Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-11-10

Miscellaneous Items.

PETERSBURG, Va, is to have skatinl
| rink.
MONTANA is harvesting its new crop o
ice.
GOLD fuctuated slightly during the at'
earthquake.
TORONTO has fashionable blonde conf
dence operator.
The population of PlaceryilIe, Califor
MIA, is 1869.
The law students of Ithaca have organ,
lied moot count.
THERE are 1 $50 dwellings, in the town Of
Saratoga Springs.
The population of Kentucky is stated at
1923, 264.
THEY sell grapes in Chautauqua county
by the ton this year.
THE patent office issued patents on five
mop-nandles last month.
BUFFALO claims to have had an earth
quake thirteen years ago.
ATcHIsoN, Kansas, is about to be illu-
miaated with gas.
WESTERN, Missouri, is bothered with
wolves and wildcats
KANSAS Cry, Mo, has line Of street
cars, just started.
DURING al last summer, Nebraska had
but one thunder storm.
The melancholy days of confidence men
have come III Mem ohis.
TIE Cabinet-makers are hard at work in
Washington.
A BAND OF Swedes have settled down In
the vicinity Of Austin, Texas.
1t is estimated that only about 300 Amer
leans remain III Paris.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY raises forty
bushels of corn to the acre.
In California they manufacture service
able rope from wildwood.
PREPARED chalk, it is said, is the best
thing to use on the face to whlten it.
BLACK and white lace is worn in the neck
OF dresses, instead OF collars.
YOUNG man says that the new ladies'
Donnets look like an upset soup plate.
ONE HALF the slate pencils used in the
world are made IN Vermont.
The TENNESSEE State Fair has as one of
lts attractions a short race.
The brewers of New York are about to
form a Vat Mems Association.
BANGOR, Maine, was first settled one
hlndrS Il and one Years ago.
OscALoosA, Kansas, has new school,
house for colored children.
The Pensacola (Fla.) Observer has ceas-
cd TO be matter Of observation.
STOKES county, North Carolina, has forty.
two tobacco factories.
A PIECE of calico mile long has been
made at New England mill.
THE Italians IN San Francisco on Satur-
day celebrated the occupation OF Rome by
A banquet.
CLARK county gives $40, 600 toward the
Springfield and Cincinnati Short-line.
THE National Real Estate Agents Con-
ventlon will be held In New Haven next
year.
They have had ''hog-slaughtering
at Stuyvesant Falls, New York.
A MARYLAND paper notices that kerosene
is very popular hair oil in that section.
A MILLION dollars is Mobiles estimate of
her loss by the yellow fever There ha ve
been 1874 deaths.
Two steam shingle machines have recent.
ly been put up in Morgan county, Georgia,
near Madison.
A cRAwFIsH two feet long and covered all
over with moss has been caught in Texas.
CANADA has "paper shinplaster frac-
tional currency" according to correspon-
dent
FURNITURE is now being covered with
damask for parlors to match the color and
design OF the carpet.
The Knoxville (Tenn.) Iron Company
recently shipped ten Car loads of spikes to
IT is estimated that SO, 900 pieces of bag.
gage were handled at the depot in Saratoga
during the summer.
In IS SAID that the best and most extern
siye deposit of slate in the United States
IS in Polk county, Georgia.
AN absent-minded man attempted to
whistle his valise out of q baggage car at
ST. Joseph Mo-, the other day.
IT is not good taste for gentleman to
stay after ten o'clock when he is visiting
young lady in the evening.
LONG, black silk NANTES, lined with fur,
and tllrned-over collars of fur, are to be
very fashionable next winter.
Our West. when man is sent to Jail for
\ misdemeanor, they say ne has departed
or another cline
TwENrY-sEvEN corns on one foot is the
crop of which Richmond
gentleman boasts.
II is said an earthquake took a half
hours run fron the Middle States to Up