Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-08-03
General Items.

IA D"no So'hoy, a. p. 20 per Jay.
A YACHT club has been organized ut
Constantinople, and the most beautiful
water course in the world will hereaf.
ter be enGvened with regattas between
yachts after American and English
models. 1t would be worth a visit 10
the gorgeous East to see the fieetJof
Dreadnaughts, Phantoms and Cam.
brias.
Sailing down the Bos norus."
A GREAT Darlington girl announces
through the advertising columns of the
local paper that she "takes this method
OF informing certain young man. that
the next time he desires to gaze nnon
her forty-tive mortal minutes. witbon,
winking his eyes, she will consider her.
self highly favored if he will close his
mouth, and not sit there like a yonno
robin awaiting the parent bird ~
If this thing were credited to anv-
where else than the region of eternal
oil and the Titusville Herald, we wonld
not have believed it 1.-TWO well-dress.
ed and fine looking ladies instantly dis
located their necks while passing each
other, in trying to see what each had
on. 1t was cloudy the speed at which
they were moving, and the delicate
shade of the dry goods worn by each.
operated against them, and a sudden
tack with all sail set against a stiff
breeze fetched them up too short, and
they persisted "
The only three cities on the globe
positively known to contain over '0OO,-
600 inhabitants are London, Paris. and
New York Gncluding Brooklyn, J the re-
ported population of Yeddo, Pekin, and
other heather centers having been
proved to be wildly exaggerated Ber-
lin, ST. Petersburg, Naples and Vienna
do not differ very widely in population,
though the Prussian capital is growing
more rapidly tnan any of the other cit
les, and is probably the largest by 40
600 to 1000
A NORWICH authority tells pathetic
little story about pigeon which be-
came fastened by long string hang
ing from its leg to telegraph wire.
Two or three boys wanted to throw
stones at it; but a kind gentleman, tel
ling them not to hurt the poor bird,
got ladder and carefully unwound the
string, and put the frightened, hutter-
ing little creature tenderly into his bo-
som while he descended. The next
evening he remarked that it had made
much nicer pie than he had expected
A ROCHESTER paper tells of the cham
pion greenhorn of the season. While
seated in a car at Suspension Bridge,
on Friday, he heard smart looking
man asking different passengers in
quite loud voice if they would give
him 1850, taking therefor check for
81, 400 on the Monroe County Bank of
Rochester. The greenhorn examined
the check, counted out the money, be-
leved he had made 1910, and of
course learned at the bank that he had
been duped.
THEY voted in Massachusetts,, the
other day, on the question of allo owing
the sale of beer. In some of the towns
young ladies attended the polling
places, charged with ballots, on which
was printed the firm ''no," instead of
the persuasive eyes" These paper
pellets they distributed to the voters,
and woe betide the young man who did
not accept one and then vote it. 1t
were better for him that he had never
been born There is henceforth no
woman's smiles for him. He may en-
Joy his beer, and that is all that is left
of him.
A FALL RIVER Mass. photographer
was called on recent Sunday to take
some pictures of deceased child. The
latter was placed in a chair, and over
it was arranged an arch of roses, with
one sprig hanging down from the CEN
ter 1t is related by an eyewitness
that several pictures were taken. and
in the sixth, partly obscuring the pen
dent sprig, appeared clearly defined
the face of the child's mother, who
had been dead for several years. Con-
siderable local excitement is said to
have resulted from this Spiritual pho
tograph, if such it was.
THE Rochester Express give the fol-
lowing touching incident connected
with the recent death of a citizen OF
that place: "'He giveth His beloved
sleep. The disease of which Mr.. Il.
H. Hollister died caused excessive
drowsiness, and efforts were made to
counteract this tendency, and rouse
him from sleep just before he died
his sister urged him to resist the grow
ing stupor, and he rallied sufficiently
to utter the sublime sentence, He gly-
eth His beloved sleep These were his
last words, for he slept to wake no
more into mortal life.
A NEW principle of boiler constitute
ton has been introduced by Mr. Alfred
Since, contrived for the purpose OF
heating lighthouses, etc. The pecuh-
arity consists in the use of only one
pipe for the flow and return of water