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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-05-07
Water In Bread.

4 Local police court in Wurtemberg
| aiming at the prohibition of the said of
| bread not perfectly baked and containing
| too much water, recently addressed the
| royal chamber of trade and commerce
| asking what methods should be employed
| to test the amount of water contained in
| bread. and the probable cost of employ
| ing those methods. The answer received
| from the authorities was published by
| Herr Alett in Wurtemberg, and we present
| 1t herewith to our readers. After stating
| that not even a cumulative analysis
| would decide the exact amount of water
contained in bread. that the proportion
might be obtained by drying out the bread,
whereby the loss of weight would measure
| the water lost and that, for a decision as
| to the goodness of the bread, the deter
mination of the amount of water in the
crumb when separated from the crust
would be valuable, the following things
were designated as necessary:
l. A scale capable of weighing 200
! grams and of accurately weighing one
| tenth of a gram. Such scales may be OBJ
| tanned of the gaugers.
=, A drying room or airbath, 25 cent?
meters deep, built of copper, which may
be obtained of mechanics for about 30
marks.
3. A thermometer which registers over
100 degrees Celsius costing two and half
marks.
4. A gas lamp for heating the air-bath,
costing with the necessarily gas connections
four marks, and an iron chimney costing
80 pennies. From these figures it appears
that the entire necessary apparatus will
cost about 81 marks.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-05-07
How to Catch Wales.
Salt Lake Herald.

What is the process of catching wales!'
inquired the reporter who saw Mr.. Rob
ersOn yesterday.
with the harpoon," he answered, ste
which is attached gun containing bomb
As soon as the harpoon strikes the whale
the gun Is discharged and the bomb eX.
plOdes, its contents entering the mammoth
and sometimes instantly killing it. but
often wounding it so that it goes down
often as far as forty fathoms, and they
die under water. If it dies on top, the
body remains floating"
"What is done when the whale dives?"
ooh, they play out the line, and the fish
ers await his coming to the top. But fire.
quently he has to be hauled up"
us there much danger in the business
of whale killing!"
"A great deal sometimes. The animal
we oftener call him an animal than q
tish-is maddened by the wound and furi
ously lashes the water, many times upset.
ting the boats, and ducking, and some.
times drowning. his assailants."
after the killing what is done with the
animal!'
when he reaches the top, and after he
Is dead, he is cut up and landed on the
deck of the vessel. There the carcass is
put through the process of being rem.
dered into oil and extracting the bones
How is that done?"
The blubber is cut into pieces about :
feet long and inches wide; these chunks
are again sliced and put into pots and
rendered for oil. All the bone taken out
Is in the jaw. This latter is purchased
by an extensive French firm, who convert
1t into threads, dresses. fans and numer-
Gus other articles. An immense business
is carried on in whalebones. and fortunes
have been made by those engaging in it,
What do you suppose a single whale
will bring:"
"Oh, guess about $1,000
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-05-07
Pemaquid.
IL II

And now "Pemaquid," with its paved
| streets, its old fort, one on the point,
| which is known in history, and one a mile
and a half above this on Salt bay" (the
Lewis farm site so called), about which
when and by whom built-there is neither
| tradition or history, is to become a sum
| mer resort. Greed before history. But
| when Massachusetts could sell the old
Hancock house in Boston, what may not
Maine, a willful daughter as Massachusetts
men call the state, not attempt! Gen.
Chamberlain claims from Pemaquid an
older date than Plymouth, and contends
for a more prominent recognition it its
place in the history of the country, and
adds:
Few know that it was the early settle
ments in this territory which confirmed
the title of old England to the new; that
years before the pilgrims set foot on Ply
mouth sands there was established English
settlements at various points on the
shores of Maine-that Pemaquine was a
seat of trade and at one time the me-
tropolis of all the region east of New
York. Popular history does not care to
tell US the Samoset who startled the pill
grims with the greeting, Much welcome
Englishmen! was lord of Pemaquid, and
had learned the language from long fami-
liar intercourse with the colonists and
visitants at that joint capital!'
Capt. John Smith, who was along this
coast and made quite correct map of it
in 1914, while lying at Monhegan, wrote:
Right opposite in the main is port"
etc, either referring to the site'near old
Fort st. George or New Harbor. on the
eastern side of Pemaquid point. In 1922
the pilgrims at Plymouth, Mass, sent to
Pemaguid, and received free of all charge
large supplies of food, and found thirty
sailing vessels at Pemapuid. sure evidence
that it had been long a center of trade.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-05-07
The Victim Was Grateful.


