Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-01-19
Miscellaneous Items.

OUR nurses are our llIst tueoloSIauS
BEARS are besieging McMirnvi'le,
Tenn.
THE English Parliament is to meet
February I'd.
THERE are 1900 doctors in the Uni
ted States.
THE Pennsylvania Legislature meets
next week.
In Florida the people are making
"orange brandy"
An Illinois fire company elected
lady foreman.
MISERY requires action, but happiness
seeks for repose.
THE Boston journal advocates MAX
ing voting compulsory
BUFFALO meat is in the market in
various Western cities.
A New ORLEANS fortune-teller Melted
81, 200 in twenty days.
CALIFORNIA is building one-story,
earthquake proof churches.
CAIRO has ten-year-old boy with
whiskers four inches long.
| THE breadth of winter wheat sown in
Ohio Is large, and the wheat is in ex
cellent condition.
A GIFTED hand organist at Detroit ac-
companies himself on jewsharp.
! SIX women have just been elected on
a school committee in Lynn, Mass.
| OLD maids are described as TENDERS
from which the sparks have fled
THE refuse potato pomace from starch
factories is to be made into paper
A INTERCOLLEGIATE explosion in Hun
gary recently killed forty persons.
THE area of the bituminous coal-felds
in Iowais twenty thousand square miles.
AMERICAN pianos are popular in Eng
land, and in many London drawing
room
The class 10 at Yals college has lost
five members by death within year.
The population of Ohio, according
to the corrected returns, is 2, 663, 6Sl.
KIDgloves, ofheavy texture, are worn
| by sensible women for the promenade.
! MEMPHIS proposes to institute a mer-
chants exchange and vigilance com
mittee.
! BALLOONS still regularly leave Paris.
France with mails and military intel
hgence.
| AN American manufactures torpedoes
and other war material at CONSTANT
nople.
The old bell house in Capitol Square,
Richmond, has been converted into q
paper warehouse.
THE last pier of the st. Charles (Mo.)
! bridge rests on solid rock G9 feet be-
low the surface,
THERE are at presentin Germany up =
wards of $4,000 widows and 12O, 600
fatherless children.
The Mississippi has already been
jammed with ice opposite st. Louis, so
that people could cross.
A CONVENTION was lately held in Ore
gon to devise means for elevating the
Indians of the Pacific coast.
The largest and most beautiful Meth
|
pews, of which every fifth one is free.
Ii we may rely on the st. Josph Her
aid, "the providing wolves howl the
notes of starvation" in Alaska.
THE Campagna around Rome is to be
drained, and made the source of agri-
cultural fruitfulness instead ofmalaria.
AT the battle of Gravelotte, a trum-
peter was killed by ball which went
| in at the mouth of his instrument.
| THE Chinese relieve neuralgia and
govt by applying oil ofpeppermint over
the part affected, with cameps half
pencil. g,
A New HAMPSHIRE man is said to
have sold his right to chair restorer'
for 100000 after making small for
tune by its manufacture.
A LARGE steel-rolling mill is in pro-
| gress of construction in South Bethle
hem, Leigh county, Penn. When com
pleted, it will be LOGO feet long wing
40 feet in length. One of the stacks,
124 feet high, was finished last week.
"MuTroN HANS" are among the
smoked luxuries of Georgia, and they
promise to be, as articles of food sent
to other quarters in large numbers,
source of commercial revenue to the
State.
NS5" FEVER AND AGUE. WHY SHAKE
PLANTATION BIrrERs toill positively cure any
form Of Intermittent jerer. Travel through
any region where the malay prevails, and all