Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-08-15
GLEANINGS.

llOI III ahIVII Mans AS @GA~ASt'
Quarantine regulations in Italy are
remarkably strict, and life is made
very unhappy In that country fol
tourists and travellers.
Snow fell on the 9th instant upor
the mountains in the Upper Yellow
stone valley, sufficiently deep to white1
the highest peaks.
Women in BrooklyR have followed
those of Boston in adopting peculiar
whistle with which they intend to sig
nal street cars to stop.
All accounts agree that the fashion
able season in London has been very
dull, and among those who complain
the tradesmen are the loudest.
| Of the 100 largest cities IN the Unit
ed States, standard time has been
adopted by seventy eight of them. The
threo nota BILE ones that continue with,
out it are Cincinnati, Cleveland and
| Detroit.
One hundred and twenty acres OF
| the Potomac flats have been reclaimed.
1t is expected the marshes south asd
west of the white house will be con
verted ere long into splendid park OF
500 acres.
A regulation is in force at the
Hague by which every one in whose
house an infectious disease exists is
bound to hal ''con the front door a
notice to that T. ct, ana to state the
nature of the ma1ady, so that any one
whose business takes him to the house
may risk the danger or not as he
thinks fit.
Of the native population of Texas,
SO per cent. is of southern and the re
mainder of northern extraction. Or
the people who have settled in that
state, New England has contributed
4, 4,064, the rest of the country north OF
the Ohio river 60,305, and the older
southern states have furnished 556,
397.
The subjoined figures were given
bv Paris journal as showing the
money spent since 1877 i'll the pur-
chase of pictures from the Salon by
American dealers. They are said to
have been received at the United
States Legislature: In 1877, S7O1 900 ;
1873 $500, 900; 1879 ST., ,e5l, 900; 1850,
81 1872, 900; 1881. 81 66s, 900; 1882,
81, 997, 600; 1888, s1,754,O00.
Chinese" Gordon entertains re-
markable religious beliefs. One is
that Adam and Eve were actually
poisoned by the forbidden fruit, and
the only antidote for the continuing
effects of the poison is the sacrament
of the altar. Another is that ne be
lieves the center of the kingdom of
Satan to be 'close to Bass Isle, south
of Otaheite, not far from Pltcalrn's S
Isle.
Gibraltar having been included by
Spain in the recent order to enfore
quarantine on all English arrivals,
the authorities at Gibraltar, by way
of reprisals, have expelled from with
in the lines all Spanlards who did not
possess annual licenses. The number
thus expelled is variously estimated
at from 1900 to 5000. They are
principally laborers, and nearly all of
them are in destitute condition.
Edison, the inventor, has made the
following prediction: ''As to the
changes which will be effected by
electricity within so years in the city
of New York, | would say that be-
lieve electricity will propel the cars
on the street and elevated roads, light
the city within and without its build
ings, furnish power for all purposes,
work telephones and burglar alarms,
deliver the opera, convey parcels, de-
tect and signal fires, operate fire en-
gines. and possibly displace animal
locomotion for vehicles.
They say that no one ever dies in
Nantucket; they simply dry up. we
liant the other day The boy next
to me is 90; l am 50; the boy on the
other side of me Is Sc, and the young
est sitting beyond is the baby, being
only 10" Then they all began to dis
cuss what they would do during the
next ten years.
The ancient Holmes mansion on
Holmes place. Cambridge, Mass,
which was built many years before
headquarters of General Ward in 1175.
and later the residence of Rev Abiel
Holmes, his son, Oliver Wendell
Holmes, being born there, has been
sold, and is now being removed to a
lot on Murray street, in the same
city.
Prof. Austin Phelps, d. D., says
that death is to all minds alike dread,
appalling presence, from It's first con
ception till life's close Say what men
may of it, all men fear it. He declar-
es that the most devout christian and
the most sensuous skeptic recoil from
it, resist it, put it out of sight, strug-
gle to forget it to the last. "It is the
one overwhelming terror of every hui
man life"
The historic Long Bridge" across
the Potomac at Washington is doom
ed. The government engineers con-
ducting the improvement of the river
| front say that the bridge is in the way
of successful continuation OF their
work, and that it must be removed
and give place to structure of wider
spans Its removal is also necessary
to prevent a repetition of the disas-
trous river flood of the past.
A most remarkable show was recent
ly held III Austria 1t was an exhibit
ton of noses. Eighty persons compel
ing for TIE prize offered for the most
extraordinary nasal protuberance in
form, size and color The jury decid
ed tha: only three out of the whole
could be admitted as competitors for
the prize. 1t was finally aajudged to
a competitor from Vienna, who is the
proud and happy possessor of what is
said to be a gigantic nose of deep VIC
let blue.
The pioneers celebration in Bis
marck Grove, Kansas, IN September,
is intended to celebrate the thirtieth
anniversary of the settlement of the
state. The State Historical Society
will take part, and the Hon. f. P
Baker, its president, will deliver an
address on the uses and value OF such
societies. The meeting is intended to
be a general gathering of the early
settlers of Kansas. and the surviy NJ
territorial governors, the eight state
governors, all of whom are now liv.
ing, and many other distinguished
persons have been invited to be pres.
ent
The Londox International Health
Exhibition is designed TO show spec
tators how disease can be prevented.
and ought To he productive of much