Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-06-26
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

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the Niagara Fall hotels.
\ farmer III western Texas has {.
pasture OF 10000 acres.
The Agassiz work OF Brazil has
been translated into French.
General Prim has offered Mazzini
au asylum in Spain.
Thirty trunks are said To contain
the wardrobe Of cur new Minister 10
England.
y philosopher has d. covered that
men don't object 10 he oyerrated eX.
cept by assessors.
France has Increased her public
debt SSGi, zoo, ,000 since 1852, but that
is nothing TO what Uncle Sam has
done.
| Senator Casserly is said to be worth
So, coo, 600.
Ex-SeeEetary Seward is going to
California this summer.
| General Grant is credited with the
| epigramatic remark that 'offlce-scek-
ing was fast becoming one of the
industries of this counti.y :"
The first day LITTLE boy went to
school the teacher asked HIM if he
could spell. eyes sir.n "Well how
do you spell boy ?" "Oh, just as
other folks do.n
~ told the fools to settle-for [
said the CLERKS would take their coats.
! the lawyers their shirts, and if they
| got into your honor's court you'd
skin 'em ~
The Boston Advertiser suggests
the following subjects for chromos:
'"The Bsrber''-after Beard "The
Ninersn-after Cole; "The Walk
Home'-after Church.
\ lady dressed in the latest style
was recently observed in our streets
endeavoring to walk perfectly up
right. She attracted a good deal of
| attention.
The minister who boasted ofpreach-
ing without notes don't wish to be
understood to refer to greenbacks.
| Philadelphia at some expense pro-
cured English sparrows TO kill her
worms, but the sparrows went off
and killed the worms, in the sur
rounding country.
Haney has got out an unusually
spicy number of the Comic Monthly.
The June Monthly contains carica-
ture OF the great Boston Peace Jubi-
lee, which will attract universal at
tention. The number is filled with
wit and humOr.
Talleyrand's prophecy in regard to
the controlling influence of North
america and Northern Germany is
| attracting much attention at-New-
| buryport, Mass, where the house in
which the great diplomatist resided
is still pointed out, along with that
in which Louis Philippe dwelt.
On a certain occasion of an eclipse
in Virginia, colored individual be-
came greatly elated. "Bress de
Lord ~ said he, "de niggers time hab
come at last, and we's gwine to hab
q black sum-
y lady living in Louisville, who
weighs 200 pounds, has lived for the
past two months without eating the
least food. The attending physicians
can give no aid "a. she suffers neither
pain nor hunger.
In Paris, Tennessee, this week, n
negro girl fell on her face. a pipe
stem in her mouth was thus forced
down her throat killing her.
James Wilson was found in the
/ hold of the steamer Rising Star,upon
her arrival at New York op Saturday.
He was accidentally shut up i'm the
hold when the vessel left AspinwaIl,
and had been nine days without
| food.
n Swiss journal states that a young
woman named Anna Arnold, sister
of an innkeeper at Willidan Iu-
cerne) has just carried Off the first
prize at rifie-shooting competition of
that town, having made q "white"
with every shot.
! The oldest citizen in Lyme, n. H..
| is Henry Robbins, who Is aged nine
| ty-two years and six months. He
! takes daily walks, and his physical
powers and memory are remarkable
for one of his advanced years. He has
| been member of the Masonic Order
since 1915, and still taxes great in
| terest in it.
a stranger recently went to hotel
| in Hartford for n bath, and as he did
not emerge from his retirement for
ali hour the proprietor entered, with
fears Cf suicide in his heart, to see
what Was the matter. The stranger
had only been washing his shirt, and
was Waiting for Ii to dry.
Capt. James b. Eads, of st. Louis.
has recently received from England
his certificate of election to the En-
gineers' Association of Great Brit
ain. He was proposed by Mr.. John
| Lawler and seconded by Edwin
Adams, John Harkshaw, Zera Col
! burn and Sir Charles Fox. He Is the
second American upon whom the
| honor has been conferred.
/ In race at Cincinnati, on the 25th,
a sweepstakes for three year-oId colts
and 1illies, with eight starters-the
second heat was taken by Herzog,
entered by John Jackson & Co, in
/ l :43 1-2-the fastest time on record.
II erzog is by Vandal, dam Dixie.
! The German Salon says that Mr..
/ Durlingame is an American only b.
( birth. He speak. French, dress4
/ like European, and gives dinnei
1 parties and balls like the most accom-
| plished courtiers, while Madame
/ Burlingame receives the guests with
all the grace OF a perfect Parisienne.
/ A youth of Is, in New Bedford.
who determined to marry against his
| fathers will, was complained OF Us n
disobedient child, and the case con-
! tinued for sentence, so that he could
be shut up for want of bail till his
father gets ready to take him on a
whaling voyage.
a countryman exposed his watch
on the corner OF street in Ne " Hav-
en- on Wednesday, when a bystander
offered to bet 50 that it was not gold.
Countryman accepted the bet, and il
was taken to jewellers and pro-
nounced gold one. The stranger
handed the countryman the money,