Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-07-13

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5S7 of them were broken last year.
Adam missed one of the Injuries Of
life. He couldn't laugh in his sleeve.
A south Florida lake is said to contain
enough alligators to build fence around
| i tour feet high.
Mining on the Comstock lode has not
been so discouraging in the past decade
/ as now.
BY new fast mail service all points
| in Florida will be reached twenty-four
to thirty-six hours sooner.
The oil production in the Allegheny
field has reached daily average Of
| $4,000 barrels.
| The Mississippi house of representa-
tives has passed bill to prevent the
sale of tobacco to minors without an or
der from their parents or guardians.
A school for the instruction of Erie
railway brakemen in the use of the
Westinghouse airbrake is to be estab-
lished at HornellsVille.
In Gold Hill, New, houses and lots
which y few years ago were valued at
from 81, 1000 to $4,000 each are being
rallied off
1t is said that an angle worm cannot
| dig more than one inch per hour, but he
is always an inch beyond the shovel
when you want fish bait.
Agricultural Commissioner Hawkins,
of Tennessee, is making arrangements
for experimental tests of the effect of
| commercial fertilizers on the crops il
every county in the State.
Union Springs, n. Y, the home of
Courtney, the oarsman, is the home Of
| Phoebe Brockway, who claims to be los
years of age. She never rode on rail
way car.
An angry woman in Newport, r. l.,
threw fork at her son. II lodged in
his heel, making q slight wound, which
resulted in gangrene, from which he
died in great agony.
Swedes and Danes are said to be col
onizing in Florida. Already have nine
hundred settled in Orange county, and
are proprietors of profitable orange
| groves.
Jefferson Davis daughter Varina is q
| great belle in the South. She is pale, slen-
der and reserved. At 4 recent ball she
appeared as the Margarine of Bciruth in
rose pink velvet and satin costume,
In breach of promise recently tried
at Dublin the first love letter read by
the plaintiff began us follows: If any
one reads this except Miss Helen Me-
Nulty l hold him accountable before
God and justice"
| Thomas Miller, of Harrison county,
Kentucky, ali industrious, Woodworking
man and the father of twelve children,
has discovered himself to be the only
living heir to an estate in Lexington
worth $4,000
Sheriff Bandy, of Lebanon, TcnN.
showed some children how to work q
pair of handouts, and fastened them on
his wrist. He took them off next day
when his deputy retirned from the coun.
try with the key.
"rhe man who IS happy is rich say:
Peter Cooper. Uncle Peter, send or
your ducats and take our happiness fol
t 1.-THE next six months We want to know
how it will seem 30 be rich and misera.
, Bile.
The first cat taken to Gunnison City
} SOlu lOI iSIO, Nut we illSt hidu III lud
town who killed n cat was presented
with purse Of 500. There's no show
in this country Cor the cat to get ahead
A Milwaukee girl wants $1,000 dam
t ages became she wasn't quite ready &c
be kissed when man kissed her. He
ought to have blown a hcrn or rung q
bell and given her thirty seconds warn
ing.
( Herr Karl Gehmia, of 'Berne, after q
, series of experiments extending over
several years, has succeeded in produc.
ing artificial mother-of-pcarl, undistin-
guishable in every respect from the nat
ural article. 1t can be nodded in any
shape, produced in any color. is imper-
vious 10 heat and cold, and It's price will
be much less than that of ordinary moth
er-of-pearl.
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