Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-01-04
All sorts OF Paragraphs.

Il-EIrhl HOllci1 law bSCAl 4~ts
circulated in the University OF Bdinburg
during the present term.
Dr.. CHPLEY's private lunatic llm,
near Lexington, KY, was burned on
Saturday. Loss $50, coo.
ETRUscAN and Roman jars, boars tusks
and human remains, nails and knives
were recently discovered in the Isle Of
Thanet.
THE incorrigabLe observes that hard
wood bolt is the most appropriate fas-
tening for a door after midnight, be-
cause it's one oak lock-
The famous Ravel Brothers, Gabriel,
Antonine, Froncois and jerome, are
now living quietly near Paris IN pros
porous circumstances.
TIE cathedral clock at louisville,
KY, froze up and stopped running the
o.her day.
A CIGAR maker of Canton, Illinois,
has Just received the news that he is
German baron.
WHY is man who marries an heiress
a lover of music Because he marries
fortune.
THE remains of Alexandra Dumas
are to be transported this month from
Villers- Cotterets to Paris for inteTment
in the Pere La Chaise.
The latest ascension to the lecture
rostrum is Roebuck, the English mem
Der of parliment and ''lost cause
sympathizer.
Ir is not true that Miss Nilsson is Il
heavy loser by the Chicago fire. She
owns land there, but it has never been
improved.
CHICAGO calls the great fire "the re-
cent heated term.
IL consideration of DR. Livingstone's
services the English government has
granted to his children the sum Of
$500.
AN uncle of George Francis Train
has made an oath that Francis is lu-
matte, and has asked to be appointed
over him.
TIE first through shipment of Chi
nese goods from Hong Kong to New
Orleans has just been received
THE Terrible Temptation" has been
dramatized, and is now being played
at the Old Bowery, New York
A NEW English book of American
travel, by c. Macaulay, is dangerously
entitled ACROSS the Ferry"
PRESIDENT GRANT made a very re-
spectacle pun in his message in the
statement that agriculture is the
groundwork of our prosperity"
A BELGIAN picture manufacturer has
forty-six painters, and sends their pro-
ducts, properly trade marked, by the
ship load to all the picture galleries il
the world
THERE are fifty Greek merchants in
Constantiuople, and they are the rich
est persons n the city. Their combined
wealth is estimated at $4,000, 600,
and they monopolize the entire trade
of the metropolis of Turkey,
Il. II DERBY, of Boston, a voll known
statistician, in one Of his Official papers
gives it as his opinion that China and
Japan Will take from us 5000 tons, or
100000 pounds, OF butter and
cheese per annnm, wheneveg we shall
be able to deliver it.
GIN. GoREoFF, the Russian repre-
sentative at Washington, IS the author
of several works on military tactics,
for some time past he has been super
intending the manufacturq Of arms for
his government, Mt Hartfotl, the Gar
having entered into large contract for
weapons with large firm there.
MISS BERTHA GERoLr, laughter Of
Baron Gerolt, who fortwarty-hy wears
represented Prussia MS EfyOy Extraor-
binary and Minister PleGpotentiary at
Washington, on Wednesday of last
week left the residence d Colonel and
Mrs. James &. Gerret, wi ose guest she
had been for the past FIVE months, and
entered the Convent lac Visitation,
ON G street, Washington, ID. G.
The Japanese Mikado in pursuance
Of his policy to populatza his govern
ment, lately appeared l. Che streets Of
Yedo, driven in a English carriage,
four-in-hand, with onlF four running
footmen. Subsequently, he walked out
unattended, and has issued an imperial
order forbidding the performance of
obeasances and ceremonies formerly
prescribed by law on those who met
the Mikado face to fac, orwere passed
by his official emblens.