Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-04-07

was lately checked OF the books Of
the British navy.
The census canyassers once repor-
ted exactly 450 males and $50 females
in Unity, n. H.
A German lady has received her
diploma as Doctor of Dental Surgery
in Philadelphia.
Thieves in Norfolk, Va, recently
| carried off an iron safe and two large
steam engines
A lady died lately iG Worcester
County whose sole heirs consisted of
| forty cousins.
Willard's, the metropolitan, and
National, took in 81 600 day during
Inauguration week.
A land certificate for twelve hun
dred acres sold in San Antonia, Tex
as, for twelve cents per acre.
One hundred and fifty-one COM
| initials were made to the Jersey City
prison during February
A Londoner kept two wives for
twenty-seven years without letting
either know the secret.
Five hundred men began work
upon the famous Stevens battery, at
Hoboken, n. J., Oh the I'd inst.
The London Missionary Associa-
ton has purchased BuddE ist temple
at Pekin for medical dispensary.
The English papers have just dis
covered that Reverdy Johnson mis-
represents the American people.
One of the numerous "Washing-
tons Headquarters''-th at Rocky
Hill, n. J.,-has just bee sold To
Mr.. Hill.
| The towns in central Massachusetts
are talking about electing female
members on their school committees
| this month.
Three hundred vessels arrived at
the port of New York during Febru-
| ary, and two hundred and thirty
one departed fom it.
A German claims to have invented
perfectly translucent metallic sub
stance, which will work into orna-
ments of rare beauty.
Al Darlington, Wis, a ghost array
ed i'll black terrified the whole viii
lage. 1t turned out an American
version of LA Somnambula."
An American woman, cighty-nine
years old. recently passed through
Boston on foot, going from Connect
icut to Marblehead, Mass.
| A Baptist minister in Texas, and
graduate of Brown University, u-
eeived but two hundred dollars f0r
himself and family last year.
| In Vienna q man was lately i'm
prisoned for three months for saying
something hard of the Empress,
Maria Theresa, who died in 1850.
Two hundred thousand to- drums
are manufactured in Paris every
year. Young Frenchmen are par
ticularly fond ofmilitary toys.
| A thousand and forty dollars in
gold pieces of the year l795,Or there
abouts, We're recently disposed Of in
Trenton, N. j. after being boarded
for "a years.
| A young man in Dayton, o., ad-
| dicted to the foolish habit of "read-
ing himself asleep" came very near
| burning a house up few evenings
since.
| A little schoolgirl in Norwich,
Conn, gave as the definition of the
| word happy: "To feel as if you
wanted to give all your Things to
your little sister,
| The children of John H. Ingalls,, of
Sheffield, VT, six boys and four girls,
the oldest sixty-eight years of age
and the youngest forty-eight, weigh
in the aggregate 2,OOG pounds.
NJ. Gachard, French millionaire,
| who died recently at Bochell, made
his original fortune by selling fish
bait. 1t was worth no more than
worms, but was well advertised
In the stomach of a crocodile cap
| tured at Agra We're found bracelets.
| anklets, and rings in considerable
number, testifying to the fondness
of the saurian for Indian girls.
A man in England 'heaped Goals
| of fire" on his hearth, and with
deliberation sat down on them. He
| revelled in this luxury until he was
quite consumed. He is supposed to
have been mad.
When the German people began to
buy Uuited States bonds they were
sold for forty cents on dollar. Now
| they are eighty. The Austrian
| are now down to forty.
An old Brahmin widow burned
herself with her husbands corpse
some time since in India, and the
English Governor has sent all the
men engaged in the "suttee" to
prlSti for seven years.
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land, counting female weaver.
squeezed her hand so hard as to break
one Of her fingers. The woman sued
her gentle lover and recovered five
pounds damages.
The twenty-three remaining yete-
rams of the war of 1872, residing i'm
New York, the youngest of whom is
seventy-twO Year, old live i'm garrets.
alms-houses, and one in the cabin OF
an old canal boat, in abject want.
A cOlored man in Bridegroom.
Conn, recently lifted keg OF nails
weighing l06 pounds, by the chime
with his teeth, held it out i'm hori,
zontal position full minute, and
won a bet of ten cents.
In the garnet of beggar who died
a few weeks ago at Hamburg, there
We're found three thousand dollars in
silver and seven one thousand dollar
United States bonds. The Republic.
of Hamburg was his heir
The young ladies Of Keithsburp in
caucus assembled, have put their
foot down." and resolved to go To no
balls or parties where "everybody
is cordially invited {" and where men
smoke, drink and quarrel.
a week ago, in Manchester, N. II
man worth one hundred thousand
dollars earned twenty-five cents
by carry ing home fowl for another
man. He said he thought himself