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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-12-11
A Town Heated by Electricity.

Electric heating has such advan-
tages over the use of fuels Cor this
purpose that it has been decided to
heat in this way the sanitariums Of
DaVos-Platz and Daive-Dorf in
Switzerland. A study of the locality
has shown that sufficient water power
can be had, and this article contains
a discussion of the probable consump-
ton of energy for heating, cooking and
other work at these Establishments.
The principal reason for adopting this
system was to avoid all smoke or con-
taminatlOn of the air in this locality,
The two settlements cover district
about three kilometres long and from
500 to 400 metres wide. There is
about 5000 fixed population, and
during the winter $500 patients. The
heaters are of two types, the first
being merely n resistance covered by
a suitable enamel The second type
which Is used principally for cooking
consists of a small alternating current
transformer which induces local cur
rents in the base Of the cooking
utensil itself, The estimates Of the
energy required for the whole settle
ment allow 1S5,000 hors power hours
for bakeries, $4,000 for the laundries
and 5000 for the baths are allowed
making total Of 26S.150 horsepower
hours per day of winter Dividing
this by "a shows that me installation
should have capacity of II, 200 horse
power These figures are criticised
by Mr.. A. de Grandmaison who goes
on to show that the estimate for cook
ing is very much too high, That FOL
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-12-11

whence it is dragged forth, wrigglins
and protesting, for the inspection OF
anyone believing in the deadly poison
of the tarantula bite.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-12-11
CHAPTER XIII.

From the day of her presentation a
new life Logan for Leah Hitherto
she mad seen but little Of the world.
in homo and in Naples the Duchess
had taken her out but little. She
wanted her to take the London world
captive by her fresh and mdimmed
beauty; she did so. ON the day of
the drawingroom little else was dis
cussod but the loneliness, the rich
dress, the costly jewels, the vast
went into raptures over her name,
and said that no other would have
suited her dark passionate beauty.
In few days the beautiful Miss
| IIatton' grew famous she became
the rage, On the night of the day
! that she had been presented, the
! Duchess of Rosedene gave a
sumpuous ball, at which she was
the lclle, Some young girls would
have been both ciated and excited by
/ the sensation made. She was neither;
she was cool, calm, stately as a young
} NIlRltSS, some bl Tue NbbltNl men
Iot the land bowed before her peers
complmontod her; but the beautiful
face never flushed the beautiful eyes
never frightened With triumph
who shall say that good blood does
not toll?' thought the old solder Il
do not believe her pulse would beat
more quickly even if an emperor
asked her to dance
He was right; in this, the most
brilliant scene in which she had ever
mingled, a strange sense of unhealthy
came over her She could remember
the h2ry. passionate burning words
with which her father had denounced
all such gayeties and the men ant
women who Joined in them; and yet
here was she, his eldest daughter
who had been trained by him. The
very queen of one Of the assemblies
he censurcd,
There was 4 few moments pause fo1
her, during which she said to hersel
chat her past life Swallowed tht
present during which she wondered i
she would have Teen perfectly happ,
had the past been different, had sh,
been differently trained Thost
Watching her wondered at the shadow
that seemed to fall over her face
To be continued
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15
Kina Edward as a Godfather.

King Edward has probably acted
as a godfather mere often than
any OF his subjects. King Edward
VII has stood as sponsor to no
fewer than seventy five people. IN
one remarkable Instance his ma jcsty
when Prince Of Wales, stood as
godfather to both father and SON
This was in the case OF the Duke Of
Marlborough. who is godson Of
the king, as is also the youthful
Marquis of Blandford, to whom his
majesty stood godfather when the
heir to the Marlborough dukedon1
was christened at St. James in 1897.
The Tatler.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15
New York City a. q Tenant.

New York City pays annually
S337,8o7 for the rental of Offices
used by departments and bureaus,
The biggest part of this sum goes
to the Stewart building. $14z,38o.
In this former dry goods store are
housed numerous executive heads.
The department of finance alone
pays over $4,000 for quarters on
six floors. The Park row building
gets $7o,732. The splendid apart
nents of the borough president cost
no less than $31,682 while those of
the commissioner Of water supply,
gas and electricity are nearly as ex-
pensive, at $32,645.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15
An Amason Princess.

