Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-02-08
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ester, n. Y, was recently sold at auc
tion for 900, 800.
SEVEN hundred and ninety men are
at present employed at the Mare Is
land navy-yard, whose payroll amounts
/ 70 $50, 600.
EMERSON SAYS: "In The great house
/ hold OF Nature the farmer stands at the
/ door Of the byead-goom and weighs to
each his loaf.
LONDON, with a population Of 9,000,-
600, has only nine daily newspaper
/ FIVE morning and four evening-while
/ Paris has twenty, and New YORK twenty
/ four
1 DURING the recent " cold snap in
Paris there were 800 serious falls on the
ice, 70 arms and legs were broken.
and two men died from accidentsin the
streets.
EVANSVILLE, Pa, is the site selected
by the Isabella Furnace Company for
the erection OF mammoth coke works,
to supply Its furnaces at Sharpsburg.
INDEPENDENCE HALL, in Philadelphia.
was visited by 450,00 persons last
year. Over 200, 600 tickets to the
sIeepLe were issued.
CHICAGO is contracting for brick at
from eight and half to ten dollars o
thousand. Mccormick takes 5000, 900
at the lowest price
THE Pigs Ear Oil Company is the
romantic style adopted by company
in Western Virginia. It depends on
the capacity of the well whether they
Will make silk purse out of It or not.
THE world uses go, 900, 000pounds Of
tea each year, and 7lS0Q0, 600 pounds
of coffee. China furnishes nearly al
the tea, and Brazil over one-half Of the
coffee.
EMIL RITTERHAUs, the most eminent
Of the younger poets OF Germany, has
q poem on Lake Erie, in which he talks
about the palm trees and algators of
that region.
IT IS expected the new Maine Classi
cal School viii open this spring. A
permanent fund of $50, 000 has been
nearly raised. 1t is proposed to admit
both sexes.
TIE British mercantile marine con-
sists of $1,000 vessels representing
6, 000. 900 tons. OF these. 1000, 600
tons are steamers; and, altogether, the
English have more ships than all other
nations combined.
The value of property at Monaco,
the only famous place in Europe where
gaming is still allowed, has doubled
since the edicts, suppressing Baden
Baden and the others.
NEwBURYPoRT boasts of canary bird
that SING for five years, was silent six
years, and now, at the age of thirteen,
has begun to sing with all the fervor
and brilliancy of youth.
Two Cherokees committed suicide at
Fort Gibson, which is noticed as re-
markable fact This tribe has been
more noted than the natives Of the
Emerald Isle for the rarity Of sui
cides
A New HAVEN woman gave such an
unearthly shrek when she saw burg
lar making off with her household treas.
ures, that the fellow dropped every
thing and made himself scarce in the
quickest time possible
A MAN died the other day from hab-
itual drunkenness. A post 9lOrtcm
examination of his internal organs
showed that his blood was largely mixed
with alcohol The coroner testified
that the heart smelled as though it had
been stepped in alcohol.
IL Washington county, Me, two
men, while at work on Columbia River
recently. aroused three baars, which
they ran into their den. One of the
men, named Foster, entered the cave
with a musket and shot the whole
three.
AT party at Harrisonburg, Va,
few nights ago, 4 gentleman thought
lesslv attempted to burn q curl of
young lady's hair. Unfortunately the
curl was false, and in an instant the
flames had enveloped the lady's head
burning her severely.
4 POOR man. for many years driver of
the Halifax, y. s, city prison wagon,
the other day, received authentic in
formation that his father and brother
have recently died, leaving him goo,
600 invested in bank i'll Dublin, and
Ct. 600 available cash in the hands Of a
brother, and three steamships.
THE new paper money which has ap-
peared in Paris is printed.in blue ink
on fine tissue parchment paper, and is
issued by the Sociate Generate for
small payments of one, two and five
francs. II is well received by the pub
lie, as small change has been extremely
scarce since the war.
4 MAN who can retire from the world
to seek entertainment in his own closet,
has a thousand advantages which other
people have no idea Of. He is master
If Ne nuo oon,parv ord his cyn y,leas-