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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-02-18
INFLUENCE or MOUNTAIN AIR

Recognizing that phthisig Is chiefly
prone TO occur among those who from
their mode OF life do not thoroughly
expand their lungs, and that In the
rarer atmosphere Of high attitudes a
UGH more complete expansion Of the
lungs is necessary TO obtain the same
quantity Of oxygen than would be re-
qulred in the denser air Of the plains,
the benefit of residence in the noun
tains has been attributed to constant
unconscious effort 10 expand the lungs
more fully, and TO the consequent
greater interchange Of air in It's re-
cesses Certainly the marked enlarge
ment Of the capacity Of The chest which
IL often found after few months res
ileDce in the high Alps. and the ten.
dency 10 the development Of compensa-
tory emphysema around the diseased
and contracting portions Of the lungs
tend 10 show that this theory is cor
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-02-18
REAL EQUINE PHENOMENON.
Should Have Been a Thoroughbred 70,
Obvious Reasons.

No man on earth is so generally
avoided as is the man who launches
puns, puiSsant or puny. at his friends,
though sometimes one Is perpetrated
that is sufficiently apropos to be almost
eXcusable. Washington has a punster
of that kind, and he got off a pun of
that kind about -four days ago.
The punster has a friend who Is a
great horScman, and the other after
noon, as he was walking along Con
nccicut avenue on his way home the
cqU atrian friend came down the street
on cantnr and whirled up to the curb.
And the horse he was riding was not
4 beauty. On the contrary, IT was a
bang-taiI bunch of bones that looked
as II it ought to be called Bicycle, be
stonped.
lTcllo' sung out the rider "how do
you like my new horse?'
is he new?' drawled the punster
He doesn't look like It,"
"He is just the same. | got him
yesterday.
Where did he come FROM"
From Loudoun County"
What is he?"
Hes thoroughbred +"
The punster took careful survey Of
the animal from all sides.
"Um--er," he said, slowly. 81 don't
know as to his being thoroughbred, but
I'm sure he Isn't thoroughbred"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-02-18
A Mightier Foe than Armies
OVERCOME BY A BRAVE UNION GENERAL AND HIS FAITH.
Full ALLY, Or. WILLIAMS.
Nom II, Sra;ipci, Cherokee, Kaaso.

alySis, made y temporary wreck of the her
culran ,rAm} and in view Of his advanced
age, his AuNloaS NirudS believed that he was
not long tor this world The following is
his own account VI his illness
In the latter part of 1890, | was taken
dowu with severe attack Of typhoid fever,
which condnNl me to my bed for two months.
Two months Is long tine to be IN bed, but
was not 10 grt up vet, for inilammatery
rheumatism SclaCd me, and IL was worse than
the tNphoid, for IL Was more painful, To
add to my trouble and make Il more inter.
cNilng, the inhammatnry rheumatism was
followed by u stroke NJ paralysis, and | lost
almost totally the use ol my legs and arms,
Tor | cNOld not walk u step md could not
feed myself II would seem that | had
reached the i. Us uf misery hut such WAS
not the case for my kidueyS gave out and
this seemed 10 hc the last straw on the load
that was ~ crush me-
My ticudS all thought would never re-
cover, and though the doctors came to see
me aud prescribed, il was easy to see that
they Wrw hut irving 10 make my pathway
TO the grave little moro easy, without tho
rrm3tcSt hope NJ recovery, aud | looked for.
ward to death with happiness,
"WhlC in this tranlC of mind, | was nd.
viscd 10y friend to try nr. Williams Pink
Pills, and began the use of them, taking ono
pill atNcr each meal, and this continued
for one week, and began to fancy | perceived
improvement in my condition. | then in.
creased the dose 10 two after each meal and
AT the end of the second week there was no
doubt hut what Pink Pills were making mo
better, 10 | kept on using them according to
directions, and in three mouths was we'll
man"
Dr. Williams Pink Pills contain all tho
rlcmrutS necessary TO give new life and rich
nvsS tN the hlood and restore shattered nerves.
They are for sale by all druggists, or may he
had icy mail nom ~ Williams Medicine
Company, Schenectady, n, Y, for % cents
box, a. six boxes for &.N
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-02-18
A WOMAN RABBI.
Miss Frank Attends the Meeting of
the Jewish Council of Woman.


