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of water a cocoanut shell having a small hole in the bottom through which the water by slow degrees finds it's way into the interior The hole in the shell Is so proportioned that the shell will fill and sink in an hour, when the man on watch calls the time and sets it afloat again.
 The Chinese wave a water clock in use at the present time, which inven- tion they ascribe to Hwangti, who lived, according to their chronology, more than twenty-five centuries before Christ.
 | A water clock, or time-recording ma chine, very similar to the Chinese in- strument, and named the clepsydra, was used by the ancient Greeks in de- termining the amount of time speakers in court should take to make their ar guments. This machine was in the form of a spherical vessel with minute opening at the bottom and short neck at the top into which the water was poured.
 The running out of the water could be | stopped by closing the neck. The fa- 1 miliar association of this device with the courts of that time is shown in many ways. In important cases of great moment to the state each party was allowed ten amphorae, in about fif- ty gallons of water, as to the time in which to make their arguments. Demosthenes showed the value he placed on the time allotted him to speak, for during an Interruption in one of his speeches he turned to @ court officer with peremptory: You there Stop that water!'
 The time system of early Rome was of the rudest character. The day and night each were divided into four watches, the periods of which were roughly determined by observations of the courses of the sun and stars.
 The Accensus watched for the mo- ment when, from the Senate House he first caught sight of the sun between the rostra and the Graecostasis, when he proclaimed publicly the hour of noon. From the same point he watched the declining sun and proclaimed it's disap- pearance.
 On the mantel in the trustees room of the Boston Public Library stands a clock which was bought in Paris and
  sent to this country in 1890 at cost it is said, of a thousand dollars, to be set up in the present building of the libra ry, which was at that time incomplete.
 It is a reproduction in bronze by M. Planchon of a celebrated design of Jean Gossaert, an artist of the early part of the sixteenth century, now in the mu- scum at Brussels.
 The whole structure of the clock has been chiseled by hand and no duplicate has ever been made from 1t. The bronze is richly glded and the wings on either side of the face, which are In re- ality doors to protect the face of the clock, are colored,
 It was exhibited at the Paris Exhibi- tion of 1889, and the design was consid- cred one of the finest works of art of | its kind exhibted.-Bos Daily Globe,
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NATURES ICE HOUSE.
Food for Birds That is Preserved in the
 Arctic Regions

Food for Birds That is Preserved in the
 Arctic Regions.
 The number of birds that go to the arctic regions to breed is vast beyond conception They go not by thousands, but by tens and hundreds of thousands, and because nowhere else in the world does nature provide at the same time and in the same place such a lavish prodigality of food.
 The vegetation consists of cranberry, cloudberry and crowberry bushes, and these, forced by the perpetual sunshine of the arctic summer, bear enormous crops of fruit. But the crop is not ripe until the middle and end of the arctic summer, and if the fruit-eating birds had to wait until 1t was ripe they would starve in the meantime, so they arrive on the very day of the melting of the snow
 But each year the enow descends on an immense crop of ripe fruit before the birds have time to gather it. It is thus preserved perfectly fresh and pure, and the melting of the snow discloses the bushes, with the unconsumed last years crop hanging on them or lying,
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DID BURNS WRITE BURNS?
The Baconan Method Employed in g
 New Field

The Baconan Method Employed in a
 New Field.
 Who wrote the poems Of Burns? The question is raised, not by MT. W. E. Henley, but by a Scottish newspaper, which remarks that if the world has for three hundred years been deceived about Shakespeare, what is more like ly than that it has similarly been de- ceived for over hundred years about Robert Burns? The same reasoning, proceeds the paper which led us to sus- pect that Shakespeare never wrote the plays ascribed to him are applicable to Burns. Shakespeare had never been to college; neither had Burns. Shakes peare had never manifested his genius in any other field than poetry; neither had Burns. Shakespeare was some what disreputable Gas witness the deer stealing incidenD; so was Burns. These parallels are quite sufficient to arouse suspicion. But the Scotch pa per does not stop with the putting of the disturbing question; a theory is advanced. The poor peasant born on the 25th of January, 1759 could not
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ready to be eaten, on the ground.

