Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-10-27

Miscellaneous.
GEORGIA is raising bananas extensjyel

THE grasshoppers have disappeared from
Utah.
UNION COLLEGE bad four president, drr.
ing its first decade.
THE New York apple crop is very large
and very good.
ILLlsoIs is the fourth American state in
population.
Da,JNLLE, Pa, is to have cooperative
rolling mill.
New OsLEANs has cotton factory run.
ming 3 800 spindles.
AUSTRALIA has an import and export
trade OF 1915, 900, 600 annually.
WASTE nothing, neither money, time nor
talent
A SPOILED child-the one that PLAYED
with the kerosene can.
| By the new city charter OF San Antonio.
Texas faro is prohibited.
A New HAVEN gambler died suddenly ut
tie faro table on Saturday,
LET everything have its place, and every
business its time.
PROSPERITY is a blessing to she good, but
curse TO the Evil.
A NATIONAL gold note bank, with $1,000.
900 capital, 10 to be established at San
rancisco
SOME 1,0i0 babies nestled in the basket
crib Of the New York Founding Asylum
last year.
If you want to keep dry, eat freely Of red
herring and salt beet, and dent drink.
QuALs are SO plenty in Indiana that they
! light on the dia.s of the town clocks AID
stop the works.
AyELvET smoking jacket is considered
indispensable to the wardrobe of the swell
of the period.
THE emigrant neea not 60 west for
fagm; the moment he touches Castle Gar.
den wharf he's LANDED man.
TIE Hampton mills, in Caldwell county,
Missouri, have been purchased by Con.
nccticut man for IS, 500.
)E course the ice-cart drivers are totally
blind to the interests of customers when
they put their ice out.
An, English savant is endeavoring to
prove that the earth is fat, and only
makes folks believe that he is fiat,
IT is estimated that lac, 900, coo cod
fish are caught on Newfoundland shores an.
nually.
AMONG the stock displayed at the state
fair at Utica, n Y, is bullock weighing
A. 900 pounds.
A.sPIDER in Tennessee caught snake
the other day byspinning his web around
the reptil's head,
The more one tries the better he sue
ceeds. This is especially true of whalemen
and lard manufacturers.
The herring on the Scotch coast are so
plentiful this year that the salt and barrels
for curing them are exhausted
A NEWARK rough finds his amusementin
knocking people down and stating their
mouths with gatter mud.
WHY does the fool who never laughs re-
mind you of tie wisest man? Because he
4 is a solemn IN.
AT Newark, n. j., various manufacturers
are making substitute for wooden cloth
out of bamboo csne.
THE Nebraska City Advertiser says that
one-seventh Of the grain grown In Nebraska
| is shipped from that city.
THE gold mines of California yield an.
nually spa, $50, 000-the quicksilver mines,
81, 500, 900, and the coal-helis 81, 900, 0UO..
The Baptist church, North and South,
have taken one step toward co operation;
their Bible and publishing houses hays
united.
RHODE TAaAND has 166 population to the
square mile. Massachusetts, has 157. New
York, which stands third ontbe list, has II.
Ro0r Eba CRY claims the champion sick
| man of the oil regions. They have man
there that has been sick fer forty-two years.
| JET ornaments are used on bonnets this
fall, and make them so heavy that 1t feels
like lifting small-sized aat-iron to take
one up
SrEg1 needles first ceme into England
from spain and Germany. They we've first
manufactured in London by German in
1865.
SOCKET HASH, as vegetable, ard sllest
apple pie, as pastry, appeared ID the liSt
Of esculents on bill Of fare at ons OF the
hoSels in Louisville.
AUSTRALIA has an import and export
| trade of 1915, 900 010 annually, and last
year there were $4,000 tirst-oia.s5 passen-
gers between England and Australia.
The New York city chamberlain vii! NOS
tallow political assessments to be made on
the clerks in his Office, but pays them oar
of his own pocket.
AN English coroner's jury recently repri-
mauded mother for administering God
frey's cordial to young child suffering
from dilrrhGa
THE Acclimatization Society OF New Aea'
land is buying California seeds and oitas'
frogs from Australia, pigeons from Airl'"'
ana fishes from England.
The registration of voters in Mary ANA
displays ths fact that the attendance on the
part Of the colored citizens was almost uni
yersal.
THE Crystal Springs (Miss.) Herald re-
ports the following strange occurrence,
'.Mr O. d. Newman, of this place was
stabbed some thirty years ago III the pacS
with knife, bya man with whom be n L1l
a difficulty. A few days ago, while "a We