Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-08-18
Brfuitifs.
Miscellaneous Items.
GARLIC butter is delicacy in Spain.

THE coughing boss" is the Indian name
| for locomotive.
LAST year there were only 1914 British
troops in Australia.
AMERICAN ice pitchers are considered a
great luxury in Paris,
The population of Little Rock, Ark, is
estimated to be l4,0O0,
LONDON is the hottest and Liverpool the
coolest city in England.
CALIFORNIA produces 100000 pounds
o. quicksilver annually.
An American watch factory ia to be built
OF Springfield Illinois.
SYRACUSE has an ordinance which forbids
the ringing OF milk-bells.
New York has 1000 regular physicians,
and innumerable irregular ones.
AN Albany florist has rose bush which
! grows four roses upon one stem.
A FINE-GRAINED marble, black as ebony,
has been found at Williamsport, Penn.
ONE million five hundred thousand
scytb4s are annually made in this country
alone.
MARY BRENAHAM, of Troy, has been ar
rested, charged with beating TWO COWS to
death with a club.
IT is SAID there are more men, married
and single, at Long Branch, than any
other watering place.
ENGMsHMEN are beginning to aeknowl-
edge how widely they erred during the
shareholders rebellion.
The Panama and West India Gable Co.,
have begun operations. Twenty-Five miles
of the cable have been laid.
TIE tulip mania has broken out again in
Paris, one man Boosting Of a collection
comprising over 500 varieties.
THE hops at Niagara this season have
been more remarkable "for attractive en-
joyment than display of dress. y
SEvENTY-FIvE thousand dollars are to be
expended this season for river improve
ments between Troy and Albany.
AMERICANS are returning from Europe in
the greatest haste, and state-rooms are en-
gagged six and eight weeks ahead.
BRIeHToN, England, is cons tructing gi-
gantic aquarium, 100 feet wida'by several
hundred long, at cost of S25O, 900.
WEALTH and locality magnify the myste-
ry of q murder not more mysterious than
other murders that pass unnotlced.
A GREAT many young couples are enjoy
ing ''the moon on the lake" at Putin Bay.
They should be careful of the snakes.
SINCE the beginning of the instruction
in Cuba, the Spanish Government has con-
fiscated 400, 000, 900 worth ofproperty.
LADIES at the sea shore, who wish to
prove that their hair is their own, wear it
braided or hanging loose down their backs.
SEVERAL young men of good families in
New York have been taken to the bing-
hampton Asylum, to be cured Of drunken
ness.
A CAIIyoRNIi INDIAN who murdered an
old man lately has been caught, and the
citizens say his trial won't cost the state
cent.
LONG Branch is said to be the incest
place in the United States. There are a
few more than Twelve Temptations"
there.
O.,E of the New York papers accounts
for the defeat of the Dauntless on the
ground that she had too many officers on
board.
The sole object of a certain ladies' So
cety in Louisville, Ky,, is to provide en-
ployment to women in INDECENT circum-
stances.
TIE cultivation of bananas is gradually
spreading in this country, and a Savannah
man has a fine grove of seventy trees in
that city,
SOMEBODY says, once let the Celestials
get our American way of doing business
and there will be plenty of Chine 4Astors
among us.
SoME parts OF the west are overrun with
titled individuals. census taker in Wis
consin reports having met twenty Colonies
in one day.
ANOTHER sulphur spring has been dis
covered in Troy. 1t is such wicked place
we wouldn't wonder if the entire soil was
composed of sulphur.
The papers of Memphis say tao Contra
Park, recently donated to that city, is a
failure. One OF the main reasons is that 1t
didn't belong to the donor
OLD DEMosTHENEs was right when he
said that the measures which a statesman
had meditated for a year might be over
turned by woman in night.
Col. BouDrNoT, of the Indian Nation, is
training splendid elk to exhibit at the
| Kansas State Fair in matches of speed
against the fastest horses.
A PIECE of lead ore from point on the
Georgia railroad, about fifty miles from
! Atlanta, has been Analysed and found to
contain So per cent. of the pure metal.
| Mn MDDLEMIss, Of Canada, desires it
distinctly understood that he does not IA
vor immediate independence, but would
like to enjoy itsome time in the future.
THE cotton crop in Southwest Georgia, it
is said, will fall far below an average. The
| weed - small diseased and DoOrly fruit