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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-28
dome-Made Editions De Luxe.

The newest application of amateur
photography, says the New York Sun,
is in the manufacture of homemade
de luxe of short poem or stories. Some
thing that furnishes opportunity for
picturesque tableaux, such as Whit
comb Riley's "Orphant Annie" is
chosen and. with the assistance of the
amateurs family and friends, a series
of tableaux, one for each verse of the
poem. or more if desired, are arranged
and photographed. There is deal of
fun in this for the amateur and his
friends both and abundant opportuoi-
ty for the display of ingenuity, taste,
and artistic skill
After the pictures are developed thew
are pasted upon sheets of heavy paper
of convenient size and shape. and up
on the broad margins of each sheet are
written in fanciful style the verse or
lines of the poem which the picture
illustrates The sheets are bound by
being tied together at one edge or cor
ner with ribbons, and upon the out
side fine title is lettered as artistically
as possible.
Even very plain and simple work
of this sort is curious and interest
ing souvenir, and there is no limit for
the development of the idea ia the di-
rection of artistic beauty and cost
Plate or fancy papers of different
colors, inks of various hues, crayon.
charcoal. pencil. and oil or water coll
ors can all be used in illuminating the
text or in decorating the margin of
the sheets, and in the matter of design
ing title page the artistic opportuni-
ties are unlimited.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-28
HOW TIMETABLES ARE MADE.
Pins and Colored Threads and a Time
Chart Used.

A railroad timetable, governing the
running of trains on any road of con-
siderable length, is one of the most inn
portant things in the management
The preparation of such a table is a
very ingenious bit of work The
means employed are of the simplest
sort-common pins and spools of col
ored threads, in connection with a
large sheet of drawing-paper mounted
on an easel. This paper is called a
time chart.
The chart is ruled either for two,
five or ten minutes time by horizontal
lines and perpendicular cross lines.
The ''time" is marked above the hori-
zontal lines and the distances or sta
tons and terminals down the first per-
pendicular line. For illustration, II
midnight is the mark on the first hor-
rizontal line and each hour is marked
until the twenty-fourth of the follow
ing midnight hour is reached on the
last horizontal line.
Between the hour lines the space is
divided INTO minutes and graduated as
fine as desired. On two-minute chart
the space between the hours is divided
ihbo tCh luIhubCS liLlt, anu tu6 leu
minutes time into two minutes time.
The hour lines are made heavy and the
lesser time lines are of lighter shade
to distinguish them.
One terminus of the road is marked
on the first line beside the first time
mark, II midnight. The other sta
tions follow down the perpendicular
line until the other terminal is reached.
Then all is ready to prepare for the
running arrangements, provided the
pins and threads are ready.
A blue thread means passenger
train, red thread freight train, and
if the trans of other roads use part OF
the track they are designated by diff
ferent colored thread.
1t is calculated that the running
time shall be say twenty-five miles an
hour, and for the purpose of illustra-
ton, the tracing of one passenger train
will answer the purpose of explaining
them all.
A passenger train leaves the first
station say at a. IN. A pin is placed
on the horizontal line at the a. ~
time mark and the end of the blue
thread fastened thereto.
1t the train runs without stopping
for fifty miles the blue thread is stretch
ed over opposite the station at which
the stop is made. and directly under
the 10 a. m. time mark another pin il
stuck and the blue thread wrapped
about it to keep If taut.
If this is stop say of forty minute.
the blue thread is stretched to the
1850 a. m. mark on direct line with
the same station and another pin stuck
and blue thread wrapped.
The train starts and its entire course
is thus timed aud distributed along the
road.
If the railroad has many passenger
and freight trains running daily, the
time chart, when it is completed. look.
like great spiders web stretched
with pins. But little work then re-
mains to transfer the time and stations
to the timetable and the schedule il
ready for the printer.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-28

found presence of mind to start another,
and being once started he laughed almost
Historically, until he and Paul sat opposite
to each other exhausted, and with tears in
their eyes.
So the firms credit was saved, and young
Paul was saved, and the coufederates
were at least no worse off than they had
been But so cUriously is the human mind
constructed that when the Major heard
the story at full he almost worshipped
Medhurst for his self-abnegation. There
was only one regret in his mind about the
whole matter. Captain Medhurst's honor
was upon occasion impeached in his hear
ing, and there were circumstances even
in this heroic self-surrender which made
it impossible to clear him by relating il
THE END,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-28
WOndrunrS IaNyprS

