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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-05-30

from whom it descended to him-this
third little boy, the afterglow Of
whose more than auburn HAIR came
from some ancestor whose sun had
set before my day, was the embryo
orator whose voice was so recently
silsnced-Wendell Phillips.
These were the young companions
and the lifelong friends of him over
whom the grass is not yet green. Who
was there among us worth knowing
whom he did not kpowi Who that
knew Boston on It's higher levels did
not know him2
We are not thinking of pleasant
books in which his always active
mind and happy nature show them
selves IN every page. We are not
thinking of him in his relation to art
and artists, though he gave so much
of his time and thought and money
to these. 1t is as living presence in
this Boston air which we breath-ln
the bright saloon, under the elms of
the common, amidst the flower beds
of the public garden, in the noisy
street, the silent library, the memory
haunted picture gallery-everywhere,
he comes before us. No man, no man
of his generation certainly. pervaded
the social atmosphere of this breezy
center of life so completely. He was
the favorite guest of every banquet.
A day whithered its flowers, but age
could not wither him. The sparkle
left.
THE foaming grape OF Eastern France"
but his wit bubbled up inexhauStlble.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-05-30

with me to my surgery in the Piazza
di Spagna-I am accustomed to have
such burdens brought to me at the
dead of highland Ill dissect her
By which | mean that in less than
twelve hours no recognizable trace
will remain of your deceased relative
if relative she be-"
The victim was evidently stone
dead. After long consultation, the
masked men acceded to the PROPOSE
ton of the doctor, who appeared to
have become so completely their &C
complete, and who accepted, with
many protestations of thanks. large
purse of gold sequins. Again he sub
mitted to have his eyes bandaged, and
again he was conducted to the coach
in waiting below: but something else
accompanied the party, and was placed
on the seat beside the doctor. That
something else was the body, rolled
up in many thicknesses of white
linen, of the lady who had been bled
to death! The carriage made route
as circuitous as before to the Piazzi di
Spagna; but 1t wss then, at DR.. Mac
brides request, driven round to the
entrance of the narrow lane behind
the Palazzo Carminali. Then the
burden wrapped in white linen was
carried by the doctor, and the taller
of the masked men by the back door
into the dissecting room, and laid like
stone on the table. The doctor no
ticed that his fellow bearer was trem-
bling violently, and he had evidently
had enough of horrors for that night
Three months afterward DR..
Eneas Macbride returned to Edrn-
burgh. bringing with him his wife, 4
lady of noble Roman family. Pope
Benedict XIV, the enlightened and
humane Lambretini, and had much
to do with bringing about the union
of the handsome young lady with
81 Dottore Enea Macbride, ScoZzese.
He had Informed the young lady's
brothers, Don Rafaelle and Don An
tonic Cordiscogllo, Counts of that
ilk, that if they did not consent to
the match and pay over a very large
fine to the Apostolic Chamber they
should be prosecuted to the utmost
rigor of the law for having basely at
tempted to murder their sister by
causing her, as they thought, to have
the veins of her ankles opened. Of
course they never had been opened.
DR.. Eneas Macbrioe, while pretend
ing to execute the dreadful behests of
Don Rafaelle and Don Antouio Cor
discoglio, had first administered to
her potion which speedily reduced
her to complete insenslbility, and had
skillfully mingled with the warm
wafer in which the feet of the patient
were immersed the contents of the
packet of cochineal which he had
purchased at the farmacia Panciarotto.
The poor girls only offense had been
that she had lmpruaently, and i'll
mere gillish folly, encouraged for a
short time the addresses of young
man much her inferior in rank; but
by her naughty and vindictive broth
erS this transient Irritation was esteem
ed crime which her death alone
could eApiate. How fortunate it was
that DR.. Eneas Macbride was so
much addicted to making anatomical
preparations" necCssitating the use
OF cochineal for their perfection! |
fancy, however, that after his mar
riage he ceased to dIssect small dead
hands, and consoled himself with
covering small live ones with kisses.
Bow Bells.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-05-30
VANDERBILPS STRONG BOX.
a Vault That Holds S2eO, 100000.
BY John Swinton.

