Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-04-11
General Items.

HE next Imam steamer will be H..
City of Chester, and she is to be cana
BILE of sixteen knots ali hour.
A CLAM weighing two pounds and
seven was picked up on thu
beachat Newport the other day.
The goldfish in the wells of the fsb;u,
smacks at New London are REPORTS
frozen so stiff that their tails are uss1
for bootjacks.
A NEW style of ornament for the'ba;,
is a small humming bird with diamond
eyes and a jewelled arrow through ID
breast.
THERE were nine town liquor agents
in Orleans county, Vt, eve of whom
sold over 81, 600 worth of liquor in eight
months.
CRUEL Boston lads still amuse them
selves by stoning and shooting the
sparrows on the Common and in the
grave yards.
The spring scalping season has open.
ed in western Texas. The indians
Craze their ponies in the wheat fields
and the settlers go to work armed.
AT the French eating houses in Paris
they serve dishes q la Chinese. as
birds's nests, sharks and, grasshoppers
and cats Fricasseed frogs are still
popular and expensive.
The New York Sun boasts that 1t has
an umbrella in its office which is s.
years old. They house umbrellas in
that office to keep them from protect.
ing people from the ''raise" of the
Sun.
DISPATCHES state that Wabash Col.
lege, at Charlottesville, Ind, has been
closed on account of the appearance of
spotted fever in a virulent and most
fatal form in the region round about
that city.
A NoTED hoop-skirt manufacturing
firm of Bridgeport, Conn, having a large
and unstable stock on hand, have
chartered a shipload to Dantzig, ex.
pecting to dispose of the anne
The celebrated Purdy colt, of San
Francisco, has been sold to james
Helm, of Fresno county, for $1,000.
Although he has never been in race,
his time has been taken in private
heats. He has made a mile, to wagon,
i'll 2:35.
THE new hotel at Saratoga, not yet
named, has been let to Bresliu & Gil
sey, of New York, for ten years, for
SIT, 500 per year. 1t is brick, five stories
high, with $50 rooms, and will be open.
cd July l.
WHAT has been heretofore known as
the Chautauqua lake pickerel has been
pronounced by Seth Green to be mus
calonge and the best of its class. equal
to those taken from the St. Lawrence,
IL consequence of the rapid con.
sumption of timber in tn Russian
Empire, it is proposed to pass a law
enacting that no other fuel than GOALS
to be used Tor heating the engines EN-
ployed on railways,
An American teacher in Japan writes
to the Albany Evening Journal, under
date of December II: 81 have Just
had my first Sunday morning Bible
class, in this solitude of heathenism,
where perhaps a Bible class was never
before known"
A BELGIAN manufacturer has Just
had a bell cast of aluminium, and
with good results. 1t is, of course,
extremely light, so that, though large,
it can easily be toned; its tone is re.
ported to be loud and of excellent
pitch. aluminium is the most sono-
rous of all metals.
VIM. MCKAY. of Ottawa, Ont, has
obtained a patent for the manufacture
of stone from refuse, in moulds, by
chemical agency. He makes porphyry,
granite, lapis lazuli, sienna. white and
veined marble, and six different kinds
of sandstone.
BEvIN Brothers, bell manufacturers
of East Hampton, Conn, have already
made 900, 900 of the Chicago charm
bells, and are making 10, 900 weekly.
Some weeks they have made 20, 000.-
From one pound of metal, Y bells are
made.
On the principle of "set n thief to
catch a thief" Gen. Crook has enlisted
one hundred Indians of the Hualapois
tribe for a campaign against the
Apaches. The military thus afforded
will be found useful in case the Hual-
aposis should hereafter have any little
unpleasantness with the Government,
THE Agricultural Department has
imported from Gambia and distributed
some seeds Of the Ar6utuS uHde, or
strawberry tree, indigenous on the
mountains of that island. adapted to
the New England climate. The fruit
is said to be, with the exception OF
shape, precisely similar to the straw
berry.
francis j. PARKER, of Lewiston,
Me, a passenger on the steamer Ston-
ington from New York, on Monday
night, accidentally fell overheard while
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