Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-29
PERSONS AND THINGS.

900 churches.
Mr.. Darwin's win disposes of property
amounting to $4,000.
Hon. Schuyler Colfax has been invest.
ing in short-horn cat,le.
John B. Cough is lecturing in Georgia.
He is needed down thar"
In a single school in Charleston, S.
G., there are i 400 negro pupils.
The prospect of the wheat crop in
California is exceedingly flattering.
A goldfish ten and a half inches
long was recently taken from a cistern
in Macon, Ga.
1t has been found upon inspection
that there are 10,2 dogs in the city OF
Brooklyn.
Potato-bugs have appeared all over
Long Island. Farmers are destroying
large.numbers.
A transparent leather, said to possess
/ great strength, is now made in Germany
by new process.
The income of Mrs. Garfield includ-
ing the pension of 1000 is said to be
abou. $2l 900 a'year.
The prospect for an apple crop in
New York and the other eastern states
is reported as excellent.
Tennessee has 100000 acres of un-
improved land, most of which is COW
cred with fine timber.
A Paris manufacturer claims to have
found an excellent cigar wrapper in
EUCALYPTUS leaves.
Mr. John Bright will complete his
twenty-tifth year of parlam entary SER
vice this summer.
Ramen F. Criado, Cuban planter,
has bequeathed 100000 for Cuban
colony in New York.
| Clara Morris, Mary Anderson. and
Fanny Davenport are expected to APP
pear tn England next season.
1t is rumored in Washington that
David Davis is shortly to marry a dis
tinguished Maryland lady.
Judge James Garland, whs still pre-
sides over the corporation court of
Lynchburg, Va is 81 years old.
The grave of Emerson at Concord,
Mass, is kept covered with fresh flow
ers by the young people of the town.
Ex,Speaker Randall, the Pennsylva-
MIA congressman, is recovering from
severe attack of the govt.
Ex-Governors Curtin, of Pennsyl-
vania, and Ex-Governor Kirk wood, of
Iowa, are the only WAR Governors"
still living.
In Egypt there are hospitals for su-
perannuated cats, while human suffer
ing scarcely ELECTS case.
The vineyards of the Napa Valley,
California, averaged in 1880, about eight
tons of grapes to the acre.
An earthquake in 1919 caused
large area of land near the delta of the
Indus to become large inland sea.
Nearly 5000 tons of wrapping paper
were made in one month, by fifty-one
mills, in the United States.
There have been more earthquakes
in Spain than in all other parts of Eu-
rope taken together, Italy excepted.
The abbey of st. Vincent, near La
trobe, Pa, is the oldest monastery in
America, having been established in
1890
Piano keys, door-knobs and variety
of knick-knacks are made in Germany
of sawdust and glue pressed into
shape.
Lincoln county, West Virginia, has
citizen LOG years of age, who lost
his dog and walked twenty miles in
search of it.
New York City paid last year 81, 000,-
600 for its school bill, 100000 for its
amusements bill, and S60,00O,O00 for
lis drink bill.
In the columns of Berlin papers are
frequent notices offering children in
presents to whomsoever wishes to adopt
them.
The elevated roads in New York Row
operate $3.50 trains per day, running
only one minute apart during the
busiest hours.
There are thirty Egyptian obelisks
scattered over Europe. Rome has elev-
en-, four of which are higher than the
one in New York.
The English Earl of Shrewsbury has
married the divorced Mrs. Mundy The
ceremony was performed by special
license.
1t is said that President Arthur and
Roscoe Conkling have promised to
make addresses at the agricultural fair
in Minnesota in September.
Christian X. Ross, the father of the
missing Charley Ross, has been reap
pointed by the governor as master
warden of the port of Philadelphia.
Queen Victoria returned to Windsor
Castle last Saturday, and the court will
remove to Osborn on the 18th Vi
July and remain there until the end
of August.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. ]. Florence have
determined to continue upon the stage
next season, and it is to be presumed,
therefore, that the former has absn-
doned his diplomatic aspirations.
The railway system of India includes
SCH miles. The gauge is three feet