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

GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.
1t is pointed out that there arc at
Rome two cardinals named Vannutrn,
1t is Vincent NannuteIH who Is mr.
toned as probable successor of POr2
Leo.
y monument to John H. Reagan. the
last survivor of the confederate caS
met. is to be erected BY the Daughters
of the Confederacy of Palestine. Tex
The city has granted a site at the
junction Of two principal streets.
Marinette, Wis. has an Andrew ca.
negie on a small scale in Isaac Slepo-
enson. who has given that city $50 900
for library building on condition thar
the city appropriate not less la~u
$4,000 annually for it's maintenance.
The Montreal Star says that a uase-
ball game is merely contest between
two mines and an umpiIe That is not
merely british view of the Ameyit an
national game, but pretty nearly a
correct estimate OF the game as IT, Ia
often played.
\ Kansas liquor seller who wa
driven out of business by last winters
crusade has started again at Lawton
the Oklahoma boom town, and Lrc
motto for his new saloon is: AR IA
tons welcome but Carrie"
Mr.. Cudahy of Chicago is sald u
have prOlited to the amount Cf $70'-
goo by the recent rise of pork ana
lard. Pork has advanced to SIS a
barrel, gain of 81 within a sort tr.o,
Hogs have been worth as mucI rs lhav
are now only twice in 10 years,
The American nj, ut school has ap-
parently not been a success in HawaN.
A yea- 80 a night school was estab,
liShed at Honolulu, at which Hawai-
ans might have free instruction NJ
English, but the mattress would Bol
avail themselves of the opportunity
and the school has been given up
How the British revere their poe,
THE death of King Alfred in A. d. 901
was a national misfortune. but If hC
had lived until 1901 Alfred Austin
would probably have written a poem
about him and that would have o""r
a national calamity"
You may tell him she said
haughtily, that | do not care to meet
people who deal in dressed beef. -
Naturally this proud eastern aristocrat
thought she had MIN properly put
down, but she was in error. You may
tell her by way of reply, that what
ever | put on the market is at least
dressed" Then he looked long and
fxedly at her dccOlIete daughter
Chicago Post
The gold medal of the Italian science
society was presented the other day to
Singnor MarcOni. The presentation
was made by the Marquis Luigi SOlari
di LoretO, an officer Of the Italian
navy, who subsequently gave a dinner
in honor of the event and expressed
the admiration of italy for her dis
tinguished son.
This story is told of the young king
Of Srain. At a recent function, in
which onI- young people Joined, a
pretty girl of 6 who had danced sew
eral times with little Alfonso, pre-
sented her cheek to him for salute
Instantly he Strengthened up ana eN-
tended his hand to her. Il don't kiss
girls. he said, they Kiss my hand in
stead. | am your king.
The sham fight that the French
showed the car was not real war. Hal
they been giving him a war at it is
entertainment. says the Montreal Star.
| he would only have seen some men in
pale mOlasses cOlOred clothes crawling
among the rocks, scattered at such
wide intervals that he could form very
| little idea what they were about. The
spectacular has largely been elimfnat,
| ed from real war.
Among the late presidents papers,
now in the hands Of Secretary COrtei-
you, are some 5000 requests for Mr.
McKinIeys autograph. 1t has been
his custom to devote spare moments
to the qualification OF these demands.
in so far as he could. but during the
few months absence or through q
period when the president ~oul" be
busily occupied with affairs OF ,tate
these letters asking for autographs
would pile up. The 5000 referred to
accumulated during the summer yaca-
ton season.
The plan for the trayersing OF the
great Sahara with automobiles, which
are not subject to the pangs of thirst.
has collapsed in the ridicule OF the
Jester, who pictures the auto" strand
ed in the sands, hundreds of miles
from an oasis, with the apparatus
hopelessly out of gear, and the chat
feur frantically begging by wireless
telegraph that camel might be sent
to pull the broken down trap 20
machine shop. And there's lot OF
common sense back of that joke
New York Tribune