Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-04-18
PERSONS AND THINGS.

Six of the leading railroads in the
northwest disposed of l, 137, SS7 acres
of land last year.
The orange crop of Florida will
net the producers about 81, 200, 900 this
year.
The area under cultivation in Ire
land is constantly diminis hing. The
decrease last year amounted to about
% per cent.
The Chicago live stock exchange
has resolved that there is no such dis
ease as contagious pleuro-pneumonia
in the United States, no foot-and-
mouth disease in Illinois, Iowa or
Kansas, and that at no time within
twenty years have the cattle, hogs
and sheep of this cou2try been SO
healthy as now.
When the people of the United
States were pinched by cold, Queens
land papers were publishing accounts
of the condition of affairs which
should do much to reconcile the
and losses incident to his occupation.
The Queenslander of Jan. 5, says:
Everywhere the poor cattle and
horses are in great straits for want of
grass and herbage, and water fit to
drink.
The Indians in Oregon hold that it
is violati on of their religion to deal
in land; that the Great Chief made
them from the dust of the earth, and
off lo,o1
certain length of time they returned
to its bosom and again became part of
the elements of the earth. Dealing in
land they regard as dealing in their
own flesh and blood.
The Oldest horse in the country is
supposed to be owned at Hartford,
Conn. This industrious animal,
which was purchased by railroad
company twenty-nine years ago, had
served for five years in front of a milk
wagon in Bloomfield, Conn.,, and
must, therefore, be now at least thirty
five years old. His unromantic duty
has been to furnish motive power to a
wood saw, and he still labors occasion
ally in the tread mill.
Prince Napolean's sneer at the Or
leans princess ~ have not the gold
of the Orleans princess; am proud,
of it'-has recoiled on himself. Sew
eral newspapers remind him that dur
ing the empire he received 37,078, 900
francs, besides 4,952,OO for fitting up
the Paiais Royal and Meudon. NJ. de
Lavedan remarks that France had
nothing in return but the questiona-
BILE part taken by the prince in the
Crimea, Italy, and the war of 1870.
The profits of the Fisheries Exhibi-
ton of London are to be disposed of
as follows: Ten Thousand pounds are
to be invested for the assistance of
widows and orphans of fishermen,
the probable nucleus of Fisherman's
Accidental Death Insurance AssGcia-
ton, and f3, is to go to found a
Royal Fisheries Society on the lines
of the Royal Agricultural Society
A balance of f2, 900 remains in hand.
The Dshebel Naibo, an isolated
mountain in Algeria, 800 feet high, IS
slowly sinking into the earth, AL
ready there is a deep hollow around
its foot. This district of Bona has
once before witnessed a similar proof
of the instability of the earth's crust
The Lake Fezzara did not exist in the
time of the Romans, but on the con
trary the site was occupied by town
whose ruins have been found at the
bottom of the lake.
At the annual meeting of the trus-
tees of the Boston Five Cent Savings
Bank, few days ago, the treasurer
reported gain of 5000 depositors and
of 1891, 1854 in deposits 1.-THE year.
The number of depositors during the
year was 6S, ,432, and the amount of
deposits S3,304, 170.60 while $780,
449. 16 had been paid to AZ, 100 deposit
ors.
The native magistrates, or mudirs
as they are called, in Egypt are not
intelligent. The following incidents
regarding two CT them are character
istic of the whole: At two miles dis
tance from a large town a man was
murdered. The mudir, having been
informed of the occurrence, remark
ed: This man probably killed him
self in order to get me into trouble.
At all events, he cannot expect pro-
lection if living in SO isolated situa
ton. Therefore destroy his house,"
and the order was execueed. The
province of another mudir was visited
by the cattle plague. He himself lost
twelve beasts. But he forbade the
giving of information to the govern
ment. The disease has since then
devastated the province, the disaster
meaning ruin to the inhabitants.
Geo. Sumpter, of Georgia, had just
finished a cyclone pit in his back yard
when black and angry cloud arose
in the west. He hustled his family
into the pit and closed the trap doors.
They went to bed and slept in per
feet security, although the storm rag
ed furiously, but when they got up in
the morning the doors were found to
be swollen so that they could not be
opened from the inside at all The
neighbors had TO come and dig the
family out.
Harry Edwards, of Hudson, KY,
cut down a large tree that had been
standing in an open field on his farm
for nearly seventy years. The fall
caused it to split open near the top. A
few inches from the heart of the tree,
and seventy-two feet from the ground,
was found a pen-knife embedded in
the solid wood. The large blade was
intact, but the others had evidently
been broken off before getting into
the tree. The bone handles have been
entirely absorbed, the steel blades and
brass rivets alone remaining.
President Lincoln's largest profes
sional fee was one of IS, 900, paid him
for twice arguing the case OF the
county of Mclean against the Illinois
Central Railroad company. The
opinion of the court sustained his
view of the case, holding that the
provision In the charter of the com
pany by which its property was ex.
empted from taxation on the payment
of certain portion of its earn ngs
was constitutional. The Central Rail
road company owned nearly 1000, ,0o0
acres of land which had been granted
to it by congress, and the road passed
through twenty-six counties, so that,
had the decision been adverse to the
company, $500, 900 put at interest
would scarcely have paid the taxa
ton.
Cutting Arthur's Corner.
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