Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-04-21
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Facts and Figures.

Facts and Figures.
A NEW political novel is announced by
Disraeli.
Missouri girls are always sweet THEY are
Mo. -asses.
PEACH trees are Louisville are beginning
to blossom.
Iowa has 4lO, 16S children to enjoy the
school fund.
A FRENcHMAN wants to lease Pompeii for
q hotel and theatre.
The most popular church in London has
ten minute sermons.
PROTESTANT weekly paper appeared in
Cordova, Spain, Jan. l.
THE procuring of divorce is called
counting after marriage.
THE number of deaths in Chicago dur
ing the month of March was 535.
The milk inspector OF Boston says the
milk sold there is thin, but healthy.
FARMERS in Wyoming pillow with tame
buffaloes.
LITTLE girl in Sheboygan Co. cut off
her fingers in straw cutter.
THE bell was recently stolen from the
steeple of Kentucky church.
The first steamer of the season leaves
Oshkosh for Berlin to-day.
Two companies of Federal soldiers are to
be stationed at Jacksonville, Ala.
Nor single death has occurred at Bow
dom College for over twenty-five years.
Four colored girls are employed in the
Government Printing Office.
The Aston House, New York, will be
turned into stores when the present lease
expires.
AN Arizona miner lately fell down
shaft 125 feet deep, nnd was only slightly
bruised.
THEl.E is to be great prize show of the
3ladiolis flower in London, on the 18th Of
August next.
The saloon keepers in Cape Giradeau,
No., have all been indicted for keeping
open on Sunday.
A BEARDED woman died the other day at
Toulouse, France, aged l04 years. She had
\ beard two feet long.
The South Rend Qnd Register says
hat eggs are scarcer IN that city than hon
est men are in Chicago.
A PRACTICAL paradox Spring freshets
carrying away the dams without diminish
ing the hard swearing.
The late blondes of a New York theatre
now appear with hair dyed black and faces
oronzed to an olive tinge.
A JERsEYMAN, in reply to the charge that
can do no fighting in time of war,
says his wife does nothing else.
THE lake tunnel at Cleveland has reached
\ point 4lO feet from shore, and work is
at the rate of ten feet per day.
SOME of the cheapest brands of tea are
said to be partly made up OF cast-steel fl
lngs.
AN excursion of ministers from Boston
TO San Francisco is proposed for August
next
A NEW daily paper, with j. Russell
Young as editor, is to be started in New
York in May.
THE Office CT DR.. Douglas, at Appleton,
was entered on the Sd, and robbed of in
'truments with $500.
THE house of Mr.. Tibbetts, at Lima,
Sheboygan Co., was burned down on Fri.
lay last. Loss ST, 900.
The Grand Rapids Reporter says that
Spring fights have commenced and Hell's
n full bloom up there.
In the five largest savings banks in Bos-
ton there are nearly S2S, 600, 000, belonging
to 1872, 346 depositors.
THE oldest theatre in this country is sup
posed to be the Walnut of Philadelphia,
which was built in 1900.
The highest steeple in Dayton, Ohio, is
hat of the First Presbyterian Church,
which is 239 feet high from the street
Boston takes 20,94S gallons of milk a
lay, and 1856 020 annually. There are
100 COWS within the city limits.
Two Kentucky sportsmen lately shot 800
ducks in nine days in Ballard County, and
sold them in Cairo, Illinois, for $3.50.
A TRAVELLER writes home from fParis
1.-The word have stood most in need OF
since my arrival here is the French for
damn"
THE tax levied upon tobacco raised in
Virginia last year, and consumed by the
people of the United States, amounted to
$50 100000
A FEW days ago little girl in Ithaca,
just before she died, exclaimed: Papa,
take hold of my hand and help me across. u
Her father died two months ago.
NINE soldiers of the war of 1912 are
mentioned as still living in Rails county,
Missouri, all OF them over seventy-fve
years of age.
THE guests at a irst.cass otel were re.
Gently startled at seeing "mice pie
among the items of dessert on the bill OF
fare.
UPWARD of 10000 natives persisted in
the Island of Zanzibar and on the main
land, from cholera, IN the space of six
weeks
"MAPLE sugar, you know" says the
Schenectady Star, lis made by grinding
up maple trees and squeezing out the juice