Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-04-15
PITHY PARTICLES.

1T Is II ul1ub-uOuOIttl CtlStcul LII QuluCY,
Fla. to salute new married couple by
firing cannon
A BOSTON man has invented patent
for playing organs by electricity, one
operator running several organs.
LAsTyer twelve persons in the United
States and Europe gave an aggregate of
S3,0O0,0OO to the cause of foreign mis-
EonA
A YOUNG son of p. Morse, living near
Breeds, ILL.,, shot at a crow on his fathers
straw stack the other day. Result, crow
killed, straw stack, barn, corn and hay
burned.
NINRTY-FIvB mining companies have
been formed in Maine during the last
year. If the business of mining is as
brisk rs mat cf getting up companies
there must be millions in it.
THOSE manufactures where old furni-
turo and ancient relics with histories at
.ached, are made, are not doing SO we'll
this year as last, which seems to indicate
that the intense love for the antique is
simmeAing down, as it were.
BOGUS gold So pieces are being circu-
lated in Sacramento. The coin has the
right sound, exact in weight and size,
very finely executed, gold plated, of the
dates 1874, 1S47 and 1875 These pieces
are tho the product of company which
executes it's work in ships at sea, orig
inally off the Spanish coast.
NEAR Conyers, Ga, dog entered a
flock of sheep and killed three of them
when an old ram came up and butted
him to death. The owner of the dog has
entered suit for 500 damages, and his
neighbor has entered counter suit for
the value OF the three sheep.
THE two daughters of Mrs. J. B. Whit
comb, a former teacher ut Bellows Falls,
we're recently sitting in the woods near
Oakland. Cal, when two hunters mis-
took tue plume on one of their hats for
wildcat and fired double charge of
q buckshot into the thicket. Harriet, the
Il Oldest, aged 80, was killed, but Alice, a
I little girl, will recover.
If people care anything about know
: ing whether milk is watered all they have
to do is to dip well polished knitting
needle into deep vessel of milk and
withdraw it Immediately in an upright
a position If the milk is pure some of it
" viii hang to the needle, but if water has
been added, even in small proportions,
szK the fluid will not adhere.
Al Yrs, the infant has genius. Notwith-
"a standing all the care, trouble and anx-
iety it is to the happy possessors of the
4, article, 1t can warm up their hearts,
swell their bosoms with pride, and make
very wicked people thank heaven that
there is something worth living for. At
4 the same time we wouldn' take an infant
T. as giit-New Haven Register.
III Ar the close of the service at st.
= Marys ?. e. Church, Brooklyn, on
Easter, when the contribution plates
were turned over to the rector, Rev. Dr.
johnson, package was discovered
among the others which, when opened,
was found to contain ten thousand dol
lars, gift from Seymour l.. Hustled,
Esq, for the extinction of the debt of
the society.
An American lady in Paris, anxious to
maugurate a novel entertainment. hit
upon the idea of n "soap bubble party. "
The guests found tables furnished with
soap and warm water, AMI clay pipes
saly bedecked with ribbons, and they
'led with each other in the agreeable
pasume of blowing bubbles. The more
seIioas business Of eating and dancing
MILE. BLANC, the wealthy daughter
on the NJ Blanc Of Monte Carlo fame,
alu sister to the Princess Radziwill, is
quoted rs saying lately to titled but
imPUumous sutton: "No, 1 intend
ilAfrylng man in my own rank of life;
'ul as titles arc still in fashion, | in
Gnu having a duke as my head cook,
puises. ~ " 1850
DRUGGIST at Portland, Maine, was
ouse0 III Tho night by a man who
$50 10 BUY some brandy. The
sslsV refused to sellit, fearing prose-
sio1 under the prohibition law. The
= - ueeialed that the liquor was for his
-, VINO mad been taken violently i'll.
y nli8ht one unless she got it: so he
n gwen small quantity. He was
NY " temperance spy, and on the fol-
ing day he had the dealer arrested
UNITED STATES senator sava that he
40 aI lIo1 give fig for a girl who could
answer these questions; allow
40 men set before chickens are
~, .eo How long does turkey set
n4tchlng brood? How old
chickens be before they are fit to
a. At what age may Young pigs be
G S,o lie has trained his daughter
VS. - POINTS, and is proud to say that
'A pass the examination success
dan ~ .E'oIIcH, the last of the three
Gr; slslers who made home for the
M N,llupazer during the lattar wears