Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-10-21
GENERAL NOTES.

Kansas exports 6O.ooO, 900 bushels of
wheat this year.
The report that coal OF excellent
quality has been discovered in New
foundland is confirmed,
MIR, A. Belt says MIR, Barney Bar
nato never lost penny, and that his
will will he proved for something enor.
nous.
Prot Royce OF Harvard University
is To be the next Clifford lecturer at
Aberdeen.
pasteur is TO have n public statue
in Paris $4,000 have already been
collected tor tAis purpose,
Canadian farmers report that the
hay crop is the heaviest this season
that 1t has been FOR many years,
King Alexander OF Servia will, in
the course OF this year, pay his long
planned visit to the English court,
There are no courts In klondtke,
and consequently no law, A man
caught stealing Is shot right of,
American newspapers say that the
coal miners strike In the United
States is proving a good thing FOR the
Nova Scotia mines,
Tho Carlists hope that when Cuba
is lost there will be n revolution, and
that Spain will receive the pretender
With open arms,
\ return relating to iptestates' ~
tates in Scotland shows that the
queens remembrance has balances In
hand amounting to fA0,SlG,
The horses OF German cavalry regi-
ments are to be shod with paper shoes,
recent experiments rs to their dura-
hility and lightness having proved en-
tremely satisfactory.
Tho Transvaal Rand has agreed to
Join the African postal convention.
and n universal South African penny
postage will consequently come into
force on the LIST OF January, 1898,
Another OF u series of rohberies that
have made householdcrs In Pretoria
feel uncomfortable took place there the
other night A house was entered and
the bedrooms ransacked while the oc-
cupants were asleep, the only traces of
tho thief being trail OF candle greaA
from one room to the other and topsy-
turvy chests OF drawers, Clothes and
small things were taken, In all these
cases II was very plain that the oceu-
pants were drugged.
A correspondent writes to the Spec
tator. The throne OF great Britain
and Ireland Ia occupied by sovereign
descended from an Irish race. Without
doubt our queens pedigree carries us
back TO long line Of Irish kings,
Who one thousand four hundred years
ago, maugurated the Scottish and
English chain Of descent, and II IL
plain that the reigning dynasty OF to-
day was Irish at one epoch of Its ex-
istence.
The death rate in the eight principal
Scottish towns during the week ending
August IA was 1870 per 1000. This
rate Is &c above that for the CORE
spending week of last year. and Id for
the previous week of the present year.
The lowest mortality was recorded In
Aberdeen viz, 1912 per 1000; and the
highest In Perth, viz, 25-6 per 1000.
The rate In the other towns were
Edinhurg, III; pnilcy, l6-l: Dundee
1876 Leith, 1914; Glasgow, 22-6. ana
q eenock, 237
The construction Of the strategic
railway from Tiitis To kars is being
pushed forward with the utmost pos.
sible expedition. Prince Khllkolf,
minister of ways and communications,
has just made tour of inspection OF
the new line, and expressed his sur
prise and satisfaction nj the rapid
~ ogress made, II il expected that
this new extension Of the Trans-Cat-
casian system, to which the Russian
ar office attaches peculiar Importance,
will be opened for traffic within the
next twelve months.