Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-02-29
General Items.

THERE is twenty seven year-old wo.
man in VIII county, HI, who has
shaved for eighteen years, and now
rejoices in beautiful mustache and
coal black imperial"
A GENTLEMAN in Cleveland has been
making experiments in extinguishine
the flames of petroleum, and has found
that sand and aqua amomnia thrown on
the flames will quickly extinguish them.
A YOUNG girl was practicing the
"Battle of Prague on a piano, in
Brooklyn, on Saturday last. After she
had played for two hours, burglar
shot at her through the window, but to
the grief of the neighborhood, missed
BISHOP SIMPSONS name, with $50
after it, appeared in the list of sub.
scribers for the Alexis ball at Phila.
delphia. The Methodist papers DENY
that the Bishop authorized the use Of
his name for such purpose.
MARK TwAIN's lecture was steno.
grsphed by Pittsburgh reporter and
published. Mark called on the re-
porter. The reporter said he bad been
instructed to take it. yes" said
Mark, land if my pocket book had
been on the table you would have been
instructed to take that too, suppose.
MILE. NILSSON appeared in the Ger
man at the Gait House, Louisville, on
Monday evening. AS sketched by the
Commercial, " she tloated through the
rooms in a mist of white, moire antique,
touched with the azure of blue over
skirt, through which cleaned tangles
of gold as fecks of sunshine play up
on the bosom of some blue lake"
THE Hartford Evening Post says:
" A Canaan mau hung himself, and a
jury of his neighbors was impannelled,
in accordance with the requirements in
the case. After mature deliberation
upon the evidence adduced, one Of the
number was asked what conclusion he
had reached, when he frankly respond
ed 20, there haixt the least morsel of
doubt in my mind Of the critters
guilt.
DwELLERs along the Sacramento and
Napa rivers, as well as upon the shores
of San Pablo bay, daily see floating
down the streams and cast upon the
shores by the incoming tide, the re-
mains of drowned animals. On the
south side of Mare Island the carcasses
of these dead animals lie shewn along
the beach for miles, washed ou5 by the
tide water, and in a state o. decompo-
sition.
THE Young American tIliinois) Plain
dealer says: Rev. James Tubbs has lost
recently over one hundred and fifty fat
hogs, out of total of two hundred and
fifty, which he had in his yards, and
they are still dying of hog cholera. The
disease attacked his hogs just after he
had secured the marketing of ia, which
averaged a tritie over 300 pounds apiece
The hogs have died ut the rate of from
one Ia lama daily----....--..
NRssKs. GUTENBERG and Nohl have
shown that phosphorus IS so readily
absorbed by carbon that, taken III the
form of pills, carbon constitutes com
pletc aptjdote. The pills are made of
animal charcoal, powdered and mixed
with little gum. In match factories
these pills have relieved operatives
by phosphorus, and are, there
fore, a much better remedy than that
by Al. Personne; the essence
of terebenthine having been found to
produce violent headaches by continued
use.
HANS HElSRIoH MoLLER and Anna
Moller, his wife, have brought suit
gainst the Pacific Mail Steamship
company, at San Francisco, Tor Ill
treatment daring recent trip from
New York TO San Francisco, They lay
their damages at IS, 800, julius Colt
leib has also brought suit against br
Central Pacific Railroad co1npanTom
s15, 900 damages, for eiecting h3en he
train Mt Humboldt Wells,a RI san
had paid full fare from Cor
Francisco. &c
The growth of Deho;'al census in
J jgn,l $50. show less than 5'ooo IN III
h ma ~ had a census made at
.t,s 80 lSpense. with a view 10 pup,
: 5le1t w" along with other statlstlcal
ll.'tt,op They find that the population
~ in" goeecember. 1871, was 10, 49,, having
I,ora than doubled in IS months. me
number of buildings erected III l ~
was 1873, valued at -, 39l, SO. lne
amount of business done at Denver Denver
during last year, is reckoned at more
than S14, 0.0O6,
,rur ca.ket in which the freedom, OF
tha n;tv Of London is to be presented TO
the Baroness Burdett-Coutts mas peen
made. The box, Of which 1T chltiy con on
sists. is supported by four winged ns-
9 s4-ss emblematic Of Prudence, justice,
Temperance and Fortitade, ;.t eaee sti5i
Bafween the figures the sides OF 'ne
easket are divided into eight panels on
seven seven Of which are engraved tabiea 7ah
seven - - 49, ~ Mercy. The eighth