Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-08-07
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

2 Iowa has eight oEc-armed Co,.nfy
Recorders.
Toledo clerks have fnrme,. h. pro
tcctlv@ association.
1t costs S50, 900 apiece To XIII In
dams III hr;zona.
inere was a 'drnmno, oud NJ
date at the recent Ii.s.Ss, s'''" =.
The first grain elevator in Califor
MA has been erected at Vallejo.
The Sunday school system Is
extending in Russia
Western Texas has exported a quar-
ter of n million head of cattle. this
year.
There were never before so MANY
persons unemployed in Chicago "a.
now.
A kentucky musical prodigy of
seven plays the fiddle to perfrc-
tion.p
"A negro, iecturiog in Georgia
asserts that Adam vas a yellow
man.
| General Preble was the first white
man who visited the summit of
Mount Washington.
Snails in Kentucky have learned
To chew tobacco, and are rapidIy
diminishing the supply for their hui
man eXemplars.
Boston has public statues of Frank
I'm, Webster, Everett, Mann, Rec
lhoven, Hamilton and Washington.
III. w. Smith, the Boston steel EN-
graver, Is at work OH the heads of
The Long John Wentworth'' fn;ni-
ly. '"'''i-
ruth avenue houses in New York
nave Cashmere door-mats now aut
US supposed That the next novelty
VIII be eamePs hair dish-clouts.
A hospital attendant at Stra,hurg
ieii IN loVewith n Sister of Mercy
ana because she showed his letter IL
the superior he shot her.
a North Adams Mass, hen reared
a brood OF kittens and scratched the
eyes out of the mother when she
tred To take them away
| A large number of male clerks i'm
| the patent Office have been removed
TO make room for fifty-three female
clerks. '"'e
| The authorities in France have
recently obtained indisputable proof
lhat three persons executed for mur-
der In 1900 were entirely innocent
The Alabama correspondence fills
seven volumes of six hundred pages
each, and Is to be issued at Washing
ton this week.
| In New York during the month of
May, the receipts of the horse cars
| amounted TO more than three times
the sum taken at the theaters.
| couple of girls in Cincinnati who
| had spite against a young man. en-
| tered his room during his absence
1
| acid.
| The proprietor of the Mammoth
| cave, Kentucky, are fitting un a
| large ballroom lust inside of ita
| mouth, which is to be opened on the
10Th inst. with a grand ball.
DIR. Schenck the "Seaweed Tonic,
| man, has built steam yscbt Wiz,
| ne calls the "Seaweed.o - She is finely
hour. "h
A present fashion i'm Paris ia for
ladies' TO wear dress, stockings and
shoes OF the same color, the last he
ing cut very low, as the first has-
| long been.
Nearly one hundred young colored
men are in Rome STUDYING for tho
Roman Catholic priesthood. Most of
Them VIII become teachers of the
freedmen in the southern States.
Pine apples are being cultivated
III the peninsula of Florida with the
greatest success. They are larger
than those grown in the West IN
uies, ana fully equal to them I'm
sweetness and flavor.
Cahada has new patent law. 1t
excludes from it's benefits all aliens
VINO are non-residents. A person
may secure patent only by a
residence OF year in the Dominion
which will of course effectuaIly drive
away foreign inventors.
Letters received from Jefferson
Davis, now at Paris say that his
health may never permit his return.
III he recoVers sufficiently to permit
travel, he will spend the summer i'm
Canada and the winter III Missis
sippi.
me question of calling a cOnven-
tion 10 frame State Constitution
was submitted to the voters Of WASH
ington Territory at the lat, election
Very little interest was taken I'm the
matter, and most of the few votes
given were in the negative.
a Mr.. Warren, who is now work
ing rake factory in Mount Holly.
W, Is perfectly blind. He is one Of
VIC pes. ihechanlcs In the works. and
can ADJUST the most complicated ma
chlnery and perform any of the va
rlous Kinds Oflabor required I'm man
ufacturing the rake from the log
New Jersey papers advise ownsr,
OF orchards to thin out their peache.
M ana 10 prop up the limbs at one
me frult Is excessively abundant
some trees being SO loaded will, II
mat the peaches "look about a.
thick as grapes upon bunch.n
An unhappy negro benedict of
Woodford county, KY, told hj.
amiable spouse where his mon.y
was, donned an old ragged anil cf
clothes, walked five miles to- the
house in which he was married
ana going into "a thicket near Ly
huns himself with n grape vine.
boy, l3 years of age, recently re-
ceived, at Warsaw, fifty Iashes. for
having shouted on the public prone
made in the Polish language: "I,ong
live free Poland! Long live Lan0ic.
wior !" After being fogeed. The
poor little fellow was sent to n Housa
of Refuge in Moscow, where he will
be enrolled as private in the army
as soon as he is II years old.
A man in Hamburg, ,Pennsylyania
bought wagon-load of boards ahon.
thirty years ago, and falling to get
the price he asked determined not to
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