Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-08-31
Miscellaneous Items.

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SEYMOUR, Indiana, has melon-patch
occupying ZOO acres.
CnoUMBERs thirty-six inches long are
exhibited at Wyandotte.
QUERY-Do racing men ever keen
running accounts at their bankers?
A MUsKMELoS, five feet long, is one
of the wonders OF Los Angeles
The scab is slaving Missouri sheen
One man has lost 1900 sheep valued at
$4,000
A SULPHUR well is among the late
| discoveries in the vicinity OF Louisville,
/ Kentucky.
Two wire-haired Scotch gray-hounds.
which cost $500 piece have arrived at
Sioux City.
THE largest watermelon brought to
/ the Mobile (Ala.) market this season
weighed 573 pounds.
/ A QUARTER OF MILE of snow sheds
was destroyed by fire Aug 10, at Emf
grant Gap, on the Central Pacific rail
road, above Colfax.
THE annual income of Miss Anna
/ Dickinson for lecturing for the past sew
en- years, has averaged $4,000 Her
profits last season reached $4,000
MAssA CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS was
queer man. said negro orator.
GA notion crossed him one day, and
den he crossed an ocean"
A PERSON naturally eats about hun
bred white grubs before he learns that
almost every decayed place in a peach
is where such a brute has rummaged.
THEY have a new term of reproach
for negroes IN Memphis. They are
called rusty mackerel, speckled mack
erel Spanish mackerel, etc, as the case
may be.
II is droll to read that one of the
first peaceful acts of Paris, after the
bloody Versaillist triumph, was the re-
sumption of the lectures on Hindos-
tanee dialects and literature"
THE IA, 600 heather Chinese in San
Francisco don't make much noise in the
world, but they own $4,000 in real es-
tate, and 1,1SS, 900 in personal proper
ty.
In Baltimore street car, the other
day. basket of hard shell crabs broke
loose and deluged the hoor-pinching
toes and ankles at furious rate They
were secured after much screaming on
the part of nervous ladies.
THE Emperor and Empress of Brazil
are going to spend the winter, until
February, in Rome. Slavery is to be
abolished in Brazil, and the instrument
of abolition will be executed in Rome
and will be signed by the Pope,
A LOWELL PAPER relates that man
in that town kept the dead body of
child for three weeks in alcohol, in
tin boiler, that he might bury it with
his wife, whose death he was expecting,
and who died few days ago
The announcement is made that
$50, 900 copies of the household penny
edition Of Oliver Twist have ueen sold
in London, and that the publishers
have put to press another so, 900 copies.
A PARTY of travellers passed through
Bainbridge, Ga, on Tuesday, mounted
on four-wheeled yeiocipedes. They
were going to Columbia, Ala, at al
average speed of 40 miles day.
ACCOMMODATING creditor" How of
ten mnst | climb three pair of stars
before ! get the amount of this little
account - Debtor" Do you think
| am agoing to rent a place on the first
floor to accommodate my creditors!
OWING to the recent European war
the entire stock of foreign rags is being
sent to the New York market. The
prices Of all grades of home and foreign
rags are usually the same, but owing
to the vast arrivals the market is over
stocked and depressed.
The swells of New London pronounce
/ Pequot, Paquo, and the Bulletin says;
| "Shades of Uncas Shall we have to
wrestle with Poquetanoc, Pogwamstl-
cock and Wiccopeset in the French
language Z"
A LINNEr which escaped from a cage
in New Bedford, Mass, about year
ago, recently returned and began fe ed
inc its mate through the bars 1t soon
became so tame that it allowed ITSELF to
be again Gagged, and appears to be hap
by III confinement
THE value Of the Protestant Eplsco-
pal edifices in the city of New York is
estimated at 81, 800, 900, not lncludlug
the ground on which they stand. This
/ is about 50, 600, 900 in advance OF any
other Protestant Church, and Sl,oOO,-
| 600 more than the Roman Catholics.
\ SCOTT county man had terrlftc
fight with an Indian, in Madison, Ind
I Il few days ago. The red man got sew
eral severe blows in the face, ana
fractured arm The Scott county man
was little tipsy and the Indian was Il
wooden one in front of a cigar store;
A TERRE HAUTE paper makes 'hls