Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-05-30
General Items.

I The gold leaf used for decorating the
interior of an ordinary sleeping coach
costs 5000.
THE most charming seaside town.
England, although tabooed by the
:" upper ten, is Ramsgate,
DURING the winters of 1901, Kan.
sas packed 30,6l4 hogs. In 1S7l-72,
/ 3,004.
THE savings banks of the United
/ States contain deposits of 1000. 0OO.-
! 600, mainly the surplus earnings of
mechanics and laboring men.
! CALIFORNIA consumes raisins of for.
1 eign importation annually to the value
of 5000, 600, and imports sugar to the
amount of S1,0O0.000
FoI forty years r. w Emerson has
lectured each winter in Salem, Mass
THE present cost of living in Paris is
said to be nearly twice what it was pre-.
vious to the late war.
| BAD cooking on the part of a wife has
been held by Texas Judge to be suf-
tcient grounds for divorce.
The experimental tunnel to be con-
structed on the English side Of the Bri-
fish channel will of itself cost e2,000,-
600.
A BUFFALO lady was on Mount Vesu.
vius when it commenced its recent star
performance. She escaped with trif-
ing injuries
SIXTY thousand skunk skins were re.
Gently sold in Michigan at from g for
"prince black, down to 20 cents for
inferior qualities.
A CUTLERY manufacturing company
in Pennsylvania is said to have made
five year contract for six hundred Chin
csc operatives at 30 cents day.
AMERICANS in Berlin have formed the
Columbia base ball club, which uses as
a ball ground a field accorded them by
the Crown Prince of Prussia.
THE American artists in Paris are fly
ing southwark to Italy and to Spain.
Only Il few will remain in the city after
the close OF the s0tOR,
VISITORS to the British museum are
shown an an il, very like any other
anvil, which is declared to have once
belonged to one of the Pharaohs.
A KNIFE, razor, some buttons and
some bones, dug out Of the ground at
Cabbridgeport, Massachusetts, form
the basis of - mysterious case.
A NUMBER of young ladies of Yonk-
ers, \. Y, have decided to organize
club under the name of MermaidS, with
IA view Of engaging III aquatic sports
CoNSEcTIoUT has ninety-four fire in
surance companies and forty life lnsur-
ance companies, the former having
SIS, 600, 600 IN assets and the latter
$500, 600, GOO
THE Springfield Republican has re-
turns from 1872 towns in Massachusetts,,
of which 53 are in favor oflicenslng the
sale Of ale, beer, &c, and 100 in favor
of prohibition.
Miss RAMSAY, the daughter of Gen.
Ramsay, United States Army, took the
vows and received the veil of the sister
hood attached to st. Johns hospital,
Washington, short time since.
4 DETRorrER has invented a machine
which trims wall paper, holds 1t up
against the wall, puts on the paste and
cuts Oft and smooths down the strips
and does the work nicer and faster than
three men.
SAY Fp.>crsro ,ron,sas q tubular
tunnel across the bay. 1t is to be 20
feet in diameter, of boiler iron, to be
sunk from 2S to thirty feet below the
surface, and held in place by its own
buoyancy and by cables and mushroom
anchors.
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,,,[at;5.al, r,o i ;r,ortio,, bnt the
Tonian Cont JnnrnaI sovs that a coll
iactio9 of - weII-mada nins has been
fonnJ IN tbo g,l,torro6aon vaults Of