Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-03-02
Miscellaneous.


TrrusvrLLE has an oil exchange,
UTAH has grass two inches high
THE English Parliament meets Thurs
day.
PORTLAND, Oregon, has skating
rink.
ONE FOURTH of the globe is said to
be granite.
THE smallest internal revenue payin
State is Arkansas.
Dome roaring housekeeping
a wild beast show.
THE Minnesota legislators We're all
born out of the State.
SOME fat men do not seek greatness:
it is thrust upon them.
THE Philadelphia Library is the old
est in the United States.
81 AM on the trail of a dear, " said a
gentleman when he trod on lady's
dress.
TERRE HAUrE's rum mills outnumber
all her other industrial and business
houses.
HORSE stealing is said to be the chief
business now persued in some parts OF
Missouri.
New YORK State has 1000 cheese fac
tories, making 100000 pounds of
cheese yearly.
CLEAR solid ice, fifteen inches thick, Is
4 elN, hnA1-I
wharves of Bath, Maine.
NINE Japanese officers have been sent
to France by the Mikado, to gain an in
sight into military affairs.
AT recent Connecticut funeral, the
carriages lost the way, not being able
to keep up with the hearse.
Four HUNDRED woman OF the Illinois
Normal School have sent aremonstrance
to Washington against woman suffrage.
VIoLETs, iessamins, verbenas, phlox,
etc, are delighting the eyes of the
Floridians. Havana complains of sui
try weather.
WHEN the recent armistice was con
cluded in France, the German troops
occupied and controlled thirty-two of
the eighty six French departments,
comprising Is, 900 communes.
THE large amount of deposits i'll the
saving banks of New York is attribu-
table to the fact that some of the in
situations are allowed to receive IS, 600
and in some cases $4,000 from single
depcsitor.
A COMMITTEE of 80 ladies of North
Attleboro. Mass, having tried III vain
to persuade the liquor dealers of the
place to abandon their business, now
threaten to substitute violence for
persuasion.
A PACKAGE marked Clothing" di-
rected to French captain prisoner
at Coblentz, was so heavy as to excite
suspicion On being opened six re-
volvers and dirk were found wrapped
up in some shirts.
AT last a safe breaker has been caught
While in the act of robbing n jewelry
store IN Blocker street, New York. A
set of magnificent burglars tools was
also captured. 1t is to be hoped now
that an example will be made.
"A NEW HAMPSHIRE man, VINO recently
had one of his great toes frozen, chop
ped it off with mallet and chisel,
thinking thus to be eased from pain,
but he found he WAS sadly mistaken.
A RUNAWAY couple in Delaware was
about being married, when the stern
parent put in an appearance. Friends
interefered and argued the case with
him till the ceremony was nicely com
pleted in an adjoining room.
PREPARATIONS have been MAIDEN sew
eral German towns and fortresses for
the reception of prisoners from Paris.
Several railway companies have stop
ped the goods traffic and are collecting
vans for the transport of the prisoners
In New Orleans recently, a party of
workmen were engaged IN removing
large peice of glass from ashop window
The glass suddenly fell to pieces and
person who was passing at the time,
had his throat cut, and died almost
instantly.
THE captain Of the bark Mary Baker,
which arrived ut Boston on the l4th, re
ports having seen war vessel OFT the
northwest coast OF Hayti on the 2Sth OF
January; and from the description he
gives of her it is thought that it must
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