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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-03-22

CITY OF MEXICO, (via Gslveston) March
1s.-The roundhouse of the Culeacen Il
Atlanta railroad, at Culeacan, burned
today, together with locomotive and
passenger car. Many shops were also
destroyed. Loss 100000.
The conservative press is attacking
President Harrison and Secretary Blaine,
claiming they are ambitious TO have the
United states possess Mexico.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-03-22
SHERMAN FAILFD PAY TAXES
And the County Treasurer Sued Him For th

And the County Treasurer Sued Him For the
Same.
PITTsBURG, Pa, March 1S.-A special
from Mansfield, Ohio, says Senator Sher-
nan was made defendant this afternoon,
when the comfy treasurer began two
actions against him for unpaid railroad
stock taxes. The first case IS for S174S,
cue on personal stock since 1885, on
stock held by hi9 az trns.ee. Tire pro-
perty is Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne d c licago
railroad stock, which by recent sicision
of the supreme court is made taxable the
same as any other STOCK. The senator
agreed to pay should the test case be de
cided against him, and failed TO do 30.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-03-22
Charges Against Molfiy.

WARRINGTON, March 18.-Considerable
opposition is manifested TO the contirma-
tion of the nomination of Lewis "oldy
to be governor of Arizona, and 1t 10
said that the charge made against him
for the present, to the committee on
territories, the nature of these charges,
if they exist, cannot be learned. But IT
ia expected thst at the next meeting of
the committee a favorable report will be
ordered in favor of his nomination.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-03-22
To Continue Work on the Panama ECana

To Continue Work on the Panama ECanal
PARIS. March 1S.-The Panama Canal
company announces that further ex
tension of the provisional contract has
been arranged with the contractors, which
secures the maintenance of the works
and material. The official liquidator
does not despair of the forming of new
cOmpany.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-03-22
Facts About Human Life.
Golden Argosv.

There are S,06+ languages in the world,
and lis inhabitants profess more than
one thousand religions. The nuuIber of
me.: Is about equal the number of women.
The average of life is about thirty-three
years. One quarter die previous to
seventeen. To 1000 persons only one
reaches one hundred years of life; to
every 100 six reach the age OF sixty five,
and not more than one in 600 lives to
eighty years. There are on the earth
100000 inhabitants of these SS,OSS, ,OSS
die every year; 1924 every day; $3.50
every hour, 60 every minute, or one every
second. The married are longer lived
than the single, and above all, those who
observe sober and industrious conduct.
Tall men live longer than short cues.
Woman have more chances OF life in their
favor previous to fifty years of age than
men have, but fewer afterwsrd. The mum
Der of marriages is in the proportion of
seventy-hve to 1000 Individuals. Mari
ages are more frequent after equinox,
that Is, during the months of June and
December. Those born in the spring are
generally of a more robush constitution
than others Births are more frequent
by night than by day, also deaths. The
number of men capable of bearing arms
Is calculated at one fourth of the popu e.
lation.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-03-22
internal Revenue Collectors.

WASHINGTON, March 19.-The col
Iecticns of the internal revenue for the
first eight months of the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1889, were $s3, ,364 ,211, an in
crease of f2,603,744 over the collections
for the corresponding period of tbs last
fiscal year.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-03-22
i Postmasterls Deficiency.

CHICAGO, March 1S.--The postoffice
department. at Washington is after Rich
ard j. Hanna, ex-postmaster of Kanka-
kee, ILL.,, for an alleged deficiency in his
accounts OF $3,305. The United States
district attorney filed an information of
OF debt il the circuit court this afternoon
and began suit against Hanna and his
lsOndsmeu.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-03-22
A Good Move.

WASHINGTON, March 27. - Chairman
Britton, of the inaugural committee, to-
day, handed to the commissioners of the
district, check for $4,000, this being
the amount received from the Inaugural
ton over and above all expenses. The
fund is TO be invested and the interest
devoted TO relieving the distress OF the
poor in the city.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-03-22

MILWAUKEE, March 1S.-Mneat- Steady; seas
for seller cash; SIS for seller May. Corn
Easier; No. S,s1&GS2 Oats Firm; No >. white
2iIaa2s Rye-Steady; No. l. 44lS Barley Steady
ProyISions-Ea Easy. Pork-ll75
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-03-22
The Ex-President Enroute to Cuba.

