Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-10-14
with:those in their pockets, players would

with. those in their pockets, players would
stake them as readily as smaller pieces.
An English huckster advel.. II a
quarter of poun' of tea f)r eightperce,
"an' a glass OF run given away 10 wash
1t down. An officer of inland revenue
bought some tea and was treated to glass
of rum, He then summoned the man for
selling rum without license, and pro-
cured he infection of fine of S125
A medallion with the inscription
Died of poison" was found upon the
who died in Paris several months ago. 1t
is suppose { have been placed there by
a servant of the family, who wishes to d.
vulge the crime without committing her
self personally. The police are investiga-
ting the matter.
"A correspondent of the Toledo Com.
naercial, from Findlay, Ohio, states that
Father Hill, Methodist preacher who
died recently, aged seventy-nine, preached
forty. five thousand eight hundred and
ninety sermons during his life, which
would be between eleven and twelve ser
mons week from birth to death.
Accidents from machinery in factories,
in England during the six months ending
April 30, 1862 amounted in number to g.
061, of which So were fatal. The total
number of accidents whether from ma
chinely or from other causes, amounted to
SLIT. With this large number of casualties,
only 430 intormatlons against owners were
laid, and III of these were withdrawn on
payment of costs. The convictions were
265, and the fines inflicted amounted to
S2,110.
"A company has been formed in Paris to
carry out "A really novel idea IL the way of
advertising. The company takes lease
of window in the second or third story of
house in prominent street or boulevard.
From dusk till after midnight trans
parency, brightly lit up, on a ea-green
ground, sets forth the advertisement You
can arrange either for display once a
week or whole week, &c, alternately in
any of the windows in the several quarters
possessed by the company.
The Siberian astronomical expedition,
from the National Observatory at Wash.
ington, sent from San Francisco to the
coast Of Siberia, in government vessel,
was decided failure The party arrived
at their destination safely, erected their
observatory, and the weather was favora-
bic until half an hour before contact"
when dense clouds obscured the sun, and
continued until half an hour after the ter
mination of the eclipse when the skies
cleared off. The party then hacked up
their traps" and steamed for San Fran
cisco about as thoroughly disguised as it is
possible for men to be.
1t is stated that so many wealthy Rus
slams go to the German gambling water
ing places, and are ruined there, that the
matter has been made the subject of diplo.
matte notes to the Governments by which
the banks are authorized, asking them to
do away with the system altogether, in
the interests of morality and humanity
Otherwise the Russian Government will
be compelled to throw more difficulties in
the way Of allowing its subjects to travel,
and will prohibit altogether the residence
of Russians in the States where gambling
is authorized.
Professor Faber's speaking machine is
to be exhibited at Hamburg during the In
ternational Horticultural Exhibition. 1t
is said to articulate various words, and to
answer questions by simple sentences,
with wonderful distinctness This is not
the first invention of the kind that has
been exhibited, Wolfgang Won Kempelen,
the inventor of a chess automaton, who
was born at Presburg, in 1884, and died at
Vienna in 1904, constructed a machine of
the kind, and wrote on the subject The
machine about to be exhibited at Han burg
is, however, reputed to be more perfect
than any previous invention Of the kind