Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-17
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

The Methodists are about to establish
a great university near Helena, NJ. T., The
building to cost $4,000.
CORAL is said to be a coming rage. 1t
il TO be worn in all forms, even for but
tons.
ROBERT LIsCCLs, minister to England,
was given farewell banquet Tuesday
night by the Union League Club of Chi
cago.
IT is said that electricity is applicable
to tanning, and that leather can be pro-
duced from the raw hide IN four days by
il.
The immigration of Canada has fallen
off lart ely this season. The whole num-
ber is 605 against IA 738 last year.
PAErY from Naples, Fla, few day g
ago mad with them the jaws of leopard
snark measuring Is inches IN width and2
feet il the spread. The mouth wa large
enough 10 takeln a barrel at one gulp.,
FATHER DAMIEN, the celebrated ieper
priest Al MoiokaI, Sandwich Islands, died
o. the 10 h of April. For the last sixteen
Years lie had been laboring in the leper
settlements.
GEM RAJ LEW WALLACE is writing q
book, ot ~h ca The scene Is laid in Con
stan,Irople Ia the fifteenth century, and
the sut jet Is the capture of that city In
1853 by Mahomet the Conquerer.
MORE than 100000 cross ties are
used annually III the United States, to
furnish which r, qulres the destruction of
nearly 200 900 acres OF forest. This il
Illustrates the necessity of tree planting
81 d the preservation of our forests from
wanton OBSTRUCTION.
A FRANK preacher at Haverhill, Mass,
N ade TINS remark to his congregation
on II recent .oandty: "lt God only found
one devil III iho twelve apostles, how
mauy devils have we among usH The
nay fi1ure II, YOU are entitled to forty
one in tnis church."
In BGfalo recently John Gra5ensteller
aud wIfe, Gt trnans, celebrated the twenty
Fl tn anniversary of their marriage. One
feature of the event was walk to the
church where they were married, followed
by twelve of their children and one grand
child.
CHICAGO, IilinCis,-Jobn A. EUander,
who was appointed minister to Denmark,
ls still suffering from the effects of
hemOrrhage of the lungs. His physi
oIRns have advised him that the ocean
voyage will be fatal, and it Is understood
Enander has written to Washington that
he will be unable to accept the office.
BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis.-The new
city council has passed an ordinance re-
curing the saloon keepers to remove all
soreens from the doors. and windows of
their saloons, and also dorbd ding them
to curtain their windowslon Sundays ard
election days. The mayor was instructed
to inform the proprIetors of places of
business usually kept open on Sundays,
that the state law relating to such would
be rigldiy enforced.
LIMO LIN, Nob.-H attic Clark and Fan
ME Ponhiugi on, two young ladies of this
city, have astonished their friends by
Looping with party of gypsies consist
ing of two men and one old woman. The
girls are about sixteen years OLD and quite
handsome. The gypsies had been csmped
near This city for about ten days. The
parents of the girls and the sheriff have
made every effort to reclaim the girls, but
no traces of them have been found.
THERE ID in Fort Valley, Ga, in the
person of little Dellie Harris, aged six
teen months, the gr atest prodigy of the
present aay. She not only talks and ar
ticalates well, but knows the infant cate
chism by heart; also the county she was
born IN (CrawfOrd), the town she lives in,
the county site, the names of the Presi
dent and Vice President the governor
and the mayor of Fort Valley; oan count
up to fifty, and says the alphabet with
great rapidity. Besides all this she is
bright in many other things which any
one would doubt did they not see and hear
her talk.