WASHINGTON, March 18.-EI President
Cleveland arrived in this city this after
noon enroute TO Cuba He was accom-
panied by e1 Secretary Villas and ex-
Postmaster General Dickinson. Here the
party was joined by ex Secretary Bayard,
when they Immediately left for st. Angus
tine. Ex Secretary Fsirchiid will join
the tourists at Tampa.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-03-22
Died From Nervous Exhaustion.

Mt. CARMEL, Pa, March 18.-Peter
NearshaIsky, VINO was liberated Saturday.
after being Imprisoned 81 hours at the
Bla k Diamond ooiliery, died today from
nervous exhaustion and Internal in
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-03-22
WOMEN INCREASING IN SIZE.
Gloves For Fair Hands are Now Made Larger
Than Hitherto.

Than Hitherto.
With regard to the increased size of
ladies' gloves the explanation of econo-
my seems, on reflection, hardly a salts
factory one. Gloves will split occasion.
ally, as We all know, TO our misery, but
loose ones are by no means durable and
the uDsi. lightly wrinkles and fsbby finger
tips, soiled and frsyed, are terrible, so
that after half dozen times wearing they
look only fl for sn area sneak. It seems
more likely that ladies' hands may have
kept in proportion with IN sir general
stature, which is certainly on the in
crease.
One csn scarcely mix in any croad,
especially in the well 70 do class, without
remarkiDg giantesses in the lend-hpe,
veil grown, vigorous creatures, who, iudg-
ing by comparison, seem TO have de-
veloped all the height and strength
which ought 70 have been their brothers.
The happy change in public opinion, too,
which enables women o. all ranks to work
with their hands and take pride in doing
SO. may also be without effect in enlsryin9
those members.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-03-22
Senator Edmunds sick.

WAsHIsGIos, March Ex-senator Ed
munds beirg troubled with cold Oh his
lungs, became somewhat alarmed and has
gone to Georgia, hoping that the warmer
climate will relieve him of his trouhIe.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-03-22

that chap over there, that the dog won't
mutt ball, I'm sure of the money" mo,
| never gave him sny particular training.
He belonged TO q gang of boys that were
always playing, snd frse got TO running
after the ball and bringing it 70 the
pitcher. When l first came across him
he was center field of q nine, and knew so
much that he would grab a ball and run
20 any base they told him TO. I've seen
him Jump and take q foul on the first
bounce. prsotioei with him first with
slow bsils on the fly, snd his teeth are
hxed so that ball just fits in: and the
best part of 1t is that he seems 10 like It,
and nov never misses s. ball that he can
get to IN time."-Ciucinusri Enquirer.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-03-22

An frishmsn, named Casey, died re-
Gently In AlouqnerqHe, very wealthy. By
his will he left to General J. A. William
son, of Iowa, nearly $500, coo for q favor
to Casey, long ago forgotten
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-03-22

SENATE.-This body met in session at
7:30 O'Clock, Monday evening, when Sen.
Merrill offered joint resolution that all
senate bills be reported by committees on
or before the 22d inst, which lies over.
The following senate bill was passed: To
amend chapter PA of the laws of 1887,
entitled, IAN act to prevent crime and
prevent the abduction of women" As
sembly bills were concurred IN as follows:
To amend section 1447 Of chapter 50, of
the revised statutes, relating 10 ceme-
taries- To amend chapter 169 of the
laws of 1882, entitled, AN act TO incor-
porate the city of Green Bay" To amend
the charter of rhe city of Milwaukee, and
relating to the public library thereof. On
molten, the senate adjourned until 10
O'Clock Tuesday morning.
AssEMBLY.--After the passage of a few
bills of minor Importance the folloxin
resolution was read and adopted unani-
mousiy. WHEREAs, Intelligence has been
received that death has entered the home
of the Hon. Ephriam Beaumont, ct Mer-
ton, Waukesha county, ard taken dearly
beloved daughter, therefore, Resolved, by
the assembly, that we tender to Mr Beau
mont aud his stricken family our sincere
sympathy, and that a. tucther mark OF
respect tue assembly do now adjourn.
Adjourned ub.il $50 Tuesdsy morning.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-03-22

THR Oregon legislature. which has jus
a. journed, fixed the license on spirtIuous
iquora at $400 year, and on malt liquors
at 5000. Gov. Pennoyer was hard pressed
to veto the BILL but he refused, although
he allowed it to become a law without his
signature. The act will tIke effect 30
daYs after its passage.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-03-22

