Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-09
HERE AND THERE.


men had legun demolishing the Palais
Ilndustrie to make way for the Grand
palace In the forthcoming Paris ex-
position in 1900.
france is doing away with the skirt
dance, and there is a return to favor of
the beautiful, stately dances-the
| minuet, the gavotte, the payane and
the saraband-which lent grace to the
eighteenth century.
| An experiment which demonstrated
the capacity of steel to endure greater
| pressure than the hardest stone was
recently made at Vienna. Corundum
was CHOSEN for the stone, and small
| cubes OF 10th substances were placed
| under pressure. A weight of six tons
81 ashed the corundum, but forty-tWo
tens were required to crush the steel.
| When the steel did give way, the eff
fects are described as most remarkable.
With loud explosion, the metal flew
! iEtc powder, and it's sparks are said TO
have bored minute holes in the crush
| Ing machine.
The miracle gun" is the invention
OF a Frenchman, Paul Giffard In
stead of being fired by gunpowder,
liQuefied air is used, which is hundreds
OF degrees below freezing point and
has thus as enormous expansive power.
The advantage of this gun, which is
really repeating rifle, is that it is
| much lighter than an ordinary rife,
and the cartridge contains 800 bullets
which may be discharged at any rate
that is desired. AS gunpowder is not
used there is, of course, neither flash
nor smoke, and the noise is very
slight
a Georgia schoolboy who reads the
newspapers submits the following
unique composition on the lynching
evil "Lynchin' is wrong, 1t hurts
! the limbs of the beautiful trees where
the birds sing. 1t also hurts the
people what's lyEched. They should
have regular hangin an sell peanuts
an lemonade. People what's hung
regular, by law, always go to heaven
| don't want to go to heaven that way"
Lord William Beresford, the hus-
band of the dowager duchess of MARI
borough, is now so years of age, and
like his brother, Lord Charles Beres-
ford, wears the Victoria cross. He won
1t in the Zulu war, by carrying to
safety, with the help of Sergeant
CToole, another wounded Irish SER
geant under heavy fire of the enemy.
Lord William refused to accept his
cross till one was given to O'Toole.
All three of the men We're Irishmen
and the horses they rode were Irish
too.
Captain Sverdrup intends to circum-
navigate Greenland in the Fran next
year He will go up the west coast
and try to work his way east, and ex-
poets to spend two years in The at
tempt. He will take dogs with him
and make strike for the north if the
ship gets frozen in Norwegians who
are enthusiastic over Nansen are sub
scribing the money needed, and Stor-
thing has already voted an appropria-
ton to put the Fran in repair.
Two men of Lewiston, Me-, out on a
hunting trip, shot Il dog that lad ar
nCyed them, and then went back TO tho
farmer who owned it to square things.
in the first claim by complaining to
HIM that his vicious dog had torn a
part OF their horses harness with its
teeth For this damage they asked
S1.50. The farmer paid promptly.
Then they let out the fact that they
had killed the dog, and the farmer
threw in half dollar more for that
job
The average attendance at places OF
worship in England and Wales is
computed to be between 10000 geo and
II 100000 persons. There is a place Of
worship for every 500 individuals TAX
ing the country all through, and a
stated minister for every 700. About
$4,000 sermons are preached every Sun
day nowadays.
The chief of police and assistant chief
who were directing the investigation
into the Barcelona bomb outages
were shot and wounded seriously by
supposed anarchists, who were SUBJ
sequentlY arrested.
\ tropical leather-b back turtle.
weighing GS5 pounds, got astray into
Chesapeake bay few days ago and
was captured by some stout fishermen.
1t is feet and inches long and 3
feet s inches broad. The shell is
black and rather soft, like leather, and
seven longitudinal ridges run down
the back from head to tail.
Hungary has taken the king of
Slams fancy. He says it is the only
country in Europe he would care to
live in. The gala dress of the mobiles
he declared was the most splendid he
had ever seen, and before leaving
BUDAPEST he went into the hotel
kitchen and found out for himself
how paprika sauce is made.
The gulf passenger train was held
up and robbed by masked men who
got on at Folsom, N. M. When near
ing Twin Mountain they climbed over
the tender, covering the engineer and
fireman with revolvers and ordering