Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-02-23
Miscellaneous items.
WELCOME to Whitehall hail |!

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time-fires.
4 THE recent food in Rome was the
most disastrous since the year 1880.
I The Boston Courier Hbels the men,
! bers Of Sorosis as Bohea -nians.
/ A recent fire at Plattsburg, Missouri,
destroyed $50, 900 worth of property.
"THE five great powers Love I
money, ambition, revenge, and goo
dinner.
! LETTERS from the Caucasus announce
the establishment at Tifis of a com
mercial bank
OSR of the greatest fctions of the
present time is said to be the 6 Hayan-
nah cigar"
IT is good in fever, and much bet
ter in anger, to have the tongue kept
clean and smooth.
THE trial of Judge Linton Stephens
at Macon is attracting unusual interest
throughout Georgia.
WHY is a clergyman like locomotives
Because you are to look out for him
when the bell rings
IT is said Scotchman has recently
purchased $4,000 acres in Fiji for the
sum of Cd. per acre.
THE three elephants in the Jardin des
Plantes, Paris, were lately sold to
butcher for eS10.
PERSONALS" from French prisoners
in quest of their friends, fill the col
umns of the Independence Beige.
IT is at the approach of dinner time
that we feel most sensibly "the empt-
mess of things below"
THEY tell of young lady at kond-
out New York, who has pass'on for
walking barefoot in the snow,
AMHERST college has found it difficult
to fill the chair of Professor Hitchcock,
on Geology and Natural Theology.
Ir is in contemplation to establish a
bishopric at Heligoland for the scatter
ed congregations in the North OF Eu-
rope.
THE difference between bouquet
of flowers and the bouquet of wine
is, that one makes a nose gay, the other
a gay nose.
MORE than 80 was collected in the
Cork Roman Catholic chapels one Sun
dav in aid of the released Fenian pri-
soners.
THE Ohio State library has been pre-
scented with a deed 222 years old. 1t
was made for the conveyance of land IN
Wales.
A WEST Virginia paper complains
that it takes longer to get news from
the State capital than it does from Yer
sailles.
AN unpleasant feature of wedding
party in Troy, lately, was the depreda-
tons of burglars, who stole s57 and
some iewelry.
OH of peppermint is used in China
as a local anasthetic, not only In neur-
algia, but also in govt, with remarkably
good results.
WE are prone to Judge others narrow
~, by their particular acts. We like
ourselves to be judged generously, by
our spirit.
Ar recent weddidg in Antrim, N.
H., admission tickets were sold, and
the crowd behaved much the same at a
travelling show.
ONE manager of the late elections in
South Carolina, for neglecting his duty,
goes to the Jail for. six months, and an
other for nine.
UNLESS the people can be kept in
total darkness, it is the wisest way for
the advocates of truth to give them full
light Whately.
We should remember that it is quite
as mnch a part of friendship to be de-
licate in its demands, as to be ample in
its performances.
The cold in France is intense; in
! Bordeaux so severe winter has not
/ been felt since that of 1880, when the
wine froze in the storehouses.
A NUMBER of the most prominent citi.
zens of Atlanta, Georgia, we're hung in
effigy in the public place Of that city on
Friday night last.
THERE is a great deal of cotton still
unpicked in many parts of North Caro-
! lima. One planter alone has 100 bales
in the fields.
A DECEASED resident of Newport, R.
l., was conveyed to his grave in an eA'
press wagon, in accordance with his
testamentary directions.
/ The sheriff of Fairfax county, Va,
resigned because his duties required
him to execute the orders of court in
flicting stripes upon offenders.
THE American Tract Society has
issued four thousand differnt publica