Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-01-07
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Japan mas not only ceased import
ing beer, but is now exporting it to
China.
The question of century celebra-
ton of the death of Edmund Burke is
/ being mooted in Ireland.
| Orizaba, Mexico is TO have a
SS,OoO,OOO cotton factory. The capital
has been subscribed in Europe.
SiXty-one thousand two hundred
and twenty-siX immigrants landed in
the Argentine Republic during the
year 1895.
+ Victoria, Australia, has turned out
5S6,5l2 ounces of gold during the
last nine months, an increase of
81 600 ounces over last year.
/ Corks for bottles were first manu-
featured in Spain and Italy some
time during the fourteenth century.
CorkscreWs were contemporaneous
with c0rks
The days of the barmaid in south
Australia are numbered. BY a recent
act of parliament she will automati-
cally cease to exist in the colony on
June 80, 1899.
ner party at which Sir Henry Irving,
Mr.. Wyndham and other actors Of
note were present was Sir Frank
LockWoods remark that actors are
the most popular persons in the
realm with the single exception of
professional Jockeys"
The hungarian Social club of New
Work ha
cause Judge Roger A. Pryor finds in
consistent with good Americanism the
clubs purpose to inspire love and
devotion to the native land" and to
'preserve and propagate the Hungar-
ian language and literature"
Samuel Reynolds of Lawrence,
Kan, has a wonderful apple tree on
his place. Il is a Nandver pippin ap-
pie tree 1t was planted forty years
ago, is now twelve feet in circumfer-
encc of trunk and the boughs hang
fifty feet away from The Trunk each
way. The tree bears in proportion to
its age.
The appropriation for the New York
police department for the year 1897,
as authorized by the board of esti-
mate and apportonment in the pro
yisional allowance, is $6,9S1 $50, as
against $5,925, 410 for this year, an in
cease CT more than $1,000,O00. The
sum asked for by the department was
$l50,0O0 more than his allowance.
A young man who held loaded
pistol to his head, and threatened to
blow his brains out unless the girl
who had refused him would consent
to have him, was coolly told by the
young lady that he would have to
blow some brains into his head first.
He didn't blow
Every important mercantile con-
Germ in Brooklyn has signed a petit
lion TO Mayor Wurster asking for
immediate steps to increase the water
supply of the city. The petition says
that hardly. at any time during the
last thirty years has the supply of
water been moro than TO per cent. in
excess of the demand, while hylrau-
lie engineers estimate that not less
than 35 per cent, margin is safe.
The bishop of Hereford having eX-
pressed a very emphatic opinion on
the modern female costume, a woman
writes to London Trdrh that the real
cause of the episcopal censure is not
his lordship's objection to feminine
waistcoat, but jealousy of the adop-
tion by the sex of bishops sleeves"
And why, she asks, should a bishop
wear so feminine a garment as an
apron if woman cannot put on a
vest?
An oyster shocking contest be-
tween Thomas King of Baltimore
! Md. and James Brown of Norfolk
Va. for the championship of the Dis
trict of Columbia, took place in
Washing on before large crowd
! Two hundred select oysters were laid
on platform before each contestant
and they began at a signal given by
Colonel X. II. Key. The contest
lasted twelve minutes. The purse
was 500. Thomas King won, lead
ing Brown by ten oysters in the
twelve minutes.
There is a proposition in Maine to
purchase the Blaine residence, furni-
lure and all, opposite the statehouse
in Augusta, and preserve it as an OK
ecutive mansion, but the new gov
| ernor-elect, who comes from that
old-faShioned region in Aroostook
county where OK teams and disks Of
, logs for cart wheels are still in
vogue, is opposed to all the high
flying frills that attach to an execu-
tive mansion, and is likely to prevent
any state appropriation for the pur-
pose.
The government is now in possess
sion of proposals from thirteen bid
ders for the construction of the new
harbor of refuge al the Delaware
breakwater. The new work will
necessitate the erection of break
water about 5000 feet in length, Tor
he construction of which the secre-
tary of war is authorized 10 pay an
aggregate Of S4666 600 The work is
to be begun on or before May ] 1897
and IN fpuf. pl. E,-o woe -.