Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-06-19
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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White Pine has four quartz mills
st work and six more building.
The National Bank notes in circu-
/ latjon amount to S299, $40, ,IS5.
I Texas has vampire bug Il af-
/ facts vegetables, and sucks cut the
substance, leaving the sprigs parch-
81 and dry.
IL London they have hospital
/ devoted exclusively to the accom-
modation Of sick children, Last year
they relieved us in-patieuts and Ia
143 out-patients.
\ statute of Massachusetts forbids
the second marriage of any person
from whom divorce was obtained on
the ground of adultery.
a white girl who recently eloped
with 4 negro man, from Barnwcll 5.
G., was discovered in Augusta on
Tuesday and restored To her father.
y revising barrister having asked
a voter the value OF Il house, the an
swer was,-"That depends upon
what sort of wife there is in it."
The printer who kissed his sweet
heart, saying "please exchange is
believed not to have exceeded the
proper liberty of the press"
\ New Orleans gambling house
claims that il has lost fifty-nine
thousand dollars the past season and
demands e"proteetion of the law"
An Irishmeu went to live in Scot
land for a short time, but didn't like
the country. II was sick all the
time ! was there, nsaid he, "and if j
had lived there this till time I'd been
dead year ago.
Two men in the Michigan State
Prison, convicted OF burglary, last
winter, by the positive evidence and
identification of twenty witnesses,
have lately been released by the con-
fession of the real criminals.
The Terre Haute Ind Express
asserts that there sis a man in In
dianapOlis who has so many children
he has been compelled to establish
roll call morning and evening"
Reports from Lake Superior are to
the effect tina the production OF iron
ore is larger than ever before, and
that there is a greatly improved
feeling in the copper regions.
A number ofhogs have been killed
in Henderson county who exhibited
Vel y man htu Sy III iloIRS Vi HNu
phobia. One farmer killed five.
The gold fields ofGeorgia are d DING
very well just now. At the Ma
cooche mines nugget was washed
out the other day which weighed
137 IL penny weights.
The best specimens of saddle and
harness horses can be bought in
Texas for $50 per head. Other hor-
n, , l.,
bought fcr from 50 to $50.
A certain Miss Hart, of Troy, New
York, returns an income of more
than sec, 0,000-a Hart worth win
ming.
Ice water is pure water and pure
water acts upon metal with more
enegy than water holding much or
ganic or inorganic matter ;hence the
Importance of perfectly safe vesse
in which TO retain it.
Kennedy, Superintendent of the
New York police, says that city, as
things now so on, viii not be inha-
bitable, thirty years hence, by any
but outlaws and cut-throats.
Bismarck's 5 two sons have finished
their studies at the Lyceum, and
their father has sent them for one
y SslI > NOIuIl LdiN SSTNict 10 re2l-
ment OF royal lancers.
Omaha objects to being spoken of
as III 1.-The Far West.n The Republi-
can of that town says that Omaha is
the point at which travellers gather
forthe purpose of starting West.
The German astronomer, Maedlsr,
has measured the height of ,095
mountains in the moon. Twenty
s.ft l.
Blanc, which is within q few feet of
three miles high-six are above 49,
600 feet. The highest observed noun
tain in the moon is "A, ,944 feet high.
\ project has been set on foot by
the North Pacific Transportation
Company to establish line ofsteam-
ship. between Sitka, Alaska, and
some port in Shorthand quite live
ly commerce is already springing up
between the two countries.
a German society has been formed
in Milwaukee to aid German immi-
grants by advice and practical help.
The magnolia tree, the pride of
Southern forests, has at last been
put to ii practicable use. An IIH-
nois basket maker has established
himself at New Orleans, and is max
ing beautiful baskets from the wood
of this tree.
An elephant, a foot and one-half
higher than the highest elephant
ever seen in this country, IS on its
way to this country. 1t is TO form one
of the numerous travelling shows
with which the country is at present
supplied.
BY the new treaty of friendship be-
tween France and Madagascar, either
country may establish schools In the
other.
1t Will cost Kentucky three-ouar-
ters OF a million dollars to remodel
her State House according to the
plan that has been adopted.
Within year there have been
lis press prosecutions in France, and
the fines imposed amount to l3s 900
francs.
a New Hampshire magistrate has
decided tha language which does
not embrace the name of God is not
profane swearing punishable by law.
That's the rock on which we
split" said Charley to his wife when
she asked him to rock the cradle"
At the last session Of the Lepisia-
ture of kentcky, the penalty for rape
was so amended as TO leave it dis
cretionary with the jury to make it
either confinement in the Peniten-
tiary or death by hanging. Pre-
viously, the offender was Liable only
TO imprisonment.
There is found on the coast of
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