Princess Mathilde of Saxony is
described as modern Amazon. She
spends most Of her time on horse
back or driving. She is large and
of masculine appearance and gait.
In the evening, at the kings sum-
mer resort. she usually takes him
out for a drive, holding the reins
herself. She is highly educated,
and most men in her circle hate her
because one Of her favorite anuse-
ments is to engage them in CONVEX
sation on some subject on which she
knows they are not informed, and
then make them feel their ignorance
in huniliatif1g way.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15
Speed Costs Money.

They tell great things about the
speed of the ocean greyhounds, but
omit to say that speed costs, as does
every other luxury. They expect to
drive the Kaiser Wilhelm II. twen-
ty-four knots an hour, but it will
take an expenditure of 10000 horse
power to do it, whereas 14,ooo
horsepower will drive the Cedric,
the largest ship in the world, seven
teen knots. Every additional pound
of steam means more coal, more
"hands" and more expense in every
direction, until the increase of speed
is soon forbidden by the increased
costs.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15
Prehistoric Picture Ga'lerss.

A picture gallery that dates iron,
the stone age has been uneartted in
a cavern near E.vzies, France. The
pictures, which are all of prehis-
toric animals. were not only cut in
the rock, as is usually the case with
such representations, but were
painted in several colors, and given
some evidence of artistic skill.
There are eighty pictures, of which
forty-nine represent biscss Of .s,rri-
Gus kinds. The pigments used,
which are shades of red and brown.
have been found, an analysis Of
Moissan, the eminent french chem
ist, to be oci.rcs mixed with min
ute fragments of transparent silica,
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15
Surprised Eliza, All Right.

A story is told in the Omaha
Mercury of a Pennsylvania farmer
who wore his old suit Until everyone
was tired of it, and his cstimablc
wife was almost ashamed of the
hustling man who had been inside of
it SO long. But one day he went to
town to sell his produce, and while
there he determined to buy new
suit, and, happy thought, surprise
Eliza. So he bundled a neat suit
into the wagon and drove home
ward. 1t was after night as he hur-
ried honeward, and at a bridge
over a river he stood up on the
wagon and 'peeled" and threw the
despised old suit in the water. Then
he reached for his new clothes. They
were gore-had jolted out of the
wagon. The night was cold and his
teeth chattered, and he hurried home.
He surprised Eliza even more than
he had anticipated.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15
Agirsols Made 70 Order.

y good story is told in the
English papers of how the Sotnali
Mad Mullah worked one of those
miracles" which drew many waver-
crs to his banner.
An English n,an-of-war was
sent to demonstrate off the coast ,and
at night threw searchlight onto
the jungle-covercd mountains. Alb
dullah was in hiding there, and
knowing from his visits to Alden
what it was that his followers hailed
as a new star. told them that the
light was seeking him.
When the electric rays actually
Aooded his encampment he cried in
triumph: "Will you deny now that
I am under the eye OF God?"
The Somali fell on their knees,
beat the earth with their foreheads,
and replied: Thou are truly the
elect, the chosen, the mullah, the
master. Our goods, our existence,
our souls belong to thee. We place
ourselves entirely at the disposition
of thy will"
A few weeks later came the news
Of the rising of some 1000 Of these
Somali.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15
Empress Eugenie's Lawsuits.

1t is reported that ex-Empress
Eugene will shortly attempt to at
tach property of the French govern
ment for the various judgments OBJ
tained by her in civil suits against
the state. The judgments in favor
of the former empress involve the
sum of more than 100000 and
various historic objects, including
fifty paintings formerly owned by
Louis Napoleon, wh:ch Eugene
says she will present to the nation
if the government agrees to proper
ly label them as her gifts.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15
Remarkable Surqicat Case.

A few days ago a Miss Death
was brought to the German hospital
in Philadelphia to be operated upon
for appendicitis. She was daugl,-
ter, she said, of an undertaken. The
surgeons name who was chosen to
perform the operation was Dye
DR.. Frank Hackett Dye. When
the operation was over Miss Death
was placed in charge of two nurses.
Miss Payne is the day nurse; Mss
Crone is the night nurse. The pa
tient is recovering rapidly, and i'll 4
week or so Miss Death will bid
goodbye to DR.. Dye, Miss Payne
and Miss Grone.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15
Scotch Superstition About Cats.

