Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-07-17
MISCELLANEOUS IrEMS,

| L Lc Eooi Ol cdTTldSc recently
burst open on the Edinburgh Rail
way, throwing out and killing little
girl who was leaning against IT,.
The First Regiment of the P.i;s-
sian Foot Lifeguards has among Its
officers five princes, three dukes. "a
counts, and 22 barons.
Four hundred persons opened the
l17, ,S54 letters Offering for the new
French loan. The subscriptions
amounted to q hundredfold more than
was asked.
Chicago boasts of having 6 received
IN one week a weight ofpork greater
than that of its entire human pOpu-
lation.
The BARRIERS of Por mouth, n. H.,
announce that they will close their
"boudoirs OF art'one evening Il week
in order that they may have a littls
relaxation.
A Virginia lady sustains life by
copiously amounting herself with
sweet oil, and eating q cracker three
times year. 4,
a negro jumped from a Aklroad
train going at full speed near SSwan-
nah, the other day, but striking on
his head, he escaped unhurt.
A handsome block of rose-colored
alabaster, the largest known, contain
ing :, ,43I cubic feet has rece ently been
unearthed in mound at Rome.
1t is mistake TO call the present
British Minister at Washington Sir
Edward Thornton. He is plain Mr..
Thornton, and has no ether handle
to his name
Turtle eggs are very abundant in
Fernandina, Florida. They are gath
cred on the beaches in large num-
bers.
The students of Cornell Universi-
ty have cultivated forty &cres of land
belonging to the University farm
this season.
John G. Breckenridge thinks St.
Paul Mimi, will have sixty thousand
inhabitants within five years.
Switzerland has about 800 600 cat
tie, worth $1,000, 900; So, 900 cows
yield $50, ,000, 900 worth of milk year.
a New York lady is trying 20
whiten her complexion by drinking
pale brandy. Her nose bushes at
the experiment.
y babies ante-room" has been
established in the Royal Alfred
Theater, London. The children are
obliged to remian here with their
nurses.
The Yale class of 1919, which holds
its fifteenth anniversary this year,
has twelve survivors out of thirty
nine.
|, The number of emigrants who
left the Irish ports In 1868 was g., 1870,
being decrease of 1884 compared
with 1867.
There are fifty Chinese Cath lies
In California. Some of them speak
Latin fuently, and are from the
Catholic Colleges in China.
Josh Billings says when a
young man amt good for any thing
else | like tew see him carrya gold
headed cane. If he buys a cane let
him part his hair In the middle.
In one of the French departments
poster adorned the walls inviting
voters to cast their ballots for "Jules
N.-the drunkards' candidate.
1t Is regarded as remarkable fact
in England that only one man com
mitteu suicide iii consequence of loss
es at the late Derby races. He was Il
coachman.
n sausage vender of New Orleans
has procured the arrest of all the
neighboring butchers because they
barked and mewed when customers
came To buy of him.
The women of Rhode Island having
Withdrawn their petition to the
Legislature for suffrage, have resolv-
TIE SGftp.a"l airn"ti" - n" ,>@".>,~ Of
Over 1000 tons, or sc, 600 bags, of
cotton seed have been consumed dur
ring the past season, in Cincinnati,
in the manufacture OF oil.
An elephant on exhibition at Lyons,
n. Y, the other day got angry and
picked up mule hurting 1t some
twenty feet against cage.
The New York Tribune contains
the following advertisement: Feel
ing sense OF guiltiness, 1 request
all well-disposed persons to pray to
God for me-Frank. Newspapers
please copy"
The whole popula on of Cuba is
less than million and a half. The
census of 1862, compiled by the
Government, gives the figures at
white, 764.75O; free colored, 32l 800,
and slave 37S,071 ; total, 1855, ,238.
A. T.Stewart has several partners,
| but none of them can withdraw from
| the firm, except by estimating their
share of the goods at what they cost
| One man undertook to leave and
/ found that he was worth nothing.
| In the Austrian Empire about 30
0O0, 900 barrels of wine, most Of 1t in
Hungary, worth there about l3O, ,OOO,-
600 fiorins. So 900 ,00O) are raised
every year, of which product only
one per cent was exported in 1867.
A valuable bed Of bloodstone has
just been discovered by Professor
shepherd, one mile from Ste. Mary,
Ste. Geneveive county Mo-, on lands
owned by. NJ. A Gilbert. There L.
one other place in the United States
| "a small deposit in Ohio o)where it has
been found. 1t is used for polishing
mosaic work, gems, furnishing ar
ticles made of gold, etc, for whiol,
purpose it has no equal. This valu-
able discovery is about eleven miles
from perryville.
A good pair of false calves, war
rented to look in all respects like q
natura! limb, costs In New York
eight dollars. A late statistician says
that in one of the metropolitan thea.
ters twenty-three pairs of false calves
are used;.in another twenty-seye
and eighteen in a third.
Two negroes jumped from train
running forty miles an hour, IN
. Georgia, last week. One landed on
. his head, andl at last accounts was
combing his hair with a horxe-rakt
: TO get out some boulders 1t had &C
. cumulated in the process. The other