Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-04-11
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.

AN extra number ef canal boats for
the Erie Canal have been built the
present winter.
ONE-TwENTIETH of the children in
New York are growing up in idleness
and vagabondage.
BuENos AYREs monkeys suffer from
the genuine yellow fever, and Darwin
lists are delighted.
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS said A room
hung with picturesis a room hung with
thoughts"
AT Glasgow, Scotland, one iodine fac
tory uses up 5000 tons of sea weed
every year.
SWIFT thought the fate of a double
dealer was to lose his power and keep
his enemies.
THERE are one hundred and forty
Protestant missionaries in the islands
of the Pacific Ocean.
COMMERCIAL irregularities are as
abundant and startling in England, it
appears, rs il this country.
EAR-TRUMPETs of a wonderful con-
struction, by which sounds can be
heard at the distance of a mile, are to
be shown at the Vienna Exposition.
A ST.. LOUIS man has been bitten by
a mad dog, had the smallpox and bro.
ken n leg since December.
ROMAN antiquities of great value and
interest have lately been discovered on
the banks of the Rhine, at Brigerbucke,
Germany.
A CENTURY sgo, carving was an essen
tial part of the education of a lady.
Now, not one in n hundred knows the
first rudiments of the art.
The Pitt palace, at Florence, I'M
doubleday contains the choicest collec-
ton of paintings in the world-the
pride of Italy.
THE San Diegoans went fishing the
other day, and caught n whale the
seventeenth this season-which yielded
25, 600 gallons of oil.
STRAWBERRIES, pie-plant and new to-
matoes are to be found in the New
York markets. Fifty cents a smell and
a dollar a bite.
THE Rev. Peter Cartwright has not
only recovered from his late alarming
illness, but bids fair to be able to con-
tinue his ministrations.
A BATAVIA N. " lady had her arms
and hands poisoned by using a '.prep-
~aration for cleaning silver ware" which
she had purchased from a peddler.
Rev. Mr.. BRADY, of the Indianola
Journal, gives utterance to the original
remark "The human face was not
made for n counter on which to measure
religion by the yard
The record looks very bad for Eng
lish roads, but makes n good exhibit
for French and Prussian railway man
agement.
THEre are seventeen pneumatic tube
lines in operation in the city of Lon
don, varying in length from $50 yards
20 20 yards.
LAST year proved n fatal one for the
Swiss guides. Twelve of them lost
their lives by casualties which occurred
on the the Alps.
A FARM Of 400 acres in England is
kept by a woman, to whom the Royal
Agricultural Society gave it's highest
premium last season for general ex-
c~ollence and system,
Ir is difficult to believe that we have
been enjoying O. three weeks of spring,
and that the sun has once more return
cd from across the line.
THREE meteoric pebbles have been
transported from Greenland to Copen-
hagen. They weigh from 10, 900 to
49, 200 pounds apiece.
JOS. HARRISON, Jr., of Philadelphia,
wants to buy Rothermel's Gettysburg
yn. cor nn0 ,,1 ,rmw,n+ - J., a., M,
mount Park Commission.
II. MARrEN, n wealthy local agent of
Holloway's medicines il New York, has
been sued for breach Of promise in
$40, 900 damages by Miss Margaret
Bontigny, who alleges that he visited
her as an accepted suitor from 1868 to
1870. Two years ago he went to Eu-
rope and returned with a French mis-
treSs.
RILEY and John Springer, of Putnam
county, Ind, are heirs to the Springer
estate, on which the city of Whining
ton, Del, is situated. 1t seems that,
generations since, one of the ancestral
S~pringers rented an eight hundred
acre farm in Delaware to a German for
a term of ninety-nine years. When
the lease expired by limitation, no one
was on hand to claim the property,
and it was disposed of for the public
good. Recently, the ancient lease
came to light, and a little Investigation
into the matter has made the Springers
a happy family.
The young ladies are teaching the
japanese girls how to " do their hair
rough. In Japan, the smoother and
slicker the female head of hair, the
more beautiful 1t becomes in the ewes