Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-10-31
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CALIFORNIA apple trees are bloomir,
the second time this year.
MITCHELL, the new Oregon Senator !,
ouly thrty-six years old.
AN iron girder bridge, 800 feet lon,
has been built over the Nile at CAIRO.
WIssANBouRG " is the title of,he frst
of four war novels by Edmond About.
TAXING the political census OR railroad
trains is getting to be something of Il bore
81 SUPPOSE that's sheer nonsense saw,
Scroggs to us. "What ?" said We. aCn,.
ting jokes from your neighbors' papersa
THE twelve great nations of the world
own two hundred and eighty-fve iron.
ciads.
CLEVELAND, with population of ltts
more than 100000, has nihety.6ye
churches.
The coming winter will be severe one
"a fact Indicated by the unusual thick.
nets OF the bed-bug's cocoon.
THERE is heavy beech mast in Ken.
lucky, and the corn usually fed to hogs
will be made into whiskey.
THERE are now ninety ca let midshin.
men at the Naval Academy from the June
and September examinations, including
one Japanese and one colored boy
JT is said that solution of gum canbs
kept from becoming mou dy by adding
few drops of SUI phuric acid A little alum
also has decided effect.
OLIVE LOGAN has new translation
George Sands poetic romance, "Tiver.
mo- which she entities "A Magnificent
Vag4bond."
Two hundred men are employed in the
work of restoring the great hall Of War.
wick Castle, England, recently destroyed
by fire.
A MIXTURE of equal parts of eryolite and
Of chloride OF barium, it's stated, iormsa
1ux superior to borax for solderi e iron OR
brazing copper, or brass or bronze.
A PAIR of old breaches with $500 in the
pockets, went through II destructive ma
chine in an Iowa paper-mill the other day,
before the operatives discovered the
funds.
THE squirrels are abandoning Arkansas
md swimming the Mississippi into Tennes-
see in droves. They become so exhausted
on the voyage tina, they are readily cap
tured on landing.
The largest ri6ed gun ever fred is now
mounted at Nut Island in Boston harbor
where its inventor, Mr.. Norman Ward
is prep airing to amuse himself witha few
experiments on gigantic scale, before
Christmas.
Mr. JAMES BISHOP, of Fair II lven, CT
caught eighty-6ve striped bass, The largest
one weighing twenty-tour and onc-halt
rounds, at one haul OF his SEINE, in the
harbor on Monday e}ening
A FATHER living in TirusvIlle, who ha
two or three very courtAhle girls, placed
notice on the front door the other LighGt
which read, "Shut down for thirty days
No stove in the parlor, and bat one Lamp
Mr.. J. B. BARNETT, Hebrew scholar,
contends that the Prophet jeremiah, with
the remnent of the tribe Of Judah, migrat.
ed to Ireland, and was no otl er than the
celebrated Irish retormer and law-glyer
Olam Fola.
"WHERE was the fire ?" said lady to
her male companion, who had rushed out
of the ritusville Opera House the other
night, the moment the curtain Tell on the
first act of " Victims 81, was false
alarm said he chewing coffee and cloves,
| vigorously.
| A YOUNG man lately attempted 10 shoot
/ some tender verses into his s"eethearts
window, but her papa intercepted the cor
respondence, catching one OF the letters In
! his ear, and the young man has not peen
5 en- in the neighborhood since.
A NEW line of steamships, 1.-THE 10
mipon,p is to run from Portland tMe.) !"
Liverpool this Winter. They include the
Memphis and Mississippi, and other nrs'.
class steamers. This will make TWO lines
| { ON Portland.
An Arabian stallion was recently I'M
ported direct from Egypt, by Diniel Jenl'
fer, Of Maryland. He is Is hards algh,
with full, mstrous, intelligent eye, Il coat
! like white satin, name long thin, ana silHy'
hoofs small and well-shaped, and legs as
I clean and nervous as those OF stiS !"
:, word, he fills the ideal of Il steed OF 'l0
! desert
A LAME girl, who had not, tor fourteen
wears. once left the third-story back room
in which she lived, was ameng those Nl.V
participated in the late ehildrens e ,4 II
seions in Philadelphia. When c-rrleu y
the Park she asked what the grass a'lu
trees were, and mad 10 be told the names s
Of the most common ofje3ts. she lay "a
the grass all day, drir KING in The ar 'a-v
sunshine,and was seen to weep softly every
little while from pure 10Y.
THE death of tie Pope's elder oro 1ll
err, Giuseppe Mastai, has re rem nnn'
Europe that the Pope hlmsel en-