Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-08-25

Miscellaneous Items,

september.
A 7OO-PoUND sword fish is on exhibition
in Boston.
THE mouas, ties in England hold 2i3o
acres of land
PrTTsBURG has seven blast furnaces IN
operation.
THoMAsroN, Georgia, has raised 2sl
pound beet.
THE University of Nashville will reooep
on September l2th.
The volcano of Ceborneo, near Collma,
Mexico, is in active eruption.
THE Newark Common Council has ina,
authorized Sunday horse cars.
The Connecticut is so low that teams
ford the river at Hartford, just above the
toll bridge.
SINCE their arrival in America, the China.
men have learned the science of strisino
for higher wages
THE Maynard family, five generations
and $50 strong, had a reunion not lone
since, at Marlborough, Mass.
RoUNDoUT was last week favored with an
elopement, golden wedding, and an an.
ple-dumpliu : eating match.
IL Baltimore the police recently shot a
maniac IN the street. They We're endeav.
oring to capture him.
The New York Express is very an1iops
that the Fat men of Connecticut" should
play game of base ball
A guest at hotel in Leavenworth, Kan.
sas, ate over dozen ears of green corn at
one meal the day before his funeral
NITRO GIYCERINE has been in use but
five years, yet over seventeen hundred per.
sons have been killed or MANNED by it.
THERE is wild man in Orange county
n, Y, whose attention is devoted chiefly
to the destruction of frogs and snakes.
THE census of Sioux City, Iowa, is com,
pleted, and shows Il population of BALL.
an ncrease,ln three years Of 23ol,
FIVE dollar cravats, emblazoned withe
ter portraits of King William and Bis.
marck, are the latest Boston notion.
THE name OF Brigham Young appears
among the contributors to the exhibition
OF textile fabrics at Indianapolis
The but on Mount Washington, known
as the Tip Top House, rents for So, 600 the
season-about six weeks usually.
In the twentv-six days of war, European
public debts and securities have fallen in
value $500, 100000 it is calculated,
FRENCH sympathizers in Washington,
including the French legation, do not be.
leve Austria and Italy will assist France.
THERE are eight girls in the Michigan
Agricultural College who have to work in
the fold three hours daily, just as the
young men do.
A COMPANY has been organized with
capital of $500, 600 to work a coal field OF
|, 200 acres, at the confux Of Yermilion
river, near Danyille Illinois.
A VEIN of soft sandstone has been discdy.
cred near Greenfield, Missouri. 1t tmes
like petroleum, and an effort is being lade
to extract oil from it.
A nugget of one hundred and six pounds,
containing nlnety-seyen pounds OF gold
aud nine of quartz, was found near An.
burn, California, short time since,
The Fishkill Journal tells of a rattle.
snake that was killed by farmer in that
vicinity that had AZ rattles and could
drink pan of milk at one meal,
An eagle was shot few weeks ago, IN
Austria, in Belize, bearing a collar with the
date 1913, and some arms partially ettaced
by time and exposure to the weather.
The excursions of the bees to collect
honey are variously estimated at from one
to three miles each, and they are supposed
to make each about ten trips a day.
A young man in Georgia eloped with a
young lady. Her father and brother walt
ed for them on their return and began
shooting. The bridegroom replied, and
he now has no brother-in-law.
The work on the Lincoln monument al
Springfield. Illinois, is progressing RAPID
". Several carloads OF granite have peeh
received, and the blocks are now placed IL
the wall,
THE committee of relief for sufferers oy
the recent East Boston fire is amazed az
the number of poor families who claim 70
have lost large sums Of money III thel'
houses which were burned.
CORNWALL Conn, has had emily two
births recorded during the period OF seV'
eral years. The Oldest bachelor IN the
town will soon be centenarian. Another
evidence of STEADY habits. "
THREE things principally determine t lAlts
quality ola man--the leading object "AlcI
he proposes to himself in lite, the manner
in which he sets about accomplishing H.
and the effect which success OF failure ha'
upon him,
Ii Stamford, Connecticut, seven boys
from twelve Ia sixteen years old, ana oe'
longing to some OF the most respectS1,4S
families in town, are under arrest on ll9
charge of breaking into store and SIe"'
ing about $50 worth of goods,
A GREAT German has said: "NeaiI
bears heavier on talent tran on poNetH
and when the oil of riches is poured "
the hot passions of youth, only the ho0ie'