Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-07-24

Paper bed clothing is Is ceats per
set.
Gail Hamilton is tip,top house,
keeper.
Both New York and London have a
glut of idle money.
CaSt-oH boots and shoes are madn
into wall paper 1T certain factories.
4 pure white robin has been seen
IN Central Park, New York city.
Women farm laborers in South
Carolina work for fifty cents day
and board.
English, French, and Religious
Books" are advertised by Lowell
bookseller.
The Gloucester Mass, census finds
one woman who has had twenty>oue
children.
French chocolate is imported into
Mexico in large quantities, despite the
fact that Mexico raises the cocoa and
produces some of the best chocolate
in the world.
The annual income of Vanderbilt is
about ten tons of solid gold That of
the average laboring man is about
two pounds, out of which he has to
live and support his family.
Au old log house standing near Ben
ton Harbor. Mich, since the time the
morning stars sang together, has been
taken down aud will be shipped To
Chicago, where it will form part of
panora ma.
In recent issue Of well-known
French journal appeared the following
advertisement: Wanted distin-
guished and healthy looking man to
he cured patient in a doctors wait
ing room. Address, etc"
A scientist says that $50, 900, ,0G0
tons of matter in solution arc annual
| ly poured into the Gulf OF Mexico by
the Mississippi. At this rate one foot
| of land over the whole basin wolld
be removed IN 4, 900 years.
The Massachusetts, State Board of
Health, from recent tI5atlons,
finds that there is very little pure
honey in the state That sold in little
glass jars is not honey at all, but sim
! ply glucose, with little honeycomb
put III.
A father and son met each other for
the first time in 81 years recently at
| the Tasus Soldiers Home, in Maine.
The father and mother were separated
| in Lowell, Mass, in 1851, the children
staying with the mother The hus-
band fought through the war in a
Maine regiment and the son in New
| Hampshire regiment, and both arc
now disabled and ia the home. The
wife is still living, and reconcilia
ton is probable.
In the late official report at San
| Francisco it was shown that in the
Chinese Laundry Association of that
city there are 800 laundries. which
paid in water and gas taxes $3.50, 900
yearly, total yearly rental of $50,
600, and owns property and good will
valued at $250,0 900, aud gave employ
ment TO 3, 900 heathens.
| The pneumatic postal service in
Paris, lately completed, cost over
5000, 600, and the length Of the pipes
is over thirty four miles. The charge
for transmitting letter to any place
in tae forlitcauons is 3 cents. The
service csvers points about seven miles
apart.
One Of the present devices OF the
liquor sellers OF Baltimore TO demon
strate anew that prohibition does not
prohibit" is the loading Of cocoanuts
with whisky and selling them at
fancy prices in the prohibition districts
of Georgia.
There are several accounts of the
origin of the name Emerald Isle" for
Ireland, but that which seems to have
the weight of evidence on its side IS
the claim on behalf Of Mr.. William
brennan, one of the ablest writers
among the United Irishmen. lie was
born in 1754 and died IN 1920. He
was the author of several poems, in
Guiding that under the title OF Erin, !"
in which he used the title referred TO.