Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-07-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

There are living in New York
State over 100000 French Canadians
N Y Sun.
Sixty thousand dollars were snent
in Chicago for flowers during the recent
opera festival Chicago Herald.
The Popular Science Monthly, after
q careful investigation, concludes that
the human race began about 100000
years ago.
A ire engine company of Fair
haven, Mass. stopped to elect a fore
man pro tenn in the street close to the
burning building before putting a
stream on the flames.-BoSt0n Globe.
After repeated trials penny dinners
in London and Birmingham are be-
coming successful, though it is admitted
that, to a great extent, the children o!
the very poorest classes are not reached.
Half-penny dinners are now being tried
in Birmingham.
That is funny law recently passed
by the Legislature of Texas. which says
that "a person whose property is in
sured and which has been damaged by
fire shall receive the full value of the
policy, no matter how small the loss
NAV be. De rot Post.
Newport is agitated over the condi-
ton of the famous old stone mill, one
of the wonders of the world and gen.
uine antique The extreme cold of last
winter has so badly damaged the struc-
ture that extensive repairs will be re-
quired to keep it from falling to the
ground. Journal
DR. Holmes gives receipt for q
popular novel: ero-heroine-papa
Love-obstacles- misery = tears -des-
pair-glimmer Of hope-uneNpectcd So
luton of difficulties happy finale.
Landscape for background according
to season. Plants of each month got
up from botanical calendars"
A woman of Middleton, Conn,
who had become exasperated at an
eagle that had stolen her chickens
and pigeons saw him taking siesta
tn other day after lunching on spring
chicken. She got down double bar
relied shotgun, pointed it at the eagle,
shut both ewes and fired both barrels.
She brought down the bird, which is TO
be stuffed as a trophy. = Hartford
C0urdnt
Cocaine, the new anesthetic. is a
colorless fluid not unlike glycerine.
Under its effects, patient at hos
| pital the other day submitted to the
ball of his eye being punctured BY deli
cate spearhead knife, and in its place 4
small suction pump inserted which
which the knife had punctured, and all
Al ,i,,In @Ia ta1l H.
! scious, chatted pleasantly with the oper-
ator, as insensible of the operation as
though it were being performed on his
hat band Chicago JOuunal
The saltpetre beds of Nevada are
far better situated for the development
of their deposits than the nitre region
of South America, which is desert en-
tirely devoid of water and all vegetable
life. Water for all purposes is con-
denSed from the ocean W. er, and car
ried to the nitre fields, while fuel has to
be procured from the mountains in the
South of Chill. In Nevada the salt
petre deposits are in the vicinity of a
rich farming country, with an abundant
supply of water and wood close at
hand. Chicago J0Uraai.
nC ECHlItII Ittll tlClG Nou-
siderable public curiosity through the
columns of newspapers two years ago
/ is still at New Haven, Conn, in a
wooden building on the bank of Mill
River. 1t is about thirty feet long,
cigar-shaped. burns petroleum for fuel,
and can make excellent speed under
water. 1t is said to have cost $4,000.
No one is allowed to see it except those
in whose charge it is, and they refuse
to talk about it. The building has no
side windows and the door is strongly
barred. -NcU Hdrcn Register.
An angler thus tells of his own ex-
perments rs to the effect that sound
produces on trout, and he assumes that
all fishes are more or less alike in this
respect: "Frequently when able to OBJ
serve trout, while myself unseen, l
| have screamed and shouted at the top
of my voice. These demonstration have
| invariably been without the slightest
effect, but when varied by conclusion
which would communicate itself to the
water this has no longer been the case.
and evidence of alarm, or at least that
the conclusion was felt, has been APP
parent. Chicago HeraM.
The use of the revolver by women
to avenge real or supposed injuries, is
becoming very common in France. Re
Gently a Paris physician, residing in the
Rue Lafayette, had maid servant
| named Louise ChaSot, whom he dis
missed. She left, vowing vengeance,
| of which he took no notice. The next
day Il messenger called to ask him to 90
and see person who was i'll at Rue de
| Dunkirk. He went to the apartment
indicated, and on the door being opened
te him he found himself in the presence
| of his late domestic. She immediately
| fired two shots of revolver at him.
One bullet grazed his ear. The other
passed through his left thigh.
Some thirteen years ago Hon. Gid
con Haynes, of Massachusetts. in the
course of business mailed four Bank OF
England notes of the aggregate value
of $500 to n correspondent in Brazil.
The mail steamer was burned on the
| passage, with her cargo, and the money
was given up as lost Recently Mr.
| Haynes discovered that each note was
stamped with a mark and number,
and that duplicate of this was kept
in the record of the bank. He commu.
nicated with Messrs. Kidder, Peabody
\ Co, and that firm, together with its
London correspondent, Barring Brothers
& Co.. soon had the matter investigated
and the lost bills replaced by new ones.
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