One important question is: Who s
supplying Woodruff with lswyerss 1t is
we'll known that he is friendless man
himself and has TO money. Yet he is bet
ter supplied with lawyers than any of the
suspects except Alexander Sullivan hun
se:f. il Is we'll known that lawyers do not
go around penniless men fer the pleasure
of defending them. Woodruff's first law
yer WAS j. ". ID. Pierce, and two weeks
ago Theodore &. Case also became his at.
torney. week ago Woodruff made sub
stantially the same confession to Pierce
that he made Saturday night to Mr.. Dun.
lop. When Mr.. Chase was asked by re
porter who engaged him to defend Wood
ruff, he prom ptly refused TO tell. Who is
furnishing Woodruff with lawyers and
whyf
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-28
THE SLAVE TRADE IN AFRICA.
Interesting Particulars of the Methods Of
Carving il On.

The Paris Temps published the other
day letter from Arabia giving some
details in regard to the slave markets
in Hodeida and other towns. 1t is said
that the Turkish Government closes its
eyes to tie traffic, and that consequent
ly slavery fiourishes with little or no
obstruction. The few vessels scattered
along the great distance from Zanzibar
to Suakim are utterly inadequate for
the purpose of suppressing the trade.
To exercise an effective surveillance q
large fleet of cruisers would be neces-
sary, involving. of course, an immense
expense.
The Captains of slavers are thorough
" skilled in the methods of concealing
their merchandise. For example.
when a war ship is approaching the
slaves are thrown in the bottom of the
hold, and barrels and bales and all
sorts of thirgs are placed over them.
with little care for the danger of their
sufocation. In this way many . SLAYER
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-28
National EducatiopaI Association.

The annual meeting of the National Education
al ASSOCIATE N meeting will be held at Nashville
July III to 10. Go via the Evansville route. Ii Is
nifty miles the shortest. eight hours the quickes
AMI it is the only line running through cars be
tween Chicago and Nashville.
Its facilities are unequalled and the finest and
most luxurious Pullman palace buffet sleeping
cars and elegant day coaches run through with
ont change.
For this occasion a very low excursion rate will
be made, which includes a side trip to Mammoth
cave, either going or returning. Also those who
desire To vary their trip by going returning
via Louisville, will have the opportunity gwen
them of doing Tickets will be sale at all
points July to Is; good returning unit sept. g.
The Chicago and Nashville fast train leaves
Chicago dearborn Station at $50 IN. daily,
and arrives at Nashville the following morning
for breakfast at T:10 oclock-a run of only
fifteen hours and twenty minutes. Night express
leaves at 1920 p. m.
No extra fare is charged on fast train, and the
Sleeping-car rate from Chicago to Nashville is
less by this route than by any other, being only
81 20 for one double birth.
Reservations for sleeping cars can be made ter
days in advance by addressing Ticket Agent
Evansville Route, GA Clark street Chicago, Ill.
For further particulars address William Hill
General Passenger Agent, Chicago and Eastern
Illinois Railroad. Chicago, Ill
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-28
Honest Journeymen Jewellers.

In the largest jewellers shops in New
York there is no attempt made to
guard against theft by measuring out
the gold used BY the workmen- The
rule is for the gold to be melted and the
stock" prepared, and for each work
man to help himself says the New
York Sun. There are shops where as
much as So. 900 worth of gold is used
every day and made up into jewelry.
and there is nothing to prevent steal
ing but the honesty of the workmen-
1t would seem TO be simple thing
to weigh out so much gold to q work
man and hold him TO account to re-
turn the same weight with due allow
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-28