Scottish cats were accused of
witchcraft as far back as 1891. In
that year, when King Jmcs of Scot
land was crossing from Denmark
a great tempest arose at sea. This
was supposed to have been caused
by 'christened ca" being placed
in the vessel by witches. The fol-
lowing is an extract from al old
pamphlet: Again ii is confessed
that the said c}1r;stcned cat was the
cause that the kings majestic S
sh;ppe had contraric wind to the
rest of the shippers in his conpanie,
for when the rest of the shippes
had fair and good winde, then was
the winde contrarie and altogether
against his majesty"
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15
Killing Flies by Electricity.

A new apparatus has been in
vented for killing flies by electric
ity, says the London Express. 1t
looks somewhat like a gridiron
placed vertically, with horizontal
shelf banking beneath. The grid
iron is composed OF wires which are
connected with an electric battery,
and the wires are SO close together
that a fly alighting can hardly fail
to stand upon two of them at once.
The wires being alternately mega
tive and positive, the insect, by the
mere act OF alighting upon the ma
chine, completes a circuit and is in
stantly killed. At intervals the hori-
zontal shelf may be removed and
the dead flies brushed Off.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15
Phil Dwyer's Bad Luck.

They have a story in New York
that Phil Dwyer, the noted horse
man, had a most disastrous expert
ence recently in Canheld's Saratoga
gambling house. Having half All
hour to spare before taking his train
for home, he dropped in and began
to play roulette. Luck was dead
against him. and in a short time he
had lost $4,000. Then he wanted
Garfield to raise the limit to $1,000,
but the proprietor refused. Deter
mined to play even, he stuck to it
until late hour in the morning and
when he quit he was somewhere be-
tween $4,000 and 100000 to the
bad. Then he signed check for
the amount and yawned himself OH
to bed.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15
An Army of Rat Catchers.

In the wine cellars at Li1nehouse
in London are twenty miles of lanes
lined on either side by huge casks
of wine. They are a paradise for
rats, and the only way in which the
pests are kept within reasonable
limits as to numbers is by employ
ing small army of 800 cats. These
cats must catch rats or starve, and
the result is that they are probably
the most skilled force of rat catch
ers in the world. AS soon as a cat
becomes old and lazy she is replaced
by young and active one, so that
the morale of the force never suf-
fers from bad example.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15
A DAUGHTER of the Beckers.

The family of Becker Of St. Louis
is an old and clannish house. The
family archives have been kept care
fully for many generations. For
more than a hundred years every
child born to the family was son
until last week, when girl baby
was born to MIR. and Mrs. Arthur
w. Becker. With this exception,
female issue has been lacking in the
family since 1885.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15
Children as Prosperity Makers.

One OF the more intelligent and
successful Hungarians on the East
side in New York has an original
theory as to the cause of prosperity
in the United States. II say that
the prosperity Of America is due
largely to its children. In my coun-
try parents do not allow their boys
and girls to work until they are
grown. They support them and
teach them trades. Here in the
United States the children are put
to work when they are IL or a.,
thereby relieving their parents and
adding largely to the comforts OF
home. If I should try to carry on
my business alone, l should be un-
able to make ends meet. But l
have the help OF my wife, my three
sons and my five daughters. The
ten of us arc getting rich together.
BY and by we shall divide up and
ali have snug little fortune"
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15
Aooa Taught to sts.l.

A strange complaint was filed
with the district attorney at Buff
falo few days ago, whet William
Degbert, gardener farmer, living
on the Culver road, came into the
office and alleged a neighbor had
by proxy been pilfering his farm.
The neighbor's proxy, said Mr..
Degbert, is dog, large bulldog.
MIR. Degbert explained how during
the summer the animal had been
III the habit of visiting the Degbert
place and playing witt, the children.
At last he noticed that after each OF
these canine visits some article, a
coat, a shoe or a small farming inn
pleinent was missing. 1t remained
for the children to discover the rea!
culprit. One day the dog was seen
dragging rake down the road
Then a watch was set OH his
movements, and sure enough, says
Degbert, the dog was the villain.
The complainant was told that the
dogs owner could not be punished
for the canine's tkefts unless it was
clearly proved that he had taught
the dog to steal.
"Well," declared Degbcrt, "Ill
take the matter into my own hands
then and shoot the dog"
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15
Roosevelt Had His Way.

