Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-12-16

| The length OF the deep-Sea cable lalu
in the world is 10000 miles.
The Sutro (Nevada) tunnel has pene-
trated a distance of II ,435 feet.
Us it proper to speak of the Missouri
young ladies as Mo. lasses s-Cinotaaatt
Times.
| Some recent experiments made by
scientists demonstrate the presence of
traces Of copper in the human body.
| Fashion resume IN the New York
Mail: Street dresses are growing longer,
and our sidewalks will be cleaner
Among other specimens from her
mines, Montana will send to the Centen-
NAL exhibition fine collection of tin ores.
Sheriff Reed, of Crawford County,
Pa, who was arrested recently, had
about 1000 writs in his possession
which he had failed to return according
| to law.
Nets for the hair are gradually COM
ing into fashion again. They are made
of loosely-woven soft braids, and protect
smooth knots Of hair from the rough winds.
| -B0zar
The newest and most dressy suits of
| black cashmere are trimmed with many
| rows of steel or silver soutache, or else
| with one row of wide black braid plaided
with silver Of gilt.
A japanese editor has avowed his
| intention of becoming citizen Of the
| United States, so that he may hereafter
| have the privilege of speaking his mind
| with entire freedom.
Reports of accidents to boys while
| coasting have begun to arrive. On the 2Sth
ult., at Portland, Me, a lad named Fuller,
ten years of age, was fatally injured by
| running against lamp-post.
The Russian Ministry Of Justice has
given instruction to its sub-departments
| that henceforth corporal punishment
shall be discontinued in its application to
| females sentenced to deportation.
There are said to be more maidcns
| willin' now than at any previous time in
the history of our country. In fact, the
hard times have depressed the matrimo-
nial market, like everything else
Mr.. Bessemer, the English steel man
ufacturer, is said to have been quite pros
trated in health and spirits by the failure
Of his invention, the swinging saloon for
vessels, intended to prevent sea-sickness.
A careful review Of the hunting sea-
son thus far in the West this year shows
| that there have been shot three deer, four
bears, six foxes, nine wolves, one panther,
two women thirteen men and twenty
three oys.-Chicago Journal.
"A fatal accident occurred at Fausold's
coal mine, near Cincinnati, Pawnee Coun-
| ty, Neb., few days ago. A young man
named IIikis was in the mine digging
| coal when some two tons of slate fell on
him, which must have killed him in
stantly. They were half day getting
| him out.
Mount Holyoke Seminary is princi-
| pally devoted to the furnishing Of wives for
| foreign missionaries. 1t has already fur
| nished ! Is of these wives, and the cry is
still they come. Foreign missionaries
will please step forward. Who comes
next under the Holyoke Boston Watch
man ami Reflector.
The Toronto (Ont.) Globe has been
wrestling with libel suit recently, in
which Hon. William Nc Dougal clamorcd
for damages-damages sufficient to cover
the deep injuries done his character by
certain assertions of the paper in question.
| The jury has heard his say, and in tender
! pity has awarded him-one shilling!
WHAT would you do" inquired a
Police Commissioner Of an applicant for
| position on the force what would you
do if n burglar should turn on you and
point pistol at your head?" do? why
I'd beg him MOTTO shoot, and then hurry
to the station-house for reinforcements."
He was rejected.-N. Y. Commerc,dI.
II. ID. Perkins narrowly escaped death
| in the tube trunk, six feet in diameter, at
Mr.. Cones new works at Housatonic,
Mass. He was seventy feet from the en-
trance when boy told him that the gates
| at the head of the tlume were raised, and
! race for life brought Mr. Perkins out
just as the water caught .-SprinDfeld
| (.Nass.) Republican.
After January Egypt isto be governed
by an entirely new system OF laws. Here
| totore justice has been administered there
according to the obscure laws of the
| Koran. BY decree of the khedive there
is to be substituted on that date what is
TO be called the Egyptian CODE" found.
| ed upon the French laws, or, perhaps,
more strictly speaking, upon the civil law.
"A Detroiter who didn't exactly know
how 10 get letter registered sent some
money away the other day, and he wrote
| on the envelope " Registered with two
dollar bill inside" Fearing that this might
not be strong enough, one Of his friends
wrote: I'm swear that l saw jim put
two dollars in this" The man who fools
with that letter will get into trouble
Detroit Free Press.
Quite recently short sighted husband
saw large bouquet Of flowers on chair,
and wishing to preserve them from fading
placed them in basin of water When
his wife saw the " bouquet" half an hour
atterward she gave one piercing scream
and tainted on the spot Her defective
visioned husband had mistaken her new
bonnet, with its abundance of flowers, for