Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-11-03

New crop peanuts are appearing early
in market this year.
TEXAN will walk three miles to catch
horse to ride mile.
CH1cAoo has 20 miles of sidewalk, light.
ed at night by 5,3SS lamps.
LADIES trains are reported coming in
fashion again In New York.
CENsURE is the tax man pays to the
public for being eminent.
ANEBRAsKA wool grower has flock of
200 Cashmere goats.
The Pullman palace cars are to be intro.
duced to Europe
TIE coolies are making successful cotton
piokers in Texas.
CINCINNATI has Norwegian giant seven
feet ten inches high.
PoTAroEs and pumpkins are growing on
the Bull Run battle field
A New HAMPSHIRE man burned his
woods up smokinga coon in tree.
MICHIGAN University has abolished the
"marking" system.
NEARLY every city of Europe has char.
liable "home for consumptives.
COMMERCE in the West Indies is paralyzed
on account of the European war.
The latest description of liar-one who
presents things in rose colors.
CALIFORNIA has recently imported 5000
chestnut trees from Japan.
SMALL silver pieces ere scarcer in France
than with us.
A LITTLE boy was recently sent by ex-
press from Boston to Pittsburg.
THE old 'vets" of 1912 are to hold a re-
union at Seneca Falls, n. Y.
The fever and ague are having a very
successful season at Chillcothe.
DETECTIVES are very apt to find folks
out, but they never seem to feel badly
about it.
FRANCE is experimenting upon two.story
railway cars for steam roads.
THE sugar-producing section of Louis
lana is known as the "Sugar Bowl"
The State House at Boston is called, by
critic, the ''linchpin of the hub
The regular term of Georgia court was
not held because the judge had sore eyes.
TIE national real estate agents conven.
ton will be held in New Haven next year.
The Cleveland Board of Trade favors the
proposed Ontario and Erie ship canal.
AlTURTLE weighing 467 pounds was lately
captured on Coney Island beach.
NEARLY all the western railways, it is
said, show increased receipts this year
Houston, Texas, announces that it has
had only one case of yellow fever this year.
CHRONIC printing is said to have been
practiced in China one thousand years ago.
ALoUIsvILLE paper, six months estab-
lished, has had four libel suits and duel,
so far,
The Mormons predicta civil war between
them and the United States Government
within year.
IT is said that under the impetus of free
labor tie Southern states can raise cotton
enough to supply the manufacturing pow
er of the world
LoDGINa house keeper advertlses ''to
furnish gentlemen with pleasant and COM
Portable rooms; Also one or two gentlemen
with wives"
THE Philadelphia Press describes Cen
trail Park as q 'circumscrlbed, sun-beateh
sand heap" and the lake rs 'lts swan-cov-
ed mud puddle"
The neat thing in dog robes this season,
is to have the family monogram IN gilt up
on the blanket A dog without mono
gram blanket is OF no account
Man lately jumped off the Clifton
Suspension Bridge in England, height OF
$50 feet, in emulation OF Sam Patch, and
like him, came to grief.
THE Chicago Board of Education has
adopted a rule prohibiting teachers from
receiving presents from their pupils on
penalty OF dismissal from service.
A CONTEMPORARY, evidently overcome by
the aurora, says that on Friday night last
'the lambent pastimes of boreal corrus-
cations" were realized III full.
In searching for gold, much depends
upon whether the right measures are Ia
ken to find it. Quartz can be relied on as
serviceable, but pints will always tall.
The plum trees in some parts Of the
Middle States are reported to be In 'uI
bloom, having mistaken the recent rains
and pleasant weather for early spring
Lone ISLAND in Lake George, including
about 100 acres of land, was recently soiu
for SIS, 600 to two New Workers. They Will
make summer residence there.