1t is doubtful if the repairs on the
White House would have been
completed so soon had not President
Roosevelt practically forced his way
into the mansion and driven out the
work1nen. The very day he was
able to discard his crutches, he went
oyer there and easily discovered
that large amount Of unnecessary
pulling down and building up was
going on. There and then he an
no,,nced that he proposed to eat his
dinner and sleep in the White
House on October 80. In vain the
contractors protested. The presi-
dent stuck to it, and in the end had
his way.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15
Some Strange Medicines.

In New England cobweb pills are
supposed to c,,re the ague, and in
the South certain l.nuckle bone i'll
a pigs foot is sure cure for rheu-
1natis1n, if it be carried in the pock-
ct or worn suspended from string
around the neck. Tracing the spi-
der web pill, it originated in China,
where all species OF insects have
certain positive or negative values
in medicine. In Peking it is GUS
tonary to give two or three scorpi-
ons or spiders to a patient i'll OF fe-
yer. In Ireland the peasantry swal-
low spiders alive to effect cures.
From these the cobweb pill Of the
New England native was easy. In
Flanders the live spider is fastened
into the empty shell of a walnut,
and worn around the neck of the
patient. AS the creature dies the
fever decreases until it is gone en-
tirely.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15
Americas Low Birth Rate.

Recent census figures, according
to an article in the Philadelphia
Medical Journal seem to establish
beyond a question of a debut the
fact that the birth rate in the coun-
try is lower than that of any Euro
pcan country excepting France; {;
that the birth rate OF the American! |!
born population is much below that
of France, and that the fecundity OF
the American woman is lower than
that OF the woman OF any other
country. France is alarmed at her
condition; we are indifferent, for
we are constantly recruiting our
population from Russia. from Swe-
den, from Germany, from Ireland
or form Canada.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15
New York's Odd WAYS.

They have an odd way in New
York city of dealing with police
men who have had charges Of
neglect of duty and completely in
crime. They retire them with pen
sions. 1t is a short and easy
method, and perhaps it costs less
to retire a police captain on 81 800
Or $500 a year, than to try him
and punish him. The first action
is in the power of the police COM
missioner alone; the other isn't
Captain Timothy J. Creeden, who
admitted in the Lexow investiga-
ton that he had paid $4,000 to be
promoted to his captaincy, is to get
$50 a year for life.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15
Pobiedonostseff, Russian Statesman

The news of the resignation of
M. Pobiedonostseff, the procurator
general of the holy synod Of Rus
sia, comes by way of a German pa
per, and it may need confirmation
direct from St. Petersburg. This
very powerful official is now Is
years old, but he could continue in
office a while longer is his health is
not impaired. NJ. Pobiedonostsef
has long been distinguished as the
most rcactio1ary Of the czar's min
lister, and the most determined foe
of representative institutions in the
empire. His departure from public
life whenever it comes will be an
event of Importance, in view of his
intensely conservative character and
intellectual supremacy in the coun
cils of the car. There is a chance
that his successor will have more
liberal ideas, or be man less dis
posed to resist liberalizing tenden
cies.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15
lsrasst Parish in the World.

Chicago has the distinction of
possessing the largest church par
ish in the world. It is the Roman
Catholic parish of the Polish church
of St. Stanislaus Kostka, located i'll
the midst of the Polish colony. At
the last enumeration, that on Easter
Sunday, there were $1,000 commit
nicants in the parish Of this church,
representing 45oo families. Added
to these are the floating attendants
of the church, who arc estimated as
bringing the number of commune
cants up to $4,000. 1t cost $62 o21
last year to pay the expenses of the
parish. The revenues were $6o,o1o
the principal items being $22,647
from pew rents, $14,358 from tut
ton fees at the several educational
institutions and SII,7S2 from offer
ings. The church has property
amounting to more than $75o,ooo,
including school property, a pub
fishing house and an interest in St.
Adelbert cemetery. 1t requires the
entire time and services OF two men
to manage the secular affairs of the
parish under the direction of the
procurator and treasurer.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15
Ho Wanted "Perry-qoric."

Jay Cooke, the hnancier, has
been an enthusiastic angler from
his boyhood, one Of his favorite
fishing grounds being Put-in-Bay
not far from Sandusky, O. Mr..
Cooke delights to tell story of an
old countrynan who entered a
drug store in Sandusky, but could
not remember the name of the ar
Icle he wanted. Finally a hap
py thought struck him and he said /:
whats that place down there p
"You mean Pu-in-Bay?" said the
clerk. "Yep, that's it. Who was
it that put in there?" Il suppose
YOU refer to Commodore Perry?"
That's him. | want bottle of
Pe-ry-goric."
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15
The Toothsome Terrapin.

