Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-02-24


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Cheshire, Mass, boasts a boy of six
teen who is already six feet three in
ches high.
The mum Der of children in London
destitute of proper parental care is
fully 100000.
Cincinnatians think better veloci-
pedes are made there than in New
York or Paris.
During 1865 st. AlbaAs, VT, sold
,6o6, $50 pounds of butter at forty
cents pound.
Being annexed to Boston is "Suf-
folkation, " and Hull is to be the next
victim.
a pork butcher in Cincinnati was
bitten by struggling hog and died
III consequence.
lncendiary fires are causing Mans
field, o., to talk of reviving its vigi-
lance committee.
The English NOW get their news
from China via San Francisco, New
York and the cable.
Bostonians put letters in their Ere
alarm signal boxes, mistakig them
for letter boxes.
The Liberal majority in the British
House of Commons is exactly one
hundred and twenty-oHe.
Straw and hay are 80 high in Mon
treal that horses are bedded with
sawdust and fed on carrots.
She sheep folds of Erie County, Pa.
| are troubled by a pack of wolves
which defy capture.
There are said to be numerous
| Oh in,
| in watching Cuban residents.
The Georgia Legislature has ex-
tended the time for the collection of
State taxes until March.
| Colorado" signifies red ore, and
was so named from the red ore of
silver found within its limits.
| The Norwich and Worcester r. X.
has an invalid car" with all the
| coHveniences of n sick room.
! a South Maiden, Mass, man has
just been fined one dollar for killing
neighbor's rooster a year ago.
Buffalo has superior chicken dog
which killed thirteen choice fowls in
one coop the same night.
A Southwick, Mass, lady owned
| fifteen cats, but was recently grieved
by the poisoning of three of them.
Smart policemen in Baltimore-one,
while on duty, had his pocket picked
OF gold watch on the 10th inst.
A Buffalo thief accounted for the
possession of a bar of iron by saying
he found it floating in the canal.
Springfield, Mass, won in the
Geographic chess match with Boston,
out the latter city challenges again.
a six hundred and forty-five acre
plantation, but twenty-one miles
from Charleston, 5. c., sold the other
day for $500.
An Ohio church had its carpet
stolen, and when new one was
provided the thieves brought back the
old and took the new one.
The Massachusetts Charitable Me-
chanics association have resolved to
hold an exhibition of mechanical and
industrial products, in Boston during
the present year.
Professor Liebig assures us that
AGO quarts of the best Bavarian beer
contain exactly the nOurishment of
| two and half pound loaf of bread.
This beer Is similar to the famous
English Allsop's, ana our more pop
ular American beer.
In Portland, Maine, persons char
ged with illegally engaging in the
liquor business have been fined and
sentenced to three months imprison
ment, and the bars at the leading
hotels shut up There is good deal
| OF speculation cOncernieg the move
| meAt.
Advertising is merely making an
extension of your shop front i'm the
newspapers. You display your ar
| ticles in the window where a fe{y
| hundred see them and in newspaner
you enumerate what yen have for
sale, and thousands are thereby at
tracted to your store.
a domestic Unpleasant" in Ey
ansvilie, Indiana, on Monday. cnI-
minated in Mrs. Schreiner hurting
kerosene lamp at her unworthy bns-
bands head, which missed and fal,
upon the bed. The lamp broke. and
the buring fluid enveloped the bed
in flames, which rendered it necaa-
sary for the amiable couple to agree
TO truce, in order to prevent the
house begin consumed.
y man from the interier sf Penn
sylvania lost his pocket-book i'm phil
adelphia few days since. A hv
stander saw the theft, but refused 10
describe the pjckpocket. In explain
alton Of this strange refusal, he ask ed
the victim, ''Why did you charge mo
ten cents fer drink of water when T
was IN the army at Gettysburgp,,
There was nothing more to be said
after that.
AT the Merriaack House, New-
buryport, is a famous dog called
Darkness, /" who by turning a wheel
with he's feet pumps all the water re-
quired the work oftwo men. On ene
occasion during the night the dog
escapes from his kennel, got into the
wheel and amused himself with
pumping water until the tank ever
flowed.
A husband at Syracuse, COMING
home recently very unexpectedly one
night, was detained for some time at
the door. When he get in his wife
wanted to send him out upon differ
ent pretenses, but he entered the he'd
room and found there fellow whom
the wife had wished to get out of tI,e
house unperceived. The husband
did not shoot, as many husbands
would, but made the wife dress and
then turned her and her paramour
out OF the front door together.
Two boys living near Meridian M;s-
slsslppi, aged respectively ten and