Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-05-11
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A COOL summer Is pToulcueu by the
weather prophets.
MORE bricks are made in Philadel.
phia than in any other city in the world.
OREGON has 2, 900, 900 acres of swami
land, California $500, 900.
FLORIDA has new potatoes and chol.
era morbus.
THE Baltimore City Councilmen have
voted themselves 81, 200 each.
FASHIONABLE dogs in New York are
to wear silk neckties this season.
THE longest range of seventy.
Founder cannon Is five and a half miles
THE German language Is getting
fashionable as an accomplishment
A MAN stole locomotive and took
pleasure ride on the Erie, the other
day.
SEVERAL lakes of natural soda water
are said to have recently been discov.
ed at Denver, Colorado.
PITTSBURGH has Ats manufactures
which, if placed in continuous line,
would extend distance of So miles.
TwENTY-FoUR large circuses are an.
nounced for the season of 1871 in the
United States.
The Jewish Times announces itself
in favor of the equality of both sexes in
the synagogue.
THE Presbyterian denomination is
the wealthiest in Philadelphia. Its
property is worth S4,000,000.
THE optical philosophers are now
declaring that violet and green are both
primary colors.
THEY make wine ont of parsnips in
ST. Joseph, Mo. 1t is not popular with
the seasoned "rounders," who pro-
nounce it "too thin
THERE were made on Kelley's Island,
last year, nearly quarter of a million
gallons of wine, all of much better
grade than the average vintage.
The Boston Marine Society have
given away to worthy deserving mem
bers, during the past eleven years, over
$4,000.
SAN Francisco reports a mammoth
mushroom three feet in circumfer-
ence, and weighing five pounds eight
ounces.
Mr.. r. w. BRIT, who is noted for his
lunar studies, asserts that there are in
dications of changes now taking place
on the surface of the moon.
A WESTERN writer gives it as his be-
lief that if as muck attention were paid
to improving corn as is given to grapes,
a hundred million bushels might be
added to the annual crop.
The heather Chinee is making whis-
key in California by fermenting old rice
and rubber shoes and things, and the
revenue people are after John.
THE Society of Jesuits, it is officially
stated, has 1887 members scattered
through the world, an increase of 4, 237
since 1850, when the number was A, 800
THE young lady who represented the
goddess Germania in the German Peace
Festival in New York has died from
brain fever, caused by exposure to the
sun. She wore nothing on her head
but wreath.
THERE are 81, 900 clergymen in the
United States, who divide $42, 100000
salary among them annually. Some OF
them take $4,000 year, others what
they can get.
AT the mouth of the Columbia river
is Oregon, in the latitude of Superior,
f00ers bloom, aVi,ater Gnd soannaers0M
Of doors. Just at this time, the noted
salmon fisheries are III active operation,
and one man, r. G. Aldrich, has three
miles of gill-nets.
The chief of the detective police of
London is now in Paris, having been
informed that there are at present
about 1000 English thieves in that
city.
A HARD cAsE-dying without money,
without property, no insurance in The
Mutual Life Insurance Company OF
Chicago, and yet leaving a wife and
small children to mourn your neglect.
A SACRAMENTO MAN is ont cunning in
search of a drug clerk, who killed a
little girl by mistake in making up
prescription.
The indigenous trout of California
belongs to species found on that coast,
but the eggs of the Atlantic slope trout
have been taken there and Matched ont
for distribution.
Ar Bath, n. T., recently, man sui.
ferlng from catarrh and sore throat had
extracted from his nose plum stone
which he insisted had been inserted
there twenty-three years before
EsS@ TUE THREE DYsPEPTIcs. Here
Is an extract from letter received by Messrs.
Drake & Co. Nov 2, 1869: Three friends met