Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-03-06
GLEANlNGS AND GOSSIP

Thomas Fleming, a purser OF the
Cunard line, has completed his 92Oth
voyage across the Atlantic, and viii
retire on returning to Liverpool
Cinnamon are the merchant Seamea
of the future, says a consular report
from Shanghai Over 1900 British
vessels entered the port last year
manned by Chinese crews.
NikOla Tesla says he has to be
we'll versed in a variety OF subjects
in order to keep up with the college
girls he meets dining out.
The December assessment for Phil
adelphia shows 342,S90 citizens en-
titled to vote this being an increase
of 1901 over the assessment of 1909
According to Chicago dispatches.
all the lines from Chicago to the
East are short of cars. and loud com
plants are being made by the ship
perS.
The electric cars at Ramsgatc. in
the south of England. arc said to
make an undue noise. which is at
tributcd to the resonant nature of the
chalk soil
Italian statistics show that the
emigration to America has reached
the figure OF 10000 annually. About
half of these return eventually tn
Italy. the rest remain in the United
States.
La Crosse citizens threaten 10
establish automobile lines in com
petition with the street car companies.
which refuse to give them the &C
commOdations to which they believe
they are entitled.
AS late as 1910 there were neither
roads nor coaches in any country dis
trict of Portugal. Gentlemen travelled
on horseback and women in sedan
chairs, carried by men. or in mule
litterS
What is said to be the first live
muskoX ever brought into the United
States reached Chicago from east OF
the Mackenzie river, far within the
Arctic circle, last week.
In the last congress two-thirda OF
the senators and nearly twO-third5 Of
the representatives were lawyers.
The present house has II farmers,
two planters, one druggist two mine
operators and one vessel master
ROdOlfus Bingham Of MerChantville.
N. J., supports life at the age of n
on food that costs 7M cents a day. Hr
reports that he is healthy, happy and
spry, and has helped to bury &C
Quaintances who ridiculed his diet
Sweden is anxious to save several
million dollars now annually expcnd-
ed on imported coal, wherefore
special locomotives are being con
structcd by way of experimenting
with peat and peat charcoal as fuel
King Edward likes large cigars. and
it is said has them made to order at
Havana at a cost of 81 each there or
$50 each at Boston. Emperor VII
liam has smaller ones made for him
and cost only 20 cents each at
Havana, or 78 cents at Boston.
A building has Just been razed at
Steubenville, O.. of which the weather
boarding was from the Bezalcel Wells
the first steamboat built and operated
in western waters. The marks of the
wheels were visible on the boards
The boat blew up on her maiden trip
The little town OF :~-1r...d,un, Kan.
is practically run by women. 1t has
a woman school teacher, a woman
telegraph operator, postmistress a
woman pastor in charge Of its only
church and a woman letter carrier. It
is not stated whether or not all the
women are marmas.
President Roosevelt is a poor dress
er. Tip" says in the New York Press
He has no time or inclination to give
20 the study Of clothes. His figure
and carriage are hard on clothes. any
way Fifteen minutes after he has
put on new suit it is pulled on Of
shape and wrinkled all over.