Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-07-25
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lines of length exceeding fifty miles,
BRAZIL last year exported more dia-
monds than ever before.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY has been estsb-
lished one thousand years.
MILK is selling at cent quart in
some parts of Minnesota.
The annual importation of monkeys
and parrots exceeds s, 400.
New ORLEANS sends ship loads of
fishing rods to northern ports.
EXECUTIONS for murder will hereafter
be by shooting in Austria.
Two pigeons were among the victims
OF supstroke at New York
Coal is cheaper in some places on
the Hudson than it has been in ten
years.
A FLEMISH army surgeon recon-
mends wooden shoes to prevent rheu-
matism.
A DETROIT ferry boat passes free all
citizens over 90
YOSEMITE is lull. Some of the fash
ionable trunks that arrive are as big as
the trees.
ILLUNuNATING in honor Of q serenade
was the means of detecting a thief in
house in Mobile.
THE latest exploit of the potato in
Georgia is to grow inside stout iron
ring and burst 1t asunder.
THE island of Barbados comprises
an area of 1862 acres, and has
population of 1862, 042 inhabitants
THE Governor of Guatemala has or
dered the conhscation of all property
belonging to the Jesults
The Gear has to support his tele-
graph lines across the steppes on brick
pillars, no wood being available.
THE London DAILY News pleads for
the abolition, though not by legal
means, of periodical rock shooting.
The new International copyright
treaty between England and Germany
Will be of great advantage to British
authors.
The presidency of Smith Female
College, at Northampton, has been of
fered to Prof. l.. Clark Seelye, of
Amherst.
IRON shingles have been lately pat
ented. and a1e said 20 he less expen-
sive than slate. They are made about
six w thirteen inches IN size, ard fast
tened with heauless nails.
AN author has reason to believe that
whenevei he wages of the mechanics
are raised 20 IS or $40 day the work.
men viii not come at all-they will
merely send their cards.
The following is gwen as the code of
successful butter dairyman: Skim
early, churn early, and sell early.
A CoLoRED female reveller at Coving
ton, Ky, recently sentenced to bread
aud waite" fare, bewailing her hard lot
too freely, received the latter part
through The Jail hose.
TwENIv- ONE of the Boston Congre-
gationat Churches contributed S2S, 271
II TO ohe American Goard of Foreign
Missions for the year just closed.
SINCE Jan. l, 77,0S8, 592 feet of lum-
be, have been surveyed at Bangor,
Maine. q decrease of 1901, $50 as
compared with the same period last
year.
A FACTORY boy in New Hampshire
fell ont of a third story window.
Tuesday, but as he struck i'll large
tub of water, came out unhurt.
THE Trustees of Delaware College
(the institution which received New
York's share of the national donation
of Agricultural College lands) have
resolved, almost unanimously, to ad-
nit female students.
4 FAIR of New Haven parents are af'
ficted with a boy thai doesn't stop
whistling, even IN his sleep.
A CHICAGO minister told reporter
that he thought himself 'the most over
estimated man in America. And that
reporter went off and praised what he
called thaG minister's excessive mod
esty.
GUsTAvE DoRE is coming to America
in 1878, and will probably try his hand
at sketohing the picturesque points on
this continent.
THE foreign commerce of New York
/ for the past week consisted of S6,OS6,-
239 in merchandise exports, S4,472,93i
in produce exports, 50, 62l ST. III specie
add bullion export The total imports
since January / are $3.50, IA, 591; the
exports Sill, 123,604 in products; and
$50, 2l6, AS i'll specie all bullion.
TWENTY ladies were dropped from
the rolls of the Internal Revenue Office
on Wednesday, there being no money
/ appropriated to pay their salaries.
MARK TWAIN has been entertaining
Bret Harte at his home IN Hartford,
and some one is cruel enough to sug-
gest that they must have been hearty
ttC1 n.
4 THE golden medal coined in honor OF
I the two hundredth anniversary OF Peter
J the Great. shows the nnrtralt OF tine