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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-30
BRAZIL WANTSiMMIGRANTS.
Her Natives and Slaves LaZy-Chances
fer American Mechanics-Cendit
of the Slavery Question.

New York Commercial Advertiser.
Senior Jose Mcndes, coffee planter,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, says: The
development of the interior of Brazil
in agriculture and mining is steadily
on the increase. The population
grows at the rate of per cent. year,
and everythings points to future of
unequaled prosperity. The rain thing
migrants from the United States,
tradesmen principally, who would as
sist us in making internal improve
ments. The natives of Brazil are in
clined to take things as they come,
and dislnclined to effort They prefer
to jog along in their own lazy way.
and allow foreigners to make the i'm
provements and to reap the benefits.
We prefer American settlers TO any
others because they push an enterprise
to a rapid completion. The railways
are now almost entirely in the posses
sion of English capitalists who are
not inclined to extend tEem, being
entirely satisfied with present profits.
Our railway system is inadequate
to the demands of the planters IN the
interior, who are hampered consider
ably in sending their produce to the
coast. The expense of TRANSFORMATION
is excessive, and the profits of the
planters are reduced to the minimum,
There is little or no competition
among the railways, and consequently
the country, SO far as travelling is con-
cerned, is completely at their mercy.
kNThn Slounr4u question lIsaIIcSe6
with considerable vehemence in the
chambers, when l left Brazil for New
York, few weeks ago. The larger
planters desire to add 10 the number
of their slaves, but the government
refuses to allow them. The law is in
tended to stop the growth of slavery,
and to permit it 10 die of inanition. A
child born to parents in slavery is
free. and cannot be bought. If any
sales of slaves are made, families are
never divided The number of per
sons owned by each planter is known
to the government, and he is not al
lowed to add to them by purchase.
Should he do so, he is liable TO heavy
fine and to Imprisonment. If he
needs more workmen, he may hire
them; or his slaves, after the limit Of
their time of servitude is passed, may
be employed as worknsen. The Brazil
ian negroes are fearfully lazy, and it
is sometimes almost impossible to get
any work out of them for week after
they are paid off. They are passion
ately fond OF loafing, and consequent
~ it requires double the number of
negroes to work Plantation than it
would were the workmen white. There
is a decidedly good chance for in
telligent mechanics to make money in
Brazil. AT present we have but few
men who can properly build house.
Of course planters houses are not
built of stone, but they like to live in
nice houses and are willing to pay for
them.
The gro%th of coffee is increasing
every year as are also the values of
the plantations. The wide range in
the quality Of the Brazilian coffee
makes it suitable for any market, and
hence the sale Of it is much greater
than coffee of any other growth. There
are grades of the Brazilian bean as
fine IN flavor as either the Mocha or
Java coffee"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-30
Those Giddy Vassar Girls.
Washington Star

A Vassar College girl tells this story
I'VE had theatre with the stage fit.
ted up with drop curtain and scenery
and there we gave famous theatrical
performances. One of our favorite
pieces, I remember, was ''She Stops
TO Conquer. The actors were all
girls, and so was the audience. But
a portion OF the audience wore hand
kerchiefs tied around its right arms,
and the girls composing it were under
stood to be gentlemen. OF course
they escorted the ladies to the p ny,
and stamped their feet on the foor to
express their appreciation at anything
particularly fne. When the curtain
fell at the close of an act, the gentle
men all grabbed their hats from un-
der the seats and rushed out into the
hall. There they paraded up and
down in front OF the theatre, shouting
to each other: Well, fellers, what'll
yer take2' ard Reckon its my treat /;
come up to the bar and order your
pizen, and Sa ay, Jim, got any good
eating tobaccer in your clotnesP"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-30
Our Ancestors as Nut Eaters,
london CornhiII Magazine.

