Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-12-28
ALI Sorts of Paragraphs.

A GEORGIA editor has fearfully ear
itating article on Mules
| The prairie fires in Kansas nearly
stripped the State of hay.
CooHIsE, the Apache chief, uses yell
low ochre as cosmetic.
TEE fish trade of New England
amounts to $40, 900, 600 year.
RIcuorrI GARIBALDI will marry the
only daughter of George Sand.
| Two HUNDRED AND ONE convicts are
incarcerated in the State Prison.
EVERY man except dog " was late
ly lost by an accident to British ship.
THERMOMETER thirty degrees below
zero at Chippewa Falls on Monday last.
" VENDoME Column and g Ashes Of
Paris" are the latest novelties in col
ors.
THERE we're 347, 100 gallons of brandy
manufactured in North Carolina last
year.
OF the ten thousand English miners,
one in every thirty is killed by accident
yearly.
An irascible Georgian has found that
it costs just $12 80 word to swear at
Judge.
IN California 80, 900, 900 acres of pub
&c land are granted to railroad com
panies.
SENATOR Garret Davis hat just re-
ceived $4,000 as q fee in a Kentucky
lawsuit.
MRs. BULLOCK, wife of Ex-Gov. Bull
lock, of Georgia, has mysteriously dis
appeared.
SEVENTEEN different romances in con
nection with the Chicago fire have been
published.
THE piano was first introduced by
Dibdin in his celebrated sailor con-
certs, in 1907.
Ir is stated in mitigation of FIJI can
nibalism that only boys from II to IA
years old are eaten.
A DEAD whale sixty feet long came
ashore at Point Shirley, in Winthrop
Mass, Saturday morning.
A FIRM at West Sumner, Maine, have
manufactured 5000 children's sleds
during the present season.
4 LARGE plate-gass factory is about
TO be established at Columbus, Geof
gia, by n st. Louis company.
WHEN the New Pork Post says Tweed
will soon be " in the van of events. it
hints grimly at the Black Maria.
VoLrAIRE, while speaking Of fame,
said, ooh, I'd give hundred years of
immortality for good digestion, any
time"
A PROMINENT journalist, who is per
fectly bald, has offered a reward OF
81 600 for tale that will make his hair
stand on end.
UNCLE SAM has 1,400, 000 600 acres
of land for sale after his donations for
the benefit of railroads, schools, col
leges, etc, etc.
GEN. VM. NJ TWEED. JB., has ten
dered his resignation "a Assistant Dis
trict Attorney of New York to go into
effect ON Jan. !.
The Union sayes that all the male
children born the past week III Brook
lyn, so far as it has seen the registry,
are named Alexis.
SOME of the New York papers are
making war on the sewing machine
companies, claiming that any machine
can be sold for forty dollars
A GAS company in Philadelphia
charged man $50 for gas burned
while he was in Europe and the house
shut up. He is now using kerosene.
The steamer Massachusetts,, running
between Baltimore and Annapolis, was
blown ashore near the latter city on
Monday night. The boat will be total
loss.
MILLIONS of dollars worth of gold
dust have drifted down the valleys of
the Sierra from the :'taihng' OF the
mines, and these the Cinnamon are
now gathering
DIAMONDS have been found in Ariz-
ona. One has been sent to Boston
lapidary, who certifies it to. be brill |
liant of the purest water, andworth from
$500 to $500.
AN eminent physician says that a
good coat OF gum arabic mucilage APP
piled every night to corns Will, In n |
short time cause the pests to take F,
their final departure
On the l4th of September last, DIR. !
Luther. OF Blk, discovered a new
planet. 1t was equal in briliancy to a
star of the eleventh magnitude. The
number Of asteroids that is now known |
is III
Mrs. frances BARRETT DE OyIEDo, the |
bride of the famous diamond wedding f.
in New York several years ago, con- /
tributed one hundred dollars to the /
Chicago relief subscription taken up IN |
Havana.
Railroad Bonds.