Shortly before the retirement of Chit of
Police West from official life, a promin-
ent citizen of Iowa, who was evidently
suffering great mental anguish, ap-
piled to him for assistance He informed
the chief that he had been inveigled into
& game of cards at room on Seventh
street, and while there two courteous gen
tlemen had won all the money in his poss-
ession, about $500, and he had given
them a note for 81 100 for the additional
sum won by the sharpers. Chief West
visited the room indicated with the Iowa
man; the latter pale with anxiety and eX-
citement over his losses at game which
he evidently did not understand as well
as the 1.-TWO gentlemen" The only turni-
ture in the room was a solitary table and
in one corner were found the fragments
of other notes given by the Iowa gentle
before he had consolidated the entire in
debtedness in the note for 81 100. 4 day
or two afterward the chief discovered the
confidence operators, and the note was
surrendered and handed over to the I'M
lucky Iowan- He appeared profoundly
grateful for the service rendered BY the
chief, and his gratitude found expression
in the words: You have saved me, and
now l wish you would join me in dish
of ice cream.' The princely liberality
of the reward offered for the service rem
dered paralyzed the chief, and he did not
accept the offer, but he smiles sadly when
ever ice-cream is mentioned to him.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-05-07
WI.


The autumn holiday time had come to all
end and the tn;rl.i, had left Scotland to the
Scotch.
In the duh season Il solitary traveller from
the north arrived at the nearest post town to
Mount MnrNrn. \ S..etch-book and Il color
boz formed part ot his luggage and declared
him to he an artist Falling into TUX over
his dinner with the waiter AT the hotel lac
made inquiries about Il picturesque nome in
the urighhuIhoud which showed that Mount
Murvru was well known to him by reputa-
toN. Whcu he proposed paying visit 10
the cd border fortress the next day, the
waiter said: You cant see the hou>,."
When the traveller asked why, this ll.,n ol
IeN words merely added: shut up
The landlord madc his appearance with 4
bottle ot wine, and proved to I've Il more con-
muuiratjve person in his relations Niih
strangers. Presented in an abridged foru.
and in the English language, thasy. las he L.
lated th|ml We're the circumstances; under
which Mount Molv,n had been clus,d TO lie
pubic:
y complete dispersion of the family had
taken place not long since. For miles round
cvrrl body was sorry for it. Rch and poor
alike felt the same sympathy with the good
Ndy of the house. She had been most shame
fully trratrd toy her husband and BY a good
for nothing girl employed aS governeSS. To
put it plainly, the two had run away togeth-
e; one report said they had gone abroad,
and another declared that they were living
in London. Mr.. Linley'S conduct was per
tcct.y incomplcheUSih!c. He had always
borne the highest chara2tcr-a good landlord.
kind father. a devoted husband. And vet
after more than eight Years of exemplary
married life, he had diSgraCed himself. The
minister of the parish, preaching on the sub
Iect had attributed this extraordinary out
break of vice on the put of an otherwise
NrtuouS man toa possession of the devil.
Assuming the dryil'' IN this case To be only
discreet and clerical way of abiding from
the pulpit 10 4 woman, the landlord was in
clned Ia agree with the minister After what
had happened il was. of course, impossible
that Mrs. Linlcy could remain In her huS-
bands house. She aad her little girl and her
mother were supposed ~ be living in retire
ment. They kept the place OF their retreat 4
secret from everybody bat Mrs Lin!ey's
legal adviser. who WAS Instructed 10 forward
.ettors. Bat one other member of the family
remained to be accounted for.
Linley's younger hruther-knOwn at present
10 be travelling on the continent Two trust
worthy old servants had been left in charge
at Mount MorvCn. and Ia II was the whole
Story-lnd that WIS Why tie house was shut
up.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-05-07
Heroes in Every Crisis.
New York Evening Post

