Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-08-27

Lion bridge, near Sangang, China
1t extends five and quarter miles over
an area of the Yellow sea and is sup
ported by 800 huge arches. The road
way is seventy feet above the water
and is inclosed in an iron network. A
marble lion, twenty-one feet long,
rests on the crown of each pillar
The musical world Of Dublin has
been having a merry war not unlike
that between Mr.. Damrosch aid his
men, over the question of employing
foreigners in the orchestra Professor
Nilliers Stanford was obliged to resign
his appointment as director of the
Dublin festival because of the objec-
ton to the engagement of players
from Manchester.
What is probably one of the small
est living horses has just been born at
Canandaigua. n. Y. Its mother is an
Iceland pony mare belonging to a
travelling circus. The colt weighs
eight and one-half pounds, with a
height of two and three fourths hands,
or eleven inches. 1t was named Cam
andaigua. 1t was conveyed from the
show grounds to the train in a market
basket
That birds do not mind a noise so
long as they feel safe from enemies is
shown by pair of pewees, who built
a nest this spring and Matched out a
brood in a North Limngton, Me, saw
mill. The nest is on a horizontal joist
within six feet of the end of the car
riage where the logs are rolled. At the
time of the building, laying and hatch
ing three saws were running and five
men at work in the mill.
BY far the most remarkable imita'
ton of our method of digesting food is
furnished by the sundew and Venus
fly trap. When a fly or other insect
alights upon the leaf on either of these
plants it is seized by the curVing over
of hairs, or the sudden closing Of the
two halves of the leaf. Then a gluti-
nous fluid is poured out, which 1iSsol-
yes all the soft tissues Of the insect
leaving only the wings and hard integ-
un ents.
The finest wire in the country is
made at Taunton, Mass. This metal
Cobweb Of minute diamatCr is exactly
the one-fve-thousandth part of an inch
in thickness much finer than human
hair. Ordinary wire, even though of
small diameter, is drawn through holes
IN steel plates, but, on account of the
wear, such plates cannot be used in
making the hair wire. The Taunton
factory uses drilled diamonds for the
die plates.
Mr.. Hurst, the British consul at
Tainan, in southern Formosa, cor
cludes his latest trade report by saying
that the Japanese are showing great
energy in the development of the inter-
nal communications of the island, and
during the five months that have
passed at the date of the report in
March since they landed left more
marks of their presence on the face of
the country than their predecessors
effected in as many decades.
at technical college on the con-
tinent," says Froude, when the stu
dents Of different nationalities had to
solve a practical problem in the work
shops the German took out a note
book and immersed himself in long
calculations. The Frenchman walked
about and INDUCED from time to time
in ingenious and often brilliant sus-
gestions The Englishman looked out
of the window and whistled for awhile;
then he turned around and did the
problem while the others were still
thinking about 1t"