Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-02-03


ConnersviiIe, int, has a champion
cog suctfst
The liberal and the non-sectsriaT 7
religious newspapers are gradually
puShin" the sectarIal sheets into
ti3e back ground
\ coiored lady died in ReddinG
rtr entity who was the mother al
Twenty -four children, Including six
pairs oftWins.
Mrs Abigail Kettle, who died In
whurypori, Mass, recently, at
the age oil ninety five, bad lived in
one street since she was s:x years old. /.
t;olden-yeilow hair, We are told, is
produced by II solution of arsenic
with u nnordant of the hydrosulphatc
of aIIm"uia"- That ought to turn
something.
i y man tumhled oil a iailroadtrain
into a SHOW bank out in Ohio the
other day, and remained there TWEEN
ty-foua hours before hr awoke and
WAS found.
4 Shooting and almost killing man
bccause lac replied petulently to an
officers demand. is one al the playful
vng.tries of the New York police.
Three gentlemen have planted two
/ hundred thousand peach trees on two
Thousand acres al land at Ridgway,
! y. c., which they claim To be the
/ largest orchard of the Kind, il not of
amy kind, in the world.
\ lady in Milton, Saratoga county,
4 few days since, missed a valuable
sleeve button. Diligent search was
made, but IN vain. Several days
after, somc chickens were killed, and
/ in dressing one of them, the lost
sleeve button was found liz its crop.
\ Bremen journal contains the fol-
/ lowing advertisement: "A young
! gentleman on the point of getting
married is desirous of meeting man
/ of experience who will dissuade him
/ from the step"
y couple celebrated their silver
wedding few days ago, of whom ii
/ is said they never exchanged "A harsh
1 word during their welded life of
] twenty-five years. We would state,
! for the benefit of those To whom this
may seem incredible, that they are
| deaf mutes.
The Dayton Journal tells of ne
/ gro, at Brinley Station, Ohio, who
stole a dressed hog. and had his meek
! broken 10y the hind legs of the porker
as he attempted to throw il over'a
/ fence.
y Nashville mechanic is said 10
have invented "a shooting machine,
which he calls the "Polyfer," which
viii destroy regiment of soldiers,
/ distantd a mile and a half in four
i minutes.
! IN consequence of the prodigious
forgeries Of Russian bank notes, the
authorities have determined to
make every bank official personally
| responsible for every false note he
may have taken from the customers.
y Fritzlar, near Cologne, during "A
recent storm, the tower of the church
was blown down during mass, and
/ several persons buried under the
ruins. Sixteen corpses have already
been got out but ten more are known
TO be still there.
The most fearfuIly bloody accident
OF which we have read for years oc-
/ CURED, recently, in a factory near
| Bolton, England. y man was drawn
into the machinery, his head pulled
through an aperture only three in
ches wide, and finally torn into small
] pieces by huge revolving teeth.
Professor Agassiz says that fish diet
Is the best to promote the growth
and development of the human
| brain. ''If this is So" says the Gin
cinnati Times, public officers should
| - ---i - non
sionaiIy, and school children should
/ be fed on it,"
: y Michigan farmer was engaged IA
few days since cutting down a straw
| stack, when he came upon a COW that
| had been buried in the straw thirty
four days and was still alive. She
was fat when she disappeared, but
had, 10y the confinement, been re
| duced to a mere skeleton.
Al recent trial of Il revenue ease.
| in New York, skillfuI experts awor,.
| that some specimens of brandy which
were submitted 10 them were not
! only genuine. but were worth Sl2 a
| gallon i'll gold, Wien ii was after
ward proven that they We're manu-
tactnred in Brooklyn, aud Were not
brandy at all.
y benevolent citizen Of Brunswick,
Germany, supplies blankets To the
poor during the winter months.
! They are stamped To- prevent their
being pawUcd or sold, andare return
ed IN May of every year. The sys-
tenn has been il. operation six years,
and not 4 blanket mas been lost.
The NigllantS are sweeping the
Plains of the great Northwest by "A
simultaneous and apparently spon-
taneous effort. The desperadoes and
roughs of all kinds are moving east
ward, dying in terror from Judge
Lynch.
\ young lady who teaches music
in an academy i'll Western New York
sent an order To a publisher, recent
ly, in which she had spelt the words
very badly. She apologized Icy. ad-
ding a postscript n, follow 5: Gou
must eXkews this letter, as | pla hi
noat, but spell hi ear"
Il Two San Francisco policemen tried
To arrest a Chinaman. They foun !:
it necessary to leave him a moment.
and handcufted him with his arms
each side ola lamp-post. When they
returned, their prisoner was gone: he
had climbed up the post, and swung
his arms over the top.
y reverend old cove, named I. J.
Sine, who used 10 be a preacher, was
caught stealing books at the store. of
De Nries, IbaI'ra * Co. i'm Boston
Wednesday ;andsearch in his house a /
Someryille discovered from S2eo to
53GOw@Ttn of valuable book many a.,
which were identified by various
Boston book sellers who have been
missing literature unaccoutably t,r
some months.
California proper produces about