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

r ioIiua OTsLiSe crops Is Coilcu TIC
Et Dorado.
The activity in the San Francisco
ship yards is unparalleled.
Items about land buyers abound in
all the Southern papers.
Vincennes, Ind, celebrated Easter
Sunday with cock fight.
/ The logging season in Minnesota
has resulted very successfully.
| New Orleans is to have a new cot
ton factory to run lo0, 900 .spindles.
A fat COW weighing l,O7S pounds
was lately killed at Oshkosh, Wis.
| Dayton O., had four suicides and
one fatal accident on the 3lst ult.
| On the lst inst. the Hudson River
receded over two feet at Albany.
Sparta, Wis, has a medicinal well,
which is attracting some attention.
| The Ohio Female College is to be
sold at Shiretrs sale on the 23d inst.
One music dealer in Vienna has
over $l00,000 worth of old Cremona
violins.
| Punch says that the best check for
pauperism is one of George Pea
pOdy's.
Iowa is not only out of debt but
has a. surplus of 81 900, 900 in her
| treasury.
There are four hundred and fifty
| two students in the Virginia Uni
versity.
Ten million brick are to be manu-
factured at Des Moines, Iowa, this
| summer.
| Hydrophobia has been successfully
treated with iodine by a Chicago
| physician.
Portraits of Secretary Fish's chill
dren are said to be sardines-little
| fishes done in oil.
Paper collins have been added to
| the new and useful articles made of
parer in Europe.
| Thieves are still flOgged in Eng
land with advantage, some insist, to
| the community.
Savannah papers complain that
their shad season has been a poor one
thus far.
| An indianapolis firm says it has
shipped PSI 40 dozen eggs within
! five months.
Minnesota il described by Prof.
| Maury as the "best watered State
in the Union"
Large fields of coal, easy of access
and transportation, have been found
in Norway.
Southern Central Jersey gets
its butter from New York, and pays
for it accordingly.
| Women now participate in the de-
bates of the Western New York Far
mers' Club.
Eight persons, lynched at differ
ent times, are buried in the same In
diana cemetery.
A hawk, measuring five feet from
| tip to tip, was shot a few days ago
in Greene Co., n. Y.
The Los dos Republicas is q paper
published in New Orleans in the Ia
| terests of free Cuba.
| The unshucked corn In the GeiLs
of Jasper county, Ind, is furnishing
food for wild geese.
The French college recently estab-
lished at Constantinople new has
five hundred students.
The latest biographer of Lncretia
BOrgia has discovered that she was a
very estimable and much maligned
lady.
The people of Richmond, Va, are
in doubt whether to call Miss Van
Lew Postmaster, POstmistress or
fOstmiss.
A baby recently advertised for
adoption in London was applied
for by $40 persons, all of whom sent
money as pledge Of good faith.
"There now" exclaimed q little
girl, while rummaging drawer in
the bureau, grandpa has gone to
heaven without his spectacles."
There are 1000 pawnbrokers, with
$35 ,OOo, 900 capital in England aud
Wales SO, 900 600 pawns are effected
ia London, alone, in one year.
An enteprising but uneau.iaus
thief stole twenty-one blankets from
the smallpox hospital of Newport,
KY, Barracks last week.
Calling the yeas and nays defeateda
bill to increase the salary Of members
of the Pennsylvania Legislature from
81 600 to 81 800.
Rosina ID. Richardson IS the New
Hampshire giantess, and has married
John A. Wood, who weighs 1870
pounds to her 400.
The late James Harper sat for his
photograph, and renewed his policy
of accident insurance, OH the day Of
his accident.
Payne, the competitor of Weston
in the hundred miles walk that
wasn't, insinuates in q card that
Weston is a first-class humbug.
A New England lady had an imita-
ton bird as an ornament on her hat.
The cat discovered the same and ate
more than half of it before perceiving
its mistake.
After a long period of wet weather,
when the Chinese have been praying
vainly for relief, they put the gods
out i'll the rain, to see now they like
it.
Since Grant has expressed his par
tiality for Quakers, it is said that all
the members of the Indian Ring in
Washington have purchased broad
brim hats.
An egg was lately boiled in Jack
son, Mich, whose white, beneath
shell and film. bore printed letters
which read, Feed me no more cOrnn
to the excited Imagination of the
woman who inspected it.
Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, New-York,
Pennsylvania, Missouri. Kentucky,
and Texas, are the chief American
horse-breeding States. They rank in
the order named.
The students of Hamburg College
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