Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-19
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

In Syria sheep are fattened on null
berry leaves.
The HoOsac Tunnel lacks 10, 693 feet
OF completion.
bloomington, H., has bonded
| debt of $500, 600.
Jefferson county, H., is rayaSed
by hog cholera.
There are 1900 gypsies prowling
over this country.
Fredonia, \. y, boasts horse
for1y-siN years old.
In New York oranges retail at
| eighteen for quarter.
The little city of Scranton, Pa, has
four post-oflices.
Annawan, H., is going to have an
| 5, 600 school-house.
Labrador mosquitoes c.re larger
than their jersey cousins.
Cincinnati has had prize fight
between two little blacks.
Several ottcrs Were caught recently
near Binghampton, n. Y.
One hundred and forty Swedes
nave recently Joined the Mormons.
Tickets 10 the Boston Peace Jubi-
lee Will be sold for s., S3, and s..
Batavia, H., sends 900 boxes of
yeast cakes 20 Boston every month.
The mines OF Montana Territory
have already yielded S92, 900, 600.
Boston house rents are from ten TO
nifty per cent, higher than last year.
At the entrance to New York Gem
trail Park velocipedes are kept TO let.
In Detroit velocipedes are let on
the same terms as a horse and buggy.
Over eleven hundred persons died
from snake bites in India last year.
Merchants in Binghamton, n. Y,
brand advertisements on their dogs
brooklyn, n. Y, has forbidden the
use of Velocipedes on the sidewalks.
y Louisiana planter raises all the
tea he needs for the use of his family.
Grant has taken n cottage at Long
Branch for the season.
1t cost General Dix $50, ,00e a wear
beyond his salary 20 live in Paris.
Mr.. Tobacco Lorillard is buving
factories in Virginia and Carolina.
''Strikes" appear To be epidemic
this spring.
-Four locomotive works in the
country are i'll bankruptcy
The Orphans Home at Davenport.
Iowa, has about five hundred in
mates.
The Marchioness of Hastings. it is
stat ed, is already engaged To be mar
ried again.
1t il declared to be encouraging
crime for lady TO ask her hus-
band TO hook her dress.
Indiana furnishes more criminal
horrors than any other State in the
Union.
North Carolina robbers dig up and
transplant To their own use growing
apple-trees.
Thirty-four persons in the Indiana
Insane Asylum at Indianapolis be-
came insane from the excessive use
of tobacco.
There are 14S, 900 shade trees in
Paris-principally the elm, plane,
horse-chestnut, maple, linden, aca-
cia, and the alianthus.
Manchester, n. H., authorities al
low no one on Sunday 20 smoke Il
pipe or cigar upon the puolic pave
ment, within one mile Of the City
Hall.
Three whales have lately been
taken in Long Island Sound, from
which the captors obtained s., 900 of
oil and 81 900 worth of bone.
a Senator says he was called out OF
bed three times in one night by office
seekers in Washington.
The shortest route to China - via
the Union Pacific Railroad, is already
posted in railway stations.
\ grand jury IL Georgia presented
the late Legislature of that State for
1 s4gslr ilE
themselves nine dollars day.
New Orleans has a sensation i'm the
discovery of Sl50, 900 in bonds slowed
away behind the plastering in the
Auditors office.
Within distance of two miles on
the James River, in Virginia, there
| Is uhlhpfoVeu WaterpOwer enough
TO carry one hundred large factories.
At n funeral in New Bedford, sun
day, hearse was dipensed with and
/ the coffin was carried a mile and
| half on the shoulders of the bearers.
y Boston minister says that "when
minister Is compelled to play second
| fiddle TO tenor, it is about time
to go West.n
| An Illinois clergyman has resigned
| his paStorate, because he was unable
] Church from dancing.
| 1t is proposed to build tunnel un-
| der the west end of Baltimore so "a
! 20 facilitate the passage of railroad
| trains through the city.
! \ little Sheehan at Troy, was, on
| Thursday, hauled out ola kettle of
| boiling water and soused in pail OF
ice water, ard it's an open question
| whether the child was scalGed or
| frozen to death.
| The wedding day of Edwin Booth
/ and Miss Mary McNicker will be
some time in next june. This is the
| ending Of the Romeo and Juliet, and
/ that's the difference between real
| life and play.
| Even the everlasting hills refuse
| To maintain their proverbial stabili-
/ ty. Land slides in the Rocky MouH-
| tains are becoming uaaccountably
/ frequent.
y Georgia paper knows man
/ who went all the way from Cassvilie
! To Atlanta, some twenty miles. On
/ his return he looked solemn with the
weight Of garnered wisdom, and
said : "If the world was as big
/ tother way IA it was that, it was "A
! whopper -
y plan for cutting canal
through the valley OF the Garonne.
France, to unite the Mediterranean
and the Bay of Biscay, is receiving