Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-01-27

have died in exile during the last twenty
one years. The first was Louis Phillip,
himself, and the last the Duchess Auma!e,
who died few weeks ago.
This advertisement lately appeared in
London paper Wanted by father, a
school, where his son may receive an ed
ucaton to fit him for n manly and useful
life, without any humbug as to nations
dead and buried thousands of years ago"
The number of theatres used in Lon
don every Sunday evening for preaching
the gospel, now amounts to eleven eight
of the eleven being engaged by the
United Committee, of which the Earl of
Shaftesbury is Chairman.
in July last the lttletown of Gene, in
Sweden, was totally destroyed by fire. On
the Goth Of November, four months and a
half after the conflagration, smouldeiing
fire was still discovered IN pile of peas,
covered by the ruins of dwelling house.
The protract,d meetings which re-
Gently took place in London were the first
of the kind in the Church Of England
since the early part of the seventeenth
century. The nightly attendance averaged
10000, and In some instances 10000, made
up chiefly of those who were never be-
fore inside of church.
The smallest steam engine in the
world is now in possession of John Penn,
of Greenwich, England II will stand on
three penny piece, and 1t really covers
less space, for its base-plate measures only
q of an inch by $40. From the extreme
smallness of this model, u few minutia--
such, for instance, as the air pumps-have
necessarily been omitted. Still, so small
are some of the parts that they require
powerful magnifying glass to see their
form, The screws are only $50 of an inch
In diameter, and these are duly furnished
with hexagonal nuts, which can be
loosened and frightened by lilliputian
spanner. The whole weight of the model
is less than trce-penny piece.
Two young men were recently row.
ing on the Mercy, near Liverpool, one Of
them having his favorite dog with him,
when the boat upset. The owner of the
dog, named Bells, was q poor swimmer;
the other, Jones, was well skilled in the
art of natation, and did his utmost to save
his friends matter of no great difficulty,
since the shore was not far of. But what
appears W udfc ucCu Ill uucApcCtGu CA
cess of affection on the part of The dog,
frustrated all his efforts Mounting on
its masters shoulders, the animal bit
Jones savagely whenever he took hold of
the drowning man; the strong swimmer
was at length compelled to desist from his
efforts; and poor BELLS sank, under the
double burden of his dogs weight and Of
his misdirected zeal.
The following curious story Is the town
talk in the city Of Christiania, Norway:
"a lady in that city, by dint of various
applications and strategems, had sue
ceeded in wrestling the secret of Frecma-
sonry from her husband. No sooner had
she done so than in her excitement she
hurried TO the Grand Master, told him that
the brother had revealed it all to her,
and closed by imploring him, give
my husband back to me- The Grand
Master, who had received her in the hall
hung in black, piercing the portrait of
the recent brother with a poniard, he said
to her, Your husband is no longer
Freemason.' When the poor lady return
ed to her house she found her husband
dead. He had been stabbed with a pom
lard at the same place where the portrait
had been pierced with It,"