Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-03-31
IN A NUTSHELL.

4 Glens Falls, n. Y, paper mill sent
recantlv a continuous roll of paper to
Nv Work four and half miles long
and weighing 1000 pounds.
lamp with the wick turned down is
Il more likely to explode, but 1t is no use
10 call the attention ofcourting couples
to the fact.
The safe Deposit Company of San
Francisco has laid down an iron vault
weighing 100000 pounds. 1t is believed
Fl to be the largest in the world.
81 4 lazy boy was complaining that his
81 he'd was too short when his father
h sternly replied, That is because you
n are too long in it, sir"
The Norman temple at Salt Lake
CITY. will be most expensive building on
Il the American continent. The cost is
estimated at S27 100000.
A rubber belt is being made in To-
ronto which is to be 5 feet wide, plies
in thickness, and 2l2 feet long, 1t
will weigh over ton and half.
The fashionable spring bonnet of
1881 is to be profusely decorated with
flowers, and provided in the rear with
fire escape, so that the wearers
friends can climb to the top and see
the trimmings.
Water filtered through charcoal be-
comes perfectly pure, the charcoal alb
sorbing all disagreeable tastes and
smells, whether they arise from animal
or vegetable impurities.
The happiness of your life depends
upon the quality Of your thoughts;
therefore, guard accordingly, and take
care that you entertain no notions I'M
suitable to virtue, and unreasonable to
nature.
what is nice for bathing suits p in
quires lady. When we were young,
a closely cropped head and Il sun-burn-
ed back constituted the chief features,
but perhaps the style has changed
since then.
1t is known as fact in geology that
below the depth Of thirty feet the
earth becomes regularly warmer as we
descend. On an average the increase
is at the rate of one degree of Fahren-
heit for every fifty feet.
A journey across Africa from south to
north, is to be undertaken by DR.. Emil
Holub, of Prague, under the auspices
Of the Vienna Geographical Society.
He thinks he can traverse the continent
iengthwise in three years.
A Cincinnati man found n rough
looking individual in his cellar. "Who
are your" he demanded. "The gas
man come to take the meter" was the
reply. Great heavensu' cried the
householder, Il hoped you were only a
burglar"
Two men fired simultaneously at each
other in a Salt Lake bar room, and the
bullets came into collision. There can
\ be no doubt of this, for one bullet
dropped to the floor midway between
n the antagonists, who were ten feet apart
and the other was turned upward to the
ceiling while both tlattened.
Austrian scenery has received an adj
ditiOn in the shape of a lake of pure
water, which suddenly made its appear
ance one day last summer, where u
few minutes before a field of wheat had
been growing. The land fell in with a
crash like thunder All sorts of theo-
ries have been invented to explain the
phenomena.
A Minnesota family has just lost six
children in one week by diphtheri6.
Monday night the youngest child, 3
years old, died Tuesday morning an
other was taken, and Wednesday night
third. Thursday two more died, and
on Friday the Oldest, 4 young lady o
20 years, fell victim to the disease.
Ladyhke qualities cannot be conceal
ed, no matter in what position she who
possesses them may be placed. A Lead
vile lawyer was cross-examining a wo-
man on the witness stand and becoming
somewhat abusive, she exclaimed:
I'm lady, by thunder, and dontyo
forget Chicago Jonrlol
A fashionable young man thinks he
is great as an elocutionist. His strong
card is reading the ghost scene in
Shakespeare. After hearing him rccite,
an elderly gentleman was asked what
he thought of him. We'll" said the
old gentleman, II think he ought to
have given up the ghost long ago"
Three car loads of silkworms' eggs,
consigned to George Carhart, and val
ued at 81 100000, arrived in New York
Mt 6 o'clock on Wednesday morning,
January 5, by the Erie Railway, and
were Immediately put on board the
French line steamer for France. They
came from China, reaching San Fran
cisco on the 2Sth ult.
Emma r." asks the Springfield Tri-
5une this question: 'Do you think it
right for girl to sit on a young mans