Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-04-25
General News Items.

The peach season is six weeks behind
time in Georgia.
The Io Semitic Valley is great even
IN its snow, which is now over forty feet
in depth.
THE prettiest pair of boots exhibited
ut a recent fair in Cincinnati were made
by little German girl, aged Is.
COPPER in great abundance has re-
Gently been discovered in Pocahontas,
Ark.
WE are told that over 1000 patents
have been granted for improvements on
Ike sewing mochine in this country.
THERE is general movement through
ont Georgia looking to the reorganiza-
ton of the Old volunteer companies.
IT costs four times MS much to run
train forty niles an hour, as it does
twenty miles in the same time.
1t is thought that the book-publsh-
ing business was never better in this
country than at the present time.
PLAIN gold sleeve studs, rounded like
button, and with chasing or monogram,
are the latest novelty in that line
SILVER iewelry is manufa ,tured to
large extent now, and is qui e fashiona-
BILE in New York and Philadelphia.
A CONNECTICUT girl died in conse-
quencc of being told as mn "April
fool that her lover was dead
CONSUMPTION carries to the grave
200, 900 persons annually on the North
American continent.
Amer, m hooking birds bring larger
prices in Europe thar the best of can
aries.
A MILLION dollars is the price of a
well established and successful sugar
plantation in Cuba.
THERE are but eighteen Shaker soci-
cites now established in the several
states of the Union
SCIENTIFIC experiment makes the ex-
tremc velocity of wind TO be ninety
three miles an hour
A CRAZY Nevada man swallowed forty
dollars in gold and silver pieces the
other day. A stomach pump didn't
fetch them.
The habit of taking light break
fast is said to be one of the greatest
Improvements Va VIC uSt.
TRENTON, N. j., has n startling in
strument in the shape Of circular saw
some "a feet in circumference-the
largest in the world.
THIRTY-oNE New York circuses start
out upon their mar,h of devastation
this month. Picture it, think of it
dissolute man!
AN Alabama hen has laid several
black eggs, causing great CONSERVATION.
They say it is the sign of coming
negro war.
A WINDHAN COUNTY, Conn, man is
working up saw log. thirty feet long,
into fife for Gilmore's jubilee. 1t Will
be blown by nitro-glycerine.
Born Fulton and Morse went to Eu-
rope, studied art with Benjamin West,
and came home to make application of
the agents of nature TO the concerns of
practical life.
In Boston they do not shake carpets
any more; "A new process has been in
troduced by which they are "sham-
pooned.
The English custom of celebrating
the Dist anniversary of ones Oldest son
by party or ball has become quite
general in New York.
Ar THE Syracuse salt works there are
about A, 600 watts, sixteen by eighteen
feet in size, for making coarse salt by
evaporation; 3l6 blocks where it is
made by boiling, and four large mills
where table and dairy salt is made. The
total capital invested in the business is
about So, 200, 600.
TIE English alphabet has 2G letters,
the France %, the Italian 20, Spanish
81, German 26, Slavonic, AZ, Russian
80, Latin %, Greek "a 16 until 403 q.
c., when the "a Ionic characters were
introduced, the Hebrew %, ihe Arabic
2S, Persian 81, Turkish, 2S, Sanscrit IA,
Chinese pa.
"NoRwIoH, Conn, is somewhat
1.-The cook Of an eminent citizen hav-
ing injured herself by repeated falls
over ledge which projected through
the kitchen floor, he is now engaged in
blasting it, after which he will turn his
attention to little boulder near the
centre table III the parlor.'
NEWPORT vii be the rendezvous, next
summer, for the Washington diplomatic
corps. At this seemingly premature
period number of cottages have been
rented by foreign ambassadors, and
rooms engaged at the leading hotels
for the innumerable secretaries and
uttuchcs.
AT Frankfort, Ky, on Monday dur
ing the storm, lightning struck the
house OF man named Martin, killing
his child, and seriously ininring his
wife. Much damage was done to that
yicinity by the great rlse In the atreAmS.