the Jewish Council of Woman,
One of the mos. distinguished wo-
men who attended the first congress Of
the National CCuI eli Of jewish Wo-
men, held In New York recently, was
Miss Rachel Frank of California. the
only woman rabbi In the new jewish
faith. 1t Is proof of the advance
mont OF her sox II at this woman
should DO able to put aside all the
traditions OF nor church and race con-
corning women and II cunt to the high
est place in the church, still holding
the respect AMI adm lration Of her peo-
pie. Some years ago such thing
would have been impossible
Miss Frank Is deeply Interested In
the council of Jewish women and has
been occurring for It here and there,
using hei powerful powers OF elo-
quence anu oratory for It's benefit.
She believes that the council should
confino itself exclusively TO the i'm
proyement OF the Jews. and that poll
tics, and particularly the question of
woman'B suffrage, should be let
severely alone.
Besides thorough study OF the
Tamud with The western rabbls. Miss
Frank received careful theological
training at the Hebrew Union college
at Cincinnati.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-02-18

brass buttons. She may have inquired
tentatively If ticket choppers made
very much money and If this youns
man was 'Strlighl and attended 70
business.
The report which she received must
have been favorable, for il WAS soon
generally announced through that ten
ement house that Mrs. O'Riley'S Mary
VAS going 10 marry a "tickey chopper
The date of the weddins has not
been set yet, for the ticket chopper has
an idea that one of these days he may
set promotion. 1t was only the other
day, when Mary came to the station
that he was pacing up and down The
PLATFORM in fever OF eNcile mept
Say. Mary, he said, what d. yc
t'ink? The DID man just went trough
here and asked me how long I'd been
wild de company"
BY the old man he meant the super
intendent of the read, Old Giles the
ticket agent At the station, has been
ailing for the last few months, and
Marys steady is sure that 1t is only
a question Of time when the COMPANY
will want a new man AT the window.
Isn't that great said Mary,
Still, | can't see how he can help
noticing YOU
The next time they meet there is q
talk of a flat uptown and of furniture
on the installment plan. Mary and
her mother so shopping every week
now, They cont buy anything, it is
true, but they think 1t is just as well
to know what things cost
If YOU have noticed this little ro-
nance YOU can tell by the way the tic
ket chopper acts how things are far
ing with him and Mary Sometimes
he gives the handle OF the tirket~h0N
a vicious snap, as Il ough he had had
spite against the innocent lever.
That may mean that he and Mary have
had a few words about that smith
fellow, who wears good clothes and
parts his hair III the middle. Smith
aspired to be the girls steady before
the blue suit and brass buttons sup
planted stose clothc" and dangling
watch chain.
The ticket choppers face the next
day is all aglow, and there is fara-
way look in his eyes He hardly notices
the tickets at all as they fall into lAe
box. He is kind and ndulgcnt to the
old who have forgotcr to drop the red
stamped passports of the elevated
railroad company. He smiles and tips
his hat to the nervous woman who is
afraid that she is ON the wrong side of
the street. He even shares his lunch
con.
The little difficulty about the smith
fellow" has oe2u adjusted,
He sees nat With big feather
over the heads of the passengers who
are pouring out of a downtown train
He recognizes tho rcd feather, for
there is not such another bit Of milli-
merry TO be found outside of Division
stree. 1t is Mary on her way back
from work. The station platform is
crowded, passengers are hurrymg to
and fro, and no one notices, perhaps
that the girl with the big hat puts hoy
hand upon the ticket choppers arm
and gives him Il vigorous nudge before
she Is borne along by the crowd
See you tomorrow" she says, for
tomorrow, as every tody around that
station knows, IS the ticket choppers
holiday -NcS York Herald.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-02-18
HE HAS RECOVERED.

Is it true that Billings is insane?"
"oh. dear, no; he's as sane as any
one know"
But ! was told that he was acting
like an idiot"
He was for some little time, but it
wasn't insanity"
What was it,"
why it's some kind of a recurrent
complaint that attacks its victims
every four years. ] believe it's called
campaign alteration He's all right
now"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-02-18

colonel OF his r2Gimrnt. and while with Sher
man, was Ea4rtted Nrlrldlrr general
The General lives thr greater part of his
time in llalStrad, Kansas. though he is
much in Windsor, New Work., in both of
which places he las business Interests that
require his prCSruce.
Some few YEATS apo General Wilcs was at.
tackled Ivy illness, which came very near
proving h,tal, Typhoid fever followed by
inhammatory rheumatism and then par,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-02-18
TAX LEVY PROBABLE.