Istood the other day in the vault of
the formidable fortress of iron and
masonary on Forty-second street,
where last year the richest nabob in
the world locked up his 5000, 900 900
in stocks, bonds and other securities.
1t is one of the the most redoubta5le
works of defense on the American
continent, though you may not be
entirely certain of that by surveying
the building from the outside. Its
foundations were blasted out of the
rock; the front wall is five feet in
thickness, and the side and rear walls
are three feet, the materials used
being press ed brick with brown stone
trimmings. The beams, girdcrs and
main pillars are iron, incased in fire
proof material. The doors, window
frames, and minor partition are iron,
marble and glass. No wood is to be
found in the structure. The great
vault is 36x42 feet, of wrought iron,
steel and Franklinite iron, is impos-
ing in strength and proportions,
and is situated on the ground floor
Its four outer doors weigh $500
pOuuuS EACH, anu nave CNCIy SAOC1
tive and unknown improvement in
defensive device. 4 massive wall of
masonary surrounds the iron work.
The vault, which is burglar, fire and
water proof, constitutes a distinct
building in itself. The armed watch
men who guard the building day and
night are under the strlctest discipline,
their hourly movements being record
ed by an electric clock connecting
with various points on each floor of
the structure, and there are also wires
running to police headquarters and
the Office of the district telegraph.
In one corner of this great vault, be-
hind heavy iron bars, are the heavier
doors of the works containing the
Vanderbilt securities, which can be
opened emily by skeleton-keys held
by the owner alone. l suppose that
hundred men in this building, with
Calling guns could easily defend it
against a mob of 100000 assailants
it could be reduced by nothing less
than by the continued play of heavy
artillery.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-05-30
A Bird Country.
Nashville Amaricnn

The Guatemala, as the commence
ment of the narrowing land strip of
North America, accommodates with
homes a great many of the migratory
birds, and that such country, which,
IN its tropical climate on the coasts,
eternal spring in its middle elevation,
and cod atmosphere on the heights,
dotted by lakes and covered by net
work of rivers, rivulets, brooks and
breoklets, and blessed with fruits of
both hot and cold temperatures, and
has many creatures peculiarly itsown,
needs no expatiation. The birds, for
instance, encountered here are said to
represent 600 species. There are no
eagles, so to speak, but three kinds Of
hawks, the same number of buzzards,
or carbon crows, and six different
marauders at night. The sparrow
family is the dominant in the land,
for it numbers 410 species. The cali
ori, or humming- bird, is found in
thirty-six species. belonging to twenty
eight genera. In the parrot family
eight species are known as Auroras,
all of brilliant and and metallic
plumage. The quetzal, or quesal. the
most beautiful and striking of all the
Guatemala birds, and which stands on
top of the states escutcheon, forms
genus by itself 1t inhabits the high
est mountains, particularly in
Verapaz, but that relentless tyrant,
fashion, penetrates its craggy fastness,
butchers it numerically and orna-
msnts her silly person with the Dor
rowed plumage. Several hundred of
them are thus slaughtered every year.
o. the hooded parrots there are eight,
while the common ones, called loros,
are divided into fourteen species.
Among the songsters the pictorial, a
small black bird, living ON bananas,
plantains and similar fruits, and
resembling our catbiras, is considered
the finest, and called the nightingale
of the country. In the gallinaceous
order, one may mention the pav-jn, a
magnificent wild creature, quail in
makeup, turkey in size, and peasant
in color, with long, slightly curved
and round pointed bill and cre,t, con-
slsting of fine blue-plack and white
speckled feathers, of which the first is
five and the last is three inches In
length When caught quite young 1t
is easily tanned and con.ented in the
poultry yard, but in the first and sec
ond pairing season IS sure to steal
silently away into the wilderness.
The turkey Of the Cordilleras called
pavo de cacho, is peculiar to the high
est volcanic SUBMITS SIngularly.
the turkey of Peten is confined to that
region, and Is of distant species. OF
partridges and qaails there are seven,
and of pigeons seventeen species. not
counting the sea-pigeoss, wadcrs, as
the heron, crane, shitepoke. sandpiper,
snipe, woodcock, curley, wigeon, and
rail or water-hen, are belieTed to have
more than $50 species. There Is also
. variety among the web-footed bird
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-05-30
Value ofPouItry Manure.
New York Times.

