Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-02-03

olives, and strawberries, were served fresh
from the garden, and the table was adorn.
ed with lemon, apple, strawberry, and
raspberry blossoms.
After trial. lasting eight days, q
party of women who, in 1868, made raid
upon drinking saloon in Alton, N. H., in
which they knocked in the heads Of
barrels, broke jugs, and smashed things
generally, have been sentenced to pay
about $1,000 in fines and costs.
Complaints come from Maine, Boston
and Philadelphia of the recent discovery
in coal of tin boxes, similar to common
blacking-box, filed with powder and per.
cussion caps and fastened together with a
lead band, and in each locality the inquiry
is made, "What does it mean?"
An ex-policeman of Syracuse bought
a gold watch of decrepid old man, the
other day, paying 800 for it. Taking it
to jeweler. he discovered that the watch
was worth about 50, and he is now look
ing for the aged and unhappy mendicant
who mulcted him.
Two boys were playing in the Dun.
nell Print Works, in Pautucket, when one,
having a rope around the other, threw it
over the shafting, saying, "Now am 60
ing to hang you" The rope caught on
the shafting and carried the boy up to the
ceiling, injuring him fatally.
"A Georgia paper speaks of man who
one day, recently, said to his fifteen-year
old son, as he stenped out of liquor saloon,
that he was ashamed to see him emerging
from such place with the fumes of
whisky upon his lips, and, after giving
the boy some wholesome advice, ordered
him to 60 home, and, turning on his heel,
entered the saloon and took drink him
SELF
I'm Westbury, N. Y. few days ago,
young man accidentally ran a knitting
needle into his head at the corner of his
eye and below the ball, making not the
least mark, drawing no blood, and at the
same time causing him no pain. He died
few days after the accident, from the
effects of the injury, and his physician is
under the impression that the needle pass
ed through the passage to the nose and
pierced the brain.
"A German in Cincinnati recently CON-
menced the taking of torty-one pints of
warm water in less than twenty-four
hours, to cure the rheumatism. He be-
gan at in the evening. At 12 he had
taken twenty pints and was suffering
excruciating pain. The next morning he
died. The man who prescribed for him,
was arrested. He says it is receipt pro-
cured from butcher in the Old Country.
The New York Sun, in report of a
night alarm of fire, tells the following
story: "The staircase was blocked up
with boarders endeavoring to get away
with their baggage. One young woman
exhibited a hercis;n worthy of record.
She was petite, with dark curly hair, and
had Just arrived on the landing with her
arms full of knick- knaCks, when she sud-
denly dropped her load, and putting her
hand to her head exclaimed in heartrend-
ing accents, ooh, my blonde hair rushed
frantically back, and disappeared in a
volume of smoke. There was nitrate of
awful suspense to the bystanders; but
presently the courageous girl appeared at
the top of the stairs, carrying about ten
pounds of blonde capillary ornamentation.
was lately imported from Paris at cost
of $175."
The New York Ewning Post thus
describes a recent adrOit sWindle on the
Mechanics bank of that city: A day
or two ago man representing himself to
be from Yonkers called at Lorillards es-
tablishment, in Chambers street, and pur-
obocad %S0 worth Of tohaccO Of1pripT in
payment a 500 note. The clerk handed
him $50 in change. He then asked the
clerk if he would oblige him with check
of $50 instead .. ! currency, as he said
he wished to send the money In letter to
Yonkers The clerk compiled with the
request, and gave him check for the
amount on the Mechanics Bank The
stranger, after altering the figures from
$50 to $l0061, went to the bank and had
the check certified. After banking hours,
he sold 1t to a broker on Wall street. OF
course the bank is the loser"
"A little girl, nine years old, attending
public school at Manchester, Conn, fail
ing to repeat her lesson correctly on
Thursday, was required to repeat on Fri
day the lesson for that day and the day
previous. She failed again, and as
a punishment was required to stand
on the floor in passage way while
she learned it. She stood there an
hour, and was compelled afterward to
stand in the school.room five hours longer,
until she had learned Thursdays lesson,
and for another hour trying 70 learn Fri.
days lesson On Saturday her legs began