Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-09-19
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THOMAS HOME has bequeathed to the
British Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals $50, 000
AMONG the remarkable mineral dis
coveries recently made are the Joplin
lead mines in, Jasper county. Mo.
In ten years there were built in the
United States %, 113 miles eff rail.
road.
BIERsTADT is "going for" another
valley recently discovered that beats
the Yosemite.
The Superintendent of Greenwood
Cemetery recently celebrated the thir.
ty-third anniversary of his stay there.
A PAIR of twins were born recently in
Tennessee, joined together after the
manner of the Siamese twins.
POETS are not always poor Henry
W. Longfellow pays a tax of 81 1866,
and James Russell Lowell 1888.
LONDON letter carriers work eight
hours a day, and, on an average, travel
twenty miles during that time.
The belle of Newport is Philadel-
phia lady whose hair is white-wmt.
ened by nature, too, and honorable age.
The title of Mr.. G. w. Tayleure's
new comedy, written for Mr.. F. S.
Chanfrau, is "Wall Street
A NEW sort of floor covering made
of cork, has been LAID in the principal
lobby at Booths Theatre.
An Indiana lass is now engaged to be
married to a young man whose hand
she refused seven times.
ABOUT thirty collleries in the Schuyl-
kill region are said to have stopped
for want of remunerative prices for
coal.
Two New York detectives are in the
Tombs for stealing $1,000 worth of
iewelry from lady who had EN- 3loyed
them.
A JAPANESE boy, sent to this country
to be educated, died recently at Farm
ingtop, Mass. His name was Sosuke
Matsgata-
WELD & HLL's Touring mill, togeth-
er with stock, at Medina, n. T., was
destroyed by fire Thursday night. The
building was insured for S23, 600.
THE turnip crop OF Scotland is not
likely to be as excellent as usual, by
reason Of the finger and toe"
disease.
BY order of Emperor Alexander
capacious harbor is to be constructed
mt Poti, in the Caucasus, at 2,O65,OW
roubles.
Ak English court has recently de-
cided that the presence of ghosts IN a
house is sufficient reason for annullng
the contract between landlord and ten
ant.
KAISER WILLIAM, Emperor of United
Germany, lost his favorite walking stuck
the other day, and advertised for 1t IN
the daily papers, like an ordinary pie
bian.
Mr.. BoUCICAULT's engagement at the
London Gaiety Theatre terminated on
the 10th inst, having lasted 10l nights
Mr.. and Mrs. Bouclcault intend to ac'
at the Globe Theatre in Boston, at tne
close of their engagement at Bootns
Theatre, in New York.
An OLD bachelor in Greenwich avenue,
New York, is utilizing the hot weather
by cooking his meals with burning
glass. He says the mutton tastes ol
sulphur, and the steak is strongly I'M
pregnated with magnesium.
CANTELoPEs are an excellent vege'a-
BILE in their way. As an Introductory
dish to a substantial breakfast they huu
their proper sphere; but to conVel'
them into whisky is altogether MS
take. 1t is being done, however.
THR house of the poet Wordsworth,
situated amid the beautiful scenery ~
Westmoreland county, England, anu
from the porch of which magnlhceL'
view of Windermere lake can be oo-
tanned, has been closed to the pubic
greatly to the disappointment %
numerous tourists.
4 PIECE Of bituminous coal lF1ng on
some dry pine boards against the sue
of a building in Mlllport, \. T., spont
taueously burst INTO flames on one q
the cent hot days 1t had been t3 IN
posed to the rays Of the sun nearly az, as1
DAY, the thermometer ranging from Ivy
to los degrees in the shade.