Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-04-27
General Items.

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SINCE Kansas vigilance committee
held necktie party, eight horse thieves
are missing.
THE only establishment for the man
ufacture of plate glass in this country
is at Lennox, Mass.
THERE are in the world about 100, 900
miles of railway, that have cost sl0,-
600, 0O0,0 900, and given employment to
over /, 200, 900 persons.
METHODIST churches were built in
this country in 1910 at the rate of near
ly four every working day, the number
being over twelve hundred
THE largest cutlery establishment in
the world is that of the Russell Com
pany, at Turner's Falls, Franklin Co.,
Massachusetts,.
IT is asserted to be the fact that a
man in Delaware kept negro girl in
slavery up to week before last when,
she being too sick to be of use to him,
he gave her her freedom and 10 cents
to take her to New Castle. She died
there in forty-eight hours after her
arrival.
WHEN scalawag gets elected to
Office in the Southern States, and he
can't find any one to sign his official
bond, he sells out his chance. The
Treasurer elect of Bibb county, Ga, is
reported to have realized $500 in lit
tie transaction of this kind lately.
THE latest invention of the Montana
Indians is the setting up of toll gates
on narrow passes of the roads, and
compelling travellers to pay for the
privilege of crossing their hunting
grounds.
g. +. LEWIS, of Cleveland, Ohio, has
purchased the agricultural college scrip
of seventeen states, amounting to about
$1,000, 600; his latest purchase being
200, 900 acres of Texas for S156, DOC.
THE Prescott (Arizona) Miner comes
ont in mourning for 1.-The three humid
red souls, men, women, and children,
slain by the scourge and pestilence of
the beautiful west-the Indians
A BosToN confectioner now sends out
ice cream in paper boxes, the loss of
numerous tin cans suggesting the new
idea. The paper boxes are said to be
so constructed as to answer all the pur-
poses of tins or cans, and keep the
cream i'll good condition.
The packing trade of Baltimore is
enormous. The canning of oysters,
fruit and vegetables gives annual en-
ployment to 10000 hands 40, 900, 600
cans are packed, and the amount real
lied annually is put down at SO, 900, :
000
INDIANA juries have an original way
of agreeing on verdict In case of
SANDER in the town of Bedford, the
Jury assessed the damages by each
member writing a sum upon separate
slips of paper, adding the sums togeth-
er, and dividing by twelve, thus strik-
ing an average, which proved to be
81, 400.
In East Boston, the other day, the
police seized nine hundred of the
squawking tin "roosters " which there,
as here and everywhere, are found in
the hands of urchins.
A LITTLE girl who loves to pray, one
night was very tired and sleepy, and
was getting into her little bed without
saying her prayers. But her mamma
told her to kneel down first to pray
SO she folded her little hands and said:
"Please, God, remember what little
Polly said last night, she's tired to-
night. Amen"
THE New Albany (lndiana) Ledger
says that in the town of its publication
there is on exhibition mosquitoes
bladder containing the fortunes of
twelve editors, the souls of twenty four
misers, and the consciences of forty
eight carpet-baggers, and yet the blad-
der is but half full.
The action of the flint glass manu-
facturers of the United States, in abol-
ishing commercial statesmen, is a very
important step, and one which will
doubtless be followed by other branches
of trade. Every firm in the country,
save three, have assented to this ar
rangement, and the cooperation of the
trade has been solicited in carrying the
resolution into effect.