What is the value of poultry man
ure2 This question is often asked l
can very justly say the manure is
worth quite as much as the food con
sumed by the fowls. From flock of
twenty-five hens last summer and
forty-four through the winter, | have
gathered sixteen barrels of manure
Most of this l put on small vege-
table garden in sandy spot from
which the top soil was dug away
three years ago five feet deep. The
soil was very sandy and light in color.
AS it lay in front of the chicken-yard
most of the manure has been put on
this sandy spot and dug in quiet
deeply. The soil for foot in depth
IS now as dark as a western prairie
soil, and rich, deep brown in color.
A few rows of Strawberries were
covered with the fresh poultry man
ure in the winter. Neighbors said it
would kill the strawberry plants
dead as dead" They are not dead,
however, but stand up with an
extraordinary growth, and to-day
(April 2S) I find one plant in blossom,
and nearly every plant in the rows
ready to burst into bloom The effect
over COW and calf manure is very
great. | find this manure also to be
grand for onions. For potatoes it is
not good, as it encourages scab in a
most remarkable degree, lich is be-
cause the wire worms harbor in it so
numerously. Or do the fowls pick up
the wire worms and void the eggs of
them undigested in the droppings,
and to spread this pest' Who can
tell?
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-05-30
A=rfc ultural Items.

Glass eggs are the best for nest
eggs.
The cheese production of Canada is
increasing.
Two American colleges have fores-
try departments.
japanese farmers cultivate allcrops
with a large chisel.
Nearly one-half the butter sold in
New York is an imitation.
An ear of corn containing LOO
well-matured grains was grown in the
Crosse Tete, Louisiana.
The widest colts, if properly han
died, often become the quietest and
safest, generally developing into the
most enduring horses.
Farmers should not be prevented
from planting their usual acreage of
potatoes by the large crop and conse-
quent low prices of last year.
Every farm should have root crop
as part of a rotation. A root crop
cleans the land OF weeds and fur
nlshes an abundance of food for farm
animals.
The Chinese farmer soaSs all his
seed before sowing in liquid manure
diluted with water. 4 correspondent
says egg plant, squash and melon
seed may be thus treated to great ad-
vantage.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-05-30
Thomas Gold Appleton.


A little more than sixty years ago
if one could have looked in at the
garden or climbed up to the garnet of
No. Walnut street ne might have
seen three boys, in NANTES and doabt-
let's and other stage appurtenances,
enacting the scenes of some truculent
melodrama. One of these boys was
our vivacious and inventive friend,
who must, l think, have been stage
manager and chief costumer. The
second was boy of striking beauty,
with dark waving locks, who, as a
prince or a poet, or with an inky
cloak and suit of solemn black, as q
youthful Hamlet, would have seemed
the very ideal OF his part. This was
the future historian whose name Is
known and honored in all the acade-
mics of the world, whose books are
read in all the most widely spoken
tongues of Europe-John Lathrop
Mothley. The third little boy, with
the singular silvery thrill in his voice
Il remember it well in the mother
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-05-30
FOR THE FARMER.
Raising Oaks.

A western writer advises people who
desire to raise oaks that they must be
careful in selecting species that will
grow to large trees and make good
timber, for there are many dwarf
species that Will never make trees, no
matter how much care is bestowed
upon them. The white oaks are, also,
as rule. preferable to the black or
red oaks, as the timber is tougher
and more valuable Some of the
white oaks, common to the Pacific
slope, extend as far eastward as
Dakota; =. SO, they are the trees you
want. The acorDs should be gathered
as soon as ripe, or as they fall from
the trees. After being dried for few
hours three or four days will not ia
jure them), they may be planted and
covered with little very light. loose
soil, or half decomposed leaves from
the woods. But when sown in the
fall there is danger of loss from the
visits of squirrels or mice. and for
this reason the safest plan Is to mix
sand with the acorns and keep them
in boxes or barrels until the follow
ing spring, and then SOW in shallow
drills and cover lightly with fine soil.
The barrels or boxes containing the
acorns should be placed in as cool a
position as possible, to prevent sprout-
ing. The north side of some building,
or in the shade of evergreen trees,
will usually answer, and If the acorns
can be kept frozen all winter, so much
the better. They should not be al
lowed to become so dry that they will
shrivel, or SO wet as to become water
soaked Just fairly moist is the
proper condition. The acorns may
be sown in drills quite thickly and
the young plants kept free of weeds
during the summer. The seedlings
may be transplanted when one year
old, and then transplanted into
nursery rows, where they should re-
main until they are four to six feet
high, at which time they may be re-
moved and set cut to grow up into a
forest.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-05-30

