Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-09-07

tortoise-shell novelty.
II Turo, Mass, there are 105 widows
whose husbands were lost at sea.
THE story that a White Mountain
spur has been christened Mount Hof-
man IS undoubtedly spurious.
OEE ocean steamer captain counted
/ lG iceburgs on late voyage across the
\ Atlantic.
THE manuscript novel discovered
among Hawthorne's papersis story Of
/ American life at the Revolutionary era
RED snow has been found Ill Wash
in2ton Territory. 1t occurs III bands
on the white snow, and contains very
minute insects.
YOUNG men take notice Two-tlirds
of the wealth of Calais, Me, is to fall
to the girls Of that place.
one hundred and ten salmon We're
captured in the river Dart, England,
with a seine in one haul, July L.
THE number of Confederate flags in
| possession of the Government at Wash
/ ington is 542.
ATHENS county has IS survivors of
| the war of Sl2, who have applied for
/ pensions under the new law
LITTLE boys and girls Will be pleas
ed to learn that one firm in Springfield
makes five tons of candy per month.
THE Saratoga lady who gets outside
of forty glasses Of water daily has re-
Gently developed symptoms Of dropsy
THE Boston foater" seems to be
popular drink in Paris. 1t consists Of
a glass of water with a cork floating in
it.
THE Cuban telegraph cable has devel-
oped 9 new foe. Turtles are said to
gnaw it, thus several times interupting
communication.
AN enormous quantity OF petroleum
oil was discovered hidden in the col
umn of the Bastile, in Paris, supposed
to have been placed there by the In
surgents.
The Montreal fremen mourn the loss
Of lamb, Familiarity known among
/ them as Billy" which was wont to
run to fires with them.
ALADY in Vermont has been made
dangerously i'll from the effects of a
. bite on her hand inflicted by her daugh-
/ ter, who is deranged. Her hand and
arm to the shoulder are discolOred, and
symptoms of yirIlent poison have APP
/ peared.
/ AT Saratoga it has been discovered
/ that mineral springs can be introduced
into every house by boring about a
! hundred feet. So says a correspond
ent. The nasty Stops will soon get to
I be so common and 50 abundant that
nobody will want them.
4 THERE are ten fashionable hotels in
1 New York kept on the European plan,
in each of which about 100 persons
/ board. These families, mostly, pay
/ for a suite OF rooms, parlor and bed
room, from SIS to $50 day.
MANY families, says the New York
Mail, who reside IN elegant stone
fronts, and appear very wealthy. usual
/ w., after marrying off their daughters,
move into smaller dwelling in less
fashionable locality.
A DROVE OF three hundred buffalo
one lay. last week while fleeing from
an approaching train on the Kansas "a
cifc road ran wildly through the WI
lage Of Fossil Creek The inhabitants
brought out their guns and pistols ana
made il red hot for them.
A RURALIsr got bitten by the "tger,
in St. Louis, and he pitched the bank
out Of the window and blew up a
whisky barrel. The police couldn't
say they knew nothing about 1t.
Ir is said that the leaves OF the ger
anium are an excellent application loI
cuts where the skin is rubbed OF, ana
other wounds of that kind. One OF
two leaves must be bruised and appheo
to the part, and the wound VIII oe
cicatrized IN a short time.
SIN thousand two hundred ana nlne-
tv-one feet above the the level OF me
Sea. eight and a half o'clock Z. VI
thermometer mt 81 deg above zero
wind nearly sixty miles an houT' auo'e
Q0persuns in one small room less lI'n
seven feet high, with TWO large stoves
heated to almost redness. ms =
Mount Washington, at the summit
A PARTY Of ladies and gentlemen were
lost ON the top OF CatskilI Mountains
last week. and guides were sent out III
all directions. They we're at last io"uui
three miles back OF the " Glove, ia lr ay
night, frightened and tired out, iuq44
had gone into some ravine, and co'lIu
not discover the right way ont.
FRESH WATER PEARLS have recenIl
been discovered near Newburyporr
Mass. and have created great eAclle-
meut in thaJ city The fresh "a'e-
brooks contain the muscle KNOW -
+he "nnto purnureus, Of which about
one iii ten eneloses pearls. Inc ialAs
lire about the size Of pea AI.sL :
snar.L M Lii i dav i citizen " NtN-