Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-05
General Items.

CAROLINE RlCHINGs, is is said. will
take the field with English opera this
winter.
The Windsor Castle. 1850 tons reg
lister, recently passed through the Suez
Canal III nineteen hours.
A PUMPKIN followed out was used as
Il ballot box ut recent Kansas cleo
ton.
The San Francisco Bulletin calls
Chinese servants !" a browning domes-
tic disappointment.
"TEMpUs FuGIT in England this
year Her clock export amounts to
about $500, 600 more than last season.
THE lions and tigers in the New Y ork
Central Park collection have had tho
horse disease, though the zebras and
Shetland ponies escaped.
A WOMAN in Rutherfordton, N. c.,
has been fined by the Mayor of that
city, for the dreadful offence of calling
the marshal "Old pewter buttons
WHAT is the difference between
crushed hat and the intoxicated son of
wealthy parents. One is cylinder
and the other is an heir tight.
AT a recent wedding in Muskegon,
Mich, the bride was adorned with dia-
monds to the amount of $4,000. The
groom sported two solitaires on his
shirt front valued at IS, 600 each.
The Alaska Seal Company has paid
into the United States Treasury S52, 2Sl
as their tax on the catch of 1872. They
are limited to l00,00 seals and the
catch this year was within 4, 900 of tie
maximum.
In digging we'll in Pike county, on
Saturday last, some parties exhumed "A
large pair of elk horns Mt the depth of
30 feet from the surface, which were
apparently in a good state of prcser"a-
ton.
Az TWO women in Philadelphia were
returning from the spectacle of General
Meade's obsequies, they were attacked
by ruffian; whereupon one of them
knocked him down with an umbrella.
The Lake Superior Powder Company,
located at Marquette, Michigan, have
made nearly 5000 kegs of powder dur
ing the last five months. They are
about to close their mill for the winter.
IRON ore in considerable quantities
has been discovered in Tuscola county,
Michigan. This county is situated on
the Lower Peninsula, the northern
boundary of the county lying on Sagi-
nav Bay.
The Chicago Times puts the solemn
conundrum Glow can we escape
fire 2" The Gospel offers you every
encouragement, butperhaps your best
hold " is to get out of Chicago. -NeW
York Commercial Adoertjser.
THE old Livinston House in Pough-
keepsie, n. Y, Is being demolished,
preparatory to the erection of the
buildings of the Hudson River Iron
Company of that city. The house is
one OF the Oldest in the state having
been erected IN the eighteenth century.
"THE Star of South Africa" the frs
and only fine stone of any size which
has been sent home from the South
African mines, has been set as the CEN
trail stone in n coronet for the Countess
Of. Dudley Its present weight is fortv-
six and a half carats, and it is of the
purest water and brilliancy.
An 1rishman passing through a vii
lage near Chester, Pa, saw crowd APP
proaching, which made him inquire
what was the matter. He was answer
ed: "a man is going to be buried
"Oh, replied he, I'm stop to see
that for we carry them iii the old coun-
try"
YOUTHFUL novice in sm0a 9rned
deadly pale and threw his WAY.
ooh, dear" he said here's
somin' in that cigar thatsM@AIn' me
sick"
Il know what it isl said his COM
panion, pulling away.
"What Z"
"Tobacker.
BALTIMORE is in trouble about her
scanty supply of water, and the author
tiles now have under consideration Il
plan by which permanent water sup
ply can be secured Mt n cost OF 50, 5OO,-
600, and two plans for TEMPORARY sup
plies until the completion of the per.
manent work, at the respective costs OF
800, 900 and $3S0,00O.
THE East Greenwich Or. - Semi
nary, once a prosperous institution I'M
der the patronage of the Providence
Conference of .he Methodist Episcopal
Church, is said to be in deep water.
Not only has the typhoid fever scatter
ed its inmates but, according to a New
port paper, it lies under so heavy load
of debt that its reopening is very doubt
full.
A MULLATo girl in attempting to cross
the track of the Louisville and Nash
vile Railroad, recently, was struck by
the cnw-catcher and thrown hack nnOn