Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-03-04

Ancient monuments show that the
cultivation of wheat had been estab-
lished in Egypt before the invasion of
the shepherds.
The jeweler has drills so small that
they can bore hole only one
thousandth of an inch in diameter
through precious stone.
1t is a common sight among the Es-
qUlmauN, according to a travellers
story, TO see a nursing infant with
a quid of tobacco in its mouth.
In the last seven and twenty wears
the number of students attending
Scotch universities has more than
doubled; for in 1890 it was 1000 odd.
Venezuela has fifty-six HOLIDAYS
every year. On these occasions the
people close their stores, and enioy
themselves in chicken fights and other
tropical amuSementS.
The giraffe is now threatened with
permanent extinction. Ten years ago
herds Of seventy and eighty could be
found where thirteen would be an ex-
cePtionally large herd.
The mother of a Kansas CITY. Mo.
baby is sixteen years old, its grand
mother thirty-three, and its great
grandmother is but tifty-two years old.
All reside in the same house.
The low volcanic island which rose
SO suddenly out of the sea near Paler-
mo, and from which fire was emitted.
has entirely disappeared, even the water
that covers it having ceased to boil.
The largest gas meter in the world
belongs to the South Metropolitan Gas
Company, of Salisbury, England. 1t
is about 256 feet in diameter and is
capable of holding 100000 cubic feet
of gas.
When q Missouri cabbage was cut
open it was found that the outer coat
ing contained twenty-eight perfectly
developed little heads in cluster,
about the size of a walnut and nearly
as hard.
At communion service in a Han
well pauper school little girl who had
charge Of the chalice dropped it, and
some of the wine was spilled on her
pinafore. The chaplain ordered the
pinalore to be burned.
A fine deposit of asbestos has been
discovered in jackson County, Oregon.
1t is pronounced by eastern experts to
be of the very best quality. The ma
chinery for cleaning, baling and ship
ping will soon be put in.
The new emigrants to Palestine are
worthy Germans and Jews The
former confine themselves to cultivat-
ing the soil: the latter get the fella-
h2en to do their farm work and take
life easy under the shade trees.
y healthy girl of seventeen who de-
votes herself to hospital work will die
tWcnty-fUUI and one-half years sooner
than Il girI Of the same are in the gen
cr;ti population. This is supposed to
be duo to her liability to tuberculosis.
The following advertisement appears
in several leading papers of Georgia.
Wanted--A young lady for clerk Of the
County Court of Ebert County; it will
be necessary for her to marry the
county Judge. Address County Judge,
Elberton, Ga"
There is grim humor in one clause
in the viii of the late Solomon Abra-
mans, of Boston. After making num-
Der Of charitable requests the tesla tor
remarks: i remember all my cous-
in>, aunts, uncles and grandfathers,
but | give them nothing"
Florida is probably the best timber
3d state in the union. Out of about
3S,00O, 900 acres only some 5000, 900
are included in farms, the rest, nine
teen-twentieths, exclusive of the area
covered by lakes and rivers, being
covered with heavy forests.
Il would seem that the ladies of the
harem possess a wonderful capacity
for dispensing of sweet things. France
alone last wear exported to Turkey
and Egypt for the harems 100000
francs (E64, OO0) worth Of f0ndants,
pralines and marrons glaces.
(which succeeds better, the city or
the country boy?" is said to be a
favorite question for discussion in
country debating societies. The gen
eral trend of opinion seems to be that
the country boy succeeds better, but
only after he becomes a city boy.
a North Carolinian of timid nature
tried to run away from his wife, whose
sharp tongue kept the poor fellow, as
he expressed it, con tenter hooks" but
he lost his way in the woods, got badly
frightened, and returned as soon as he
could get his bearings to captivity.
A California prune grower has re-
fused an offer from a Bordeaux firm
for his prune crop in sacks. They
would of course be repacked and ship
ped as French prunes. But the Cali
fOrnian means to improve his style of
packing and make the profit himself.
One of the missionaries of the Sea-
mems Mission in England has during
the year visited 5000 vessels and read
the Scriptures in English, Danish and
Norwegian. He has distributed 1900
New Testaments and 700 gospels to
English and foreign seamen and emf
grants.
The timber cut in one year in Florida
averages a little short OF 10000 900
feet, which is over PEI cent of the
whole amount of mercantile timber
standing in her forests. At this rate
in about thirty years Florida would be
CLEARED of her timber if there was no
natural increase.
Recently girl in one of the public
schools of neighboring city was ask
ed by her teacher to explain the differ
ence between the words balance and
remainder. Her answer was: "You
can say a man lost his balance and
FELL but you cannot say "A man lost
his remainder and fell"