Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-07-03
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Celtic literature is TO be taught at
: Cambridge University.
We get our California papers now
in 2 weeks time.
Northern iowa is Increasing in
wealth and population 25 per cent.
annually.
The Florida Legislature Is in extra
session 10 consider the cession of
/ West Florida toAlaRama.
Over lo0, 900 mackerel were taken
ct Eastman, Mass, last week. They
Eet.od s. 600.
The Ossergat0re Romano says that
/ Catholicism Is destined to dominate
ali other creeds in the United States
a colony of Poles propose to settle
on tract of $4,000 acres in North
| Carolina.
Some ofthe religious papers are at
tacking smoking cars" on railways.
Lobsters are unusually plenty at
! Cage Cod this season, and sell for
| five cents each.
An Oregon paper thinks the head
| quarters of American papers will be
on the Pacific coast.
! The Jews are being prosecuted at
Ronmani. and have been expelled
| from several communes.
y negro, lecturing in Georgia, as
serts that Adam was yellow man.
The Buffalo Express heads an ar
| tlcie: More about our pudding
headed Justices"
San Francisco is not yet quarter
Of century old and has $50, 600 in
habitants.
| y stuffed eat placed upon a straw
| berry bed, viii, it is said, frighten
away the birds which destroy the
| fruit.
Nearly all the Society OF Friends
IN Europe have discarded the pecu-
liar dress of the sect.
Iowa has increased In population
95o, 900 during the past twenty-nine
years. She has now 200, ,O0o, and is
entirely out of debt.
j. Lewis Moser, editor OF the Iron
ton Enterprise, has been appointed
and confirmed of Receiver of Public
Moneys at the 1ronton, Mo-, Land
office.
One of the Paris papers, in the lack
of important news of the kind which
it is permitted to publish, gives list
of prominent Frenehmen who are
| baId-headed.
Teachers are to be employed to in
struct the Chinese girls I'm San Fran
| cisco, where they are rapidly in
creasing.> the work is undertaken
! by the churches.
On an opening night at ali opera
house in Nevada, AN enthusiastic ad-
| mirer OF an actress threw an $50 sill
yer brick ut her.
| A man woke up at a boarding
house in Louisville on Monday
morning, saw a burglar examining
| his pockets and smoking q cigar
| Eight horse-slaughtering establish
msnts at Stettin, Prussia, turned out
| last year 500 carcasses and 320, 900
| pounds ofmeat.
There are in London 5000 paupers,
and there is a steady increase. IL
costs something like ten million
| pounds sterling annually to relieve
| them.
y young lady spends part Of each
evening iii wandering about the
streets of Newark N. :, and writing
upon the pavements, in bold letters
IN chalk, warnings to the heimpenitent.
a very superior class of emigrants
| Is now arriving at New York q large
portion of them being Norwegians.
Il gigantic bronze frog is suggested
as an artistically grotesque design
| for the fountain in the Boston Conn
mon frog pond.
No fewer than 1900 copies of
Louisa NJ. Alcott's Little Womenn
have been sold, and the fourteenth
thousand is in press.
From an old Georgia newspaper of
1919, has been eXhumed ar adyer-
tisement of Mr.. William HI. Seward
as d schoolmaster at MilIedgeviIIe.
a pair of twins joined after tho
Slamese twin fashion were born in
Londen last month. They did not
live.
Among recent announcements is a
book ON alfred the Create by
Thomas Hughes, author of t'Tom
Brown"
Professor Hitchcock is preparing
his report on the gold fields In New
hampshire, which will be laid be-
fore the present Legislature.
George Ellis, of Cincinnati. In the
possessor OF 81 greenback, register
ed class a, No. l. He values il at
$50.
An exchange viciously says:"Spur-
geon'S nose is become matter of
London newspaper comment. 1t is
| as much red as his sermons.n
Both of Victor Hugo's sons have
been indicted for violations of the
press laws, and VIII probably be i'm
prlsoned for year or two.
Jay Cooke, through his agent, Rice
Harper, has just purchased 1,7S2
acres or land at Duluth, for $1,000.
Karl Blind, German exile and
London correspondent of so many
European and American papers, has
amassed handsome fortune by his
literary labors.
no candidate or speaker belonging
TO the Government party was allow
Ell to make speech at the late alec-
tion meetings in Paris. The audience
invariably hooted and groaned i'm
the most terrific manner, as soon as
they took the floor.
Illinois is the most thoroughly or
ganized Sunday-school State In the
Union. Every county has its conven-
ton, and in fifty counties each town.
ship has an organization, and sew
eral townships have precinct organ.
izations.
A claim against the Mexican Gov
ernment. for S185, 900 was sold In New
York last week for SO. The buyer
proposes to ''file for referenoen
against the coming Of the milIen-
MUM.