Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-08-17

world nearly onc-halt are printed,n Eng
glish.
Rochester. n. Y, has subscribed S24o,-
600 toward the erection of Il 100000
hotel, to be situated on the east side Of
the river.
Mr.. William ID. Howeiis, the novelist,
married sister of MIR. Larkin g. Mead,
the sculptor. and she has been of great
aid to him rs Al author.
Some one in stockton Cal, has made
it business to scratch many of the
largest and finest plate-glass windows
with diamond.
1t has cost twice rs much to take care
OF the criminals as 10 educate the chill
dren of Nevada, the figures since 1860
being for state prison. 1857 ,090; for
schools, S46S, 329.
4 servant maid named Angelo Sibie,
living with a lady in the Avenue de
Friendland, Paris, has Just inherited
$500, 900 from rowing and long forgot
ten brother in America.
The lake of Constance has recently
been lower than at any previous time
since 1905. At Hoernlin, on the Swiss
side, interesting lacustrine formation
have been exposed and n number OF val
liable discoveries have been made.
1t has been discovered that the poplar
tree is q natural lightning-rod. and the
next thing is to discover how to get one
on the roof of house and make it stay
there.
A Milwaukee man has bought 1000
acres of land in Guatemala. He says
he is bound to have room for himself
and family to move their feet when they
feel like it.
Pensacola, Fla, boasts of model
alderman. He is of the "colored per-
suasion.' is always punctual, and is not
above spending his leisure between ses-
sions in mending chairs and lamps and
making repairs upon the council cham
Der without charge.
Mary A. Townsend says: Il feel a
poem in my heart tonight, still thing
growing" Gracious goodness, Mary,
is that so! Well, that is bad. If you let
it slip out, however it will be worse, ev-
er so much worse. Bottle it up, Mary,
bottle it up. -RochcSter Express.
The cautious Mr. Ncwdegatc recently
said in parliament that England and
Russia were strong because they had
each an established church, while
France and the United States were weak
because they had none. Mr., Ncwdc-
gates mind is truly powerful engine
of thought.
State balls at Toronto are no longer
the source of heart burning in fashiona-
BILE circles that they used to be when
people imagined themselves neglected
by being omitted from the invitations on
account OF limited room. Guests are
now invited by installments and in al
phabetical order
Joseph Arch, the English agitator, de-
clares that ..rack-renting" has not been
confined to Ireland He asserts that be-
tween the years 1857 and 1875 the rem
tails of the farmers of England were in
creased TO the enormous extent Of So
100000. English papers admtthat this
statement is substantially true.
Capt Percival, Cape Cod mariner
of the old school, was once awakened in
his bunk by a shipmate with the an
nouncemcnt that the vessel was going
to eternity. "Well,n replied the cap
tain. "rve got ten friends over there to
one in this world; let Der go And he
turned over and went to sleep again.
A large number of men will be want
cd to work in the logging camps of
Puget Sound the coming summer Hard
" camp on Puget sound has a full
complement of men, and with the new
camps starting and the enlargement Of
old ones, loggers are getting scarce. 1t
is feared more wall be required than can
be obtained. The wages given by the
lumbcrmcn on Puget sound are greater
than in any other employment, ans,
they are higher than ever before known.
There are at the present DAY establish
ed in the Fiji islands about SEQ Wesleyan
churches and |. 400 schools. The com
municantS are numbered BY thousands,
The schools are attended by nearly j0,-
600 children, and out of population Of
about 12O, 900, over 100, 900 are reckon
ed AS regular attendants at the churches.
A Louisiana paper says; The gentle
men from Michigan investing 50 heavi-
" in timbered lands in Calcasien parish
propose going into the log business with
u vim. They say they will show our
log-men something about logging that
they never dreamed of. II IS said that
one of them will bring three hundred
lumbernen from Michigan into our pine
woods next spring. and that he intends
to run one hundred log teams.
Gov. Lowry, of Mississippi, has fol-
lowed up his liberal inaugural wilh a
special message to the legislature earn
,estly recommending the passage Of Il
law eXempung all capital invested in
cotton-factoties within the next three or
foIr years from taxation for a series Of
years. The governor believes that 1.-THE
largest growing STATEN the union
ought to be the greatest cotton-manu-
factsring state" and he sees that the
way 10 attract capital for such enterpri-
SEES Is by making known the advantages
which Missouri possesses and offering
inducements in the way of friendly and
liberal Legislation,
The New York Steam company,
which has the right to laypipes through
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