Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-18

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MINERAL POINT, WIS.
THE cornerstone of the Grant memorial
IL New York will be laid April q, the
general birthday.
The Empress Eugene paid 1000 francs
$4,000 rer ounce for braid Of lair that
exactly matched her cwn.
THE colossal statue of the republic at
the worlds fair will be female figure
seventy-fve feet high.
The Emperor Of China is studying Eng
ifh ond is determined, be says, to be able
to read, write and speak it.
pRoE. UPTor, of Brown university has
taken measurement of the largest spot
on the sun, and finds it to be 1900 miles
IN diameter.
PRoF. H. f. Won HOIST, of Freiburg,
who has just accepted call to the new
Chicago university, will receive $1,000
annual salary.
IT takes fraction less than three
seconds for message to 90 from one end
Of the Atlantic cable to the other.
GEORGE ATTENBORoUGH, famous
London pawnbroker, has died, leaving
s5.OOO,OOO, the result, no doubt, of ais
loan life and his rigid economies.
AT the end Of the year the telephone
company of Austria will cease to exist, the
government assuming control Of all tele'
phone lines Of the kingdom.
OvERExERToN in a skipping rope con-
test Is responsible for the death of two
children in Philadelphia. Even simple
ambitions may overleap themselves.
PAPER properly treated with chemicals
and then subjected to great pressure ID
being used for flooring material and for
general use in building as fire resisting
substance.
A paper called the Barmaid's Journal is
TO be started in London as the organ Of
the $4,000 baImaids of that city, and
rumor has it that Rudy ard Kipling is to
h a special contributor to It,
COINS are weighed at the mint to a
hairs weight Not long since hair fell
into the weighing machine, and until it
was discovered large amount of coins
were rejected.
In the experience of the French states
man, the Clemenceau case Is a reality as
vivid as when the Boston aldermen had TO
see it in person in order to pass judgment
on its moral character.
ANNA f. DICKINSON is about re-enter-
ing the lecture field, where she found her
fame and did her service. Her multitude
Of friends will be glad to hear that she Is
we'll enough to do this.
TIE principal wool growing countries
are Australia, GI2,O0O0Q0 pounds; South
America, 100000, 900; Russia, 100000, 900;
United States, 300,O0O,000 Great Britain,
125, 900, 600; and South Africa IS, ZOO, 900
pounds.
THE Union Signal suggests that within
fifty years people will live as much on the
top of their houses as they do within, 60
ing there TO get the benefit of the sun
light and good air. The roofs Of cities
are great expanse Of wasted oppor-
tunity.
NEXT month Chicago will receive from
Berlin 100000 and more volumes aud
pamphlets, comprising the Calvary libra
~, purchased by DR.. Harper for the new
university Chicago is said TO be the
greatest book buyer of any city in the
world nowadays.
AMERICA is the home of the precious
metals Up to the close of the last de-
cade the total production of gold in this
country was 81, 8,S7l, 1876, of silver $927,-
29l GOO, and to-day the figures may be said
to stand in round numbers, three billions
of dollars in all, enc billion of silver and
tive of gold.
ERAsTUs WNAN thinks the United
States may have to fight John Bull as a
result of the complications arising in the
Behring sea matter. The situation is not
Sc funny as it was in the CHILEAN case, but
if England must have war to save the
tories from defeat IN the coming election
we n1,nht 70 he q he 70 hncn1,n M datn Il