Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-07-10
MISCELLANEOUS irEms.

Is erecting at 2 cost Of g.. 900 coo.
Mr.. RIrlings,He's two balls In Paris
cost The Emperor cf China $40, Vta.
In some psests of California wine is
cheaper than milk.
n reward Is offered by NestcsiI
farmers for a grasshoppcr trap.
The Beck OF Daniel has recently
been issued from the press in Ran
goon, Burmah, as tract.
The Methojists are said to be butt
dihS an average of one and hall
/ church odifices a day.
Two Moltammedans IL Marsovan,
Western Turkey, have accepted the
truth of Christianity.
The Rev. Mr. Parry, son of the
Arctic navigator, has been appointed
Afchdeacon OF Canterbury
/ The Second AuVentists, IL Is sad,
have liked upon the 10th proX-as the
day on which the worl,i will come IL
an end.
iapef pettlcoats are now sold in
London at sixpence each. Shoes are
made OF the same material.
! n boy aged Il has Lees sent 10
prison for week, in France, for
seditlous hurrah ia the presence of
the Empress.
| The skeletons Of four Hritish sod
diers, who We're probably kIlett dur
| ing the revolution, We're iately dug
up near Savannah.
| n Kentucky paper objects 10 the
word "croluet' IA too Frenchy, and
Wishes the game To be called presby-
terian billiards.
Next month the daughter of PTesi-
dent Tyler is To be married, and al
ready grand preparations are making
| for the event.
The Russian church ut Sitka A las
ka, was recently robbed of a copy of
the Bible richly studded with VallI-
| able stones.
Miss Emma Webb, of the theatri-
cal Webb sister. has left the stage
| and taken the field in opposition To
woman suffrage.
y colored gentleman of Connccti-
cut recently celebrated with great
eEthusiasm the passage OF the "Fif-
teenth Commandment"
| The st. Paul Press says: "HaI.
| the business OF the courts i'm Illinois
seems To be To satisfy the vengeance
or women because they can't get the
| men to marry them, and the other
half to enable women to get rid of
men who have married them"
u young man named Hutchins,
while playing base ball at a Sunday
school picnic at Concord, Massachu-
setts, last Thursday, was struck in
the temple with the ball, and died
on Friday from the effects.
Fifteen hundred eggs were acciden-
tally broken in front of the Bata via
IN. " Post Oftice not long since,
| and the President OF the village had
10 spread barrel of coal tar over
the street and then set fire to il, 10
destroy the smell of bad eggs.
At young ladies' seminary in
Memphis, recently, during an exa-
nlination in history one of the moat
"laary, did Martin Luther die ma
| tural death ." mo- WAS the re-
bniIl." ne WINS accommodated by a
a gentleman residing III Levi iston,
Maine, left his three little children
| at home while he attended church
| and when he returned found them
busily employed in cleaning the ill.,
side OF $500 gold watch with so;t
soap and water,
Rev. Samuel Mott, the last survi-
yor of five missionaries sent tn the
East Indies by the American Board.
IN lsl2, died few days ago at Hart
ford, aged eighty-one.
The Crispin organization of shoema-
kers In the United States is said To
be one of the most formidable trades
| associations in the world. They re-
Gently offered 81 600 to four men To
quit working for a"boss"who would
..tx l.
In the garden of Thomas Atkins.
IN Mlddletown,C is a peony in full
blOom-the root of which vac
brought from England more than
TWO hundred years ago. It's pedigree
has been carefully preserved in the
family.
one OF the benefits Of Chinese i,a-
migration hitherto overlooked ie
just coming into notice. 1t utitizes r..te,
heretofore one of the most useless
rs well as destructive of the animal
creation. The Chinese will eat them
and render the whole race extinct.
Jean Dollfus, the great manufac
turer of Mulhausen, France. has
given three million francs as n fund
for sick and infirm workinpmeu and
to educate the poor children. The
population Of the town Is only about
10000, so that this SUN Will he a
very important benefit.
n shoe-string saved a little pirl.
iife in New England the other day.
She pitched headlong from the tn iTd
story window, but was saved from
dashlng on the pavement below by
the loop OF her shoe-string which
caught on the blind catch.
Paris trades to the figure of 5000
oo,oW francs a year, gives employ
ment To GD,O working people ana
pays 1000 ,0OO,Oo0 francs in wages
There are 1900 goldsiniths and
jewelers., who annually dispose of
80, 10000 frances worth dc. ana
The slightest political agitation affects
all this people and ali this wealth.
A man was recently tried ia San
Francisco for tearing out n horse,s
tongue. a veterinary surgan. who
was witness III the ease stated that
horse would not be permanently
injured by being deprived of a por-
ton OF the tongue, and therefore
when the injured member WAS heal
ed would experience no difficulty in
feeding. The case was dismissed. the
testimony proving that the horse lost
his tongue by accident.
Napoleon Is reported to be endeav-
| oring To suppress book on Mckee
which Juarez is about to issue IN,
Brussels, and which will contain ali
the secret dispatches sent by Name
leon to MaximiIian with other -,