Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-02-04
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Near Blue Rapids, Kan, bed of pet
rified clans has been found in gyp-
sum deposit.
In a speech at a London dinner party
the other night Lord Roberts said that
he "would prefer leading force into
the field to writing a book.
A paper in Missouri devoted to pub
fishing social scandals has been
squeched by the courts, and the editor
sent to the penitentiary for two years.
1t is said that in York county, Maine,
there is a tree which grew through the
hole of grindstone and now wears the
stone as collarette we'll up the trunk.
An Anglo-French society for the de-
yeIopment of more cordial relations
between England and France has just
been formed. The society is called
"a Entente Cordiale."
Quantities of apples are to be sent
from Winthrop, Me, TO Portland, the
Maine Central Railroad agreeing to
transport them without charge, and
they are to be distributed to the poor.
Milk tickets have been denounced as
carriers of diphtheria by the health
officers of South Bend, Ind, where
number of cases of the disease were
traced to patient in a milk peGdler'S
family.
The boer does just as little work as
will keep himself and his family alive,
and most of that he gets done by kafflr
seryents who, in the more out of the
way districts, at any rate, are prac-
tically slaves.
Railroad Commissioner Billings of
Michigan is authority for the state
ment that fully at least 1000 miles of
railroad track will be abandoned Tin
that state) next year.
People familiar with the conditions
under which the world is supplied with
rubber say there is fear that the des-
trlction of the trees producing this
precious substance is proceeding at a
rate which may have disastrous con-
sequences in the near future.
Force of habit strong in life Is Illus
trated in the trappings of dray mule
in New Orleans which used TO haul
bob-tail car, and now refused to draw
the wagon an inch unless the old car
bell bangles from his collar,
Professor Charles Lane Poor of
Johns Hopkins university has just
finished the construction of an equa-
torial telescope, with which he intenLs
to photograph the stars from some
northern point next summer.
All the clerks of Owen county, Ih@
ana. since 1852 are living and tn II
unite in giving an annual banqu8
The present clerk was born on the d.
on which the Oldest of the company VI
j elected to the clerkship in 1852.
There are twenty-four 100 and N
ton guns of 17-inch caliber in the Ita3
ian navy, carried on the Duiio, Doria
LAURA. Lepanto. Morosni. Italia and
Dandolo. 1t is contemplated to re
place these monster guns with mor9
moderate sized ordnance.
The frequent dismal failures OF
French vessels of war is chiefly due.
! to changes of naval administrations.
/ each new one having its particular
hobby to ride The blame for over
weight, unseaworthy ships is therefore
not to be paid to the constructors, but
rather upon the superiors
A recent official medical report pub
ltshed in London quotes with approval
the words OF Professor Conn that the
public health is placed in jeopardy
when oyster dealers, for the sake OF
producing plumpness, place oysters IN
the mouths Of fresh-water creeks IN
close proximity TO sewers.