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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05
A Craze for CamphOr.
Chicago Journal.

"You may increase that order for
camphor gum TO 100 pounds, " said a
leading druggist to his clerk as they
were gong over the stock yesterday.
''They have cleaned us all out lately" "
"Are you having much of demand
for camphor now2" asked the report
er who had overheard the direction.
Il should say SO. There appears to
be a regular camphor craze. People
are using it for every thing. In the
spring we usually have large de-
mand for it, but this year beats the
record. May moving generally in
creases the demand People use it to
dislnfect and change the air of old
houses. 1t is put in trunks and boxes,
along with Winter wearing apparel,
to keep out moths. 1t is sure death
to moths. Some physicians have
recommended camphor as a cholera
preventive, and lots of people who
are afraid of the quality of our drink
ing water are taking frequent doses of
it. They fnd it convenient to take
an occasional nibble of camphor gum
rather than to use it in liquid form
after it has heen dissolved "a alcohol.
| have known dyspeptics who claim
that camphor gum eases tho stomach
troubles. Camphor and chloroform
are used for toothache and neuralgia !;
camphor and glycerine for earacne j;
pure camphor for headache, colds and
chills. The gum rubbed on sore
will dry it up. And it also drys up
and cures plmplns on the face. 1t is
given to young people who develop
too fast, and it is valuable medicine
in a hundred ways. Camphor and
ammonia poured over scald,
burn or blister will take the infam-
nation out and have cooling effect,
but the first effect of its application is
as painful as the ori ginal burn. The
benefit comes afterward. People who
use it to ward off disease carry it in
their pockets or in little bags suspend
ed over the chest by ribbon around
the neck. Camphor gum sells for 20
to 80 cents a pound, and in some
stores for more"
"Where do you obtain camphor
gum2"
Most of it comes from Japan,
where camphor plants grow in pro-
fusion. A great deal is imported from
Borneo ana Formosa. The crude cam
phor has to be distilled before it can
be used. 1t is obtained by cutting up
the plants. stem and sll, and distill-
ing them. The Borneo camphor comes
from trees. the trees are felled and
split open and the camphor extracted
from the heart in great Jumps. Some
times Jumps yard long and three or
four inches thick are found, but 20
pounds is good yield for au average
tree. The Chinese have a great liking
for Berneo camphor, and profess to
find in it superior qualities, and they
have been known TO pay as high as
$50 a pound for it. The difference
between Borneo and common cam
phor is more imaginary than real.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05
Windy Weather.
Harpers Bazaar.


No one who is at all subject TO any
affection of the cnest should expose
himself to high wind. A high wind
is always more or less cold; and, on
the other hand, no matter how low
the temperature is, exercise may, as
rule, be taken with benefit and cons
fort if there be no wiad. The nervous
too, should avoid exposure to high
winds, else headache will be the re
suit, and general depression OF the
whole system will follow. Cold wet
winds especially these that bow from
the north and east, seem to possess a
peculiarly disturbing effect upon the
mucous membrane OF the digestive
canal, which may result in a fit of
dyspepsia, or in diarrhea, or even
dysentery. 1t is these north and east
winds that render the early spring
menths in this climate of ours so risky
to the invalid, or those predispssed to
consumption and various other conn
plants. But the east wind is more
than any other to be dreaded by pao-.
pie liable to chest complaints; nor can
any amount of care in clothing defead
them against its evil influences.
But there are times when calm days
are Just as much to be dreaded by the
delicate and invalid as the stormiest
winds that can blow-days when the
sky is overcast, and the atmosphere
hot; when the gloom is general, when
in towns evil vapors float low on the
ground, aud IN the open country the
exhalations from the earth's surface
lie thick and stagnant thereon, pois-
oning the air we breathe. Such days
are hard upon even the healthy, and
it is no wonder. therefore, if the
weakly suffer. Night air is greatly
dreaded by many, and some
times with good cause There is not
only always the danger Of catching
cold or receiving chill-which is
often even worse-but of breathing
malaria or miasmata; and this danger
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05
A BiSabIing Disease.

