Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-01-04
BRIEF ITEMS.

Nennor "Ialr ana cold Christmas
was myth.
George w. Childs, of the Philsdel-
phia Ledger, gave his employees $4,000
In Christmas presents.
Carrie Crittenden, the only daughter
of Governor Crittenden, of Missouri,
little girl of 9 years, died of diphtheria
the other day.
Ash Wednesday. the beginning of
Lent falls the coming year ON Febru-
airy Z; Good Friday is March %, and
Eastern, the end Of Lent, March %.
tom Ochiltree, the Texas con-
gressman.elect, has declared himself
IN favor of Blackburn, of Kentucky,
for speaker of the next house.
Mr., George f. b. Jackson, of Maine.
is now president of over 800 miles of
rMlr0ad--a greater distance than any
other New Highlander has under his
charge.
The aged Peter Cooper is rapidly
failing, his eyes and ears beginning TO
weary of their work and refusing TO
continue the functions they have per
formed for over 30 years.
j. H. Haverly has completed ar
rangements with Colonel Mapleson for
his entire Italian opera company for Il
tour of Haverly's western theaters, in
GLIDING that in San Francisco.
The Japanese prince and suite, now
ut Washington, viii soon leave for San
Francisco via the Pennsylvania, the
Chicago, Burlington Il Quincy, and
the Union and Central Pacific rail
roads.
The marriage is announced for Jan
uary 81 of Henry Hoyt, son of govern
or Hoyt, of Pennsylvania, TO Miss Nan
cy MoMichael, daughter Of the editor
OF the North American, Of Philadel-
phia.
Mrs. General Mcclellan, at a Wash
iugton reception, wore heliorope bro.
caded velvet with q pale heliehope
feather in her hair.
1t is stated that George X. Anderson,
Of Titusville, Pa, has $4,000 insur-
ance on his life, the largest amount
held 10y any one person in the United
States.
Mr.. Slayton, the manager of Mile.
Litta's professional tour, c2ntradicts
the Bloomington report o! her i'll
health and proposed withdrawal from
the public.
Hon. julius II. Seelye, Of Amherst
college, is out with a letter in favor Of
the reelection Of Mr.. Hoar TO the SEN
ate.
In San Francisco, Nine. Nilsson re-
Gently made the tour Of Chinatown,
visiting the theaters, restaurants and
joss houses.
Rosa Bonheur has taken mp her win
ter quarters at Nice, where she intends
to work at large pieture-"Trans-
plantation"
Dr. Atwater, of Princeton College, is
still in very poor health, and his four
professorships of logic, moral philos-
ophy, international law and political
science--aro filed 10y substitutes.
Hon. VIM. NJ. Evars has accepted
the invitation Of the joint committee
Of Congress on the Ne~bprg tN.Y-l
centennial to deliver the Grafton at the
celebration Of that university.
Mrs. L. A. Il. Messenger, of Akron,
o., has supplemented by $25, 900 Mr..
Buchtel's endowment of Buchtel Col
lege, and il is said that other large gifts
are to be made that will swell the total
to about quarter Of a million.
Young or Old SoWs for Breeding.
In New England, Lower Canada, and
perhaps in some of the middle states,
the fomer practice was TO breed from
almost exclusively young sowe. 1t was
seldom a female was retained on the
farm over the second winter; she had
to take her chance with the rest Of the
swine, and at the age of about Is
months she went into the pork barrel.
Since so much attention has been given
TO breeding hogs, the choicest sows are
selected, and are retained for years
for breeding purposes. In the early
days alluded 20, hog at Is months
old would weigh from $50 up to 800
pounds. They were mostly fattened
on potatoes, apples and pumpkins,
with bran, corn meal, and perhaps
ground oats and barley. The pork
made in this way was the best we have
ever known. Then the hogs were not
all lard as they are now, but there is
little doubt that there is an improve
menl IN this branch OF industry in re-
tanning a SOW for breeding az long as
she produces good, healthy litters.
They should be kept as long AZ they
make good mothers. When they
cease to do this they should be
butchcred
- -
4 Man Mha Thraehpd a porlnt,