Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-03-16


Wolves infest Delaware county,
Ohio.
THEY serve up bacon and greens at
the Nashville hotels.
THE finding of gold at Tuckahoe, n.
j., has excited considerable interest.
HARVARD has not yet accepted Yale's
challenge for the annual University
race.
OBsERvAT1oNIsT p" in New York is
defined by an expert to mean, looking
round during the day to observe what
he could steal in the night.
NORTH CAROLINA is the fourteenth
State in the Union in point of popula-
ton. She is one of the sixteen that
have over one million inhabitants.
An anti-kissing society has been
formed by the Galena Gll.) girls. "No
kissing before marriage is their motto.
FRENCH PORTS are filed with provis-
ions bound for Paris, but which cannot
be forwarded for want of transporta-
ton.
Two printers left Selma few days
since in a skif, for Mobile. Stores on
board-two bottles of benzine and a
blanket.
AN aeronaut has discovered that a
woman's voice is audible at height OF
two miles, while a mans voice has never
been heard higher than mile.
THE ice-banks on the shores of Lake
Ontario are more lofty at present than
for some years-indicating heavy seas
and greater period of cold weather.
Ara lecture given in Frankfort lndi
ana, not long since, the tickets read
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for
they shall see God. Admit one.
The famous Pantheon of Paris has
escaped serious injury, although the
dome and outer walls bear marks OF the
bombardment.
THE Asphalte Pavements in Paris du-
ring the siege were, it is stated, exclu-
sively used for fuel in the Chocolate
factories and rice mills.
IT is said that white, smooth, and
unchapped hands can be obtained by
washing them in equal parts of corn
starch and carbonate Of magnesla.
A LARGE number of lovers quarrels
have been reported in Terre Haute, be
cause the ungallant SWANS refused to
invest months salary in two Nilsson
concert tickets.
Missouri laments the fact that its
State prison. with 700 able bodied con-
yicts, has in the last three years cost
1921 700, more than it has earned.
THE agent of the Mobile and Girard
road reports that Large number OF
immigrants are about to settle on the
lands granted to the company
THE Inman steamship line will put
new first-class steamer on their line
this spring, and have contracted for
another to be built in time for the
spring of 1872.
Or the French prisoners III Belgium,
more than 700 who were without any
instruction, have been taught to read,
write and cipher since their residence
in that country.
THAT the war must have told terribly
ON the resources of the Germans is evi-
dent from the fact that they accept for
garrison duty volunteers of sixty years
of age and upward.
In Baltin. ore the Friends have,built
meeting house with front OF pressed
brick and brown stone trimmings. The
interior is fitted up with walnut pews,
cushions and carpets.
HARRopspuRG, Kentucky, reports
marvellous meteor, followed by waves
of straw-colored and blue light, and o
"long, torn, faded, but beautiful gar
ment of light"
The Maryland Court of Appeals has
decided that a man who marries minor
becomes responsible for any debts
which might have been enforced against
her Notwithstanding her minority.
The new missionary packet Morning
Star will sail from Boston for Honolulu
this week-a messenger from the Sab.
bath schools of America to the isles OF
the sea.
In Clarion county, Pa, recently,
man, who recklessly discharged PTS
tol into crowd and killed an unotiend-
ing person, was convicted of involun,
tary manslaughter only, and sentenced
to but eight months imprisonment
DIcKENs's executors, Mr.. John Eros
ter and Mr. Dickns's sister-in-law, Miss
Hogarth, having disposed of the au-
thor's entire series Of copyrights to
Messrs. Chapman and Hall at very
high price.
IT is said that the Republican mem