Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-06-02
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

rifles in this country.
: Cincinnati brewed nearly fifty
thousand barrels of beer in March.
Business in idaho is languishing
At no time since 1868 have such dui
times been known.
Wilkie Collins and Mrs. Gaskell
are the favorite English authors in
France. Dickens is scarcely read.
Professor Auxley expects scientific
Sunday schools to be soon started in
every Eng lish parish.
| At the first opening of the County
Court at White Pine 80 lawyers
were on hand.
Mineral water is dispensed i'm the
Central Park, New York, from a
$40, 900 Moorish Kiosk.
There is famine in Central India,
many dying by the road side on the
way to obtain relief
| The grower of cotton gets profit
OF one cent for every five cents pro-
fit by the manufactures.
Women having certain amount
OF property in Russia have the right
To vote by male proxy.
-Four villages in Prussia have been
united by royal decree and will here
after bear the name of Bismarkdorf.
A verdant old man in New Jersey
| thinks the ice crop will be good this
year, because there hasn't been
much frost to injure it.
Sidney Smith compares the WINS
tie of locomotivSto to the squeal of an
attorney, when Satan first gets hold
of him.
A police judge IN Pittsburg de-
scended from his lefty position and
kicked a threatening witness into
| the street.
The great Australia nugget of
gold, "Welcome Stranger, found by
the despairing miners of Donolly,
netted the finders $4,000
If you go into a store and find the
clerk lying on the counter asleep,
you may know that the firm don't
advertise. Anything for a quiet life.
y detective officer sued country
official in Buffalo for ten cents, bor-
| rowed to buy beer. The court gave
Judgment, charging $2.70 costs.
The Germans of Cheyenne have
| organized the Cheyenne Turnver-
ein," with large number of MEM
bers.
=. B. Stevens, of Madison county
Tennessee, recently killed nine
| wolves in their den. He gets So for
| each scalp.
If you are truly benevolent and
charitable, perhaps you will, when
you see neighbor in distress, ask
some other neighbor to help him
John Stuart Mill says all reforms
"have to pass through three Stages
-ridicule, argument and adoption"
A disconsolate husbapd of Lyons,
France, whose wife had deserted him
sent ten barrels of flour to the pious
poor of the city, soliciting their
prayers that the truant might not
return.
Speaking of last words, that was a
strlklngly appropriate remark of
California stage-drver who on his
death-bed was visited by brother
"whip". Said he "Bill, Pm on the
down grade, and | can't reach the
braken'
4 young lady at Troy while engag-
ed III conversation with a gentleman
| few days since; spoke of having re-
sided in st. Louis. "Was st. Louis
your native place ?'' inquired the
gentleman. "Well, yes-qort of ne
time, y replied the young lady.
Building is going on so largely in
Jacksonville, Florida, that the labor
on new houses Is the most flourish
ing branch of business. Even the
ffOd carriers, are said to- look down
on the learned professions as inferior.
As young lady-was coming out
OF church in an interior towr of
New York, young man requested
the pleasure of seeing her home.n -
The fair one replied "No sir ifyou
want To go home with me, you must
go with me to church, sit with me
Xturlng the services, and thus show
yourself worthy of my sompany.v
Sensible girl that.
1t is singular, yet somewhat
startling fact, says the New Orleans
Times, that the Knickerbocker Life
Insurance Company, of New York.
lost over thirty thousand dollars last
summer on insured persons who died
III that city of sunstroke.
The Swiss Government wished to
employ women as telegraphers. On
learning that operators would be
sworn to absolute secresy, MANY of
those who had applied for situations
withdrew, saying that was requir-
ing altogether too much.
Alter twenty-five years service As
Grand Master of the Freemasons of
England, the Earl Of Zealand is about
to retire from that position. A tes-
tl,nonlal TO him on the occasion of
his retirement has nearly reached the
amount of five thousand pounds. and
his lordship announces his intention
OF making it fund for the relief of
distressed masons and their families
TO be dispensed by himself during his
life and afterwards by the Grand
Master for the time being.
The mystery of Napoleon's career
was this: under all difficulties and
uiscouragementS to press On.u 1t
solves the problem of all heroes il
is the rule by which to Judge of all
wonderful success and triumphaI
marches to fortune and genius. 1t
should he the motto of all. "Press
on" Never despair, never be dis
rouraged; however stormy the heay-
ems, or dark the way, of great the
difficulties or repeated the failures.
press On.'
1t is barely century since Con-
stantinople was as unknown and in
accessible as Bokhara is now. 1t il
at present the resort Of tourists. con
tractors, Inanciers and spectators
Of all kinds. The people are no lon
ger Isolated and are at last putting off
even Asiatic ways. \ Turk used To
be known by aturban, bnt now-a-days