Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-01-30
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.

hon. L. y. HENDRICKS mas pl1cnaS-
ed SIC, 600 house in Indianapolis.
THERE are no days of grace on notes
in California.
AN eight-year old Savannah girl COM
mitted suicide.
The Mobile Tribune brought, at
forced sale, $1,000.
A THOUSAND Yankee girls are in Eu-
ropean schools.
SAN Francisco will close her whisky
shops on Sunday.
CHoIRs are not fashionable in New
York churches.
Coal is forty cents bushel in some
portions of Tennessee.
Two Georgia girls raised $1,000
worth of cotton last year
The United States raised $50, 4SO, O0o
pounds of tobacco last year.
CALIFORNIA is worth more as a wheat
growing state than as gold state.
FEMALE teachers receive as large sal
aries as male teachers in California.
The Pacific coast is expected to raise
more than 100, 900, 900 bushels of sur
plus wheat next year
ONE of the Italian lazzaroni recently
arrived in New York has purchased
valuable farm In Minnesota.
The buffalo bones which have been
found on the plains will be turned into
combs and knife handles.
A WIRE drop curtain has been sug-
gested for theatres. The flames orig
mating on the stage can thus be held
in check until the audience is dismiss
ed.
AN autograph letter from Washing
ton to his step-son's preceptor sold in
London for 1925.
LAKE CHAMPLAIN closed It's gates
against navigation earlier this season
than during So preceding years.
LA,IPRAs county, Texas, has resisted
cold snaps, but the grasshoppers have
been consuming its wheat for holiday
sport.
NAPoLEoN-E UGENE-Lo -JEAN-J osEPH
BoNApARrE, now nearly 81 years of age.
is now heir to TIE phantom Bonaparte
throne.
THE curiosity of Maine lady was so
great that she called on a woman who
was down with the smallpox, lust to
see how it looked"
The following neat toast was prcpos-
ed at a recent dinner in New York:
1.-The ladies--their eyes kindle the
only flame against which there is no in
surance."
A GEORGIA negro was overpaid 800
all NV, |, L
the money. The local paper says this
is another evidence that the race can
never be civilized.
THE Methodist confessss to being
little astonished to see show patron
izing the new school of sceptical science
is to the Almighty"
IT is said that the murderers Of Mrs.
Alger, who was killed near Calamus,
Clinton county, few months since,
have been arrested in San Francisco,
Cal. They are two young men from
De Witt, named Beach and Evans.
ZINC is used very extensively as a
roof covering in France, Belgium, and
Germany. The area of roofs annually
covered with this material is from 40
900, 900 to $1,000, 900 square feet.
A NAUGHTY boy placed a roman can
die among the tapers in the Christmas
decorations of a Paris, KY, church
When the candles were lighted there
was stir in the congregation.
FoR forty years the desire to hang
himself from the cross at the top Of
the spire grew upon the bell-ringer of
Brixlegg Church, in the Tyrol, and a
short time ago it became irresistible,
and he swung off.
A NEW YORK nabob sent his affianced
a grand piano, an India shawl, two
complete sets of diamonds, six dozen
pairs OF Partisan gloves, q roll of vel
vet, and a box for the Charity Ball, on
Christmas
a RURAL gentleman standing over
register III Cincinnati store attracted
general attention to himself by ob.
serving TO his wife, "Mariar, | guess
m agoin to have a fever, feel such
hot streaks arunnin' up my legs"
AN old German, while on his way
from indianapolis to Lafayette, froze
his nose. While thawing the frost oat
Of that very necessary member he re-
marked By tam | no understand
dis ting | haf carry dat nose forty
years and he never freezed his8elf be-
fore -
THIS is how a New London iaebiate.
astriae hydrant Saturday night, ex-
planned his condition Them pies
lmcJ them Id pies. What pies =
was asked. "Mince pies (hlcl he re-
torrod. Cider put ia EN- (hic) with,