II Is understood that bill will be
reported to levy a special state tax Of
2-5 Of mill for 1897 and 1893 to put
the treasury on a square basis Such
a tax would produce about 100000 per
ear.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-02-18

Tfcl J. D. Butler Is perhaps the only
Madisonian who has circumnavigated
the globe, and no doubt nearly the
only American who has done II alone
when past 10 years OF age.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-02-18
HERE AND THERE.

tie would not break his promised word
10 fetch Sae maid to skate:
ne ala NOT break the slender ice,
Although ~ worked till late.
ne only break he made, in fact.
That did hsm any harm,
Was when he rr4ed 70 break her fall,
And broke a leg and arm.
Town Topics
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-02-18
NOT UP TO THE REQUIREMENTS

I'm sorry, miss" said the leading
director Of the school In NJ to the
young woman who had applied for the
position Of teacher, but your ortho-
graphy amt up to grade You don't
seem 10 know how TO spell chimbly.--
Chicago Tribune.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-02-18

". S Witham OF Atlanta Is presi-
dent Of twenty-seven Georgia banks In
the small towns OF The state.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-05-16

and the hitherto obscure government en-
gineer achieved almost in a night lasting
fame. The Southern Pacific bridge across
the Mississippi above New Orleans, while
in one way less the work of genius than
the first mentioned is really the most
tremendous structure in the way OF rall-
road bridge ever planned. The famous
Long bridge over the Potomac river at
Washington is a little longer but can
hardly be termed n feat of engineering
The contemplated structure has, as stated,
a length to shore piers Of 2.20 feet. The
length Of the centre span is Loss feet 8
inches. centre to centre of the river
piers. and is composed of suspended
span 40 feet long, and two cantileyer
arms of 31S feet 4 inches each. The
anchorage spans are 606 feet inches IN
length.
The bridge trusses are vertical. parallel
and pin connected 40 feet centre to cen
ire The distance of the centre 10 CEN
ire chords ranges from y feet at the
shore ends to 16O feet over the river piers
stiff members are used in the trusse5
whenever feasible. That Is, they con tam
stiff bottom chord throughout. stiff diago-
nails in place OF bars. and counters ana
stiff hangers at secondary panel points.
The trusses are braced with heavy rigid
horizontal and vertical transverse bracing.
1t is believed that work upon the struc-
ture will actually begin within very
short time The necessity OF railroad
! bridge at the point indicated IS very
} great In any event the best-known
D englneors pronounce It. taken as whole,
/ the engineering marvel OF the century.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-05-16

nrocurs on the subject Of ladies' hosiery.
Tho hero. NJ the most critical moment.
wh,Ie being pursued by brigands or being
scalped by Indians. will MARBLE q ditty.
and his sweetheart. as she VIRTUES In
the agon,es OF amorous cramp-colic. viii
follow suIt. The comedian will. with or
cbestraI accompaniment lyrically ask the
visdgers If they'll have drink wAere-
upon a magnificent chorus you can al
WAYS get q chorus for sucn responsc'
will sing out that they ooh care !, tney
.r,,a, tba whole troupe win take up
,ha refrain and the effect Is so grand
end realistic that every man In the audi
orca ,vlII sneak out between acts.
II rs grand opera. you VIII near SONGS
that fill you with delicious'y oser"ne, TN
ingly melancholy. The mehio.ies y. "
CONS days will course through your nrain
"a You'll recall a thousand Instances
,,,ta,e vou,ve made fool OF yourself.
r,ho nri,na donna. with q voice that zig
aa,s ord tanars like n cork-screw. VIII
e,rnunnce YOU on the ground moor. ana
sroduallv get YOU up to the rooi. anu
- drop YOU. The more tremulos
ga zigzags there Az, the louder the
.rhooning afterwards. and everybody
,,n,sners so everybody else can hear
" %5y'a IT grand?' or isn't that high
e wonderful?' For my part, l never
could carry tho high notes, save those
seemed by deed OF trust on my mousse
srs T am even getting a little husky Oh
them nowadays.
church music is good, too, II you take
:. r,gbt But It requires patience and
thought to keep up with the plot. as tn'
contrafto. instead Of saying wnat she
cot cot TO say. divides it up into instaimeht'
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-05-16

