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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-12-27
DIFFICULT JOURNALISM.
Setting Type in Japanese Is a Most
I.ahorlous Process.

Henry Norman in Real Japan: They
are very keen journalists In the land
OF the chrySanthemum; but it must be
allowed that the business is carried
on under difficulties from which even
the hardened western newspaper man
might shrink appalled,. 'rhe Internal
organization of a newspaper office Is
II sad spectacle Of daily struggle with
difficulties unknown elsewh re and
really unnecessary here.
"Fhe Japanese written and printed
character consists of the Chinese ideo-
graphs, those complicated square fig
ures made up of an apparent tumble
of zigzags and crosses and ticks and
trianglcS and tailS-'the footprints OF
Il drunken hy'-and OF the original
japanese sylabary, called kama. OF
the former there are 10000 in all, Of
which perhaps 1900 constitute the
scholars vocabulary, and no fewer
than 1000 are In common daily use:
while the forty-Seven simple letters of
the kama are known to everybody.
Therefore. the Japanese compositor
has to be prepared TO place In his stick
any one of over four thousand different
typcS-truly an appalling task.
Prom the nature Of the problem
several consequences naturally follow.
First he must be good deal of a
scholar himself to recognize all these
instantly and accurately; secondly,
his eyesight suffers fearfuly and he
generally wears huge pair of magni-
flying goggles; aud, third, as 1t Is phys
ically impossible for any one man to
reach 1000 types. a totally different
method Of ease arrangements has to
I've devised.
THE typo. therefore, OF whom there
are only three or four on paper. sits
III little table at one end Of large
room, with the case containing his
forty seven kama syllahles before him.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-12-27
Harper's Magazine
IN 1895

The simpietons. new novel by Thomas
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ABOUT A GIRL CALLED BUNNY.

Happy little Bunny
Romps through all the day
Finds the world funny
Good old place to play.
When she's tired her mother
Rocks her girl to sleep.
And the blessed angels
Watch her slumberS deep.
When she wakes she laughs and
TumbleS from her bed,
With her bright eyes smiling
From her touSled head;
Isn't very patient
While her hair is curled-
Wants to hurry and renew
Friendship with the world.
World is glad 10 see her
Missed her all the night
While She roved in drcamland
With her eyes closed tight
'TiSnt very strange that
Hearts, 'iowe'er 50 wild,
Open wide their loorS TO her
Sweet and happy child.
Philip L Barker
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The Penn's Grove record., 1894-02-02
Interesting Ordnance Experiments.

The Armstrong Company, of Eng
ing experiments with the latest ord
nance. A six-inch gun was fired four
times in twenty seconds, an eight inch
gun three times in thirty seconds. A
torpedo was driven satisfactorily with
cordite as a powder. There was a
search light which would keep its
beam upon an object no matter how
violently the vessel rolled. A ten
inch t~hirty-ton gun, when it was
fred, opened the breech screw by the
recoil and wound up a spring, which
when released, would close the breech
again. A47-100f field howitzer anchored
itself after the first discharge by driv-
ing a spade-shaped plate into the
ground, after which its recoil was met
by a jacket which surrounds it. A
quick-fring field gun, which anchors
itself in a similar manner, fred Ave
rounds of scrapnel in fifty-three Sec
onds. A ifteen-pounder mountain
howibzer could be taken to pieces so
that no part of it would weigh more
than 200 pounds. 1t was screwed to-
gether in five minutes. six.inch
gun, with light portable disappearing
mountings for a siege train, could be
taken apart so that noportion weighed
more than three tons, ten hours being
required to mount it. A six-inch naval
gun fired five rounds in sixty-nine Sec
onds, each time at a different range
and target. A plate Of special steel
designed for q shield received rifle and
Gatling gun fire at 100 yards range
without a single penetration, while the
plate hitherto used was penetrated at
every shot, the Calling gun almost
cutting it in two. -Chicago Herald.
The Penn's Grove record., 1894-02-02
IORSEPLAY IN ENGLISH so
GETTY.
Coarse Jokes and Risky Dancing Being
INDUCED in by Smart Girls.

