Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-20
CLEANLINESS

business in that state is being over
done.
The goat is in danger Of losing hi:
main article of diet. 4 new industry
is the collection of tin cans for melting
into window weights.
Boston has. 304 electric lamps, each
costing 65 Cents % night, displacinl
three gas lamps, and costing as much
AZ ten.
A writer in the Toledo Blaae says his
method Of catching hawks, when they
get troublesome, is to set steel trap or
the top Of post, near . wire cage in
which are chickens.
The semi-annual report on Maine''
savings banks shows that the total de
posts are $50, l47, 703. % an increase
Of nearly 100000 since the last state
ment.
A Pittsburgh physician says that Ale
gheny river water lacks lime, and that
people who habitually drink it are like.
ly to be afflicted with white decay OF
crumbling teeth,
Train men on New England railroad
stop at the car steps lady passenger.
who hug to their bosoms their dear lit
tie ours. "No dogs in arms admitted
madam! Please put him in the bag
gagc-car.
Complaint is made that there is nc
more game to speak Of in the Adiron-
dacks, and thar guns and dogs are a
useless mp there as fan in a cyclone.
This Ks one of the results of the march
OF civilization.
Memphis has raised the old question
Of lager beers Intoxicating quality. The
witnesses range, as usual. from the Ger.
man who can drink . hundred glasses
in day without staggering to the
Yankee whom ten make drunk.
There are no longer any individual
diggers for diamonds in South Africa.
Companies Of capitalists have bought
the claims, and not much is being done
even by them, owing to the low prices
that the stones now command.
A wonderful deposit Of whole trees
impreeuated with silica and covering
two square miles has been found in
eastern Arizona. BY breaking the stone.
like wood beautiful specimens are OBJ
tanned. which look like Jasper and az
ate.
The first lee cream ever seen in st.
Louis was on the occasion Of the mar
riage Of Miss Louise Choteau to Gabriel
Paul, lifty-nine years ago. twas serv-
ed by New Orleans caterer, aud ere
ated a sensation.
The German Minister at Washington
has invited President Arthur to send
one or more officers to Coblentz, where
there sill be sham fight in October,
lasting fourteen days. The prUbabil.
itics are that the invitation viii be &C.
cepted
A pond called big Red Lime Sink,
near Dooiy, Ga, which local tradition
calls unfathomahle, suddenly sank l0C
feet recently, with ~ tremendous thud
and rumbliug sound. 1t is supposed
that the bottom Of the pond was the
roof of great cave.
The New York World started the cir
culatrug story that one Of the active ed
itors Of the ST Louis RtpbIicdB is nine
ty-eignt years old. The Baltimore San
tells us that its Youngest western cor
respondent is stationed 1T San Francis
co, and is past eighty.
George Augustus saba objects 20
public feeds, sitting for hours at oil
crowded tavern table surrounded 10y vi
ands you DO not wish 60 eat and liquors
YOU do not wish To drink. This is q
little ungrateful from "a man who for
years has been among the most habitu-
al diners in London.
Female clerks in music stores in New
York vino can play tine piano are con.
sidrrc worth $40 moro week than
those ,ydo are unable to play. Many
cuslonlrs are uuatIo 70 judge Of tht
music a' ycading it: they must hear II
played before they buy H. The playing
attracts other customers aud thus an
immense amount of music Is sold.
Keepers of carrier-pgeons in Ger
many have learned from the Chinese an
ingenious method of protecting their
messengers from birds ot prey They
fasten to the tail feather, compact
arrangement OF small reeds, eight or
ten ia number. weighing only a trac-
ton OF an ounce. which in the pigeon S
swift flight emiS whistIjug sound
shriil enough 80 scare pursJers.
Itoppears that tho importation OF
Russian Jews has proved q sorry fail
urc, About "a fifth of ue 10000 who
came have been sent back The mana
ger of the Hebrew Emjgraut Aid Soci-
city in Now York SAYS Russian jew,
owing % early marriage and hardship,