Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-12-30
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS


Theatrical performances.in Japan last
all night.
There are said to be thirty thousand
shoemakers in Paris.
King Louis H., of Bavaria, is said to
have two or three epileptic fits every day.
Prince Napoleon, 1t is said, has squan-
dered upwards Of fifty million francs since
the year 1852.
The heirs of William Penn have from
the English pension fund $4,000 year
forever"
There are fifty two streets in London
named after the Duke OF Wellington,
twenty. nine after Marlborough, and eleven
after Nelson.
A young girl committed suicide near
Liverpool, England, recently, because her
sister, with whom she resided, refused to
allow her to "butter piece of bread.
AT Buenos Ayers the first synagogue
in the Republic has just been complet-
ed. The Jews in the city number eighty
eight. but there are several hundred in
the Republic.
Rev. J. A. Bowden, LII. d., in his
book on the wild animals and birdsof prey
of Norway, speaks of lady whose lap.dog
was snatched from her sleigh by wolf
while she was driving in the outskirts OF
the town of Christiana.
"A telegram from Rome reports that
the Pope has issued decree providing
that, in case of his death, the Ecumenical
Council shall be dissolved and none but
cardinals take part in the election of his
successor. itEkt SD tLt 81 AAaN.
The High School at Warsaw, in Po-
land, has been made Russian University.
Everything Polish has been swept away.
SO far has this process of Russianization
been carried, that the students are FORBID
den to wear boards or moustaches
Russian Poland is decreasing in pop
ulation very rapidly; the city Of Warsaw
alone has lost forty thousand inhabitants
during the last four years. The census
recently taken shown a population OF 25S,-
900, while that Of 1865 showed 292, 900 in
habitants. t ffgr e - n
The King of Prussia, by SPECIAL de-
cree, has ordered that hereafter the birth
day of Martin Luther, the great German
roformer-the 10th of November-shali
be considered and celebrated as a thanks
giving day, by all the Protestant churches
of the Prussian monarchy.
They hire out dress coats now in
London, to the advantage of the class who
live on the interest of their debts, and
vet want occasionally to dine out. Here
is an advertisement from an English pa.
per: "Dress Goats Lent. B. lends the
finest of clothes for operas, balls or we'd
dings. New fashionable and premier
quality from the most eminent West End
tailors, &c"
In Burgundy there prevails curious
custom of surrounding the tops of chin
news with elaborate iron work, in order to
prevent storks from making their nests in
the chimneys. One of the causes of such
guard being adopted seems to have been
that snake once wriggled down the
chimney into the drawing room of cha
teau, and, when the servants went out to
see how the unwelcome visitor made its
way in, they found stork looking into
the chimney curiously, and evidently
wondering what had become OF his In
tended dinner.
There are two shops just opposite one
another in the Rue de Rivoli, the most
fashionable shopping quarter OF Paris, in
which the same goods are sold. The one,
on its sign, offers g the only genuine pro-
duct-beware of counterfelts and the
other declares, Every article that does
not come from our house is "a counterfeit
There are two sausage dealers in differ
ent neighborhood of the same city, one of
whom has painted on his glass window,
over pyramid of sausages; At ten
cents a pound; to pay more is to be
robbed I" while the other puts his saus-
ages into an obelisk, and paints above it
At twelve cents pound to pay less is
to be poisoned" aaaap