The world-famed Chesapeake tar
rapin is fast disappearing. All
along the Chesapeake bay tarrapin
hunters are finding greater difficulty
than ever in capturing the diamond
backed creatures, SO highly priced
by gourmets. 1t seems strange now
to read that in ante-bellum days the
Maryland legislature once passed a
law prohibiting slave owners from
feeding tarrapin to their slaves Of
tener than once a week. The pas
sage of this law was prompted by
the negro taste for pork.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15
No "kinq of Dudes"

For the first time in a Number of
years, New York has no king of
the dudes this season. This doubt
full distinction, once held by Berry
Wall, ]. Waldere kirke, Archie
Bell and others, is not claimed by
or credited to any particular dandy
this year. Doubtless the title, with
ali its bizarre glory, has passed
away FOR good, for nowadays dead
level Of excellence in sartorial mat
ters makes it almost impossible for
anyone to shine conspicuously in
this respect.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15
Senator Hoar's Worcester Home.

Senator Hoar's house in Worces-
ter was purchased by him some
forty years ago when property was
cheap, and is, therefore, a very large
plot of ground, almost in the CEN
ter Of the city. 1t used to belong to
John Hancock, of Revolutionary
fame. The house is a roomy but
unpretentious building, and is chief
ly remarkable for its enormous H.
brary. Thousands of volumes are
piled ceiling high in this great room
and MIR. Hoar spends hours and
hours among his books.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15

Shyster attorneys are having :
hard time Of it with Pension Coiri-
missioner Ware. One Of these gen
try from Michigan got into trouble
and went to Washington in the hope
Of "squaring" himself. Ware gave
him private hearing. and was
heard to say as his visitor was lcav-
ing: "No, you've been robbing the
soldiers. I've had all I want Of
YOU" "But. Mr.. Ware" pleaded
the lawyer, Il think" He got no
further. II don't care what you
think" said the commissioner, Il
think you're blank thief and ought
to be in jail. Now CO." Another
scamp of the same kind was dis
missed in this way: I'll think your
case over. You are one of those
blenkety blank reprobates who
bring reproach upon the good name
Of the old soldier. I don't know
yet just what I'll do in your case.
I'm not quite sure whether I ought
not to put you in the penitentiary.
As it looks to me now, I'm inclined
to think l will. Yes, I'll think it
over"
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15
Nj. Alorasn's son-ln-Lsw.

There is young man IN New
York who is not content to be
known as the son-in-law Of his faith
er-if' law, even though that father
in-la~ be J. Pierpont Morgan. Her
bert L. Satterlee, who married a
daughter OF Mr.. Morgan's few
years ago, is padding his own ca
noe with just as much energy as
though he didn't have any parent
by law. He is engaged in the prac-
tice of law, and his friends are ar-
thority for the statement that his
business is very lucrative one. MIR.
Satterlee comes of old Revolutiona-
ry stock, and as side issue is very
much interested in army and navy
affairs. Through his interest in
these affairs he was very active in
the organization of the naval militia
of New York State. He has been a
member of the staffs of Governors
Morton and Black. His largely in
creasing business, however, has
compelled him to practically aban-
don the militia service. He is re-
gardcd by his father-in-law as one
of his A No. trusts.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15
Mrs. Gladstone q Secret keeper

In a pleasant magazine sketch of
Gladstone's home l:fc we are told
that when tehy were first married
Gladstone put two alternatives to
his wife, either to know nothing
and thus be free of all responsibility
or to know everything and be
bound to secrecy, His own remarks
fifty years later, "My wife has
known every politicalt secret l ever
had" points to the choice she made
and also illustrates her discretion.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-15
A Bio Anchor.

What is said to be the largest and
heaviest anchor ever made was re-
Gently forged at the Charleston
(Mass.) } navy yard. 1t weighs over
eight tons and cost nearly $4,000.
1t is IS feet long over all, and 9
feet 6 inches wide over the points.
The palms are 81 inches wide. The
cable for this anchor is unique also
as regards weight, each link weigh
Ing 60 pounds. Three hundred and
sixty fathoms (216o feet) of it are
to be supplied.