Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-10-17
All Sorts OF Paragraphs.

AN aged Chinnec0ck Squaw was killed
last week for the small sum of four cents
In Fairfield county, Conn, cider sells for
five cents gallon.
SHANGHAE, China, has taken six millions
of new French loan.
TExAs has cave containing an I'M
mense uantity of the best guano.
A mine Of anthony has been disco vered
in California.
IT is not a vulgar "spittoon," but re.
fined cuspador."
The three balls of the pawnbrokers are
said to signify addition, division and 81.
lence.
AN American circus is knocking the
sentiment entirely out of the Rhine
Valley.
WILLIAM NiBLo has been q constant
subs criber to the New York Evening Post
durin G sixty-two years,and the editor hopes
he may live till he regrets it.
HENRY REwER, a Norwegian, about fifty
years old. committed suicide by shooting.
in the reading room of the Young Mems
Christian Association, at Newark, on Fri.
day.
TENNYsoN is making vast preparations
for the reception of Walt Whitman. The
English apostle of easy flowing numbers
will warmly welcome the American apos-
tie of disjonted numbers, and the two will
revel long and POLITICALLY.
Four of the japanese students at Willis.
ton Seminary board with Landlord Hill.
Each wished separate room but were
told he should have to put two in a room,
unless one was sick. The boys are bright,
and soon took their cue, and Mr. Hill re-
ce;ved the follwing note, which is verbatim
ct lltera tim, ct puncIuatim :
Dear Mr. Hill: Mr.. Sepe has a sick,
and be cannot lay down to gether Mr..
Ouseke in the same bed. therefore he went
other bed. May he get it? Ono9
A LIQUOR dealer at Niagara Falls last
week thought to make hit in the adver-
Using line by hiring peripatetic iibern-
ian to carry about the streets a trans.
parency setting forth the goodness and
abundance Of his liquors, A tenn pcrance
party, however, chartered boy to follow
with transparency reading Cursed be
he that putteth the cup to his brothers.
lips" 1t was the general conclusion that
he boy behind was .-hcad Of the boy in
ont.
ANapparatus has been lately introduced
tho garages 10y means Of which lady
inside may communicate with the coach
man without opening the carriage win
dows. 1t consists of handle with a dial,
by moving which similar apparatus on
the dashboard is acted on BY this means
the driver may be directed when to tnrn
and similar messages without letting
down the carriage windows.
PRoF. DAVIDSON has selected Pollardis
Peak, near Summit Station, on the Califor-
MIA and Nevada line, az the site of the great
National Observatory.
A WHITE Polar bear escaped from the
Central Park menagerie, in New York, on
Saturday, and took stroll down Sixty
fourth street to Fifth avenue, creating in
tense excitment among the Inhabitants.
lie proceeded to take bath In deep
pool of water on Sixty fourth street, when
he was shot and killed.
A little girl in New York orphan asy-
lum who was punished for scratching an
other little girls face by being ,equired
to learn verse from the Bible, was al
o.eo to make her own selection, and CD ose
the first verse of Psalm IA Blessed be
the Lord, my strength, which teacheth my
hands to war and fingers to fight"