Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-12

ton.
The late Alfred Name, of Tours,
France, was the greatest publisher Of
Roman catholic literature in the world.
In less than a year this establishment
used up 10000 sheepskins in binding
books and parchments and the mere
sweepings from his elders room were
sold for $4,000. NJ. Name made most
of his fortune by cheap catechisms that
sold as low as three cents each and
leaflets and pamphlets required for
pupils of religious schools. On the
reproductions of Illuminated missals
and other expensive publications Of
interest to book collectors he invaria-
bly, lost money.
A Well-knOWn physician says that
he gives bread pills in sugar pills in
his practice to compose the nerves and
stimulate a belief that they are get
ting better in people who have nothing
the matter with them. Chronic inva-
lids, he says, are to be found chiefly
among people who have nothing to
think about but their livers and they
devote their minds to their aches and
pains with great assiduity. He would
like to recommend work, but he knows
that his hypochondriac patients would
get angry at such a suggestion and
engage another physician.
A man who has lived much among
the negroes and observed their ways
declares that there are no people who
pride themselves on their social rank
n N fnnnmnl1f
is possible to find all grades "lOW
down nigger," common Niger" ''gen-
tlenan niger and yellow fellow
to quote their own nomenclature. The
, differences are apparently traditional
At all events they are not such as 4
casual white observer can detect.
They usually respect white people,
but they look at yellow folks
| (mulaties) as rather inferior to
blacks Of pure blood.
| The doctors Of Kingston, Ont, are
:, greatly exercised over the predicament
that Miss Lizzie Mills is in. The young
woman had occasion to prepare an early
breakfast and while yaWning her jaw
became paralyzed and she has not since
been able to close her mouth.
Turkish newspapers have received
the sultan'S permission to recommenct
publication in the morning. Orders thai
all journals should be afternoon issues
were recently issued, be cause, it was
Sllrmised, morning issues required the
press censor to arise too early or else
sit up too late.
School teachers frequently receive
queer notes of excuse from parents
i One, for instance, contained the single
! word, "CeptatOmtogoataturig," which
being interpreted, meant that the boy
was kept at home to go a tatuling."
Archaeologists have discovered an
other temple in Greece and are diggins
it up. GrecEln temples are valuable
property and the industry of diggin:
for them is very profitable. Ii the.
are tolerably Well preserved they brins
more than they cost.
DR.. Buchner, the African traveller
broke from the highest point on Noun
Ailimandjaro, one of the highest nfoun
tainS in Africa, a piece Of rock, which
he presented to the German Emperor
The Kaiser now uses a mountain sum
NIT as a paper weight on his writin;
desk.
a family named Fox has been settled
on farm on the duke of Devonshire'
Hathersage estate for over five hun
bred years, and there is Il legend L
the effect that the founder of the hous
came over with William the Conquerol
The Lincoln Savings Bank and SAT-
:, Deposit company Of Lincoln, Neb
numbers among its directors Professo
Rachel Lloyd, IL bright woman, VIII
holds the position of professor of ana
lytical chemistry in the University o
Nebraska.
DR.. William Everett, the preacher
politician who has just been elected t
congress from one OF the Massachusett
districts, is accomplished in the art Q
dining, tells good story, makes Il RAJ
5 ting speech and is gifted with som
pleasing personal eccentricities.
Edison, the inventor, prefers wome
machinists for the delicate details O
electrical machines. He says they hav
more fine sense about machinery i
one minute than most men i'll thei
whole existence. He backs up hi
statement by having 200 female employ
es in his works.
Clarence Smith, private secretary t
collector Hendricks, proposes to organ
ize Il society composed of men who ar
| or have been conspicuous as privat
secretaries to leading officials of til
government. Among those who hay
l been asked to join are Secretary of Wa
Lamont and General Horace Porter.
: General ]. 3. Weaver proposes to e:
!, tabliSh an independent school Of polit
: cal science" at Des Moines, Iowa, wit
seven professors on the following sui
: jects: Land and public utilities an
| inventions, finance, transportation, col
, stitutional law and legislation, suffrag g,
, applied christianity, and public d,
+ bates"
5 When Napoleon overran Italy his a
tention was called to a number Of 81
yer statutes of the Apostles which ha
decorated an ecclesiastical institutio
, for centuries. Take them down." sal
: the great conqueror, land coin them il
to currency, that they may so about d.
inc good. as did their Master
: President Charles w Eliot of Ha
ward has been elected president Of tt
Colonial club If Old Cambridge, SUI
\ ooa,];or Cn1npaJ Thomas WaDtwort