Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-01-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

-Aite- the death Of man at Bidde-
ford. Me. over $4,000 in cash and
bonds were found concealed in his bed.
hour skeletons, thought to be those
OF Revolutionary soldiers. were found
recently under an oak tree in Evona,
y. j.
1t is estimated that not less than
thousand men will make a regular bus
mess of playing baseball professionally
this summer.
Brick houses are long-feit want
in Texas according to the San Antonio
Times, which chronicles with joy the
fact that preparations are being made
at Columbus to erect such buildings.
A modern novel has the following
passage: With one hand he held the
beautiful golden head above the chill
ling wave. and with the other called
loudly for ass. stance. ST. Paul Times
A few years ago, says the London
Stdriar6. the Young people of England
became imbued with the roller skating
craze. and Kinks were built all over the
country. The fever, however. was as
brief as any other vagaries of ia shion;
the enthusiasm died away, the Kinks
were deserted. the investors lost their
money, and roller skates disappeared
in the land.
Major Foliett. q Brooklyn me-
chanic. has invented wonderful sewing
machine. which. it is claimed, will do
eighty per cent. more work than any
machine now in the market. An expert
ment with steam power moved it with
speed of 300 stitches minute, and
was started and stopped instantly. 1t
is simple in construction, i easily
operated. and saws az kinds of fabrics,
from leather 10 fine linen. BROOKLYN
Eag{t.
Another illustration OF what the bad
sanitary condition OF house will entail
was Afforded at Milford, Mas. within
a week OF two. where four children died
from diphthevia while the life of the
fifth and last child was saved by being
removed Ia another tenement. The
sanitary arrangements OF the chidreu's
home were atterward found to be bad
in the extreme. boston Jonrnat
The following tough alligator story
comes from Newbern, ). G. While out
in skiff the other day padding along
the shore, Sol Burgess caught an alli-
gator, which, after struggling vainly to
get free, astounded him by INDUCING in
loud and prolonged whistle. In few
minutes alligators, TO the number of
40l, assembled around him from all
directions, and he had the greatest
difficulty in escaping from him.
People who want to get ready for
Russian dispatches are advise by the
Terre Haute Express to practice on the
following stanza:
Milarodevitch and Jaiadoritch
And Karatschovtch,
And all the others that end in tch
SChamschef. Touchsanef,
And SchepaleH,
And all the others that end in Elf.
WasiftchikOH, kOStOmarof,
And Tchogiokon,
And all the others that emf in of.
-Swordswallowing has always had
great favor with the rusticS. especially
in Europe. 1t has gradually been dis
countenanced in this country as an In
human exhibition. The death of pro-
fessional sword-swallowcr in an English
hospital from hsnorrhage has again
brought attention to the dangers of his
calling. which is popularity supposed to
be harmless. Surgeons say that all
such performers tritie with their lives
and shorten their years. Chicago Tri6-
7tHe.
There is very large colony of Rus
sian Mennonitcs in Bon Homme, Dako-
Ia. and other counties in that section,
and they retain most of their old coun-
try practices. One of these is their
weekly fair. Every Thursday . thou
sand or more of them gather at Scot
land, bringing whatever they may wish
TO sell or trade-horses, cattle, hogs,
sheep, corn, dairy products. and every
thing, in fact. 1t seems to be useful
and popular arrangcmcnt.-St Paul
GIoJe
The most absent-minded man in
Scranton is the one who carried his
dinner To work one day last week,
worked all day, and when he came to
pick up his dinner pail to carry it home
felt il quite heavy. and thinking some
of his fellow workmen had been trying
to play trick on him by putting some
thing in his pail, opened it and there
found his dinner just as it was when he
left home. He had gone without his
dinner and yet thought he had eaten it.
Lork1FCaah0 (Fo.) Democrat
4 harlo.(c Cushman had a foot OF
her own in size, and generally wore
tourI, hut coud crowd into a three and
a-half on n tight squeeze One night.
soon after re covering from a severe at
tack of inilammatory rheumatism. she
was w"arn@ II par of slippers much
TOO small for hcr. Darling behind the
wings hc.N" the scenes, She snatched
them Of and threw them Is far ~ she
could, evrlaln.ng: ''Yc gods Some
body lend me pair of slippers or I'll
20 in my stockings" What number
30 y"u w"ar?' asked Young actor.
ready 10 help her in the emergency.
90, never mind the number; anything
from five to twenty she replied -
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