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 The frozen meal stretches across the breadth of northern Asia. It never de- cays and Is accessible the moment the snow melts. The same heat which thaws the fruit brings into being the most prolific insect life in the world-- the mosquito swarms on the tundres No European can live there without a veil after the snow melts. The gun barrels are black with them, and clouds of them often obscure the sight.
 Thus the insect -eating birds have only to open their mouths to fill them with mosquitoes, and thus the presence of swarms of cliff chaffs, pipis and wagtails in this arctic region is acI counted for.-Pearson's Magazine.
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have been poet at all (says the pai- perl, but he had as one of his contem- poraries Adam Smith, the author of "The Wealth of Nations" Any one who takes the trouble to read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments" the 'Es- say on the Origin of Languages" and "The Wealth of Nations" will find there the same elegance and acuteness that distinguish the Poems of Burns" Can there be any doubt that the poems were produced by Adam Smith in the period of his retirement In Kirkcaldy and that for political and other reasons he ingeniously concealed the fact?- Pail Mall Gazette.
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STATEMENT OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY
CANVASSERS

STATEMENT OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY
CANYASSERS.
State Of Wisconsin, Vs~
County Of Iowa, COS
We. Ben Thomas, County Clerk, and j. d.
Jones, member of the county board, and +. 7.
Hooking, a justice of the peace, of said county,
therefor do hereby certify that the foregoing
and within tabular statement is correct and
true. as compiled from the original returns
made to The County Clerk of said county, and
as compared Herewith by us, and that from
such returns 1t appears. at the General Election
held in the several towns, wards, villages and
election districts of said county, on the Tuesday
next succeeding the first Monday in November
A. ID. 1902, being the fourth day of said mont h !:
The whole number OF votes given for amend
ment To Article xI OF the constitution was
one thousand six hundred and thirty-six
ll63el OF which number seven hundred and
amendment, and eight hundred and seventy
two 1871 votes were cast against said amend
ment.
The y hole number OF votes gwen for o mend
ment TO Section Of Article OF the coLstitu-
ton was two thousand, two hundred and
thirty-seven l2237l OF which number one
thousand and five Il005l votes were cast for
said amendment and one thousand, two hun
dred and thirty-two ll232l votes were cast
against said amendment
The whole number OF votes given for amend
mend TO Article XIII OF the constitution was
one thousand. four hundred and nlncty-four
ll49i OF which number eight hundred and four
1904 votes were cast for said amendment, and
six hundred and ninety lGg0l votes were cast
against said amendment
Witness our hands, at the office OF the County
Board OF Supervisors, at Dodgeville in said
county, this 9th day of November in the year
OF our Lord, one thousand niue hundred and
two.
Ben. THOMAS, County Clerk
J. d. JONES. Member Co. Board.
I. p. HOOKING, Justice OF the Peace
Board Of County Canvassers.
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REAL ESTATE
Enquire Of Fielder & Fielder, Attorneys

One dwelling one block west of st.
PauFs church, containing 6 rooms
and good cistern and well. This
property is especially adapted to
persons Of moderate means.
A fine dwelling. one block north of
st. Mary's church, has six rooms with
kitchen. This property is among
the best in the city for comfortable
home. -""''""
A small house on Hoard St, con-
veniently situated a desirable dwell
ing for a small family.
A fine new two story dwelling with
half acre lot; house has seven rooms,
a furnace and good cellar. For sale
cheap.
A two story dwelling with cistern
and two lots in the west part of city.
Can be bought cheap. Inquire for
full particulars.
A small cottage with four rooms
cistern, good barn and an acre of
land. Price low terms 90 suit pur-
chaser.
A splendid bargain; 3l5 acres, 6
miles south of Mineral Point, finely
improved, good location. Can sell
this cheap if taken at once.
A small cottage in south part Of
city containing four rooms with
GOOD cistern. Can be bought cheap.
Three choice building lots near high
school. Three lots will be sold sep
erately or together.
Dwelling with 212 acres OF ground
with large cistern and good barn, 2
blocks west Of st. Paul's church. This
property is in excellent repair and
can be purchased 1T Ii moderate figure
A fine new two story house with six
rooms, large cisterr end a new
barn in the southern part of the city.
This house can be bought for rea-
sonable figure.
A very desirable building lot one
block north OF central main street.
This Is one Of the best locations in the
city for home.
The Hosking residence, one block
north of Episcopal church.
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The Hosking residence, one block
north of Episcopal church.
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State Senator.

STATEMENT
teenth senatorial district at the election held the
succeeding the first Monday November 1902 being the h day of said
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Member of Congress.

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A very desirable building lot one
block north OF central main street.
This is one Of the best locations in the
city for home.
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Constitutional Amendments.

TABULAR STATEMENT of the votes given
for the several amendments to the Constitu-
ton, at the General Election held in the sew.
eral towns, wards, villages and election dis
tricts in the county of Iowa, on the Tuesday
next succeeding the first Monday in Novem-
Der, 1902 being the fourth day of said month
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1902-11-13

For sale cheap, cloth for ladies'
tailor made suits. A. F.. Dresden.
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New-York tribune., 1902-01-12
THE LIST OF COMlfITTEEMEN.
FATE OF TAMMANY MEN STILL
In THE DEPARTMENTS.

