Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-12-11
'rawford "-Chicago Trihune

Crawford Chicago Tribune.
The cold key is one Of the best
remedies for stopping the nose bleed.
-Four or ave bis keys are always lying
in the ice chest Of Germantown rest.
deuce The nose of the son of the
house hleeds every few days, and
nothing stops the hemorrhage like the
dropping of a large cold key down the
chtld'S back,
The fruit brick is the latest form Of
preserve It is rectangular or disk.
shaped and done mp in oiled tissue
paper The consistency is that of a
soft gum drop and heing composed
| largely OF sugar the flavor Of the
fruit is retained admirably. These
bricks viii soon he ON the market from
| California,
ny careful count of the ushers
last sunday" observed Rev, Dr. last
| ly, There are Just s16 married women
in my parish" How do YOU know they
were all at church," inquired Rov.
nr. Fourthly u had announced
previously that would preach a ser.
mon ON the servant gtrl problem, -
Chicago Tribune,
Last winter during spell of treeg,
ing weather, at n quarry in Aberdeen,
Scot, n large stone, weighing six tons,
had been drilled for blasting, when
the Thought struck the foreman that
the severe frost might he utilized.
| Water was poured into each OF the
holes, and It was found after couple
of days that the block OF granite had
broken into pieces,
Stanley SponCor who threatens 10
| Dust Santos. pumont In popular es.
tcem, started ballooning almost as
soon ms he could walk, for he comes of
n family which traces it's Acronautic
pedigree back two generations The
| three brothers who compose the firm
are ms much ut homo In the air MS they
are ON the ground, and they are all
skilled parachutists,
The famous French geographer,
| Elisce Rcclus. who Is now In his 73d
| year, lives at brussels In great soclu-
| sion the only place whore u stranger
| can meet him being at vegetarian
| restaurant whore he takes his meals,
| He has boon vegetarian all his life.
and declares that the time win come
| whom Europeans win look on heot.cat-
| ing with the same horror that we do
| on cannthaism. one day he camo to
friend palo and agitatcd My wife
Is deccNing me" ho exclaimed; and
whom his friend looked ut him IN as,
toishment he added: II have sur
nrised her whom she was boiling my
| spinach In houtllon."
Tho Philadelphia Record prints
good story of the mechanical snow
storm on the stage, The scene paint.
| crs had been at work and had dropped
several paint brushes, hammers and
| other articles into the sheet that hold
| the snow storm, A blind man In
search of his lost daughter occupied
| the stage at the time scheduled for the
| storm and when the snow began to -ull
couple of hammers missed him by an
| inch, Roing blind the wretChod actor
| didn't dare look up. but whom n mon.
koywrench Just grn2ed his temple he
had presence of mind enough to yoll;
tNf' AbHNtI Htbils \ NC HlilHl lA
over The stage hands took their cue
and stopped the storm while the audi.
enco didn't bother about how a blind
man could see yonder moon,
Alligators' nests resemble haycocks
more than anything elise to which they
can be compared, They average
about four feet In hight and five feet I'm
diameter and are constructed OF grass,
cs and heritage. First the mother
gator dosopits one layer of eggs on n
mortar-llkc moor. and, having covered
this with stratum of mud and hor.
hago about eight inches thick, lays
another set of eggs upon that, and so
on to the top, there being commonly
from 100 to 200 eggs In n nest, with
their tails the parents then beat down
the tall grass and weeds to prevent the
approach of unseen enemies. The
female watches her eggs until they are
Matched by the heat of tho sun, aud
then takes her brood under her own
care, defending them and providing for
their subsistence.