Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-03-11
GOSSIP OF THE DAY.

Few people realize the fact that America
widens at the north until it reaches out into the
ocean No AZ to be within thirty-rix miles OF ASA
In severe winters Behring's Straits are frozen
over, and animals frequently pass on the ice
from one country to another.
THE capture by Greek biigands of Colonel
Synge and wife, and the demand OF ransom OF
5000, recalls the fate of Lord Muncaster and
a party of friends III 1870, who were captured
and held in similar manner. But owing to
over zeal of detachment of troops that crowd
Cd the brigands too closely, the entire party were
massacred- 1t will take money and diplomacy
to save the present captives from similar fate.
TIKI recently presented annual report of the
Massachusetts, state board of education had an
excellent clause in regard to moral teaching IN
the schools. it declares that the teacher should
study to make the daily lessons, his discipline,
and the social relation of his pupils occasions
for earnest teaching IN all that which pertains
to a virtuous life. The report adds that there
il a feeling in the minds of many that the moral
instruction gwen il not, in all cases, OF that
persistent and positive kind which leads to
thorough knowledge Of moral duties and to the
sure formation Of moral character.
A QUrET and honest dog that loved folks
the defendant descrbed him. having bitten
woman in Northampton, Mass got his owner
INTO lawsuit for damages. The defendants
counsel was in the midst of beautiful argu-
ment in regard TO the noble traits of the dog
when the foreman of the jury rose and said that
thp hha haI hidden NJ l,.tyara Of hut
of no other animal showing the estimate which
the scriptures put upon the character of the
faithful and amiable brute. Under these cir
cumstanees the counsel was hardly surprised at
the jury's bringing in verdict for the plaintiff
OF about $500.
COPY OF the roll in the Tchborne case
filed 10y the attorney general-has been COM
ploted, and ia now being examined by Mr.. Kim
Der, the claimants solicitor. khe document
goes over the whole ground Of the case OF the
claimant from his arrest until Judgment was
pronounced upon him. The original il on
eral yards of continuous parchment, and the
copy comprises 1924 folioa, 3, 1888 lines and o.
68S words. The examination will therefore take
some time, after which the attorney general has
fortnight TO reply to any errors which may be
claimants solicitor
PARIS IL still complaining Of unusual cold.
Some Of the old terrors of winter III France
have gone by forever ~ far ~ the capital IL
concerned, for, however severe the frost
wolves do not now troop through the streets in
search of food, but the criterion of the years
severity the freezing Of the Seine, remains the
kbia ~ haa h,4D Trojan
nine times during the century one of the most
sudden and intense irosts of that period being
that Of 1861, whom the Paris and London steam
packets were ice-bound just as if they had been
in the Arctic seas. From 1910 to 1914 the Seine
was annually frozen over.
AN interesting judicial discussion has recently
been rendered in Baltimore in the case of con
ditonal bequest- gentleman, who died in
that city some time since, left by will house
and lot TO his two sisters, to hold as joint teu-
ants M long as they remained single, but if one
married the property was to so 20 the other.
One vi them did marry, and then brought suit
against her sister for half the property, claim
ing that the provision was against the policy of
the law on restraint OF marriage The judge
decided the provision to be valid az a limitation
which terminated the estate and the unmarried
sister u thus secured in the undivided possession
of the entire property.
THR Iiahan flag has been raised in Africa.
The war~ship Espiatore has taken possession of
the Ray of Assab, in the Red Sea, in the name
of the Italian government An Italian colony
has been founded in those waters, and the az
gresSon has not merely been unopposed by the
sultans and tribes Of Dairaun. hut they even
prepared congratulatory reception for the
colonizers from the modern Rome. Captain
Amezago and Professor Sop,to, the leaders of
the expedition, are the heroes of the neighhor-
hood The Italian papers say that neither the
English nor any other European government
has Offered the slightest opposition to the APP
propriation-
ACCORDING To 4 rcent article in the Engineer
i,g, the leading organ of its kind in London.
the cost of the new or Siemcn's toughened
glass il about the same per ton AZ that OF cast
iron, but, NJ its specific gravity is only about
one-third that Of IRON, the cost of any article of
given dimensions l., of course, materially less.
The material-says this paper-has Is yet been
too recently introduced, and too httic is Anown
OF is real characteristics to enable any very de-
ciied opinion to be formed a. to its future capa-
bihtics; but, notwithstanding this, the results of
the experiments SO far made with the material
are certainly of an exceedingly promising char
acter, and the further development OF its appii-
cation viii be watched with much interest.
The suit of Budd Dobe vs.. the Southern
Ohio Fair association of DAYTON Ohio. has