Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-07-28
Miscellaneous Items.

.,a Mountain House, Catskill, on the 4th of
July.
AwAe saws that brilliants of the first
water are those that are given to stop the
wifes first tears after marriage.
TORTOISE SHELL fans are the hsndsomest
- most costly fans that can be bought.
with the exception of the point lace and
ivory ones.
TIVE latest style in gold bracelets is in the
shane of futed 10 usln cuff, and is made
ot Furnished gold with diamond button,
and ruby button.hole,
TIVE st. Crispins, of North Adams, have
sbown their malice by attacking with vol.
teach the Chinese our language.
WHITE muslin dresses trimmed with lace
and insertion. are very much worn over
Iock silk dresses, and tied at the waist
with wide fancy colored sash, and long
ends.
THE ownership of Thomas Jafersons
home and tomb is contested il the courts,
while the estate goes to rum. Shutters
and gates are unhung, and weeds and hogs
thrive in the neglected cemetery
THE Jefferson Medical College, Pennsyl-
vsnia University and Philadelphia Univer-
sGty are ar holding summer sessions of lee
inres. and offer fine opportunities to medi-
cal students to prosecute their studies.
AsuMsua of laborers at Killarney, Ire.
land are in Jail for having made an attack
on some moving machines, with intent to
seize and destroy them, Oh the theory that
the inventions were taking the bread out
of their Eouths."
THE treaty provision negotiated between
the United States and ieIreat Britain,
number of years ago, which required each
Goyerurn ent to keen up mixed courts for the
suppression of the slave trade, has Just been
annulled. and half dozen sinecure offices,
with $1,000 salary each, are consequently
abolished.
A sUY-.sTkuCK pig is tie latest curiosity
of a geological kind. An ingenious farmer
in Minnesota had porker afflicted in that
yay short time ago, and restored him to
healtbend happiness by splitting the skin
on the top of his head and filling the cash
with sat. Here is q suggestion tor the
surgeons.
~ VIZ H." said the slight and elegant
Mrs. Eitzbob to her friend Mrs. Twigg,
whose enabonpoint was strikingly handsome,
81 wish had some of your fat, and you
had soage of my lean" "I'll tell you what
is the origin of that visa, replied the fair
wit; .sgon think too much of me, and too
little OF yourself
AFAr Gus usurer of Paris being on his
death bed, his confessor presented silver
cruelty to him, with a17iew to awaken him
to sense of his situation. The dying
uiser, seter examining che cross with the
most minute attention, suddenly eXclalm-
ed, "Si-, | can lend you but very small
SUN or such pledge.
IT rsremarkable the number of strange
stories which have been furnished by
snakes from the temptation of Eve down.
The lstest is of reptile killed in the
neighbe-hood of Fort Scott, Ind, "slE
feet long and as thiei. as mans arm,
with an immense head and long hooked
teeth. It is said to have given a warning
similar 10 that of rattlesnake, but instead
Of rattles to have had g tail like sharp
iron spike.
Nh. EaaRAR, of Dover, N. H., was firing
small cannon at the. side of the river, On
tAe Fourth, and by SONIC freak took no.
ton to gut his watch into the muzzle OF
the gun, holding on to the chain. Bang
went the gun, aud off went the watch, the
owner knew not for time whittier, but 1t
was picked up during the day on the other
side of the Cocheco, with no other damage,
it is said, than being minus crystal, and
is now doing a good Business as time
keeper.
A LADY at Winsted. Connecticut, was
struck by lightning, short time ago, ana
lay several hours apparently dead, 80 that
nearly all Of her friends .vere prepared to
have her brried. Her brother, however,
insisted upon waiting andEorking Tor her
resuscitatiOp, and his faith was finally re-
warded by her complete restoration to life
and health. During her trance she dis
tnctly heard the remark of fz-ends that she
was ''unquest:onably dead
The Paris Journal reports The following
conversation between two young girls
If you only knew how badly papa treats
mamma and me ~ 'Indeed!" "Yes, in
NNSu' LOU CdA luuSo ioi yOuf'S.N
was ready to be brought out IN society
be might have gone with me, might he
not? Well, instead of that, whom mamma
aud | went to his room tC hno him, we
discovered be had been absent from the
house whole year."
AMoNG the estates inthis country granted
by King George of England, was one to
Robert Edwards. consisting of large terri
tory situated on what is now Canal street.
IN New York. Edwards leased the property
Tor ninety-nine years, and, this term
having expired, two Of his descendants now
living in Gadsden, Ga. have been noSihed
that on proving their identity they will
come into possession of the property,
which is row valued at eighty.two million
dollars.
DURING the great fire at ConstantinopleA
woman darted into a friends house at a
distance from the flames, hngging some
tning IN her arms, and exclain1ing: "Ihank
God I've saved my child My plate Is
down in the well. and can be got at when