Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-02-05

ivil procedure provides for the issue OF mar
rage licenses by the clerk of the county courts.
The now constitution abo.ishes the county
court. II there is 10 county court there can lie
no county clerk, and if no clerk no marriages
without punishment under the penal code of
the state.
THE Sunday question has for several years
been discussed at Zurich. A committee APP
pointed by the grand council OF the canton has
finally drawn up law, after years of study and
investigation. Henceforh Sundays and reli-
gious fcte days are to lie considered as day Of
public rest; shops and public Offices must te
shut before midday and all noisy work is pro-
hibited. The committee allege that by this they
do not desire to introduce the "Englsh Sun
day." but merely such Sunday that people may
pray In quiet.
THE ee1vice Of o citation Of the Probate court
can DO made by telephone in st. Louis. In
ease decided last week the sheriff testified that
he read the citation to two of the four parties in
action through the telephone, and took from
each Of them an all acknowledgment of service.
He did not know tho parties by thor voice, and
made tho return on the faith given 10 the re-
sponses Of those who no resented themselves, in
answer TO bis interrogatolios, to be the per-
sons mentioned in the citation. The court
deaned II reasonable to presume that if it had
no notice, or If any one else had answered tho
officers inquiry in their name, tuoy would have
proved the fact on the trial. Tho return of the
officer was accordingly taken to be literally true
AN apprentice to q horse sheer last week sued
his mater in Philadelphia for damages, CON-
planning tina, "hilo he had teen sufficiently
Taught aa to t.. fastening of the shoes and the
welding OF the toes, no had not been instructed
IN tho making and fashloning Of tho shoes,
which tho craft call taking fire" The
master obtained verdict, having pleaded that
the youth received the customary instructions
and was given the usual opportunities to learn
tho trade; that hc proved stirring and likely
young fellow, aud when his apprenticeship ex-
pred WAS above the average run of apprentices
in skill, but entertained the absurd notion that
DO should possess the skill and ability of q mas
or workman Of many years experience.
ACCORDING to tho Scientific American, a
misconorption exists in regard to dynamite ex-
citing greater force downward and gunpowder
upward when exploded. Tho fact is, nitro
yields ON exploding about 800 times its volume
Of Sas; gunpowder about 800. THIS gas, sud-
denly liberated, must displacc a portion of the
atmospheric, which presses with weight Of
about nine tons upon each square yard of sur
faoo To lift such a weight in the exceedingly
short space of time occupied IN tho explosion OF
u charge OF nitro-glyce,ing-m the form OF dy-
Mantle CT otherNise-woud require q force
greater than to split rock, and the rock yields.
Gunpow den yields but one-third IA much gas on
exploding, and the complete combustion of its
grains requires an approciable amount of time.
Nitroglyouino explodes all but instantaneously.
An English judge Las made ruling to decide
what shall be understood as personal bag
gage" for which railway travellers can demand
transportation. In tbs action the plaintiff sued
tho Southwestern Railway company because
their servants had lost hamper belonging to
him, which contained his shooting boots, two
fowls, and some vegetables. The company did
not object to pay for the boots but repudiated
all other CLAIMS on the plea that the fowls and
the Vegetables were not personal luggage"
The judge declared that the company was in the
wrong, ard held that the articles did como
within tho category of personal luggage"
Even although tbov were meant TO he given TO
Il third party as present, his honor maintained
that until the intention of presenting them AS
gift had been carried out, aud so long rs they
were in the passengers Iossession, the fowls
and the vegetables were luggage
THE present condition of the Pacific railroads
may be summed up as follows: Complete or III
moro or less advanced stages of construction
are: First the Union and Central Pacihcs, from
Omaha TO fam Francisco; second, the Texas and
Southern Paciics, from Texarkana to Los
Angeles and san Francisco: third, the Atohison,
Topeka and Santa Fc, from Kansas City 10
Guaymas; fourth, the Northern Pacific from
Duluth to Puget Sound and Portland; fifth, the
Canada PaCitic, extending through the British
Territory from Fort William ON Lake Superior,
TO Some Toint on the Gulf of Georgia. To
theee may be added two other important outlets
10 the Pacific, viz: Jay Gould's Northwestern
hnc from Ogden 10 the Columbia river, and the
proposed branch of the Atchisou, Topeka and
Santa Fc from the Rio Grande 20 the Pacific, on
a limo OF or near the thirty.ffth parallel, after
possible extension OF the kansa, Pacific from
Denver to Ogden City.
iHb Ettltlil OlLhOu vi etitAll!AC uttAi ~ ~
the possibility of change in the position of the
carth's axis has undergone. recently, modihca-
tons somewhat analogous IN character to those
winch. in tho opinion of some biologists, the
position of the axis itself has undergone. In
stoad OF o fixed law OF rules rs 10 the impoSsi
bihty OF change, there is now divergence of
mathematical opinion-all agreeing in the thco-
rctical possibility of change in the seosraphi-