Coarse pike and Risky Dancing Being
INDUCED in by Smart Girls.
Skirt dancing, high play and the
oerpetration of practical jokes seem
to be the leading amusements OF
country-house parties in England, ac-
cordiug to a recent chronicler quoted
by the San Francisco Argonaut. He
says: November is prominently
the month for big shoots, and the
country houses are full to overflow
ing just now. In quiet houses mod
crate hours are Kept, gam ling foi
heavy stakes is at Il discount and s
certain sobfiety prevails from sun
rise to shutdown. In other houses,
however, the fun wakes fast and furi.
GUS. No dancing is con idered SPORT
unless it be Of a nature imported
from the Gaity, such as the unforget.
table Ias de euatre. A few smart
girls 60 so far as to take unto them
selves the voluminous skirts of the
serpentine irock and try To initiate
Miss Lettie Lind's dexterit.e S"
After explaining that the ~serpentine
skirts are made out OF mo less than
100 yards of the very finest Chinese
silk or crepe"cut in triangular pieces
to give the appearance OF an infniB
of yards" our authority resumes: sit
is regrettable to add that under some
roofs pretty heavy gambling is in.
dulged in, and h~accarat and nap with
high stakes have as many women as
men votaries, to say nothing OF prac.
tical joking of a suspiciously rowdy
sort, sucn as apple, pie bed -making
BOBBY. trapping. A certain most dis
tInguished lady amused herself oDe
whole evening by standing in a gal,
lery and throwing pillows on the
mems heads as they passed In and
out of the smoking-room."
The Penn's Grove record., 1894-02-02
South and West.

Envied for her splendid hair, Mrs
Catherine Relscher, of Canton, o., wal
waylaid by two men, who shipped il
off.
After years of hiding, A. G, Knowl
ton, of Vinton County, o., who EN-.
bezzled $1,000, was found at Greeley
Col.
Embezzlement of $4250 worth Of
stock caused the arrest of ex-Cashiel
IL. d. Gloster, of the Linn County
(Kan.) Bank.
While spearing on the ice near Bay
port, Mich, John Mckenzie and Glib
son Schoar, were carried away on a foe
and probably persisted.
Three years in prison is the punish
ment of President W. H. Smith, O
the Sterling, (Col.) Bank, for receiving
money on deposit when the bank wal
insolvent. 8
John Shea, a street car conductor O
New York, killed his wife, Margaret
and then shot himself, INJECTING fata
injuries.
Edward NJ. Wheary, a deaf mute
was sentenced to be hanged at Freder
Teton, Now Brunswick, for the murder
Of his sister-in-law, Bertha Wheary, il
September last.
A Maiden, Massachusetts,, storekeep
er has been convicted for ''maintair
ing a gambling house." for keeping {
"nickel-in-the-slot" machine in hi.
place. 8
For brutally shooting a tramp, VIII,
asked for food, P. A. Aspenwell, 0
Patterson, Ga, must stand trial.
The Penn's Grove record., 1894-02-02
Pennsylvania items
Media now has IA soup house.