In tropical woods, where our hairy
quadrumauouS ancestor" Darwinian
for the primeyal monkey, from whom
we arc presumably descended used
playfuIly to disport himself, as set
unconscious of his glorious destiny as
to the remote preGenIter Of Shak-
spere, Milton and the late Mr.. Peace
in tropical woods acrId or pungent
fruits and plants were particularly
common and correspondingly annoy
ing. The fact is our primative fore
father and all the other monkeys are,
or were, confirmed fruit eaters. But
to guard against their depredations a
vast number of tropical fruits and
nuts have acquired disagreIable or
fiery rlnds and shells, which suffice 10
deter the bold aegressor, 1t may MOI
be nice TO get your tongue burnt with
n root or fruit, but il is at least great
deal better than getting poisoned :;
and, roughly speaking, pungency IN
external nature exactly answers to thg
rough gaudy labels which some chem
lists paste on bottles containing
poisonS. 1t means to say: This
fruit or leaf, if you eat it in any
quantities, will kill you" This is the
true explanation of capsicums, colo
cynth, pimeuto, croton oil, the upas
tree. and the vast majority OF bitter,
acrid or fiery fruits ana leaves. If we
had TO pick up our own livelihood, as
our naked ancestors had 10 do. from
roots, seeds and berries, we should far
more readily appreciate this simple
truth. We should know that great
many more plants than we now sus-
pect are bitter or pungent, and there
fore poisonous. Even in England we
are familiar enough with such de
feuses as those possessed by the outer
rnd of the walnut; but the tropical
csshewnut has a rlnd SO intensely
acrid that it blisters the lips and
fingers ipstautaneously, in the same
way as csntharides would do. l be-
lieve that, on the whole, taking nature
throughout, more fruits, and nuts are
poisonous or intensely bitter or very
fiery, than are sweet, luscious and
bitter
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-30
LIFE IN THE NAVY-YARD.
4 Little World by Itself-B usiness
Scenes During the Greater Part of
the Day-0mcers' Relaxation.

The Brooklyn navy yard, like most
military and naval posts and reserva-
tons, is little world of itself. When
one passes through the squalid part Of
the city that lies about Its walls and
enters the great gates, where the sol
emn marines with cleaning bayonets
keep guard night and day, he is in
another atmosphere. The hum of
traffic from the twin cities sounds far
away. Before him is a broad street
stretching down to the river, here
men -of-war are lying. There are trees
and green grass, ships being repaired
and ships being demolished, marines
walking past and sailors moving
about with the peculiar rolling gait
which distinguishes the seafaripg
man. A driveway leads up little
hill to the left, to the commandments
house. Before the house stands an
orderly III white gloves, and above
his head floats flag from the top of
lofty pole. About half way down the
main street, in a bulldog of yellow
brick, is the Office of the commandant,
where all the headquarters business of
the naval station of New York IS
transacted. Here also is the office of
the captain of tie yard and one or two
other functionarles. Other buildings
mostly of brick, scattered about the
yard are machine-shops, sail lofts,
storehouses, etc. There are two i'm
mense wooden structures, under one
of which is the unfinished frigate
New York, and under the other the
old Colossus, now being demolished.
In this, the chief naval station of
the United States, there is always
plenty of work to be done, for ships
of-war are always being fitted out for
sea, or come in to 90 out of commits
sion or to be repaired. For each par
ticular work there IS department.
There are the departments of steam
n gineering, provisions and clothing,
navigation, ordnance, etc. At an
early hour IN the morning the sound
of the hammer and the saw begins to
be heard, the machinery starts up, the
worknen and clerks arrive, the off
GERS in charge of the different depart
ments enter their offices, and until
o'clock il the afternoon the business
of the yald is in full blast. Imagine
the business of a great shipyard COM
hined with the supply of provisions,
and manufacturing and supply of
clothing for several thousand men
and officers, the making of sails,
ropes, spars, engines, flags and sig
mails, the supplying of ordnance, and
the thousand and enc things that are
used aboard a man-of-war from a
pillow-case to carpet or knife and
fork. Add to this the work of the
paymaster's department, where the
accounts of all the receipts and dis
bursements consequent on such a
varied business. and the separate ac-
counts of officers and men and civil
employees are kept, and we will get
some idea of the work at the navy
yard.
Then there is the care of millions of
dollars worth of government property
and the sale of condemned property
to be taxed into consideration. Over
at the Cob dock the old line-of-bat
ship Vermont is moored. She Is the
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-30
AXaiuabIe HIsceyery.

