Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-11-16
General Items.


GERMANY is to adopt the decimal
money system.
ALAMEDA county, Cal, raised 1900
pounds of figs this year
Miss ROSE HERsEE is singing at the
Royal National Opera, London.
BALLsToS, n. Y, has neither hose.
water, schools, charter, nor insurance.
Two thousand circulation is now con-
sidered enormous for Madrid newspa-
pers.
A GRANVILLE On. O. tobacconist ad-
vertises boldly g Ku-Klux smoking to-
bacco"
Mrs. SARAH STANDIsH owns the
largest wall paper mandatory in
America.
Two girls, ten and twelve years old,
got into a fight at Charleston, and one
was killed.
NILSSON has lost $3.50, O0Oby fire, this
season, equally divided between Paris
and Chicago.
THE lease of SANTANA bay was once
offered to the Pierce administration for
S., 600 year.
THE government has only one fire,
proof building-the Appraisers stores
in Philadelphia.
The "CHCAGo SUFFERER is stated
to have become numerous nuisance
throughout the east.
THERE were twenty-five large we'd
dings in New York on Wednesday, and
thirteen on Thursday
On Monday last the keel Of the first
of the Philadelphia ocean steamers was
laid at Kensington, Pa.
THERE have been $40 cases of small
pox and 15l deaths in Philadelphia,
during the past three weeks.
THE largest salary paid to French
editor is 40, 600 francs per annum. Ed
mond About gets it.
THERE is one newspaper publishedin
the District of Columbia for every six
square miles of territory.
Ir is the universal verdict, we believe.
that the Chicago cabmen and cartmen
are the meanest set OF men now on the
earth.
AN experiment is making at Pitts
burg in smelling silver ore from Utah
1t is now to a considerable extent sent
to Wales.
PAREPA, having closed the most sue
cesSful English opera season ever
known in New York, is in Philadelphia
with her new troupe.
EVERYBODY in Salt Lake is 50 honest
that Jumps of silver weighing three
thousand pounds are left on the depot
steps over night.
A New YORK damsel WHO was insult
ed in Broadway car, leXterously
swung her parasol and knocked her in
suffers silk tile into the gutter.
In Savannah, the other day, rooster
enjoyed ride through the streets on
the back of runaway horse which had
been frightened by the perching of the
fowl upon him.
The library of the late William H.
Prescott, the historian, was sold at auc-
ton, in Boston, on the 9th inst. Prof.
Longfellow and James Russell Lowell
were among the principal buyers.
JAMES FITZPATRICK was drawn into
the shafting of a planning mill at Au-
burn, and literally ground to pieces
Before the machinery could be stopped,
his body had revolved three hundred
times.
CHrcAGo hackmen eytorJed gold
watches, diamonds, etc, from ladies
who sought conyevancea to places OF
safety during the fire, and after diving
a few blocks compelled them to get out
in order to repeat the outrage onothers.
GRAPES have been extraordinarily
abundant in California this year, aud
the wine crop will undoubtedly be very
large. The total vintage is estimated
mt 5, 900. 600 gallons, with from loO,OOJ
to 2O0,0 gallons of brandy to be adj
ded
Ex-SECRETARY SEWARD looks younger
then he did before he went around the
world. His hands have been paralyzed,
but they are getting better, and he eX-
poets soon to have the full use Of them.
Since he left New York he has travelled
81, 600 miles.
AFTER the great fire in London, IN
1866 Parliament enacted that every
house should be built with lndepen-
dent walls, and all in front raised to
equal height, and those walls should
be of stone or brick, and that no man
should delay beyond seven years.
Miss PARKINSON, a former inmate OF
a San Francisco hospital, who sued Dr.
Scott for damage for publishing a ms
tory of her disease and its treatment,
in a medical magazine, has lost her
suit. the fourth district court having
rendered a verdict for the defendant
TIE town of Ashield, Mass, was
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