Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-14
PERSONS AND THINGS.

Miss Clara Louise Kellogg is sljourn
, ing in Birmingham, Conn.
Pennsylvania sheep are being ship
ped in large lots to the west for breed
ing purposes.
Bisnop Foss is now at Saratoga, rap
idly regaining his normal health anC
strength.
An enthusiastic admirer Of Pollec
cattle, says they are gentle and give nc
trouble unless dog shows up. Their
the dogs must go.
BY test of the closest average
work it requires four bushels and forty
seven and half pounds of wheat tC
make barrel Of flour.
Eldric Chepdelaine, l7-year-old boy
of Milford, Mass, weighs 285 pounds
and can raise / $50 pounds on the lift
ing machine.
The queen of England regards with
satisfaction the fact that the tricyces
which have been used by her grand
children have been beneficial to their
health.
Hogs that run in the orchard pick
ing up the windfalls, and, occasionally,
good apples, never have the hog
cholera, which is another proof Of the
value of fruit diet.
"A. J. Dressbock, near Decatur, H.,
does not allow any poachers on his
farm, as he considers the birds his best
friends. He states that he has positive
proof that guinea fowls, quail and ducks
devour that miserable pest, the potato
bug.
The Boston TrarsILer is responsible
for the story that ga dashing Chicago
widow at the Saratoga races had wager
ed box of cigars against a span of
thoroughbreds, and won. She now is
more dashing than ever"
The'death occurred at Chesterfield,
Mas. August 81, of Mrs. Sarah Hayes
Bancroft, widow Of TIE late Dyas Ban
croft. She was an auny Of ex.Presi-
dent Hayes his father having been her
brother At the time of her death she
was in her Goth year.
Captain John Ericsson, the naval in
ventor, is in his SOth year. He lives
in a little old fashioned house in New
York, which is both his home ana his
workshop.
The Rev. George Bachelor, of Salem,
Mass, who has accepted the call to the
Rev. DR.. Robert Collyer's church at
Chicago, will have a salary there of
s., 900; at Salem it was $1,000.
A granite memorial to Elihu Burritt,
the learned blacksmith, bearing the
simple inscription, Friend of Peace
and Philanthropist," has been set up
in New Britain cemetery, Connecticut.
The board Of directors of the Garfield
monument, at Washington, organized
by the election of John w. Thompson,
General ID. G. Swain, treas
urer, and F. T. Wilson, secretary.
A new school house in Philadelphia
has just received the name of elisha
Kent Kane" in honor Of the Arctic
explorer, Other school houses in Phil
adelphia commemorate the names of
John Hancock, George Wolf, Stanton,
Bsnney, General Meade. Abraham
Lincoln and others.
81 have seen enough during the
remarks a returned Chicago
merchant, who has been summerre-
sorting at the seashore, "to convince
me Of one thing, and that is that the
average American man and woman.
If they have little money and good
chance, have infinite capacity for max
ing themselves ridiculous"
NJ. II. Rosenfeld of Indiana, the
of See that Iny Graves
Kept Green" who was recently SEN
fenced TO two years imprisonment in
the northern peritenuary, Michigan
City, for passing fraudulent postof-
fee money order on Joseph Schloss, is
making an effort to secure pardon.
The Prince and Princess of Wales
travel on the continent as Baron and
Baroness Rerfrew. As it is late in the
season for Carlsbad. it has been decided
that he shall Try the Homburg waters
instead. 1t was as. Baron Renfrew
that the Prince travelled in this country
nearly quarter of a century ago.
"A Japanese author, who wrote uu-
der the assumed name of Touya Sanji,
says, in 1905: This year tobacco was
brought in the ships of the Nanban,
and sown. The inhabitants Of the city
viet with each other in innaling it, and
soon it spread over the whole empire.
A new industry is reported rs be-
ing developed in Texas, in the collec
ton and utilizing of a gum considered
fully equal to the gum arabic of com
merce. 1t is!the product of the mes
quite tree, which is SAID to closely re-
semble the acacia of the east. from
which the imported gum is obtained,
Not only do toads subsist entirely |
upon Insects, but they destroy those
when depredate at night, when we and |
he birds are asleep. So highly are |
they appreciated in Europe that they !
IRE there an article or merchandise. |
The market gardeners near London |
purchase toads from the continent at |
eight cents each,
The village of Brockport, Monroe
county, n. Y, is probably the largest
market for beans from first hands j. !
the country. AS many as 10000 |
bushels have been sold there III a siu
gle season, all the product of neigh |
b,ripy forD,S Tho r,ripp nf bna,l an . |