ance for loss In working. But in
practice this takes so much time and
bookkeeping and causes so much DELAY
that the biggest shops long since de-
cided TO abandon it and to rely upon
the honesty of their workmen. 1t is
curious that IN these very shops where
gold lies around by the pound every
man will lock up his tobacco. and not
a few will think it good joke to fitch
an ear Of corn or potato from the
corner grocery and cook it in q melt
ing pot.
Men long used to them become care
less even with diamonds. 1t is
common thing for the diamond-setter
to have handful of uncounted Jewels
on his bench, with no attempt on the
part of the boss to keep track of the
number or value of stones given out
An illustration of loose habits in this
respect occurred in a New York shop
not long ago. The boss was setting
valuable diamond. He had occasion
to force the jewel into the setting,
which was very tight fit, so tight
that suddenly the gem popped
out and flew to some unknown cor
ner of the shop. All hands turned
to look for it. They looked in the
corners of benches, they explored all
the open drawers, the delved in the
dirt of the floor. they held matches to
cracks, they swept the whole shop
over and over again; all was of no
avail. There was a barrel of shop
sweepings awaiting the coming of the
assayer. 1t stood in a remote part of
the shop. and some one suggested that
it would be we'll to sift the barrel of
sweeping. The lost gem was worth
looking after. and the boss finally con-
cluded to set two hands carefully to
work sitting the dirt in the barrel.
They did not find the diamond, but
they found eleven otner diamonds
which somehow had gotlnto the sweep
ings and had not been missed. They
were small diamonds, it is true, but
they were diamonds.
Once in while boss does try to
establish check system. A story is
told of one boss who suspected his
melter. and stood by to see the coins put
into the melting pot. 1t turned out
that the melter cheated the boss while
the boss was looking at him by the
simple process of stirring the melting
coins with brass rod. OF course some
of the brass melted off, and at his
leisure the meter clipped enough of
the molten gold to make the weight
como out right. and pocketed the
difference between the value of the
brass and the gold. But these in
stances are rare. The journeymen
jewellers are generally honest, and it is
seldom any considerable sum is missed
out of the shop, though the wages of
jewelers. are by no means large.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-28

The popularity of Dobbins' Electric
Soap is that it acts right on the dirt and
stains in clothes and makes them pure
as snOac, at the same time it preserves
the clothes, and makes them keep clean
longer. Have your grocer order it.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-28

A man at Monticello, ILL.,, is regarded
as insane because he sent an order to
a Decatur firm for whole carload of
Strawberries and ice cream. He has
probably got summer girl" Of the us
ual voracity.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-28
Nav

This osneht to be derived from . good
medicine IN early spring is undoubted,
but many people neglect taking any un-
til the approach Of warmer weather,
when they wilt like tender flower in
hot sun. Something must be done to
overcome that tired feeling and give the
strength necessary to do daily work.
Vacation is earnestly longed for. but
many weeks, perhaps months, must
eiapse before rest can be INDUCED In.
To impart strength and 10 give a feeling
OF health and vigor throughout the sys-
tenn, there is nothing equal to Hoods
Sarsaparilla- 1t seems peculiarly adapt
ed TO overcome that prostration caused
by change OF season, climate or life, and
while 1t tones and sustains the system it
! puri6es and renovates the blood.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-28

A ladx corresnnndent has this tn say:

CVFTSsFVIIWtIIt 10 SFy'
Il want to give piece Of my mind to a certain
class who object to advertising, when II cost
them anythng-thiS won't cost them cent.
suffered living death for nearly two years will
headaches, ba',kache, in pain standing or walk
irg, was being literally dragged out of existence
despair committed the sin Of trying an adver
tised medicine Dr. Pierces Favorite Prescription
and it rest ored me to the heSsedneSs of SCUM,
health. l honor the physician who, when Ii,
knows he can cure, has the moral courage to sd
Nertise the fact" The medicine mentioned i
guaranteed to cure those delicate diseases pecul
lar to females. Read printed guarantee on bot
lie. Wrapper.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-28
An Editorial Celebration.

To-day was our birthday and we
celebrated the occasion by .-setting
up" two columns of type. cuttiDg half
a cord Of wood, rocking the baby two
hours. and cleaning our shotgun
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-28

The curtain had dropped on one OF the tragic
acts OF Ten Nights in a Bar Room" when one
youth turned to another and said: Pretty
strong, isn't itf' You betl Let's go out and
InER snthin' "
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-28

Mary Anderson can be seen every morning
walking about Hampstead Heath. and later to
be seen vending her way to the little Catholic
church for her morning devotion. She is said to
batta
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-28

\ veterinary surgeon at ST. Louis
says that color indicates the disposition
Of horse, and that white horse is not
particularly game. There may be some
truth in this, 1t is fact that the old
white horse in the Croniu case meekly
permits himself to be driven around by
q Chicago policeman.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-28

For all arrangements of the liver, stomach
and bowels take DIR. Pierce's Pellets. One a
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-28
oregon, the Paradise Of farmers.