One of the most striking features of
every great national crisis is the develop
ment of the highest qualities by the most
lowly citizens. The question of liberty Is
as truly at stake in The United States in
1886 as it was in the colonies little over
a century ago. Indeed, the tyranny of
the English king then fell far short of
being so intolerable as that which secret
oath-bound organizations are seeking TO
establish now, for no king ever presumed
to exercise such control over the actions
of his subjects as. the Empire Protective
association and the Knights of Labor are
assuming. Now. as in the last century,
the men and women who are quickest to
recognize the principle involved and TO
assert their independence are plain peo-
ple,- like Mrs Gray, the New York baker,
and Mr.. Tarbo1, the Lynn grocer-people
who in ordinary times go quietly about
their vocations. are never heard of by the
general public, and, IN short, are the last
persons whom one expect ever to chal-
lenge the attention and admiration of the
country Yet when the Bakers union at
tempted to dictate to Mrs Crap what
vorkmen she should employ. and the
Knights of Labor attempted to force Mr..
Tarbo1 to close his store at certain hour,
this modest woman and this quiet man
perceived IN an instant that an assault was
being made upon American liberty in
their persons, and they rebeiled il with a
dignity and force which Immediately
rallied TO their support all the decent citi-
zens of their communities
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-05-07
CHTT-CHAT.

Look here, daughter said Mrs. Par
venue to her eldest. I'm not going to
have you deranging my parlor with your
athletic notions any longer, and 1 shall
attend to it myself" 'Tant Mieur," re-
piled the daughter in elegant seminary
French. faint you, eh?" snapped the
mother. well. I'd like to know what the
mischief it is, them"
He was practical and felt like making
love on that basis. She was little that
way herself. Can you cook?" he in
quired. Can you supply everything to
be cooked!" she replied. 1t was match.
The craze for birds-on-the-ha in the
east, it is said, will seriously interfere
with the peach crop. The bird that is
roosting on the hat of belle ought to be
picking vermin from the fruit trees.
Il wonder what makes these buttons
burst off So" Dora petulantly exclaimed.
Davis looked at her tight dress. Force
of habit, l think he said softly.
Diffident lover: Il know that am per-
feet bear in my manner" She: Sheep,
you mean. Bears hug people: you do
nothing but bleet."
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-05-07
CHAT WITH A BRAKEMAN.
The Dangers, Incidents, and Fascinations of
the Road.

The Dangers, Incidents, and FaScinations of
the Road.
Cincinnati Sun
Brakeman? Yes, What of it,
Just wanted to know how the old
thing works."
Works! Well, it works all right with
an old-time crew, but get one of these ag-
gravatin' greenhorns in and nobody
knows the result till it's settled.
Don't the newcomers catch on readi-
ly?"
Readily? No. Warily would be a
better word. l will try to tell you how
they do it. The whistle blows for brakes
and all hands scramble for them. The
greens, always having the snap, start from
the caboose. l think l see one of them
warily feeling his way up the ladder to
the roof of the first car and contemplating
the prospect in abject terror.
"Forcible expletives from the rear i'm pei
the progress of the recruit, and as he con
templates the yawning chasm between the
first two cars he even jumped horror is
written on his face and reluctance halts
his step.
Yes its common. They all look at the
fearful leap, grit their teeth. make a wild
j
the next car, and thereafter attack duty
with the confidence born of such exper-
fence"
where are you recruiting the brake
men FROM"
Almost without exception from country
towns. The kids in defiance of law and
marshals disport themselves about the
trains while passing or shifting till the
habit becomes passion, and maturity
makes its qualification possible.
accidents? Well, they are largely due
to either carelessneSs, drunkenness. or
| erconfdence-c chiefly the latter. An oc-
| casslon funeral is promoted by the snap
ping of brake-chain; again, without
warning. train parts at a critical moment:
but on the whole brakemen make no
specially foremost figure in railroad
fatalities.
yes, in one way we're tough, but we
work hard for small wages, and when we
relax we do it hilariously."
Suppose you have many close calls?"
"Well, the fact is we're on the ragged
edge about every minute of running time.
OF course, we take no thought of such
things, but no doubt our lives or limbs
! are imperiled unwittingly dozens of times
every trip"
How does it so often happen that old
timers are either killed or maimed?"
just because the older the hand the
more reckless he becomes. Habit makes
the dangerous duties on the railroader as
routine and common place as those of a
carpenter.
That fellow with his hand enveIoped
in drygoods store is an example. He
has been twenty years on the road, and
ten of them conductor. OF course with
ordinary care he could couple cars ten
hours at stretch without serious risk, but
familiarity breeds contempt for danger,
as for other things, and in that way he
lost half his right hand.
Once railroad man always one? Yes
that's about the extent of it. There is a
fascination about the life and its varied
experience which is rarely shaken off and
scarcely ever sought to be voluntarily.
Official advancement is about the only
thing that ever finally divorces a twister
| from the Wheel and that sort of things
happens with a rarity like the discovery
of new planet"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-05-07

