Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-08-04
MISCELLANEOUS Itelas.

- Sonoui Nv Id 'hna Is sick
with yellow fever. f
i THE Canadian Press Association made A..
raid on Buffalo, Wednesday.
Two THOUSAND sheep cross ed the river .,
/ Omaha last week for the East.
An exchange has coined new word
as bad as it is long, viz: newspapertorial
4 The Prussian laws forbid "bird-catcb,
Ing" Napoleon will be considered an ey.
ception.
FoUG BOXES govern the world-the cart.
ridge box, the ballot box, the jury box. and
the band box.
i CHICAGO claims 400, 900 population. a
hint to the census takers to make the
number no less. u
MAN is like river. No deep spot evar
occurs in him without revealing a shallow
little further down stream.
GENERAL SHERIDAN has obtained leave Of
the President to go with his staff to Eurone
and watch the progress of military events,
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT is said to bs
preparing a volume of Recollsetiors.
which will not be published until after his
death.
ONE of the most alarming features of the
war is the threatened revival of the great
European what is itt"-the Schleswip.
Holstein question.
A SYGACUsRAN wants to know what ha,
become of all those storekeepers who some
time ago were anxious to give their Gus.
toners silver change.
AT the late session of the Hawaiian leo.
islature at Honolulu, a bill was read, taking
the road TAX of poor laborers and putting
it on horses, carts, &c.
TIE prospects of good harvest in Aus.
tria and Hungary are said to be even great
er than was anticipated and very large
exporttrade is relied upon.
4 NEWLY discovered Chinese poem Ii Sac.
written three hundred years before Christ,
is said to prove that the existence of Amer.
lea was known to the Chinese at that time.
The laboring classes in West Troy are
laying in large stocks of -four in anticipa-
| ton of an advance in the price. Some
families have purchased as many as FIVE
barrels.
TERRIBLE SCREAMS, agony and a funeral
from the Cathedral, were some of the results
of Letter Bierston's pouring kerosene on
| lighted kindling wood last week, in Mays
vile, California.
RUSSIA doesn't say much, but doubtless
keeps up a tolerably lively thinking, and
her 566, 491 new breech leaders, and her
half million per day cartridge factory,
entitle her thoughts to Importance
A MAN lately made application for insur-
ance on building situated in village
where there was 40 fire engine. | n answer
to the question, ''what are the facilities for
extinguishing fires 2" he wrote: sit rains
sometimes"
ORDERS will be issued from the Postohice
Department, between now and the 1st OF
August, for the creation of three hundred
and eighty-two additional money order Of
fees The total number will then be aboJ.
two thousand one hundred.
IT would seem that France got in not
only good supply of grain before the war,
but gold also. The Bank of France has
$3.50, 100000 in specie and bullion. For
long time France has been draining all
Europe and the United States.
The Manchester Chamber of Commerce
has resolved to present a petition to the
House OF Commons complaining ofthe pro-
posed transfer of Gambia to France, and
that memorial to the same effect should
be addressed to the Colonial Secretary.
WITH the prospect of war with France,
it is not surprising that the Bavarians are
excited by the declaration of the King of
Prussia that he takes command of the
army. And yet we believe it is clearly in
accordance with treaty stipulations made
with Prussia after the battle of Sadowa,
A PoMrous individual walked up to the
Office of the Stockton House, Cape May,
one day last week, and with considerable
houriah, signed the book and exclaimed,
"1'm lieutenant governor of -" THAT
don't make any difference, says the polite
clerk, you'll be treated just as well as the
9th ers."
IT is said here that the failure OF the in
trigue by the Empress Eugene to marry
her niece, the Duchess OF Alba, to Prince
Leopold Of Hohel2ollern, is the real
source of the present trouble between
France and Prussia, The father Of the
Duchess is in Madrid, drowned in deot
and generally despised.
A LOT of Chinese medicines, seized at
the San Francisco Custom-house, were re-
ceiyed at the Treasury Department yester-
day. Various kinds OF snakes among
them the cobra de capello, bugs and roach
es, the skin OF the poreupine, fetus OF an
antelope, &c, are among the collection
These things are used as medicines by the
Chinese doctors.
A TRAVELLING insurance agent had been
explaining to western pioneer the advan-
tages of an insurance policy. Pathfinder
unused moment in grave silence, and then
said: "See here, mister, i have lived out
in this country now twenty-five years, and
have bucked agin most all the games
they've started, but darn me eff want to
play game where you have to die to beat
the bank
AT Wincanton, Somerset, young man
named Lamb, fancying that a certain
young woman, Mary Crees, had bewitched
him, rushed upon her, seized her by the
throat, and pulling out his penknite, at