Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-10-13
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS


CLAP blister on poet and it will make
( him soar
WHEN is a lot OF corn Ike a corner lot?
! When its ground.
CURIOUS. The seasons not only alter
nate but alteF-nater,
THE nation which produces most mar.
riages must be iasci.natiou
ISD1ASAPo1Is has organized a Labor Re-
form Club.
/ IL Idaho, carpenters receive from 81 to
/ So per day in gold.
ABOUT $500 mulberry trees are now
growing in California,
A NORTH CAROLINA writer tells OF little
brook that "giggles over the rocks, "
ALL women are kleptomaniac to a GER
tain extent. They will hook dresses.
Why have you right to pick a photo
/ grapker's pocket? Because he has pict-
ures.
SAN Francisco is to have new Opera
House, to cost 81 100000
STAND Orr CRY is the name of a new oil
/ town in Pennsylvania.
/ WHEN is a tombstone like tallov dip :
When it is set up for late husband.
Ira man gets up when the day breaks
can he be said t. have a whole dss before
him
THE bed of the ocean is covered with a
/ sheet Of water, and pillows take the place
OF pillows
! New ZEALAND has 10000 inhabitants,
/ and public debt Of Sl5O,OO0,OO0,
Brown and salmon color ara favorite
combinations for bonnets this season.
DELAWARE has shipped 100000 bas-
kets of peaches to New York this season.
In Richmond, Va, there are 81 white
and So colored schools.
A BRUSSELS carpet factory is to be start.
/ ed at Worcester, Mass,
The oolored people of Nashville are to
have fair ground Of their own
THE Bible is printed in twenty-five diff
/ feleut dialects tor circulation in India
/ The Emperor of Brazil is said to con-
| TEN plate visit 10 the United States.
Coz. FIsK's greatest theatrical hit--that
on Maretzek's lett eye,
ST. LOUIS is making sewer investments
| of S25 600 a month.
WHEN is butterfly like a kiss? When
/ it alights on tulips.
The cultivation of the sweet potato is
! being introduced III New Work.
| A MEMPHIS poet describes dueling as
"this wart on Christian age
The Union Hotel, at Saratoga lodged
and fed 26 $50 persons the past year,
Now that the star the Empress has set,
! the Paris fashions will have 10 set them
| selves.
A GOAT in Danbury, Conn, has been
taken up and impoQnded for kidnapping.
NEARLY all the towns along the Hudson
River are visited with fever this autumn
CANADA wants the United States to pay
/ $1,000 600 damages for the recent Fenian
( raids.
| The lat st song cut is " Father Will Set
! tie the Bill, tits very popular with young
( ladies.
/ BosToN has sent frolicking committee
of her Council to St. Louis to inspect the
market houses there.
One Of the finest Catholic churches in
/ toe south is in process Of erection in
Greenville, Tenn.
THE convicts in the New Jersey State
/ Prison hare started paper 1t supports
the policy Of protection. -
/ When Paris was found to be too tight 6
/ place for the Bank Of France, the bank was
| taken to another place-Ioulouse.
! A REVENUE COLLECTOR in Missouri recent
/ ~ tried 10 collect fifty cents head in a
| ballroom the tax on hops.
ONE FIFTH Of all the iron made in the
I United States is made from Lake Superior
ore
MANY former exploit of Colonel Fisk
I has been magnaS, but his last was rparipnsS.
" Y. World.
THE Bessemer Steel Works of Albany
thru out On an average seventy tons of
stee, day,
The manufacturing establishments OF
J New Albany, Ind, pay out 500 600 per
, month in wages alone.
THE mammoth cave has been visited by
more people this season than Tor number
of years past.
WITHIN the past seven years, the saw, q
banks in Name have increased from hf-
teen to thirty-siX.
THERE are GAO cotton, wooden end
other clothing manufactures in the United
Kingdom Of Great Britain
Mosr Of the salt used in California is i'm
ported from Mexico and is sold at anave
age price Of s. per ton.
The tnilors say that if any effort be made
to reduce their wages this winter another
strike viii be p matter Of sheer necessity,
BEEF packing is becoming heavy bust,
I Moss in Omaha One firm there will DaCk