Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-07-31
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An Indiana COW has adopted and
nurses motheriess colt.
\ swarm of bees stole a ride into
Canada by alighting on n ioeomo-
tive in Vermont.
a lady in St. Louis has promised
a gentleman that If she does not
marry some one else within nine
months she will accept him.
California is adapted'to the poppy
C..i..,::---c.- --.-i .-iil soon furnish opium
10 the deyotees of that narcotic.
Kentucky has raise a snake with
2 head at either end and without a
caudal extremity
y German farmer in Minnesota
Is successfully raising prunes.
The wool clip of Minnesota this
year is larger than ever before, and
the average yield of each sheep is.also
precedented.
The publication Of Anthony Trol-
lope's St.Paul's Magazine has passed
into the hands Of Measrs. Strahan &
Co.
Some congressman advertises in
New York paper that he has an ap-
pointmept TO West Point to dispose
of to accredited parties OF means
separate the two western tiers of
counties from Arkansas join them to
the Indian Territory and form new
State with the capital at Fort smith,
The music of a'1HamIetris Just now
the most popular in England. 1t has
been arranged by halfa dozen COM
,posers, and is sold in al the usual
| orms.
| I'm of hn h,;lI
at Harvard commencement last
week was an Grafton or "Philistin-
ism" by George Alden Mcleod, of
Baltimore, who lost an arm while
serving in the rebel army during the
war.
Since 1864, VIM. H. Seward has
built ohe hundred and sixty houses
| IN Auburn, New York and sold them,
On easy terms, to men of moderate
means.
y brute OF husband has ordered a
grave stone on which is inscribed
| LET us have peace" He don't care
| whether it is erected over him or his
wife.
A verdant Cape Colder, upon see
ing locomotive for the first time,
threw up his hands exclaiming, "Byz
thunder what darned great stoven'
Over $4,000 worth of hemloek
lumber from Canada, was seized at
| Whitehall and Fort Edwards n. Y,
by the Collector, ,on charge ofunder-
valuation. 50
A. White, of Craftsbury, V Vermont,
| while recently cutting a hemlock
| tree, found embedded in it a four
ounce bottle of French glass. The
tree was nearly all sound, and the
| bottle must have been there nearly
half a century.
ihe famHy OF one earns, residing
in Cleveland were reused from slum-
ber on Friday night by the cries of
| little one. On going to the crib in
which the child lay, it was found
that two of its little toes had been
entirely bitten off by rats.
AT the Rock Island Horse Stables.
few days since, there were twenty
six of the largest horses ever seen i'm
Rock Island. Several of them weigh
| 100 pounds, and several Tiers have
the frame for 800, when properly
| filled. s.
The latest invention is garbage
whisky" The Cincinnati Chronjcle
says the flag ends of radishes, onions.
beets, lettuce and the hundreds of
other vegetables, portion of which
always go to the slop barrel or the
garbage boat, are said to make ex-
cellent whisky.
An old resident of Richmond in
talking with a correspondent a few
| days since, said: "Oh. yes. Rich
mond is picking up, but there is al
together different class. You see
nothing but merchant tradesmens.
and Spectators, mostly from the
North. You meet fewer gentleman. -
"A remarkable litter of pigs il
mentioned by an Illinois paper. The
seven pigs have in all thirty-four legs.
Two have six each, two have five
each, and the tother three will he
| obliged to waddIe about on the usual
number. The mother of this family
has five legs.
There is title girl ten years old
In kentucky Who has never spoken
to her father. She converses freely
win any ole else, but when her
rather speaks she Is silent. She has
been whipped for her obstinacy but
persists In saying that she has tried
to speak to him and cannot.
:. "A man lately appeared in an In
diana town wearing a vest made
OUT OF the skins of ten rattlesnakes.
~ . AiSot vi oHc and
snakes, killed in one day by Ken
lucky farmer.
The poem at Wesleyan Unlyersitv
this year, was on "The Theory and
Practice of Flirting" This college
evidently fits its graduates fer socie-.
ty.
The Cincinnati Times SAYS: onrhe
new railroad between Louisville and
Cincinnati will bind the two cities
together like pair of eats tied by
the tails"
"A firm In Scranton, Penr adyer
tlses as follows: "Their parlor fur.
niture Is elegant their bedroom fpr.
nlture Is rich; their mattresses
downy their collins comfortable
The Arkansas HotSprings are hay-
ing an unprecedented popularity this
year. All the conveyances are
loaded, and the place is crowded.
The life Of lady in New York
town was saved the other dav bv
her chiSnon. A horse kicked her
twice, but striking his foot on that
capital appendage injured her not at
all '''
Extensive fires are aging in Wash
tngton Territory, between Mentjnez
anu humphreys, which have des-
troyed several miles of teIepranh
line, bridge, house and other proper
ty: Fires are also burning in the