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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
Kitty, my Colleen.

Kitty. my colleen, t is you that iook WIN
splnnin' the wool, with your beautiful
smile.
Lave off and let yous ould grandmother spin
I've somethin to whisper to you out at the
Troth! with your locks. love, SO daintily
curtin,
Your lips. that keep hummin' a fortunate
tune,
And your weeshy white hands, that are twist
in and twirlin',
You're windn' my heart on the spindle
aroonI
Arrah thin Kitty,
It's you that look pretty,
Stated so sweet at your ould spinnin wheel;
y insome and winEin,
The white you keep spinnin'
Ny fate with your nate little ankle and heel!
You need mt mind tossin' your tresses so
Begolra, they re fair as a fortune O. gold.-
And your hand, Kitty dear is so weeshy and
waxen,
The soggarth should give it to some one to
hold.
An lips must be kissed If they're redder than
cherries,
And an arm sure was made to encircle
waist;
FAX. your lips are so like bunch O ripe ber-
I'm thinkin', alanna of thryin' tashte.
Arrah thin, Kitty,
It's you that look pretty,
Stated so sweet at your Ould spinnfn-wheel:
Winsome and winnin,
The while you keep spinnn'
My fate with your nate little ankle and heel.
Tundher and turf! it's a shame beyond sim
min
To sit SO provokingly silent, ashore;
It's high time for colleens to lave of their
spinnin'
whin the moon and their bouchals peep In
at the door;
30 come TO your Barney, my darlin' so wiz
some
All! Kitty, you're breakin' my heart with
your SMILE
whisht! aisy. aroon, let your grandmother
spin some,
I've somethin' to whisper you out at the
stile.
Arrah thin, Kitty,
It's you that look pretty,
Stated so sweet at your Ould spinnin- wheel;
Wineome and winnin,
The while you keep spinnin'
My fate with your nate little ankle and heel
Patrick ]. Coleman, in the Century.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
HalRPtNS.
Articles That Cost from Nothing to Five
Hundred Dollars Apiece.

Hairpins vary in price from few
pennies gross to $500 apiece says the
n. Y. Recorder. Perhaps the hairpin
is the most useful all-around article of
feminine wear. 1t serves not only the
purpose for which it was designed, but
also as a glove buttoner. shoc-buttoner,
cutf-faStener, and even breast-piu.
a distinguished West Nirginian, who
frequently visited New York. dscov-
cred an entirely new use for the hair
pin. He converts it into IA file for the
preservation of newspaper clippings.
His method is to twist the hairD;n into
hook, sink one end into the wall or
window-sill. and file clippings on the
end that is free. He never buys hair
pains, but obtains an ample supply
from the pavemeuts, where they are
daily shed in thousands from the gold
en-, red black, brown. aud gray tresses
of New York women.
The cheapest hairpins are thinly
lacqucrcd wires bent into suitable
shape. They are made by the million
for little or nothing, and the manu-
facturers' prices would fill every wom-
an with sense of outrage at the prof
its made by retailers. Small. thin,
kinky hairpinS are a modern improve
ment on the straight, old-fashioned
variety but even they are made for
trifle per gross. The cOstIier hairpins
are not SO variously seryjeeablc as the
cheap ones.
They are made of gold, silver, and
tortoise shell. sometimes ornamcnted
with precious stones and rich work
manship. Tortoise shell in the rough
is worth from s. to IS pound The
finest is from the belly of the tortoise.
That yields the ambrr-colored she'll
from which the costliest pins and
combs are made. Small pins all of
tortoise shell, cost ST. 80 to 81 Larger
ones cost from 81 to 50. Fine amber
shcll-pins, with gold tops, cost from So
to 500. After these come the jcweled
pins. They may be of almost any
price. Simple ones cost from $50 to
SO. More elaborate ones, with pearls
and diamonds. may cost from 500 to
$500
The shcliworkers of this town are an
extremely skillful and artistic body Of
men. They carve and weld the she'll in
fashion to astonish one not acquainted
with their art. They are wcll-paid
workmen, and the value of their labor
is seen in the difference of prices be-
tween the plain shcll-pins and those
enriched with their elaborate carving.
Most Of these men are kept actively
employed by the large jewelers..
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29

anu | have seen HIM hold his post for
twenty hours when. he hen refused to
come and relieve him. And when the
hen leaves the nest before her turn
comes to seek food the male Will at
once take her place, although s1e does
not show the same Solicitudc when by
any chance he deserts the eggs And.
strangely enough. though the ostrich
often resents the invasion Of his corral
by strangers at other times than dur
ing incubation, he will allow any one
TO approach The nest while he is on
guard without taking the slightest of
Tense.
1t IS curiosity TO watch him as
SYST The hatching-out process As soon
as he sees the break or toe sticking
through the she'll he will take the eug
up by the protruding bill or foot. lift
1t two or three feet and drop it on the
ground until it breaks. | have seen
him release two chicks ut once bv
dropping one cgg upon the other in
this way
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
The Anatomy Of the oyster.