The suits of the Parnellites against the
London Times now ags regate more than
million doilars, bnt they should not
content themselves with civil suits tor
damages. Nothing would seem clearer
than that the Times has been gniIty of
malicious libel against Mr.. Parnell at
least, aud criminal Trial oug ht to result
in plaoing Manager MscDonaid and Edit
or Buckle, if not a.sO Solicitor Soamos.
behind the bars. They would dread this
far more than any damages likely to be
awarded MIR. farnell III civil suit.
THEEE are eighteen breweries in Chi
cago which make on au average 100000
barrels annually. Abous 900 barrels
are brought from Md"aukee each year.
Chicago cOnsumes most OF the l 800, coo
barrels AS each pint bottle makes two
glasses, there would be sixteen glasses in
a gallon-a grand total of S92, 900, 600
giasses. suppose thrre are 1900, 600
people III Chicago and its suburos-and
that is where all these 100000 barrels
are consumed annually each man, WON
an and child would got, on fair apportion-
ment, little more than 595 glasses.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-03-22

The possible opening to settlers of
100000 acres of Sioux iaud in Dakota
has caused a big rush toward the new
state. Nearly every vest ound train
over the Chicago, Milwaukee d st. Paul
road carries five to a dozen emigra
cars, and advices from Chamberlain and
other points along the line in Dakota
state that the towns are full of strangers,
and more are coming from every direc-
tion. The majority of the emigrants are
Germans.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-03-22

The Indianapolis Journal kindly sug
gests to the visiting Hoosiers at Washing
ton that President Harrison, having re-
ceived many thousands of them at his
own home within the past eight months,
might possibly desire TO become ac-
qualnted with the citizens of other states
if he could get a chaLcr, aud gently ad
monishes them TO stand back for a time.
This advice is not the least Surprisins
thing that has come from indiana polls.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-03-22

SEVERAL pleasant junketing trips have
been planned by the senators for the sum
mer. One committee will "investigate"
our commercial relations with Canada,
which will require trip down the st.
Lawrence and up the lakes, another will
similarly investigate Mexico; another
Cuba; then the Indian committee will
take jauut upon the plains, and the Pa
ofo railroad 6 mmittee will travel over
every mile OF the subsidized roads, aud
committee on the reclamation of arid
lands will visit attractive resorts in tbs
far West, etc. IL if doubtless true. rs has
been eaid, that seat in the United
States Senate is the softest seat in public
life.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-11-30
REMARKABLE EATERS.
The Healthy Appetite of a Couple of Maine
Youngsters.

The Healthy Appetite of Couple of Maine
Youngsters.
In Maine company recently the con-
versation turned to astronomical feats
and achievements in the art of stuffing.
When the young lady who had eaten six
bananas at one sitting and the Young
man who had boosted of having topped
off a dinner with a whole mince pie had
told their stories, a demure maiden mod
eStly related an incident in the history
of her family that completely discour-
aged all her rivals.
zone Fourth of July" said she, my
brother and friend wished to make an
| excursion up river, and as they proposed
to start very early in the morning and
be gone all day, my mother prepared
large basket of food for them the
night before. In the bottom of the
basket she placed thick stratum
of delectable articles to represent
supper; on this she placed another layer
for their dinner, and at the top of the
basket, where it would be first accessi-
BILE, she put hearty breakfast. Being
well acquainted with the capacity of the
boys she made an unusually large az
lowance for each of the three meals
Jewell, the boys set out for their ex-
cursion at four o'clock in the morning.
Their boat had not gone far up the river
when the rain Jegan to come down.
They went ashore to wait awhile and
ate their breakfast Tho rain vas still
falling when they had finished this
share of their supplies. and so they i'm
mediately ate the next layer-their
dinner. SUI they were hungry and
still it was raining. They lad nothing
else to do but to devour the remaining
contents of the basket, and SO they
jumped il their boat and came back
hone-ano took breakfast with tue rest
OF US "--LewisFoa ole JopraaL
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-11-30

