Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-04-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

oiIus anu prospectus.
| MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
In 200 tenement houses in New
York 4S0, 900 persons manage to live.
The London Times is to be made
two penny paper.
| The internal revenue receipts from
chicago, for February, wereS54O, ,424.
"A sturgeon, weighing loo pounds,
| was recently caught in Lake Win
| nebago.
Delicious hot house strawberries
are selling at So for five berries, in
Boston.
| A silver mine has been discovered
In Norfolk, Conn.,, and a company
formed to open and work it.
| Ralph Waldo Emerson says a city
clergyman to be acc liable, may
have piety, but he must have taste.
| An 800 ton steamer, armed with
| two guns, cleared from New York,
destined for the Haytien navy.
| A trial about $50 colt'at Waverly,
| lows, has already made $500 costs, and
the case is not half settled yet.
| A couple of amateur velocipedists
| have wagered $500 to ride their ma
chimes from New York to Chicago.
A boy in Georgia cut his fathers
| throat the other day in retaliation
| for whipping.
| Boston has founded two new pub
lie libraries for the German working
| classes.
The best BARRIERS in the world, ac-
| cording to European tourists, are to
be found in the United States.
There is an astronomer who exhlb-
its the moon and stars in the streets,
with music and songs.
A man in England has committed
suicide by pouring petroleum over
himself and ightingit with match.
| English magistrates are unable to
| determine whether velOcipedes are
liable to toll on turnpikes and bridges.
| Sweden is seriously considering the
/ prohibition of liquor manufacture,
on account of the spread of intemper-
ance.
| The inhabitants of whole villages
in France have no other occupation
than cutting beech-wood into curry
| comb handles
There is doctor for every 1000 in
habitants in Paris. and the apothe-
1 AuIaDCT lneI6 are al6O
295 officers Of health.
The Bombay High Court has de.
cided that leprosy Is a ground for
the population is leper.
|. The spinners of Fall River have
formed cooperative association
and opened a store, which is flourish
| ing.
| "A Buffalo policeman smelling fire
| sounded an alarm. The cause was
a smouldering cigar In his coat-taiI
pocket.
| Berkshire has had one hundred
| days of first rate sleighinp, while
Boston has had but fifty hours of the
genuine article.
Isaac Pickering was a shrewd citi-
zen of Connecticut who got q neip,l-
Dor to assist him in digging grave
| ''for a joke" and then shot hinseIf
| to fill it in dead earnest.
An Alabama editor had some iron
ore, dug on his own land, made into
plows, and had the plows running
in less than a week.
The big brewery at Aurora, Ind.
was sold at bankrupt sale. subject
TO mortgages amounting to over
500 900 and lawsuits innumerablc.
for $3.50.
A wretch, who put powder In the
stove of public school-house nesr
Baltimore had the satisfaction Of
knowing that eight boys were iniur-
ed, and two girls fatally burned by
the explosion.
A lady" well dressed. very
drunk, and with S., 900 In her pocket.
was arrested in the streets OF Alex,
andria, Virginia, last week. After
sobering OF in the lookup, she was
permitted to go home.
In the New York City .dumpinp-
ground there was recently discovered
a skeleton in the sand, with a dia-
mond ring on it, and q silk stocking
containing the fragment of q foot
indicating mysterious murder.
There is an old English stafpto
which prohibits people from pettinr
married after a certain hour in the
day, because such solemn obli9a-
ton ought to be entered into enIv
when the parties are duly sober.
"Off she goes,n said ladv. sneak-
ing of the train as it was startino
You have mistaken the gender.
Madame" said gentleman ."thi,
is mail train"
The other evening while the Chfca.
go Express was nearing Pittsburgh
at the rate of thirty miles an hour.
passenger came aboard. he is doing
well, considering the circum stances
And so is his mother.
Madame 4 valina French, Of Svra-
cuse, n. Y, last week selected cor
rosive sublimate with which to com
init suicide, and, just before her
death, she accused her husband of
having bought the poison for her.
A long nose affords a good hapdIa
for ridicule. The man that's 'sup to
snuff" therefore, will avoid them
BY the way, talking Of noses, whata
queer one that must have been which
Solomon informs us was like fhs
tower of Lebanon looking towards
Damascus. TO have blown such a
nose, must have required q pale or
wind, and nothing shorter.
In the Swiss canton ofUri printer.
and editors are whipped on the bare
back for publishing article which
the authorities do not Ike. In Ro.
hemia, editors who assail the Govern
ment are sentenced to Imprisonment
In Mecklenburg the opposition pan
ers are not allowed to publish lead.
ing articles.
Allison Smith, an old resident of
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