An exciting incident is reported by
the Georgetown Roy Gazette British
Guinea. 1t appears that Messrs.
Greaves and Wookey, two overseers
of plantation on the east coast, took
a trip into the interior with a black
man as their guide, a couple of dogs,
and being we'll armed with rifles, etc ,
started out on the 10th of March.
They had capital sport for two days,
shooting birds of various sizes and a
deer, which they made many good
meal from: At night they camped
out in hammocks slung to trees, with
a fire burning to keep away any in
sects from them with which TIE inte-
rior abounds, and also in case of
emergencies. On the third night,
soon after turning into their ham
mocks, and doing off, they were star
tied by fearful roar, and they imme-
diately saw a tiger ready to spring.
Greaves, who was nearest, kept his
eve fixed on the brute, and crept out
of his hammock with his rifle and
knelt down. When the animal was
about 10 spring, he fired. The rifle
cap snapped, and in an instant the
tiger had thrown GreaveS hat.
Wookey, VINO had in the meantime
crept out of his hammock few yards
distant from Greaves. seeing the fear
full position his friend was placed in,
fired at the brute, and hit him just
behind the shoulder, shooting him
dead What with excitement, smoke,
ETC., he did not know if he had shot
the tiger, but was much relieved IN
seeing Groayes creep out, besm' ared
with blood, and found that he was not
injured save a few scratches and torn
clothes. The guide who had, for
some reason best known TO himself,
gone a short distance away, was much
startled at finding his buckras in such
a trim, and when they had settled
themselves and got Greaves all
square, which he very soon was after
a schnappe, they examined their vic
tim, and found him to be fine specl-
men. 1t is needless to say that Messrs
Greaves and Wookey cut short their
trip, and were thankful to reach home
safe and sound with tier prize after
such a narrow squeak.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-05-30
Trueness of Breeding.
london Live Stock Jougnal.

The property for which wool is per-
h4ps more valued is trueness of breed
ing In true bred sheep each staple
a grous of fibefs naturally forms it
self-will be of equal growth through
out. The fiber will be the same
thickness as nearl y as possible the
whole length, or will be finer at the
point, than at the root There will
be no shaggy, rough wool in 1t; but if
the sheep be ross-breed, or i'll kept
and exposed to storms, the fiber will
be rough at the points and coarser at
the roots, the reason of this being
that as the wool gets longer, or as it
is more exposed to bad weather and
hard treatment, nature makes it
stronger TO resist what it has to en-
counter, while the part which is next
to the skin remains fine TO give great
er warmth. Such wool, even when
combed and spun into yarn, never
lies smooth and evenly as true bred
wool, and is consequently not of as
much value. There is another sort
of wool which farmers do not seem
to understand, and writer's on the
SUBJECT often ignore, but which is
found more or less on all cross bred
sheep and on sheep which are too
much exposed and fed on hilly dis
tricts. This is known as kemp" or
dead hairs. These kemps vary in
length and coarseness according to the
breed of sheep. In white highland
they are about two inches long and
vary; in cross bred Australian they
are very short. In the former they
cover the under side of the fleece; in
the latter they are so few as not to be
of any Importance. They are, how
ever, all alike in this, that they are
brilliant, shining white, except on
sheep with grey wool, when they may
be black, and they will not dye the
same color AS the rest of the wool.
They consequently deprec;ate the
value of the wool greatly, making it
only suitable for low goods.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-05-30

The ozcs lovely village of New
Hampton, Orange county, n T.,
has been ruined By the turning OF the
Waikiki river from Its natural course
The channel was changed to prevent
the overflow of land above New
Hampton during the freshets. The
change has not only ruined the bust.
ness of the village, but the malarial
influence of the stagnant pools IN the
old river bed has prsstrated nearly the
entire population with fever The
legislature has been appealed 70 IN
vain, and the village has anything
but an encouraging future before It
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-05-30

Mr.. I. G. Plant, a Macon banker,
true to his name, has solved the prob
lem of utilizing the swamp lands oil
his section of Georgia by setting out
80, 900 willow cuttings on twenty
eight acres, the product of which for
ten years to come was contracted 70,
by a manufacturer of New York City
The willow farm is one of the new in
dustries of the south.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-05-30
NNN
Fink Hill. Mo.