living, one daughter possessed of limit
ed amount of intelligence having been
married. The remaining eight are cared
for by their father in his home, which was
in most deplorable condition when Sec
rotary CURT visited the place. Five of the
children are driveling idiots, past all
hope of improvement, while the other
three are somewhat brighter. The oldest
child is the worst of all. scarcely poss-
essing the instincts of an animal He sits
at window all day long, and from the
constant swaying of his body has worn a
hole IN the window sill where his head
touches the woodwork. Mr.. Miller ex-
pressed deep affection for his unto tun-
ate children. He said they were fed well
and seemed happy, though he was not
able to keep them well clothed on account
of their filthy habits. 1t was learned
that Mr.. and Mrs, Miller were blood cou-
sins of the first degree, and to this fact
alone the members of the committee at
tributed the imbecility of their offspring
The father however had no explanation
for the matter, and he looked upon the
atfllction as stroke of providence.
singular phase of the affair is that
the committee can find no legal way of
reaching the case. Two daughteas, u
and IA years of age respectively, and one
of the sons are capable of improve
ment if placed in a proper institution,
| as the Media training school, but as Mr..
Miller is well to do, owning two hundred
acres of land, and the children not in
sane, the committee can not invoke the
insanity laws nor make the children a
state charge. The matter was laid be
fore the society to protect children from
cruelty, but after consultation of the
officers with their solicitor it was found
that the society could not interfere, and
there is no provision in the law by which
it can take charge of such children.
DR.. CURT said yesterday. This is the
most deplorable case that has ever come
under my notice. The father does not
seem to comprehend the responsibility.
Three of the boys are able to work on the
farm, and as long as the physical wants of
the children are satisfied Mr. Miller is con-
tented. l tremble for the consequences
when the other two daughters grow up.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-05-07
A Witty Indiana Lawyer
Detroit Free Press.

A somewhat eminent lawyer of Indiana.
Judge L, given at times to bibulous
conviviality. on appearing one morning
on the streets in Washington, in that state
was accosted by a minister of the gospel
as follows:
We'll, drunk again, as usual, Judge"
To which Judge Z answered so am
1" and passed on.
The same lawyer visited an Illinois
town and got on a spree. A police officer
told him If he did not go to his hotel and
keep off the streets he would be arrested
and locked up.
To this the judge answered:
You can't (hic) do it,
why can't To-
Because, sir (hic), got no jurisdiction;
this thlc) an Indiana drunk"
While getting shaved this lawyer, who is
quite bald-headed. was attempted to be
guyed by doctor whose hair was very
profuse.
The doctor said:
why. Judge, you are getting to be quite
bald.
10 this the judge answered:
Yes, brains and hair don't grow to-
gether- By the way, doctor, observe that
you have fine head of hair"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-05-07
l guess about $1,000"
Graphic Description.
Boston Record

This was an actual reading in Somer-
vile grammar school the other day, by a
big boy, of the passage in the Reader which
tells how Longfellow took possession of
the Craigie house and lived an ideal life
there:
After this, Longfellow retired to the
carriage house, and there lived an almost
idle life.''
Another small boy, with the possibilities
of emince in the field of romantic htera-
ture in the dim future, handed In this bit of
graphic description:
The selvas are occupied by great vari-
ETY. of reptiles and insects such as the mon
key. There are many poisonous insects
hanging from the bows where tambourines
grow. The rhinocaros live on the most
beautiful trees. In the fright zone we see
immense icebergs and icicles on which
are whales and other birds-a large
animal is scooting water through his nose.
In the artic ocean We find birds sitting on
the grass-these birds walk on their hind
feet
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-05-07
4 Family OF Imbeciles.
Philadelphia Record

