Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-04-14
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

/ N Y.
Baltimore has S62 ,136 Inhabitants.
In Wilmington, n c., shad are
sold by the pair.
| Nevada produced Sic, ,OO0, 900 in bull
lion last year.
Savannah is shipping pine lumber
| to Scotland.
| The Dominion Parliament meets
again April Is.
In London six theaters are rlanag-
| ed by women.
| San Francisco uses Alaskan ice at
five cents pound.
The small pox is on the decrease
| in San Franc isco.
There are more than 5000 music
| teachers in New York.
The Dubuque Congregational
Church has 81, 200 organ.
New potatoes are selling in New
| York for S12 per barrel.
Swords publishes the Tickburg
Herald and Spears edits 1t.
Planters near Memphis complain of
| the scarcity of laborers.
Prussia is about to reduce the price
| OF teiegraphing one half.
Fall River, Mass, has colored
teacher in one of its schools.
| A wealthy Jewess is President Of
the Berlin Midnight Mission.
| A Gentlemen's Social Club in st.
Paul has sixty-five members.
| The first advertisement was insert
ed in London paper in l648.
The Germans of Omaha started
Ia daily nanor nv, tho 1Efl, ;D.k
One-fifth of the order Of Jesuits are
said to be in the United States.
The number Of cotton spindles in
| the United States Is said to be 6,OOO,-
900.
Ocean County, N. j., is planting
| new cranberry beds in large nrm-
| bers.
| New tomatoes, cucumbers and
| straw berries have appeared in New
York.
| The New York State Prisons In
1868 expended $3.50, 600 over their
income.
| Schenectady is on pins and needles
regarding her proposed water works.
Large quantities of fperch are being
taken from the Skaneateles Lake,
n. Y.
A hundred pound sturgeon was re-
Gently caught in Winnebago Lake,
Wis.
i Greece and Turkey are preparing
to interchange diplomatic civilitIes
again.
st. Paul is to have q $500 600 hotel
in place of the INTERNATIONAL recently
burned.
The State Institution for the Blind,
at Batavia, N. Y, has about sixty
inmates.
The custom of ringing the curfew
bell was revived at Dover, N. H., on
the 22d ult.
! New Hampshire's State debt will
be reduced $500, 900 during the year
ending June next.
The Principals of the Buffalo pub
lie schools receive 81 200 year and
are asking for more.
The Boston Evening Transcript
has just invested 100, 900 superfiuous
dollars i'm real estate.
The Chicago merchants and prop
erty owners have insured every fire.
man for $1,000.
The Chinese river, ,Hwangho, has a
new mOuth-five hundred miles
north Ofits old one.
| The Queen of Belgium is q very
good harpist. She learned to play
it to soOthe her sick son.
A genius at Houston, Texas, sews
cows tails on old horses hides and
produces merchantable article.
| A Cincinnatian had himself COM
mitted to the Insane Asylum to pre-
vent his committing suicide.
A lamp chimney which had been
in use nine years was recently broken
at the Mottville, N. Y, post-office.
A lady has just died in England "A
hundred years and three months old,
| who never but on one occasion went
beyond her native place.
A New Hampshire man lately
| caught eishty-five pounds of trout
in Lake Winnipisaukee i'm two days.
| time.
A Northport, N.. ID man owns
| ten miles of sea-shore, and Is selling
| it for roof pebbles at five dollars q
| ton.
The Ithacan says that morebuild-
ings are to be erected i'm Ithaca
this year than during any previous
one.
A Medina On. W newsdeaIer
sued another for encroaching upon
his domain, and gained six cents as
| 8 verdict.
The peach beds at Vineland, N. j..
| are said to promise a large crop OF
fruit, and the wheat fields never
looked better.
The organ at st. PauI's Church.
London, is in such bad order that it
frequently breaks down in the midst
of service.
Bellewood Seminary, near Louis
vile, was damaged by fire, ON Thurs
day to the extent Of 81 500; insured
for 81 600.
The Montreal water works have
given out from defective machinery.
and the city is supplied by carts.
Maine druggists petition for a
law requiring a special education for
their business before entering upon
it.
The Michigan Legislature has
under consideration bill to prevent
the shooting of any person ain
sport"
The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad
Will probably be built On the south
ern survey and run through Roches-
ter.
A man in Danbury, CT, has bet