Aside from the temporary retirement OF Richard
Croker from the craftsmanship Of the finance com
mittee. the meeting of the executive committee In
the Wigwam yesterday tame enough The
list OF committeeman adopted for submission to the
general committee Is follows:
General Committee-GEoRGE NJ VAN HoEsE.N nrass
dent; JOHN MQUADE. treasurer.
Finance Committee-LEwIS NIXON. chairman.
Committee Resolutions and Correspondence-THOMAs
+. GRADY, chairman.
Law CommIttee-CHARLEsS H. KNoX chairman. ASA
BIRD GARDINER. vice-chairman.
Printing Committee-JOHN W. KELLER chairman
Committee Public Meetngs-THoMAs c. T. GRAIN
chairman.
Committee on Municipal Anars-RANDoIPa GUGsEN
HEiIMBR ROBERT A VAN WICK and twenty-five
Others.
Committee Law-CtARLES II. KNOX chairman.
ASA BIRD GARDINER. vice-chairman.
The foregoing. with the regular list OF Assem-
bly, district leaders and the chairman Daniel F.
Mcmahon, constitute the executive committed
The standing committee of the general commit
tee. made up. includes the same committees on
municipal affairs and law as the executive COM
mittee. -
The Chair asked If there was any further bus,
ness, and Senator Bernard F. Martin said that
protection of the Civil Service were in ianeer ~
dismissal by the heads of departments Charles
II. Knox, chairman or the law committee said.
You could not do q favor rbar 80
have every leader send me detailed statarosnt -
the facts in any such case as YOU Suggest ana
assure you that the law committee will do an In
It's power 10 protect all Democrats in the munich
pal service In their rights under the law An
plause.) zap
motion by Senator Martin was nevsrtbalass
passed giving the law committee power to look
then made report on behalf of the Committee 1 on
rules. oii
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NORMAN E. MACK ECSTATIC.
SUCH A NOBLE. UNsELFIsH MAN IS CROKER,
THINKING ONLY OF HIS PARTY's GOOD.

SUCH A NOBLE. UNSELFISH MAN is CROKER,
THINKING ONLY OF HIS PARTY'S GOOD.
Buffalo, jan IL (SpecaD-"Quite a thing
wasn't it?' the first comment made by
Norman E. Mack, Democratic National Commit
teeman tonight. when asked for his views on
the effect of Richard Croker's retirement
leader of Tammany Hall in favor OF Lewis
Nixon. II sent out a statement while ago. he
continued. "Since then I have had account
of the meeting read to me- Mr. Croker made
quite a speech I'll tell you what think about
this retirement If the Democratic papers of the
city of New-York will support Lewis Nixon
leader OF Tammany Hail. and give him cor
dial support as the Republican press give their
leaders, there Is no doubt that he will be sue
cessful the leader of the organization.
The failure Of the Democratic papers there TO
give Mr.: Croker the support that leader Of
a party must naturally have in these days made
his leadership. OF course. very difficult and
almost impossible. They succeeded in prejudic
ing the minds OF the voters which. OF course.
from my point of view was unjust and uncalled
for. 1 speak. OF course. as a friend of Mr..
Croker. political friend Of Mr.. Croker; for
believe that Mr.. Croker is honest. straight
forward man in his political dealings with men.
If the selection Of Mr.. Nixon will bring back
20 Tammany Hall or the Democratic organiza-
ton Of New-York the support Of all Democratic
newspapers Of that great hotbed OF Democracy
there is no doubt that Mr.. Croker acted wisely
and generously when he resigned the leader
ship. l think Mr.. Croker Is entitled TO the
spect OF all Democrats for his broadnindedness
In this respect. because very few men have ever
been known to surrender the position which Mr..
Croker held, and which he could have continued
TO hold during the remainder OF his life IL he
had seen fit 10 do so.
Yet he surrendered ii for the good OF his
party. I've always admired Mr. Croker. and I
admire him now more than ever Democrat
and as man. think IL is a wise, generous
and patriotic act, considering all OF the circum-
iG M hat ba ac,tIf will
prove TO be a good thing for the party Mr..
Croker is a bigger man than he ever was. OF
course, he may feel a little Sore for awhile II
VIII be said that he had to get out that this is
a result of the party defeat last fall, and this
will be done to injure him in the eyes OF the
Democrats. Mr.. Croker. however, is an old
man, and l know personally he has wanted TO
get out This will bring big relief to him. In
a little while he will be OF the happiest men
in the world. know Mr.. Nixon; he is a big
man, a broad man. and I've doubt that's why
he chosen
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Hill men In the next State convention, and the
easiest thing he could think of was TO resign
again."
When do you expect Croker will be back.
running things in Tammany Hall?"
Just as soon he thinks Tammany has a
fair chance to win. ! expect it will not be soon
er than four years from now. The people are
not going soon to forget the way they
robbed in the last four years. Mr.. Lows ad-
ministration promises gratifying results in the
way of clean and honest government at re-
duced cost to the taxpayers. There is little
doubt that the fusionists will be successful for
some years TO come. Tammanys days are num-
bered. The people of this city want a Demo
cratic organization. but they won't stand for
Tammany Hail. There is nothing that the men
now in control of Tammany Hall do that
will be accepted by the people as being honest
and truthful They have deceived the people,
and they cannot be trusted.
What do you think of Nixon as a leader?"
81 haven't anything to say against Mr.. Nixon.
The voice will be Nixon's but the hand will be
the hand of Croker
New-York tribune., 1902-01-12
PARIS.
THE FRANCo-PRUssIAN WAR. ACCORDING
TO GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES.

