Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-02-08

ooLoRED woman testified at trial il
Stanford, KY, "that she would have beer
killed had she not seen the bullet corning
straight for her and lodged"
CHARLES PRINCE, of Boston, says thai
twenty years ago Harvard graduate
didn't know the difference between G
sloop. cutter and cat boat, and now
it's the only thing he does know.
AT the festivities attending the En- per
or of China's marriage next year will he
employed 10000 horn lanterns, II Coz
glass lamps, and "a OG0 piec. OF en-
broidered silks, and skilled artific-rs are
now hard at work manufacturing tn. Sc
articles.
IN every city of the UuIted States mass
meetings in favor of sight h0ur Ia =
= Y.
February %; on Tudel eudeI.ce Day, July '
4, and on Labor Day September 2. 1hey
will be under the aus pieces Of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor
The yield of corn in the United States
last year WAS nearly thjrty-two bushels
for every man, woman and child i'll the
country, or over 1000, ,O00.O total. In
speaking OF this the New York Herald re-
marks that 400 years ago the United
States did not more than barely supply
her own demands for food Now she
dominates the markets of the world and
has made general famine almost one
of possibilities"
APBgPos of the Samoan question Carl
Schurz was asked whether he thought
the on come would be a serious difference
between Germany aHd he United States.
81 think not" said Mr.. Sohurz. at is
one OF those things IN which the people
who want TO quarrel may frd something
to quarrel about, but which people Who
men, will find no difficulty in arranging
in a manner honorable to both parties-'
That IL a bit OF international good sense.
According 10 the Board of Trade re
turns Of the lives saved along tho British
coasts it appears that during the last
statistical year ending June, 1883, 3,lG6
shipwrecked persons were rescued More
than one-third Of th~se escaped in the
boats belonging TO the wreck; rather
more than quarter w@:e taken eff by other
ships or steamers; 443 were saved by
ooast and guard boats, lugger. and other
ANAL open 4-cl-; 374 Tere caVed by
life boats, and 2S6 were hauled ashore b.
the rocket apparatus or ropes. Only
three persons escaped watary grave by
their own "individusl exertion."
THE loss to Great Britarn from the bad |
harvest of this year is indicated in the
statistics just issued from the prIvy
council office. These show that while
100000 acres more are devoted to wheat
growing than in 1887 the yield is less by
nearly 100000 bushels. This represents
direct loss of about E5O0 600, aud there
is large proportion of light corn, the
crop, a rule, being inferior in quality.
Barley shows ra her better yield than
lLst year, both in total and acreage, and
oats a slight decrease in each of these
respeota.
BY far the most interesting news which
has come this week from indianapolis,
relates To the inner lifs of the Harrison
family. Mrs. Harrison aud her daughter
are away on a visit III, babies are we'll,
except that little Bennie wants bis nam
II n, and ia frnotious when he won't come
when ho calls. Grandpa has had to get
up in the middle of the hight two or
three times lately and dandle the little
fellow walk about the house with him
in his arms in order TO get him to sleep
after he has been crying for his mother.
Mra. HaIrison's sister, Mrs. Lord, from
Washington, is helping take of the
children, and gets along very we'll except
when Bennie wakes up in the night and
ories, and then grandpa has to be called.
CARDINAL GIBBONS il more broad mind
ed than some of his Protestant brethren
as regards the free exercise of religious
opinion In dedication sermon preuch
ed in ltinDrc ON Sunday he referred to
an intdel Sundly school recently started
III that oity and to u petition of the
preachers for its suppression with the re
mark that he would be sorry TO see tho
arm of the law invoked 20 suppress the
school. "CDero,ou is not conversion" !
said the Gard nal. "The only weapons
ought To use are the weapons of algu-
ment aud ptrsuusIon III dealing with this
school,' Ii all religious teachers were
of the same mind with the Cardinal inf
del Sunday chouis would be few and far
between and the few would be neither
prosperous nor long lived. Religious
higotry furnishes about the only motive
for the establishment of inhdel Sunday
schools in this day and age IL
THE appearance OF Presidcnt Carnot as
Il factor III the present French situation
is SOM ethinE Of asUrprise. Since his cleo }
tlon he has been practically ruIled by {
BoulanSer and F,o4uet, but his refusal
to accept the resignations of the FIoquet {
Cabinet shows hiH To possess cool
headedn,ss which not every one is dis
playing in Paris. The Vienna Press calls
on him to abandon his reserve and act.
and this, of course, a tributes 10 HIM
the Puser 10 ac0. Boulanger has an
nouno,d a Fabian policy and will wait to
profit 10y the mistakes Of the government
This will be disappointing To those who
looked for an immediate coup d'eta and
indeed the Paris of to-day is not the |
Paris of Louis Napoleoa, jules Simon
anc Gambetta. Its cot tfisient revolution
seems to have been lowered. The insta-
bility, the feverish appetite for change |
are all still Ereseut but th,4 man who |