Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-08-29
General Items.

HE Amherst College crew claim ..
have made the fastest time on record
BEING tied to keeping a diary is col.
culated to render miserable the Ifeof
the most cheerful of mortals.
The Duke of Edinburgh is TRAVELLING
iacogyajto in Europe under the title Of
the Earl of Kent.
In leading bank in Stockholm al
the clerkships have for some years mast
been filled by women.
TENNESSEE has more counties than
any State in the Union, area and Don.
ulation considered.
THE great attraction in Turin inst
now is Prussian drummer who PLAYS
Oh sixteen drums at once. WHY was
he not at Bostonl
IT costs New York snobs five dollars
a week TO board their black and tan
dogs at the Saratoga hotels-second ia.
ble at that.
Mrs HARRIET BEECHER Stowe makes
her debut as a reader in Springfield
Mass, Sept. -. She will afterwards
read in fremont Temple, Boston.
/ A Boston house has the order for re-
furnishing Brigham Young's private
residence at Salt Lake. One item is
thirty lounges.
Mrs. BALLoU, of Saranac, Michigan,
weighs only CTS pounds, though she
| hopes by generous diet ana little
| bottled sea air, to put on the lacking
/ twenty-five.
COARSE gold, which returns nine
cents to the pan, has been found
while digging we'll in the town of
Redding on the line of the California
and Oregon Railroad.
THE Pennsylvania, the first of the
four steamships now building for the
American Steamship Company will be
launched on the 18th Of the present
month.
SIX young men of Robson county,
n. c., well armed and equipped, have
taken to the swamps, and are deter
mined to root out the Lowery gang of
utlaws.
A WEsTPoRT dog attacked a circus
elephant in the street the other dav.
An eyewitness says that the dog in
about oneminute was spread ont over
several yards of ground about the
thickness of sheet iron.
Mr.. JAMES ANTHONY FRoUDE, the
English historian, and Professor Gold
win Smith, are each to deliver course
of lectures at Cornell University dur.
ing the first term of the next college
year.
ALBERT BIERsTADr is now in San
Francisco, having Just returned from
the Yosemite valley, with his portfolio
filled with new and beautiful studies
of the stupendous scenery Of that re-
markable region.
Mrs GERTRUDE WMDER. widow of
Brigadier General Winder, who COM
manded the American forces at the bat.
tie Of Bladensburg, has been, awarded
| q pension. in accordance with the act
of Feb. II, 1871. She is now resi-
dent of New York, and 81 years OF age.
IT was very handsome in Gounod to
compose and sing in London, on the
18th ult., his new arrangement of Maid
of Athens" for the benefit of Mrs. Black
for whom Lord Byron wrote the orig
inal verses in the year 1910. SlXty-two
wears ago Mrs. Black was II the flush
of health aud on the topmost wave of
society. Now she is poor and looks
Onward the sale of the new melody as
source ofsupportin.h her declining years.
ROBERT GoRDoS MILNE, q graduate
Of Oxford University, England, class
of 1867, who served a sentence of TWEEN
ty-five days In the chain gang at Los
Angeles, Cal, recently, for a petty Of
Tense, publishes in a local paper fine,
scholarly production, repiete with clas-
steal quotations, taking grounds against
the system Of degrading criminals by
compelling them TO work on the pubic
streets with ball and chain.
THE curious phenomenon Of regela-
ton can be exhibited by placing block
of ice on a fine wire netting. The1ce
will be melted by the wire, and pass
ing down through it Will become frozen
in a mass again below the wire
simple wire can, in similar manner
be drawn slowly through a block OF Ice
which mites again behind the Wlre'
finally showing n signs OF having oeeh
cut at all.
PRINCE KAssA, of TiRra, king OF
kings OF Ethiopia by the will Of the
people OF Abyssinia," was crowned
Youarnisse, otherwise John, Emperor
of Ethiopia, in June The ceremony
passed Off very well and peaceaby.
There were upward Of 800 900 people
present. The camp reached tor about
eight miles, the plain Of AuXum was
covered, and the feast lasted tor ten
days. A shed was built reaching near
ly a mile, where all the people toasted
About 10000 cows were killed and 4o'-
600 gallons of honey wine drank
u. r, -. 81, 4; a Grand