Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-07-27
PERSONS AND THINGS.
Minister Morton is taking vacation

Minister MOTION Is taking vacation.
Fashionable ladies at Newport will
introduce post ilions there this sea.
son.
Eccentricities in fancy jewelry now
take the form Of fat-irons, shoes, hoes,
and rakes.
1t is sid that the barb-wire trade of
the United States amounts to $4,000
cooper snum.
The Jews in European Russia num-
Der ZIP, 716, and there are about 25,-
600 in Asiatic Russia.
Navassa is formed of guano deposits,
and is the only American possession in
the Atlantic Ocean.
During the past fiscal year 46 $50
agriculture patents were issued from
the general land office.
Bavaria sent us 100000 corsets last
year, and expects to double that num-
Der the present year.
The Stuttgart conservatory of music
has graduated over 5000 pupils, of
whom 436 were Americans.
The census shows that the OK, that
patient servant of man from the re-
motest ages, is passing away.
Mike Mykens, of Denver, Col, is
said to be the richest newsboy in the
country, beirg worth some $4,000.
About 7,00C decorations have been
given to distinguished persons in
France during the last twelve years.
The girls of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, tore
down the posters that announced an
Grafton by an antiprohibi;ion orator.
Ice frozen mechanically is now ex-
tensively used in the southern cities,
the price being about $3.50 per hun
bred.
During the pas. fiscal year 46, 632
agricultural patents were issued from
the general land office at Washington
Bears, principally Of the cinnamon
variety are becoming very numerous
in portions of Calaveras county, Cali
fornia.
The wooden manufacturers of the
United States give employment to 160,-
$50 persons. OF these, 10, 159 are under
Is years of age.
Germany is the only country that uses
more postal cards than the United
States, the daily consumption there
being two tons in weight.
There is danger of a corner in sar-
dimes as the fish have disappeared from
the coast of Brittany, in France, as well
as from the coast of Maine.
The management of the Northern
Wisconsin fair have deposited 81, 900 to
be distributed in purses at the supple
mental agricultural hess trot."
A dissipated young Earl, who died
in England recently at the age of 26
from the effects of vicious life, had
thirty-nine church livings in his gift
The famous Dalrymple farm of Da-
kota is to be divided, MIR. George
Howe, an oil prince of Pennsylvania,
having bought 10000 acres of it for
5000.
A tree overloaded with fruit can
neither perfect the fruit nor ripen its
wood properly. A great many trees
are annually ruined by too much crop
ping.
The consumption of coffee in Ameri-
ca is said to be eight times per head, in
Germany twelve time, and in France
four times as much as in Epgand.
The Prince of Wales is said to be
$3,000,000 in debt, Notwithstanding his
immense income.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe gave dinner
party at Newport, Sunday evening, IN
honor OF her guest, Oscar Wilde.
The will of the late Mary B. Kelly,
of Philadelphia, bequeaths $13,500 to
the Roman Catholic church for various
purposes.
Charles Longfellow, the son of the
poet, hobnobs with jim Bennett. Both
have just reached Constantinople in the
latter's new yacht.
Francis Key, author of the "Star
Spangled Banner" is to have $780,
600 monument in San Francisco
Money was left for the pdrpose by the
late James Lick.
The death OF Bishop Scott makes
Mathew Simpson the senior Bishop OF
the Methodist Episcopal church, with
William T. Harris, elected but ten
years ago, next on the list.
Bishop Huntington denies that he has
located Mr.. Emerson's soul in an unde.
silable place in the next world. he
insists, however, that the Sage of Con
cord was not a christian.
1t is a siI gular fact that Mrs. Lincoln
died in the SAM house, and within ter
feet of the spot where she stood Nov
ember2, 1912, and was married to Abra
lam Lincoln.
For purposes Of taxation, Judge Sew
erance, of Mankato, Mimi, recently
returned his law library as being worth
$1,000, but the council said that it was
worth no more than $500, and taxed
the Judge accordingly.
General Joseph r. Hawley, United
States senator from Connecticut, is t.
be permitted to receive decorations
from Holland, Japan and Spain for hi
services as president of the centennia
exposition at Philadelphia.
polooo cor Ia haipo h,i1t in Soora