a graduate of Yale College, Dir.
Samuel K. Cox, D. d., Prctical and
Analytical Chemist, Washington, d. c.,
makes the following official statement:
ITO the thousands whose systems in
stinctively shrink from the use eff Nor
phia and, Opium, and especially to moth
ers, who justly dread the evil, and at
times, fatal effects OF these dangerous
drugs, the Red Star Cough Cure must
prove boon. II is not only entirely FREQ
from all opiates, polSons, and emetics "a
thing which not one cough preparation
in ten can boast), but iU is altogether an
original and happy combination OF the
best remedial agents, and it is as harm
less as it is effective. | base this as
sertion on careful analyses and numer-
ous practical tests---the latter in every
case resulting in a speedy cure"
The Charles A. Vogeler Company,
Baltimore, Maryland, are the Sole
Owners and Manufacturers of this
valuable remedy. The Head of the
Baltimore Health Department, DR..
James A. Steuart, one of the most
eminent physicians in America, says:
SIT supplants the Objectionable and
harmless feature of other cough mix
tur2s,"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-30

receiving ship, where men are enlisted
and kept until they are transferred to
some sea going ship. The officers
stationed on the Vermont are general
ly those who have just come back
from some long cruise, and are sent
here to get little rest and recuperaie.
From early IN the morning until noon
the officers are kept busy with the
routine work of the ship, with drill
ing the mcn, shipping recruits, ETC.
from 1 o'clock until the dinner hour;
at $50 o'clock, the wardroom is
deserted and the cui tains are drawn
before The doors of the office, s. state
rooms Some are studying for exam
ination for promotion; q sound of a
guitar proclaims that on cultivat-
ing his musical abilities; another may
be attending to his correspondent or
indalging IN general literature. A
portion OF this time, too, is consumed
by the officers In reading up on mat
tiers pertaining to their profession, for
American naval officers are justly
proud of their reputation as the best
informed set of naval officers IN the
world in matters pertaining to their
profession, and strive honestly to
deserve it. Il is possible that some of
the officers may have their afternoon
broken in .pon by an order 10 take a
draft Of men to Norfolk, Newport, or
Boston, or by an order TO attend a
general mar ial.
At $50 the officers all meet at the
dining-table in the ward room.
Other officers from some ship lying at
the yard OF a civilian friend or two
may be present at this time, and when
the smoke of post prandial cigarettes
mingle with the aroma of black coffee
what stories are told of strange
adventures happened by land and
scar Then the thunders of MOBILE
bay awake anew. The Corean tiger
heg goes down in defeat once more,
and all the storms that blow on Hat
teras and the Horn are loosened again.
There are stories of Arctic explora-
ton, too, and the rehearsing OF many
an old legend handed down from the
time of Hull. Paul Jones, or Decatur,
and L heard nowhere except on a
man -of-war. The stranger at tie
board, SEEING the spirit which ami
mates his hosts, will go away satisfied
that America may safely commit her
officers of whom these are examples.
The evenings the officers have TO
themselves until 10 o'clock, vixen the
lights are put out and sleep and silence
reign over the great ship.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-30
The Good Templars' Brass Band.

Down the street marched the Good
Templars, the brass bands play ing,
and above their heads blue banner
waving, bearing the inscription, in
glittening letters of gold: 1--WE Bend
the kEee, But Not the Elbow" On
the sidewalk an old soak stands, ur-
steadily holding tire-box in position.
His temperance character had expired
about month before and he had not
had time to renew. He gazes at the
Auttering banner. and with many a
hiccough reads the inscription. 'tAh,
yes, he says, with an accent of infin-
lite contempt, you bend the knee,
but not the elbow. l know you do
that-hic-that comes CT the beastly
habit-hic-of drinking out of the
bung," and the procession moves on.
A little strip of sidewalk, about five
feet wide, in trout of the United
States Court House in Boston, Is con-
stantly the refuge Of the street ped
dlers of bouquets who wish TO evade
the payment of the license fee which
the city ordinance require. As the
strip is the property of the United
States they can here bid defiance TO
the police, but it not infreauently
happens that their eagerness to sell
lures them out, and then, if caught,
they are brosght into court and fined.
Many apple trees In Kansas are said
to have borne three crops of apples
during the past year.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-30
TIE Snow Blockade in Oreg on.

