Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-26
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

-Four beech nuts, sound and sweet,
were recently found near the heart ol
an oak in Indiana with 250 years
growth Of woods over them,
Eastern capitalists have sent to
: San Francisco about four million
dollars, and propose soon to follow
their treasure to that city and invest
In the lumber yard of the Union
Pacific Railroad ut Omaha, are about
four and 4 half million feet of lum Ter,
and the shops there employ 16S
r workmen.
: Speculation in real estate in Chi
cago is very active. Land in the
vicinity of the proposed parks is
worth twelve times ;ss much rs a few
months since.
Commodore Vanderbilt took
mouthful of bed bug poison the other
day by mistake, and not wanting to
dlespit 1t out and suffered 40 mat
erial harm.
n Cleveland newspaper recently
advertised that it would send IL copy
iess,, iFfe 70 3 any, any person sending
country sent it the ten spot of clubs
\ female witness in case on trial
- A""h''Ai; pii beliS asheu III SHt
knew certain party, "Know him?"
said the witness. "Ies, I've known
aim ever since he tOas hatched."
1t was an apt answer of young
lady who, being asked where was
| her native place, replied "I have
none am the daughter of Metho-
dist minister
| The New York Street Commission
er, Mr.. Mclean, has given notice of
his intention To enforce the ordinance
which prohibit. the posting, in any
| part OF the city, of medical handbilis,
or bills giving notice of the sale or
exposure to sale, of any nostrum or
medicin"
| Prince Napoleon has n civil list of
two million francs, but after squan-
dering the4dowry of his..wife, tin prin-
cess Clothilde, who was goodnstured
enough to put 1t in his control, he
has runin debt to such an extent that
one-half his annual income is paid
| directly to his creditors.
Nearly all the Touring mills in
Minneapolis are closed for want of
grain. The railroads have had such
| Il competition for the transportation
of grain that most of it has been
taken To the East to be ground,
though there are immense quantities
still III store III other parts of Min
nesota.
On looking over the papers of a
wealthy lady who lately died in New
lork,a paper was.discovered stating
that two pots of money were buried
III the cellar. On un-earthing them,
one was found 10 be filled with gold
and the other with greenbacks, the
whole amounting to three hundred
thousand dollars.
| The Cincinnati Commercial prints
a long double loaded leader advocat-
ing the annexation OF the Dominion
of Canada, Cuba, the Danish islands
and British Columbia, anu the cal
ling of a great national convention
TO which the proposed new citizens
shall send delegates, for the forma-
ton of new constitution.
y lad in Irasburgh, VT, sick will,
membranous Group, was lately given
upas dead, and prepa arationsmade to
lay him out, when 4 slight rattle was
heard in the throat. The most vigo-
rous efforts We're used, and he was
again restored, almost as one risen
from the dead-a warming to people
not To remit efforts to save life IA
| i%iS7 - ~h>~~e a. i'"essti. a puIsatisn
Of the heart.
At Little SOdus, y. Y, last week.
q daughter, five years old, of James
| PARSONS, fell into well about TWEEN
| ty feet deep, with 10 feet of water
\ man who was passing, heard pc
cuiiar cries from the dog. who .ra7
running frantically arouiiu the we'll
The man got upon the fence and saw
the animal jump into the well. He
ran to the spot and saw the child
upheld by the dog. Both were i'm
med1ately rescued.
n Washington letter writer reports
| that recently an Ohio, Congressman
| received petition signed by 800
| persons, asking the appointment ofa
| woman Us Postmaster, and three da,-s
| later had received twenty-five con-
| fidential letters from the ais;ners, in.
| forming him that she was not fit for
| the place, and that hey mad not the
courage to refuse TO sign her papers.
| y promising young shaver of live or
| six years was reading his lesson Mt
school one day, in that deliberate
manner for which urchjns of that
age are somewhat remarkable. AS
he proceeded with tie task, he came
| upon the passage: Keep thy tone,,~
from evil, and thy lips, from p~.ie."
| Master Hopeful drawled ops: Keep
tho -tongue-froni -evil--and
-thv -lips-from- girls"
y yeung iady's opinion OF the
| 5onnet of the season :"Oh, the bon
nets of my girlhood-the kind wore
To school ! | really thought them
pretty; / must have been a fool. And
yet | used To think myself OH hats a
jaunty miss. Perhaps / was. as FASH
ion went;but what was-that To thi,o
Oh, the lovely little pancake-the
charming little mat it make. my
head solevel, and SO very, very fat.u
The Deiavan (Wis.) RepuLlicon
says: I'VE have just been shown an
egg laid by hen of the Bramah
persuasion, measuring nine and a
half inches iii circumference one
way, and seven and a half the other
weighing six and three-auarter,
ounces, which upon being brokenex-
hibited a perfectly formed egg of
about the usual dimensions, within.
lhd,hjf inlpia5itY Gan. he. beaten we
sad to say, soon after departed tlhi.
| lifen
George Sarman, Netherlandish
/ Jew, who a few years ago, made. the
| people of ST. Peters burg believe that
| he was General w. L, Sherman, has
/ played the same trick with equal
success at Stockholm. a fellow.
/ claiming to be the youngest son OF
! Secretary Seward, fleeced Vienna
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