Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-02-04
MEN AND WOMEN /,


baroness llirsch has given $3.50 900
! to cndnw Il homo for jewish eousump-
| ttvw III England,
! Conceal Fitzhuwh l.ec IL one Vt tho
most popular men In Washington. An
| observer SAW him halted dozen times
| whilc walking halt block by pedes-
trtanS who wanted TO shake hands
with him,
Hath any wrongcd thoc? Re hravely
rovenged, slight II, and the works bo-
gun, forgive Il, and It's finished. lilo is
below himself who is not above an In
jury Francis Quarles.
Religion Is necessary and lndis-
pensable element In any great human
character. There s nothing living
without t. Religion liz the tie that
connects man with his Creator and him
to His throne II that tic be all SUM-
dercd, nil broken, he floats away,
worthless atom In the universe. Its
proper attractions ell gone, its destiny
thwarted, and It's whole future moth
Ing but darkness desolation and death.
Webster.
Henry lloitfeld. Just elected to sue
coed Dubois In the United States SEN
ate Is n man of limited education, lilo
was born in st. Louis Mo, In January.
1859. His father, Henry llettfed, was
Of German birth, The future Idaho
senator attended the common schools
! Of ST. Louis until 1870, when. with his
mother. he moved to Seneca, Kan, lilo
| liyod there until 1882, being employed
ut farm work and learning the trade OF
stone mason In 1882 MIR leitfeld
moved to the northwest, locating ut
| Pomcroy. Wash, For time ho
worked In the shop of the Northern
! Pacific railroad nj Sprngue Wash re-
naming there until the fall Of 1889,
when he became resident Of Neg Per-
cos county, Idaho, Since thn time ho
has been engaged as n farmer fruit
| grower and cattieman, In politics Mr..
lletfeld was democrat until he Joined
the popnllst party. He is a member
of the farmers alliance, aud II was
through his connection with that Or
ganization that he was Influenced to
ally himself with the populist party.
He was elected to the state senate ma
n popullst In 1894 and again IN 1896
One boy recently christenad in Mndl-
son county Kentucky, should be ass
ured of good straddllng ability tho
parents have named him Williem
Bryan Mckinley Stevens
II has been discovered that three OF
the figures IN stained-glass window
Of n rural English church the subject
representing King Saul ana his coun,
selors are lifelko portraits OF Lord
Salisbury. Mr.. Gladstone and the late
Lord Beaconsneld Tho king himself
Is Thomas Carlyle, while tho David has
the head and shoulders OF Adelna
Patti.
There IL only ono cruiser anoat
faster than the lcsl4ino Of the Japan
ESQ navy. which Is credited with a
speed OF % knots--the Argentine
cruiser Buenos Ayres having trial
/ speed Of 232 knots. In the event OF
complications with foreign countries
the Yoshino aud the two ships con-
tracted for In the United States would
prove troublesome commerce des-
| troyers, as no European navy possesses
any vessels that could overhaul tho
Japanese ships.
German universities ranked as
follows regarding the number OF stu
dents. last summer There were 4.640
in Berlin, att In Munich, 2.S7G In
LelpsIc, 1868 IN Bonn, .i25 In Breslau.
,i43 In Halle. 1879 In Fre!burg, 1889
in Wurzburg, LIE In Tubingen, 1854
In Heidelberg, | 1873 In Erlangen. 1907
In Gottingen, 9G5 In Marburg. 9fS In
! G.elfswald, 1913 in Straussburg. 7G1 in
/ Jena, 70S in Kiel, 700 in Konlngsberg.
$50 In Geissen. 500 III Rostock and i20
! In Munster
| After a canvass OF the leading ma
| lions OF the world II Is figured that tho
| total number of copies OF newspapers
printed in single year Is 100000,
| 900. Some Idea OF what this enormous
J figure means may be had II one bears
| In mind that to print the worlds news
papers year requires 78l ,24U tons of
payer, or 1862, 100000 pounds, while 1t
would take the fastest press in America
| 1893 years to print single years edi-
| ton. which would produce stack OK
papers nearly Atty miles high.
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