Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-03-14
General Items.

THE Treasury has made 81, 075 900 in
three years from the issue of its three
cent and five cent nlckles.
FIVE thousand young almond trees
have been shipped from Alameda to
San Diego County, Cal.
An Olympia Washington Ter) lady
is having "A robe made from the skins
of birds, which Will cost $1,000.
A SPRING impregnated with asphalt
tum has been discovered at Los Ange-
les, Cal.
A KANSAS bee tree yielded 300 pounds
of honey. Kansas is evidently land
FLOWING with milk and honey.
JOHN H. CURTIS, of Helena, Montana,
has been left fortune Of t20O, 900 bya
granduncle of his, n. G. Alter, of Green
wich, England, who died recently.
THE California Legislature has APP
propriated 81 900 for the erection of a
monument over the grave Of ex Cover
nor Bigler.
JT takes only 81, 900 worth Of lace to
trim velvet cloak properly, and yet
men grumble at female extravaganza in
dress.
I ONE of the actresses in New York
was presented last week with neck
lace and bracelets of diamonds valued
at So, 900.
THERE is mocking-bird at Steu-
benville that initiates 80 birds and an
/ imals to perfection, and whistles
Captain links like y man"
AFTER working all night at an Indiana
county treasurer's safe, gang Of
burglars were rejoiced to find Sl.l0 in
/ its rOomy recesses.
AMAN-EArER SHARK was lately har-
pooned near Wilmington, Cal. He
! fought viciously when captured, snap
ping IA double row of teeth at lance and
harpoon.
THE Englishman who called tn
Hoosac tunnel ''blasted hole " was
/ literally correct.
TIE workmen employed in the exca-
walton on the Detroit river tunnel throw
off their coats and vests and enjoy a
June atmosphere.
Mrs. BRETrELL, who recently died in
! England, in her ninetieth year, was for
seventy years a faithful servant in the
households of George III George ~,
William ~, and Queen Victoria
The officers and crew of the American
ship Andy were poisoned, recently,
while lying IN the harbor of Hong
Kong, and the principal officer died
from the effects of the poison. No cine
could be found to the murderer,
The Nashville Banner say 1t is
mentioned as a significant la that the
young lady most admired by the Grand
Duke at the recent ball in Memphis
wore a ten dollar dress.
A KENTUCKY lady, Miss Mary Bran
min, has bought one of the finest plan
tations in Louisiana, on the New Or
leans and Opelousas Railroad, near
Vermillionville.
THE gift of Alexis TO Lolita, at New
Orleans, was a bracelet set in with
turquoise and two large pearls, here
and there inlaid with small diamonds,
the edges exquisitely enamelled IN
black.
The new Haytien presidential man
sion at Port au Prince, built to replace
the one shelled ana burned by Saget,
has been burned. As fire was discov-
cred in it in several places at once, ln-
cendiarism is undoubted.
A WESTERN girl, who has been we'll
brought up, knocks down every man
that kisses her, and she is so pretty
that half the the married and all the
single men in the town have black
eyes.
BECAUSE the editor of a Missouri
paper declared that a ieering skeleton
of regret mocks him from melancholy
memOry's topmost peak, he has received
good notices in nine-tenths Of the papers
of the country.
A RECIPE for making the genuine Fa-
rina cologne EMPLOYS so minims each
of the essential odors OF cedrat and
orange peel 40 of neroll 30 of berg
amont and sosemary flowers, and one
pint of deoderized alcohol. Mix and
allow to stand a week.
A TOMBSTONE has been found on Duck
river, in Hickman county, Tenn, which
bears the date of December, 1910, to-
gether with the initials y. D., and an
inscription in Latin, which is nearly
etiaced. 1t is thought to have marked
the grave OF Spaniard.
THE Mormon sisters ia Ephraim, Utah,
put aside all eggs laid by their chickens
on Sundays, toward the subscription to
assist the poor to emigrate from the ma
tons the coming year. The brothers
gave $2,0o0in cash ana ten head of
cattle
\ JEALOUS cotemporarv says that the
city editor Of the Jacksonville IlL)
Journal has frozen his ears foot deep,
but that, rs they have only been ampu~
tated at the second joint, he has an
abunlance left for the requirements OF