Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-11-11

to the insane asylum from New York since
the late gold corner. a. ft}i ~
During the past fiscal year 760, 000,0 600
Of letters have passed through the mails,
or nearly 20 letters % every man, woman
and child in the country.
| The Lynn Reporter says that a young
I girl, only IL years of age, was carried to
Deer Island Hospital recently, suffering
from delirium tremens.
The National Observatory at Wash
ington has established Springfield, Ill.,,
as one of the points at which meteorologi.
cal observations are to be taken daily
DIR. Hall thinks the Northern Lights
are the reflected rays Of the sun, thrown
back and forth by the ice and snow of the
Arctic regions and the clouds surrounding
the pole.
"A woman, in Alexandria, Va, who
swallowed laudanum to kill herself was so
bent on having her own way that it was
found necessary to knock out some of her
front teeth in order to use stomach pump.
Some people in Maine say that just
before they felt the shock Of the earth
quake the other morning, they noticed a
livid glare suddenly appear in the sky, al
though the heavens at the lime were quite
dark, and it was raining
The ladies of Dallas Oregon, lately
got up some tableauX for the benefit of a
church, among which was one called the
New Order of Things" In it the men
were represented as nursing babies, max
ing bread, and talking one another to
death, while the women were chopping
wood and doing other out door work.
The picture was received with applause.
On the occasion of the late visit of
the Veterans OF Manchester and New
buryport to Nashua, n. H., while they
were at dinner in the City Hall, one of
the walters brought on a bowl of gravy
for some kind of meat A Veteran i'm
mediately placed the bowl on his plate,
took spoon and punished the entire
quantity, probably installing it for soup
-Rt Rev. Bishop Potter, of Pennsyl-
vania.-His Opinion" Life Assurance
may be employed advantageously for the
benefit Of families and individuals of all
classes of society, as well for those in afiiu-
ence as for those in moderate circum.
stances. All may, by the exertion of
little forethought and a small outlay, pro-
tect their families from want. Insure in
the Washington Life.
Calico derives its name from the fact
that it was first exported to Europe from
the city of Calicut. Calicoes were first
seen in England in 1851. Calico printing
was known and practied in India twenty
three hundred years ago, for the fact is
mentioned in the campaigns of Alexander
the Great The art was also practiced in
Egypt in Pliny's time
The correspondent of an exchange,
meeting party of settlers The other day in
Texas, inquired from the conductor what
the men in the first wagon were intended
for "To clear the forests" "Well, said
he, "and what are those in the second
for?" "To build the huts," was the reply
And that old white headed man in the
third wagon-what is he for" was the
question asked, to which the reply was
given; "Oh, that's my father; we shall
open our new cemetery with him." The
correspondent did not inquire further.
The distance Travelled in transporting
lHt lHiIcu DldleS HliilS uuIlllg llle past
fiscal year was something over 90,000,000
miles, or nearly the distance to the sun.
Had it been in one continuous line, it
would have extended thirty-six hundred
times around the globe. Had the command
to stop been given, the instant single
messenger had started to perform this ser
vice within the given time he would have
performed his mission and had to wait
twenty nine years for the sound (Which
travels $4,000 feet per minute) to perform
the same journey or, in passing around
the globe, he would have overtaken end
passed it nine times in a single day, The
cost of the service was about S10,o00,000,
or about eleven cents per mile, a trihe
more than it costs to transport a Congress
man.