Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-05-22
PERSONS AND THINGS.

Three men in England who pay
taxes on the largest assessed value of
personal property are Gilds Loder.
$15, OOo, eco; Richard Thornton, $14,-l
coo, 600, and Baron Lionel RotEchild,
$13, 500, 900.
While England, with population
of 26, 900, 600 has only 800 students
at oxford and Cambridge, Germany,
with population of As. $3.50, 900, has
25, 600 students attending her Tniver
sites.
The lamp which General Sherman
carried from the time he entered the
army, in 1861, until he camped On the
south bank of the Potomac in 1865, is
now preserved at TIE Soldiers Home
at Dayton, Ohio.
Disease itself may be blessing, for
it appears Shat in Philadelphia ms
teresting cases" hire themselves out
to clinical lecturers at from % cents
to 81. according to the instructive
ness of his malady.
The building IN which the postofice
is located at Bristol, Pa was an even
hundred years old last week. The
timbers were all hewn out of oak in
Penn's Manor, Bucks County, and
RATED down the Delaware.
Sand Iiches are a great staple in
London. Forty thousand women are
daily engaged in vending them, not
TO mention the thousands who assist
in their preparation.
In the year 1777 considerable inter
est was manifested in an announce
ment that six stoves had been com>
pleted in Philadelphia. The annual
| product Of the stove foundries in that
city is now valued at $4,000, 900, and
the industry supports about twelve
thousand people.
Several thousand houses, ranging
in size from eight to twenty rooms
and provided with every modern con.
venience, are TO be built in Philadel-
phia, besides a number of French
flats, several large and costly church
es, ana half dJz4n or more public
institutions.
Invalids who depend upon cod liver
oil to sustain their vital forces should
be careful to get pure article. Cot,
VII oCNo C1l ID NOW SOluS lOT LIlC Soo
liver product what it long since ac-
complished in the matter OF olive Oil.
Daring the recent trial trip of the
new Cunarder, Etruria, she reeled off
twenty-four miles an hoar. On two
successive days crossing the Atlantic
her log Indicated 44S ard 449 miles
respectfully. She is expected to make
the run from dock 10 dock in six days
and seven hours, or three hours less
than it was ever made before.
The best quality of charcoal is made
from oak, maple, beach and chestnut.
Wood will furnish, when properly
charred, about 20 per cent. OF char
coal. A bushel of charcoal from pine
weighs 90 pounds; one from hard
wood weighs 80 pounds; 100 parts of
oak make nearly 90 of charcoal, red
piue about 90, white pine %
Professor +. @. Marshall says the
French have more suspension bridges
than any nation on tie globe. Their
engineers are putting up suspension
bridges everywhere, and at last one of
the structures approximates to the
size of the Brooklyn bridge. So nu~
merous are these bridges in France
that it is impossible to secure an ac~
curate list of them on this side of the
water.
Buried treasure seekers are at work
in Georgia, Near Covington, accord
ing to the Star OF that place, colore d
man and several assistants have been
making excavations for several
| he hr,>oc Nf Erl,,,. 10n 0nn
which the principal in the scheme
AYERS was buried there three years
ago.
The total number of commandments
at Trinity Church, New York, is 354,
of whom 575, representing $50
families, are from the working class.
Although Trinity is very wealthy, it
will be seen from this that we'll nigh
one-half its actual communicates are
people in moderate circum STAGES.
The pay of Russian army officer is
very small. A full general gets from
81, 500 TO So, 600 year in our money
according to length of service; lieu,
tenant general from 81 ,172 to 81, 750;
major general from $3.50 to 81, 800,
and colonel commanding three
battalion regiment, 240 strong, gets
1884.
The Mexican Indians, when at war
fare with troops, make shield out of
their blankets by wetting and holding
them up by the upper edges. Bullets
sway the blankets instead of penetrat-
ing them, the blankets acting like a
ballistic pendulum. These blankets
are hand woven, and are fulled until
thick and waterproof.
Some like it hot, some like it cold,
some like it in the pot nine days old. ="
Thus runs the song about peas por-
ridge, which is not often found on Il
modern bill of fare. Our porri3ge
the much abused oatmeal. is improv.
ed, according to scientific writer, by
keeping in closed jars several days
before using. 1t is sweetened by the
formation Of sugar, while the fibrous
material is sOiteued
Anna DickinSons donkey on which
she made the perilous ascent of Pixies
| Peak before the trail to tie summit
of that mountain was completed, is
kept on exhibition at Mahitou Springs,
and allowed 10 do pretty much as it
pleaseS. -Four years ago it fell from
ledge of rocks and broke its fore leg
in Cheyenne Canyon, but speedily
recovered. and IS now as frisky IS a
Mexican parrot.