Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-03-17
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

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| Missouri now has law against prize
fighting.
New Orleans has a Board of Marine
Inspectors.
ST. Louis coInpleted seven chtir-
ches last year.
Dubuque is having four murder
trials at once.
Indianapolis is after the State Ag-
ricultural College.
New York State has eight hundred
cheese factories.
Toll gates have been abolished in
| Inverness-shire, Scotland.
| San Francisco has Greek Church
and Chinese temple.
There is place down in Alabama
called Hatchechubee.
Savannah recently sold 500, 900
worth of cotton in one day.
The Rock Island Soldiers Monu-
ment is to be dedicated April 8.
The Crown of France is now the
owner of the Mount of Olives.
The Illinois Central Railroad sold
1O,072.42 acres during January.
Watertown, Wis, has young
man with a snake in his stomach.
| Massachusetts turned out 500, ,0OO,-
900 worth of boots and shoes in 1865.
ST. Louis had a very harmonious
Female Suffrage meeting on the
| 18th.
| Eefenceless villages in Chill are
mercilessly pillaged by wandering
marauders.
The New York City local taxes
collected since Oct. amount to S2l,
049, ,600.2S.
A Detroit literary society offers a
gold medal for the best essay upon
superstition.
There are eight hundred and thir-
| ty-one long school houses now stand
ing in Indiana.
The Methodist Church at Santa
Clara, Cal, has twenty-siX China
men in its Bible Glass.
The Louisville Superintendent of
Police has been sued for S20,0Q0 for
false imprisonment.
A New Foundland dog recently
jumped from a third story window in
I New York and was killed.
A letter box in Pennington, Me-,
was recently filled with water and
froze solid, letters and al.
An advertisement in a New York
daily reads :-"Indian meal is too
heating. What will you do?"
There is movement in Mexico,
under direction of Quiroga and other
generals, in favor of Santa Anna.
Fickle Cleveland, after being so
generous to her letter-carrlers al. New
Years, now objects to the carrier
system.
The inhabitants of MaZatiaii, Mex
leo have paid $4 900 to the new Col
lector as deficits ON last years Gus
toms.
In Boston women are taxed on sos
900, 900 of real estate and $13, eco, 900
of personal property. Some of them
would Ikea chance to vote on the
disposal of this property.
There is a very young negro mother
in Pulaski, Tennessee. She is but II
fyears and s months old. Both she and
baby are in perfect health.
Young lady: "Oh! lam so glad
you like birds which kind do you
admire most ?" Old SQUAD: "Well,
| think the goose, with plenty OF
stufling, is about as good as any"
y Western paper having announ-
ced the shooting of wildcat by IA
little boy five feet eight inches long"
an exchange queries 'what they call
Dig boys there ?"
I Much sport has been created in
HolyOke by the exhibition of an old
fashioned spinning wheel as a veloci-
pede. So few of the present genera
ton were familiar with the ancient
machine that the hoax was very
successful.
A negro clergyman addressed his
congregation thus: "B'love bredren
and sisters, you dono how to tell de
Sleeps from de goats. Berry welli
shall ask you which oh dem hab de
wool and which oh dem hab de hair?n
A three-year old youngster saw
drunken man "tacking" through the
street. Mother, said he, "did God
make that man ?n She replied in the
ed for a moment and then exclaimed:
~ wouldn't have done it."
"My dear" inquired young wife
of her husband, on his return from
business, "have you seen the beauti-
full set of walnut furniture which the
Smiths have bOught?n "Ahem yno,
it quite satisfies me-"
+ a boy named Hammer, of Concord,
a few days since, picked up, in the
street, WnaI he supposed 10 De gum.
He put it into his pocket, and went
to school. Soon afterwards his
clothes were found to be on fire. He
was badly burned before the fire was
extinguished. The gum proved to be
phosphorus.
II don't want mother to marry
again." said little boy one day at
breakfast. "Whyno ?" was asked,
with some surprise. "Because u
said he, "I'ye lost one father, and
L don't want the trouble of getting
acquainted with another"
The amount OF Illinois State debt
paid in January last was $532,O13 81.
Amount called in by proclamation
of Gov. Palmer, S407 600, payable in
New York on the first of April next.
a bout S75, 900 of the amount called
in by Gov. Oglesby's proclamation is
yet outstanding, and will be paid ON
demand. The amount of debt matur-
ing this year will be 81, ,261 ,543, %.
/ Charles T. Nelms, one of the heay-
lest of the brewers of the Northwest.
died from the effects Of the prick of
a pin on his finger some weeks ago.
Mr.. Melms had become famous All
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