Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-04-04
General Items

SrEUBENvILLE. O., spent So. 0 in
a successful attempt to subdue the
small pox.
Two INDIANS fred a salute from an
old iron tube about twelve hours before
their funeral.
An entelprising New Highlander is
running a high pressure steamboat on
the river Ganges.
A CLAY has been discovered in Tav-
lor township, Mich, which makes good
m~eerschaum pipes.
BEET ROOT sugar is fast excluding
from France all other products of the
saccharine ingredient.
LITTLE Rock expects to obtain her
coal hereafter from mines just opened
in Pope county, Arkansas.
THE Cunard line have but one side.
wheel steamer, all the rest are now
moved by screw propellers.
NATcHEz, Miss, is the only city in
the world which has nearly 10, 900 in
habitants and not a single hotel.
THEY tell of a railway in Kentucky
wherein the locomotives are assisted
up steep grades by a yoke of oxen,
A CITIZEN of Troy, N, Y, has been to
the diamond fields in South Africa and
returned home, having had fair success.
AMERICAN oysters are selling in Lon
don for thirty six cents a dozen. Eng
lish oysters cost seventy-two cents a
dozen.
ONE of Boulton & Watts original en-
gines, erected in 1893, is said to have
been uninterruptedly at work up to the
present time in the Spanish clnnabar
mine at Almaden.
THE machine for working the sulphur
mines in Louisiana has arrived, and
operations will now be pushed rapidly
forward.
AN invoice of fifty factory girls, i'm
ported from Scotland by the Shetucket
Company, arrived in Norwich on the
9th ult.
PNEUMONIA has killed seven out of a
family of nine in Camden, Miss, all of
whom were in perfect health last Christ
mas day.
RHODE ISLAND is the only State which
has followed the example of Massa-
chusetts in making The ODD of February
a legal holiday.
SPEAKING of the danger of catching
small box by handling ~greenbacks, a
country editor congratulates himself
that he is safe enough.
GRASS is green in Dakota. From
Knoxville, Tenn, to Dalton, Ga, last
Sunday. the snow lay from ten to
eighteen inches deep.
A CANDIDATE for schoolmarm IN
Henry county, Ohio, stated on eXamin-
alton that Virginia obtained It's name
from the Virgin Mary.
THE Stonington steamers Narragan-
sett and Stonington have not lost atrlp
in four years, and have more than paid
for themselves since they were built.
Mile NILSSON will return to Europe
worth S40O, 900. She has proved her
admiration of America by investing
nearly all her American profits here.
The Tredegar iron works in Rich
mond are pulling down nine of their
buildings to make room for new car
shops, which will be the finest in the
South.
THE manufacture of cotton-seed oil
at Galveston, Texas, has been abandon
cd, on account of the high price of
transportation of the seed from the
plantations.
A NEW and ingenious advertising
dodge is to print an advertisement upon
a strip of paper like a Geographic dis
patch, and enclose it in an envelope OF
the Geographic matters.
The Duluth Tribune ~characterizes it
as a burning shame that Duluth has
no cemetery and the attention of the
Duluth City council is earnestly IN
voked to this grave subject.
Mile. MARGUERITE B%RLLANGER, who
acquired unfavorable notoriety through
her intimacy with Napoleon Ill, has
returned to Paris, and has a handsome
residence in a fashionable street.
DURING a recent cold snap at Calves
ton, Texas, Judge Dodge had to adjourn
the Criminal Court until the county
could borrow S. from the Deputy Sher-
if, to buy fuel to heat the court room.
Two YOUNG men in Omaha arrayed
themselves In masquerade costumes, a
few evenings ago, and confronted a
Miss Agnes Cullen. The success OF the
joke was az complete that her recovery
is doubtful.
INSTEAD If flying kites, bringing
down Tightening from heaven and max
ing philosophical axiom, Nj. Benjamin
Franklin, of New Orleans, spends a
major portion of his time in stealing
ducks.
An experienced butter maker of Yer,
mont says the chief trouble with bad