PORTLAND, Ore, January 2.-This
morning four Canadian voyageurs'
employed by the government to bring
mail to this city from the blockaded
train, arrived in Portland after an alb
sence of six days. They had terrible
time. but brought 10 the letter mail,
which is the first received from the
east since the middle of December.
The blockSded train remains i'm bedded
in the snow and ice, and the united
efforts of LOCO men, thirty engines
and FIVE snow-plows fail to accomplish
much The bound passengers
have been proyisioned and cared for.
This is the worst STERN ever known on
the Columbia river. In Portland and
Willamette valley the weather is mild.
In Southern Oregon there is no snow.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-30
Iowa County Democrat
MINERAL POINT, WIS.
NEARING THE END.

I'm growing old; the hopes and fears
That waged an ever-varying STRIFE
No more awaken smiles and tears.
Disturbing my serener life.
The ardent love, the jealous throe,
Which burned and ragged without surcease
Have left me; and a gentler glow
OF sweet contentment brings me peace.
Strong passion owns my reason s sway
Calm pleasure comes where loves bestowed
And QUIET friendship smoothes my way
Along life's peaceful autumn road.
No unknown future threatens Ill;
10 fierce ambition drives me on;
gaze from life's sublimest hill
ON dangers past and victories won.
What though my natural powers decay
Ny lessening time makes less demand
The labor done, at close OF day
The farmer resting views his land
and sees the harvest waving fair.
The rldgy rows with plenty filled;
Sees fruitful fields erst barrens bare,
The barrens bare his hands have TILED.
so looks life's landscape 70 my eyes;
NY earthly work is nearly done.
A calm comes to me from the skies,
AS slowly sinks LIES setting sun.
Jesse II. Lord in the Hartford Times.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-30
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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-30
There q. Cure foT Consumption,

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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-30

The total length of submarine
cables is about IS, 600 miles, Each
cable contains an average of forty
strands of wire, so that altogether
there are over 2, 500,000 miles of wire
used in their construction. or 10 times
the distance from the earth to the
moon. Practically all this has been
laid within the last % years, the
greatest part within decade.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-30
rrsane.r sneak In Town.

Maiar1ai gases sneaked sp through the poorly
constructed drains and made baby very sick with
malarial fever Sahy would have died but foi
timely use OF Browns Iron Bitters. There is moth
inymeaner in It's way OF coming, nor worse in it.
effects than this malaria from the underground
regions. Mrs Mcdonald. of New Haven, Conn,
SAYS, Fer six years l suffered from the effects
Of Malaria. but Browns Iron RittarS cured me en-
tlrSly." Try il when malaria steals in and ua
derrn;nes your constitution. Ii will give relief.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-30

A great elm tree recently felled in
LaRgdon, was 100 feet high and six
teen feet in circumference two feet
from the ground At sixty feet from
the ground six limbs branched out,
erCh measuring six feet in circumfer
ence. A section Of this trunk twelve
feet long required nine yoke of oxeH
to draw it.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-30

A French astronomer claims to have
discovered a mountain seventy miles
high in the planet Venus.
The purest. sweetest and best Cod Liver OH In
tie world manufactured from fresh, healthy
Svers upon the sea-shore. 1t is absolutely pure
and sweet Patients who have once taken II
prefer it to al others. Physicians have decided
il superior to any of the other oils In market
Made by CAswEIL, HAZARD & Co, New York.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-30

In London there is we'll establish
ed snd highly successful! firm o
female architects They plan houses
stores, architectural work of Sll Sc
scriptions, aud are much esieemct, by
hoass-owne It is said of the houses
houses built y these women tina
every room has 3 closet II II.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-30

