Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-03-03
MIsCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Boston has 57f doctors.

| One days cotton sales in Savannah,
| lately, amounted TO S40o, 900.
| Boston is eI7, ,95S. 500 in debt and
Cincinnati S4 ,039, COO.
Shakspearean sociables are held
| weekly among the elite of Fifth
avenue, New York.
| Cattle have beer killed within five
miles of Athens, NY, by roaming
| panther.
The Christians of the world last
year contributed S5, ,000, 600 TO foreign
/ missions.
| The Prussian Government has Of
| fereC prize of 1000 for the best es
say on vaccination.
The story goes that the people OF
Rondout, n. Y, have intermarried
till they are all cousins.
| y Lynchburg (Val carpenter has
| fallen heir to 81 200, 900 by the death
| of an English relative.
| John Stuart Mill approves the
| allowing of prisoners TO testify in
| their own defence.
Mendelssohn's grave, in Berlin, is
entirely neglected and overgrown
with weeds.
| "Nelocipede candy is the newest
\
hopes it is not worked with the feet.
/ Miss Amy Stone at Glover, VT;
| whipped 200-pound lubber the
other day ior bad behavior.
| Iowa has two thousand Post Off
| ces, and there are twenty thousand
aspirants.
The Norfolk Journal says the land
| fever Is increasing and every day
| hrInUS pntprnriSint N nrt har, fo orp,.Fs.
who are looking for cheap farms.
| The Cleveland Leader thinks that
between keptomonia and insanity,
/ the ten commandments are having
hard time of it in New York.
| The editor of the Galena Gazette
| offers $50, 900 worth of accounts for
| 5000. This is where some of the
profits go in the newspaper business.
| \ Greene county girl getting Tilted,
instead of taking arsenic, took a
stout stick and licked the fellow
handsomely.
Brigham Young's latest revelation
| instructs him to build million dollar
hotel at Salt Lake city, and he pro-
poses to do it.
| Two dollars is what it costs to
gouge out an eye in Cincinnati.
Probably it could be done cheaper by
contracting for quantity.
The majority of nose who speak
the English lang age are now on the
American side of the Atlantic, yet it
Is the most universal language now
| spoken.
| The Georgia Legislature has been
asked to appropriate $4,000 to give
appropriate burial to the Confederate
dead.
| Taxation is said to bear equally on
all classes, from the fact that it hardly
presses on the rich, and presses hard
| ly on the poor.
At an agricultural dinner, farmer
gave as his toast: "The Game of
! Fortune-Shutfie the cards as you
will, spades must win"
Madame Eemorest, the New York
mCdiste, learned the millinery busi-
ness at Lansingburg, New York,
| where she was only plain and pretty
Ellen Curtiss.
Gov. Sprague and wife will spend
three weeks next summer camping
out i'll the Maine woods, with some
friends; perhaps hunting little, as
| Sprague is fond of the Chase.
| While Benjamin Franklin was
alive he purchased his paper from
the Ivy Mill in Delaware county, Pa.
The mill was erected in I772, and is
still in operation.
| Fanny Fern, who married Parton.
the biographer, says, "for the most
part, tho more sensible a man is the
bigger fool he marries. This is es-
pecially true of biographers."
| A thief in New Orleans the other
day, in picking lady's pocket of a
few dollars in greenbacks, dropped
| accidentally in her pocket diamond
ring, valued at between one hundred
and fifty to two hundred dollars,
The Duke of Magenta, who has
been living luxuriously in Paris in
these piping, times of peace" is
ordered to grid on his sword and be-
take himself to Algeria, where the
natives have risen in revolt.
While lately en- route to t, South.
! ThurlOw Weed was fellow passen-
ger with Mr.. Latare, who told Mr..
| Weed, who has long been an invalid.
that he had never been sick in his
| life AS the steamer arrived at the
! Charleston dock, Latare fell instantly
dead.
Several years ago a geological
survey of Ohio was begun, but mis-
! taken economy induced the Legisla.
ture to cutoff the appropriation when
| the work was still incomplete There
| is now proposition to enter upon
| the survey again.
Two children, living near Musca-
tine, were left alone last Sabbath.
when one of them applied Lighted
match to a flask of powder. A ter
rife explosion followed, injuring the
child severely, blowing a door and
| window from the house and setting
the building on fire.
| Houston, Texas, boasts of calf
which has three eyes three horns, the
extra eye being located in the center
| of the forehead and the extra horn
Immediately above it. 1t is an is-
provement on the English unicorn:
patent applied for.
Two New Haven lawyers were
recently sent for to prepare the last
will and testament ofa dying woman.
| They were met at the door by the
irot" husband of the dying woman
who swore he would cut them into
steaks If they went in, as ne did moi
/ intend to have his wife will her nron-
erty away from the heirs if a carving
knife would prevent it.
The gas issuing from rock creviceo
| ON the western line of Pennsylyani.
along the Ohio River, has been ign;t''
ed by some of the inhabitants, and
| travellers passing at night see hinge
flames Jetting out here and there
{ Ihe effect Is said to ba hrtI