Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-10-30
GLEANINGS.


winter.
TWELVE hundred railroad employees
resicle in Hornellsville.
A TEXAS man is making his way to
Fort West with 100 prairie dogs for sale.
A PIrTsBURG physician has a bed of
mushrooms growing in his cellar from
which he keeps his table almost constant.
ly supplied.
HE family of Prof. Wise have given
up all hope. Some day a mass of rotten
ropes and couple of widowed skeletons
will be found to explain the mystery.
THE Houston, Texas, TELEGRAPH saws
that within eighteen months over a
dozen men have be hanged in Texas.
and that every man died with cigar in
his mouth.
WHEN put into the crematory, .he
body of DR.. LIE Moyne weighed about
200 pounds. When removed it was in
the form of snow white ashes, the mass
weighing pounds.
PRAIRIE fires near Bismarck. ID. T..
recently drove the prairie chickens into
town in 80 great numbers that the houses
were covered with them and boys killed
them with stones.
A MAN jumped into well at Carol.
ton, ILL.,, for the purpose of suicide.
Finding himself alive when he reached
the bottom, he hanged himself with the
well'rope, and 80 accomplished death.
FIFTEEN miles of the Utah and
Northern railway will have to be built
through lava beds, and it will be neces.
sary to blast the rocks nearly all the dis.
lance.
A CANYON CITY (Ore.) farmer began
without cent, five years ago; at the
age OF 30 took up farm, and has now
fields, house, barn, orchard, health and
credit.
OWING to the failure of its gas wells
the Butler county, Pa, gas company are
selling OFT large amount of their pine,
and have notified their patrons that gas
cannot be furnished for stores.
THAT mountain in the Blue Ridge
range, in North Carolina, known IS
Chunky Gal, is still disturbed in re.
markable manner, immense assures ap-
pearing in the earth, to the gres. terror
of the inhabitants.
THE German admiralty has ordered
that in future bottle of German wine,
instead Of French champagne, shall b
used in christening war vessels. A bot
tie of Bremen beer would answer the
same purpose and be much cheaper.
THE new queen of Spain is to be mar
ried in silver cloth, embroidered in gar
lands, with sparkling white jet. One of
her costumes is of blue embossed velvet
and opal. colored satin trimmed with
fringes of small pearls intermingled
with silver lace. Her cambria handker-
and Austria in gold thread.
A FRENCH Canadian couple have ar
rived at New Brunswick, n. j., in
queer looking, fat bottomed sailing
craft, in which they have lived for four
weeks during their journey to that city
from Canada. The boat was built with
an axe, a jackknife and a saw. The
couple were too poor to pay railroad
fares, and hence the boat WAS built.
ONE of the returned warriors from
Zululand tells good story. He was at
Rorke's Drift, and witness to one OF the
incidents: A clergyman in clerical al
tire was hard at work handing out car
tridges to the men, and he did 1t with
will. A private near was taking shotsst
the Zulus and cursing the while IN the
most Ingenious manner. "Don't swear,
man. shouted the clergyman; 81 DON'T
swear at them; shoot them!"
ON sentence day at Paterson, n. J,,a
young man appeared who had been IN,
1icted five years ago for breaking anu
but who had escaped from the
,ity and remained away ever since, anu
low gave himself up to receive sentence
As it appeared that he had led per
'ectly correct life in the meantime, the
court let him go on payment OF costs,
that it was an extraordinary
case.
A BALTIMORE paper says that III
incident occurred at Rockville,
Nd, the other day during a session OF
the Presbytery of Maryland a. tha'
place. While one of the ministers was
speaking there was a great hutterils
heard in one of the stoves of the church,
An examination revealed the fact that IL
large owl, which had come
down the chimney. The stove door wa
opened, and the owl was let loose. AFTER
lying around awhile the owl was forced
,ut of one of the windows, and quiet
-eigned.
THEY were looking at the hippopota;,
nus at the New York Aquarium. oald
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