Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-09-08

Miscellaneous Items.

NA'DA''AN N"4io i'o0iA eHo 1llulle West
CoLoHADo numbers in It's population Il
32l colonies.
New HAMPSHIRE promises an enormor,
apple-crop.
AT Waco, Texas, they have stray bor..
association.
TNDAcH whale was recently caught Of
Block Island,
TEXAS has discovered a silk worm, natv.
to that section.
HARTFORD has new $4,000 mdustf,,
school for girls, '7'
A liberal translation Of "Tempus Fair
is 'few set time.
The orange groves in Florida are in q
hourishing condition.
OREGON is about sending a large shin.
ment of wool to Boston.
SAN SALVADOR promises very abundart
indigo harvest this year.
KENTUCKY expects to raise 81, 900 hoo,.
heads of tobacco tins year,
USDERTAKERs are said to be a mean &c,
always wanting to screw you down.
The Albany coopers are still on a strikf
They should 80 in for cooperation.
THREE hundred children danced at
ball at Long Branch the other evening.
AIR is dish one feeds on every mo.
ment, therefore it should always be fresh
A Missouri woman recently drowned
herself tor fear she might die OF a canoe,
ALL the Freshmen class at Amherst Col.
lege this year were conditioned on spell
ing, ......
CORNELL University owns zoo, 900 acres
of land in the Wisconsin Chippewa terri
tory.
Two Chinese bave been received into
Congregational church in Oakland, Cali,
fornla.
New York has an offal nuisance in the
bay, as wei. as plenty ofawful nuisances ii
the city.
The Jardin, at Paris, has received an
orangoutang that washes itself with soar
and water.
PIGEON shooting in England is rendered
more fashionable by the title, "doye tour,
naments."
AN Illinois cheese factory has had $500
worth of cheese spotted by the hot weather
this summer,
DIAMONDS in the rosettes Of her slippers
are the attractions OF Saratoga bellies
'twinkling feet"
CHESAPEAKE College, Virginia, has beer
purchased by the government as hons
for indigont soldiers.
The daughter of wealthy citizen d.
Gorham, Michigan, died recently from The
effects OF bite from a potato bug.
FORTY EIGHT out OF the eighty-threa
applications at West Point, were rejected
because they could not spell correctly
TEE Boston Transcript tells Of fend Of
a mother who tied luciier matches on bel
child's hand, and then set them on fire.
THE United States troops are busy erect
ing substantial buildings at the Rio Grands
posts, in Texas, which are being enlarged
THE School Commissioners of Lousyills
Ky, have decided to employ no m0la
teachers who are under twenty years OIL
age.
Or the 900 convicts Of the Alabama S;a,4
Penitentiary, all except thirty-fve are emil
ployod throughout the State building rail-
roads.
'WoMET ride through the streets Of Payi
standing on the seats Of the carriages, and
sing the "Marseillaise" to rouse the popaI
lace,
ILLINOIS has a Unitarian minister who %
said to be a perfect fac-simile of Abraham
Lincoln in face, form, limb, feature and
language.
Mps. JOHN WooD will return to this coun-
try during the coming season, appeaIins
in a new PLY by the author OF the Give
Roses"
CLARA ScHUMANN accepted the inyitatlo1
to take part IN the Grand Beethoven tes1
tlNdA Oi449 OA4 IO4NAAAAOh tA4tst W poAN' N'
not conduct.
In one county in California nearly even
one is sick with fever, SO that there an!
hardly enough well persons to attend <
the i'll.
MARGARET BINDEN, the original PrscI
Of Weber's opera, died on the Sth OF jay
and was buried at Hosterwltz where u
German master wrote his work.
A. w. RANDALL Ex-Postmaster Gen5T
end wife, from Elmira, New York, arrive
in Omaha Saturday, and are stopping
the CozZens Hotel
THE war is sending many Americans
London, who are gladdenlng the hearts
British shopkeepers by their protuse e.
penditures.
Two ladies are engaged in the Fore
Department at Washington tIans!aul
German, French, Italian and Spanish 20
respondence.
AFEENcH statistician estimates that Sil.
the departure Of the Garde Mobile Fo-
Paris there is but one abla-bodled man
eighteen women.
A sEAsoNADLE occupation for hot WeaiI,
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