Mild, equitable climate. c,rtain and abundant
crops. Best fruit. gran. grass and stock country
in the world. Full Information free Address
the Oregon linn grafton Board, Portland, Ore
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-28

Irving's profit oua of Macbeth Is reck
oned at $500 a week.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-07-10
SEVERE FLOODS IN TEXAS.
1000, 600 Damage by High Water in tn
Trinity and Brazos-Fatalities.

$2,OOO,OOO Damage by High Water in the
Trinity and Brazos-Fatalities.
FORT WORTH, Tex, July 5.-Heavy rains
In this section have turned the Brazos and
Trinity rivers into raging torrents The
Texas Il Pacific bridge at Brook and 5o(
feet of track have been washed away The
st. Louis, Arkansas & Texas, the Missouri
Kansas 4 Texas and the Fort Smith j
Denver tracks north are submerged AND
have been abandoned, the roads using the
Santa Fe tracks to enter the city.
The Trinity rose four and half feet ir
an hour, and jewellers on the lowlands
barely escaped The city marshal and
sheriff and their entire forces for time
became rescuing corps and manned boats
which brought people to the city where
they are quartered In large warehouse,
for the time There are 200 men.
women and children thus cared for. H
Plumm and sister are said to have beer
washed away, and Mrs. H. s. Bentley, s
one EARNED woman, and Patrick, her son
who lived on Trinity, are missing and are
said to be drowned Their house was car.
ried away.
It is reported that an eight-foot rise i,
coming down the West Fork of the Trinity.
Six inches more water and waterforks viii
have to be abandoned. Wheat, oats, fruit
and cotton are badly damaged. The lost
can hardly be computed, but conservative
estimates place it as high as $4,000, 600
There are fears for the little villages along
the Trinity above Fort Worth, but there il
no telegraphic communication and nothing
definite can be learned
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-07-10
CLEANING UP.

Tho City Of Naples Starts Upon Stus
pendOus Job-Over 1900 Buildings TO
BE Demolished, and q Vast Area Which
Annually Breeds Pestilence to Be Reno
waited.
LONDON, July 2.-The city of Naples in
Italy began use-clean1ng yesterday on q
scale never before paralleled in the history
OF municipalities in any part of the globe.
The plans contemplate the demolition OF
Ii, 600 houses and sixty two churches in the
most thickly settled and most squalid parts
of the city. where the narrow streets
filed with perennial filth breed pestilence
and death. It is proposed to erect in their
stead well-built houses and to lay out fine
broad streets that will let in the air and the
sunshine to the inhabitants. Naples is the
most thickly populated city in Europe
and the quarter to be thus renovated con-
tains now population of 100000 or 6OO
to the acre. 1t is proposed to reduce this
population just one half All the people
now residing in these slums have received
notice to quit. and when the work has been
completed the new buildings will probably
have an entirely new set of occupants.
new street mile and half long and
ninety feet wide, twice the width
OF any existing street in Naples,
ts to be run through the
district now temporarily depopulated The
cost Of this immense improvement will be
enormous, and is to be borne largely by
thu italian Government The work to be
done il Olives the destruction of Ia old
streets and the widening of l27 others, the
total or arUial destruction Of fifty-six fon-
daci, Or u,ns and 527 isolated groups of
houses. The payments which will have to
be made to the owners of the houses to be
torn do"a for their appraised value. will
alone amount to 437;0,O,O. Add to this the
cost OF the work OF demolition and of the
" streets and squares to he laid out, and
1t "ill he seen that this is the most ex-
pcn*::e piece of house cleaning ever un-
dertuken.
Although the pubic Inauguration of this
great enterprise took place over week
ago, when King Hu1nbert and his son, the
Prince Of Naples, went from Rome to take
part in the ceremonies attending it, the
real work only began yesterday, when
nearly 1900 laborers were set to work
tearing down the filthy old rookeries in the
doomed quarter.
This improvement, it is expected, will
take four years to complete, but when fin
ished it will make the city one of the most
desirable from sanitary point of view in
Europe, instead of what it now is, the verv
worst The imp ove1nents have been in
contemplation ever since the great cholera
epidemic of 1854, which SO thoroughly
demonstrated their necessity, but it was
not until two months ago that the Italian
Parliament passed a bill authorizing the
work
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-07-10
FIERCE STORM AT AONG-xONG.
Fifteen Lives Lost by Flood and Lightning
The Particulars.

