Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-07-21

Miscellaneous Items.

Nsw York has about l6,OUO horses.
NEW street in London has been named
Lothian.
Prss1. possesses at present 5G6 232
needle guns
THERE we're $4,000 violent deaths in
England last year
rAprrs' newspaper is published in In
dia edited by awoman
FIJI SHu is the name of one Of the Oldest
ofthe Chinese deities
KrxrrcKY counts on As, 200 hogsheads of
tobacco this year.
San FRANc1sco harbor has received a
csll from genuine whale.
Ar Port Austin, Michigan a grindstone
weighing 1900 lbs. was recently quarried.
Miss Symes, wealthy lady Of Montreal,
now in Rome, has given the Pope $4,000.
sryEsrY.F1vE pet cats is the stock in
trade of maiden Indiana lady.
TEE Cincinnati police grumble because
thew are no longer allowed to smoke while
on duty.
ON Amt Tabby Of Harrodsburg, Ky,
The black woman that turned white, is
dead.
BETWEEN three and four thousand Amer.
lean boys are studying in European schools
and colleges.
Tar loss to Great Britain in the destrac-
ton of her Embassy by the recent fire at
Constantinople was 100000.
THREE hundred brigands are about to be
tried in Hungary, of whom probably two
thirds will be sentenced to death.
OyE of the sable orators of old Virginia
made a good point when he said, ode oys-
Ter got mo- sense dan some folks, cause
he know when to keep his mouf shet. F"
The champion jumper of America is
LOOMS, of Jacksonville, Ill. This is his
score: Single jump, Is it. ) in; three
y Jumps 40 it.; ten jumps, 40 IT.
A LADY, in reply 20 some guests who
praised the mutton on her table, said:
'0h, yes, my husband always buys the
best; he is great epicac."
ALADY in Keokuk was asked to buy a
bat, and replied, mo, | have only been
married about twenty minutes, and have
no boys yetT
TIE London Athen@um says that Mr..
Woolner is to execute, by request, bust Of
Mr.. Charles Dickens, and that he has the
advantage of mask which was cast fol-
the purpose.
SOME of the posters advertising anti.
coolie meetings in New England, are
adorned with figure OF a Chinaman with o
halfdozen rats hung to stick resting on
his shoulder.
SINCE Queen Victoria took her place on
the English throne, thirty-three years ego,
every other throne IN Europe, from the
least unto the greatest, has changed occu.
pants.
MOUNT HoLYoKE SEMINARY is expecting
$4,000 worth of books, the gift OF Mrs. a.
F. Durant of Boston. They are on then
way from Europe.
Ara very select school in New York, the
Principal refuses to take the daughters Of
trades people into his establishment
They must either be the daughters Of
brokers', bankers, or retired merchants.
A INV ENGLAND pickpocket has recently
accomplished the most astounding fest o.
lght-fagering on record. He has picked 6
Methodist minister's pocket and realized
500 theretrom.
Ak erring Indiana hen was recently found
IN the lack parG of hardware store, where
the misguided fowl had struggled for thres
weeks, trying to hatch out half do2er
white porcelain door knobs. She was YER,
much reduced.
Az Irish girl at Erie, a dag or two since,
caught another girl on the sidewalk, whe
had on hoop skirt and white skirt
stolen from the party of the fGst part, COM
PEELED her to take them off and surrendei
them ther and there, The affair created 6
genuine sensation.
TWENTY applications for divorce week
the average in Vigo county, Ind, which
la5 10000 inhabitants If they were al
'lecessiul 1t would require less than ter
ears to furnish divorce to every man,
woman aud child in TIE county.
4 BosToN paper gives the lament of ar
auto poet" FOR the want Of air and rair
long days" which closes thus pa
ilatcaly;
And if don't obtain them soor
a LuHtIhl tnere VIII be;
ne hacks will with ny friends be filled.
But The corpse it will be me-"
A. old lady, by the name of Snyder, liv
III at Lees X Roads, Ohio, one of the ole
Ng9eers OF the West, is hale and hearty
Saka one mile without firing, and hai
reached the extreme age Of 105 years. She
uses no spectacles for reading.
FoE several weeks past the New Yorl
'p9FS chronicled the results OF Sunday
1nHng in that city in series of horrible
1@he!ries; but last Sunday the excise Law
was enforced, and the difference in favor o.
IA order was simply wonderful.
JAEs GORDON BENEFITS health does no
Ip'oye He is still confined to his room
'le Filth Avenue Hotel, and it is feared
la! ne VIII never be able for active worl
1l Visitors are sending their cards t.
III constantly, but he admits only few
NEARLY all the Florida women substitute