Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-07-24
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMs.


1t is the small unsuspected habits
OF the mind that usually control il.
Eating peanuts is prohibited in the
court at Petersburg, Virginia.
Mrs. Ramsay, wife of the Minnesota
gentleman OF that name,ls said to the
be most beautiful Of all the Senator
esSeS.
y college for deaf mutes has been
successfully established in Washing
ton,
When = man does what he likes.
and gets paid for il, lie : fouad his
/ vocation.
The State of Massachusetts PAID
+ -, $50, Ts2 for educational purposes
last year.
! Twelve hours immersion in The
water of Utah Lake is sufficient TO
corn beef completely.
! Nelocipede schools are already pro
posed in Scotland.
! This year isthe one hundradth sn-
/ niyersary Of the natent,ng cf tbs
+ spinning jenny.
: Boston landlord raises the ren;
( 0f tenant 500 because tie voted
against him on local question.
Chief Justice Chase invoked 3 bIes-
+ ing on The tobacco dealers IN Rich
mond the other CAV
( The BARRIERS Of New York city hsve
! ilaug guT;-ted a movement sor a retiuc-
/ ton for their hours of labor.
! There are only one thousand forms
/ Of religion on the world, from which
| to choose.
| In 9 California court one of the
counsel offered TO bet the judge hun
/ dre1 dollars that what he said was
| good law.
/ The Missouri Democrat speaks OF
THAT part of this continent which
England temporarily occupies .
/ Seventy-ffve thousand an1 Eve
/ hundred railway passengers arrived
/ at Boston in one day 10 attend the
Jubilee.
! sugar plums, rich food, wine and
beer are among the things which the
royal children in Prussi. are never
allowed to taste.
! All the treasures of literature anf
/ art collected by the great Shakes
pearian scholar, the Rev. Alexander
| Dyce, were left by him 10 the South
| kensington Museum.
Victoria celebrated her fitieth
| birthday by creating six new knight.
y
/ Knights Commanders, and sixty-f-e
/ COMPANIONS OF the Order of the Bath.
y Maryland negro hanged tor muir
/ der week or two ago stole the
| preachers handkerchief, while be
was praying for him just before the
! execution.
| y sign put up in Court street, Bos-
ton, during the Jubilee, had the fol-.
lou inn ff,1 -
| North, no South, no East, no West
! bu, Lwsi lager
The Hartford, Conn, skating rnk.
now being built, will Accommodate
/ 1000 persons, and give 500 skates a
| free field, with room for 5000 specta-
/ tors.
| a patent has been obtained tor the
maRufacture Of waterproof paper.
1t Will be no uncommon thing, by
and by, to carry quart of milk home
in paper bag.
/ In Kent, Md, a negro has been
digging for money, pointed out tn
/ him IN dream. He digs only al
/ night, his mother sitting by him witt.
an open Bible for luck and TO keen
of ghosts.
The boOtblacks in a Pennsylvania
/ town have struck for higher wages
and in imitation of other trades un.
| Ions announce that the employment
/ OF any more apprentices VIII not bo
allowed.
An old sow tried TO eat little boy
seven years old, named Asa Norton.
at Princeton, one day this week.
Had not colOred man happened
along at the moment, he would have
| been killed.
| \ thief caught in the act in Pari.
raised the cry of HVive la Rspubl.-
/ que" "and will escape with Ave davs'
imprisonment for the political OF
fence, the larceny being ignored.
| Metal for statues being scare Ir
| England, the bronze which lately
stood in the form of statue OF Sir
| Robert Peel was melted down and
recast into statue eff Lord Pa!ners-s
ton.
The son Of . hacBnan named VII
/ liam9, al Washington. T.. c.. while
On 1essel at one Of the yheryes
ifen through tie hatchwnv ana
q hook att8che3 10 the f1olstinp
/ tackle caught IL his side, tearing in,
/ to his abdomen t. such degree as
/ 10 allow the intestine To protrudc.
snd his recovery il q SPARED OF.
/ 4 proposition to remove tho
/ branch mint from San Franci-c- "a,
I sacramento Is causing lively ex.
element among the people nf the
/ two cities.
/ Masons, who know Of the fact. and
/ the reason why, lodges were IN am
/ clent times convened upon hills or
+ low valleys, will be glad TO know
/ Tn at an informal lodge was opened
/ by members Of Springfield Encamn-
+ m mt, IN Iodge-room provided by
I Ben. Periey Poore, during their visit
! 20 him, upon the higheet hill of his
I Tarm, which is situated near New
/ buryport, Mass. This lodge-room is
/ formed by trees set out in such O
/ manner as to make an obioug room
T OF due and ancient form.
A curious affair took place In Pom
/ tiac, Michigan. 1t was thrt Of hold
f ing ceremonies over the chsrred re-
mains Of the favorite Morgau. T.
horse owned by Mrs. Hodges. which
vas considered i ,cry valuable ami
NAL. A large conCOurse Of people as
semb!ed On the SPOT, and the grave
being dug, and a HolefaE .,
the f0Lts%f -~..Fvu Band, the re-
.s.z.Us Of the favorite Morgan were
consigned To earth.
Prof. Bunsen, the distinguished
chemist, who some time since lost
one eye by an - ylosion in a chemI-
cal experiment, lately came near
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