Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-07-28
SPOILED A CAT CONCERT,
Electricity Employed With Signal Sue
cess II Fence.

Electricity Employed With Signal Sue
cess on II Fence.
A Brooklyn electrician has been an
noyed for several weeks by cat con-
certs in his back yard He lives in
kosciusko street, and every night the
cats ranged themselves on the back
fence and meowed in chorus The
leading tenor in the company was a
monster with falsetto voice of great
range and power. He was particularly
strong in roulade and cadenza, and
some of his fortomento passages were
models in expression.
But the concerts became monoto-
nous after awhile, and the electrician
determined to stop them. He placed
thin steel plate on the top of the
fence and connected it with motor
in the kitchen. He permitted the
plate to remain on the fence for three
nights until the big tenor had become
accustomed to sitting on it. The plate
was great Improvement as seat
over the ragged edge of the fence.
But one moonlight night last week
the Maltese soprano assoluta, the
bewhiskered tenor robusto were
singing Il Chrea5u arrangement CT
'Maria Where Nrt Thou?
The tenor had rc;:, he'd a sustained
passage su"chlr~ed Y TIL love and had
risen on his Ht.,, .-S Il give freer ex-
preston to it when the current was
turned on. The sustained passage
was cut in two as if with a cleaver 1t
ended in most discordant Squawll as
the tenor fell off the fence upon his
hack, only to bound into he air like a
bail and disapp ar over the fence and
down the street like black comet
HIS NAME is COLUMBUS, TOO.
A Lineal Descendant of the Great voy-
aeer Now Living in Buffalo.
For the last fifty-two years there
has lived in Buffalo a lineal descend
ant of Christopher Columbus, and
around the knees of this patriarch
could be gathered to-day eight living
children, thirty grandchildren and six
, great grandchildren, SO that there is
, little danger of the name of Column
bus becoming extinct or forgotten.
The name of this venerable descend
ant of famous man is Alexius Col
umbus He is % wears old
There is no doubt about his
age or nativity. for these matters
were verified by his son, John Colum-
bus, with whom the old lnaa makes
his home and WHO for that purpose
, paid visit to Quebec near where
Alexius was born and reared. The
old man is in fairly good health.
! His skin is swarthy and his hair is
snow white. His children are all
lighter complexion except one daugh-
ter, who inherits her fathers dusky
, skin. Since the death of his wife last
| spring, at the age of 76, AleXius has
been fai ing steadily in spirit
AleXius Columbus was a shipbuilder
, by trade, as were his ancestors. Hei is
! the only one of his generation who
came to the states. His sisters and
brothers lived in the province of Que
, bee, Enough it is not known that more
than one of them is still surviving An
I uncle of AlexiuS lived to the age of IA.
America as Taught in France.
| A little French girls map of North
America, shown in the educational
! exhibit at the worlds fair, makes the
! Ohio river rise in Canada, cross Lake
| Huron and serve as that lakes outlet.
! The Mississippi rises in Alaska, Lake
Superior cmptics into the st, Lawrence
i river. Lake Huron reaches down to
Washington and Lake Eric is still