Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-11-16
GLEANINGS.

GLEANINGs. N
A woman IN France is under
arrest for burning her husband to
death IN an oven.
The largest lake in the world
is Lake Superior, which is traly an
infant sea, being four hundred and
thirty miles long.
More than 10000 trees, shrubs
and herbaceous plants were planted
in the New York Central Park dur
ine last wear. The carriage drive
now completed is about eighty miles
in length, and walks, twenty miles.
The prospective Empress Of
Russia, the Princess Dagmar of
Denmark, is only IS. She has
pretty eyes and beautiful teeth.
They talk of calling the new
British American confederation
Canada. The reason given is that
it will take a portion of the names
OF the two sections to be embraced
in the new confederation-Canada
and Arcadia.
The Empress Of France is sui
XIV NOWADAYS, and they say that
she and the Emperor don't get along
as smoothly as some married people
without titles.
Ann Goldinc. 4 New \ ork APP
pie woman of many years standing,
was found dead last Saturday. Her
room contained a large pillow-case
full Of coppers and some silver, the
result OF thirty years saving
The New Workers are going TO
send to Grants army 1000 barrels
Of apples and $4,000 turkeys, for
Thanksgiving
A letter from Rome says that
recently thirteen piclpocl1cts were
taken mp by the papal police AMI
brought to the lookup. The intel
Iigeut officer who superintends the
station released one Of them, on the
ground that thirteen was such an
anlncky number.
An enterprisine woman is IN
custody in New York city on a
charge Of robbing sixty boarding
houses.
"A Vermont lady having had
her husband imprisoned for four
wears for bigamv, is now Forthcoming
for divorce. This uses him up.
A lady in Taunton, Mass, re
Gently applied to grocer for a
pound of oblong tea.
A Paris correspondent of the
London Post says theladies Of Paris
are now dyeing their hair red, that
being the fashionable color.
An apprentice to anlronfound
er III England, who lately pleaded
guilty TO having absented himself
for one day from his work. was SEN
fenced to one month'simprisonment
with hard labor
A Polish nobleman in Eng
| land, who went OF crrands for {,
/ living, recently hing himself.
No man can vote in Massachu-
sets unless he can read the Consti-
tuition in the English language and
write his name. This ought to be
the law everywhere.
st. Peters Church in Rome
will contain $4,000 people.
A million and a quarter Of oy-
ste-s are daily swallowed in Paris.
There are now three female
American sculptorS, to wit: Miss
Uosmer, Miss Stephens, and Mrs.
Freeman now in Italy, who is Just
becoming known to fame.
"A wife in San Francisco lately
pu- a petition for divorce in the
court on the ground that her hus-
band was ''contoundcd fool" The
court wouldn't admit the plea, be
cause almost every married man
would be liable TO the same impu-
fation. Did you ever,
Major Fraser, we'll known to
all Parisians, is Just dead. He was
an odd sticll-used coffin for his
bo.lstead, and slept in it regularly.
The Oregon legislature has au-
thorized the issuing of 100000 in
Ssalc bonds for bounties to help re
crujt 1000 soldiers for service on
The borders OF that State.
According to California pa
Per they have 4 queer currency in
OwenSviie-acorns. Business men
got along very well until the Indi-
ans began to lay mp their winter
stores, whom the enrrency became
deranged. and Il panic cnsued.
Tho Sunday School statistics OF
the NJ L. Charch Of California and
Nevada Territory. show 4. I69 srhnI-