Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-11-09
General Items

| q HORSE whose pedigree is eight gen
eratlons hong without any base admiS-
turo, Is considered thorough bred.
II YOU WISH to possess peace and
serenity OF mlnd, insure for the bene
tit OF your family IN the WASHINGTON
A CARRIER pigeon flew from a steamer
at sea 60 Montciair, N. j., at the rate
OF one hundred ana eighty miles az
hour.
AT Atlanta, Ca, 9, 600 pound bar OF
soap IS exhibited. II isn't big enough
to cleanse the national Administrations
dirty man.
FIVE thousand brats are stolen an.
nually from the leading Italian cities
to make vicious little hddlers for Amer,
lean street corners.
IHE true cause of the inequality OF
| the seXes.ln early life the boy master,,
his opportunities, whilst the girl com
monty misses hers.
THE proportion Of divorces to may
riages in Berlin during 1870 was as ~
to- 200 and the births for the same
time numbered, 1t IS stated, about l5.-
| 600.
CINCINNATI has an apparatus for con.
sumlng her own smoke. Ii she would
now take another stroke and consume
her own whisky, we might point to her
with pride.
A GERMAN being required to give q
receipt in full, after much mental eff
| Fort, produced tke following; 81 ISL
full l wants no more money John
Swachhammer.
SACRAMENTO mavels at the strange
actions of an unknown yonnc lady
pretty and fashionably dressed, who
eats roasted potatoes on the streets, and
sprin1les ashes upon them instead OF
salt
PRIZE package man in Indianapolis
seduces the crowd by shouting at the
top of his voice, "Walk right UP, gen
tlemen: you know the more blanks you
draw, the more prizes there are left /"
THE "Grecian Bend" has quite dis
appeared, its injurious effects on the
physique having become so establish
cd that = back-boards are more 10 use
than ever now, even out of school.
In Harvey's native town, Folkesoone,
preparations are making to erect d mon
ument to the great Psychologist on the
threo-hundredth anniversary Of ms DIS
covery of the circulation Of the blood,
namely in 1878.
MONTICELLO thieves are the most
modest of their kind One who en-
tered a house and stole a pocket-book,
returned it few day after, having only
taken SIS of its contents. 1t was not
stated whether there was any more to
take
THE steamship Agra, one OF the Red
Cross Line Of steamers to India via
the Suez Canal, has made the passage
from Downs to Calcutta within thirty
seven days, including all stoppages.
This is the shortest voyage ever made
from London
\ BEooELYN man left q kerosene
lamp in has stable, tina other evening,
while he went on an erraud. Though
the city didn't burn down, 81, 900 worth
of his personal property did, and no
one has sympathy enough for MIN to
start a rehet fund.
Ar the meeting of the International
of Spain, IN Valencia, Citizen Mora
decided that " woman ought not TO
be compelled to live with the same
man always, but that she has the right
to leave kim whenever she thinks She
can be better of with another
1T is rumored in Copenhagen that
the Young King OF Greece, now on o
visit to his royal parents III that city,
does not wish TO return to the classic
land where burning Sappho liVed and
sung, and where gentlemen of easy
conscience cut yow throat tor
drachma
Two-rHrRps OF all the ziuc produced
Is manufactured into sheets. The re-
mainder il employed IN making brass,
in wire, in zinc-white as a substitute
for lead ia paints, and Tor castings.
The two chief requirements ion zlno
sheets are roofing, and sheathlng the
bottom of ships.
AccoKDING TO the Limerick Chton-
icle the see-serpeut has appeared 10
the bathors at the hisA watering place
of Kilkee. II raised its head out OF the
water as usual. and looked bl@uly at
the ladies, who nearly tauted i
was probably female Sea-serpent ~
it wore chignon cot seaweed-ioohng
hair, which rose and Zen with the mo
ton OF the water.
PuNpJEEB, eldest sou al the Mahaf-.
ajan of Lahore, Las jus; dled IL taris,
OF hunger IL d lodglLg-house Of the
Rue lie Vanguard. THIS prince iett hls
native country about fifty years ago m
consequence Of a serious offence against
his father, one OF whose wives he had
soduced. and since that time he had sd
| q miserable existence il the French