Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-07-20
Miscellaneous Items.

are pouring into Oregon.
ThE gold crop of Montana for the
year 1870 was si4, 600, 900.
PIANo-MAuNG at. present takes the
third rank among the manufacturing
interests in the United States.
THE reason why the ancient Britons
We're so formidable in battle is thatt thew
were all Pct men.
\ CENTURY PLANT is in bloom at Mon
ticello, Florida. The flower stem is
thirty feet high.
A SHRUB has been discovered in Gui
nea which affords juice superior to
gutta percha.
HARRY HOWARD, a prominent colored
man of Lexington, KY. is stumping
the State for the Democrats.
AN Illinois man is arranging big
hen farm near Geneva in that State, on
which he expects to keep Is, COZ hens of
the choicest breeds
EDWIN BOOTH says the new play,
1.-The Man o'Airlie,' is worth to its
owner, Mr.. l.. p. Barrett, quarter of
million dollars.
PARIS, KY, boasts of horse which,
having cast n shoe, jumped out of his
lnclosure, went to n blacksmith shop
and had himself shod
A WESTERN paper states that the
Clcada Septemdecim is ravaging the
northwestern forests. 1t works with
its haustellum.
The horn of n Patagonian OK has
been forwarded to Baltimore. 1t is IS
inches long, II inches in circumference
at the base, and will hold seven quarts.
A COMPANY has been formed for the
erection of mammoth shoe factory Mt
Erie. 1t is to be four stories high and
over 100 feet long, and is expected to
give employment to 800 persons.
NEARuyall the labor of manufacturing
elastic wire into spiral springs is done
by hand. The weak places cannot be
detected when the wire is coiled by
machinery.
VANDERBILT is said 20 be worth
eighty five millions of dollars. and
should he live five years longer it is
believed his estate will be worth one
hundred millions.
A NRGINIAN owns dog whose smart
ness consists in carrying letters twice u
week between two points 16 miles apart.
His owner just ties the letters to his
collar and tells him to go and he goes.
DURING n thunder shower on Friday
afternoon, 10th, snow FELL on the hills
in the vicinity of South Dover, Me-,
in such vuantities MS to- make the ground
white for three hours afterward.
1t is stated that no less sum than
5000, 600 was subscribed for the de-
fence of the woman personator, Boul-
ton and Park, in London, and that u
young millionaire marquis gave $685.
600.
IT is said that little coarsely-cut
gentian root, well masticated (the sail
Va being swallowed), taken after each
meal, will soon cure one Of all desire
for tobacco.chewing Gentian is the
basis of most of the tobacco antidotes
advertised.
OK Tuesday Che Cape Ann Granite
Company, with a blast of seven kegs
of powder, started n block of granite
in their quarry at Bay View, 100 feet
IN length, 45 feet wide, and 30 feet
deep, containing about 100, 900 cubic
feet, and weighing over 1900 tons
supposed to be the largest block ever
quarrled in this or any other country.
lF caught in shower, and YOU get
Your hat wet, brush it before it is dry.
And so of the horse. When he comes
IN wet with perspiration smooth his
hair with coarse brush--a common
broom is better than nothing-in the
direction you wish it to lie when he is
dry. The animal will feel better, and
it will be only half the trouble to clean
him the next time he needs it,
An English chemist has been expert
menting for the purpose of ascertain
ing how much Of various kinds Of food
can be eaten IN order to make one
pound of flesh. He comes to the con
cluslon that it requires twenty-five
pounds Of milk one hundred ofturnips.
fifty of potatoes, fifty of carrots, nine
of oat meal, and three and half of
beans.
A NORTH CAROLINA negro. who had
been n wandering idiot from a blow re-
ceived on the skull while servant in
the confederate army, was the other
day subjected to a difficult operation at
the hands of skillful surgeon His
first CLEAN Of intelligence after the
result Of the operation was, as he Open
ed his eyes and said, "We were at
Manassas yesterday. Where are we to-
day."
A suM mine at Lantern Hill, Mystic,
Conn, has been in active operation for
nearly year, and is now making pro
titable returns The finest of the silex
brings forty dollars a ton. The two
mills OF the COmnanY turn ont on, n,,n,-