Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-02-17
MTsoET.I,ANEoUS ITEMS.


The Boston banks have 50, ,o,D,ooe
| capital.
More troops are to leave Spain for
Cuba.
America was discovered on Friday.
hirago sold 3 900 tons of cheese last
year.
Wisconsin boasts / loo 900 popula-
ton.
California wants more light ht-houses.
Judaism Is Oh the increase in
Brooklyn.
Michigan has a trust fund of S405,-
952. 56
y base bail club is reported in
Alaska.
Frank fort Ky, rrjoiccs in a steam
fire engine.
Newark, n. J., wants a ship canal
to New York.
Memphis, Tenn, claims nearly
io, ,ooo population.
Paducah, Ky, votes 3, ,ooa Tor
steam fire engine.
The posce made u 20 arrests IN
brooklyn in 1858.
Brooklyn, y. y, is 10 have ii veio-
cipede school.
Newark, Nj, is To have a new
Episcopal Church.
The King Of bavaria il throwing
Sleeps eyes at "A Russian princess.
Queen Victoria has fifteen grand
children, and expects more shortly.
indianapolis was singed $4,000
worth on 3th.
Richlan,i, O., has a ''Horsc Thief
Detective Society"
There are 5000, ,dOa marriaeeable
women in England.
Stockholm is the most immoral
capital i'll the world.
French newspaper is Ia be star
tedai Nergennes, Vt.
New Hampshire boasts cheese
three feet in diameter.
Easthampton, Mass, has a CHEST
which assaults people.
Horse feed is adulterated fully as
badly as that for bipeds.
The December Canadian bank re-
turns show $50, l4l ,2s5 assets.
Marriages ''for fun" are legally
binding in New York State.
Up to Jan. D there had been 800
bankrupt cases III Virginia.
The New York World calls Mas
sachusetts "the pauper State
Boston and Springfield are playing
chess match by telegraph.
During December SIS, ,76O, 900 was
issued to the Pacific railroads.
In 1865 the Government sold 292, ,6S2,
800 onc-cent revenue stamps.
Fat cattle are driven from Western
Iowa to the Rocky Mountains.
The High School building at Osh-
kosh, Wis, has already cost S53, 600.
The male mosquito does not bite,
but lives in retirement in the woods.
Spiritualists announce Michigan as
the banner State in spiritual reform.
A young Oshkoshite was lately
| fined 81 for winking at lady in the
street.
The yearly rental of the Fifth Ay
| enue Hotel New York, is nearly, $50
| 646.
About Sli, 800 900 were deposited
| III Massachusetts savings banks last
| year.
Scarlet fever is quite prevalent at
Stapleton, Staten Island, New York
! Harbor.
The widening and deepening of
Hell Gate, III New York HarhOr, has
| begun.
| a ledge of marble resembling the
Joliet has been found near Ft. Dodge
| Iowa.
| nine members-all Republicans ex-
| cept nine.
| The Atlantic mail steamers have
never been so delayed by storms as
this winter.
| The oyster boundary question be-
| tween Virginia and Maryland il at
last settled.
OF the twenty-eight newspaper cor
| respondents i'll Paris twenty are Am
! ericans.
| Greenland, n. H., boasts a house
| built iii lG3S sf brick brought flnm
| England.
Philadelphia's. exports for 1865
amounted to SIS, 700, 445, and hereX-
ports Sl4 ,2lS,3 ,3GS.
The last week of the year, ,33s bank
ruptcy applications were filed in
New York City.
st. Georges Chapel, Flushing. L..
l., held its 'Christmas Festival" the
9th OF January.
The Jersey Justices of the Peace
are To have II convention at Trenton
this month.
The Holloway Model Prisonn of
London IL conducted on the terrible
silent system
A valuable chaly ybeAte spring has
been found on the Central Pacific
\ fine African leopard has been ad-
ded To the collection at the New York
Central Park.
During 1868 Newport, r. L., lost by
death fifty eight persons over seven
| ty years age.
Ipswich, Mass, manufactures 30
eD Goldfish lines annually, which sell
for fifty cents each.
Gallignani's Messenger paris,
says Gen. Costas has seized on the
village of Cheyenne"
y Scotch terrier which crossed the
plains To California over twenty wears
ago has just died.
. During two hundred and thirty
years Harvard University has had
twenty y-one Presidents.
/, The latest mushroom is Ogden.
email station on the i. X. r. forty
miles north OF Salt Lake City.
The Board of Health has absolute
~ prohibited all slaughter ~ animals
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