Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-06-17
PITHY PARTICLES,

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/ $4,000, 600 since the war in erecting
! government buildings all over the coun-
try.
The Rev. W. H. Almab!e of Baldwips-
viii, n. T., has been given quilt on
which 700 people have left their auto
graphs at 10 cents each.
A LAWYER named Youmans. living in
Delhi n. Y, will erect two monuments
to two of his horses which lately died.
aged &c aud 3, respectively.
a NEBRASKA monument to horse
thief is simply stake MT the head oft
grave and n sign reading, at would
have been cheaper for him to go afoot.
THE Albany Times says: "Whilst
fishing for shad the other day, New
burgher caught : twenty opound bass.
There's no telling what he might have
caught had he been fishing for bass"
THn Indians planted their corn when
the leaves of the white oak had attained
the size of mouse's ear, which answers
to the time OF planting 10y the farmers of
the present day, from the 10th to the
10Th of May.
The " old she'll |" gets in its work even
away up to Victoria, In British Column
bia. lssac karter, barber, drew the
plug of an old 50 FOUNDER found in the
sand, and seeing that the shell contained
powder he touched it OIL. Karter was
killed and half-dozen other persons
were injured.
MOUNT HoLYoKE seminary has u man
who superintends the cooking. The
/ girls wash the dishes; IA machine sits
/ daily barrel of -four for their bread;
| they do all the daily housework in about
an bonr. They s't in sort of drawing
room conservatory sewing while COM
positions are read
The average speaker uses 100 words
minute. John Sherman once delivered
speech Mt the average of 10 words
minute, and Ben Pitman reported it 40
plainly in photography that his wife
| (who was recently cremated, copied the
signs into long hand, without having
! seen word of it,
| The wife of Franklin Brockway of
Collinsville, Conn, put hertwo youngest
children TO bed the other night, leaving
n large kerosene lamp on stand, and
went below to entertain some company.
An hour later she went up stairs, and
found that the lamp had exploded, seat
tering the oil and glass all over the room,
without setting anything on fire or wax
ing the children.
Ar Titnsville, Pa, recently Mrs. John
Bushnell died suddenly from the effect
of kissing the dead body of her father ten
days before, while attending his funeral
IN Pittsburg. Her iathev died Of erysip-
elias, and ut the time mentioned abe had n
raw sore on her lips, through which her
blood was poisoned. Her little daugh-
ter, Ella, liz not expected to live, from
kissing her mother.
THE New Haven Palladium says:
"The lost $500 diamond of Organist
Mitchell, of Hartford, for which he Gtior-
ed n reward of $l25, has been returned,
minus the setting. Policeman Cowles
went to New York recently and got track
of it, and soon found it in possession of
'curbstone pawnbroker. TWAS return
cd for less than the reward, including
the officers expenses"
WILLIAM WILSON, "A butcher at Fort
! Macleod, Mon, recently killed an OK
whose stomach was found to contain five
| or six dollars worth OF fine gold, mixed
.
prospector and doubtless found pny in
/ the grass roots. The singular event
created decided stir nj Fort Macleod,
and II number of parties have stappered
/ III the hope that they may be able to find
and Jump the ox's cluim before his heirs
/ intermediate.
! The male shad is sanl to be the best
! fish, M it liz the most solid The female
! sbad il thought to be better by the pur-
/ chaser, rs she looks so much stouter than
| the male before she has deposited her
| spawn. The June shad are said to be M
| good MS those caught in May by fisher
men, as il is said they have finished the
necessary labor in the propagation of
! their species and have sought the deep
water and fully recovered their strength
and are nearly always IN good condition.
4 A SAN Francesca man went to dent
list, while temporarily insane, and said
that he wanted his teeth all extracted.
/ The dentist advised him not to get rid
OF them, az they were sound but he In
sisted arguing that false set would be
far handler and more comfortable. As
I he did not seem crazy, the dentist per-
/ formed the job. On recovering his rea-
son he brought IA suit for 81, 600 damages
under the California law against profes-
sional Malpractice.
/ The following figures are interesting,
! showing, as they do, the exact number
and nationality of soldiers who were en-
gagged on the Union side Of the late "Un-
pleasantness."
Per Cent.
I Native Arneyicans 553 800 T5.43
/ German, 1873, 500 $40