The manufacture of needles and
pins is one of the most lourishing in
dustries in Germany The eight man
ufactories OF IScrlchn alone consumed
in 1882 no less than coo tons of wire
and gave employment to G, 500 opera
tiveS
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-05-30
SOUNDS OF A SPRING EVENING.
ny WIN. J. FoyE.

BY WIN j. FoYE-
A smell Of budding leaves and showers.
A yellow haze round distant towers,
Pale lights across I ne long, dim held
The brown hedge full of rain-drops gloWs,
The alder's powdery tassel shows
Beneath the new moons silver shield.
The stream flows gently in the brakes;
No shepherd here his soft pipe wakes
The ear Of rustic maid TO p ease,
Teo faint the breeZes are to blow
The airy reeds, or make the low,
Sweet music in the willow trees.
Long since the last faint liquid note
Died in the blue bird 3 dewy throat,
And yet across the bare field SWEEPS
Pure melody as fine and clear
As June WOODS know with rivers near,
And poplars rustling in their deeps
II Is the feet Of coming flowers,
The far-uH dance of summer hours,
The distant trumpets o. the bees,
That lead TO piping light, and greet
The golden armies of the wheat,
To take with Joy the waiting leas
Or Whgn all ether sounds are mute,
DO the sweet echseS Of Toms flute
Awake, and Ger the still field play,
Till answer thrills from bud and nest,
And under April's silent breast
Throb the quick heart-beats OF the May
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-05-30

Contrary TO precedent, the reports
of the Delaware peach crop are the
most encouraging for the time of year.
Il IS estimated that no less than 6, 600, :
600 baskets viii be shipped this year
rom the Delaware and Maryland
peninsulas- The berry crop will also
be the largest ever known in that sec
ton
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-05-30

Whea you visit or leave New York city, save
baggage, expressage and carriage hire, and stop
at the GRAND UNION HOTEL, opposite Grand
Central depot; $50 elegant rooms, fitted ny at a
cost OF one million dollars, reduced to 81 and up
taurant supplied with the best Horse cars
stages and elevated railroads to all depots. Fam.
lies can live better for less money at the Grand
Union Hotel than at any other first-class hotel in
the city.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-05-30

A number of English and Scotch
capitalists have bought rs 600 acres OF
mineral lands near Chattanooga,
Tennessee, and will soon begin the
erection of blast furnaces on the tract
with a capacity of $50 tons.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-05-30

Vessels of the Austrian LloydS, al
though engaged in commerce, are
closely connected with the imperial
marine, figuring in its reserve as
transports, dispatch vessels and light
armed cruisers. The officers all wear
uniforms.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-05-30

The bicyclers of England number
hundreds of thousands. sustain
dozens of newspapers and 500 manu-,
featuring firms, and are to have a
road from London to Brighton all tc
themselves
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-05-30
when Preaching Night Aner Night

rR. c. u. WARMER: Desr Sir-IaSt White
| was very muck troubled with my throat
especially when preaching night after night
received the bottle of White Wine Of Tar Syru
you so kindly sent me, and am glad to say was
much benefited by its use. and l regard il s
most excellent medicine for the throat and lungs
Respectfully,
Pink HILL Mo Rev W + WlccNER
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-05-30
Capital. Liabilities.
s $4,000 $4,000. 0o0
Grant & WAri

The Cape Ann Advertiser is author
ity for the statems mt that during the
past eight months 261 men belonging
tc tbs port of Gloucester, Mass, have
been lost at sea, leaving a widows
and IA orphans.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-05-30

A Baptist lady in Texas devotes TO
the Lords cause all the eggs laid
by her hens on Sunday This looks
like an encouragement of Sabbath
dissertation.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-05-30

In five of the southern counties of
Alabama there are large forests of
pine suitable for lumber, but it is in
accessible, because there are no rail
roads or navigable rivers in that part
of the country