Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-10
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

THE first paper mill in this country was
started in 1890 near Philadelphia.
TIE purest kaolin in America has just
been found in great quantity in Ebert
couDty, Georgia.
By breathing hot air about PIP degrees
for two hours daily it is said that con-
sumption can be radically cured.
GARDENER in Marion county, Florida,
has raised cabbage feet and 3 inches
in diameter.
THERE are altogether 1866 foreign Of
fces at the disposal of the state depart
| ment.
SIR CHARLES RUSSELL has been offered
$4,000 to deliver fifty lectures in the
| United States next season.
| The bones of five mound builders have
been found near Floyd. a town near Water
loo, Iowa.
TnE death OF Justice Stanley Mathews
leaves Ohio without a representative in
the UniUed States supreme court for the
first time in sixty years.
NEW HAVEN, Conn.-William II. Bar
num, chairman of the National Demo
cratic committee, died at Lime Rock at
| 9:45 Tuesday morning.
| IT is said that Japanese line of steam
! ers will soon be run on he Pacific ocean,
in opposition to the Pacific Mail Steam
| ship com pany.
JANEsvILLE, Wis.-Rich deposits of iron
ore discovered eboGt two miles from the
city i'll Thomas Pratt's stone quarry.
Several tons OF ore have already been
blasted out and the supply seems to be
| inexhaustible.
The total production of steel rails in
this country last year was 200 lS4 tons,
ard the largest production of any one
mill was that of the North Chicago Roll
ing Mill, which turned out l6l, ,945 tons.
The amount of -four turned out by the
Minneapolis mills during the week ending
April 27 was 1925 $50 barrels, against 1O0,-
80 barrels for the previous week aGd
$4,000 barrels during the corresponding
week last year.
TWENTY Baltimore girls who have plenty
of money and are good German and
French scholars propose to travel
through Europe this summer, and write
book of their adventures. There will be
twenty chapters, one by each girl.
JANEsvILLE, Wis.--Iron has been dis
covered in stone quarry two miles from
'h'P Siby- ht u6bOSlJ ldS btSh bEltu Uy
blasting, several tons of rich ore being
removed. The supply seems to have no
limit. 1t is In the quarry of Thomas
Pratt.
THE steamship Gaelic has arrived in San
Francisco from Hong Kong and Yokoha-
ma, having made the trip from the orm-
er city in 2l12 days and th5 later in 13
days lS hours and % minutes. This is
"a fu haf.
points.
The Sitka district of Alaska mas
warm and moist climate, owing to the in
fluence of the warm Japanese current
across the North Pacific Ocean. The
mean temperature is 44.7O, the tempera-
ture in winter seldom going below the
freezing point.
The crowd of Immigrants that may be
seen IN Castle Garden any day at this
time are subject to uore vigorous ex-
animation than the immigrants OF form
er years were. good many are sent
back to the countries from which they
came, or the ground that they belong to
the excluded classes.
WoRKMEN engaged in removing the
foundation of the old Mansion Quebec
made strange and valuable discovery.
Between two stores they found parch-
ment yellow with age, which turned out
To be well-written Latin, bearing all the
marks of great antiquity. 1t was sealed
up i'll heavy tin box which was badly
eaten by rust. 1t was deciphered by an
old French priest, and stated that cop
per box containing 200 pounds of gold
aud 800 pounds OF silver would be found
at spot indicated. A search was made
by the owner of he house, and he is now
a richer man by abuut $50 600