Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-03-17

Miscellaneous Items.

OF tlelr lew uUttl.
lns New York Sun has found thief
who is not politician.
A MAN in New York is preparinga text
book for young editors"
RHODE ISLAND has caught lobster
which weighed l7pounds
A NEW magazine called The Matrimonial
Gazette and Advertiser is announced in
London.
CHINESE San Fianciscans are investing
largely in real estate and bought SAC, 600
worth in January.
THE daily expenses attendant upon the
Gcumenlcal Council, in Rome, average
about S4, 600 in gold.
THE bodies of all the assassination con-
spirators have been removed from the Ar.
senal inclosure at Washington.
New ORLEANS has q society called "The
Krew of Comus," and its annual parade
takes place on the LIST of March.
A MAN at New Albany Laughed out
loud" during solemn operate scene, and
got fined $40 for his inopportune merri-
ment.
STATISTICS indicate that half the frac-
tional currency issued by the Government
wears out and is never presented for re-
demption.
In England billion is million of mil
lions. If we reckon 10y the same standard
our national debt is over 2, 500, 600 mil
lions of dollars.
LONDON photographer carelessly left
solar camera exposed to the rays Of sun
one afternoon, and the next day he was
looking after new studio.
The London Globe says that an invita-.
ton will probably be offered to American
rihemen to visit Wimbledon for an inter.
national rifle match this year.
THE present Freshman class in Dart
mouth College numbers ninety-seven, be-
ing the largest since the foundation Of the
institution a hundred years ago.
The Russian operate Troupe have made
tremendous success at Boston At
concert Monday night, Madame Slavan-
SLY appeared in mantle of pure gold.
GEN. ScoTT, when he took the City OF
Mexico levied 100000 for the establish
ment of a soldiers home, and that was the
first one established on this continent.
A CORRESPONDENT believes that many eff
the girls remain single only because they
cannot find money and brown stone
house, with man attached as O coupon.
TIE increase Of converts in Belgium is
beginning to attract attention In 1880
there were 251; in 1856, 1898, and in 1864,
over 1900. Every village has one, and
several towns possess from 20 to 80
The number of school children in South
Carolina, between the ages of five and Is,
is 16S, S19. OF these, 100,7l1 are blacks.
Of the Ats teachers, 73 are from the North
ern States.
SOME of the English laws seem queer to
Americans. Thus, at Leeds the other day,
stoker at mill was sent to prison for a
month for neglecting to fire his furnace
properly.
The Bombay Government Gazette re-
ports that in India there are 3, 253, 060a
devoted to cotton culture, showing an in
crease of thirty per cent. during the year
1869
TEE President of the Fenian Brother
hood of the United States has issued an or
der for the meeting of the annual congress
18th of April
SOME excitement has been created in
Knoxville, Tenn, by "a baby which has de-
parted from the old established rules gov
erning "cutting teeth" by cutting its back
teeth to start with.
ACCORDING to the Revolution there is q
faro bank on Fourteenth street, Washing
ton, kept by woman, where the women
clerks of the Treasury go to gamble their
salaries away.
A PROJECT to establish shelter for lost
dogs has recently been grated upon the
operations # the Woman's Branch Of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, in Philadelphia.
EGGS may be preserved perfectly good
for six months by rubbing them over with
linseed oil. At the expiration of that time
they have been found full and quite unin-
jured in odor and taste.
A LYNN, Mass, woman blew her stove IN
pieces, smashed her windows half burned
alittle boy, the other day, by thawing out
tightly corked jug of frozen water in the
stove oven.
DAVID FISHER, aged 70 years, preacher
Of the Dunkard Church, was arrested at
seducing gll of II, the daughter OF the
pastor of the Dunkard Church at that place.
The New York central railroad year
ago. issued scrip dividend of 80 per cent
on the capital stock Having failed to
make returns to the revenue Office, the COM
pany was assessed per cent on the dlvi-
dend, the tax amounting to 81, 1871
A WIDOW in Parkersburg, W. Va, ran
away with fellow the other day, leaving
four children Mt home, the Oldest nine and
the Youngest one year old. 1t was three
days before their abandonment was discoy-
cred, when all their feet were found frozen.
AN elegant 800 carriage whip lies idle
in Amherst, N. II. which was ordered for a
present for Andrew Johnson, four years
ago; but ere the elaborate carving on the
ivory handle could be finished, be went the
way of apOstasy and his admirers feelings