Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-09-01
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Miscellaneous Items.

SALlfo NNAA boaAlo al O'b1t-pI~At trout.
GREAT BRITAIN contains over 100000
horses
The losses by fire in tho United States
last month were more than 81, 600 900 lar
ger than in July, 1869.
THERE are over fifty miles of ditcbes for
irrigating purposes within space of five
miles square, around Los Angeles.
THE sale of newspapers was stopped in
Baltimore last Sunday, but the sale of
liquor was undisturbed.
JETFERsoNvILLE Kentucky, claims to t4
building the largest western river stear.-
boat Its length is $50 feet.
RENSSELAER, county, New York, on Friday
night, was treated to the sight of a large
and brilliant meteor, showing the national
colors, red, white and blue
DISTURBANCES nightly occur in English
theatres, when the orches ira performs the
Marseillaise. 1t is regularly hissed by one
portion of the audience, and then applaud
ed by others.
The Boston Transcript says that 'small
is that they imagine themselves as tall as
any one else.
A CURIOUS freak of nature may be seen
in front of house IN Norwich. 4 willow
tyee has overgrown a small elm tree in such
manner as 10 droop entirely over it, pro.
ducing natural umbrella.
THERE has been more wheat produced in
Southern Utah this season than any pre-.
yious year. The inhabitants expect that
there will be enough to bread the entire
people. The fruit crop is not SO heavy,
the last frost having killed some of the ten
der buds.
The Paris Figaro has the following hi
at Benedetti:-An English writer defines
the word ambassador as tollows:-"A man
charged with the duty OF lying in the in
terest of his country as adroltiy as pos
sible" That is something that the candid
| Benefit certainly does no. know how 10 10.
WITHIN certain limits, says the Provi-
| dence Journal man is master OF his own
destiny; beyond these limits be seems
powerless, the victim of circumstances he
! can neither understand nor control.
THE members of the present Congress
are the champion takers. The reports Of
their discussions during the last session,
| fill two volumes of the Congressional
! Globe, more than were ever required be-
fore for single session,
A BOY of sixteen, giving the name Of John
Gecsy, made goose OF himself few
DAYS ago at Pittsburg Penn by gettlag
10 irried to girl of fifteen. The ceremony
was performed with the concurrence OF the
interesting pair.
DETROIT is building q magnificent city
hall, which is to have in It's tower town
clock. with faces to be brilliantly illumina-
ted at night. The gas will be lighted and
turned off by machinery connected with the
clock itself. This will be so arranged as
to light the gas at dusk and turn it of at
daylight throughout the varying seasons OF
the year. u :.
the last number OF the Weekly Review,
''has no less a paternity than that OF Homer
himself In the fourth book OF the Had
we find that bothersome fly; and this Is
the way in which he is treated by the trans
lators:
$50 from her babe when slumber seals his eye.
The watchful mother waits the envenom d ny,
49, Pope
"Far az the mother waits the fly aside,
That haunts her slumbering babe"
Cooper
Gas when mother with her child enwrapped
III sweet slumber scares away the hy.
Bryant Not pan, but Wm, o.
A FIRM in New York recently sent to the
United States Treasurer $50 Continental
bank note, asking if it is redeemaole. In
rerly, the Treasurer states that the Oohu-
mental money was never redeemaole by
tue United States. BY the act OF August t.
1890, q Statues, 140), it was receivable az
the Treasury in subscription to loaa, al
the rate of one hundred dollars IN CONT
mental to one dollar in specie, by the act
OF March 3, 1897 Il Statues, 5l6), 1t was
declared that said money should be receiV,,
able as above until December 81, 1871 ana
mo longer. He also adds, the only value
the nole can possibly have is as curlos'
ity, and that without doubt it is a counter
felt one.