Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-08-14
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A jury of Smiths mas been i'm
panelled in Sheffield, England.
The German gambling helis 90 out
on The Slst of October, 1871.
Queen Olga of Greece has had an
other baby.
The Eiceroy of Egypt, while in
LONDON, spent e6 600 for presents.
| Count Bismark has hecn named
| might OF the Baden Order of F'ideli-
ty.
The shipment ofopium from sSmyr-
aa na Tor the last ten years average 81
wv cases per year.
The New York Nation has lust en-
tered upon the fifth year of its exis-
tence.
Inc Peak Family are ringing their
6eIis at Crosby's Opera House i'm
Chicago.
General George B. Mcclellan and
wife viii visit Long Branch this
week.
The apple crop i'm New York state
VIII be extraordinarily good this
year.
=, NlgIance committee requests the
Mayor of Quebec to resign.
A demented offlce-seeker calls st.
Matthew 1.-The collector of customs at
the Port of Capernaum."
Six car loads of butter, comprising
l., ,2oo hrkins, were shipped to Califor-
MIA from Chicago lately.
The receipts of the Illinois treasury
during June were 500, 49,
Boys in San Francisco amuse them
selves by throwing Cayenne pepper
INTO the eyes of Cinnamon.
The people of Oregon are again
talking about the separation of the
eastern and western portion of the
State.
A man in Omaha has been chal-
lenged by another in Sacramento to
four msnth's duck shooting match
for $4,000.
The railing around the Mexican
monument in Harrisburg, Pa. is to he
made of condemned muskets, with
bayonets attached.
Albany has become one of the
great lumber marts of the country.
The lumber business of last wear a1-
gregated the sum of about SI4 ,O0U.-
600.
Jay Cooke has bought Sandy Rive,
Pond and 1000 acres of land at the
Rangely Lakes, in Maine, fora fish
preserve.
AIR. James bennett of Portsmouth.
New Hampshire, over 81 years old
worked six days week before last,
shlngling a house, and kept pace
with another man of half his years
A firm in Dalton, Mass. have
made three thousand reams of bank
note paper for the italian Govern
ment- They have another large or
der from the Brazilian Government.
The merchants of st. Louis pro-
pose offering the largest premiums
on cotton at the next October fair
ever given In the world-namely.
S5Oo each for two bales each to weigh
400 pounds, one of short staple and
the other of long.
The coinage of the San Francisco
mint for June was 81, ,44O, 900 in gold
and $4,000 silver; for the wear en-
Ding June 3Oth, Sl9,016,0O
A dying soldier few day since h.
queathed his all, S210, to the State
of New Jersey, in gratitude for tho
kind treatment it had bestowed unon
him during his illness.
The joke of the season is the COM
plant of Pittsburgh, that the smoke
OF the Fort Wayne railroad locomo-
tlves deposit SCOT on the flowers of
Pittsburgh.
An Englishman was telling the
late Col. Isaac o. O.Barnes of the great
rate the ears run in England. why,
Coionel, in my country, they go sev-
enty-hve miles the hour" 7'They
DO - said the Colonel; "they could
not run long at that rate, or thew
would run off of the little id is
land.n
The Chinese of San Francisco have
been interviewing the Ways and
means Commlttee, at present in that
city. They think that if Congress-
would extend its agis over the Chi.
namen on the Pacific coast. many
Chinese capitalists would bring their
means to that country for invest
ment.
The opening of the Pacific Rail
road has enabled the Postmaster Gen-
eral to save S5OO,OOO yearly on the
Wells. Fargo & Co.'s contract. He
has also just made such changes i'm
what Is known as the Ell Peso con-
tract, namely, from Texas to New
MexIco as will save SIO5, 900 yearly.
and such changes in other frontier
routes as Will reduce the expenses
$500, 900 more.
Pittsburg claims to have five hum
dred and ninety-five furnaces, which
work up one thousand tons of iron
per day, and the largest factory of
plumbers and gas filters material
in the country. 1t also boasts of one
establishment which makes all kinds
OF nails, from the tacks to the largest
spikes, and which has one machine
that turns out $500 shoe brads per
minute.
An important telegraph decision
has lately beenmade in Cincinnati To
Wit: that companies cannot exclude
individuals from the use of wires at
pleasure, when they are willing to
pay the usual rates. II. l.. Lewis
obtained verdict for So 900 against
the company for such refusal, when
he was 8, king to dispatch for trad
ing purposes, i'll competition with
the company itself.
A Wilmington, n. c., paper
says "a number of catfish eggs
perfect curiosities i'm their way.were
exhibited to the gaze of the curious by
aparty of young men who had obtain
ed about sixty from a fish caught IN
our river. The egg is round, some
what transparent and contains the
young fish and that upon which be
lives. The young one can be distinct.
ly seen through the thin skins of
the egg, in all it's perfect propor-
tions, and, when placed in water
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