Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-04-14
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS
Items In General.
LONDON has 1S1, 900 paupers.

invested IN churches.
GARmAIDI uses "alas !" 500 times in 100
pages of his novel.
A PORTRAIT of Cromwell was lately sold
in London for $4,000.
The reportorial staff of the New YorL
Revolution are known as the Bohemia
Girls"
THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY Locomotives
have been ordered in England for Russian
railways.
The Portland Argus says, Mrs. Hannah
KNAPP of Leeds, who is 81 years of age, has
third set OF elegant teeth"
The King of Prussia has abolished lone.
standing Hanovarian law, which forbade thu
opening of theatres on the eve of SUNDAYS
and tete days.
MISS LOUISA NJ. ALcorr, authoress of tina
new work, San Old-Fashioned Girl" has
sailed for Europe in search of health and
recreation
The Fifteenth Amendment was adoptsd
by the United States just sixty-three Years
after the slave trade was abolished by tho
British Government.
In answer to a charge that carpet-bag.
gers fill the Florida Legislature, the Jack.
sonville Union says that, out of every sew.
enty light members, only ten are Northern
men,
A PARIS correspondent has noticed an
event of unusual and unprecedented sig
nificance: The Empress Eugene has
appeared on two public occasions in the
same toilet.
In Africa, if any one comes before King
without full-dress costume is.
straw hat and a ring in his nose-his head
goes into the waste basket before he can
wink twice.
The death of the famous brigand chief
Pasquale Torreggnani who for seves years
has been the terror of all Italian province
is announced. He was shot by the troops
sent to arrest him.
REPORT is in circulation that the Trini-
ty Church corporation has offered the heirs
of Anneke JAMS $4,000, 900 to surrender
their claims, and that the heirs have per.
emptorily refused,
IT 10 reported .thaAGeneral Butler is
about to start newspaper organ in New
York, in rivalry with the Tribune on all
questions except the tariff, on which it
will advocate free trade.
SAM RoGERs, a famous London Jockey,
has just died. The late master of the Ken
sington House School was used to say that
young Rogers was the best classical
scholar he ever turned out.
The New York Commercial says that ex-
Collector Bailey shows himself On the
streets of that city, and could be arrested
any hour 1t calls upon the Washington
authorities to overhaul and punish him
HENRY j. MURRAY, British Consul at
Portland, Me-, offers S25, 900 in gold to
any man WHO will invent some machinery
or process fof separating the fibre and bark
from the stem, and the fibre from the bark
of the rheef, or China grass plsnt-an ar.
ticle the demand for which is increasing
GEN. BUTLER has appointed son Of
George j. L. Colby, Of Newburyport Mass,
cadet to West Point. The President has
given the General as President OF the Ma
.tional Asylum for Disabled Soldiers, the
right toappoint two cadets at large--one
at West Point and the other at Annapolis.
LADY FRANKLIN, now nearly eighty years
old, recently arrived at Rio Janeiro, on the
way to Vancouyer's Island, where a settler
is said to have letter from Sir john or
relating to him, which he will not deliver
except to Lady Franklin in person.
Four of the five Chinese printers jus y.
rived at San Francisco are under an END
ment to proceed to New York, where Is
said, they will train number Of their Host
intelligent countrymen in the art They are
tirst-cass compostors, educated in an Eng
aish institution at Hong Kong.
EVER since Londonderry, N. H., was first
settled, family by the name of Woodburn
has resided there, and beneath the same
roof has lived n voter by the name, in each
succeeding generation, until at the time OF
the recent State election. The last voter
died within the past year, leaving son
who has not yet attained his majority. The
family is the one in which Horace Greeley
was raised
A LADY writer in the Boston Post is Sc
we're upon female clerks, and remarks
"The rudeness and i'll breeding of ma.
jority of girls behind the counter are be-
coming almost unbearable, and am not
surprised when hear ladies say they pre-
fer some store where they employ male
clerks, nor employers when they tell me
they prefer male clerks 10 female, because
they please their customers better Girls
themselves are shutting avenues OF labor
to their sex by their manners toward those
whom they serve, and all the work OF re-
formers will do no good until the gIfis
learn to work with them and deserve wha'
they demand'
On the morning of March 26th, one ana
one-half miles west Of Altoona, as the 70
cifc express going west on the PennsySa-
MIA Railroad was rounding cnrye on lhe
| mountain side, at rapid rate, a deep prec'
ipice on one side and highimpendlng roeh'
on the other, wee lad was seen aheau'
waving his hat and tossing his little arms
aloft. The train WAS stopped within lev
feet of a mass of rocks and dirt upon 'ne
track, sufficient to have thrown passenggla,
engineers and cars over the Dreclplce lAe