The most pitiable case that has yet
come under the notice of the lunacy com
mittee was discovered last week in Foun-
taindale, Adams county, where Jacob
Miller, a wealthy farmer, was found liv-
ing with his eight imbecile children. The
mother of this miserable family had died
several years ago insane, her reason hay
ing given way under the terrible str ain to
which she had been subjected. The poor
woman had given birth to eleven child
rem between 1850 and 1874, and not one
of her numerous offspring was possessed
of a sound mind. Nine children are ssiA
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-05-07

Look here, Uncle Nose, you ought to
shoot dat dog. He is gwine ter hab hydro
phobia sure said jim Webster.
Uncle Nose, somewhat alarmed, asked
what were the symptoms.
He am afeared to drink water, dat am
a certain sign"
''G'way, fool niger! You haint drunk
no water yerself in de last ten years, and
you hain't bit nobody yit. Does yer want
me to take a gun and shoot bofe because
yer don't drink water?"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-05-07
That Satisfied Her.

IIkIsoul On On ualIttel elegrapH-
Let me see some of your black kid
gloves said Mrs. Snaggs to n clerk at a
Fifth avenue store.
These are the latest style, are they:-
she asked, when the gloves were pro
duced.
Yes, madam" replied the clerk. @We
have had them in stock only about two
days
L didn't think they were, because the
fashion paper says that black kids have
tan stitches, but not the vice versa
The clerk explained that vice versa was
French for seven buttons, and Mrs. s
bought the gloves
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-05-07
4 Real Funny Joke.

I've been digging over my garden
said Brown, land Tn all worn out"
"Ah"' remarked Fogg, "a new variety OF
earthern wear, eh?"
Henderson, who was present, thought il
was mighty good joke, and seeing
Smith a short time afterward, of course
he had to tell it.
Il say, Smith" said he, "Fogg just now
got off a neat thing. Brown was saying
he was all worn out digging in the garden
and Fogg asked him if that wasn't new
kind of crockery ware. What do yor
think of that?"
Il don't see the point"
"Darned if 1 do either, now; but
thought | did when Fogg told it."
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-05-07
q R0TGH ON ITCH :,

Rough on Itch cures skin humors eruptions,
ring worm letter, salt rheum, frosted feet. chill
blains, itch, ivy poison, BARRIERS itch. Soc jars.
Two whskies cost a:pound tand half Of beef
steak; two beers, a dinner Of mutton chops; one
cocktail, a dish of fresh said or head OF cauli-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-05-07
10 BE CoNTENUED.1
Wouldn't Run Any Risks.
Chicago Rambler.

Mrs. Mimosa - Now Johnnie, go and
kiss your little sweetheart and make up.
Johnnie Nom. won't
Mrs. Mimosa-Go and tell her how much
you love her and how sorry you are.
Johnnie-Guess not. Pa saws he got in
to breach of PROMISE case by tellin'
girl that, and had to marry the old thing.
l amt runnin' no risks, amt.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-05-07
The Great German Physician.

The remarkable phase in the practice OF Dr.
be never asked one 10 describe their disease but
tells zach one their trouble wifhsut aekfng .
quessiou- His success is phenomenal His prac-
wherever he goes because he cures vhen
every other physician and remedy have failed
he has allowed his great recBedS-S Golden Seei
bstters and Lung Food for Corsumpsiou. To be Of
Tered TO The suffering and we assrrf without fear
OF s1ccesesul coniradicsion that there d 30 dis
ease they will not cure Thousands OF bottles
have been sold Tbousends OF broken down and
DISCOURAGED inva,sds saved. Send TO Golden Seal
Buffers Company, Holland CRY, Mich, Tor facts
fc- the millionsl Free
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-05-07
Important.

When you visit or leave New York City, save
Baggage Expressage and S. Carriage Hire. and
stop at the Grand Union Hotel, opposite
Grand Central Depot
6l2 elegant rooms. fitted up at cost Of one
million dollars, 81 and upwards per day. Eur
opean plan. Elevator. Restaurant supplied with
the best. Horse cars. stages and elevated rail-
road to all depots. Families can live better for
less mobey at the Grand Union Hotel than at
any other first class hotel in the city.