Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-05-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

LACUSE udSlc dIlu Il Ddu pen, as llt
pig said when he broke out.
IT has been discovered that three-fourths
of the women of Boston wear false teeth
THE discovery of extensive borax de
posts in Kern County, California, is
announced.
a PHILADELPHIA manufacturer lately
turned out given amount of paper from
piece of wood which, on the morning of
the day the paper was made, was growing
timber
A LITTLE girl, who had great kindness
OF heart for all the animal creation, saw
hen preparing to gather her chickens un-
der her sheltering wings, and shouted
earnestly: "O don't sit down on those
beautiful little birds, you great ugly, old
rOosterr'
The Boston Post says: 1--WE scarcely
know what additional article the ladies
can suspend from their waist belts. Fans,
umbrellas, vinaigrettes, handkerchiefs, and
card-books now dangle at their side when
promenading." There is nothing addition
al more appropriate than wash-tub, a
cooking stove, and sewingmachine,
with written instructions as TO the best
method of using them.
A LUCKY HIT.-A young man recently
conceived the idea of dipping matches,
after they were tipped, in paraffine, so as
to protect them from moisture. For this
improvement he now receives from a
match manufacturing establishment an in
come of about ten dollars per dav. Matches
thus prepared are said to ignite readily
after having lain in basin of water an
entire night.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Germantown
Telegraph asserts, giving details, that a
smoke-house was built in Eastern Penn
sylvania in 1890; that during the past sea
son, in repairing the building, head of
wheat was found embedded in the cap of
the gable; that five of the grains thus
found were planted, and four of them
grew Sin bare ground" after having been
embedded in mortar eighty-two years,
AN exchange says: eve arise in the
morning and with the brush of nature
paint with roseate hues the path that lies
before US" That is what he says. What
he really does, after being kicked out of
bed, is to get his pants on wrong, seize a
brush Of bristles, and paint with raven
hues cook stove as large as livery sta
BILE. Poetry is one of those things it
doesn't do to look into
EXPERIMENTS at the New York State
Lunatic Asylum have resulted in proving
the great value of conium-the hemlock
of the ancients-in the treatment of insan-
ity. The concurrent testimony of the
cases in which it has been tried is, that it
sOOthes and mollifies the moter centers,
operating on the moter tract as opium
operates on the brain, thus quieting and
renovating the whole muscular system,
and acting indirectly as tonic and nervine
1t is now largely used in cases of epilepsy
by New York physicians.
A WONDER has been discovered in San
Francisco-a dressmaker who will keep
her word at any price. She had promised
a new dress to be worn at party in San
Jose on a certain evening. 1t was finished
on the day, but the person who was to
take it had gone, the train by which it
was to so had also departed when the de-
pot was reached, and no fast horse could
be had on account of the epizootic. Rs-
ing with the emergency, the energetic
dressmaker hired an engine and tender
and took the dress to San Jose in time for
the party.
THERE is now lying in the Story Coun-
ty Uowa) Jail, a man who was unable to
find woman for himself, and was obliged
to steal another mans wife. After being
discovered and locked up for the naughty
caper, the woman wrote him the following
letter: April 10, 1S73-Hew, I want to no
whether you can give me up or not, feel
as though | could give you up and go
home if you can give me up. | don't no
but it would be graded better for both
of us to give each other up. You can
write on the outer side whether you can
or not From Eliza to Hew.
THE CATS MEAT MAN-There is
dealer in Fulton Market, New York,
whose special business it is to furnish the
daily supply for the private cats of the
adjoining stores and warehouses. The
hearts and livers Of animals are purchased
from the butchers, chopped up, and re-
tailed at five cents package. The differ
ent kinds of meat are kept separate, for,
as the dealer expressed it, 'some cats is
particular, and won't eat but one kind OF
meat" Meat of less delicate kind is
also provided for dogs. The packages
weigh but a few ounces, and the dealer
has regular customers, who religiously
market for their dumb favorites. He is
doing thriving business.
ARTIFICIAL MILK.-A French chem
ist, NJ Dubrunfaut, devised, during the
siege of Paris, an artificial milk, made by
dissolving one ounce and half of sugar
in quart of water, adding an ounce of
dry albumen from white of eggs, and
fifteen to thirty grains of soda crystals,
and preparing, from this solution, an
emulsion with one and a half to two ounces
Of olive-ol. As the siege advanced, these
materials became too scarce, and gelatlne
was substituted for albumen, while slaugh-
terhouse fats, purified by melting at 1907,
took the place of the olive-Oil. A single
firm is said to have made daily, of this
article, one hundred and thirty-two thou
sand gallons for Paris consumption. If
one must use artificial milk, it is better to
let the chemist make it than the milkman.
Christian U,aton
THE Academy of Sciences at Paris have
awarded their prize of $4,000 to Mr..
Gramme for his electromagnetic machine,
which is one of the simplest and most
efficient that has yet been invented. The
is so free from complications
that the instrument will work and give
continuous current for months together,
and to those who know anything of the
subject these will appear as results OF the
highest importance. One Of the uses to
which this machine may be Immediately
applied is the production of light of in
tense brilliancy, which will be seen far
ther than any other electric light yet
known One of the French steamship
is about to use this light on
their vessels as precaution against COLI
sions or other casualties, and it is obvious
that it can be made of great general
utility.