Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-02-20
GLEAN1NGS.

Old, broken nosed pitchers which
during the recent ancient craze
brought $4o0 are now worth only 50
cents.
A resident of Manchester, Mass,
planted half peck of peas and sowed
half an acre of rye on the 18th of Jan
uary, this year.
The New York Mail is authorized
for the statement that one of the most
prominent churches in that CITY COM
peis Its female members who confess
having sinned TO wear next the skin
q heavy brass plate, on which is a
crucihN. The wearer can scarcely
move without pain from the pressure
OF the plate.
The wife of Huntington County
man, having neglected her household
by calling too frequently upon her
neighbors, is ROW abliged to remain
at home, inasmuch as her beautiful
false teeth have been hidden by her
husband, who refuses to deliver them
up until she solemnly promises to re.
form.
A 200 acre park, midway between
Minneapolis and ST. Paul, new in pro
cess OF construction will be the only
neutral ground between these two
CITIES, which were fifteen miles apart
ten years ago,
The musk beetle, according to an
English observer, has the power of
emitting or supressing its odor at
pleasure, but when dying the scent is
continuous, and after death more
powerful than at any time during
life.
Each political faction of the Ger
man Reichstag reioices in the possess.
IN OF Parliamentary snuff box of its
own-the gift of an enterprising snuff
dealer, who sees that they are Kept
we'll SLED with the best maccabees.
In Des Moines the number of
soloons has increased from sixty To
102 since the so called prohibition"
went into effect. As the sellers have
no license 10 pay they can stand an
occasional coniScation of stock,
which is kept low in expectation Of
such emergencies.
Suicides in Vienna are on the in.
crease, the number for 1884 being S44,
for 1888 276, for 1882 266. and for
1880, SOC. OF these PSI were males
and sixty-three females The Young
est was a boy of thirteen and the
oldesta woman OF eighty-four Shoot
ing and March were the fayorite
method and month respectively.
AT the university of Virginia there
is no prescribed course of study, no
entrance examination, no vacation,
except the Summer one, and but six
holidays.
Seven men between the ages Of
twenty and twenty five years recently
sat down te dinner IN Chenango
County, New York, and on compar-
ing notes it was found that not one
of the seven smoked, chewed or used
tobacco in any form, and never drank,
went to the theatre or played auchre.
Alf Prater, of Gainesville. Ga, has
constructed model of the Brooklyn
bridge. 1t is four feet wide, thirty
feet long, and weighs $50 pounds.
Three hundred and fifty figures are
kept moving on it, representing men,
women, drays, carriages, cars, etc,
and under the bridge are boats in real
NdGCI, ltiC SCSllCo
like the real bridge.
There is no such a thing rs fire
place or stove in all Mexico, aud hence
no chimneys. The temperature re-
mains at about 60 degrees the year
round, and while the stranger will
complain of being chilly at first, he
will soon become accustomed TO the
atmosphere. The cooking is all done
in Dutch ovens, with charcoal
During 1884 new members joined
the Masonic fraternity in the state Of
Connecticut to the number of 400, 10S
affiliated from othsr lodges, 43 were
reinstated, 104 withdrawn, 15S
dropped for non payment of dues, 90
suspended, Expelled, 1S7 died. There
are 14,799 members at the present
year The cash on hand at the be
ginning of the present year was $l64.-
OF recsipts OF the past year, $2, $50. 02 !;
expenditures, So, 5S4 46.
An Inability to clearly perceive
| forms and outlines, or form blindness,
is new defect that has been dis
covered by New York artist, who
says he sometimes placed objects in
the shape of hexagons, or octagons,
or decagons, or even SO common a
shape as pentagon or five pointed
star before certain pupil as test, and
almost invariably they were unable to
distinguish one form from another,
even when with careful distinction
the differences were explained to
them.