Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-05-05
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS,
Facts and Figures.

A coBwEB wedding was celebrated in
Iowa the other day. Mr.. Joseph Cobb was
united in marriage to Miss Kate Webb.
The Russian Emperor, in recent ukase,
says he 'deigns to permit" the Russia,,
language to be used in the churches of
Poland.
The railway bridge lately crested over
the Dneiper near Kew, is the largest work
of the kind in Europe, being 3,503 feet in
length.
A SAVINGS bank at Newburyport Mass,
has on deposit over three million dollars,
and recently declared semi-annual divi-
dend OF 81 per cent
AN Iowa editor gave out that he would
print all poetry sent to him, uerbatim
which be says, had the effect to lessen the
amount Of dogerel sent to him for publica-
! ton.
| YOUNG ladies club is reported to have
| been organized, with real clubhouse in
Fifth avenue, n. Y, real cigars and cham
payne cocktails, and real initiation fee OF
5000.
The water in the Mississippi, abreast of
Galena, on Monday, was six feet higher
than ever before known at this time OF the
year, and Sc en- inches above the June rise
OF 1859.
CINCINNATI BARRIERS have to undergo the
trying ordeal Of n breath inspection every
morning and if there is the least indca-
ton of ''tusil" present, they are compelled
to stop work.
A GRAMMAIANs thought What a con-
trast there sometimes is between the adj
jective and its adverb Reflect, for ex-
ample, on the wide difference that exists
between the man who is constant in love
and the man who is constantly in love
THERE is man in North Brookfield,
Mass, who was born with only Que ear.
He has no auricular orifce on one side Of
his head and only rudimentary external
ear, about an inch long near the jaw, where
the front part of the ear is located.
IT Is quite probable that the names of
writers in the Atlantic Monthly will here
after be attached to their articles. This
has virtually been done for long time, but
a great many readers will welcome the ac-
tual adoption of a very sensible idea.
The Prussian Government has military
maps of every foot of its territory, so COM
plete that every hill, ravine brooklet, field,
and forest is delineated with perfect &C.
curacy. 1t is common boast of Prussian
military men that within eight days $50, 900
men can be concentrated to the defence of
any single point within the kingdom.
ST. LOUIS paper has the following
item: "'The curiosity of John Tomlinson,
of Columbia, induced him, on Friday, to
crack torpedo with his teeth, to see what
was inside. The ordinary price of set of
false teeth in Columbia is fifty dollars; but,
as Mr. Tomlinson's mouth is about six
times the usual size, and perfect wreck
at that, it is thought he will have to pay
more.''
THE cutting of the Isthmus of Corinth is
to be undertaken by M. Plat, engineer Of
the Seryian railways, and by M. Chollet, Of
Paris. M. Behic, member of the French
Senate, and the Marquis de Pieuc, Deputy
Governor of the Bank of France, are inter-
ested in the enterprise, in aid of which the
Greek Chambers have granted concession
of SO years, and the right of constructing
railways uniting Corinth and Athens with
the Turkish lines.
A CERTAIN amount of opposition is
great help to a man. Kites rise against
the wind, and not with the wind; even a
head wind is better than none. No man
ever worked his passage anywhere in a
calm. Let no man wax pale, therefore,
because of opposition; OPP ostion is what
he wants and must have to be good for
anything. Hardship is the native soil of
manhood and self-reliance.
AN EARNEST Christian writer calculates
that the conversion of the world is not nee
essarily distant event Estimating the
population of the earth at one billion, and
all Christian people at ten millions, and
supposing that each Christian las faith and
zeal enough to save one soul year, and
that the progress of doubling the number
OF conversions goes on annually, in seven
years the work will be accomplished.
THE Church Journal thinks it would be
well if Professionals would initiate the Ro-
manists in their zeal and punctuality in at
tending upon public worship The reason
assigned why Protestants are so Indifferent
is that few are taught that public worship
is a duty OF essential obligation. Many
think, and are even taught by popular
preachers, that even church membership is
no necessary part of religion.
BOY, aged a. committed suicide in
Baltimore on the oath inst. by hanging
himself. He was seen about half an hour
before the fatal act, and exhibited no india
cations that such deed was contemplated.
On Thursday his morbid curiosity led him
to visit the bodies of the victims of the
late tragedy, and the bloody spectacle prey
ed on his mind and considerably depressed
his spirits, which is the only cause that
can be assigned for the commission of the
deed.
On FIFTH street, New York, there is
small church of Christian Israelites, who
have maintained regular worship for more
than twenty years. They believe that the
twelve tribes o. Israel now scattered on the
earth are to be gathered together and
brought to embrace Christianity as the first
step toward the evanpeli2ation of the race,
Their dress is like that otthe Quakers and
their services are in the English ard Ger
m m.