A clam is considered as the emblem
of stupidity and callouSness. But YOU
will make as great a mistake if you
put the oyster in the same category as
when YOU class Chiuaman and a
japanese together. The oyster is so
strong of muscle. as we all know, that
no human fingers are able alone to
open the doors of his domicile if he
chooses to keep them closed; liver and
stomach and digestive organs he has.
all as sensitive as ours; respiratory
organs as complicated as the human
lungs; machinery for obtaining his
water supply and for preventing an
overflow, and wondrously contrived
mechanism for the trapping of his
food Finally, he has heart whose
pulsations may be seen after his house
has been torn from him. With this
very limited understanding of the an
atomy of The oyster it is not difficult
TO comprehend how cultivation and
care may not only improve its outward
appearance ard augment its lines of
beauty. but how they also cause the
quality of its meat TO surpass that of
the natural or uncultivated oyster
as much as granted poultry surpasses
tie product of the barnyard. When
YOUR host places before you oysters
that are plump and round and thick
and deep and light-colorcd. and man
tied narrowly by a fringe quite thick
to the very edge, then YOU may be
sure that they have not only lived with
few disturbances but under high
state Of Scribner.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
rs MANNING IN PURGAToRYY~
Father O'Connor, the Ex-Priest, Lectures

HhIner otonnor, the Ex-Priest, Lectures
on tine ~aniect in New York.
New YORK. Ian. 25-Father O'Con
nor, the ex-priest. lectured in this city
last night on the subject: lis Cardinal
Manning in Purgatory?''
''What has the church to offer him il
return for his lifes consecrationp'
asked the speaker, after paying a warn
tribute to the zeal and pety of the late
cardinal. The Catholic Review o.
this city, in referring to the deaths Of
Cardinals Manning and Simeoni. close.
Its eulogy with: Let US pray for thess
good men that their stay in purgator,
may be short and that they soon ma
have the happiness of enjoying foreve'
the presence OF their Maker
at is thus assumed that the good pre-
late is il purgafory and suffering witt
what their theolngians claim is d
material fire. Is this the best they ca
do with their teachcrs?'
Father O'Connor quoted from th'
"Book of Purgatory," by Father Mnl
Ter, the Paulist father, and read from
Cardinal Pcllamy's treatise the para
graph in book H.. chapter 6, where il
says that almost all thcologians teach
that the damned and sacred in purga
tory occupy the same place and arc
burned by the same fire
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
WHERE The DIFFERENCE LIES.
A Southern Expression OF Intense Adnas-
ration for the North

COLONEL"
Sup
4 think I'll buy this property. It
suits me. With a little northern en-
ergy can make money in this sleepy
old nest. Yes, sir; I'll buy it."
I'm very glad. sub. to heah of yoh
decision. The south, sub. will well
come yo'.'
i hope it will; hope it will" The
shrewd man from Yankeeland half
closed his eyes and blinked over the
soft southern landscape
Sleepy, did | sayP" he went on;
why the place is actually dead. just
look at that miserable loafer over
there. sitting on porch in the high
forenoon smoking a cigar. ShiftIess,
lazy. useless-O, what a country this
is! Butt takes live man to wake
it up. Aud I'm alive; o, I'm very
much alive"
Il will admit, subj that the south
has not the push"
Push! | should say not! Look at
the north; look at it. colonel How
rich it is; how full of aim. energy,
progress and ambition. Isn't it?"
Il dessay yo' are correct, sub. But
the pictuh, sub. yo' have drawn, hes a
revebse side. The north has no senti-
ment, sub. 1t is all dollars and cents;
an they are not ovah careful how they
collect the dollars in the north. There
is no poetry. sub; none of the human
tiles flourish in yo' progressive states.
We cultivate poetry, sub, in the south,
where the north cultivates money"
20, come now, colonel, You'll admit
that moneys what makes the mare 90.
Poetry! Why, hang it. that's just
what ails the south. It's all dreams
and no deeds. All doze and no life.
We live in the north. Here you dream.
OF course | respect your southern
courtliness and gallantry, and even
your semi-feudal ideas, but | can't adj
mire them. They're fetishes. Don't
ask me to like EN-. I'm going to live
here, and I'm going to live like a
northerner-fOr the money there is in
it. Honestly, now colonel, isn't there
something about the north YOU lkepn
There was little pause.
Il Think said the colonel, in lit
tie while, they is. They is something
about the north | like tremendously,
sub"
%, l knew you would. Tell me
what?"
What I like about the north, sub,
is that it is a deviIsh long way from
the south, sub. u Chicago Tribune.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
Lost.

