In the week, fell like pail or
his many party associates IN all part
of the state. He was a sphlnx-ilkt
man of nerve and shrewdness, much