Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-02-22
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AT a trial in Wilkesbarre the other
day, it WAS testified that a vein of coal
one foot in thickness will yield one
thousand tons to the acre.
4 VERY singular matrimonial case re
Gently happened in Essex county, Vir-
ginia 4 gcntlenan's second wife's two
sons married his third wifes tive
daughters.
A PosEY county Indiana) farmer
worth $50, 900, came to the post office
at Cynthiana, the other day, with a
dozen eggs to buy postage stamps with
THE heads of two buffaloes slain by
Alexis have arrived in st. Louis, and
will be prepared by taxidermist for
transportation to St. Petersburg.
A SOCIETY of cold School Advent
ists," near Chicopee. Mass, have just
taken a ten years lease of their camp
ground, and bought the trees upon it.
THE woman.w women claim that no in
stance of defalcation by the women in
the Treasury Department can be point
ed out.
JOSH BILLINGS says: b" Ii a man has
got eighty thousand dollars ut interest
and owns the house he lives in it amt
much trouble to be philosopher.
one who is, perhaps little too crit
cal, says that the majority of the coun-
try preachers could burn quite as well
as the old religious martyrs they are
so dry.
The female seminary Of Beirut, in
Syria, In charge of Miss Everett and
her associates, is said to be a model of
its kind, and has met with large meas
ure of success.
The sheriff broke up a baptism on
the banks of the Ohio, saying that the
water was too cold, and that if the
minister persisted he would prosecute
him for murder.
A CLEVER young girl in Pittston, Pa,
chloroiolmed her grandfather, on Mon
day last, and elop"d with the man of
her choice In this connection may be
mentioned $780,
a FEW foppish young men in New
York Wear oyercoats made OF seal-skin,
or cloth Iced with crimson silk, and
the coat Is worn open for ostentatious
display.
THE inventor of the new rifle, NJ.
Mauser, has received orders fortwenty-
five of his invention, with which eX-
periments will be made at Spandau to
test their utility.
THE mammoth skeleton of the we'll
known elephant, Hannibal, formerly of
Van Amburgh's menagerie, is now in
Chicago, and is to be "set up in the
Academy of Sciences.
Ir is remarkably rough on a young
fellow of Frisco to be robbed not only
of his watch and money, but Of his mar
riage license, with which he was hast
ening impatiently to his tianngr
An antiquated bach. says that the
depreciating talk about Greclan bends
has been the cause Of the ladies getting
their backs up. One who knows better
says newspapers are largely the cause.
WE are sorry to learn from a Hindoo
astronomer tina. during the present
year blazing meteor VIII pass by the
earth, and in the short space of twenty
four minutes destroy al vegetation
and kill millions OF people.
THE Count de Larendau, while walk
ing in the street, but a little way from
his house in the Place ElOnchat, Paris,
was struck by falling chimney-pot,
blown from q neighboring house by the
heavy gale of wind which swept over
that city January 5, and instantly killed.
His father lost his life in precisely the
same manner III 1850.
AMoNG the late invention is a nose
machine, which, applied to an i'll
shaped professors for an hour daily,
directs the soft cartilage so as to pro-
duce a model of beauty. 1t is not
stated whether it also corrects the IL
Irregularities of temper Indicated by the
different styles OF nasal architecture.
THE Alton Telegraph says "Since
fS6S, the river st point about eight
miles below this city, has cut into the
bank distance of nine hundred and
fifty feet, and the abrasion still CON
tinues. The former stone leyee OF the
! town Of Madison is now an island in
/ the river, nearly a quarter of a mile
from the shore The abrasion is caused
by the swift current Of the Missouri
striking the bank at right angles.
PLAN has been devised for warming
otASet -t-i :, "uG i Sttio ~ we popular II
Germany. Closed iron boxes, two feet
long, four and q half inches wide, and
tive and three-fourths inches deep, are
fitted with double tops ana placed I'M
der the seats. These are partly filed
With cakes compounded 81 charcoal,
nitrate of potash, and starch. which
burn slowly and thoroughly warm the
car it tie eNeaaae OF about tNa rtLts
per hour