Copyright 1902: BY Tribune Association)
IsY CABLE TO THE TnIsuYE.l
Paris, Jan. 1.-THE official statement of the
Ministry of Finance shows still further de-
crease of national revenue, the receipts for De-
cember being $1.654. 1868 below the estimates
and S4 OBJ 900 below the receipts for December
Of 1900. This makes for the year 1901 a
deficit of S23,930,000 in regard to the esti-
mates and S34, ,530.440 below the actual re-
ceipts Of the year 1900 but the real situation is
even worse. because besides this falling off in
revenue there is also increased expenditure,
so far known to be S12.3OO.000. not included in
the Budget to be accounted for. so that. taking
this latter sum into consideration, the actual
deficit below the estimates for the year 1901
amounts to the enormous sum Of $36.130.OOO.
The three items which indicate the most
marked decrease in revenue the customs
receipts which fell off S6.2OO.0O0. mainly ow
ing to diminished wine imports consequent
upon the plentiful vintage. the new liquor law,
which is responsible for the shortage of S13.
100000 in the excise revenue, and the new
sugar law. which caused decline in receipts
of SS 200 0O0.. This total shortage of $31. $780,
600 from the estimates is the largest deficit
ever yet recorded for any year in France
during period of peace.
Leopold Mabilleau, director of the Musee So
III,
the Ministry of Public instruction to report
the proposed French school of application for
French scientific students In the United States
sailed to-day for Havre on the Savoie. Ac
cording to present arrangements, Baron d'Es-
tournelles de Constant. Minister Plenipotentiary
who, together with Leon Bourgeois, the
French delegate to the recent Hague Confer
ence, will sail for New-York the Touraine
on February g. and will proceed directly to
Washington, where he will be the guest Of
Jules Cambon, and thence go to Chicago to de-
liver the address on behalf OF France on Wash
ington's Birthday.
The first five parts of the official history of the
franco-German War. just published by the
French War Department deals with events to
August 4, 1870. the day of the battle of weissen-
burg, and for the first time gives to the world
the French version of the struggle. 1t throws
much new light upon the campaign and is an
invaluable supplement the German official
history. which had the disadvantage of being
written while prominent leaders were still alive
-hich prevented publication Of the whole truth.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-12
HOT BLAST FROM SHEEHAN N
"THE VOICE MAY BE NIXoN's. But THE
HAND WILL BE THE HAND
OF CROKER"

Perhaps no one is better qualified to sneak ~
Richard Crokers probable future course in noli-
tics than John c. Sheehan leader OF the Grea tay
New-York Democracy who was tricked out of
the leadership Of Tammany Hall by Mr.. Croker
himself in the summer of 1897, on Mr.. Crolar.s
return from England
Mr.. Sheehan was seen last night at his head
quarters. the Pequod Club. in the IXth Assam
bly, District Mr.. Sheehan is an undemonstra
tive man usually but when The Tribune re-
porter told him about Mr.. Croker's retirement "
he nearly had laughing fit
Resigned again, has her said Mr. Sheeban y
derisively, "and put Mr. Nixon in as leader. has
he? Well, with Mr.. Croker in Vantage and
with Lewis Nixon, nice man though he is In the
saddle in Tammany Hail. the voice that bossas
the actions of Tammany may be the voice of
Nixon, but the hand will be the hand of Croker
Don't make any mistake about that"
You do not regard Mr.. Croker as being sin
cere. them" he was asked
"Mr. Croker" replied Mr.. Sheehan, has no
intention whatever of being honest and straight
forward with Tammany Hall or with the neon,e
of this city. He is constituted that he can
not be. Croker sees the young men focking
away from Tammany Hall into the Greater
New-York Democracy and other organizations
and. knowing that Tammany Hall will have a
hard time of il for the next two or four wars
has decided TO do just what he did in IS95-that +
is, get away to England This is the third time
he has found 1t convenient to get out of the
city when he discovered that he was in hole
The result OF his leaving here will be to stimu-
late the growth of the Independent Democratic
organizations.
What effect will it have on the next Demo
cratic State convention?'
None particularly" said Mr. Sheehan
Croker knew that he would be whipped by the