Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-02-12

in Jerusalem for the promotion of
biblical studies.
Oscar Wilde considers his judgment
as a eSitic as near nfallibility as it is
given humanity to attain.
The ceiling of the entrance hall of
the Imperial Museum of Art at Vienna,
is covered wits one immense painting
by Munkacsy.
Mr.. w. J. Hussey will succeed Pro-
lessor Mark harrington as acting
director of the Ann Arbor astronomical
observatory.
The tenor De Reszke shares Murat
Halstead's antipathy to iced water.
Perhaps there are really deadly germs
in the chilly fluid.
w. J. Florence, the actor, had
brothe<, who is a. present police in
spector in New York City. He retains
the family name of Conlin.
Mrs. Philippine Overstolz. of st.
Louis. is said to be the only lady
President Grant danced with during
his occupancy of the White House.
Bishop Nelson, of the Georgia do
ceSe, is described as a churchman of
breadth and strength, energetic. and
likely to be power for good in his
diocese.
Grace M. Thomas is said to be the
only woman real estate agent in
Washington. She has had tolerable
success during the year she has been in
business.
Mis-. M. Il. Higgins, of Washington,
has been engaged by the native women
of Ceylon as the director of their
society for the promotion of womens
education.
The statistics of the British House of
Commons show that the annual
revenue of the Church of England
from ancient eudowments amounts to
$2S. 487. 785.
Eddie Gould is the tallest of all the
Gould family. He is of slender physi-
que and fonder of the enjoyments of
life than George is, though not given
to dissipation.
To win a wager made with lady.
Sir Edwin Arnold climbed $4,000 feet
to the top of Full San, in japan, and
wrote on the ed ge of its crater pic
tsresque poem of ninety-two lines.
There are 500 missionaries in Africa,
and the professed converts number
more than $4,000 a year. Two hun
dred white land colored, martyrs have
lost their lives.
The last of the survivors of the
British officers who fought at Waterloo
is believed to have been Lieutenant
Colonel Hewitt. who has lately died in
England at the age of ninety-six.
The N. Y. Morning advertiser has
unearthed "a novel way to boom it's
circulation. For limited period every
purchaser of even single copy has an
insurance on his life of $500 for the
day.
Lord Salisbury, as Prime Minister of
England, has seen seven consecutive
Lord Mayors days, and in doing so he
has beaten the record of more than
sixty years, or since Lord LiverpooI's
time.
There is an unmarked grave of an
old and faithful minister at Mendon,
Mich, on which some one has erected
a cross made of lath and written on
it in pencil: Righteous, but for
saken."
The sewage of the city of Munich,
Germany, flows into the Iser river, but
Professor Won Pettenkafor, who has
been examining the water, says there is
no trace of pollution five miles below
the city.
Edouard Lochroy. the author of a
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Il sensation in Paris, has had a checker
ed career. He was one of Garibaldi's
redshirted irregular>. ana fought with
him in Sicily and AT Naples.
Mrs Mary A. Hulett, who for sew
eral wears acted as assistant pilot to
her husband. Captain Richard Hulett,
OF the Mississippi river steamer Belle
OF Ottawa, has received a license as
pilot from steamboat inspectors
Office.
Andrew jackson, when Judge of the
Supreme Court. held the first court
ever convened in Tennessee under an
old sycamore tree at Elizabethton, and
photograph of that historic tree is
one Of the priced possessions of a Ten
nesSeean.
According to Minister Porter, the
fact that first strikes American visitors
to Rome is the noticeably modern
CT aracter of the Holy City. The visit
o. 5 expect to see the works of antiuui-
IT,. but they have to be sought for to
j. found.
President Harrison is fond of the
theater and has become one of the
first nil OH TO
ton. He appreciates IA good play and
enjoys hearty laugh at humorous
hit as we'll as does the gamin in the
peanut gallery.
The American colony in Rome num-
bers nearly 2 900 members, though
this mum Der huctuates with the chang
ing seasons. Among the Americans
who have become permanent residents
of the Eternal City are Story, the
sculptor, and the banker Hooker.
1t is said in London that the late
Lord Lytton was a devoted Spiritual
list; that he believed he had communi-
cation with Joan of Arc, Balztc and
Napoleon. and that he com planned
that he was always batfied in trying to
have access to the spirit of his father.
There were some Interesting legacies
provided for in the will of the late
King of Wurtemberg. In accordance
with its provisions the. bootblack out
side the palace gates is to wear patent
leather shoes for the rest of his life,
be dressed in blue tweed homespun
and receive pension of /, 600 marks
a year.
Miss IdnnY Dayenpoft has mr.