Stories are told of guides who have
dropped sticks into streams to find
which way they were flowing and
when the sticks went in II different
direction from what thev thought was
right, disregarding their plain testi-
mony, and avowing that the stream
was running up hill, says Forest amt
Stream.
Other stories are told Of hunters who
have been found frozen to death in the
depths of tangled swamps with com
passes picked to pieces because they
would not point the way the Devil
dered man thought they should, aud
SO were plainly out of kiiter.
These stories, though individually
unreliable, bear witness 10 general
truth. The fact is that it is the easiest
thing in the world under certain Cir
cumstances to become turned around
in the woods, and no one is exempt
from this failing.
Old hands know and understand this
fact. 1t is only the tyros who do not,
aud who rldicuIe those who own up to
having been lost. And when these
scoffers 90 into the woods themselves,
nine times out of ten there comes a
night when they do not turn up at the
camp. Then there is rejoicing among
those who have borne their arrogance,
for it is the turn Of these to crow, and
they who laugh last laugh best.
In fiat wooded country with the
sun obscured and no compass to guide
him, the best woodsman is apt TO lose
his way. Under less favorable cOndi-
tons the same thing often happens
from preoccupation. Interest in hunt
ing or fishing drives away all thought
of ones course till suddenly he is
rudely reused to find that he is in an
unknown wilderness with no notion Of
tie WAY out.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
To Go with His Mamma

LONDON, Jan. 25.---Prince George and
the Princess of Wales will start for the
continent shortly. The Prince still
looks pale and haggard. and the change
Is primarily intended to restore his
health.
The Princess, however, has another
object in the visit. She is commits
stoned to study the eligible Princesses
with the view of having Prince Georgs
married Immediately
The Queen, it is claimed, is almost
frantically anxious 10 prevent the
Guelph dynasty being merged into the
Fife family.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
Trouble at an End

DENING, \. NJ, Jan. 25.-There is
every reason to believe that the trouble
TO the south Is ended. The fact that
the troops from Fort Bayard have been
ordered to the Rio Grande border Is
conclusive evidence of this fact. The
refugyes are reported as having dis
persed to the ranches along the
border. Saiz, the leader. is under ar
rest at Messilla, and SO are two of his
hentenants, awaiting extradition ac-
ton
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
To Murder Mayor NFobbs.

BENTON HARBoR, Mich. Jan, 25.-
Some one attempted to assassinate
Mayor Fred A. Mobbs yesterday,
Mr.. Aobbs was At his home, standing
at the piano with some friends engaged
in singing when a loud report of a
revolver was heard and a mo-
ment later bullet came crashing
through the window, just missing Mr..
Mobbs' head The citizens are aiding
the officers in their search for the
would-be assassin and the greatest ex
element prevails throughout the city.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
Electric Lights at Sea.

An extraordinary result has been
obtained by some experiments made
IN England in signaling with electric
lights turned vertically to the sky.
The light Of the Eldystone lighthouse
can be seen only seventeen and half
miles. and then on clear night: but a
vertical beam OF light Of far less power
is visible Just twice as far. With
strong chance Of its surrounding an
pSd mary for
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
Stevenson wiz STAY in Samoa.

SAN Francisco, Cal, Jan, 25 LLOYD
Osborne, Robert Louis Stevensons
step son, arrived from Samoa Thursday
on his way to England He says
Stevenson has entirely recovered his
health and will remain permanently at
Apia, where he is building a residence.
Stevenson has just finished new novel
entitled The Beach at KaIesa." which
he things will excel any thing he has
heretofore written
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
Disgusting Presumption.

Father-'N0w. look here. Dinnis.
dive noind? I've told yez foive or six
tonnes to 20 to Sunday-shchool. an if
| nav to tell yez agin I'll Civ yez a
batting that Yell remimb Der to the ind
Of yez days"
Son-'-Lly hands on me at your
peril. The presumption of you for
eigners IS simply diss usting. lift.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
New nrl,.

