Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-03-31
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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present time is estimated at 80, 400.
! Chicago shipped as bushels o.
wheat in 1888. The amout shipped
III 1868 was 10000, 900 bush.
| The New York Board of Health
has ordered the universal vaccina-
ton OF all unvaccinated persons.
IN England, for fear of importing
cholera, the paper manufacturers are
closely scrutinizins foreign rags.
| y London sporting paper says that
seals may be attracted by whistling,
as they have Il fine ear for music.
| In four months after one sows
wheat III Washington Territory, he
can eat bread from the product.
The White Pine districts is called
| Silverado by some OF the California
papers.
1t is said that a fine quality of
| anthracite coal has recently been dis
| covered in Shenandoah county, Va.
An exchange noting the birth OF
cripiets says, Three more children
10 spank-where will it end ?'
y Boston paper says: 'II Massa-
chuSetts is not to have represen-
| tative in the Cabinet what is the use
of a Cabinet ?n
Three hundred Frenchmen had
dinner, February 23d ultimo, in New
York, ut which the French Emperor
was severely criticized.
The Hudson river steamboat Mary
Powell, reputed tc be the fastest ves-
sci III the United States, was sold
lately for SlS0,O0O.
a lady of24, living near Atlanta,
4 81, ,,.,lI I,
lovers aged respectively Is, IS, 50 and
| 80. The old boy is ahead, though.
Only one of the five maids of the
Empress Eugenie is Frenchwo-
man, and the two English girls are
the only pretty ones.
Two students in Williston Semiu-
airy recently fought duel with pis-
tolls loaded with powder and-noth-
ing else.
y Houston genius sews cows tails
on old horse hides, and thus con-
verts the latter into a merchantabie
article.
The Philadelphia police rebel at
the order forbidding their lounging
on corners, and many of them have
resigned.
An artist who is painting the nine
muses. can find only eight girls in
New York WHO are beautiful enough
| for models.
Great activity in "copper" stocks"
III Boston is reported since the pas
sage of the copper tariff over the
veto.
1t is said that General Spinner, the
Treasurer of the United States, han
dies more money annually than the
banksof England and France com
bined.
The exports from Green Bay, Wis,
by lake, last year, Were large. Shin
giles figure highest-lS5,3 ,35l 900.
There were 70f arrivals and depar-
lures of vessels.
1t should be an instructive fact to
business men when it is proved by
statistics that liberal advertisers do
seventy-five per cent of all the bus
mess i'll the country.
Business men would do well to
keep in mind that the insertion OF
pen or pencil of dates or figures of
any kind in printed circulars, sub
Jects the whole to letter postage.
Burlingame is quoted as saying
that the Emperor of China will take
stock in the Darien canal to the
amount of eighty millions of dollars,
and supply all the labor needed.
1t is noticed by the New York pa
pers that the English flag appears
ut the head of more masts at the
wharVes i'll that city than our own
Stars and Stripes.
Russia has confiscated the treasury
Of Il Catholic convent IN Poland for
having allowed insurgents to use its
printing press during the late rebel
lion.
a New York sewing girl drew five
thousand dollars in a New York
lottery shop last week. This piece
of good luck for the one girl may
prove the ruin of a hundred others.
NJ. de Bismark, Procurour-Gener-
al and nephew of the Count, has Just
married the daughter of Berlin
pastry-cook. The uncle congratula-
ted his nephew on his fondness for
pies and cakes.
Claim is laid to a large part of the
town of Washington, Pennsylvania
by a colored man of ZaneSv Vile, Ohio,
who produces the will of an ancient
owner bequeathing the property to
the claimants grandmother.
Drunkenness has become fearfIilly
prevalent among the wine-growing
districts of California. Even young
girls are sometimes seen reeling in
the streets under the influence of the
pure California;
y New York paper, speaking of
the police of that city, says they are
an object Of admiration To the ser
want girls, an object of awe 10 the
children, but to the rogues staud-
ing, or rather walking joke.
Confucius was the only man who
attained universal fame. The great
men of the West are unknown lin the
East, but the name of the great
Chinese philosopher is familiar the
world over.
a London correspondent SAYS
" An asylum for eats has bee. estab-
ilshed in square near Regents
Park. 1t is a small house of two
stories with large garden attached,
where the numerous cats have their
sports and pastimes. The ASYLUM
is conducted by matron IAN ASST
tant and cook.n
Two couples, accompanied by a
clergyman, recently aiighted from II
railroad train in n Western town.
went into a neighboring hotel where
they were married, and returning To
the train, which the conductor obiig-
ingly detained for them proceeded To
New York. The whole performance
occupied less than three minutes