Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-01-30
NOTES OF THE DAY.


The average daily attendance at the
Atlanta exposition thus far Is 10000.
Two natives of Ireland are running
against each other for mayor of New
port.
The freshman class at Vassar tins
year numbers 1885, at Radcliffe, co. at
Smith, 300.
The average cost of cavalry horses
for the army for the fiscal year was
$95.44, and for artillery horses $l4S.04.
1t is said that there are six cats
dcmiciled in the white house and that
they have the right of way at all
hours.
A Biddeford, Me-, man is afflicted
with a malady that appears to be a
trife overdue. He is 6G years old and
is cutting wisdom tooth.
The recent census has shown that
Denmark has nearly 2 100000 inhabit-
antS, of whom Is per ttnt, or 100000,
live in the capital, Copenhagen.
1t is reported that at recent sale
don, a plot of fifty-seVen square yards
sold at $4,000 square yard.
Bennington, VT, farmers are selling
their potatoes six bushels for 81, which
is the lowest price yet reported. The
yield is very large all ever the state.
A Burlington, VT, man has shoe
last made in 1863. Ii is pointed in
shape and the most extreme style OF
the prevailing tooth-pick shoe could be
made on it.
Two small brown-stone monuments
erected to mark the place where Wash
ington and his army crossed the Della
ware river on the night of Dec. 25,
1776, were dedicated with appropriate
ceremonies.
The first two days registration in
New York city this year was only
III ,455, compared to POI ,52l in 1894,
falling off of 30066. In Brooklyn thus
far the registration is about the same
as that of last year.
At the Danbury, Conn, fair mon
key lodged rubber balls thrown at
him. three for cents. The agent of
humane society interfered in behalf
of the monkey and a colored youth
took his place.
Mrs. Asenath Turner, who died in
the western part of New York the
other day, was the last revolutionary
pensioner in the state. Her first hus-
band was Samuel Durham, who fought
in the revolutionary war.
Tho highest salary paid to COVER
ness is probably that received by Mrs.
Eta Hughes English governess to the
young princess of the Austurias, sister
of the late queen of Spain. Miss
Hughes receives $4,000 year.
Countess Clancarty, better known as
Belle Billion, who was, some years ago,
a decidedly well-known concert hall
singer, proposes to return TO the stage.
She is negotiating with the manager of
n Liverpool theater.
Fraulein Won Cote, daughter of the
general commanding the Seventh Prus-
sian army .orps, saved a servant girl
from drowning at the risk of her own
life recently, and has received the
German medal for saving life and
letter from tie kaiser praising her
pluck.
Mrs. Theo. Alice Ruggles kittson,
wife Of II. II, kitson, the well-Enown
Boston sculptor, has completed with
her own hands number of statues,
statuettes and busts, several of which
have been exhibited in European sal
ons with great credit, She is under
% years of age and first exhibited her
works in the Paris salon of 1883.
Lady Irving, wife of the newly
knighted actor. is described as "a slen-
der. sweet-faced woman, with weary
looking eyes and pathetic droop at
the corners CT her moutha charming
woman, looking much too youthful and
fragile to he the mother Of two tall
boys" Lady Irving lives in strictest
privacy, apart from her husband, but
her boys visit her very often.
Mrs. Daniel Lamont, wife of the
secretary of war, has added to her ac
complishments amateur photography.
and with her daughters, the Misses
Julia. Bessie and Frances she enjoys
this pastime greatly In the course of
the western tour of the family this
summer Mrs Lamont made number
of photographs of the beautiful and
romantic places which they visited.
Mrs. L. S. Grant, who has just pur-
chased ex-senator Edmunds' house in
Washington for 100000, is very
young looking woman for her age. Her
hair is only slightly touched with gray.
Her voice and manner are youthful,
but her brow shows a few wrinkles.