Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-04-09
NOTES OF THE DAY.

AN1 ISbo VI liz IA
The president Of the Western Mary.
land railroad, which has been par
alleled by an electric road for the first
twenty miles out Of Baltimore, reports
that the steam road, by promptly re-
ducing fares, has carried more passen-
gers than before, the low fares nearly
doubling the travel on the two roads.
Augusta, unlike some other cities in
Maine, obeys the law passed by the
legislature of 1895 making it compul-
sorry for the municipal officers in every
city and town to hold an inquest on
every fire that occurs. 1t Is their duty
to summon witnesses, and they are
obliged to make report to the city or
town clerk of their investigation.
A well known rife shot says ut is
not generally known that an orange hit
vanish at once from sight Such, how
ever, Is the fact, and that is my way Of
making an orange disappear-shooting
1t through the center, which scatters 1t
into such infnitesimai pieces that 1t is
at once lost sight OF.
IT Is reported that the Germans, who
have recently made heavy purchases
of American apples, intend to use this
fruit in the manufacture of champagne
by an entirely new and secret process
Whether this is true or not, the Amer
lear apple is gaining firm foothod in
1 IL M in cnitp pf tho
nous quantities of French and Dutch
fruit.
A new mode of treatment for inter-
mittent fever has been proposed to the
Paris Academic de Medicine by DR..
Critzmann 1t consists Of feeding the
patients with beef spleen and marrow
In order to increase the power of the
phagoCytos, the white Corpusculcs in
their blood, to devCur the haematozoa
that Or. IIavpdan has discovered in the
blood OF people living in swampy
lands, which he believes to be the
cause of the fever.
A western genius has applied for a
patent on n corn planter, which con-
sisted Of two boxes attached to the
forelegs of horse. just above the fet-
locks, in which was the corn to be
planted. Cords passed over pulleys at
tached to the saddle, down to the hind
legs, so that every time the horse
stepped the tightening of the cord
would open the boxes on the forelegs
and some corn be shaken into the holes
made by the front feet,
The Belgian authorities, it seems,
are anxious to save the postotce as
much trouble as possible In the matter
of delivering letters on Sunday. For
this reason every postage stamp Is is
sued with little perforated supple
mont inscribed with the legend: M
pas livrer lie dimanche" Those who
are anxious to have their letters deliv-
cred on the seventh as on the other six
days of the week tear this off, while
those communications are not of any
special importance leave it on,
The professors at the Berlin univer-
sity do not take kindly to the conces-
sions which have been made to women
1t Is reported that one, Professor
Schmidt of the German literature de-
partment, has petitioned the minister
of public instructions to have his
classes exempt from the women, Pro.
fessor Won Preitschke, famous his
torian, Is said to have actually escorted
to the door Of his classroom daring
woman who came with the intention
of joining.
There are two bills before the New
York legislature requiring railroads %
| check and carry bicycles as baggage.
! The first bill is n direct order to rail
roads to treat bicycles in all respects
aa baggage, while the other allows a
charge to be made for carrying and
caring for them, unless the owner will
grant a release for liability for injury
in transit, to the railroad, but the road
must exercise ordinary care to protect
them. 1t Is reg lrded as probable that
the latter Of these bills will pass.