No disease which does not confiue q man to
his bed 50 completely usfts hin for business as
dyspepsia. When the stomach is foul, the brain
is always muddy and confused and as the cares
aud anxieties of life sufficient burden for
ths organs Of thought TO bear. without being tor
mented by the ms1ries born OF IL Ldigestion, it is
highly desirable for the brains sake, as well as
for the sake of every other portion of the system,
that the disordered stomach should be restored
with the utmost dispatch to q heSlthy. vigorous
condition. This object csin always be accomplish
ed by a course of Hostet,er's Stomach BittarS the
purest and best Of vegetable specifics, which eyac
ustes the morbid humors through the bowels
rouses and tones the torpid stomach and requisites
the liver, ip-parts H. ua7eSs TO the nerves and
Gears the sensorium OF its mental coowebs.
Persc1as subject to attacks of indigestion. bilious
eea6ache. irregularity Of the bowels, sickness OF
the stomach, or the blues" should take the Bit
tiers once or twice day throughout the present
season.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05
Undertaken Why so Called.

This use OF the word is no doubt de
rived from its primary meaning, one
who stipuIates to do any thing, or un>
dertakes the management of an affair.
Two hundred years ago class OF
people Kno sn as upholders were
usually called upon To take charge OF
funerals. Thus the poet Gay saws:
THE uphoider rueful harbinger Of death.
Waits with impatience for the dying breath.
Now, upholders were dealers in
second hand furniture, old clothes,
and the ike, ard perhaps were SO
called because they were so often
resorted 10 as the las. resource of
failing credit. As these persons were
able from their stock Of cneaply pur-
chased material to supply what vas
needed at funerals at less expense
than the regular merchant or haber-
dasher. they came TO 10 thus employ
ed, and also to furnish houses,
In time the more ambitious of this
class confined their business to the
furnishing of houses only, and dealt
in goods both new and old, and TO
avoid the confoundiDg Of their busi-
ness with that of the funeral managers
styled themselves upholdsters, a name
changed later to upholsterers.
Subsequently the more pretentlous
members Of the claz of upEolsterers
assumed the name Of undertakers,
deriving their cogRomen logically
enough from the signifcatioH OF its
parts In the Saxon tor que. An
undertaken, one who takes in hand a
business or task, or renders himself
responsible for its performance. Or
perhaps the idea Of the word was taken
from the French name Of the same
officer, entre-preneur, though TIE
primary idea Of the French word is
rather that Of one who bids for .
particular task.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05
He Wore His Wife's Dress.

We were recently told of a young
man, now living in Pickens county,
who during the late war donned his
wife's dress, kept his face cleanly
shaved, and wore big sunhennet in
order to keep from being conscripted
and sent to the front. The officers in
search OF available recruits frequent
ly rode up to his house and inquired
of his wife where her husband was,
and at that very moment he could be
seen working in the field in female
apparel By the time he mad worn
out seven OF his wife's dresses he be
came tired of masquerading and en-
listed and made a good soldier. He
now has a large family and highly
respected citizen.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05

lice Department, was shot and killed by
lun attic while a posse of police were
trying to arrest the latter. The luna
tics name is Louis Reaume and was on
his way from Denver to Detroit.
THE remains of Adam Brumm, who
nsurderously assaulted his sweetheart at
Hanover, Pa, Monday last, were drag
ged from the river at Plymouth by his
dog Thursday morning. Brumm wad-
ed out into the stream and then shot
himself in the head.
THE postmaster general has forbid
den the delivery ef money orders and
registered letters 10 the following, upon
the inspectors report, showing that
they were engaged in conducting fraud
nlent schemes by means OF the mail:
DR.. II. B. Buttee, alias d. r. Ward &
Co., Louisiana, Mo-; Geo. May, Chicago,
publisher Of the Post aAd Cuurirs, and
Illinois Agriculturist.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05
was anticipai

AT present the Rothschild family
control the quicksilver supply of the
world, but now mine has now been
fouad at Schuppiastcna, near Bei~
grade. There are only few quick
silver mines known, the two largest
being in Spain and California. Both
are owned by tho house of Rothschild,
who orly permit supply, but never
a glut of the market to issue flom
their mines, aud thus they control an
immense and very profitable monopoly.
The yearly consumption of qulcksil-
yer is cut down TO 100, 600 bottles, the
larger part comes from California,
while Spain furnishes about 10000
bpttlpc
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05
CRIME.