lures which are TO be 1lled with con-
crete and then sunk by dredging to n
depth of 70 feet below the river bed.
These pockets are rectangular In shape
with the corners cut on, reducing the
square front opposed 10 tho current 10
IL feet. The piers stand In n hundred
feet OF water Each caisson supporting
them contains 4.5)0 feet OF timber ana
Is 500 cubic yards OF concrete. The lower
edges of the caissons are protected from
injury by heavy steel armor or SHOES.
these being Of sufficient thickness and
strength to cut through any TIMBER oD-
struction that might be encountered IN
sinking pocket TO the depth naineo.
What is called the fatigue weight that
rests on this foundation will be tr.he
over GOO pounds per square foot
The approach spans OF the bridge arc
supported upon steel towers OF enormous
Snsile strength. Each OF these towers
is 50 feet long and rests on circular
brick pier with granite caps, concrete
base. and pile foundations. The re-
mainder consists OF timber tresue l,lOo
feet on each side and earth embank-
ment. Each approach has ono pin span
$50 feet long; ten pm spans 10 feei IA
length. and twenty eight 60-foot plate
girder spans. This makes the total
length OF the iron structure 1851 rect,
a length Of this sort OF which no bridge
In the world can boast. Just how
much iron will be used is not yet known
definitely. but IL is a fact that the cost
Of the bridge will be so tremendous that
although its idea has been In inception
for seven years, It is only now that the
Southern Pacific railroad. which VIII
build 1t, has reached a point where 1t
thinks il advisable 20 take steps leading
toward definite action.
IL seems 10 the engineering world but
a short time ago that all creation was
talking Of the Eads bridge at st. Louis,
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-05-16
NONE BUT THE BEST.
THE arpLEnv DISCUSSES CLASSIC
musrc AND ITS MANY CHARMS.
IT IS BETTER THAN IT SOUNDS.
Won Herr n Noise and Imagine the
Rest-our Love for Cfrcuses-
We All Go, and Yet We IRE Crisi-
col.

was II "Bill Nye" who said that classic
music was better than II soundsY
Whether ! quote him rightly or not. l
fees safe In asserting that It's merit I'M
doubtedly doesn't manifest itself through
the medium OF our sense OF hearing. As
far as noise goes, classic music does
very well, and then. too. II bore Is
shouting into your ear. 1t serves 10 drown
his voice. but, otherwise, its virtues are
as scarce as those of a base-ballist. or
course 1 would not speak so freely IL
were out in society and the ladies' were
raying over an oratorio. but deep down
IN my heart scorn that mendacity which
prompts them to pretend enthusiasm for
a thing which at best is ennuying DO
not imagine, however. that fail to attend
these musical festivities. Like thousands
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-05-16
we saw was fake. and that we have
been swindied.

we saw was a fake, and tnat wo "o'0
been swindied.
Possibly show with green elephants:
pink camels. and monkeys with sooo
manners (circus monkeys are the most
embarra ssing things in the WORLD mignt
pass muster. but even then we wouidn
be altogether satisfied. We would De
suspicious. The fear that We were De-
ing deluded would take away our piea-
sure. We would even imagine tnat "e
emeIt paint. and as for the monkeys
we'd set them down as disgusting pieco
NJ trickerv Great is our indignatioh'
because the nine-foot giantess Ism ss
beautiful as she Is tall. In our heart
Of hearts we believe she's on stllts. any
how: and. altogether, we think ner
disgusting bit OF femininity. When we
ask the men in the menagerie aoou.
the different animals. we are amazed at
their curtness, and astounded that they
don't 20 into long discourse on natural
history. IL never occurs to US that
10 600 people ask them the same ques-
tlon every day. We are disguised with
the lions because they sleep through the
whole business. and can't be induced 10
get up and roar when we puhsh men
with our walking-sticks. TO be race
tious. each and every one OF us rema'h
that the giraffe has hne neck ior
tuIeps. and we despise the people VINO
fail to laugh at this joke. In truth. we
are altogether most ill-tempered' ana re-
solve never to go to another circus. ana
we don't-until the next one comes 10
town. THE IDLE REPORIEh'
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-05-16

