Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-09-05
General Items.

HE Aus'rahans are delighting n
street cars. Z
AKANsAs woman has been paralvzaa
by the sting of wasp.
JAPANESE BARRIERS are the most no.-
lar in San Francisco. ="
The Richmond, Va, police do n
lamp lighting Of that city.
BERG has received nine thousand d.,
lars IN annual protecting donations VI
Gently.
NEBRASKA is the only state that bas
railroad in running order when al
mitted into the Union.
THE first locomotive ever construc.sa
in Nova Scotia has just teen sent y
the Intercolonial Railway.
THE University of Oxford is abon, :,
fill Louis Napoleon's cup to the briys
by making him an LII. d.
In leading bank in Stockholm. op
the clerkships have for some wears mas.
been filled by women.
PROFESSOR GILMAN, of Yale, has por.
to see about accepting the Presidencv
OF the California University.
MAJOR MARTIN MAGINNIs, the DEM
cratic delegate elect of Montana, was
formerly resident of Red Wing. MINI
The romantic and beautiful sceperv
of Mauch Chunk and the Switchback i
attracting greater throngs of pleasure.
seekers this year than ever before.
THE Nathan house, on Fifth avenpa
II New York, having stood vacant since
the murde4, is now offered for sale at
$3.50, 600.
Four young Georgians on banter
swan three and a half miles down the
Chattahoochee River, on the 18th ult
and then walked back to the starting.
point.
The longest bridge in Germany is
shortly to be built across the Rhine at
Vessel. 1t will be $500 feet long. The
width of the river at that point is | $50
feet.
THE Chilian Congress is considering
projects for the abolition of hoggmg,
the repeal of the tobacco monopoly,
and the admission of foreign coal free
of duty.
A STREAM in Asia Minor is so strong
ly impregnated with copper, that pieces
OF iron placed therein IN a few days
becomes thickly impregnated with
deposit of copper.
The knowing ones tell US that the
only way to get pure port wine is to
go to Oporto, raise the grapes, press
the wine, put it into the cqsk yourself
and ride on it all the way home.
4 New YORK Judge has decided that
signs and banners across the street are
illegal distinctions, as a street is not
the mere surface of the earth, but en-
braces also the light and air above it.
A DAILY evening Chinese paper is
published in San Fra>cisco and dis
tributed regularly to subscribers by
carriers. The reporter OF the Oakland
News says it is called the San, Fran
cisco Daily Evening Jab Jab.
FREDERICK WATTS, Commissioner OF
I Agriculture, writes to William Past,
Secretary of the Minnesota State Agri-
cultural Society, accepting an invita-.
| ton to deliver an address at ST. Paul
during the Fair.
THE Jews of New York city are said
to be seriously considering the exp3-
| diencv of transferring their weekly re-
I ligious services from Saturday to Sun
day. Several of their synagogues
throughout the country are now open
ed on both days.
! The Pail Mall Gazette says Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe made her own Peace
/ Congress IN London q farce, by occu-
pyng the greater part of every session
with pointless harangUes, III which
stale figures of speech strove with
dreary platitudes for the mastery.
/ IL crowded tavern, a Judge and an
Ilishman were once obliged to room
! together. NOW, Fat, - said the Judge,
''you would have had to stald a long
time in ireland before you would nave ave,
slept with Il Judge" " Ay, ay, sir
answered Pat, can yer Honor wopid
have had to have staid a long time IL
Ireland afore you'd a been Judge
A LITTLE boy was being instructed II
morals by his grandmother The old
lady told him that all such terms as
"by Qolly,' "by lingo, "by thun,
der" etc, were only little oaths ana
but little better than other profantles'
In fact, she said she could tell a pro-
fame oath by the prefix by All suGh
were oaths. "Well, then, grandmoth-
en-" said the hopeful, "'is by tele-
graph, which | see in the newspapers,
swearing - ono, " said the Old lady,
"that is only lying?"
SCR1BSER's MONTHLY advocates uni
forms for school girls. Here is a poI-
ton of the argument: Why IS II uo'
just as well for girls to dress in UNI
forms as boys There are many eA-
cellent schools in England where the