Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-11-17
CURRENT wARAuRAPas,


VEsUvIus has had another eruption re.
| Gently.
| The base ball season closes on Thanks
| giving day.
The glass Of fasbion--the wine glass.
AMERH matter OF form-cutting dress,
PITTsBURG has well that ia throwing up
| fine table salt.
The new tunnel under Lake Michigan
will cost SO. 500, 900.
CHRIST Church, on Fifth avenue, New
York, has been sold for $500, eco.
SWEET potato juice is the Jersey COS
metic for clearing compilations.
New ORLEANS registers this year 81 7e3
voters. In 1858 the number was ~, 600.
The bishops Of Adelaide and Melbourne,
Australia, are IN New York.
STRANGE how many children are falling
from third-story windows these days.
INDIANA lovers burn the old mans barn
when he objects to the match.
A GOOD deal Of damage has been caused
by earthquakes in Greece this year.
The lands granted to Parson College,
Iowa, have mostly all been SOLD to pay
taxes.
The best rife shot in Troy is female,
and she doesn't even wear boomers.
SANDUsKY maintains seven different
''sewine circles" for gossip.
ALL the European steamers are making
unusually long westerly passages this
season.
COLUMBIA is third on the list of Amer.
can universities as regard number of stu.
dents.
Caprice is poem at which trea sury
clerk has been laboring for two years.
THE patent Office believes that cork can
be grown in this country Perhaps so.
THH GRuMBLnR is the name OF new
weekly illustrated paper soon to be started
in London.
TIE Alabama Chinese are being sent
away, as they are found to be lazy and
worthless.
THE business in writing paper and en-
velopes is reported TO be much larger this
year than ever before.
THE new postoffice in New York won't be
completed In ten years at the rate nov
building
A KENTUCKY man opposes life insurance.
as 'trying to bluff the Almighty out OF a
sure hand"
For the first time in thirty years the
New Haven counsy Jail is without female
prisoner
INDIANA has about five hundred regular
Quakers, besides those who quake occa-
sionally.
The manuscript of Hunted Down, in
the Holiday collection, was sold q. Clinton
Hall for Sl02.50
AT Lagrange, Indiana, the other day.
a gentleman inadvertently leaned against
flying buzz saw.
That old-fashioned way of pouring lead
into sleeping husbands ear has been re-
vived in England.
THE. annual production of spirits in the
United States is stated at 1lS, 642, 600 gal
Ions.
FIFTY Cinnamon are soon to be settled in
Shelby county Iowa, 10 open mp farms.
INFANT parties for babies of one year old
are now considered to be quite the thing in
Worcester.
THE census Of the South shows gener.
ri increase in the colored population since
1860.
The new census shows that Connecticut
has one voter for each 5. 43 of the popula-
ton.
A GANG of burglars not one Of whom ey-
ceeds the age of is years, have been COM
hitting depredations ut Iowa City for z
months past.
ONE million six hundred thousand lbs
of pepper was lanely received in one day
by New YORK firm.
A SMALL dog with q fifty dollar embroid-
cred cover is an essential item in the outfit
of New York dandy.
THE youths of Norwich, Conn, haze a
facetious habit of throwing cats through
the windows of street cara.
TIE penal statutes of California arc in
the hands of q revision committee, which
has nearly finished its work.
A PoRTsMoUrH man, who had saved sew
enteen persons from drowning, couldn't
save himself from going under.
CHIoAso glazier was arrested by TIVE
police the other night for airing" whole
schoolhouse.
THR cash profits Of the Massachusetts
Peni'entiary for the past year amount to
$31, $50.
The new Yale University ball club uni
forms are OF gray, with blue trimming
and with hat. shoes and filings, vii, cost
5000.
EVER since that Tennessee man coughed
up Il musket ball. every home guard in
the country has commenced coughing,
THREE hundred Thousand grape boxes
were Manufactured by two factories in Ma
pies, Ontario county, Ohio, this season.
CoLcRADo TERRITORY has three hundred
miles OF railroad but 40 taxpayer was
taxed cent to build them.
A New HAVEN widower didn', consult
with his children about bringing home a
new wife, and they fred the house to show
their grit.
THE eo.ored Bsptis;s OF Kentucky are
to have theological school NJ Frankfort,
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