Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-02
Magazine Of Powper

DWellers along The Hudson have a
queer complaint against the big
steamers on that river The boats are
provided with immense search lights,
| which they fash along the shores,
with painfully dazzling effect when
the beams strike the windows OF a
dwelling. Suit against the steamers is
threatened by the superintendent Of
a hospital located on the river.
The season mas been too wet in New
England and the Catskills for the sum
mer Tesorters. More than once in
july OvelcoatS We're Il necessity and
the rainfalls have been extraordinary.
Around Boston the weather has spoiled
the business OF the hotel-keepers, bur a
fair share OF travel is reported from
the White mountains. The western
resorts will be far more successful
this year than those of the east.
The latest in the realm of glove MAX
is said to be the finest n d toughest
leather in the World The demand for
them is not great, but of sufficient
d mansions to make it worth while TO
manufacture. The average person
would object to wearing them, con-
lsequently the average annual output
only amounts to 500 pairs, many of
them being sent abroad.
Stiffened cement has been used sue
Cessfully in the construction of a boat
by an Italian named Gabellini. The
frame is of steel bars, a third of an
inch in diameter, over which is spread
II wire netting. On this the cement is
laid, and the outer surface is polished.
The boat is heavier than one built of
wood would be, but is cheaper and
slips better through the water EX-
leriments have proved its strength,
Pennsylvania now has, by new
statue, ten full holidays each year, and
every Saturday is holiday after II
O'Clock noon. The holidays are New
Years day, Lincolns and Washing
toms birthdays, and spring and fall
election days. Good Friday, Memorial
day, Independence day, Labor DAY
and Christmas. Labor day is changed
by the new law from the first Saturday
to the first Monday in September, as
in other states.
On n Fawn creek farm in Mont
gomery county, Kansas, purchased tor
$l5 an acre, or about $14 per acre Roy
raised 2,325 bushels OF wheat from
ninety acres, and S. w Douglas raised
| LAO bushels from sixty acres. The
crop was worth the day it was thrash
ed $2,l50, or about S1I per acre. Roy
zoe of the same neighborhood has just
thrashed l.575 bushels of wheat from
seyenty-two acres, and 800 bushels of
oats from fortythree acres. Part of
! his wheat yielded twenty-four bushels
per acre, and twenty acre field of
oats on winter blowing, put in with a
press drill and early, yielded fifty-six
bushels per acre.
\ scandalous piece of meanness in
London has come to light on the resig-
nation of the secretary of the poor
clergy relief corporation, after thirty
five years service 1t turns out that
he had been in the habit of selling
the secondhand clothing sent 10 the
society for distribution among the
families of the poor clergy, and APP
propriating half the proceeds amount
ing to $500 year, to himself. through
the negligence or connivance of the
other officials. He was well-to-do, and
drew a regular salary, much larger
/ than that of the clergymen the COR
poration processes to help
In the British museum. London the
museum of the Academy of Science at
Paris, and in several other institutions
for the advancement OF scieree there
may ne seen. specimens III birds eggs