Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-03-21
General Items.

Dut III never AT premium
MINERAL COTTON" is being made at
Conshonocken.
THE sex Of epgs-long, slim eggs
are males; short, round eggs are fe-
males.
AT Glasgow, Scotland, on iodine
factory uses up 1000 tons OF seaweed
every year.
THE national exposition at Lima,
Peru, has been postponed until the
18th of May.
An auction sale in London, recently,
of over 1000 carats Cape diamonds
realized Gas, $50.
THE ice in the Potomac River has
disappeared, and navigation at Wash
| ington is unimpeded.
New potatoes have appeared in the
California market, and apple trees at
Oakland are III full blossom.
THE snow bound mails arriving at
Sah Francisco on Feb. 20, filed $50
bags, and were distributed in "a hours.
Mr.. PoLsGRovE, of Fort Scott, Kan,
has in one year raised from the seed a
grove of soft-maples four feet high.
In Rutherford county, n. c., last
week, twenty-seven hundred rabbits
were killed by the industrious inhabi-
tants.
/ MEASURES are being taken in Wash
ington to secure government relief for
the crews of the lost whalers of the
Pacific fleet.
A LOVING husband and wife i'll Rut-
Z In,,l Napp1pn+ hol tho nthp
day, in separate turnouts, through the
principal streets. The lady came in
chignon ahead.
A PARTY of five men were drowned
last Wednesday, at Body Island, while
attempting to save the crew OF wreck
ed schooner.
A NEWARK bride sent her friends
slices from her wedding cake, IN which
, were beaten up two hundred and eighty
embryonic chickens
A NEW style of overcoat IN Cleveland
causes the wearer to resemble a cross
between drafted man on picket,
and an cold clothes dealers sign.
A JURY was recently empanneled in
| Reading, Pa, the ages of whose mem
bers were as follows 70, so, rs, 81. 81,
II, 70, rs, 70. 81, SO, 73 The averag
age was eighty years
THE police of Boston ask for an in
crease of their salaries. The Captains
want $1,000 year; Lieutenants,
81, 400; Sergeants, $500, and patrol
men, 1920.
! THE g mistake - of druggists clerk
caused the death of the wife ofColonel
J. NJ Thornburg, a young lady very
/ highly esteemed, in Nashville, a few
days ago.
AT ST. Joseph, No, on Sunday night,
singular light, resembling large
sized gas-light, was observed on the
steeple Of the Francis Street NJ. E.
church. 1t is supposed to have been
produced by electricity.
THE lock at Salisbury, on the old
/ PENNSYLVANIA canal, is now being taken
away by the Central Railroad Company,
any a part of it will be used in the
erection of a soldiers monument in the
Edgewood cemetery at Salisbury.
CHEYENNE people have on foot pro-
iect to build by subscription public
hall. to be called Recreation Hall"
and to be used for gymnastics, dancing,
roller skating, and other similar per.
formances.
REVENGE is sweet. A widow won
800, 900 from a German gambler at
( Baden Baden, and French General,
whose hatred of Germany rs undylng,
married the avenger OF his country
and the 800, 000
! A New ORLEANS girl being offended
with her lover, a coachman, instead OF
cutting his acquaintance, went to his
stable one night and cut the top, body
and cushions of handsome barouche,
for which her John had her arrested.
THREE Cape Porpoise boats arrived
at Portland on Saturday last, the aggre-
gate catch of which was about 81, 600
fish, caught in enc day, and the days
work netted the fishermen $1,000. 1t
is rare that the fishermen Oft the coast
have such good luck,
PETR1FIED trees have been found in
bog at Waterford, Vt, In two instan-
ces, one huge pine stump was found
resting upon another, Indicating that
the latter tree grew after the first had
fallen, the seed having been deposited
on It's stump.
DIR. HAYES, the Arctic explorer, an
nounces his belief, which agrees with
that of other recent travellers, that the
interior Of Greenland is covered with
ice, and he thinks it would be impossl-
BILE to cross the country from side to
side
A p1ABoLIcAL attempt was made at
Saltillo. Mexico. recently, to destroy,
Cons IreNinin Narlin all their staffs.