Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-05-12
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS
Miscellaneous Items.

.baut So, 9O0, 100000 1Lt-
p,r,pr1pHlA has about ten thousand
stone and iron houses
raa Nova Scotia gold mines produced
,bant 1926 900 last year.
THERE are 146 different religious denom-
;,aaons in Great Britain.
posrrSe bills on the side walk has been
crohibited in New York.
EIGHT Atlanta merchants sold last year
% G}0 600 worth of goods.
NEWFOUNDLAND has now population of
1866. In 1867 it had l24 2SS inhabi-
tants
rur commerce of the Ohio river figures
,, the immense sum Of 1904, GOO, 900 per
annum.
HUMPHREY MARSHALL is spoken of as q
candidate for Congress in Kentucky dis
trict.
TurEE are 90 counties in the State of
Indiana, and 50 of these are reached by
railroads.
THr production CT petroleum in Pennsyl-
rapia for the past month averaged 12,2O0
barrels daily.
IRELAND has 557, OIL acres under crops,
q999 1893 grass or pasture, ~, ITO tallow,
and 1922, 25S woods.
A CONNECTICUT man who has worn a hat
for forty years says it has been in fashion
seven times.
ForR thousand FIVE hundred glasses of
beer we're drank in a Cleveland beer garden
on Sunday afternoon last.
SINCE 1856 the city debt of Philadelphia
has steadily increased from SIG, 7Sl, 410 to
si2, 401, 1888 in 1870.
The strike of the New York ship carpen-
,ers and caulkers is over, and has turned
ont favorably to the workmen.
THE Sultan's family consists of 900 wives
and /, 400 other people, at meal times, and
he is thinking of giving up housekeeping.
A BELGIUM ship has arrived at New York,
fitted up to carry petroleum ia bulk, just
as the brig Atty of Boston carries mo-
In the aow of Richmond mil
Gnery esd Tent, may be seen this
card "Wahted , secondhand seam
stress"
THERE is woman in New York who
makes handsome living by renting out
dresses for parties, receptions and other en-
tertainments.
The total number of fires in Philadelphia
during 1869 was $50. Total loss, S., 067,-
Reinsurance, $4, 172, 304; clear loss, over
insurance, 1894, S21.
The amount received from tariff duties
in England, last year, was 921 500, 900,
tobacco furnishing CHI ZOO, and tea e55,.
900 more than last year.
The Peoria Ill.) Transcript says three
men in that city have been experimenting
upon perpetual motion machine-one for
twenty and smother for twenty-five years.
A BLooD1Ess duel was recently fought
near New Orleans between an opera house
manager and the editor of a French paper
Several shots were fired but nobody 'kilt."
In defence of the antiquity Of female suf-
hage, It's urged that Shakespeare describes
how
"The imperial vot-ress passed on
In maiden meditation fancy free.
In Is reported that the Madame Olivier
fashion OF dressing in simple toilettes, high
neck and long sleeves, and minus jewelry,
is to be adopted by our frst-class sensible
American ladies.
IN Paris there is a current saying that
where Frenchman spends five francs an
Engshman will spend twenty, an Ameri-
can fifty, and it holds true all over the con-
hnent.
Dr.. STRAUsBERG, the Prussian railway
king, has purchased the Elector of Hesse-
OasSels estate of Horzowitz, in Bohemia,
with the adjoining grounds, for three and
half million forms.
The ghost that has been creating a sen.
Satlon in Atlanta has been discovered. 1t
proved to be skeleton-hoop-skirt at
tached to string by which it was raised
Or depressed at the will OF the operator.
The number of destitute persons in
FarS Is lOl, $40, or one in sixteen of the
total population. OF these, q, S65 are men,
90 l32 women, 81, 800 male, and %, pit fe-
male children under II years of age.
SOME person ''good at figures furnishes
,Ae Davenport Gazette with the estimate OF
,Ae amount OF water at present flowing in
tle Mississippi river at that city, and places
Nat 1000 10000 gallons hourly.
DURING the month Of March, the people
o. the city of New York paid for stage fares
S3ll6S, for street-railroad fares 81, 064, BOG,
ior ferry fares SIS, 456, for amusements
,5j3.lSS, and consumed 2l3 251, 7557 feet OF
gas,
IHE colony that went from Holland,
Men to Virginia, under Rev. Mr.. Van
matte, are represented as in deplorable
.onaitlon, suffering from hunger, compelled
70 I'VE IN huts abandoned by negroes, and
anxious to get back to their old homes.
hEy- A. L, BLACKBOARD, missionary in
mo Janelro, says that nearly every Bra
zlllan who wishes to be thought respect ,be
oeiongs to the Masonic order, and even the
priests are Masons, in spite of the Pope's
communication.
lhE best matches used in Italy are man.
ulactured at Viterbo, near Rome, and are
gal!ed fammBeri igallibiR, or infallible
matches. Pho Mono, happening recently
W see this lngpri ntiop ,pavad ,rrotb "a the