Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-09-03
HAPs AND MISHAPS.

disaster turks IN Ill plhCcS, cNCu enO
most unsupported. One day lately a
Boston woman was drawing some baked
potatoes from her stove oven when one
of them exploded and destroyed her left
eye.
The main boom in the Mississippi
River. about three-fourths of mile
above the Falls of st. Anthony, recently
gave way and ,25O,0O0 feet Of logs were
carried over the falls and down the Mis-
sissippi.
AT Bahama, CAL recently, child
supposed to be dead was about to be
buried, when the mother threw herself
upon the coffin, declaring that she heard
the child speak. The coffin was opened
and the child found to be alive.
Mrs Martha Dryer, of Chicago, met
with frightful death the other day.
The woman was partially paralyzed, and
caught fire she was powerless to ex-
and so burned to death
"A Mr. Washburn, Of Tazeweil Coun-
ty, Ill, was struck by lightning recently,
and supposed to be killed. A doctor
was called, however who had an exca-
walton made in the door-yard, and Mr..
Washburn was placed therein, his face
toward the sun, and completely covered
with moist earth except the face. In
short time there were signs of resusci-
tation, and in three hours Mr. Washburn
was walking about as good as new.
Another American mining scandal
has got into the English courts. 1t is
alleged against the defendants that they
became the purchasers of certain Amer
lean mines, afterward called the Ruby
Mines, for Gao, 900, and that they then
conspired together to induce the public
to purchase them at the enormously ad.
vanccd price of e2S5,000 With that
view company was formed with a CAPT
tai of e325,000, in $4,000 shares of $40
each, and sold them all
Theodore Gcer, crazy man Of De-
wittsville, N. Y, nearly cut off his
thumb with chiscl last winter. 1t was
properly dressed and the wound healed
Lately Geer got the idea that the piece
of thumb should not have been put
on again. So he took an AK and chopped
ID oil. Then he looked at the stump for
moment in reflective criticism, decided
that it was still too long, and cut off an
other piece. He is now perfectly salts
fed with the job.
"A gentleman at Lake George, after
waving his handkerchief for half an hour
OF more at an unknown lady, whom he
discovered at distant point on the
shore, was encouraged by warm re-
Spouse to his signals to approach his
charmer Imagine his feelings when, on
drawing nearer, he saw that it was his
own dear wife whom he had
left at the hotel but short
time before Why, how remark
able we should have recognized each
other at such distance" exclaimed
both in the same breath; and then they
changed the subject.
Its bad thing to have a toothache,
and it's equally bad to have the pain
maker extracted. A French paper tells
of woman who, mad with the pain
from an aching molal, rushed to the den
list and begged him to remove the cause
of her misery Several attempts. were
made to extract the tooth but they were
uuavailing, and the woman nearly fran
tic, started on run for n pond, intend
ing to lose the pain and her life by
drowning. Meeting an archer, she con
tded her trouble to him, and he, being a
good fellow essayed to aid her Tying
one end OF II thong to the tooth and max
ing the other end fast TO an arrow, he
drew his bow TO its utmost and let it fly
But the tooth was true to its place, and
the woman--a little withered old body
followed the arrow and ended her flight
by being dropped into a ncighboring
canal from which she was tished by Il
boatman, Moral: Don't believe every,
thing you read
"A young lady of DUBUQUE, Iowa
took little child who is afflicted with
the whooping cough to the gas-house
that the little one might have the ben
eft of the escapin gas from the purifiers
The attendant physician placed the
young lady and the child at the lower
end of the purifier and when he removed
the top, and the gas arising from the
lime came in contact with the young
lady's face, her skin commenced turning
yellow and finally assumed dark hue
As the same elect has never been pro-
duced before the doctor thinks that the
young lady must be in the habit of
using some of the many chemical prep
Wations now in vogue for keeping the
complexion clear, and the action of the
gas upon those chemicals effected the
result here given. The lady made every
effort to remove the dark color With soap
and water but without avail. She had
to pass through the city looking like a
dark mulatto,