Such are the almost incredible re-
suits reached at the close of the year
ending in 1881. 1t must be stated, too,
that since that date the yearly receipts
have steadily increased until, at the ex-
piratiOn of the twelve months closing
with the commencement of this present
year, 1889, they reached the enormous
sum of %, 900, 900 francs.
From the facts and figures which have
been laid before the reader it is easy to
realize the exact standing and condition
of Monaco as regards the gaming tables,
and to see that the power to abolish
them rests neither with the Prince of
Monaco nor his government. The only
possible method to attain that end would
be to indemnify the society, but mo-
ment's reflection will show what an
enormous and well-nigh impossible sum
they would be entitled to demand in
consideration of their twenty-five years
of lease which have yet to run.
The financial obligations of the vari-
Gus European states would not permit of
their sacrificing the sum which would
be necessary to achieve this end, and it
is to be feared that, however DESTROYS
the new Prince of Monaco may be to
break off his connection with the ad-
miniStratiOn of Monte Carlo, it is for
him, certainly at present, an impossi-
bility.-Chicago Tribune.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-11-30
QUEER RUSSIAN CUSTOMS.
Paid Demonstrating Wives by Proxy
Museum of the Cars.

Paid demonstrating Wives by Proxy
Museum of the Cars.
DR.. Barrett saw great deal of the
Russian people. Some funny things he
observed among them:
did you ever see paid joker?" he
said. ''Well, if you never did you would
! be interested to watch one. There in
those Russian cities they pay so much an
hour to listen to the joker. l have al
ways thought that this class of people
deserve some remuneration, but l never
saw such thing till l reached St
Petersburg.
GLOW do they work it?"
''Well, the joker provides himself with
200 or 500 tickets, and, mounting a sort
of rOStrum, he announces that he is going
to regale his audience with choice It'd
bits of mirth-provoking lore. He begins
selling tickets at about 20 cents each,
and when he has sold enough to warrant
his beginning he turns himself loose,
and the audience remains spellbound by
his humorous stories for an hour or two.
II listened to them several times, and,
although l could not understand one
word the joker said, was sure from the
way the audience greeted their stories
with roars of laughter that the jOllerS
and the jokes were above the average.
among the lower classes women are
not priced for they beauty. 1t is for
their strength. A lady of our party
asked Russian guide if his wife was
pretty.
Z" No. he answered, she is strong and
good, but she is not pretty. She is ugly
We all laughed, but | must confess l adj
mired him for his candor. Parents
choose the wives for their sons, and they
have an eye to the useful as well as the
agreeable. If woman is healthy and
strong she is quite an addition to the
working force of the family of which
she becomes member.
'ThC Bishops chose the wives for the
priests, and they generally select the
girls OF the older priests who are bur
dened with the largest families, which
is a practical way of looking at thoqucs-
ton.
Nothing on earth equals in magnif-
cence the barbaric srL endor Of those old
Cars. 1 visited the museum, where
they showed me with great pride the
products of the Russian mines. Here
was the largest nugget of gold in the
world; the largest lump of silver, the
largest specimen of malachite and the
largest lapis lazoli, with a hundred and
one other things from the Siberian
mines.
81 saw the saddles and caparisons of
some of these old warriors. One, re-
member, had a large saddle blanket, as
you might call it, made of cloth of gold
At a distance it looked perfectly white,
and it was large enough to cover the
greater portion of the body of the war
horse. A closer inspection showed that
it was covered all over with diamonds
of the purest water. The larger ones
were sewn on in the form of stars and
other figures, but the entire surface was
covered with these gems.
THE blanket was worth thousands
and thousands of dollars.
''Then, in one of GATHERINGS palaces,
1 saw columns of pure amber, with the
walls of entire rooms covered with the
same costly stuff.
''And yet in other countries of Europe
amber has become SO scarce that it is
almost impossible to secure a pure ar
ticle, and imitation amber is used for
jewelry. Atlanta Constitution.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-11-30

boys of the ranch, who had been attract
ed and guided by his shots, hurried out
of the snow-scud, their revolvers in their
hands, and sent shower of balls into
the band of snarling and struggling
brutes that killed two more of them.
The remaining two, badly wounded,
darted away with loud yelps, all the
fight taken out of them, and were seen
no more.
Adair was nearly exhausted, and was
so faint from loss of blood that the cow
boys were compelled to carry him to the
ranch-house, which was a difficult and
laborious feat, under the circumstances.
It was found that an artery had been
severed in Adair's foot, and the foot was
otherwise so torn that for months he
could not bear his weight upon it. He
did not fully recover from the effects Of
his injury until the following summer.
John II. Whitson, in Youths Com
panion.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-11-30
FOR GIRLS AND BOYS.
THE GREAT PROCESSION.

