Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-04-07
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THERE is not one Protestant or American
| minister in Alaska.
A BEGaAR who lately died in Portage Co.,
Ohio, had ST. 900 sewed up In his coat,
The Baltimore city authorities have
issued an order interdicting organ grind
ers.
| SOME of the daily papers in Scotland
have telegraph line OF their own to Lon
| don.
THE Chicago Court House which tum.
bled down recently cost nearly million
dollars.
THE British House of Lords now num-
bers Ala members, only 81 of whom are
unmarried.
THE prospects for large yield OF wheat
in East Tennessee were never more favora-
BILE than now.
AN astronomical observatory has been
established by the Russian Government on
Mount Ararat
THERE are rs oyster houses in Baltimore,
the largest OF which uses 5, 000 bushels OF
oysters per day.
AN enierprising Frenchman has offered
| 5000 600 lire tor ten years lease OF POM
peil, as ''sbow.
THERE are three men in New York who
make good livings by writing advertise
ments for the public.
THEY have fined Nevada minister"
| S25 for periormiI & a mock marriage, the
victim being girl OF IL years
DYNAMITE the safe substitute for nitro
ely cerlne Is three. quarters nitro-glycerlpe,
the rest porous earth and sand.
AN average crop of fifty bushels of pea
nuts to the acre, Is what the North Caro-
lima farmers can safely count on.
A Boston paper says: A snow pillow with
six horses got stuck in fremont row, on
Tuesday afternoon, snl had to be dug out.
A BILL is in the Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture to compel railroads to open their
ticket Offices at least an hour before train
time.
A LETTER reached Washington SATURDAY.,
dated august 7, 1849," having been
tweniy-one years on its passage from Ger
many.
A MARYLAND paper asks for the arrest OF
a man because he carries Testament, a
Sunday School hymn book, and is regarded
as a dangerous man"
The Scientific American predicts that, in
less than twenty years, illu tratlons will be
as common feature of daily papers, as
market reports are now.
A WRITER from Chihuahua says he at
tended dance where he saw sign over
the door which read: mo gentlemen adj
mitted without pants on"
Two Mexican lions that escaped from G
show in Falls county, Texas, recently, ara
twelve miles from Brennan, and slayiue
hogs, sheep, etc, quite lively.
The feminine journalists at Washington
are importuning Congressman to have
portion of the public galleries set apart for
their exclusive accommodation.
IT is said that Lean Mems Associa-
ton" is about forming in Hackensack.
Crawling through key-hole is the first
step in the initiation ceremonies.
Or THE forty-hve base ball players in
the five leading clubs of the country
Cincinnati, Athletics, Mutuals, Atlantics,
and Chicago -twenty-one are Brooklyn
men.
A MAINE man is prospecting in South
Carolina for large tract of marsh land,
where he can go into the raising of
frogs on large scale, for the northern
market.
THE London Spectator regards the adj
mission of Mr.. Revels to a seat 10 the United
States Senate AS q work of Divine power
quite as conspicuous as the deliverance OF
Israel from Egypt
THE eldest daughter of ex-King George
of Hanover will soon be married to the
Archduke Victor, of Austria This will be
the first time in the history of the Haps-
burg dynasty when one of its princes mar
ries Protestant lady.
A CONFLICT is raging between the mana
gers of the Paris theatres, who decline
giving up ten per cent of their daily gross
receipts, and the Government which In
sists upon the execution Of the law requir-
ing this subsidy to be given to the poor.