Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-01-30

ing women who fall on icy sidewalks:
Stand before her. saying, with a
smile and a soothing gesture Re
main perfectly still, please and then
step calamity to the rear, put your
hands under her arms and raise her
with firm grip"
1here has just been completed at
the Fulton engine works in Los
Angeles, Cal, a huge telescope. minus
the two 36-inch lenses. for the Lick
observatory on Mount Hamilton. The
tube is 40 inches in diamter, and Is
feet long. The instrument will 60 to
Chill and stay on some Andean peak
for three years for observations of the
heavens.
The telegraph operators in Wash
ington who each day and night are
compelled to send the name of Mrs.
Bonine, accused of the mysterious
motel murder, an almost endless
number of times, have devised
way to shorten their work. The
mineral 8 is now used for the last
syllable Of Mrs. Bonine's name. The
word as sent Geographically appears
"Bo-9."
To pain a thousand cats is the
ambition of Mrs. c. M. Gardner of
Pitman Grove, n J. Thus far she
has succeeded in turning out no less
than CSC portraits of her feline
models. Mrs. Gardner devoted the
first proceeds of her work to aid a
struggling church in Philadelphia. and
since then her cat pictures on velvet
cushions have found purchasers from
New England to California.
A coin of considerable interest 20
numismatists has just been sold III
Germany. 1t is one of the few coins
in the history of the world which can
| be accused of having a humorous side
! to it. In 1879 the Danes descended
on the port Of Hamburg, but their at
tack proved unsuccessful. The in
| habitants of the lows struck Il medal
! to commemorate the occasion. The
| legend on the coin was as follows:
The King of Denmark has been to
/ Hamburg. If thou w0uldst know
what he achieved, look on the other
side 1t is needless to add that the
other side" is a blank.
The Louisiana purchase exposition
has not yet hit upon a satisfactory
| design for an emblem and the OK
! ecutiVe committee has approved the
plan OF offering prizes amounting to
$4,000 for the wished-for design
Artists and sculptors of national ropu
i tatiOn will be invited to submit their
! work, and $4,000 will be paid for the
! successful emblem.
The enOrmity of our salmon output
this year has played havoc with the
British fisheries, for in Canada the
! law does not permit the use of trans.
j In Washington and Oregon traps
are used, SO that the American
! fisheries are able to furnish salmon
| to the Canadian canneries for two and
three cents fish, where the can
! neries used to pay the Canadians from
! 10 to IS cents
A curious feature to travellers in
the high roads of Norway is the great
! number OF gateS-upWard of 10000 IN
| the whole cOuntry-which have to be
| opened. These gates, which either
mark the boundaries of the farms or
! separate the home fields from the
waste lands, constitute a considerable
/ Inconvenience and delay to the
traveller, who has to stop his vehicle
and get down to open them
A New York man is to open place
for the training of dogs to lead the
! blind. He says the first thing is 20
take a young pup and make him learn
| how to go in straight line. It takes
two, and sometimes three, months TO
do this. Then he goes through a
course of a couple of months longer,
learning how to dodge wagons and
things of that sort 1t is wonderful
how much you can teach one of thos>
little fellows, if he's got any brains
to start with.