Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-04-20
EaApral Items.


CHoIos outs of beef are two and one
half cents at Fort Griffin, Texas, and
mich COWS are leased out for their
board
A FORMER citizen of the United
States, now in Baden, has Just con
tributed IS, 200 in gold in the conscience
fund.
OvRR five tons of maple sugar q day
are now sent from Brattleboro, Yer
mont.
VERMONT like Connecticut, will fast
on Good Friday, April It'll.
BosToN proposes a tunnel to East
Boston, to cost -, l6S, 179.
A BENNINGTON (vt) paper reports
that prisoner in tho county Jail fen
out while leaning against the wall, and
that the institution is to be papered for
better security.
POSTAGE stamps Of the denomination
of seven cents have been issued by the
Government They are designed es-
pecially to prepay letters to Germany,
seven cents being the rate to that coun-
try
A YOUNG woman who was in the house
at Mount Carmel, Pa, which was blown
up recently by sympathizers with the
Coal Miners Union, has since died
from the effects of the fright she re-
ceived at that time
AN Illinois mechanic named J. w.
Crocker has written letter to the Chi
cago Tribune explanatory of the man
ner in which he will construct bridge
over the AtlaMic Ocean, and the
bridge when constructed viii permit
of the running of four trains of cars
per day, two from America and two from
Great Britain.
A WORKMAN in England, having to
mend broken lead pipe through
which n current of water was passing
with pressure of fifty feet head,
plugged the two ends and put broken
ice and salt around them. In five min
utes the water was frozen, and the
plugs taken out, n new piece soldered
in, the ice thawed out again, and tho
pipe in perfect order
"SoLIpIFIED BEER" is the latest thing.
1t is lager concentrated the way they
do it to milk, so that the amount yon
can hold on the point of knife will
make you drunk clean through, man
can carry enough of it IN his vest peck
ct TO ruin temperance society.
| AN exchange in Northern Vermont,
commenting on tho early spring, says.
"We consider remarkable and worthy
| of record that on the middle of March,
1871, many of the roads about rs were
| dry, and not particle Of snow could
be seen, even upon the north side OF the
hills"
A WOMAN s-rights woman has written
an essay wherein, if we may believe an
enthusiastic admirer, she proves be-
| yond question that the immortal
| Shakespeare was a woman, and that all
the wisdom Of Socrates consists of quo
tations from the curtain lectures Of his
wife Xantippe, for which he was not
man enough, or rather too much OF q
man, to give her credit.
PrETRo Saint made a balloon asoen-
sion from Messina Sicily, on the 18th
of February, and has never been heard
| Cf since. Ho was an amateur Bronaut,
never having attempted an atmospheric
voyage before, and it is thought that he
| has been lost in tho Mediterranean.
BrrcHR is tho only French fortress
that has successfully resisted the Prus-
sian guns. But what could not be ac-
cheived by military force has been ac-
CURED by diplomatic skill, for Bitche
becomes a Prussian through the cession
of Alsace and Lorraine. For five
months the -provisioned garrison
has been prepared to resist any attack
| it's enemies might make
A PET goat belonging to an Irish
man in Macon, Ga, ate up $40 in
greenbacks which he found in an open
trunk in his masters room. The Irish
man gave the goat u sound beating, and
dosed him with castor OIL, but didn't
get back his money.
In Concord, N. H., on Sunday of last
| week, at the Episcopal church, during
the reading of prayer for the Presi-
| dent of the United States, and all 9th
ers in authority, man in the congre-
cation interrupted by audibly exclaim-