In Ashville, n. c., Charles York
stabbed his brother to death in a drunk
en- quarrel. They ara sons of promin-
ent citizen.
JAMEs S. WHITE. Milwaukee's ex-
City Comptroller, charged with embez-
element, was arraign Monday and
pleaded not guilty, making the proviso,
however, that he b. permitted to with
draw it at any time he desired.
AT Manila, Ind, Monday night,
William Riley cut the throat of his 4
year old daughter, whom he had kid
mapped from her mother few days ago,
and then cut his own throat.
CORNELIUS BARRETT, for three years
faithful member of the Chicago Po-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05

y MOSES Dow, the founder Of the
Waverly Magazine, is still living,
though old and very feeble. He is
genial man, but greatly infatuated
with spirltualism. Hardly any of the
matter printed in the magazine is paid
for, and its profits are said to be $780,,
600 a wear
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05

A TELEGRAPH operator who copies
directly from the sounder upon a
type writer is reported from Nash
vile, Tenn, the first and only opera
tor in the world who has succeeded in
doing this. One night recently he re-
ceived and copied 5000 words Of
press matter, delivered it 10 the news
editor in handsome type writer copy.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05

THE last census IN Chill presents
an anomaly that is pulling the
people very much. The married pop
uIation of the country, distinct from
widowerS and widows, is stated to b.
59s 312 OF course half of this NUM-
Der, or 209 1856, ought to be males aud
half females. But such is not the
case. according to the census report,
which says the married persons con-
Sist of 800, ,517 males and 297, 735 fe-
males. This leaves 2.Sl2 married men
without visible wives.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05

RUSSIA is about to begin second
railroad between the Black Sea and
the Caspian, along the foot of the
Caucasus on the north, while the ex-
isting railroad is south of the noun
tains. Like the other Russian rail,
roads, it will be of five foot guage.
The cost, with hsrbor improvements
at Novorissik, is estimated at So, 500, =
600, or $4,000 per mile. The line
will give an outlet TO a productive
grain country as well as to petroleum.
The latter does not depend upon it
wholly, as there is now pipe line 60
miles long leading from the wells to
Novorissik. When built it will be
possible to ride by rail all the way
from the Atlantic to the Caspian Sea.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05
Conflagrationsi
ERE AT NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, June AIT o'clock
this morning, flames were discovered
issuing from the top story of five
story building at No. 66 Greene street
The fire rapidly extended 10 the
fourth story and the top floor and
roof of the building Nos. 62 and 81,
occupied by the Jennings Lace works.
A loss of 800. 600 was caused before
the fire could be extinguished.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05

Boston scoundrels advertise work
TO do at hoE.e, exact two or three dol
lars for material, promise 10 pay good
prices for the jobs when finished, and
then refuse to take the finished work
on the ground that it does not suit.
The material only costs feH cents.
The persons swindlcd are almost al
Ways poor.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05
Society.
Merchant Traveller.

They had been to a swell party, the
Right before, where champagne pre-
vailed.
She-I am sick of this frivolity (;
sick to the utmost.
He-Why, what Is the matteri
She-Oh, it. is all vanity and
ahougktIessness. Just think of the
people we met last night-hollow,
hollow, hollow.
He-Holowz Not much hollow,
/ should say. Everybody saw was
full, and from the way my head feels,
/ don't think ! escaped entirely.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05

A SECTION OF the Canadian troops
in the Northwest Territory has had a
desperate fight with force of the
rebel half breeds under Big Bear, and
were forced to fall back. General
Middleton, with additional troops,
was, at last adyices, cn route for the
scene of hostilities, and more fighting
vynS antirinsfp1
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05

GOVERNOR PATTIsON has signed the
bill making it punishable offense in
Pennsylvania TO be in possession of
oleomargarlne after July |, and his
action has caused great Indignation
among wholesale provision dealers in
Philadclnhia.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05

PARIS possesses one remarkable
street which has neither doors, win
dows, numbers, nor sign pests. 1t
runs from the Rue de Clery to the
Rue Beauregard, and has the distinct
ion of being the shortest street in
Paris, and probably in the world
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05

THE annual encampment cf the
Grand Army of the Republic is 10 be
held in Portland Me-, this year, be-
glaning on Jane 22 Already large
delegations from various parts OF the
country are preparing to attend.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05

YOUNGSTOWN, O., June 1. The
mills located in Mahoning Valley are
all idle to-day, strike having been
inaugurated this morning. Inquiry
from every manufacturer in the val
ley elicits the information that they
have no intention of slgning the
Amalgamated scale as presented. The
Summers Brothers Russia Iron mill at
Niles, which has signed the scale, is
being run under cooperative arrange
ment with the men.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05

TIE wheat crop Of California, as
estimated by the Secretary of the
State Agricultural Society, will be
leas than half that of last year. The
increased acreage in Oregon is AZ per
cent
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05

