Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-01-26
CLEANLINESS.


S437. 90 in one day, recently. by yaccnat-
ing Ill persons at $3.50 each.
A giant. Abeokuta by name. born at
Dahomey. 20 gears of age, eight feet
high, and still growing is among the
distinguished arrivals i'll New YORK.
Land commands a high price at VIM
nipeg, Manitoba. Lieut. Gov. Cauchon
recently sold farm of five hundred
acres in the suburbs to a syndicate for
100000
America does not monopolize the en-
tire race of Enthusiastically cashiers. A
Florence. Italy. cashier has delauted i'll
the sum Of 2,0000 900 lire.
A COW was recently slaughtered near
Reno, Cal, and its stomach was found
to contain n large quantity of nails, bits
OF glass, bones, piece of gold, and
various other rare and costly articles Of
vcrlu.
The Erie railroad is having construct
ed fifty new passenger ears. They are
finished in natural woods and are eX-
ceedingly rich and elegant. The eapac-
ity of each ear is sixty-fonr passengers.
1t is said that bookings are already
secured by the agents of the different
steamship lines for 100000 emigrants.
1t is evident that the population is to be
largely increased next year.
1t took six years for the New York
surrogate to make up his mind to admit
TO probate the will of the late Samuel
Wood in which 81 100000 was devoted
to the establishment of a free college Of
music.
A cattle drover tells Of an old Cana
dian farmer who keeps his money rolled
around II broomstick. The other day
when he bought some cattle of him he
had nearly 80 900 in tivc-dollar bills
thus preserved.
Miss Parncll has received letters from
over one hundred ladies in this country
who volunteer 10 90 10 Ireland to adj
dress public meetings and assist in the
agitation, the majority refusing any
salary.
What is regarded rs very important
discovery has recently been made in
Butte county. California a rich silver
bearing quartz lead near the north line
of the county. Heretofore 1t has been
supposed that the quartz Lodges of Cali
fornia contained no silver
A seven foot vein Of coal is being
opened a few miles east Of Miles City,
Montana The coal has been pro-
nounced BY chemists 80 per cent. super
Tor to the Ignite now in use on the line
Of the Northern Pacific. The coal is
the pure peacock.
Smith Wright, of Willston, Vt, annu-
ally fattens 5000 to 4 900 turkeys, 1000
TO 5000 geese. and 800 to =. 800 ducks
He cultiyatrs q farm OF 800 acres, and
manages a dairy of forty cows. One
lot of his poultry last year brought him
Sl6,sOo.
Says The Gridiey (Cal.) Hcrald: Will
liam James while splitting stove wood.
found in the heart of a pine log over u
foot thick piece of slate rock an inch
thick. four inches wide and eleven long,
The log was deposited on the Ord ranch
by the high water last winter. Its out
ward appearance was that of sound
piece of timber
In Congers, Ga, II mare and n COW,
on the place OF Mr.. Copeland. wholiycs
in Rockdale county. gave birth the same
evening. one to II colt and the other to a
calf That night the cow died, where
upon the mare adopted the calf AS her
offspring, and has been nursing her ever
since.
The Toronto (Canada) Mini makes the
statement that some portions Of Mon
treal are SO overrtin with hungry rats
that cats frequently become food for
their voracious appetiles They will
fall upon pussy in bataions, and when
they depart a few bones and n little fur
only remain
In the village of Pines Bridge. at
Croton lake, N. Y, n large gathering
assembled at the Croton Lake hotel to
guess Mt the weight of big hog. The
number of chances bought at 80 cents
each was l23, and when the drawing
took place the result was the most re-
markablo ever recorded in hog-guessing
annalS -Four men guessed the exact
weight $40 pound, and divided tho
price of the hog
OF polled cattle writer states that
has seen II man very quickly lifted over
a fence by u poIled COW, aud these
beasts will push and strike their heads
in the manner of other cattle. quite as
savagely. The proportion of cross or
savage cattle Will be found quite as
great among the polls AS among the
horned
There are about 5000, 900 acres of cN-
eellent pine lands in Louisiana, which
are beginning to attract northern atten-
ton, and Michigan parties have recently
purchased 900 acres in talcaSieu
parish. with a view to the manufacture
of lumber These lands are offered at
Sl.25 per acre, and Il lumber-man who
smells pine land nj that figure usually
may be counted on to take up the trail.
The New York Express was $50. 900
in debt when il was purchased by CYRUS
w. Field. 1t had never paid current
expenses since the late James Brooks
ceased to be its editor. The property
cost Cyrus w. Field $40, 600, The
hrprcSS is one of the seven members of
the associated press. aud its franchise is
considered valuable.
Convict labor in California is no
longer TO compete with free white labor
Henceforth the couvicts Of one of her
large penal institutions viii be employed
in making iute bagging and bags, thus