A blacksmith of Laesville, Ohio,
has made clock. principally of steel,
with blacksmith's tools, 1t is seven
feet high, gives the time in eleven
cities, strikes the hours and quarters,
and is exhibited in glass case, where
the movements can be seen.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-30

a hfe-buoy signal light has been
invented, the purpose of which is to
light up the sea in case of accident at
nigh 1t is attached to the hfe-buoy
by cord, and upon being thrown
overheard bursts Immediately on
striking the water. The light. which
cannot be extinguished by either
wind or wave, burns for over an hour,
and thus enables the work of rescue
to be easily carried on.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-30

A. Negroes Opinion in a Little
Book Of Big Things" is the title Of a
book written by colored man of
NIcksburs. Miss,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-30

1t is related shat ali old bachelor
who recently died near Norwich,
Conn, was the possessor OF more than
one hundred pairs of ladies' shoes,
embracing the various styles of the
last tWenty-GYa years.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-30
Loss aud tam
Il was take:l sick a year ago
Nt-Es3, a,4Fy.,...- Fr,..,-


My doctor pronounced nae cured. but
| got sick again, with terrible pains i'll
my hack and sides. and sgt 50 bad l
Could not move
| shrunk!
From 22S lbs. t. 100, had been doc.
toring for NY liver, hut ii did me no good.
did not expect to live more than three
months. | began To use Hop HitterS,
Directly my appetite returned, my pains
left me. nay entire system seemed re-
newed as If by magic, and after using
several bottles, am not only as SouuS
IS q sovereign. but weigh moro than |
didsefore, To Hop RitterS owe my life.
DuSliH, June 4, 81. r. flTZrArRlCK.
CiArTsR IL.
"MaldeN, Mass. Feb. I. 1881 Gentlemen
suffered with attacks OF sick headache
Neuralgia, female trouble, fer years
Ia the most terrible and exCrueiating
manner.
No medicine or doctor could give mo
relief Or cure, until used Hop Ritters.
The first bottle
Nearly cured me-
The second made RE rs we'll and strong
as when n child,
And l have been 40 to this day
My husband was an invalid for twenty
years with serious
Kidney, liver and urinary complaint
Pronounced by Bostou's best physi-
ciacs-
"Incurable"'
Seven bottles of your Bitters cured
him and know of the
Lives Of eight persons
In my neighserhood that have been
saved 10y your Bitters,
And many more are using them with
great benefit.
"They almost
do miraClesI" Mrs. f. y. Sidch.
How TO Cav SICK Expose vrurself day and
night, eat too much without exercise work too
hard without rest doctor at the times take MI the
vile unstrunS advertised AMI then ynn viii want
u know h0H a. oct iFGj}. which is answered ~
three words. Take Hop Bttcrs4
ES~Neue genuine without bunch Of green
Hops on he hta label Shnp all the vile Poison
Gus stun vth Hop or Hons ~ their nanir
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-30

John Snyder, one of the Oldest resi-
dents of the suburb of Williamsburg,
emphatically declares that the timbers
for Noahs ark were cut IN Westmore-
land county.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-30

True ANleric1n men and women by reaSa; ~
their strong constitutions, beautiful forms rish
( rpleNinuS and characteristics energy. an, en-
Wed tv all nations. 1t is the general use Of Dr
harter's Iron Tonic which brings about these
results
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-30

happy combination of best Grape Brandy,
smart " eed, Jamaica Ginger and CamphOr
Water as found in DIR. Pierce's Compound Ex-
tract of Smart weed, cures cholera morbus, diar-
rhCaa. dyseutery or bloody-tiux, collie or cramps
il the stomach, and break up colds, fevers and
!nliammatory attacks.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-30

No effort has ever bee n made to advertise
Lydia Z. Fiakham's Vegetable Compound outside
our own America: Yet frequent calls from other
Jars OF thu world SHOW that good news will
50 cad. Packages of this medicine have even
Deen sent from Lynn, Mass, to China