and gives a minute to each syllable, and
then. when she's gotten through. she COM
mences all over again. For instance. on
Easter. I heard a lady devote fifteen
minutes to the one expression. rejected
OF men," She commenced by singing
ere, re, re. acknowledgements ed-ed-ed
ed-ed -ed-rejected. rejected, rejected OF
men," and then, when l finally concludes
that she stammered. she tackled thu
whole thing over again, without. appea'
Ing in the least discouraged. II she la
tried the same scheme in the preparation
OF a message for the Western Union
TELEGRAPH Company. that prosperous cor
poration could have sold her out OF house
and home.
g,se goddess Of my fires!de q DO not
refer to the family caD Invariably yawns
after an evening Of classical music, ana
then alphabetically asserts that her
household duties of the day have wearied
her. but she will walk six squares to
hear an organ-grinder, and probably give
; cents to the monk" This goes to
show that a connoisseur will have no.
thing but the best
The genuine American citizen never
reaches an age when he outgrows MS
, love for a circus His awe and admira-
ton. as an urcnln, IL - tluct ID oupN'
seded by an assumed indifference when
maturity Is attained. but all the same
the old-time love is still there. In fact'
the tents. the sawdust, the red lemon
ade. and the aromatic elephants are
truly irresistible. and what is more, we
/ don't want to resist them. And yet
despite this love on our parts. there IS
not one Of us who does not Invariably
/ swear that the last circus we saw was
the worst we ever attended. Sometimes
we kick because there is too much goins
on. and then again. we demur because
/ there isn't enough.
We are Indignant because we Go not
find everything that was represented OF
the bills. Perhaps We find ten time-
( as much. but that doesn't do. We want
| our pound Of 1esh"-that, and nothing
more. 1t may be that after we have
sat beneath the canvas an hour, the ever
| increasing hardness of the planks en-
bitters our minds, or possibly by then
! the peanuts have gotten in their work
At any rate, we come away very cross
| and mentally resolve not TO be deluded By
| another show. II we were asked 10 81
! down and describe the kind OF c.rcu:
| that would really please us. we cou!dn
| do IT. All we know is that the last one
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-05-16

= a -
Tong. the Grade being and 5fy per leAt.
NE length OF the structure between
piers is 80 feet. The length from APP
rroach 20 approach. the points referred 10
being those farthest from the shore. VIII
be Is 100 feet. a total length Of nearly
three miles.
PERHAPS the most interesting feature
d the bridge. from an engineering stand
point is the gTeat length Of clear centre
fpan required-l,0o0 feet This fact must
he considered carefully. because only
whom this is the case can the great task
that confronts the engineers be appreci-
g.ed. owing TO the character or the river
tcd. The bed Of the Mississippi river at
this point. and the ground far on eacn
ride Is all alluvial material upon sah1'
Tie ground over which the approaches
pass is made entirely Of river deposits:
Borngs 10 the depth Of over thousand
feet have been made IN this city, ana
nothing encountered except loam' sand'
and sorle shallow layers OF clay.
The bed OF the Mississippi, a Few feet
below the surface, is Of clean sand. On
ether side and beneath the sites CT the
proposed approaches, borings have been
made 90 feet deep. Fifty feet below
low-water mark clean sand was found.
which crew coarser as the depth Of the
borinrs increased. Il Is upon this sort
~ n bottom that the foundations Of this
tremendous structure must rest. The
shore piers will rest on pneumatic cais-
sons. sunk 100 feet below low-water mar
each Of these caissons Is 12Xo2 feet at the
base. 10 feet BY 90 feet over the coping
us feet IN height. and contains aboH'
$50 cubic yards a masonry Tee Gals
sons ere S1xClx50 feet high, and each CON
,alns TO feet Of timber and 1900 cuolc
ya-ds OF concrete. Tho piers are 70 nc
constructed OF what IL called granite face
stoneq and concrete backing.
4 very excellent idea OF the immensl ~
" the structure can be gained from the
net that the total height OF tie river
Piers from the bases OF the caissons Il
iop o. the ornament on the trusspost Is
no feet. Tho river piers ore rectangular
m shane with projecting starlinfs az the
snds from the base 70 high-wster marx,
TAesa caissons are 20xe7 feet over al at
he base. 8 feet by IS feet under the tor
.oping. 125 feet high. and each contains
ieO0 cubic yards OF masonry. T1ese river
plers rest upon timber caissons co feet
Inches by 1e5 feet inches at the base
and 10 feet high.
The caissOns have open wells LOT
sredglng and closed pockets or aper-