Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-03
FACTS IN FEW LINES

iSh SultduS harem ana gets uidITIeu
receives a dowry Of $4,000.
a new paper called Chinese Public
Opinion, written in English and man
aged by Chinese, has appeared in Pc
kin.
Saskatchewan, Canada, will some day
be the greatest wheat growing country
In the world owing to the peculiarly
advantageous conditions Of its soil.
New Yorks Geological park, in the
Bronx. contains the largest collection
of any park in the world. 1t has more
than 1000 specimens Of beasts. birds
and reptiles.
40 iron ore is mined in the province
OF British Columbia The only at
tempt thereat, at QuaSino sound, Van
cOuver island, has been found unproft-
able and abandoned.
1t is calculated that 1000 persons
make a living In London By begging
and that their average income amounts
to about 80 shiIIings a week, or more
than 100000 year.
Willow baskets represent a prosper
Gus industry, which was formerly
scattered IN enormous expectation,
chiefly to Germany, is the work Of sew
eraI hundred poor families Of Italy.
There are on the membership roll Of
a church in Pyle, Wales, twelve people
whose ages average cighty-twO and
half years, the Youngest Of the group
being scvcnty-scven and the oldest
niucty-threc
Since the fall Of 1906 no bacon. pork
or fat backs from the United States
have been allowed In Germany, and
for six years the importation Of can
ned meats into Germany has been for
hidden by law.
British India has 8G,912 miles of
telegraph and cable wires in opera
ton. Since 1923 the annual earn
ings Of the cables between India and
Europe show profits of from 81 ,OOO,-
900 to $1,2OOOOO.
A seed store in COrtIandt street, New
York, has grass plots shipped daily
from Jersey City. The plots consist
Of shallow boxes filed with earth, IN
are sold by the foot
Tennyson. Gladstone, Darwin, Abra-
ham Lincoln, McndeIssohn, Edgar AL
Ian Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes and
Edward Fitzgerald were all born in
1909. Lincoln and Darwin were born
on the same day, Feb. u.
During the Cranky Comm ceIebra-
ton of the Fourth some boys took the
minister's only carriage from his sta
bic and managed to raise it to the top
of the schoOlhOuse, where it stood
throughout the day bestriding the edu-
Cational ridgepole.
In Norway as well as In the other
Scandinavian countries the govern
ments assist their fishermen by loans
which are returnabIe in ten years, first
installment payable on the third year,
then annually, with interest. until the
whole amount is paid back.
The French gardening methods, by
which an acre of ground is made to
yield $2,433 to 5000 per annum by
the forcing hotbed process, has been
introduced in England. Vegetables are
produced all the year and are forced
by steady temperature of 90 de-
greCs.
The new electric Fastnet light off
Cape Clear, Ireland, is of 100000 can
die power. The cost was $4,000
This focal plane of the flash is $50
feet above high water, and theoretic-
ally 1t Is visible sixteen miles. The
foundations of the lighthouse are
twenty feet thick
TIL recently the proprietor of an
old time hotel in Warwickshire, Eng
land, used to invite all his customers
to accompany him and his wife to the
service at the parish church on Sun
day mornings. On returning each Gus
toner was invited to partake of re
freshmcnts by the hospitable landlord
free of charge.
Automatic savings banks on the
principle of the penny in the slot ma
chimes have been installed in all the
Berlin schools. The children receive
numbered counters in return for the
coins dropped in. When they have
collected ten of these counters they
take them to the schoolmaster, who
presents them with savings bank
books. in which the amounts are en-
tered.
Bernard ShaN's wife is a suffragist
and marched the other day in London.
Her husband told her that he would
get into the procession, too, if she
would push a bath chair in which he
would sit He said that the funniest
thing he saw in the procession was n
man with a baby marching next to q
woman carrying 4 poodle dog, Only
one baby. and that carried by man"
he said. only one dog, and that car
ried by a woman"
King Edward has recently shown
that he takes interest in every phase
of his peoples life by the announce
ment that he has approved a special
order of merit for cricketers who
achieve the highest ambition of all
INSTRUMENTATION TO represent Eng
land against other countries. The
badge to be Worn on a dark blue cap
will in the future hall marksShe inter
national a-ipl-pta,. will no