Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-03-23
CLIPPINGS.

Prominent breeders CT Short-horns
are predicting quite an advance in
prices this spring.
Most of the fine imported Italian
olive oil used for making salads is
squeezed out of cotton seeds in our
southern states.
There are 100 per cent. more divorces
in Philadelphia yearly thau IN any
other city of the Union.
Some dairymen estimate that but
termilk is worth onequarter to one
as skim milk.
The Hon. John L. Wilson, of Tran
guilty, Adams county, Ohio, has given
the town $1,000 to found a children's
home.
Miss Lillian Carpenter, daughter Of
the late Senator Matt II. Carpenter, is
reported to be seriously ill in New Or
leans.
Bradlaugh will not attempt at present
to enter the House of Commons. He
will continue his agitation outside Eng
lish iberality
Ex-Governor and ex-United States
Senator Reuben E. Fenton has now
been elected to the Presidency o. his
nome village Of Jamestown, N. Y.
Mr.. Longfellow's friends are assn ed
that he is gaining slowly in health, and
say that recent reports of his critica
condition were exaggerated.
monument to the late General
Charles G. Halpine, "Miles O'Reilly,"
will be dedicated on Decoration Day in
the Cypress Hill cemetery, New York.
DR.. Strother Is Kentucky lecturer,
who is trying to convert the credulous
To his belief that the Garden of Eden
was situated in the Mississippi valley.
Ex-senator John B. Henderson, Of
Missouri, has retired from business on
account of failing health, and will spend
the coming Summer in England and
France.
Miss Virginia Purdy Barker, a grand
daughter OF the late Cornelius Wander
blt was married at Bordeaux, France,
February 16, to Mr.. William Rathbone
Bacone.
Ex-Governor Marshall Jewell, Of Con-
necticut has prepared lecture on
Russia, which he delivers gratuitously,
paying his own expenses, in the neigh
borhood of Hartford.
A Chinaman, dying of consumption
in Chicago, erected an altar in his
laundry, and worked before it, with
his face to the east, as long rs he was
able to work at all.
Little Jennie Quigley, one of the
show "Midgets," it is said, has had an
offer of marriage from an Illinois stock
farmer who is worth 100000 but she
declines to leave the stage.
The wives of Senators Cameron (of
Wisconsin and Pennsylvania Allison,
Rollins, Beck, and Morrill,, have been
in such ill-health as to be unable to 60
into Washington society this winter.
A tablespoonful of carbolic acid in
two gallons of water is said to prove as
rose bug as hellebore.
When farmer neglects or refuses
cooperating with his brother farmers
he strikes blow at the advancement
of his class and becomes his own worst
enemy.
-Hambletonian was Is! hands high.
His weight was probably not far from
1850 in moderate flesh, but we do not
remember to have ever seen it stated
as tested on the scales. He died March
6, 1876.
Judge Samuel Dlatchford, of New
York, has formally .ignitied his accept
ance of the nomination for associate
Justice of the United States supreme
court.
In Rev. Mr.. Minis Church of the
Future" there will be no God, no i'm
mortality of the soul, no prayer. That
is what allied the Jardin Mabilie. recent
ly suppressed in Paris.
Mrs. Langtry, the Jersey Lilly"
who has become an actress, it is said,
studies very hard, being determined not
to depend upon her reputation for
beauty alone for her success.
The Century Club, of New York, has
obtained possession of two portraits of
George Washington and and one of his
wife, painted from life, at Mount Yer
non, by an English artist named Sharp
les.
Englishmen are quite as tickle as
Frenchmen. Less than four years ago
they smashed the windows of Glad
stones house with stones. The other
night at the opera they applauded him
to the echo.
Never put ring through the
gristIe of pigs nose, but through the
partition between the nostrils, as rings
are put in the noses of bulls There is
then little or no pain, the rings do not
tear out and the pig cannot root.
1t is stated that $50 butter and
cheese factories have been built in
Iowa during 1851, making a total of
450now in the state. In Ill probability
there will be q large increase Of this
number during next season.
The breeder who can bring to
notice breed of fowls that will eat
potato bugs has a fortune in his hands.
They are desirable want on all pota-
10 fields. Bugs are usually plenty.
Where is the breed of fowl that will