Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-08-17
Miscellaneous Items.

I"o -hIsslsSl pplans 1oSllshly tired to
persuade mule in the way he should
go. One leaves large family.
A YOUNG scamp who keeps a collection
/ of locks of hair of his lady friends, calls
them his hair breadth escapes.
WHAT is the difference between .
spendthrift and feather bed a? One is
hard up and the other is soft pown,
THE garrison of Paris is to be reduc-
ed to the old standard of 40, 600 men.
exactly what it was under the empire,
The Chinese are so well liked in
Louisiana that number of planters
have sent an agent to China for 600
laborers, and they will soon be shipped
THE average length Of time spent If
the toilette by seaside bellies is said 70
be seven hours ont of the twenty.foar.
IT is estimated that about ), 900, shin
wrecks occurred last year, and abont
1000 of them on the coast of England
The insanity of ex.King George of
Hanover, who believes that he is dead.
is almost as amusing as that of A. H,
Stephens who thinks he is alive.
Mr.. LOVE, employed during the war
L
is serving the South now by building
ice factories III the printipal cities.
A sHREwD confectioner in Bangor has
taught his parrot to say "prettv crea-
ture'' to every lady who enters the shop,
and his business is rapidly increasing.
The fact that there has been no theft
perpetrated in a Tennessee town for
six months is explained on the suppo-
sition that there is nothing there to
steal.
THE balance of trade is disturbed in
Newbern, n. c. by the fact that water
melons are only three cents apiece.
while cholera mixture is half a dollar
bottle.
The steam cars of New York State
carried a, $50, 753 passengers last year,
and the horse cars of the cities 1915
81. Only Is of the number were
killed.
AT Arequipa the Indians roast ana.
condas and consider the food to be of the
first quality. When the onacondas get
a chance at the Indians, they do not stop
to roast them.
OF heavy circulation among weekly
journals published outside of London,
that of The Peoples Journal, publish
ed at Dundee, Scotland, takes the lead.
1t has 1l9, l70 subscribers
A MISSISSIPPI negro was recently set
up by a disguised party, and Kuklux-
ed. He said his ASSISTANTS, Were all
colored men, and when asked how he
knew, triumphantly replied, 4 smelt
'um, massa."
ONE OF the employees on a railroad in
Maine says that III digging through
some bog-moss he came to ice or frozen
dirt one foot in thickness. This was
last week, and abont II miles from
Mattawamkeag.
ROLLING stock for five narrow guage
railroads has already been ordered one
in Colorado, to extend from Denver to
Ell Faso: two in Georgia, one in Arkan-
sas, and one in New York, the guage
beng three feet and three inches.
IT is proposed in California to COM
mence the cultivating of the italian
sunhower. 1t is raised for the root,
which is a bulb, nutritious as a potato.
It's top good for fodder also. A good
crop yields !, 800 bushels to the acre.
THE Milo statue of Venus, which was
buried in Paris during the siege, has
been dug up and replaced in the
Louvre. 1t was deposited in the cell
lars of the Prefecture Of Police, in
triple case, out of the reach of BON
shells.
LErRosY is spreading in Honolulu
with the rapidhty of an epidemic and
the local papers any that unless the law
for the isolation of lepers is invigously
executed the Hawaiians are doomed to
become a nation of lepers in very
short time.
News comes from Afighanistan that
Yakoob Khan still holds Herat, and 1t
will be defended as long as Yakoob can
A Chicago paper says this Herat IS
likely to be captured, however, as the
opposition chief is great terrier III
that region.
The remains of twento-one charred
bodies have been found in the cellars
Of two of the houses burnt down at the
corner of the Fauburg St. Honors IN
Paris. They are unacceptable, The
unfortunate victims had gone down
there for safety from the shells.
Mn LEONARD JEROME has bought
half interest in the beautiful FLY Nelly
Gray, winner of the Ladies stakes TINS
year, for $4,000. He also bought the
chestnut gelding Surprise, few days
ago for $1,000, and intends to enter
him in the steeple chases at jerome
Park this year.
LOVE Is not sheet of plotting pa
per, absorbing everything to itself, out
an out-springiug fountain, forever glyy-
ing from itself and never exhausted