Media now has II soup house.
A local telephone company is to be
organized in Reading.
A thief stole a fine driving horse
from johnson Pusey, of Philadelphia,
that was stabbed near Media.
For various burglaries at Christiana,
Jacob Short was sent to prison for sew
en- and a half years and Thomas Bar
mum for six years.
Creditors whose claims aggregate
about $20, 900 are mourning the alb
sence from Pittsburg of 8. H. Connick,
proprietor of the Meadville Protective
Bureau.
Pittsburg Detectives will come to
Philadelphia to look at the two bunco
men caught here and who are supposed
to have 1eeced Jacob rauger, Green's
burg farmer, out of $4,000. 8
Sixteen-year-old William Davis was
killed in a Shamokin mine.
The Board of Pardons did not ACT
finally upon the case of George F.
Work, of Philadelphia.
The body of an unknown man was
found by the railroad tracks, at Mount.
vile, Lancaster County.
The victim of the railroad accident
/ at Allentown has been identified as Ed
ward Mauseron, of that city.
Struck on the head by a piece Of
mine timber in a colliery at William
Penn, William Ellis cannot live.
A splinter that ran into his finger
caused lockjaw, which killed Samuel
Raiger, near Hummelstown.
The Kirbyville, Berks County, Lit,
erary Society decided that country girls
make much better wives than city girls
None but residents of Lebanon are
employed On the ewe contracts there
and two Lancaster teamsters were
routed from their places.
Fourteen-year-old Arthur Lee, O
Pittsburg. on his way to Philadelphis
was robbed of all his each while eating
a lunch at Harrisburg.
Surveyors are already at work OF
the Bristol Trenton trolley line.
By tumbling % feet down an ele
vator shaft in Reading, Charles f
Bodey was seriously hurt.
The man killed on the railroad neai
Lancaster, has been identified as Adam
Fetter, of Philadelphia,
Jacob B. Niethammer, who died re
GENTLY in Reading, aged Fl years, in
vented a beer faucet for which he re
fused $1,000.
The city of Reading will locate larg'
sewage beds along the Echulkill River
q threat to the purity Of, Philadelphia
water supply.
Caught in Kansas k~recently, j. c
Wilburne was landed lin the Luzern
County Jail, TO answer Nor the murde
of Contractor Johnson. 5
The Penn's Grove record., 1894-02-02

Aged Alfred. Herman fell into a mill
race at Sunbury, and was frozen to
death.
Thirty wells are dry in Shoemakers-
vile, and the people are greatly incon-
venienced by the water famine.
Lieutenant S. s.. Payne, U. S. A., is
the new military instructor in Franklin
and Marshall College, Lancaster.
On a charge of embezzling company
funls, L. D. Stickney, of Tarentum,
had his partner, E, B. McAbee, hauled
before a Magistrate. ]
George Helche ate paris green and
persisted in Pittsburg.
Farmer Fred Jacob, of heal West
Grove, lights his house and barn with
electricity.
A road agent held up and robbed
| Christian Winland, a school teacher,
| at Beaver Dam, Blair County.
With much of the stolen plumber in
| his possession, Henry Dean was locked
| up at Altoona, accused of robbing the
| Duncanville post office.
Enoch Houseknecht, of H~ughesyille,
disappeared a few days ago, and it il
| believed he was murdered and robbed
in Muncy, where his overcoat Wal
found,
The Penn's Grove record., 1894-02-02
The LAoT %euccANgeR.

rhs winds were yelling, the waves were swell.
sky was black and drear,
When the crew with eyes OF flame brought the
ship without a name
Alongside the last Buccanoer.s
Whence dies your sloop full sail before SO fierce
when ali others drive bare on the seas7
ksy. come 70 from the shore Of the holy Saliva
Or tins gull of the rich caribbsesg"
From q shore NO search hath found, from .
guilt NO Iins cen sound.
Without rudder or needle we steer;
above. below, our bark die the sea-fowl and the
shark,
As we fly by the last Buccaneer.
Tonight shall be heard on the rocks Of caps
de Verde
A loud crash and a louder roar;
And tomorrow shall the deep. with Q heavy
moaning, sweep
The corpses and wreck to the shore"
The stately chip Of Clyde securely now may
ride
In the breath of the citron shades:
And seyern's towering mast securely now hies
Through the sea of the balmy Trader.
From St. lagos wealthy port, from Havannah'i
royal fort,
The seaman goes forth without fear; -.
For since that stormy night not a mortal haiti
had sight
ofthe Gag Of the last B~uccaneer.
Lord Macaulay.
The Penn's Grove record., 1894-02-02
PENIS GROVE, N. J.. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY .. 1894.

