Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-05-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


shots per minute. After it has banged
gins to feel sick.
A NEW kentucky town is named "Bos-
tona," which is feminine for the Hubs
name. Pretty soon New Yorka, Chicagoa
and st. Louisa!
THE Fairplay (Colorado) Sentinel boasts
that it is published at a greater altitude
than any other paper in the world-1o0 060
feet above the level of the sea.
A FOSSIL specimen of the extinct dodo,
a bird of immense size and peculiar form
alton, has been found in the gypsum
mines at Fort Dodge. 1t has been bought
by an Englishman as gift to the British
Museum.
THIRTY years ago a man living near
Lacrosse sold a pair of boots tor gun,
traded the gun for pony, sold the pony
for thirty-six acres of swamp land and
now owns sixty-six city lots, worth $500
each.
Mr. BERGH's latest proposition is that
dogs shall be caught with scoop-nets early
in the morning, and taken to house
where they are to be gently asphyXiated
by pure carbonic acid gas.
hotels should be supplied with small bal
looms which should be so secured to the
windows of the sleeping apartments as to
be easily entered therefrom. In case of
fire dodgers could enter these balloons, cut
the cord, and in a very few moments be
safe from danger of contlagration.
WHEN Miss Faithful delivered her lee
ture in Cincinnati a gentleman in the
audience was about to speak to fashion
able girl by his side in praise of the plain.
ness of the fair lecturesss dress, but the
words were taken out of his mouth in this
wise: "Oh yes, | am of course sorry she
is not dressed in more style, but then you
know she is really very good"
NEVER CONTENTED.-Give man the
necessaries of life, and he wants the con
yeniences; give him the cOnveniences,
and he Graves for the luXuries; give him
the luXuries, and he sighs for the elegan-
cies; let him have the elegancies, and he
ycarns for the follies; give him all together
and he complains that he has been cheat
ed both in the price and quantity of the
article.
THE Jackson (Tenn) Wing and Tribune
tells of woman who sent her husband to
buy jug of molasses. He got drunk
and fetched home the jug filled with
whisky. She took it up, smelt it, set it
back, and then, squaring herself arms
akimbo, and eyes flashing, she exclaimed,
"Whar's them molasses?" The old man
smiled and winked pleasantly, and, way
ing his left hand propitiatingly, exclaim-
ed, 'Them's theyn He is now conva-
lescent, but the Jug is hopelessly de
ranged.
AT recent meeting Of the Frankfort
Polytechnic Association, Professor Boett
ger exhibited a novel kind Of ink, which
is admirably adapted to take on Journeys
and exploring expeditions. White blot
ting-paper is saturated with analine black
and several sheets are pasted to form a
thin pad. When wanted for use, a small
piece is torn off and covered with little
water. The black liquid which dissolves
out is good writing-ink. A square inch
OF the paper will give enough ink to last
for considerable writing, and few pads
would be all that an exploring party need
carry with them As water is always
available, the ink is readily made.
ARTIFICIAL CLoUDs.-Provided the wind
does not blow, a cloud of smoke will often
protect crops from frost. Crops of apples
have, it is said, been saved by building
fires in the orchard when a cold night
comes during the budding season, the sal
vation being due to the Overhanging pail
of smoke, not to direct heat. In the South
frost has been kept from tobacco beds by
the same means In France, tar prepared
in peculiar manner, is placed in vessels
and burned in fields which it is desirable
to shelter. Thick clouds of smoke rise a
few yards into the air and spread out even
ly over quite large tract.
SADLY MIsUNDERsTooD.-An match
broken up. This was between clerk in
a well-known dry-g goods store and a young
lady on Essex street. 1t was so warm on
Friday evening that she had the parlor
window up, and he stood on the lawn, and
they were cooling to each other, and he
was just reaching up for another kiss when
the sash came down like flash, and
knocked off the peak of his nose and scalp
ed his chin, and he hoped around so
madly and howled so dreadfully that the
old gentleman thought he was drunk, and
had him kicked out of the yard with a
great deal of ostentation Monday morn
ing he went West.-Danb,ry Ne,os
DR. HAYES, the Arctic explorer, said in
a lecture in New York, the other evening,
that he once saw an iceberg-escaped
from the great glaciers of Greenland-that
rose 81 feet above the surface Of the sea-
and that he computed its weight at not less
than twenty-seven billions of tons. We
should like to lay in stock Of provisions
consisting of such family groceries as
crushed sugar, sherry, lemons, old Robert
son, mint, corn corgil,n nutmegs, old
Bourbon, cigars, Scotch ale, pipes and to-
bacco, old rye, a box of matches, a half
pint flask OF pure whisky for medical
purposes, with few other necessaries OF
life, and go and spend the summer with a
small lot of temperance friends on Just
such an island as that.-L0ut.gtNe Courie1>
Journai.
PROFESSOR DONALDSON, an adventurous
American aerOnaut intends to attempt
to cross the Atlantic this summer
in large balloon. The balloon which
he has made for the purpose will weigh
about two thousand pounds, will contain
two hundred and sixty-eight thousand feet
of gas, with two small reservoirs to pro
vide against leakage and an electrical ar
rangement for light. The Professor ex
poets to accomplish the trip in from sew
enteen hours to two DAYS and half and
if the experiment proves successful, in
tends to establish a balloon mail and
passenger line round the world Yes, and
If Neptune comes near enough in the ap
preaching perihelion of the planets, We
shall get on that ball and see how it feels
two hundred and seventy million miles
from the sun.-4pplet0ns Journal.
ONE YET LEFT. - One of thu