Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-07-13
Miscellaneous Items.

AN Italian colony from Chicago Is
going into the silk culture In Meridian,
Mississippi.
Troy, n. T., boasts of copy of
Dickens Fagin. He has made for
tune out OF training school for thieves.
THE hammers of church bells are the
favorite plumber with rural Massachu-
sets larcenists now.
A CHECK drawn by Aaron Burr, on
the Bank of Now York, in 1892, is on
exhibition at a Gotham drug store.
CHICAGO is overbuilt, and rents are
going down A dwelling held at 81, 600
year ago is untaken at $500.
A, enterprising Crispin states that
he is going to obtain cast of Weston's
great feat for his showcase.
A FoUR-LEGGEp turkey has made its
appearance in Paris, Ky. Louisville
can equal this.
OAK and linden trees are being
planted in all the German villages, i'll
honor of victory and peace.
MISS NIGHTINGALE has new book
nearly ready for publication, on ely
ing-in Institutions and the Training of
Midwives.n
A COFFIN containing the remains of a
woman, and marked 1874, was ex
humed by the workmen III Washington
Park, Albany.
FoR man to go into a strangers
house and demand clean shirt has
been decided to be conclusive evidence
of insanity, in Worcester, Mass.
A YOUNG ameteur actor in Philadel
phia is to have complimentary benefit
previous to leaving the stage for the
ministry.
A NUMBER of incendiary fires have
occurred in Paris recently, showing
that the Communists are not sup
pressed
NEVADA having already discovered a
scented soap mine and three soda
lakes, is now hunting after lemonade
spring and few ice cream caves.
THE blue-fsh are unusually abundant
at Long Branch this season Little
Jesse Grant captured fifteen, weighing
1870 pounds, Oh Saturday, IL two hours.
NORTH CAROLINA only sends 2 900
bags OF peanuts this season, against
20, 900 last year, and fears 81 a famine
in this delicious esculent are sorely felt.
IT is stated that no less n sum than
5000, 600 was subscribed for the defence
of the woman personatOrs, B0ulton and
Park, in London, and that a Young
millionaire marquis gave So, 900.
A CITIZEN of Connecticut, recently
introduced to newly married man,
congratulated him warmly, and said
All, these Litch1ield county girls
make clever wives I've had three of
EN-"
THE largest block of marble ever
quarried III this country has just reach
ed New York from San Francisco, for
the new Central Park fountain. The
slab will be seventeen feet 50 uare, all
cut, weighs seventy tons, and cost
$4,000.
THE latest suicide is that of girl
Il months of age, the child of Mr.. Viii
liam beavers, residing near Alexandria,
Va, The child held its breath while
in pet, as they frequently do, and died,
although she was perfectly well before
the crying fit.
SEALING wax is not wax at all, nor
does it contain n single particle of wax
1t is made of shellac Venice turpen-
tine and Cinnabar gives it the deep
red color, and tnrpentine renders the
shellaa soft and less brittle,
A DRUGGIST friend says a better cure
for cat concerts under your window
than all the boot-jacks and slop-buckets
you can throw, is TO toss out bunch Of
dry catnip. The felines viii cluster
around it, oblivious Of everything else,
and their melodious voices viii be
stilled.
THE st. Louis Dispatch is schocked
at the bad manners Of some of the
boarlers it knows of, and proceeds to
read them the following little lecture
Z" Don't say pass the krout, or shove
along the hash; well-conducted board
ers always say, viii YOU be so kind us
to escort the lobscouse nitherward 2
Tine Lexington (Ky.) Observer GER 1
reefs {" q slight error. II says it inten-
ded to announce, in speaking of a re-
cent marriage, that the brides dress
cost $1,000 and that her bridal pres
ents amounted TO 5000, 600 The types
made ont, however, that the dress cost
81, and the presents $500.
A New counterfeit s. notes on the .
Ninth National Bank Of New York +.
have been put in circulation. They
are ingeniouslv done, but the vignette
on the left corner has the appearance
of a wood cut rather than a steel en-
craving, and at the right corner of the .
back the ink has a BLUSH appearance. .
A CUSTOMS official in the vicinity of
Malone, NY, recently seized a horse
and cart finding in the latter, beneath
a false bottom, between three and