Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1901 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

Fourteen women received the doctor's degree last year at the University of Zurich. Congress lias adopted the “ilow-sand system” of filtration for the water supply of Washington. . Twenty Rio Janeiro policemen attacked ■in unurmed man on a recent night, cut him with sabers, fired thirty revolver shots at him and finally completed the cowardly assault by putting a bullet in his brnhi ns ho lay helpless in a doonvuy where he had taken refuge. Mrs. Charles Weed o 6 Bound Bro|ok, N. J., owns the most valuable cat in the world, a superb French Angora, and $5,000 would not buy him. Napoleon I. is the name of this famous pet, and its silken coat is of the richest golden hue. The beauty occupies luxurious npartqieuts. Cattlemen in South Dakota are generally agreed that It is time to abandon the present method of brnndiug cattle as cruel. In New Zealand they have a composition which is used to make an easily distinguishable mark. It is applied with a cold iron, destroying the hair or hide, but not causing pain to the animal-