Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-04-28
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Facts and Figures.

CHICAGO distilleries use 1000 bushels of
grain daily.
PEACHES ripen in Florida from June 10th
to October 30th.
A NEW town in Mississippi has been
named Jollifcation.
THE Egyptian Sun" is the name OF
new paper Mt Cairo, Illinois.
ENGLAND pays its Judges salaries varying
from $4,000 to $50, 600 year.
AN undertaken at Portland, Maine, the
other day dug out live black fox
The longest suspension bridge in the
world will be that across the Delaware.
ABOUT one-third of the candidates for
Office in st. Joseph Missouri, are negroes.
OLIVE OIL is manufactured at st. Simon's
Island off the Georgia coast, near Bruns-
wick.
A DEAD baby, wrapped in a copy OF Days
Doings, was found on a street in Phlladel-
phia.
New YORK CRY estimates its population
at |, Zoo, 600, of whom Is, 900 ownall the real
estate.
A GIRL killed herself by dumping the
rope" two hundred times at Pittsburg re-
Gently.
THERE are over thirty cargoes Of sugar
and moassas at Boston wharf waiting to be
discharged.
The Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-Eye says
the women of that State will vote for the
next President
A LADY physician Of Lafayette Indiana,
returns an income from her profession last
year OF ~, 500.
HARwIcH. Mass, gathered the past sea-
son 3, 76l barrels of crapberries, which were
sold for about $40 600.
MI JULIAN female suffrage amendment
to the Constitution is known in Boston AS
"the sweet Sixteenth.
Ar asst 1000 miles of railway were
repre- nted by the general ticket agents
at tn last convention.
THE San Francisco customs officers re-
Gently drowned two men to recover $1,000
worth of struggled opium.
LOUISIANA owes S12, 10000 The annual
interest on the bonds no finally ut-stand-
ing is stated to be s944 ,000
The city OF Concord raises by taxation
only Sll, 500 for schools; Dover, SIS, 500.
Manchester appropriates $4,000.
A PHILADELPHIA PAPER advises ex-Presi
dent Johnson, IN his forthcoming European
trid to apply for the throne of Spain.
ALETTER from Tropili reports the fall of
a monster aerolite in the neighborhood of
Mourzouk, weighing it is said s. 900 lbs.
A COAL bed four feet thick has been open
ed one mile north of Knob View, on the
South Pacific railroad, SO miles southwest
from St. Louis.
The duration of flash Of lightning can
be measured and is ''less than the mill
ionth part of a second" according to the
New York Express.
THE Louisville Commercial says the
wheat crop of lower Kentucky looks re-
markably well, and the breadth of land
planted is quite large.
In the window of London tavern APP
pears this announcement: ON view, for a
few days only, the head of Traupmann,
preserved in spirits.
The Boston Transcript says the Massa-
chusetts estate Senate this year has not
been excelled for lack Of brains since the
Know-Nothing times.
THE Dwight manufacturing company at
Chicopee. Mass. employ /, $50 persons, of
whom SS5, more than fifty per cent, can
neither read nor write.
MARY E. DOYLE, aged II years while at
work lately in the Back Bay Boston, wool
en- mill, was caught in the machinery by
her hair, and her scalp was torn off.
THE net earnings of the Kansas Pacific
railroad during 1862 was 1889, go 90 The
average length of the road Ill operation
was 438a miles, being 80 more than in
1868:
Two hundred RATS OF ship.timber from
Logan and Cabell counties, Virginia pass
ed down Guyandotte river last week for
Cincinnati, These RATS were' valued at
$50, 600
Eject dogs in Georgia town died sud
denly, the other day, from eating q loaf Of
bread which the cook had Just baked for
the family. She was arrested for her care
lessness.
Nor counting Alaska. there are l ,000,-
/ 600, coo OF acres Of underlined, undisturbed
public land in the United States. or enough
to give 10 000,0 600 Of people farm OF 100
acres apiece.
The contractor who is constructing the
railroad from Quincy TO Ch1Hahoochee
Florida, proposes TO hire the labor Of the
State conyicts at the rate Of 81 % per day
I for each laborer
The skeleton of walrus was discovered
in Union, Maine, while some men were
employed in digging we'll The bones
were deposited in bed of blue clay. about
y feet from the surface.
The haunted Gloucester Mass, schooner
is being fitted at Portland for another trip
to the fishing banks with a crew who don't
believe in the ghosts that have already
scared home three crews.
A FORTY MILE velocipede race had Just
taken place in France. Fifteen COMPETE
tors started, and the winner was Leotard,
who accomplished the journey in three
hours and forty-four minutes.
WHILE the bark Stella was in a heavy
squall at sea on the 10th ult, ball of fire
struck the forecastle deck and exploded,
scattering sparks in all directions and