NEW York Jan. y = WHEA4 - Fcbru-
airy, sl.o3t2G Lo%s4: March SL04isCtL04a1:
April u oia41 ie5: May sl.03 7-16@,L o4' i June.
si.029t02ta
RYE Quiet, weak: Western 96lg7lse.
CoFN-Receipts, 1850 bu; sales, 10000 bu;
dull, lac lower, easy
OATS Receipts, lOS,G5o bu: sales. 1000 bu;
dull, steady
PRovlsloNs + Beef Quiet, steady: extra
mess. S""I0; family, >ll@l2. Pork-Dull and
steady; mess, S9.15e Io15; extra prime. 1850
Lard tirmer quiet: steam rendered. s.. 7214
BUTTER Western dairy lSG, pc: do
creamery, 2lll &c; Eigins ,2c; imitation cream
cry, ls4t pc: rolls lGa.f.
Eggs Western, 2@4f.c
SUGAR Raw, hrm:qulct steady; fairrefning
303-t6c; ceutrifugaIs S. test 5 I-160@sc. re-
1ined dHh, steady; crushed. 5a5lsc: powdered.
f4@A"se. granulalod. !tsul#c
SPIRITS TUErENTINE- Dull and steady; 3415
MoLAssEs III and steady; New Orleans,
common to fancy, y l55c
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
Sinking of a rowhoat.

CAIRO, Ill, Jan. %. The towboat
George w, Stone sank last night at the
lower incline and is in about fifty feet
of water, Her Waterman is missing
The boat will probably he raised. She
was owned by the Huntington Tow
boat company of Cincinnati and valued
at about $50, 900.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
Charged with Black q.

CEDAR RArDs, Iowa, Jan. 25.-Ths
grand jury which has been making an
investigation Of the settling" bust
ness has returned indictments against
two well-llnown attorneys of this city
w l.. Cron and E. c. Barber. The
charge upon which these indictments
were brought was eXtorting money
from saloon keepers by threatening to
prosecute them.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
Minister Reds Resignation.

WASH NC TON, Jan. est was re
ported last night that Whitclavv Reid,
United States minister to France, has
rendered his resignation for business
reasons. The reasons are that be
desires to conduct his paper during tho
coming campaign it is impossible to
verify the rumor. and his intimate
friends here doubt is correctness.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
All Patients Escape In Safety.

HIGHLAND, i'll. jan 25.-The st
Joseph hospital took fire from a defec~
tive fiue at noon yesterday and was
PARTLY destroyed. There were forty
two patients in the buildings and all
were removed safely. The loss Is
$1,000, the Insurance 5000.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
Killed While Resisting Arrest.

Newton, Miss, Jan. 25.-~In an at
tempt yesterday to arrest two desperate
negroes wanted in Clarke county, Ala
bama, for a murder committed nine
years ago Oliver Council, one of the
criminals, was instantly killed, and
Weldon Norman, a member of the
sheritf's posse mortaliy wounded. Isom,
the other negro, gave himself up.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
ScaIded to Death with Steam-

FRANKFoLT Mich. Jan 25.~ The
steam pipe of the propeller OSceola
burst this morning while leaving the
harbor, fatally scalding w. D. McDon-
aid of Port Huron, who died at o'clock
Yesterday.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
Denouncing the Managers.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Jan 25.-Almoss
the entire press of the country is de-
nouncing the management of the Sur
gical institute of this city in regard to
the terrible fire last week.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
Helksr Held,

NEW York, Jan. 25.-George Hefker,
notorioua Hotel thief, was arrested
here yesterday on the request of the
chief of police of Chicago. for robbing
q guest at the Central European hotel
In that city.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29
RICHARDSON'S BANK.
Assets are Really About Half the La
bilities

LAKE GENEVA, Wis. Jan %. : Credit
ors IF Richardson's bank met today and
aseertained that the liabilities Of that de-
funct concern are s105. 900; assets s8l 900,
of which S2O,OoO are worthless paepr.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29

According TO japanese belief the
mitZado is descended from the gods.
being one hundred and TIVE nty-hrst In
direct line IT descent.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29

The stock. machinery. ETC., of the Nee
nah Wall Paper mills was sod by the as
signee to Fred Burgess, of Oshkosh, for
8, 200 he being the highest bidder. 1t
Is supposed Mr.. Burgess represents the
present corporation.
The assignment papers of Woodnorth L
Seward. at Waupaca. have been with
drawn. George Woodnorth claims to be
able to pay dollar for dollar of his debts.
The firm will dissolve and discontinue
business.
Remarks In eu'ogy Of the late Justice
Bradley were made by Mcpherson and
Hoar in the senate.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29

Ex-Gov. Hall of Delaware is dead
He was Go. 2rnor from 1878 to 1889.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-01-29

The oldest reigning dynasty is that
OF japan
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-12-17
A Revolutionary Relic.

