Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-02-01
GLEANINGs.

cents per day, or AZ cents per meal.
Florida claims to own a mule 40 years
of age that served gallantly in the Mex
lean war
HALEY, Idaho, town SO small that it
has no place in geography, finds motor
iety rs the place in which nine men are
locked up for as many murders.
Geo. I. Reynolds. ofGrilfin. Tex, has
Just had cut from his back the steel head
of an Indian arrow that was shot into
him sixteen years ago.
Irving Whitford, who lives near Adj
ans Centre, n. Y, has a bull weighing
900 pounds that he harnesses and uses
to draw milk, cultivate corn, and do
general farm work.
Twenty-one canary birds, three-quart-
eIs of cord of wood and four cans of
raspberry jam were replevined by an in
jured husband from his wife, who mad
gone to her father.
A patent has been issued from Texas
land Office to Richard King, the cattle
man, conveying to him a title to 1856
square leagues, or over half million
acres of land.
w iillt liu2iu2 NlG NNHOOA-Utl III
Franklin county, Georgia, the teacher
was instantly killed by the bell falling
from the tower and striking him on the
back of the neck.
A man in Delaware County, Pa, has
900 hens which produce 63, 600 "chicken
buds per annum-an average lay of
l05 eggs each. His profits amount to
about $1,000 year on eggs alone.
Chief Justice Coleridge of England
says that four-fifths of the crime that
comes into court results from drink, for
which Britishers pay over S500000,000
year.
New York Custom House officials are
becoming suspicious of modisteS re-
turning from Europe. Recent discov-
cries are that too-ample costumes con
ceal silk, laces, hose and dress goods.
A Michigan woman made q claim for
fourth interest in an Irish estate val
ued at 100000, but failed to establish
it, and is grateful for the 1000 which
the heirs have sent her to pay the cost
of her effort.
A recently superseded foreign minis
ter, while passing through London on
his return to this country, registered
himself at Bowles American agency as
Col, American minister -, in
rought for home
The smelling furnaces ut the Ely cop
per mines near Waterbury VT. have de-
Stroyed the vegetation in the vicinity Of
the mines, and the farmers Whereabouts
have brought suits for heavy damages
against the mine owners.
A small boy of London. decming him
self il-used by his parents, waited until
they happened to be simultaneously sick
and then took a safe revenge by stab
bing the father, clubbing the mother
and smashing the furniture.
A book agent had the misfortune to
break his leg ut Il camp-meeting in But
Ter Ga. the other day, and while the
sympathizers were gathered around as
two surgeons set the limb he sold three
copies OF his book.
A man who was too old for military
duty at the breaking out of the war of
1912 is still living near College Mound,
Macon County, Mo. His name is Robert
Gibson. he is said to be ll6 years old,
and he recently rode in q wagon eight
miles to church.
Egypt. with population of 5 200, 900,
with 5000, 600 acres of tllable land,
with tax revenue of $4,000, 900, half
of which goes to pay interest on the
public debt, has had to eXpend S400 600
per annum for many years on foreign
officials.
\ Minneapolis cab-driver has been
searching for several days for the man
who gave him two $50 gold pieces in.
stead of two silver dollars. This re-
markable occurrence is accounted for by
the tact that "he is not long in the bus
inc p"
The pleasures incident to life in Ari-
IONA are shown in the experience of
the young woman of Tucson who,
when disrobng for slumber, discovered
a huge scorpion so securely fastened in
her corset strings that it bould not in
jure her
Among the astonishing performances
of persons deprived Of sight that of the
man who assembled Mont Blanc is
worthy of mention. England has n
blind Postmaster General who manages
the department with unprecedented sue
cess.
More than 100 per cent. of the school
children of Pittsburg are afflicted with
myopia. or near-sightedness. Faulty
constructed school buildings. fine print
in text books, pale ink, greasy states,
and poor hlackboards are some of the
causes. In other cities the percentage
is equally great
The peryerse use of words is well il
Illustrated in Analogue between an Eng
fish lady whose little three-year-oid boy
was playingon the deck of a Cunarder,
and an American lady who, desiring to
compliment, said: ''What n cunning
child you have Not ut al, CURLY
replied the mother che is rs frank and
4 honest = child as you would meet
NJ Verestchagne, the painter Of bat
tie pictures, has recently had two sin
gular compliments paid him by CONT
81 mental governments. So wildly has he
depicted the horrors OF the battlefield
that in Russia the public exhibition Of
ms minimize stro. ott1e-af Ir,y. sp+artlff.-