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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-20
The Hired Girl in Springfield.
Springfield Republican.


The hired girls privileges vary con
sIderably i'll different families. 1t is
generally understood that after the
Sunday dinner is out of the way she
shall have the rest of the day to her
self, even though the family are forced
to be content with a bread and milk
supper. Some houSekeepers think
they must be very strict with their
help for the sake of maintaining dis
c!pline. They lay down the law that
their girls can have only one after
noon and one evening out each week,
while others allow their servants to
be away whenever their absence does
not inconvenience the family. And
the contrast is kept up all along the
scale. One woman was heard to re-
mark a while since that when she
caught her girls reading the daily
papers she guessed they'd catch it.
Bat other families are glad to keep
helf intelligent enough to care for the
papers. These people are willing
their domestics shall have a fire in
their sleeping rooms part of the day,
SO that a place may be afforded for
sewing and recreation, and they need
not be tied down to the kitchen during
all their working hours. The best
girls are kept in the same families
year after year, while the poor ones
are constantly floating through the
intelligence offices. A we'll do fam
lily will do almost anything in order
to keep first class girl. Cases have
been known where they paid her full
wages and also paid her board duri2g
their absence in California or Europe
1t is probably more common to pay
half wages in such cases.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-20
her back, during which time shenever

her back, during which time shen
leaves her retreat"
was playing a game of billiards
in small village in the Blue noun
talns: there was no ceiling 10 the
room, the roof Being covered, as is
the universal custom in Jaina;ca, with
cedar wood shingles. My opponent
was smoking a large pipe, and sud-
denly, Just as I was about to play a
stroke what I thought was the con-
tents of my friends pipe fell on the
table close to the ball at which l was
aiming. Instinctively l was on the
point of brushing it off with my hand,
when, to my amazement, saw it was
moving mass, which on closer in
spection turned out To be a large
female specimen of a scorpion, from
which ran away in every direction a
number of perfectly formed little
scorpions about quarter of an inch
in length. The mother scorpion lay
dying upon the billiard cloth, and
soon ended her feeble struggles, the
whole of her back eaten out by her
own offspring, of which, as they could
not escape over the raised edge of the
billiard table, we killed the astonish.
ing number of thirty eight. They
had not only been carried by their
parent, but they had lived on her,
cleaning out her body from the shell
of her back, so that she looked like an
inverted cooked crab from which the
edible portions have been removed.
She had clang to her retreat in the
shingled roof until near the approach
of death, when she had fallen and
given us this curous spectacle. | was
told by the attendant that the young
scorpions always live thus at the
expense of their mothers life, and
that by the time her strength is ex
hausted the horrid offspring are
ready to shift for themselves.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-20
The Planet Uranus.
From the Providence Journal Feb. 26.


Uranus is morning star in March
until the 21st, and then becomes
evening star. The place of honor for
the month must be accorded to him,
for during its passage he reaches the
eliminating point of his shortllved
Importance. On the 21st, at o'clock
ia the morning, Uranus is in opposi-
ton with the sun, after which event
the four giant planets will all be on
the eastern side of the sun, and play
the part of evening stars in the fol-
lowing order OF nearness to the great
central orb: Neptune, Saturn, Jupiter,
Uranus. This distant planet, the
smallest of the grand quartet, though
1, 800, 600, 900, miles away, is visible to
the naked eye at opposition and for a
short time before and after. He APP.
pears as a star of the sixth, or least
visible magnitude, and is capable of
being found by careful observer
who knows his position among the
stars, although the task is not an easy
one, Uranus on the 21st is in the
constellation Virgo, 10 minutes east
and 90 seconds north of Eta Virgins,
third magnitude star in the wing of
the Vergin. A line draw from Jupi-
ter to Spica, the leading brilliant of
Virgo, will pass very near Uranus.
A favorable time for observation will
be about o'clock in the evening, the
planet being then about half way be-
twee. the horizon and the zenith. It
SENS strange that he could have
wandered among the stars 50 many
years without bein;. picked up by
some sharp sighted star gazer, and at
last be discovered by accident, for
Herschel thought his celestial prize
was only comet. Uranus is charm
ing now in the telescope looking like
tiny moon of a delicate seagreen hue.
Some French Observers saw snadowy
belts upon his disk, when he was in
opposition last year, and deduced a
rotation on his axis of about 10 hours
from faint spot near his equator.
Ordinary observers of his telescope
aspect may fancy that more than
Mortal visual power is required for
suck results.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-20
AT NIGHT

At night, when work IS done, mid shadows gray
that darken
And cling about the window, where once the sun
was bright
Sweet sounds come back again 70 winch we useu
to hearken,
At night!
At night, though we are old, and the gray shad-
ows clingng
Presage 10 us that shore where there is no more
Sometimes there come again sweet airs of child
hood singing
At night!
At night we two may sit in shadow open heart
ed;
Long since the time has passed when bope was
all in sight!
Softly we sing the songs Of happy days de
parted,
At night the cricket's voice sounds through the
shadows dreary;
Our songs, alas like his, have neither charm
nor weight; .
We only rest and sing, hushed hopes end voices
At night!
Translated from TASTE Olivier in the Argosy
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-20
The Habits of the Scorpion.

A few years ago, while in the island
of Jamaica, says a writer IN Land and
Water, it was my fortunate chance to
have an opportunity of observing
some very curious facts in connection
with that genus of the araohnida class
commonly known as the scorpion,
and the curious traits of character ia
these insects. Turning over some old
papers IN my office one day. l sudden
ly cane upon a large black scorpion,
who promptly tried to beat precipi
tate retreat. Having read or heard
somewhere that if you blow on scor-
pion he will not move. / tried the
experiment, and was greatly aston
ished to find that it had tie desired
effect. The scorpion stopped instant
ly, fattened himself close to the paper
on which he had been running, and
lad all the appearance of holding
on" for dear life. While continued to
blow even quite lightly ne refused TO
move, though 1 pashed him with a
pencil and shook the paper to which
he chung so tenaciously. Directly /
ceased blowing he advanced cautious
ly, only to stop again at the slightest
breath. l was thus able to secure
him IN a glass tumbler, which hap
pened to be within reach, and then
determined to try another experl-
ment, as 10 the suicidal tendencies
which l had heard ran in the veins of
the pedipalpl family.
Gu the stone floor of the kitchen
attached to my Office / arranged a
circle of burning sticks about three
yards in circumference, the sticks
being so placed that though there were
no means of exit through the fire, it
was not intense, but small and quite
bearable as regards heat within few
inches, so that the central part OF the
circle was perfectly cool. Into this
center l accordingly dropped my
scorpion, who, on reaching terra
frma, darted off in great
hurry, only TO be quickly
brought to a halt on reaching with
in few inches of the peri
phery of the circle. After short
pause of reflection, he deviated to the
right, and ran once completely around
the circle as near to the fire sticks as
it was prudent to venture. This he
did three times, often approaching
the burning sticks quite curiously in
his anxious endeavors to escape In
about quarter of an hour, finding
that his efforts were useless, he re
tired almost into the exact center OF
the circle, and there in q tragic man
ner, raised his tail till the sting or
spur was close to his head, gave him
self two deliberate prods In the back
of the neck, and thus miserably per
ished by his own hand. As placed
the body of the suicide in bottle Of
spirits, ] almost regretted that / had
not let him escape before he had re-
sorted to such an extreme measure
Ny last experience is even more
curious than the preceding, as II
shows remarkable prsyislon OF ma
ture that is almost incredible All L
have ever read on the subject Is con-
tanned In the following words:
The young scorpions are produced
at various intervals, and are carried
by the parent for several days upon
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-20