A Keepsake more than ordinarily
priced by T. Meredith Maxwell, of Wal,
tiers Park, Berks County, is a lette,
written on January IL, III, Dy M4iol
Samuel Meredith, Of Philadelphia, his
great-erandfather, who twelve years late,
was the first Treasurer 81 the United
States. In his epistie Tie Ma ;or, WING
was attached to General ~Cadwalader'>
battalion, mentions the state Of affair
soon after the battle Of Princeton, when
Washington had marched to Morr.seovu,
n. j., soon after defeating the British.
The letter was addressed from Morris
town to Dear Peggy il part as fol-
lows.
1.-THE militia have not moved a. all
their baggage has not yet come up.
Wnen it does we shall. not risk a general
engagement, but try to harass the enemy
by small parties, which, We are ii hopes,
will obiige them to quit the Jerseys ca
tirely. II that should be the case, va
shall return home, which will give ne
great pleasure, as | Want to see my lear.
est and the little ones. If ynu We're %
see the scene Of action through mani
parts Of the Jerseys, II would induce
every one TO make the scene Of action as
lar distant as possible. and not undergo
hardships that no other luducement biz.
tie welfare Of their families woull ~.
NIL. | pray continually ior tae wc..ar.
Of You ana the little ones. ). NJ"
-Pnl.aielnbla Record.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-12-17
WISE WORDS.

People on the fence never weigh
mucn.
Even when provocasion is giveu main
tain serenity.
He who keeps his mind under perfect
control is happy.
Men are only ten year-olds, VINO have
thus far done little more than play and
quarrel.
Man says, oman IS the paragon Of ere
alton" A goose probably has a Ike
opinion Of goose.
How shall the dead arise IS no question
Of my faith; to believe only possibilities
is not faith, but mere philosophy
History looks ridiculous t. is to-day,
blu. we would see something just sas ri
diculous if We would look IN 4 mirror.
If you have a patient mothsr, look il
to her face now and then, aud see if she
is tired; if SO, help her by doing 'thosa
little things which will save her steps and
MAKE her cheerful.
There is no mystery about happiness
whatever. Put inz the right Ingredients
and it must come out, and b-iIgin.
forth much fruit is happiness. The in
fallible recipe for happiness, taen, Is 10
do good. !
If one ten-thousandth Of the effort and
gold that are to-day spent on slaughtei
engines were used to find means for ami
cable arbitration, the Nations Of. ou
earth would not so strlkiusly resemble
prodigious bull dogs.
People, generally, knoH ali aoou.
other people aud other peoples bus.
ness, but they arc such strangers 4
themselves that ii they should meet
themselves in the read, nine out e teu
would turn and run for dear lie.
The school Of life is rather 4 tri.e
phrase, but 10 degree Of familiarity Ga:
dull its significance. As We learn tc
live-in the best ser 5c-Ne learn llo"
absolutely valuclcss IS al. ahac.at.on,
sham and pretcnsion; that - .tiicc1 Z
be what We are not is IS .ilc IS the OS
trich who inagines be IS Invisible DJ
hldinr his head III the sand. Instead o
affecting to be what one IS nos, lie, hin
raise what he is to the hisa;s. possible
excellence
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-12-17
Cats Are Independent Animals.

The cats spirit of independence, in.
deed, is the most distinct characteristic
Of her nature. AS Nine. dc Cuisine
rightly said, the cats great difference
from, and, according to her sentiments,
superiority to, the dog lies in her calm
insistence on selection which invariably
accompanies her apparent docility. To
the dog proprietorship is mastcrship; he
knows his home, and he recognizes with.
out question the man who has paid for,
feeds and, On occasions, kicks him with
all the easy familiarity Of ownership. He
follows that man undoubting and un.
noticed, grateful for a word, even thank
full for an oath. But the cat is a crea-
ture of a very different stamp. She will
not even stoop to conquer, nor be
tempted out of her nature by offers Of
reward. She absolutely declines in.
struction; nay, even persuasion is lost
upon her for any permanent effect it may
be designed to have. You may be the
legal possessor of a cat, but you canno
govern her Observation-Disclosures Ron
ECr,