Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-15
GLEANINGS.

Some land in the city of London was
lately sold at $500, 600 an acre.
A thousand million dollars is the es-
timated Shrinkage of Wall street values
within two years.
The stately but uncomfortable fashion
of powdering the hair has broken odt
in New York fashionable circles.
Mr. Keel, of Detroit, in writing tc
Castle Garden for wife, is careful TO
say; "A red hair prison need not APP
plye
The mother of Bayard Taylor. still
hale and hearty, is living in Philadol-
phia, on Spruce street, and loves TO
peruse her sons books.
The longest private telephone wire in
the world is said 10 be in Scotland. 1t
extends from Glasgow to Wemyss Bay,
a distance Of thiry-two miles.
A Kansas City woman appeared on
the street at night in Mother Hubbard
dress and was promptly arrested by u
policeman.
An idea may he formed of the size
and extent Of the National Yellowstone
Park when 10 IS known that IL is larger
than Tine two .i&tcS Of Rhode Island
and Delaware combined; or contains
800 square af.ie-.
Tac large ,arof Laus. which is to
be built 'ot u,,w museum OF Berlin,
viii be l-li rt "a length, 40 feet in
width uud ,r,t feet IN heighth 1t will
be appyoachc o, tWeutv-four steps,
and ON top VIII be about 100 feet square.
A Southern oNprr>>mau wears No.
144 shoe, iJ being 1873 inches in loucth
and 4 inches i'm WuGt But l5-year-
old negro boy in Dooly county, Ga,
boasts % foot which is Is inches long
ana 81 inches in breadtI.
Reno, New, boasts of having the
largest wagon in the state. The wheels
are over seven feet in diameter. the
hubs twenty inches thick, and the tires
nine and half inches wide, and two
inches thick. The wagon viii carry
thirty tons of ore.
General Crool. is now living mt Fort
Whippe, near Prescott A. r. His
home is pleasant roomy house of two
stories, surrounded 10y piazzas, and
commanding a fine view of hill and
valley. The Indians Of the section call
him "rhe Gray FoX,'
1t is given out that Freddie Gebhardt
acknowledges that his expenses on ac-
count of the jersey Lily were Sl75, 600.
This is probably an eNaggeratiou, but
it proves the adaee that certain kind
of young man and his money are soon
parted
A farmer at Lebanon, Mich, who
counts his acres by the hundred, went
into a store and asked for five cents
worth of the poorest tea, at the same
time remarking: Mother can't do
without it, and | am bound that as long
rs she lives she shall not bo without
tea.
Tho Central Pacific railroad company
is building in the Sacramento car shops
II locomotive to weigh sevcnty-three
tons and to have five pairs of driving
wheels. The length OF the engine will
be 60 feet inches; diameter of cylin-
der. u inches; stroke, 26 inches; water
capacity Of tender, 5000 gallons
In the summer, in Madrid after II q.
m, YOU stumble everywhere on a sleep
ing Spaniard taking his sicsta, undis-
turbed rs with us by any policeman.
All along the Gale Alcala YOU meet
Manuel or Pedro in the arms Of Nor
Ipheus The Spaniards say that only
English and dogs walk in the sun. "
1t appears that the Chicago police are
SO unaccustomed To the spectacle Of I'M
toXication that when they found q
drunken man in the street they took
him to the morgue and-put him on ice.
This demonstrates something or other,
but whether il Is the stupidity of Chica-
90 policemen, or the intensity and COM
pletcuess Of Chicago intoXication, is not
quite clear
A New Orleans noighborhood IS
alarmed bv "a ghostly drama performed
eyery evening az 1880 At that hour u
headless bOr-cman dashes up to de-
serted house, cnters and conversation
is dimly heard. Then the horseman
dashes away, and Immediately there
appears at an upper story window, sur
rounded by weird light, the figure of o.
beautiful girl with a dagger in her
breast, who gazes bcseeehIngly after
the headless horseman
The negroes Of Montgomery county,
Georgia, have a way Of their own IN
dealing with their church officers
When one of the flock violates any Of
the rules summary punishment is mcted
out A few days ago one Of the breth-
rem got drunk When he became sober
one Of the deacons took him down and
put thirty-uiue stripes upon his bnre
back The orring brother seemed to
think it all right and was willing % re-
cciyc his punishment
In the United States, during tie past
wear, 2S9, l9O.783 persons were trans
ported on 1917 coo miles of railway, or
six times the total population Of the
country The total number Of persons
killed on the roads was something over
1000 In Europe, in 1881, scarcely
40, 000 600 passengers were transport
ed over l72,SJ4 miles Of railway, In
America the ratio per mile is rs 1000
to l. I'm Europe it is only 900 70 /.
The European railways, in the year
1891. killed $500 persons.
just north Of El Paso, Tex, there is