Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-05-07
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No less than 2,70o babies come souaIl-
ing into old London town every week.
The French have taken the American
verb ITO interview" into their language.
Stockton, Cal, knife-grinder has be-
gun suit to recover % cents from a delin-
quent customer.
One hundred persons have recently
died IN New Hampshire between the ages
of eighty and one hundred years.
In Turin a new Raphael, it is believed.
has been found. 1t is profile portrait,
and bears the words, "Urbino 1877
By Japanese process seaweed is made
into paper so transparent that it may be
substituted for window glass.
Little bees so made that they tremble
with the slightest motion of the wearer
are among the new things in French
Jewelry.
Scotch medical professor lately de-
clared that out of over 100 medical grad
yates not ten ment to set up in Scot
land.
A boy at Dillingham;, England, in try
ing to draw the air from bit of a balloon
sucked the toy down his throat and was
choked to death.
Sixty-nine of her British Majesty's big
ships are said to be ''shams, antiques and
| curious, whose proper place is in a naval
museum or colossal marine bric-a- brio
shop"
A boy, fourteen years old,was found in
| charge of the boilers and engine-room in
Brooklyn manufacturing establishment
| employing over 100 hands last week by
| the Boiler Inspector of that city.
BY the will of an eccentric. welI-to-do
| resident of Port Jervis, n. Y, who died
lately, little waif, whom he picked up on
the streets and since cared for at his
home, comes into possession of $4,000.
Six years ago an artist gave a citizen
of Auburn, Me-, several sheep for an old
violin, said to be a Cremona. The Auburn
man thinks he made good bargain, fol
his sheep have Melted him $1,000.
The Body of a man who was murdered
| near Walla Walla, W. T., twenty years ago
was found the week before last. A pre-
vious unsuccessful attempt in this direc
ton resulted in the discharge of two mer
tried for the murder.
| About forty thousand barrels of foul
were under water in Montreal, but only
small part of it was injured, because
thin coating of paste from around the
outside of the packages and the grea
bulk of the flour remains sweet and dry
within.
A robin that made persistent efforts tt
| get into house in Erie, Pa, through al
upper window, frightened the inmate:
badly. because within lay woman very
i'll, and they were certain that the unusua
actions of the bird were a harbinger o.
death.
ten-year-old Boston girl, says tn,
| Record, asked her teacher the other dav
if India was our father country, just a:
England was our mother country. No
| indeed, was the answer. "Why do YOU
ask that?" Nothing, only see it's Far
Their India on the map
Geoge H. Bishop has tried the expert
ment of setting hen on a double-yolke,
egg with entire success. On Sunday
little head came through each end of tn
| egg, and when the shell was removed tw,
| chickens were found. They were slightl,
united but were easily separated.
While John S. Ballard, of dorchester
was driving just outside of the tow
limits the other day black snake six fee
long darted out of the bushes right il
front of the horse, which whirled around
threw Mr.. Ballard out of the buggy, hurt
ing him badly, and then dashed Wild
| home.