Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-01-12
Miscellaneous Items.
NORTH CAROLINA has go lunatics,

LIE English Parliament Is to meet
February ID,
THERE are 200 doctors in the Uni
ted States.
THE Pennsylvania Legislature meets
next week.
In Florida the people are making
"orangc brandy"
An Illinois fire company elected a
lady foreman.
MISERY requires action, but happiness
seeks for reposa.
THE Boston journal advocates max
ing voting compulsory.
BUFFALO meat is in the market in
various Western cities,
A New ORLEANS fortune-teller Melted
81, 200 in twenty days.
CALIFORNIA is building one-story,
earthquake proof churches.
CArRo has n ten-year-old boy with
whiskers four inches long.
A BIO squash raised in Vermont has
been sold for twenty-five dollars.
A GIFTED hand-organist at Detroit &C
companies himself on jewsharp.
SIX women have Just been elected on
n school committee IN Lynn, Mass.
OLp maids are described as "embeH
from which the sparks have fled
THE refuse potato pomace from starch
factories is to be made into paper.
A NrrRo-GLycERINE explosion in Hun
gary recently killed forty persons.
TnE area of the bituminous coal-fields
III Iowais twenty thousand square miles.
AMERICAN pianos are popular in Eng
land, and in many "A London drawing
room
THE class 70 at Yals college has lost
five members by death within a year
The population of Ohio, according
to the corrected returns, ia 2, 663, 6Sl.
KIDgloves, of heavy texture, are worn
by sensible women for the promenade,
MEMPHIS proposes to institute a mer-
chants exchange and vigilance com
mittee.
BALLOONS still regularly leave Paris
France with mails and military intel
ligence.
AN American manufactures torpedoes
and other war material at CONSTANT
nople.
THE oyster trade of Boston, it is said,
amounts to more than 600, 900 bushels
annually.
The Missouri Valley Railroad will
be completed to the Iowa line in about
ten days.
A JAPANESE youth has received q
commission as sub lieutenant in the
British navy,
One thousand five hundred and sew
enty-four registered letters were stolen
last year
THE Government meteorological OBJ
servations at Philadelphia are to begin
January LIST.
The old bell house in Capitol Square,
Richmond, has been converted into
paper warehouse.
The last pier of the st. Charles (Mo.)
bridge rests on solid rock IS feet be
low the surface.
THERE are at presentin Germany up
wards of $4,000 widows and 100, 900
fatherless children.
THE Mississippi has already been
iammed with ice opposite st. Louis, so
that people could cross
A CONVENTION was lately held in Ore
gon to devise means for elevating the
Indians of the Pacific coast.
THE largest and most beautiful Meth
odist church in Cincinnati has 222
pews, of which every fifth one is free.
If we may rely on the ST. Josph Her
aid, "the prowling wolves howl the
notes Of starvation" in Alaska.
The Campagna around Rome is to be
drained, and made the source of agri-
cultural fruitfulness instead ofmalarla.
AT the battle of Gravelotte, trum-
peter was killed by ball which went
in at the mouth of his instrument.
The death of Mankato boy was
caused, few days ago, by inflammation
in the head resulting from fall on the
ice.
The Chinese relieve neuralgia and
govt by applying oil ofpeppermint over
the part affected, with II camePs half
pencil.
A New HAMPSHIRE man is said to
have sold his right to "hair restorer'
for 500, 900, after making small for
tune by it's manufacture.
BEAUTIFUL brooches, earrings neck
laces and bracelets Of clear and opa-"