Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-01-23
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.

AUcuoSEERs are always afflicted with
more bid craving.
THERE are 3,7S5 candy stores in
Paris.
FRANCE and Germany are not going
to beat each other any more, but both
are going into beet sugar tremendously.
ADVICE gratis for the close of the
year-If a mans business is entirely
"run down" the best thing he can do
is to wind it up.
IT is estimated that four hundred
yards of tulle went up the isle on the
six bridesmaids at fashionable we'd
ding in New York recently.
A MICHIGAN heifer lately bonneted
herself with swill barrel, and then
went to the nearest river and drowned
herself.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER says Don't
whip the children if they Singer and
laugh during prayers. dLn't think it
hurts prayer to laugh.
MRs. Brooks, the Florence Nightin-
gale of Massachusetts, was presented
with handsome testimonial on Christ
mas by the State Prison conviets.
BARON JAMES RoTHsCHILD has left
one million francs, the interest of which
is to be devoted to paying house rent
for INDECENT families in Paris.
Mrs VAN Corr the Methodist re-
vivalist, is preachingin Massachusetts.
Miss MARTHA SpINKs is the name OF
a wholesale pork dealer in Hamilton,
Ohio.
JOHN WISE, the balloon man, is con-
structing II large air vessel IN which he
proposes TO sail across the Atlantic.
BROOKLYN is to be presented with
bronze bust OF John Howard Payne, the
author of Home Sweet Home"
WooDHULL & CLAFLIN have not been
invited to attend the annual convention
of the National Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation, which meets in Washington
February 16.
EDWARD ULMAN, of st. Louis, has
sued Solomon Landeker for 100000
to cover the failure of Miss Landeker
to wed rs she had promised. He says
the father was the cause of it.
Two AMERICAN tourists are reported
to be under arrest in st. Petersburg for
defacing works of art in the Imperial
Museum.
THE Morning Post of London lately
celebrated its first centennial birthday
by deyoting half its space to reminis-
cences of men and things one hundred
years ago.
PROF. TYNDALL will not take any
American money home with HIM. He
intends to give up all he has made here
to scme scientific institution i'll this
country.
ALoNzo d. MORGAN. son of Edwin b.
Morgan, one OF the principal owners OF
the New York Times, died, last week,
at his fathers residence in Aurora. near
Auburn, n. \.
SACRAMENTO wants help to build q
cooperative distillery in which the
stock holders consume their own man
ufactures, and are buried by the town
when life's titful fever and ague is Ger.
THE uniform of the members of the
Bachelors German" at Washington,
is said to be black silk stockings,
pumps, and an opera hattie last to be
carried under the arm.
Miss TACKBURY, spirit medium of
Raleigh, n. c., permits her mouth to
be sealed before entering her cabinet,
after which hobgoblin voices and blue
lights do their weirdest.
Il WISH you would pay a little atten-
ton to what L am saying, sir, roared
an irate lawyer at an eXasperated wit
ness. "Well, l am paying as little as
| can" was the calm reply.
THERE were 6,267 marriage licences
issued in Chicago during the year 1879,
but it will be four months yet before
the authorities can get the list of di-
vorces granted figured up, and they
are working day and night at it, too.
A PRINCE, and son-in-law of Isa-
bella, ex-Queen Of Spain, was sum-
moned upon jury in Rome the other
day. He refused, saying he could not
be troubled about such trities. The
judge fined him 1000 lire.
ALGERSoN FITz JAMES swelled around
the city of Charleston for month or
so. borrowed money, danced with the
first society, and was then arrested by
the sheriff as "Dick Brown, charged
with stealing two hundred dollars
worth of old copper.
PROF. BAHR, the we'll editor
of Herodotus, has died in Heidelberg,
Germany. He was seized with apo
plexy while at banquet given to cele-
brate the centenary Of the birth of
Godfrey Hermann, and expired the
same night.
A COLORADO pig rooted into can of
nitro glycerine and devoured twenty
pounds of the frozen mixture His
owner, by filing his pen with feather
beds, and not permitting anything to
lar his nerves homes to keen the norker