Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-08-24
General Items.

twenty-seven years old.
An Illinois MAJ is erecting an Is, 900
hen-powder egg ,oundry.
CONNECTICUT has 112 Masonic lodges
and 1000 Master Masons
THE cotton trade of Cincinnati;
amounts to 80, 900, 900 annually.
FIVE hundred Parisians went crazy
during the days of the Commune.
GREAT BRITAIN only lost $1,000 letters
out of $40 900, 900 posted in 1870.
A New YORK fire insurance COMPANY
has opened branch office in Paris.
A GEORGIA Snowman exhibits mula
no larger than Newfoundland dog.
AT Iowa City, last Saturday night, a
woman named Burdick hung herself.
IT will take $4,000 to restore the
glass in the palace of the Luxembourg.
An inch of rain falling upon an acre
of land weighs about one hundred tons
IT is supposed that artificial ice was
made as far back as in the fifth centn-
ry.
A WOMAN in Cincinnati has obtained
license to perform the marriage ceremo-
ny
New HAMPSHIRE has twenty-one cou-
Piles who have been married over fifty
years.
A Mississippi girl hanged herself, as
reported, under the influence of aui-
nine.
THE Illinois farmers are said to be
discouraged, their corn crop is so
great.
MORE cotton will be stored in New
York warehouses this season than ever
before.
A sUNKEN lake, surrounded by preci-
pes 100 feet high, has been found in
California
A CITIZEN of Massachusetts, while in a
drunken frenzy dug up his entire crop
of tobacco.
ABOUT 400 vessels were ice bound at
the commencement of July in the Gulf
of Bothnia.
THE hulls of cotton seed which are
now a waste product, can be made into
the finest paper.
A SACRAMENTO bride has commenced
her honeymoon with 100000 check
from the cold man.
ODD you hear my last speech?"
asked a political wind-bag. 81 hope
so, replied his friend
THE amber gathered on the Prussian
coast of the Baltic is of the value year
ly of half million of dollars.
A RICH youth paid 1850 in gold for
a floor with five front windows during
the late triumphal entry at Berlin
The school book publishers of the
Union have combined into league in
regard to the sale of school books.
TEXAS invalids are appraised of their
approaching disease by seeing the doe
tor trying on their coats and boots.
VALUABLE gold mines have been dis
covered in Monroe county, Tenn. Gen
eral Vaughan calls for hundred hands
to work the mines.
The Australian Meat-preserving Com
pany pay better han the Erie Railroad.
On capital Of $40, 900 it pays an anu
al dividend OF $50, 600.
Mr.. TRMBLE, of Newburg, who train
ed and brought out the Mountain Boy,
has another fast one in his stable, He
has already shown goo.
AGREAT pear shaped spot, 10000 miles
long, is now discovered on the sun, 1t
is said that it can be seen, without
telescope through dark-colored glass.
DURING a game of base ball at lama
City, Iowa, the batter, in throwing
I back his club for a telling stroke, Int
! the catcher in the temple, killing him
instantly.
/ A New ORLEANS lawyer contended
that woman obliged the support OF
family OF children has moral right 10
get drunk, for it makes her forget her
Indebtedness.
THE Germans don't believe in quiet
~ looking On while the vetmin destroys
their crops. In the district of Frank
+ fort-onthe-M Main, Germany, during the
month of MAY last, go cwt. of May bugs
were gathered and destroyed.
CINcINNATI papers complain that the
of thick iron bars, painted green ana
gold, and surmounted by exact copies
of the royal diadem in which Mexican
Buchanan plays Richard III"
/ The average life of sixteen printers
who are inferred in the Printers, Lot al
Mount Hope, Rochester, n. y Is
! thirty-two years. The Oldest dled al
I tifty-four, the youngest at twenty-five
one half between thirty and forty.
I HERE is a marvel. The street-ca
companies of San Francisco, on their
own motion, have reduced the pass
enger fare from six and a quarter 70
four cents! They base the reduction
on the abolition of the income tax.
! 4 COMET, which is rapidly approach