a man might find a less attractive and
graceful wife than Medora May. But
he could not be mistaken, lie thought,
in Grace Craxall's identity.
And so the next evening, about the
same time, he sauntered into the
shop.
Grace was behind the dainty clean
little counter, taking some newly
baked caramels off the pan. She
looked up with a smile.
GOOD evening, Mr.. Valance, SAID
she.
$50 " he thought, &" 1 wasn't mis-
taken after all. And the little blue
eyed seraph is mortal.enough TO tell a
lie in spite of her angelic appear.
ANGEL"
But he looks serenely at Grace.
II didn't know you were IN trade. "
said he.
"Didn't your Well" retorted
Grace, II am my Aunt Deberah's
shop girl at present. l alwas come
here in the evenings to help her, be-
cause she added. with a sweet
shade of seriousness coming over her
face, "Aunt was old and poor, and she
didn't quite know how to maintain
herself in independence; and, I'M
fortunately, my wages at the factory
are not enough for us both. So ad
yised her to open this business, and
she did, and she is doing well and she
bakes the most delicious bread and
pies you ever ate, So" with a saucy
twinkle under her eyelashes, elf you
know of any customers. will you
please recommend our firm2"
"To be sure | shall" he answered,
IN the same spirit. "And I am very
glad, Miss Craxall, to see that you are
not ashamed of being a working
girl.
"Of course l am not" said Grace.
"WhY should / be?n
"But your cousin Medora is.
Grace gave little shrHg Of hei
shoulders
every likely, ;" said she. ''Medora
and l differ in many things"
Mr.. Valance bought pound OF
caramels and went away.
She is beauty, he said to himself
"And she is a sensible beauty into the
bargain. One of those rara arises il
our country, thoroughly well bal
anced girl"
He must have been very we'll pleas
ed with his purchase, for he came
again the next evening, just IN time
to walk home with Grace Craxali
And they talked over Aunt Deborah
affairs, and concluded, as flour wa
low Just then, it would be favorable
opportunity for the old lady to Law il
her winters stock through Mr.. Val
ance, who was acquainted with one 0
the great New York grain merchants
Only few weeks had elapsed, whel
Medora May was electrified to lear
that her cousin Grace was engaged.
ITO some master baker or journey
man confectioner, l suppose" sh
said, contemptuously.
NO" said Grace, with eyes roguish
ly sparkling; ito Mr.. Herbert Val
ance."
'I-don't believe-it," said Medora
growing red, then pale.
but it's really So" said Grace
"And we are to be married in tire
months. And Aunt Debby is to com
TO the hall and live with me as sool
as she can dispose of her business t.
advantage. And dear Medora, | hop
you will often come and visit m
there"
Medora May did not answer. Sh
could not. But in her secret heart sh
recognized how infinitely more sue
cessful in lfes lists had been Grace
true, frank honesty than her owl
subtle and devious course.
Like many another, however, tn
lesson had come to her too late.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-20
Suffering womanhood.

Too much effort cannot be made to bring to
the attention Of suffering womanhood the great
value of Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound as remedy for the diseases of women,
and perhaps nothing is more effectual than the
testimony of those who have been cured by it.
Such an one is the wife OF General Barringer OF
Winston, N. c., and we quote from the Generals
letter as follows: Dear Mrs. Pinkham: Please
allow me to add my testimony to the most excel
lent medicinal qualities Of your Vegetable Com
Pounc. Mrs. Barriuger was treated for several
years for what the physicians called Leucorrhea
and ProlapSus Uteri combined l sent her TO
Richmond Va, where she remained for six
months urder ths treatment of en- eminent Physi-
clan without my permanent benefit She was
induced to try your medicine and after a reason.
able time commenced to improve and is now able
to attend to her business and considers herself
fully relieved" General Barringer is the pro
prietor of the American Hotel, Winston, n. c.,
and is widely knownl
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-20
No. 1.
Or. GuNsntts Yellow Dock and SarsanariIIa.


Or. 6uysotts Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilia.
The long cold winter freezes
up the smaller streams, and
filth accumulates around every
home. The welcome spring
freshet opens up the clogged
brooklets and washes away the
debris, leaving all the hills and
valleys and brooks and streams
clean, sweet, and clear.
In like manner, the human
organization needs renoyating
and cleaning rs spring time APP
proachcs. Greasy foods, q want
of exercise, over-eating, poor
digestion, etc, has clogged the
machinery Of life. The pores
need to be opened, tho passages
cleaned, the functions of the
body strengthened, etc, in or
der that good health may he
maintained. To this end no
remedy is SO good and elective
as Dr.. GUYsoTT's YELLOW
Dock AND SARsAPARLLA, n
remedy widely indorsed by
physicians who have examined
into its composition and be-
come cognizant of its many
virtues. 1t is n positive cure
for WEAKNESS and DEBILITY,
and NIL diseases arising from
a state of blood impurity. such
as SORES, ACHES, PIMPLEs,
STIFF AND LAME JOINTS, sCRoF-
uLA, RHEUMATISM, etc.
e8- Insist on your.. druggist
getting this remedy for you.
Take no substitute.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-20
"Psrnanent..

