Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-08-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

spoken with each other for over tw
years.
The posthumous papers of Hum
boldt are declared to be worthless
and unfit or publication.
The German astronomer, Maedler
has measured the height of 109-
mountains in the moon. Twenty
two of these are higher than Mount
Blame, which is two feet of being
| three miles high-six are above 49,
600 feet. The highest observed noun
| tain in the moon is "a 944 feet high.
Tom Allen, the fistist, on a recent
| visit to Louisville, KY, was as much
| made of as a good trotting horse
would be. "Any objection of my
feeling your arm, Mr.. Allen?" Tom
| couldn't t resist, and had to submit to
a plnching and squeezing of his arms
and legs that seemed greatly to en-
barrass him.
The Century Plant in Rochester is
now nearly sixteen feet high, has
fifteen arms or flower stems, the
largest of which is one foot. There
are one hundred buds already form
ed, and many more Will probably
appear soon. All these will in time
become blossoms.
The Rev. Thomas S. Burnell and
for his wife, merly of Northampton,
Mass, who have been missionaries
III India for thelast twenty-one years,
returned home to Northampton.
They were 133 days in gcing to UaIn
when they first went out, and but
3o in returning,so great has been the
Improvement in travelling facilities
within the last two decades.
A considerable number of ladies IN
Cambridge, Mass, among whom are
Mrs. Pierce (author of the articl on
cooperative house keeping which
recently appeared in the Atlantic
Monthly, and Mrs. Horace Mann
have agreed to try the experiment
of store room, bakery, kitchen and
laundry on the cooperative prin-
ciple.
The newly appointed Russian
Minister Plenipotentiary to the
United States, Mr.. Katakari, is one
of the most brilliant and accomplish
ed of Russian diplomats. He is of
Greek descent, his father having
otficiated as the Cars Ambassador
at Athens. Like most Russians, he
is fervent admirer of the American
people and of American progress.
A school girl of ten summers pur.
chased pair of boots. After wear
ing them one day, she found they
had broken out. She took them back
to the man she had bought them
of, and, after examining them, he
said :-"They We're not taken in
enough, were they ?'' "No, she re-
piled, "but / was" The clerks
smiled.
A lady witness being asked her
age by counsel, replied, mo particu-
lar age, the same age as other people. -
How many voters could make any
other reply # asked for their prin-
clples-no particular principles, the
same principles rs those of the party.
An old lady, recently, in some
court before which she was brought
as witness, when asked by one of
the Judges to take off her bonnet.
o6stlnately refused to do so, saying,
there is no law to compel woman
to take Off her bonnet "Oh.D inn
pudently replied one of the judges,
you know the law, do you; per-
haps you would like to come UP and
sit here and teach us ?'' 'sNo 1 thank
you, sir, said the woman tartly," ,"here
are oCd aconaen enough there nOaU."
An offended woman, not having a
special invitation to the funera of a
near nelghbOr, sent the following note
to the mOurners "T think / have
been slighted in being omitted from
you list of invitations. We shall
probably have a funeral at our
house one of these days, and we
won 'tInvite you.
The n. Y.Times says PHILADELPHIA
Is to have a bigger musical jubilee
than Boston has had. 1t is propos-
ed to celebrate the centennial an
niversary of the signing of the Dec
iaralloh or independence, on the
Fourth OF July. 1876, by a gigantic
muslcal festival, in a building espe-
cIally erected in Paramount Park
capable of accommodating 100 O0o
spectators and 1900 performers.
A son of the Rev Edward Beecher
ID. d., was recently ordsined i'm Hi.
n0ls, and the officiating clergyman
addressed him in the following inn
presslVe manner: II charge YOU
never to forget that you are the son
ofyour father, the grandson of your
grandfather land the nephew of your
uncle"
A boy fell asleep in one of the
Cleveland churches, on Sunday night
ana did not wake until after the
lights were out, and the church was
locked up for the night. About an
hour after several people were alarm
ed by cries proceeding from the in
terror, and, in few moments "a large
crowd assembled, the sexton was
sent for, the door was opened. and
lhe boy ran out with a good will.
A German named Carl Schell
married young girl just from the
faderland, at Omaha, some three
weeks ago, lin most peculiar manner.
He purchased a pair of ear bObs
put them in her ears, and informed
the young lady that "this little
ceremony constitutes a marriage in
America" After week had pasesd
he took them out and informed her
OF another piece of news, viz: ssThis
nttle ceremony constitutes q di-
vorce In America Heis n,win iaiI
for stealing trunk.
To prevent silverware from tar
nlshIng, warm the articles and paint
them over with thin solution of
coilodion in alcohol, using a wide,
soft brush for the purpose. A silver
smith of Munich says that good
protected IN this way have been
exposed in his window more than
year and are as bright as ever,
others unprotected have become
perfectly black in few months.
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