Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-07-18
General Items.
las about 1000 artists.

Alabama to Texas
LONDON has four Thousand miles of
streets.
OCEAN WAVES rarely exceed fifty feet
in height.
FLORIDA has produced potato
twenty-six inches lorg.
They are nearly through harvesting
wheat in Virginia.
The State debt of Arkansas is a frac-
ton over Sll,000 600.
So FAR eight hundred dead bodies
have been recovered from the ruins of
Antioch.
A PUBLISHER in London devotes HIM
self wholly to the publishing of reform
tracts.
The ordinance factory at Liege, in
Belgium, is one Of the largest in the
world
The washerwomen of Kingston, in
England, insist on three pints of beer n
day.
THE making of iron TASKS to contain
quicksilver is Il Philadelphia enter
PRISE. -r
LACE making is a principal source of
income to many places in the Neither
lands.
THERE are seven Indians in San
Diego over one hundred and twenty
years of age.
TuF International is again showingit-
self in force all over the Continent of
Europe.
r,>,>-v,,,,, .,,iJa, n,,,,ht 4, on,t,
by spinning web around the reptiles
head
THE washerwomen are aghast ut the
prospect of the introduction of paper
clothing.
THE Queen, the ladies' newspaper in
London, declares the Dolly Warden
dress to be vulgar
THE population of the Republic of
San Salvador, according to the recent
estimates, is $50, 600. .,s .-s l.Es
A DETROIT manufacturing establish
ment throws IN warm dinners daily to
its employers.
! THE japanese visitors to Boston had
! their own COOK to look after their spe-
! cial dishes.
cent, profit on every class OF soda water
sold for ten cents.
The wire-worm is doing much dam
age to the corn, potatoes and wheat
throughout Maine.
The average Southern Presbyterian
minister gets 500 ayear-S6O more
than year ago.
THE Germans, by Bismarck's dircc-
ton, are training carrier pigeons for
military purposes. ,...aee.
A NEW company has been formed
with capital of 5000, 900, to bring Chi
nese labor into the Southern States.
ONE Of the Sights Of the Island of
Malta is the ancient Palace Of the
Grand Masters of st. John, at Medina.
DURING the eighteen years since the
CRYSTAL Palace, London, was built, it
has been visited by 80, 100000 persons.
Az Iowa clergyman names the young
est of his four boys "Doxology y. be-
| cause he winds up the Inns.
! SUICIDES are again prevailing III Paris
| being often Of such fantastic character
as to become ludicrous in the extreme.
! An editor commenting upon the i'm
/ portance Of small things, says he does
not even slight straw, if it has sherry
cobbier at one end.
! THE fact that the German emigration
movement takes away the young and
| leaves the old and infirm, is disagreed
bic to the authorities.
Missouri claims that she can furnish
enough ore to make 10000, 900 tons of
! iron yearly for 800 years, and 10000,
600 bushels coal for 2, 800 years.
TIE Oregon linseed oil factory at
Salem made last year 100, 900 gallons
Of oil, all Of which found market at
home.
ULTRA.FAsH1oNABLE people in Bath,
England, are initiating the fashion OF
the last century in the wearing Of white
wigs and perukes.
TIE total taxable wealth of Missouri,
according to the assessment Of 1872,
| is 1868, IG5, 502-an increase OF over
S63 800, GIT over 1872,
Ir is said that one hundred and fifty
thousand copies Of Mr.. Summers
speech have been circulated as cam
pagn documents.
ABr SAYS that the Boston Jubilee's
attempt to sing ''The Swallows With
twenty thousand voices was a hymn
book" Humbug, you know.
THE British Consul at New York
complains that he loses five hundred
pounds a wear by being the banker of
those "who are expecting remittances
from England.
Or the six states east Of the Hudson
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