Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-07-13

liquefied hydrogen, which hitherto had
never been seen except by Professor
Dewar and a few favored persons. He
showed how the air surrounding the
liquid was solidified like snow. Cork
placed in the liquid sank like stone.
After taking a snap shot of Tenby
church recently an English photog-
rapher was puzzled to find on his
plate the image of vessel dressed in
bunting and upside down. He read in
the newspapers next day of a launch
at Pembroke, seven miles away, and
concluded that he had photographed
a mirage.
"Gelototherapeutists" is the name
given to physicians who treat patients
suffering from various diseases rang.
ing from bronchitis to anaemia by
prescribing hearty laughter. A medical
journal suggests that there is a great
opening for physicians in studying
various ways of exciting laughter.
Recent researches with the aid OF
Roentgen rays on the movements OF
the stomach of a cat during the diges-
ton of meal showed in the most
striking manner that any slight vex-
alton Of the animal stopped with sur
prising promptness and invariability
gastric contractions and movements OF
every sort.
The increase of insanity in civilized
centers of population is appalling. A
half-dozen new asylums have been
built in and about London in the last
dozen years and each one Is filled al
most as soon as completed. The num-
Der of insane in London institutions
alone now reaches an aggregate of
over $4,000.
Official reports in the adjutant gen
erals office show that the United
Staets have sent to the Philippines
thus far on various expectations 81
PSI men and 1879 officers. Spain, in all
her 800 years experience in the archi-
peago, did not have so large an army
in service there as we have had the
past few months.
Fridtjof Nansen's sharp eye for the
money side of his ventures has won
him the nickname of "Finanzen Nan
sen" in Norway. He has bought a
the Telemarken, in the Christiania
district, which he is making into a
large estate, and has purchased sum-
mer hotel for his manor-house.
BY the direction of the postoffice
authorities Of Berlin, automatic tele-
| phpnac ora RI ho sn1aca1 in a in
offices, in railway stations and at
many other convenient points. They
will be on the penny-in- the-slot order,
and for the small sum of penny the
necessary number of minutes allowed
for conversation may be obtained.
Several members of crew of a
sugarladen ship lately arrived at
Philadelphia We're afflicted with blind
ness in the moonlight and starlight of
night when in the tropics, though
they could see quite clearly as soon as
the sun rose. They attributed it to
fumes from the sugar, but their cap
btain was inclined rather to lay it to
an excessive use of tobacco.
In opening Great Marylebone street,
London, to lay electric cables work
men came across several elm tree
water pipes in fine state of preserva-
ton, although they were only a few
feet below the surface. These tree
trunks bored through were over 200
Years old and must have been a part
Of an old water conduit. The pipes
we've blocked with silt, bit otherwise
were quite disable.
One of Bostons muni.lpa ficials,
who is especially interested n the es-
adjustment of free water fountains
in that city, hired man to watch one
of the drinking places the other day
from a. m. to 10 p. M, for the pur-
pose of ascertaining whether or not it
was well qatronized. Between the
hours named exactly $685. persons
drank at the city's expense. The
fountain has four faucets.
The Porto Rican settlement of Ponce
de Leon at Caparra. near the site of
Pueblo Viejo, across San Juan bay,
is now by more than fifty-fve years
the first town established within the
present borders of the United States.
One, therefore, must give the prestige
of antiquity not to the Spanish town
of st. Augustine. Fla, of 1865, as for
merry, but to Caparra, Porto Rico,
founded in the year 1909.
The Russian government which pro-
poses to spend S50000,000 for new field
guns during the next two years, has
arranged for an elaborate test of
weapons of this class at ST. Petersburg
in August next. In this competition
number of leading American gun
makers will be represented and the re-
suits should furnish fair and re-
liable indication of the relative value
of our arms as compared with those of
other nations.
The matron of the children's home
in Wichita, Kan, has received let
ter from man who wants to adopt
child. Send one" he says, that is
lively and will laugh and cry and get
into mischief. | am SIS years old and
would give the world for a child