Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-08-28


ed with nine children in on night
Good words for the young-"din.
ner's ready"
Free bathing rooms for women
nave been established in PhiIadel-
phia.
Ii you are buying a carpet for
durability choose small figures.
Mississippi expects $40, 900 900
cotton crop.
South Carolina has begun to har-
vest Its rice crop.
Senator Sherman has been buying
land in Minnesota.
The grasshoppers of Kentucky
nave filthy, and, to the farmers,
expensive vice. They chew tobacco.
John Bell of Tennessee is in failing
health and there is no hope of his
permanent recovery.
Chicago complains of the fearful
smell of several millions of dead
| rats.
A century plantn less than twen-
W years old has just bloomed in
Louisiana.
| Colonel Byron, one of the recent
cuban fillibusters, is now an assist
ant revenue assessor in Brooklyn.
An eight and half foot Chinese
giant and his wife of corresponding
longitudinal proportions have arriv-
ed IN the country
Besides the fact that ice is higher
than water, there is another curious
thing about it which most people do
not know, perhaps-namely, its
| purity. A lump of ice melted will
become pure distilled water.
The stagnant pools left by the
great Texan Hood, and the rank
vegetation rotting in the sun, create
horrid stencil in the Colorado val
ley, and disease and death are rife.
a child ten months old came to
It's death in Boston on Friday last
| from taking repeated doses OF lauda-
mum, which had been. dispensed by
careless drug clerk for paregoric.
Among other wonderful things
for which the Great Eastern is
! celebrated are her remarkable hatch
ways-she lays telegraphic cables
New Orleans Times.
A hen in Portland, Me-, laid an
egg the other day, which was six
inches and three-quarters in circunl-
| ference, eight inches long and weigh
ed quarter of a pound.
A Cleveland newspaper recently
advertised that it would send a copy
Tree to any person sending "club of
ten." A young lady in the country
sent IL the ten spot of clubs.
Newton Dennis was indiscreet
enough to tamper with the affections
OF Rappahannock, Va, young lady
who had two fierce brothers. Conse-
quently Newton is a corpse.
a young gentleman nofLocansport
Ill. has sued barber for spelling his
moustache in trying to color it. and
laid his damages at $50.
A New Orleans woman has been
arrested for throwing a pail of boil
ing water over a man. She mistook
him for her husband.
Humboldt, ,Cuvier, the first Brunei.
Wellington, Marshais Soult and New
and Sir Thomas Lawrence, were ali
born in 1869. Arkwright's spinning
jenny bears the same date. Truly
as commemorative year 1869 is re,
narkable.
A Young Canadian girl who ran
away from home and went to Detroit
has been arrested for vaprarcv
When offered her liberty in case size
would go back home she showed her
good taste by the following reply :
Not any, Mister 1 like the States
IN prison better than Canada at lib
erty. III take my chances on this
side"
AS the first step toward the remo-
val of the Washington Capital to the
MISSISSIPPI Valley, the West will, at
the next session of Congress, protest
against any further appropriations
for government buildings in Wash.
ington.
When L was printer in CIeve-
land," said Artemus Ward one day.
the woman said [ was too homeiy
to live, and turned their backs on
me: Now that Pm travelling around
with an unparalleled show, they
would elope with me to Utah if I'd
ask them.n
stranger will you try hand with
us at poker?" "Thank YOU. gentle
men, but there are seventeen reasons
why L cannot accommodate You lust
now" Seventeen reasons for not
playlng cards! Pray, what are they?u
Why, the first is, / haven't any
money" stop. that's enough:
never mind the other sixteen"
A gentleman inquired of an hum
bic HIbernian the reason why his
countrymen are so apt to make bulls.
IN tell you that, your honor ~ re-
piled Paddy. 1--WE never make
bulls in our own language il is
when we speak English that we do
II; SO, your homer, they are English
bulls not Irish.n
A lady asked noted doctor ifhe did
not think the small bonnets that the
ladies wore had tendency to nrodnce
congestlon of the brain. "Oh, no.D
ne replied, ladies that have brains
don't wear them.n
The Newcastle CEng.) Journaf
states that young woman has died
III that town from .eprous disease
communicated by .be chipnon sbe
wore, which is supposed to have con-
tanned some Of the hair known to be
supplied to chignon makers from the
cemeteries and hospitals of tile
East. WIG
The foundations of big dry goods
house at Omaha were washe ed recent
~, by smart shower, and the
Whole structure came down in q pile
burylng and nearly DESTROYING sos
900 worth of goods.
The Philadelphia committee. bav-
ing in charge the preparations for the
centennial celebration July 4. 1876
and wishing TO have a coIiseun,
which will held 100. 600 persons and
a chorus and orchestra st!2 600 haua
anplfp1 tn tho