MERRITT FLETCHER, who killed his
ncighber in Kane county, Ill, some
months ago during a quarrel about
grazing cattle on the highway, and
who, on charge of venue, was trieu
for murder in Dupage county and
convicted, has been sentenced to be
hanged June Is. The execution will
take place at Wheaton. Fletcher's
father, for participation IN the same
crime, has been sentenced TO the state
penitentiary for three years. A
petition TO the Supreme Court for a
superSsdeas has bHen applied for, but
will probably not be granted.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05

FoREsr trees are now felled with
dynamite A cartridge Of the explos-
i've substance is placed III 81 channel
bored directly under the tree to be
operated upon, and when exploded the
tree is simply forced up bodily and
falls intact on its side. In most in
stances it is found that the tree is not
fractured by the force of the explos
ION; a large proportion OF valuable
wood at the bass of the trunk eau be
utilized which is now lost. For
cleaning forest properties this method
is admirably adapted, as it brings up
the root of the tree at the one opera
tion, and dispenses with the tedious
and costly process of grubbing the
root Of the felled timber.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05
Profitable Advertising.
View York Sun,

Advertising agent Ito merchant
So you think it pays better to adyer>
tise en- fences and flag stones than in
the newspapers
Mercnant-It has paid me better.
Advertising ageHt-Bat you have
failei7
Merchant know It, but settled
for 80 cents on the dollar"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05

The expense to the Canadian Gov
ernment in putting down the half
breed rebellion will amount to ST.
700. 600.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05
Progress of the New Iron Scale

[IRoN WORKERS GO OUT ON A STRIKE.
PITTsBURG, jane 1.-The workmen
in the new iron mills where the new
scale has not been signed, went out
on a strike this morning. Thus far
ten out of thirty eight iron and steel
mills of this district have signed, but
there does not seem to be much pros
pect for a general resumption IN the
near future. The amalgamated au-
thorities express themselves confident
of coming out on top in the present
struggle.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05

JOHN l. SULLIVAN resembles the
moon. He says he has often been
"full, but never drunk.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05

THE Communists creed What's
yours is mine; what's mine is my
own.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05

REPORTS from the corn growing
sections OF the west are very favorable
to large crop this year.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05

Since May 1 to date Chicago pack
ers have slaughtered and salted $780, =
$50 hogs, against 5S4. eco for the cor
responding period last year.
Fashion rules the world. A prom.
inent manufacturer of bicycles and
tricYcles says his company could have
sold thousand tricycles to ladies In
Washington had not Belva Lockwood
taken the field first and made them
questionable.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05

CALIFORNIA has a match factory
that manufactures $50, 900 gross every
year. The wood used is white cedar.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05

In Chill there are 2,s42 more wives
than husbands
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05

A married couple were oat prone
nading in the suburbs of Austin one
day. Presently the wife said:
Think, Albert, If the brigands should
come and take me from you.n I'M
possible, my dear" "But suppose
they did come and carry me away;
what would you sayg, Il should
say answered the husband, that
the brigands were new at the busl-
ness. That's all. ."-Tsxas Siftings.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05
"The Roller Walk" !"

A new result of roller skating has
made its appearance. 1t might be
called the roller walk, and may be OBJ
served in the carriage of young women
who frequent the alleged baneful re-
sorts. 1t consists ia a short, quick,
outward turn of the heel as the foot is
raised in walking. The opponents of
the Kinks say that this IS but the pre-
cursor of foot and mouth disease,
ceretro>spinal meningitis, small pox,
SPAWN, black death and a host of other
horrible ills which are bound to sfh ct
the race which permits roller skating
or any other form of bodily exercise
in which both sexes Join.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05

The wife of Assistant Secretary OF
the Treasury Fairchild is . niece of
Horatio Seymour.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05

THREE Georgia weekly newspapers
are edited by women.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05

A few days since, while repairing
the mouse in which Mrs. Black lives,
the workmen found between the cell
ing and the weather boarding about a
bushel of old letters. Inquiry showed
that the house had been used for a
postoffice in the early years cf the
war, and that these letters had slipped
between the ceiling and outer wall.
Many OF the letters were perfectly
preserved, while others were rat eaten
and soiled. Curiosity, of course, led
us to break the seals of several of
these, but soon we discovered that we
were trespassing upon sacred ground.
Many of them were from girls to their
sweetaearts in the army; some from
mothers and fathers to their sons
some from wives to their husbands,
and few were business letters. Most
of the names were familiar to the
writer, and many of them were ac-
quaintances and friends of auld lang
syne. A majority of the persons, both
writers and those to whom they were
written, have ''passed over the river.
-Quitman (Ga) Free Press.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-05

$ jacket corsages IN every conceiy-
able shape are IN vogue