Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-08-01
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! PolicVueu Will uiODrSllaS during The
hot term.
PHILADELPHIA is to have new
monthly, entitled "Zell's Illustrated
Monthly Magazine and Review" to be
edited by L. Colange, Of the :. National
Encyclopedia. "
" A LARGE and shady brick gentle
mans residence IN the country is adj
vertlsed as good place for summer
board.
MARTIN MoKEowN, a servant in the
Metropolitan Hotel at st. Paul has
drawn prize OF $4,000 in the Omaha
lottery.
Ir is at length announced that the
tenth and last volume of Mr.. George
Bancrott's History of the United
States" will appear shortly.
CALIFORNIA contains a large number
of foreigners proportionately than anv
other state in the Union. The census
shows 1856 1913 natives and 800 $50 for
ei9n born.
AN author selected az the title of q
new romance Wrecked in Port" His
publisher looked sharply at the au-
thor's red nose and muttered, "Yes,
either Port or Burgundy.
GREAT excitement has been occa-
stoned at San Bernardino, Cal, bv the
discovery of new mines about $50 miles
south of that place, and large num-
Der of claims have already been located.
The bronze statue of Lincoln for the
monument to be erected over his re-
mains in Springfield, ILL.,, is now re-
celvlng the best touches of the artist.
Mr.. NJ S. Mosman, at the Ames works
in Chicopee.
BIsMARcK's new coat of arms will be
a double tretoil, in shield of silver
held by the two wild men of the Prus-
sian escutcheon, who hold in their 9th
er hand the colors of Alsace and Lor-
ralne.
ONTARIO county, Canada, has dys-
pepsia brigades, composed of those who
have sworn eternal enmity to that de-
stroyer of human happiness. The mem.
bers get up at day break and ride
on horseback six u seven miles before
breakfast
ACCORDING to what appears to be
good authority, we have paid, in the
frelghts to foreign ship-owners, or an
average of $21, l25, 900 year for that
period.
A MOTHER was amused the other day
to hear this bit of argument" from
her little boy; Mamma, | don't see
how Satan turned ont to be snch bad
f low; there wasn't any devil to put
him up to it,"
BRICK dust obtained by rubbing two
small bricks together, is the best
remedy for lice on stock, says cores
pondent of an agricultural paper, that
he ever tried. Sift tie dust evenly
over the animal, and wor.r it we'll into
and among the hairs.
MISS LILLE Donovan, New Orleans
bruiser, recently addressed the follow
ing challenge to a rival, Miss Julia Rid
die: g Miss Julia When you get ready
to choose your seckonds, and the hour
to fife, ard the place, let me no, for I'm
ready. Your mistress.
THE cadets at West Point are said to
be under greater restrictions this year
than ever, and consequently their lady
friends are rendered miserable Gen.
Ruger, the superintendent, is very
sensible and practical man, believing
that military discipline and Irritation do
not go well together.
THE secretary of the treasury, at the
request of the German government, has
fixed the valuation of the mark, the
new unit of accounts Of the German
empire at twentythree cents Tor custom
purposes. This IS Just one-thlrd the
value of the old thaler, who Sc value
was designated at slXty-nlne cents.
SEVENTEEN pleasure trips TO the
United States have been arranged IN
Germany. The average expense Tor the
whole trip. including ten days So
iourn IN this country, is 300 thalers.
The visitors will arrive in this country
mostly in August. They start from
Cologne and Hamburg.
THE Maine lumbermen predict that
in five years hence, at the present rate
of destruction, the forests of that state
will be wholly cleared of timber. Inc
lumber crop this year is estimated at
700. 600, 900 feet. OF this amount, the
Penobscot lumbermen cut 30, 900 wv
and the Kennebec men over 100, 600, OOo.
A HISTORICAL curiosity has been dug
ND in PENNSYLVANIA, in the shape OF the
original deed by which VIM. Penn con-
veved West Jersey to certain parties III
Dublin. 1t is dated in 1867, and mas
the autograph signature OF the benign
ant Quaker, GAS plain as though II Ia"
Just been written"
TEE much abused Fremont or Mar,
posa estate in California has now gone
into private hands, and a ne" a9u
more economical effort is beng made