Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-02-26

and FIVE thousand in the house. Bets on the
time Of adjournment are now IN order
THERE il of colleges IN the United States a
alto of one to every 100000 inhabitants, and
there has been an increase Of sixty-eght III
seven years. It il maintained that there should
be fewer Of such institutions and better ones
AN effort is making in Iowa to induce the leg
islature to repeal the usury law. 1t Is shown
that the law fixing the maximum OF interest ut
,en per cent. in the absence of special contract
below that figure, has been practically inopera-
tive, az persons having money to invest for long
time loans have found it difficult to do so at
eight. or even six per cent. interest.
THE word telegraph was first brought into
use abont 1893 or 1894, when the French direct
DRY established machines for communicating
intelligence between Paris and all the principal
towns Of France The British government
soon after adopted the same measure The
authority Of this assertion will be found III
Dee's Encyclopaedia, 1919, volume 35. The
word does not appear in Johnson'5 dictionary
until the edition of 1913, and neither does 1t
occur in the Grand French Encyclopedia Of
Diderot of 177S
SENATOR PADDocK's bill for the equalization
OF homosteads will shortly be taken up in the
senate. 1t provides that every person entitled
10 enter a homestead who has entered less than
100 acros OF land, shall BIO permitted to enter
enough to make up that amount. When such
additional entry cannot be made Of lands cou-
tiguois to his original entry he may select other
lands elsewhere, but he shall not be entitled toa
40. TO- h..
general land office OF planting and continuous
cultivation OF forest or fruit trees on an area of
the same equal to one acre for each forty acres
thereof during period of three years.
BIZ the will OF q gentleman who died III Balti-
more some time since, house and lot IN that
city left To his two sisters, to hold a. joint
tenants al long as they remained single, but, If
one married, the property was to go to the
other. One OF them did marry, and thea
brought suit against the other for half the
property, claiming that the provision was against
the policy OF the law ON restraint of marriage.
Judge Gilmore, however, has just decided the
provision to be valid as limitation which cor
minated the estate. The jury, under instruc-
lions, rendered verdict in favor OF the unmar-
ried sister, who is thus secured tho entire inter-
cst in the property.
The manufacture OF tobacco on an extensive
scale has recently been introduced into India,
and an English paper states that tobacco OF the
finest quality can be made, superior IN every
respect to the American, and cheaper. Accord
ing to q contemporary, the experimental planta-
tons at Cha sipur, which embrace 239 acres,
have this year yielded 600 pounds Of the
cured leaf Tobacco has been sent to New Yea
land, Australia and France. The French gov
ernmont, having had ono sample, gave an order
Tor further ana larger one. Natives are being
trained in the various processes, and those who
know most about tho subject are confident that
in o time Indian tobacco will be fully equal
10 any competition.
The appointment of Governor-General of
India in place of Lord Lytton, who desires to
retire, now that the triumph of his administra-
ton in Afghanistan is Mt least Temporarily as
sured. has been rendered 10 the Earl of Dutfer-
in, who has neither accepted or declined, but
merely wrote to Lord Salisbury that he feared
the climate would not agree With a man Of his
age As a matter of fact, Lord DuiTerin is only
So, and many Goyernor-Generals going out to
India were older. Tho truth is, Lord DufIerin
votedly attached, and these would, for many
reasons, have to remain at home. The Niceroy,
during the five years he holds Office, can save
csc, 600 without undue economy; aud to Lord
DufIerin, who, without being personally oxtray-
agant, has teen most lavish in hospitality and
Kindness to others, this would be much
THE San Francisco Bltlietln says that that city
has no authority under existing laws to receive
tho late Henry T.. Rohnsou's bequest Of $40, 900
as fund for destitute women and children.
There are some public institutions III the city
empowered to receive donations and requests,
the public library being one of them, but there
is no general law empowering towns, cities, and
counties in the state, or the state itself, to
receive donations and requests for public char
ties and uses About year ago Samuel J.
Bridge gave $4,000 to the board of public edu-
cation to form a medal fund, for the decoration
OF certain public school pupils, and the board
accepted the donation, although without legal
authority to do So and when s. c. Hastings
desired to found the Hastings Law college with
donation to the state in trust of 100000, the
Bulletin says he had actually to log-roll bin
through the legislature to compel the state TO
receive the money.
VERONA, near Kansas City, IS known locally
as "Dcadhead Eden" few years ago Sir
George Grant visited Kansas to hunt, and when
h, returned to England his stories excited tho
hearts of forty young sprigs of nobility, and a
short time since they enter ed Kansas with a
flourish ard founded the Victoria colony whore
an elegant saloon is now maintained by drafts
uDon titled fathers on the other side of the
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