Did you ever happen to think, when dark
Lights up the lamp outside the pane,
And you look through the glass on that wonder
land
Where the witches are making their tea in
the rain,
OF the great procession that says its prayers
All the world over, anG climbs the stairs,
And goes to wonderland Of dreams,
Where nothing at all is just what it seems
All the world over at O'Clock,
Sad and sorrowful, glad and gay,
These with their eyes as bright as dawn.
Those almost asleep o. the way
This one capering, that one cross,
Plated tresseS. or curling floss,
Slowly The long procession streams
Up to the wonderland OF dreams.
Far IN the islands of the sea
The great process on takes up its way,
Where, throwing their faded fower-wreaths
down,
Little savages tire of play:
Though they have no stairs TO climb at all,
And go TO s!et p wherever they fall,
BY the seas soft song and the stars soft
CLEANS
They are OF TO the wonderland of dreams.
Then the almond lids of the Tartar boy
Drop like leaf at the close OF day;
And her mat is pleasant rs clouds of down
TO the tawny child of the Himalay;
And the lad on the housctop at Ispahan
Sees night, while the rose-breaths around him
fan,
Lead up from the desert his starry teams
And mount to the wonderland of dreams.
Still westward the gentle shadow steals,
And touches the head of the Russian mnid
Aud the Vikings sons leave wrest,e and leap
And Gretchen loosens her yellow braid,
And Bess and Arthur follow along,
And sweet MOvOurneen at evening song.
All mnglng the morrow's hopes and schemes
With those of the wonderland OF dreams.
The round world over W tn dark and dew,
See how the great procession swels;
Hear the music to which it moves,
The children's prayers and the evening
bells,
1t climbs the s'opes of the far Azores,
AT last it reaches our western shores,
And where can it go at these extremes
But into the wonderland of dreams.
Hurrying, scamperirg, lingering, slow,
All what patter OF little fceti
Eyelids heavy rs flowers with bees,
Was ever am thing h2lf so sweet?
Out Of the tender evening blue
do rot believe it has cCme for you
To be Of in the wonderland of dreams
Where nothing at al is Just what ii seems.
Harriet Prescott SpoTord, in ST. Nicholas
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-11-30
PITH AND POINT.


The man who is given to sober re-
Election seldom gets into tight place
Boston Courier.
Good will, like good name, is got
by many actions and lost by one
Francis jeffrey.
Don't be too severe on the man who
scolds his wife in public. Perhaps that
is the only time he dares to do so.
Many run after felicity like man
hunting for his hat while it is on his
head. -Washington Post.
No individual or nation ever rose
to eminence in any department which
gave itself up to childish complaints.
Real humorists are scarce, and when
q man once gets that reputation his
whole life is saddened by the efforts to
live up to it.-Mobile Register.
The mischief of opinions formed
under irritation is that men feel obliged
to maintain them even after the irrita-
ton is gone.-Century.
The man who tries to argue wom-
an into loving him may succeed, per-
haps, but he must have long life and
no rival.-Somerville Journal.
The clinging ivy is a pretty thing to
look at, until we learn that it is very
apt to crush the life out of the tree upon
which it acts as parasite.-Mrs. Ellen B.
Dietrich.
He who is ashamed of asking proper
information on point on which he is
uninstructed takes the surest method to
make himself a lifelong prisoner in the
Castle of Ignorance.-Oncea Week.
An intelligent selfshness on the part
of men would demand that their COM
panions should be their equals, in order
that their society may be enjoyable
Rev. ChaSks G. Ames.
He who complains that the world is
hollow and heartless unconsciously con-
fesses his own lack of sympathy, while
he who believes that people as whole
are kindly and humane is certain to
have the milk of human kindness in his
own nature.
We need to be cautious about bad
mans invitation, even when his PROPOSE
ton to us seems most plausible. There
is such a thing as being used by a
scheming man, when we simply go to a
perfectly-reputable place as one of his
invited guests.-S. S. Times.
The habit of doing one thing at
time and doing it well, the power of con-
centration, which is the outgrowth of
this habit, and a resolution to make the
best of life and work one has chosen, are
the surest defense against misfortune
and the best safeguard against disease.