There sre medicines which give only temporary
relief and then leave the sufferer worse or than
Der thst this is not the way with Browns Iron
Bitters. See what Mr. J. N. Gaines, Of Gaines,
S. C., says about this prince of tonics, My wife
has been greatly benefited by it. she hsd been
troubled with dyspepsia for years, and now be-
heye she IS permaatly cured" 1t also cures liver
and kidney complaints.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-20

VIZ desire to call the attention OF subscribers
to the advertisement OF W. W. Cook & Co, En-
glewood, ILL.,, in another column. The mode OF
using their waterproof colors is extremely sim
Pile aud q knowledge is easily gained Of their APP
plication, which when acquired, will prove a
source OF much pleasure and profit The work
produced is OF the highest excellence, and the
colors are guaranteed in every respect Full and
complete instructions accompany each box.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-20

when it is od-faShioned blue mass, blue pill Sort
and insist on using DR.. Pierces pleasant Purga-
tive Pellets" moderate medical luxury, being
small, sugar. coated granules, containing the
active principles of certain roots and herbs, and
which will be found to contain much cathartic
power as any of the od-fashioned, larger pills,
without the latter'S violent, drastic effects. The
pellets operate thoroughly but ha -mlessly, estab
fishing permanently healthy action of the
stomach and bowels, and as an ambitious remedy
are unequaled.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-20
Typographical Conditions and (hOl

Popular Science Monthly.
No doubt can be entertained that
the eoniiguration of the earth has a
certain influence. Relatively low
lying sites are very favorable to chol.
era. Where the surface of the earth
has an undulatng outline, it will be
found that districts and individual
houses which are situated on the sum-
NIT of the undulation very frequently
have no, or only very small, dis
position to the development of an
epidemic of cholera, while in the hol-
low of the undulation under like con
dItions the opposite holds good. The
truth of this statement is seen in sin
gle districts where parts or single
houses exist on the SuEmit and others
lie low.
Another feature which is found in
every epidemic is the falling off of the
disease in the neighSorhood of and on
mountain ranges. The Himalayan
mountains, those of Lebanon and the
Alps, have always formed the places
of refuge for fugitives from cholera.
Now and then an epidemic occurs in
the mountains; these exceptions will
be dealt with later. The immunity,
or the slight susceptibility, of noun
tain ranges for cholera is witnessed in
India as plainly as it is in Europe. A
familiar example is the complete free
dom from cholera of the hill stations
along the Himalayas, in which,
through frequent changes of troops,
the cholera has every chance of being
taken up from the plains. In the
severe epidemic of 1869 there were
only two cases of eholera in 10 kill
stations. A similar experience is met
with in narrower areas. For instance,
in Munich, 1874, the frequency of
cholera was widely different in the
seven barracks of the garrison. In
the low lying Isar Kaserne occupied
by cuirassiers, heavy cavalry regi-
menD, out of 1, 100 men there were
40 cases of cholera; in the high lying
Max Ii, kaserne with two field artil
lery regiments) only three cases, and
this without there being any differ
ence in the construction of the caserns,
the occupation or the diet of the men
or the drinking water.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-20
Important.

When You visit or leave New York City, save
Baggage, ENpreSsage and $500 Carriage Hire.an
stop at the Grand Union Hotel opposite
Grand Central Depot.
60 Elegant rooms, fitted up at a cost of enc
million dollars, 81 90 and upwards per day Euro
pean Plan. Elevators Restaurant supplied with
the best Horse cars stages and elevated railroad
to all depotS. Families can live better for less
money at the Grand Union Hotel than at any other
frst-ClasS hotel in the city.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-20

Every English Lord Chancellor gets
a pension of <S5, 600 a year, and some
times there have been as many a five
in receipt of such pensions. Lord
earns is now the only one.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-20
Voices OF the Night.
Boston Journal