Fifteen Lives Lost by Flood and Lightning
The Particulars.
SAN Francisco, July 2-The steamer
Rio de Janeiro arrived late Sunday night
from Hong Kong and Yokohama
One of the most destructive rain
storms in the history of Hong
Kong occurred May % and So TIC, total
rsinfall for thirty three hours was twenty
nine and half inches Hong-Eongp papers
do not venture to estimate the loss to pri-
vate property, but place the damage to pub
lie property at about 5000 Almost
every minute during the storm vivid
flashes OF lightning lit up the streets
Waterpipes burst at every corner, roads
were cut up almost beyond recognition.
and level roads were lSled with earth and
loosened stones Eight men in mat
shed were killed by lightning. On one
street man and boy were drowned
in flooded house. In one district house
collapsed, burying several people, four of
whom We're fatally injured Fifteen lives
are known to have been lost The town is
now suffering from water famine.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-07-10
UNCLE SANS CASH.
What the Treasurer's Books Show for the
Past Year-The Debt Reduced SS9,OOO,-
OOO-Internal Revenue Receipts.

what the TreaSurer's Books Show for the
Past Year-The Debt Reduced S89,OOO,-
OOO-Internal Revenue Receipts.
WASHINGTON, July 2-The reduction in
the public debt during the past month as
shown by the statement issued from the
Treasury Department Monday was SIG. 255,-
Ea9, and for the fiscal year just closed $SS,-
a59,035. During the preceding fiscal year
the debt was reduced s1l3,S44,GSO. The
debt now. less cash in the Treasury, is
81, O16. SIC, 621. The net cash or actual sur
plus in the Treasury is ST, 49, 4 ,O 42 against
sl05 $50 AGA year ago.
Receipts from all sources during the fs-
cal year just closed aggregate s3SS, 591 ,675,
against sS79, 2G6, 074 for the preceding year.
Customs receipts for the past wear
amounted to 1924, OIL es4, an increase of
nearly Sc, oCO, 600 over the preceding year,
and tits the largestrevenue from this source
ever collected by the Government in one
year. Customs receipts in 1852 came very
close to this sum. aggregating $220, SOC, CO.,
Internal revenue receipts for the year lust
closed aggregated sl31 ,662, 1C6 or nearly
s1,5N, GOO more than during the preceding
fiscal year. While the revenues for the
year just closed have increased about S.
$50, 600 over those of the previous year, ex-
penditures for the year which aggregated
5oO,C6i, 795, are So, Cox, 900 more than they
were during the preceding year.
The ordinary expenses Of the Govern
ment during the past year were
sl53, 1877. against s1:4 $50, a.. during the
preceding year. About sll 100000 of this
increased ordinary expense during the past
year can be accounted for by $500, co.. in
creased War Department appropriations
sor new cruisers, s2,nvo,GUO postal revenue
deficiency, and s2,5O0.0tU Court of Claims
Judgments The pension charge for the
past year was $S7,977 6S3, or about IS, Co.,
o0o more than for the previous year.
With total receipts during the year
amounting to $3.50 81, 675 the total expen-
ditures exclusive of S17,25o,000 ex-
pended in premium on bonds purchasedl,
aggregating s2S3 Oc0, 900, the surplus reve-
aue of the Government for the year will
amount to $lt6, 0o0, 900, against SIG, 6l2, TIC,
the amount OF surplus revenue reported by
Secretary Fairchild in his last annual mes
sage for the fiscal year ended June 81, 1888
WASHINGTON, July 2.-The annual state
ment of the Comptroller of the Currency
shows that the National bank circulation
has fallen from SIS, co., OO year ago to
S2l5, 900, or about Ii per cent OF this
reduction S27 600 09O was secured by bonds
and SlS,000,0D by the deposit OF Lawful
money.