Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-09-05

At the national capital, few Gays
ago, workman attracted some at
tenlion as he was swung slowl y to the
top of the Washington Monument,
inspecting every JOINT III the 300 feet
of marble. He reported the column in
admira BILE condition, Notwithstanding
the recent earthquake.
The area of China proper measures
1,348, $40 square miles, being about
half the size of Europe, seven times
that of France, and fifteen times that
of Great Britain Each of the eighteen
provinces, therefore, is on an average
almsst as large as England. Though
not so densely pc9pled as at one time
supposed mistaken estimates having
been circulated by travellers who had
not penetrated the country away from
seaboard or river--lt is yet thlckly
populated.
Last year 971 separate fatal mining
accidents were registered under the
coal mining act of Great Britain,
against 876 IN 1882; loss of life for the
same years, /, ,054 and 1,126. There
were twenty five explosions of fire
damp last year, attended with a loss
of 134 lives, against thirty-tive ex-
plosIons for 1882, with loss Of $50
| lives.
James Gordon Bennett has great
er number of houses awaiting his oc-
cupation than any other American.
| He has one in Fifth avenue aud
another in Port Washington, and then
his rooms at the Herald establishment
are a snug place for bachelor. HIS
Newport villa is always in readiness,
and he has also fine establishment IN
| Paris.
Boston women at Swapscott take
their pet poodles into the surf every
day, and then, drying the miserable
little beasts on the beach, give an ex-
| hibitiou that is not at all consistent
with culture or refinement. There Is
a wonderful amount OF nonsense
about the alleged Boston culture.
One of the peculiar ways the
"heathen Chinee" has for smuggling
| himself into this country from British
| Columbia is to crawl into the paddle
box of a steamer and hide there until
the vessel arrives in an American
port, when he walks out and takes a
good full breath OF the air of free
dom.
/ a Chinese merchant in Mott street,
New York, seams TO have clear idea
of the trouble between France and
China. He said to a reporter: 1T
lIkee this: | come to your door and
lickee you and | wantee you to pay
money to me for lickee you. You
think that lighta What kind 'ligion
thatg'
The famous Dwight life insurance
case has not been heard Of for some
time. but il is still in the courts. When
| Colonel Dwight, of BiDghamton, died
in 1878 he had $240, 900 on his life, but
less than one third has been recovered.
| The remainder divided among thirteen
companies, is still in litigation. and,
like many historic cases, may 50 con-
tinue until the money is all gone. !"
1t is alleged, as may be remembered,
that the insurance was deliberate at
| tempt at fraud
A man who has been working in
the harvest fields at Solaro, Cal, has
crested considerable stir among the
cats and people of Fairfield, and he is
under arrest on the supposition that
he Is crazy. Every cat he could lay
/ hands on he would take to some se-
cluded spot, cut its tail and legs off
then rip out ms liver. He offered IS
each for black cats and 81 so each for
other varieties When arrested and
searched t54 was found in his pockets,
besides large number Of cats claws,
ears, li7ers, etc.