Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-11-23
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An elastic tire for car wheels has been
ried and found to be of great value.
PERSIAN fathers are selling a nice
manageable class of daughters at S.
head.
IT is estimated that one burning gas
Jet will consume rs much air as five
persons.
ONE thousand ladies recently at.
tended political meeting in Stockton,
California.
A CITIZEN of Lowell announces that
"a fue borders or meallers can be com.
dated hear"
A MISSOURI musician sat down upon
a keg of powder and began to smoke.
They found one button.
ORDERS have been given to replant
the Bots de Boulogne and Meudon with
trees fifteen or twenty years of age.
FoRTY-oSE cases of school slate were
recently shipped from Danielsville,
Northampton county, Pa, to Japan.
The great Strauss, it is reported, is
soon to come to this country with his
celebrated orchestra OF 81 musicians.
4 SPAN of horses, forty-two years
old, and in excellent condition, are
daily seen in the streets of Watertown.
n. Y,
AT Memphis show two bruisers APP
peared for set-tO between the scenes of
the panorama, "a Journey to the Holy
Land.
COMMODORE Ashbury has mistaken
his vocation. He ought to have been
a notary public. He was born to pro
test
A STEAM fruit preserving establish
meut at Niles has an order .-em the
War Department for 10000 poaads OF
preserved apples.
A FRANKFORT sporting man now owns
the ex- Emperor Napoleon formerly fa-
vorite horse Malek. The animal is
dark bay and an Arabian.
A New ORLEANS lady boasts that her
hair is five feet ten inches long 1t is
not stated whether or not this va$ ca
pillary adornment is grated article.
Dr. Willard Parker, of New York
on his visit to Amherst, gave the stu
dents a lecture on the use of alcohol
and tobacco, arguing that they increas-
ed sickness in life 10 times, and, be-
sides, shortened life ON an average
from 10 to 20 yerrs.
IT has been observed in ENGLAND
that in certain class of cases a major
ity OF persons signing she marriage re-
gister Of the parish make their marks,
which a Liverpool curate " rises to
explain does not arise wholly from
inability TO write, but from the fact
lhat often the parties are too drunk to
write
THE lest unrecognized victim of the
Revere railroad disaster has been
identified as Mrs. Locke, aged tfty-iye,
of Lowell, Mass. She left Lowell to
visit relatives in Lynn, and while her
friends in Lowell supposed she was in
Lynn, here relatives in Lynn were not
aware that she had lefthome
De. FRoEMING, who was hired to
poison Mr. Barnabas Wagner at Upper
Sondusky, Ohio, for 5000, and the
wife of the murdered man, and her
brother, Robert Cashier, have all been
held to bail in 50, 900 each. The evil
dence of Froeming at the inquest con
hrmed the previous reports as to his
agency i'll the affair, and the refusal of
the confederates to pay him after the
deed was committed.
TIM United States coast survey, I'M
der tho authority of Congress, has made
for distribution to the different States
OF the Union. fifty accurate copies Of
French metre. brought from Paris last
year by the American commission TO
the International Congress on weights
and measures. The standards brought
back are a metre bar Of gilded brass
and one OF platinum.
AEvID AUGUST ArzELUs, the celebrt-
cd Swedish historian and pastor died
on the 25th Of September, at the rect
or's house at Eukoniug, N Sweden,
whore he had resided for over half
century. 4 week previous TO his death
he had celebrated ms golden wedding.
The historical work by which his name
has become celebrated wherever the
scandinavian tongue is spoken, is the
''Sycu-Ea F0lkets Sagoh3lder, or
Swedish Chronicles"
A,IoyG the curious phenomena no.
tee Fl FL boring the Mont Cents Tunnel
was that scarcely d drop ot water was
found Water 70 drink for the work
men had all the time to be brought
rou without A few significant fer
rurju rs spring wa, the only one they
came acress. 4 second remarkable
WIS that tae geological
ehwacfer in error ot the uagHalE an
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rvs tt scientific t..#g nE ST. ~ls