Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-03-28

$4,000 Italians living in the city of New
| York.
CARrENTER's Emancipation pic
ture IS rolled up in his country studio
IL Coutlandt county, N. Y.
TIE word whisky" is said to be
derived from two Celtic words, ujsgue
bcothe, which being interpreted mean
water of life"
THE subscriptions to the Greeley
monument have stopped at SO, 900 and
$50, 900 are wanted. Must we fall back
on the prize strawberry plant as an in
ducement to subscriber
CARDINAL WoLsEy, born some four
hundred years since, in Ipswich, Eng
land, IL about TO receive tho tribute of
a statue from his living fellow towns
men.
GENTLE reader, if you are ut all wor-
ried lest the body of your victim should
be found, Just induce the corpse TO
take a tablespoonful OF hydrated SEES
quioxido of iron every half hour.
4 MERCHANT of Louisville, who has
Just paid tho Courier-Journal So, 900
for advertising within the past -four
years, SAYS be is going to spend S2f, 900
in the same direction within tho coming
four years.
MARYLAND has II now wild -fowl law,
which prohibits night shooting alto
gether, and limits day shooting to
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays OF
each week. No one can shoot or trap
ducks without first procuringa license.
As 1T takes G5, 900 cochineal insects
to make a pound, and as 1879, $40
pounds were brought into tins country
last year, 100, 239, 730, 900 must have
| given up their lives to color thedresses
and cheeks of American ladies.
IT is limited pretty broadly that the
four dead bodies seized III an express
wagon by the Chicago police, one day
last week, found their way to the medi-
cal college after all, while tho men 40
cused of robbing the graves were re
leased on bail.
A BANKER in Paris lately became in
sane, and imagined himself to be IA
magnet. While in conversation in n
room where there was a large safe, he
suddenly shouted, 81 am attracted"
and, rushing to the safe, dashed out
his brains, and ceased to be a magnet
to any but the undertaken.
"NoRwIcH, CT, is somewhat rocky
| saws the Boston Bulletin. "The cook
Of an eminent citizen having injured
herself by repeated falls over a ledge
| which projected through the kitchen
| floor, he is now engaged in blasting 1t,
after which he will turn his attention
! to a little boulder near the centre table
in the parlor.
THE Hudson Bay Company are build
ing four steamboats, this winter-one mt
| Breckenridge and the other three at
Fort Garry. Two Of these boats are
intended to run on Red river, one-a
small one-as far as to Breckenridge
during the spring months, OF the
Saskatchewan river, and the other on
Lake Winnipeg.
THE people of New Hampshire have
accumulated nearly $50, 900, 900 in their
savings banks since the Inauguration
of President Lincoln. During the thin
teen years previous, II period OF pro-
found peace and low taxation, the In
dustrinl and laboring classes deposited
in the savings banks less than "a, 0OO,-
900.
SOME New York sportsmen are train
ing two women near Pittsburgh for n
prize fight for 900 a side. The ladies'
are, it is n pleasure to state, of foreign
| birth. One weighs 200 and the other
1875 pounds, but when in trim, they Will
turn tho scale at III and l56 pounds
respectively.
The Wilmington On. O. Star has the
particulars of II curious marriage near
Laurel Hill. A certain individual got
tired of his wife, after living with her
about fifteen years, and hired another
man to take her over to South Carolina
and marry her, giving him "A mule and
ifty-ive dollars to take her oil his
hands.
IN a breach e promise case, tried in
California recently, the plaintiff was a
woman who had been divorced from
her husband because Of his neglect
and cruelty, and the defendant n man
whose wife had obtained "A divorce on
the very grounds of the plaintiffs di-
vorce. This inconsistent woman mag
aged 10 get an award of $500.
SEVERAL years ago the Hon. Charles
Fairfax introduced several live grouse
from the prairies Of n of the Western
States into California, and set them
free in Marin County. The pot-hunters
came along, however, and killed them
of. The California Acclimating Socle-
ty has just received twenty dozens of
live Eastern quail, to be let loose in
such place or places as may be deemed
NEST favorable for their growth and
multiplication.
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