Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-05-23
General Items.

cadence of the French opera.
/ The often infirmities OF the Prince
of Wales are predicted to prove fatal
NILSSON is reported to have made
/ 1927, $50 during her late visit to this
country.
NJ. LEBRUS, the French minister Of
education, has named his three dangh
ters "Jemappes, Civilization, and
Republic.
A sCHooL-BoY, fifteen years old, in
/ Clearfield, Penn. stands SIX feet two
inches in his stocking feet, and is still
growing.
DR.. Franklin says that every little
fragment of the day should be saved
The moment the day breaks set your
self at once to save the pieces.
AT a wedding in Poughkeepsie, not
long ago, the parents of the bride
groom charged the invited guests nine.
ty cents per head for supper.
IL Great Britain and Ireland there
were LOOP vessels built during 1871,
with capacity amounting in the aggre-
gate to 391, 05S tons.
A LITTLE Rock justice Of the peace
advertises to perform the marriage
ceremony the first time for twenty-five
cents, ana afterwards for ten cents.
Hon. TIMOTHY DAVIS, eX-member of
Congress. and prominent citizen of
Clayton. Iowa, died at his residence in
Elkader on Sunday last, aged eighty
three years.
UNDER the new liquor law of Ohio, a
jury has given a wife verdict OF 81, 900
against a liquor dealer "for the loss of
her husbands society for over three
years.
Az East Indian millionaire, named
Lai Nitro, has been forced to accept
the temporary hospitality Of the Lam
beth poor-house in London while wait
ing for remittance from his home.
The secretary of a total abstinence
society in Alabama acknowledges with
thanks the receipt of five gallons of
whisley as contribution to the annual
supper of the society.
A TRAIN on the Des Moiues Valley
Railroad, the other day, ran into an
immense flock Of swan, branct, geese,
and other wild fowl, and killed many.
The birds were just about to alight on
tie track.
HE late Robert Harper. Of Albany,
\. Y. won an election bet Of 5000, III
1868, and now his heirs have been COM
PEELED, by law, to refund S765, interest
being added,
Ir is said there is a lady in st. Au-
gustine, Fla, who is 50 fascinating that
even the wild birds Of the forest come
futtering to her feet and perch upon
her shoulders. She declines to make
game of them.
A MusKRAr recently bored a hole
through the dam of "A large Massachu-
sets fish pond, and let several thou
sand # the fine trout into the brook
below, where for several days after
wards there was excellent fishing.
THOMAS, Of Merthyr, in Wales, has
for long time sought to invent prac-
teal balloon for erial navigation, and
has at last, he thinks. succeeded in
making one that can tack against any
moderate breeze.
ToMO'CoNSoR, an unassuming Irish
man. is said to be the largest cattle
owner in Texas. He does not know ex-
actly how many he has but the total
will not vary much from $4,000,
DoNN PIArr says "a distinguished
diplomat, who had served some time in
Washington, died the other day in Eu-
rope, and among his effects they found
forty-two ultimatums and six hundred
loye-letters from beautiful girls IN
Washington.
THERE Is a curious Chinese proverb
which says: :" In a cucumber field do
not stop to tie your shoe, and under a
plum tree DO not wait to settle your
cap on your head - which means, II
You do, some one may think you are
stealing the cucumhers or plums
A MAMMOTH century plant, forty feet
in height. and weighing over three ana
a half tons, has been shipped from near
Jacksonville. Fla, to parties in New
York. The plant Is on the eve OF bloom
ing q second tine, and is Therefore
nearly 200 years old.
WITH a total population Of fifteen
hundred thousand, Iowa does not pos
sess a city containing fifty thousand n
hahitants The largest of her cities
Davenport, has scarcely half that num-
her. and but one other exceeds twenty
thousand.
NORTH CAROLINA has I'm oil citizen,
aged los His mind Is So sound JhaV
he racollects occurrences which other
people have been studying the histories
to lind ont about for three generations
The old fellow has eight children. the
Oldest - and the baby g. years CID
LIEUTENANT COMMANDER GEIDLEI, o.
the United States steamer Michigan
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