Does your husband sleep soundT
asked Mrs. Cobbs in the course of a
call upon Mrs. Dobbs. " Sound !
responded Mrs. Dobbs; well, should
say SOL doH't believe you or any
body else heard such sound. It's
enough to stop an alarm-clock." The
taller muir INJURED that some men were
hat way.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-20

Although London has 1891 acres
devoted to public parks, yet half the
population of the great metropolis
languishes for want of fresh air.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-20

1T is asserted on very good author
ity that the real ground of Lord and
Lady Cairns objection to their sons
marriage was that they felt absolutely
sure that Miss Fortescue did not really
care for him.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-20

JAY Eye SKIS DRIVES, Edwin D. Bither, uses
Coles Veterinary Carbolisalve, aud says thor
ough trial enables him 10 endorse il as the best
remedy that he ever saw for general stable use
Sold BY Druggists AZ soc and 100.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-20
"a LITTLE dre Is o11'crfr frndden on


Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench, y
Procrastination may rob you of time, but by
| increased diligence you can make up the loss;
but il it rob you Of life the loss is irremediabe.
If your health is delicate, your appetite tickle,
| ysur sleep broken, your mind depressed, your
whole being out of sorts, depend on it you
riousIy diseased. In all such cases DR. Pierce
Golden Medical Discovery viii speedily effect a
genuine. radical cure-making q new man Of
| you and save you from the torture Of lingering
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-20

The number of creamerles in Iowa
is $50 which is about one-third more
than exists in any other state,
illinois coming next with 40,
while Wisconsin has 430 and Mime
sofa 139
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-20

Several large colonies of farmers
from Lancaster county, Pa, propose
in the early spring to emigrate to the
West and Northwest, where they will
permanently settle.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-20

Cows that suck themselves are
practically worthless for dairy use.
They can be cured, but it is usually
more trouble than the COW is worth.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-20

The removal of Prof Sanborn of n H., after
being pronounced incurabe by a score of ply
sicians, from Las Vegas, n NJ, to his home, was
effected by administering DR.. Harter's Iron Ton
ic which has restored him to his former good
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-20
sudden Changes of weather

are productive of Throat Diseases, Coughs, Colds,
etc There is no more effectual relief in these
diseases to be found than in the use of BROWN $
BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs. Price 25 cts.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-20

The Bank of England holds one
seventeenth of the total deposits IN
the banks of the United Kingdom,
which amount to 50, 700 600 600.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-20
VIM. HI. HISS,
Purveyor Bayview Asylum
JAMES -. MORROW,
Chief Judge Appeal Tax Court.

ing those Of leading hospitals, charitable in
situations, colleges and schools. have volun-
tarily endorsed Red Star Cough Cure, not
only as the best thing Of the kind ever dis
covered. but as being entirely free from the
harmful features Of other cough mixtures
Every one VIII find # safe, sure cure II II
entirely free from oplates, narcotics. eLnetics
and poisons- It leaves no bad effects IL
does not derange the system II Is pure.
pleasant prompt Sold by druggists and
dealers in medicine throughout the United
States at fifty cents q bottle TaE CHARLES
A. yoCELER COMPANY, Sole Proprietors,
Baltimore. MARYLAND
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-20

A man was refused admission to a
skating rink at Stamford, Conn, be-
cause he didn't wear a collar.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-20
Not Because of Lonesomene ss
Boston Times.

Boston Times
80 you went to the party with
Mrs. Elberton, did you?" asked wife
of her husband.
Yes, as you were away thought
it would do no harm, as Elberton
asked me to, being detained at home
and not wanting his wife to be disap-
pointed"
"Well, l don't believe in lending
my husband to anybody"
why not, pray"
Because it Is not good, according
to the Bible for man to be loan"
While both the army and the navy
service of the United states are over
crowed and the sources of study at
West Point and Annapolis are being
made harder in order to prevent
cadets from graduating, the vacancies
in the British service at the present
time number 240, with only 1877 cadets
in the senior class at Sa4dhurst to FL.
them. By the present law 300 are
allowed to enter annually to be train
ed for officers in the British regular
army