Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-12
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Il \ Cleveland (Ohio) carpenter has
inherited 5000 GOO by the death of an
Uncle in Europe.
Secretary Fish speaks French
fiuently, and Secretary Borie French
and Spanish.
More than $3.50, 600 has been spent
since 1855 in decorating the Capitol at
Washington with works of art
In Rhode Island man has sued a
woman of forty for seducing his son,
l aged seventeen, into matrimony-
Since the slave trade has been abol
ished, the tribes i'm Africa eat their
prisoners, as they cannot sell them.
The Turkish @ ladies in the Divan
at the New York Tammany Theatre
never crossed the Atlantic.
The Pennsylvania oil regions are
reported as paying better than ever
before.
The Peruvians are afraid to rebuild
their houses, fearing more earth
fquakes.
California pays one dollar premium
Tor every tree planted by the road
side.
The site has been chosen for the in
| terhational exhibition at Brussels
next year.
l
ton has Deen dubbed the Swearing
train."
| Rockport, Mass. has voted To erect
a new Town Hall, To cost not over
$50, 900.
| The Paris club frequenters now
gamble at dominoes, and have given
up cards.
| New York State has seven hundred
and twenty-eight square miles of
] lakes.
| A Romaic-Modern Greek-trans-
| iatjon of Cooper's novels is popular
At Athens.
| The London physicians complain of
the scarcity of subjects" for dissec-
| ton.
In the Isle of Guernsey nearly
every family has Victor Hugo
among its children.
The Prussian Government has laid
tax of one and half cents one very
| telegram.
A Chicago woman is seeking di-
| vorce from man who swears he
| married her
A Partisan concert hall has the
| sign Ladies' are requested not To
| smoke in this room".
| The time between the termini OF
the two Pacific Railroads is now
| twenty-fOur hours.
Muscatine, Iowa, take its name
from Muskontine, the Indian world
| meaning Fire Island.
The ship King Philip of Boston
was burned at sea near the Sand
wich Islands on the 18th ult.
Considerable additions have been
ordered To the artillery and cavalry
corps OF the PrusSian army.
March was very stormy on the
French and English coasts, and
wrecks were OF frequent occurrence.
Boston imposes one hundred dollar
fines for watering milk ,and New
York, occasionally, half the sum.
Poultry keeping has become fash
lnnable III Boston, and hf Lhefies are
erected on the roofs of first-class
houses.
Watkins, n. X ,rejoices i'm the dis
coverey of white sulphur, black sui
phur, and chaly beate springs in its
vicinity.
Freight ears are building in iii
nois on which will be painted the
legend "From Ocean to Ocean-No
Transfer"
A Frenchman has accomplished
one hundred and twenty-three miles
IN tWenty-four hours on yeloci-
pede.
The German Pioneer Association
of Cincinnati publishes monthly
devoted TO German pioneer life i'll
America.
On the 10th inst in New York,
boy OF eight years was sent to the
Penitentiary for stealing prunes and
figs.
The velocipede has been introduc-
ed into many Fifth, Madison
AID Park avenue mansions in New
York.
a general cOnyocation of Italian
Republica ms, under direction of MAJ
zini, is soon to be held at Lurano,
Switzerland.
Boston has had scarcely any snow
the past winter, and the owners of
me tufhouts have been grievously
disappointed.
The French custom returns show
that a million francs worth of yelo-
clpedes have been exported within
twelve months.
The first infant born in the White
Pine mining region of Nevada re-
ceived several thousand dollars in
silver bars as presents.
The freshet at Tonawanda carried
some SS 900 worth oflnmber into the
niagara River, part Of which went
over the falls.
The Old and New School Presby-
terian Assemblies meet in New York
in May. when the .eunion will pro-
badly be effected.
Maury Co., Tenn, is infested with
an organized band Of highwaymen.
which the civil authorities are pow
erless To suppress.
At a recent New Hampshire we'd
ding the groom weighed one hun
dred and thirty-three and the bride
four hundLed pounds.
There is said To be a wealthy Amer
lean girl i'm Paris who doesn't want
to marry a bankrupt nobleman.
The report lacks confirmation and
probability.
Attorney General Hoar is said to
be Unitarian, Cox is aSwedenboreian,
Borie a Catholic, Fish high church
Episcopalian, and Cresweli Repub-
lIcan.
Three epicures, wi no dine every day
at the famous ParIsian restaurant.
Lies Freres Provencaux,r paw a
hundred and seventy-five francs for
every meal they eat.
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