Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-03-09
MISCELLANEOUS.


Colonel Bodine has resigned the
Csptaincy of the American rife team Of
1855.
a bonnet this season, in order to be
OF any account. must have five contrast
ing colors to correspond with the chang
ing colors on the face of the man who
foots the bill.
1t takes sixteen barrels of -four dsify
to furnish bread for the Soldiers Home
at Dayton, O.. and the hungry old vets
likewise get away with 1880 pounds Of
meat at three meals.-Detroit Free Press.
"A Plymouth. Comm man acct
dsntally voted his butter bill. the other
day, and on discovering his mistake,
was allowed to drop in his ballot; and
that ballot elected the representative in
that legislative district-HsU Haren
Register.
1t is sign Of ill-breeding in China
to mention the weather. unless as .
matter Of business. When . Chinamsn
is introduced to stranger and wants to
say something. he asks him if he doesn't
prefer spotted hogs to plain white
Boston Transcript.
"A Leavenworth (Kan.) woman,
nearly blind. cooked some gnnpowdsr in
. quantity Of oat meal. The whole
family died except boy, and he is so
full of the compound that his aunt won't
let him go near the fire for fear he'll 60
of.
A mad butcher was he Of Proyi-
dence when = delinquent and spitetul
customer, who owed q bill of sixty-two
dollars, paid in full in pennies. The coin
half TILED water bucket. and weighed
forty-seven pounds. -Proridence, (R. IL
Journal.
The outside of woman's bonnet
and the inside of . mans hat are the
richest in ornamentation. Perhaps the
same may be truly said of the outside
and inside of the heads of the two
sexes respectively-and perhaps not
Exchange.
In the Union Workhouse at Tx
bridge, England, are two veritable CEN
tenarians, both women. Mrs. Ann
Franklin was 100 years old on Novem-
Der /; Mrs. Ann Wood was 102 years old
last March. The former has lost all of
her faculties which were worth preserv-
ing, but the mental and physical vitality
Of the latter Is astonishing. She is,
moreover, an inveterate smoker, and the
authorities make no effort to control her
indulgence of that habit.
The great grave at Vienna in which
were buried the remains Of the 400 VIC
Tins Of the Ring Theater fire was visited
on All Saints day and the day following
by several hundred thousand persons
One of these was Mrs. Potter, Of GJtha,
whose son persisted in the fire and whose
only daughter has since died. On re-
turning to her hotel the poor woman,
overcome with grief and despair, shot
herself. The next day her body was laid
in the common grave containing the
ashes Of her son.
-Pickpockets at Canton. O., an
nounced in a crowded railway coach
that 81 persons wishing to stop at
certain point should take the coach next
in the rear. There was rush for seats
just as the shrewd thieves expected. In
the crush hundreds of dollars in cash
and countless watches were distracted
from the pockets Of the unsuspecting
travellers. And then the train went Of
without them, for the car into which
they had crowded was detached from the
train.
Our readers have heard Of Miss
Pinneo, of Greeley, Col, the graceful
and enduring lady equestrienne, whom
SO many thousands have applauded as
she rode her fifty-mile races. Some time
since she married one Baxter, q saloon
keeper of Topeka, Kan. and lately took
a dose of poison and died. Her life sp-
pears to have been q sad one. She did
not like the business of riding horses in
trials of speed and endurance, and
often sought to escape such severe tasks.
The report is, and it is generally credited.
that she rode races to obtain the money
to pay debts or make up losses incurred
by her father and brother in gambling,
and that the trouble which became q
part Of her life SO weighed her down that
she sought rest in the other world.-De-
trOit Free Press