Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-07-18

illusions are all destroyed, life is no longer
worth living.
IT is announced from London that
STANLEY has eaten his last public dinner,
made his last speech and attended his last
meeting lie himself says So" Africa
was all very well in its way, but the ex-
plorer may now with reason feel proudly
conscious that he is hero. Few men
could have survived such a round of fes-
tiyities as have been held in his honor
So MUCH uncertainty exists in the minds
of business men nowadays as to what the
word 'dolar" means that corporations is
suing bonds End it to their advantage to
state that both principal and interes t
are payable in gold coin of the United
States Of the present standard weig ht and
fineness." 1t is a severe reflection on the
honesty and integrity Of congress that
such a stipulation is deemed necessary.
The general term of the Supreme Court
of New York has decided that when a
stable-keeper lets for hire horse known to
have dangerous trick, and fails to dis
close the fact to his customer, he is re-
sponsibe for any injury that may result
from such trick. IN the case in which
this question came up, the stable-keeper
was asked if the horse was safe. He
answered that he was "a little skeery,' the
fact being that he had a definite habit of
stopping short and turning suddenly round.
The court ruled that the customer should
have been informed of the particularly
dangerous habit of the horse.
IT seems that divorce is hereditary, and
that the capacity for being divorced in
creascs as it is handed down There is a
woman in indianapolis who has been
divorced eight times, twice from the same
man, and is now living with her ninth
husband As she is only thirty seven
years old. there are doubtless many matri-
moniaI opportunities still in store for her.
This woman mother has been divorced
six times, and is now living with her
seventh husband. An uncle and two aunts
have been married only FIVE times each,
but they are still young. This-from
some points of view-w ould be an excel
lent family with which to form an alliance;
it would he easy to dissolve the connec-
tion.
Mrs. FRANK LESLIE is having an un-
pleasant experience with the Marquis de
Leuville who insists on publishing the
fact that he is to wed the bright American
woman She is now riding the ocean
wave homeward bound and vows that she
will never see him again, no never, and
that she will never return to Europe till
the marquis is either dead or married to
some one else" The fact that she is COM
ing to America to lecture will dispe much
of the sympathy which her evident unhap-
piness would naturally create.
TmERE is Il conflict of authority between
the state and the federal authorities in
Kansas which threatens the peace of the
commonwealth Acting under the advice
of the state Encouragement, the state
officers nave been arresting original
package dealers whenever found selling
liquor in bottled packages imported by
the carload from ot her states But as
fast It's arrested Judge Foster of the United
States circuit court has been releasing
them on habeas corpus proceedings, and
he has now issued an order restrain
ing the state officers from making further
arrests of these dealers. OF course there
is high Indignation in the state. If man
can bring in a carload of unpacked bot
ties of rum and sell them with lmpunity.
uutaxed saloons might as well be author
ized IN the state Gov. Humphrey says
the decision of the federal court must
be resisted, and he orders the attorney
general to proceed to fight the eases
until all means of lawful redress are ex-
hausted.