Fifty onvicts confined in the branch
State Prison, at Coal Creek, Tenn, es-
capped.
A $4,000 check given to a confidence
man, who posed as his nephew, is
mourned by John Groht, of Toledo.
Cashier J. B. Koetting, of the South
side Bank, Milwaukee, is found guilty
of receiving deposits while the bank
was insolvent.
A stick of dynamite, which some I'M
known person placed in the stove in a
smoking car ON the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas Railroad, at Marcos, Texas,
exploded killing E. Binding and ]. G..
Heidelman. Six other passengers
were seriously injured. 4
Lynching of liquor dispensary spies
was attempted by 500 angry citizens of
Charleston, s. c.
Lawrence Toliaferro, assistant post
master at fredericksburg, Va, was ac-
quilted of mail robbery.
Quarreling with Mollie mellow, at
Chattanooga, Tenn, Alonza Thomp-
son cut her throat and then jumped
into the river.
Fred Bryan, a nephew, was the man
who shot John Meagher, a rancher in
California, and murdered blind Mrs.
Meagher.
While feeding prisoners at Thomson,
Ca, Sheriff Halves was knocked sense
less with a club and SIX negroes es-
capped, but three were soon captured.
The pugilistic contest between Cor
bett and Mitchell took place at jack
sonville, Florida, and wal won by Cor
bett in three rounds. 5
Twenty years in prison vas the pun,
ishment of two San Francisco footpads-
who stole 40 cents from a victim.
In settlement of an old grudge, John
Robinson, of Waynesville, Mo-, shot
James Vaughn in the street, besides
wounding William Bates, a spectator.
Improper conduct dismissed Chaplain
Trifit, of the Columbus CO., Prison,
and now his successor, Chaplain Dud-
ley, is suspended for Incorporating
prisoners money.
Masked men chloroformed Joseph
Shipman on the street, at Lima, o.,
and robbed him of $500. Shipman's
! skull was also fractured and he may
die. /
Cracksmen got $500 by blowing
open the Planters Bank safe at Ella
vile, Ga.
Taken with the grip, William Mil
holm, of Springfield, O., hiccoughed
20 hours until he died.
In a drunken quarrel near Compton,
CAL, Ranchman John B. johnson and
his son George 8 1t each other dead.
During a W. iding celebration at
Cleveland, Miss Louisa Mayer seized a
supposed empty rifle and fatally shot
| Miss Annie Cowen.
With 1746 fine opals in their coal
Innings, Prospero de la Sofa and Ra-
dolffo f. Villaloa, smugglers, were
caught at Ell Paso, Texas.
Detectives have seized in Guatemala
Joseph Hahn, of Natchez. Miss, who
fled with $1,000 in bonds and $4,000
in diamonds, stolen from his sister-in.
law.
John Dolman, colored, was arrested
at Radnor, Va, for wrecking a Norfolk
and Western freight train neara bridge.
A rail had been removed with the evi.
dent purpose to wreck an express. 2
The Penn's Grove record., 1894-02-02
Horace Greeley and His Bride.

When Horace Greeley was first
married and brought his wife home on
a visit a sugar party was given in their
honor on a neighboring farm. ALI
the guests had arrived, and we were
looking out, watching for the belated
bride and groom. At last we saw
something appearing in the distance.
As this same object came nearer, we
discovered it was the old white horse
of the Greeleys, slowly picking his
way through the mud. On his back
sat the bride in brilliant yellow frock,
with a green velvet belt, and behind
her, wrapped in his famous white over
coat, sat the already famous editor. 1t
was the funniest sight / yer saw, and
set us off in fits of laughing. l re-
member" concluded my informant,
laughing again at her recollection,
'athat I simply lay down and rolled
upon the floor in a spasm OF mirth.
Mr.. Greeley came home every year,
and after q day or two on the farm,
would start to walk miles and call on
people. He was never known to knock
at a farmhouse door. No matter
whether he knew the inmates Of not.
he would push open the door, walk
right in, sit down by the fireplace and
fall to discussing crops and othel
topics dear to the farmers heart
Everybody was glad to welcome thii
gentle, brusque intruder. Press ant
Printer.