Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-04-17
GLEANINGS.

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half the American sailing ships.
There is law in Tennessee against
playing base ball on Sunday.
The old fashioned knitted purse of
our grandmothers' time is revived.
France is now getting large sup
plies of cannel frogs from this coun-
try.
Few towns in Eagland under 90
600 inhabitants can boast q daily
newspaper.
"a statue to the French author Flau-
bert is 70 be erected at Rouea, his na
| tive place.
Ell Mahdi has thirteen wives. He
married the first when he was sixteen
years old.
There are said to be twenty ways Of
cooking potato and 365 ways of cook
ing an egg.
Public houses in the United King
dom have diminished 6,S61 in number
daring the last eight years.
The BARRIERS are almost alone among
the tradesmen in the United States in
having no union.
Algeria hiss As, GOO 600 acres of cul-
tivated land, 362, TAI implements, 1884,
900 horses, 1 100000 head of cattle,
5000. 00G sheep, and $500, coo goats.
The owners of the ground upon
which the battle of Austerlitz was
fought are indusLriousiy excavating
the old battle field, ia consequence of
rumor that the French commander
buried there a number OF military
chests containing more than million
francs
M. N Foster, a farmer living near
Haywards, Cal, has hog which
spends his time with a flock ef geese.
Every day when the geese go iato the
pond for their accustomed swim the
the hog plunges in at the same time
and remains as long as The geese do.
Horses have a natural dislike for
caraels ia nlass, and can scarcely be
induced to charge upon q body OF
these desert animals, even when the
latter are lying down and tied
Connecticut is now reported TO
have recently flooded the Australian
colonies with cigars made wholly of
paper, carefully colored and veined,
and favored with nicotine,
A COW attached to the gabernatorial
mansion at Jefferson City, No, hav-
ing been milkeG five years by con
victs, now refuse to allow anybody IN
citizens dress to approach her.
A facstious exchange says the way
TO br"ak rocks is to inclose them in q
box marked glass" and send the box
a few hundred miles by rail. when the
stones will'certainly be macadamized.
A tame raven stole ring from a
weman in Milwaukee She had plac-
ed the ring upon a bench, while wash
ing, and the raven carried it eff to
some secret hiding place. The woman
brought suit against the owner of the
bird, and the judge has decided that
he must pay the value of the lost
ring.
A French medical journal reports
1909 deaths from lightning stroke in
France between the years 1885 and
1864, and about twice this number
were seriously wounded, and FIVE
times as many were struck. Since
1864 there have been no deaths from
lightning in the Department of the
Seine.
An Indian law student was caught
in the act of vigorously arguing an
imaginary case before a saw horse
and twelve sticks of cord wood, the
latter representing the jury and the
former the judge.
Jenny Lind has given a conditional
promise to give concert next sum-
mer in Norwich, England, in aid Of
the children's Inf1rmary there, of
which she is the foundress. she has
not sung in public since 1868.
Among the bridal gifts at a wedding
in Middletown N. Y. recently, was a
tidy made of silk and antique lace, the
former being part of dress worn at a
party given in honor OF Washington
at New Londox, Conn.
The fashionable New York poodle
must be as tenderly shielded from tho
dust as his devoted slave and owner,
and he, therefore, now wears tissue
veil swathed round his head whom
taken on Fifth avenue for his airing.