Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-04-14

1t Is believed that William Weight
mans offer Of 100000 to the Penn
sylvania Museum and School Of Indus
trial Art, to aid in purchasing an addi-
ional building for a new school Of art,
will be withdrawn, as the remaining
amount lover $4O0,OOO) necessary to
accomplish that object has not been
secured.
Customs officers find silk handker-
chiefs concealed in a box of macaroni
from Italy. Silks have often run the
customs in old times packed in cases
Of stationery.
The Beard coal mines at Virden, H.,
including SGT acres of coal rights, were
sold under a decree Of the circuit court
to j. w. Luken of Streator, H., for
S17,025.
A store-keeper at birmingham, Ala,
after H,t@ning to a sermon on the evils
Of card-pIaying, made a large bonfire
OF all the cards in his store, valued full
~ at $500.
Mrs. Weld declares in an article on
Tennyson in the Contemporary Review
that no clergyman was ever a more
earnest student Of the Bible than was
the late poet laureate.
American students in Bolivia were at
tackled while conducting a Masonic fun
eral by mob urged on by priests. The
instruments were smashed by the in
furiated mob.
About the best satisfied officer in the
naval service just now is Capt. John
Phillip, who will command the armored
cruiser New York. He is enthusiastic
in his admiration Of this fieet-winged
ship.
J. Pierpont Morgan has sold to the
EanderbiltS the New York and Northern
railroad. This gives the Vanderbilts
a complete monopoly of the roads rum
ming into New York.
While James Parlier, of Moravian
Falls, n G.. was chopping down a large
oak tree he claims to have found two
rocks imbedded in the tree, which had
evidently been placed there when the
tree was young.
1t has been discovered that the steam
least ten tons of opium into the coun-
try within Il year. High treasury Off
Gals are said to be implicated in the
scandal.
The Swedish jubilee festival to be
held i'll Minneapolis in commemoration
Il
the granting OF religious liberty to the
SWedes has been postponed until May
-
In England the electric light has come
to be regarded as the poor mans light
The government is considering the plan
for supplying their tenement houses
with electric lights at an almost nomin-
nj cost.
Brigadier General William Clendenin,
commander of the Third brigade, /. n.
G., has been summarily dismissed from
office by Governor Altgeld as 'incom-
petent to discharge the duties of his
Office
Professor Elisha Gray was once Il
bIacksmith's apprentice and has il rusty
wrought iron fire shovel kept in Il cor
ner Of his library to prove it. He
pounded the shovel into shape on an
Ohio anvil early in the tifties.
The president makes Il large number
of appointments, including Lewis Baker
Of st. Paul us minister to Nicaragua,
Costa Ricta and San Salvador and
Thomas T. Bayard as ambassador to
England.
One of the Oldest of the British no.
blemen is the Duke OF Northumberland,
who is nearly ninety years Of age. He
has been Il member OF five cabinets
and sat III parliament twenty years be-
fore he succeeded to his title.
The milado, DESTROYS of improving
the physique Of the japanese, has rec
commended to them Il meat diet, III
stead Of the fish and rice monotony
On which they are believed to have
detelioratcd.
Some idea OF the cost of maintaining
Il navy may be derived from the fact
that the recent voyage of American war
vessels from San Francisco to Wash
ington entailed an expense of $12O.0O0
for fuel alone
TO guard against poisoning law has
been passed i'll Germany that all drugs
intended for internal use must be put
is round bottles and those which are
only used externally must be placed
in heNagonal bottles.
\ cablegram received in New York
city, March l, announces the death at
Nassau, y. p, of Mrs. RoSllie Osborn
Bierstadt, wife of the well known art
list. Her body will be brought back
Tor mterment at Wateryille
Mrs. H. IL. Riddleberger, widow of
the Late Virginia senator, announces
that hereafter her newspaper 1T Wood
stock, the Shenandoah Herald, is to be
independent OF Il political parties or
independent Of all political parties OF
faction OF political parties
William Rhinelander Stewart, who be
came widely known through his sue
ceSsful efforts TO raise 100000 to cree
the Washington memorial arch in Wash
ington park, New York, is slender ner
Eous and rapid in action.
Frank Cronin, of West Chester. Pa,
has brought suit for $4,000 damages
against the Seventh avenue hotel. Pitts
burg. He was 4 conductor in the Pull
man service and lost his position be
rll1S1 tho bptal aIa,l- faiJn5 RI coll hin,