Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-21
GLEANINGS,
A first-class American hotel is to be
built in the CITY of Mexico.

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ply.
The Alabama river has been swollen
for eight months, indicating an unusual
rainfall
Pcarl-hunters are numerous along the
Caney Fork river, Tennessee. just ut
this time.
\ Sl.j0 goat near San Francisco did
damage to farm that made his owner
subject TO verdict for $500.
1t is estimated that there are three
thousand Industrial establishments in
the republic of Mexico where steam
power is used
Twenty thousand pounds of red fish
men on Silver lake, Wallowa valley,
Oregon.
The Free Kirk of Scotland is threat
ened with schism by a movement look
ing TO the introduction of music ut pub
lie worship in the convertible.
A Chicago firm has negotiated for a
thousand acres of land in Madison coun-
ty, Tennessee, for the purpose of estab-
fishing strawberry and fruit farm.
The number of fires on Cuba sugar
estates during the past crop was 1879 of
which l67 were accidental, 20 intention
al, and the causes of the rest unknown.
While l4-year-old boy, of Bushkill,
Orange couaty, n. Y, was cutting one
of the strings of his shoe tho knife slip
ped and entered his eye, destroying the
sight.
A stone weighing fifty tons is being
Furnished in Vera Cruz, and is to
serve as the cornerstone of the sea-wall
which, among other improvements, is
to be commenced shortly.
A colored baby in Lee county, Geor-
gia, was found the other day with u
large ratilesnakc coiled around it. On
being discovered the snake uncoiled it
self and was Immediately killed.
A man in Clark county, Virginia, re-
Gently killed chicken. in the craw of
which were found twenty-four copper
caps or shells used in making cartridges
for small pocket revolver.
What is said to be the longest bar ev-
er manufactured in the country was
rolled at PhGniXville, Pa. 1t measured
three-quarters of an inch in diameter,
and was 2S6 feet long.
A wonderful snow and ice cavern has
been discovered on Mount Tecumseh in
Thornton, N. H.. the existence of which
has heretofore been unknown to men
living within two miles of the place.
At every station on the Russian rail-
roads is = grievance book, in which the
traveller may inscribo his wrongs in any
language he likes, and which is period
ically read by the authorities.
The largest diamond-cutting house is
in Amsterdam, employing 400 persons,
where the koh-i-noor was cut. The
trade is difficult, and the wages are
from 81 to 9l2 or even Sl4 day.
Up in Manitoba there is ferce war
between the staid and steady Mennon-
ties who believe in hooks and eyes and
the younger and more worldly portion
of the sect who demand buttons.
a farmer in Henry county, Kentucky,
has eighty stalks Of large white corn
that have 2G5 shoots On them. 1t is the
"Bessarabia corn," of Russia, and will
make at the rate Ct forty-two barrels
per acre.
The Chico (Cal) Record says that a
party of Good Templars, while out fish
| inc in Iron canyon, saw o crimson-col-
cred snake eight feet long and rs thick
as mans leg, which was catching fish
for his breakfast.
Fashion rules the candy trade almost
4 Il -, l.,
| Gum, however, is not subjected to its
caprices, There is as little change in
the form in which it is sold as in tobac-
90.
, A letter from White Mountain ho-
tel speaks of quadrilles where q set was
made up of seven young ladies and =
| solitary Young man. Our vacation be-
| gins forthwith, and our face is turned
| toward the north star.
More trout have been hooked in
Northern Vermont and NewHampshre
| this year than in any season OF recent
wears. The catch is over, with hardly
flesh enough left in the brooks to pre-
vent their extinction.
A convict SAYS he was sent to prison
| ltl Dtlll1 bl~ltll'Nts 'tll'A ~ nv - ND'''
| PEELED every day to cut out pieces of
| pasteboard, which are put between the
soles of the cheap shoes made there and
palmed off on the innocent public as
leather - Pfiiadclphia NeWS,
A woman was bathing in the surf at
Rye Beach. A COW objected to the col
or of her bathing suit, which was red,
and patroled the shore waiting for that
suit to come within goring distance. 1t
was necessary to Kill the COW in order
| to get the woman out Of the water.
A private detective of San Francisco
is suing n reporter for S25,0 600 damages
for calling him a blackmailer. The sup
position that private detective could
be damaged S25 900 is as preposterous
rs the notion that a reporter could pay
! that sum.
A band of one hundred Migrants who
| have been attracting considerable atten-
ton at Philadelphia, upon the strength
OF their representation that they were
gypsies, proved to be but gang of
more than ordinarily impudent English
tramps.
The Nashville (Tenn.) World SAYS: