Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-09-12
GLE NINGS.

Coons have been ravaging the
chicken coops and corn-felds in
Lolland and Fairfield couaties,
CT. A number of econ hunts have
been organized by tne farmers in that
section.
A French Canadian gentleman
claims that of the 100000 Roman
Catholics in the United States, be-
tween 100000 and 100000 are
French Canadians and their children.
At Aurora, Ind, a chicken, about
half grown, swallowed a honey be-
For ten minutes the poor fowl flew
about the dooryard in a frantic man
ner. 1t squatted upon the ground,
turned over, and died.
The rarefied air of the mountains by
which the mining town of Leadvllle,
Co., is surrounded, can not be
breathed by cats Feline pets taken
there incontinently go into sue
ceSsion of fits which terminate in
death.
A girl foar years old, who has been
treated IN Washington City for three
years for a supposed catarrh in the
head, has been cured by the extraction
of two buttons from her nostrils.
The Lehigh Valley railroad shops
have turned out the largest and
strongest locomotive ever built in
Pennsy lvania. II is a six wheeler,
with 10 incn cylinders, and has been
christened Samson.
Baron Van Werth, of New Bruins
1ryInl- Il tho ool
of a local paper, his own body as a
subject for dIssect'oa to be given to
the medical student who will promise
to bury what he does not use of the
subject.
A Partisan MarchiOnesS has taken
service in a Marsellles hospital as a
nurse for the cholera victims. She is
pretty and young, dresses in plain
calico, and has been very useful She
is fulfilling VOW made during tn?
illness of one Of her children.
The Keystone watch case factory of
Philadelphia, in which George w.
Childs, of the Ledger, is a special
partner, turns out 500 watch cases
every day. As much as S.. 600 in gold
coin and 81, 600 IN silver bullion are
melted down every working day. This
establishment is the largest 81 the kind
, in the world.
Street Instructions in London are
not tolerated at all. Even drinking
fountains and letter boxes attached to
lamp posts are not allowed,
Old men who have kept meteorolo-
gical records say that more rain has
fallen in New York city in August
than during any August for forty
years.
Complaints are rife in all parts of
England of the difficulty Of selling
real estate, and this even ia the west,
where rents have been ceapa ratively
little affected by the hard times
The spelling book is creating great
havoc with religious and political
blgotry and superstition in France
At the close of the Second Empire,
fewer than 40 per cent. of the popula-
ton could read and write. Now rs
per cent. of the population practice
these useful accomplishments. The
40. 600 school-houses built in com
pliance with the recent law will still
further Diminish the remaining litter
acy.
The territory of Russian Siberia,
which is one and half times as large
as the United Safes, has belonged to
Russia three centuries, yet of the
1000 600 inhabitants nearly one-half
are Pagan. Paganism Is fostered by
the home Government. The Pagan
priests are allowed to collect and burn
the copies of the Bible with which
the missionaries supply the converts,
and no missionary may baDtize with
out the authority of the Pagan civil
authorities, who are allowed to do
most anything to drive Christianity
from the country.
The Boston Globe is working the
old gag of publishing a number pur-
porting to be printed 200 years hence.
The issue bears the title of the Won
ans Daily Globe, and seems TO be a
burlesque on the woman-s uf,.-o :, e
movement Most of the articlo- are
intended to show how, in 20.2, man
has become suoordInated to woman.
He is represented as attending 10 the
babies, dong the washing, sweeping
the sidewalks, making the beds,
screaming at the sight of mouse
and petltI oDing for the right of suf-
frage that has oeen taken from him.