Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-03-22
GLEANINGS,

ciety.
For alternating from her her husbands
affections q New York woman has sued
her father-in-law for $4,000,
The Protestant Episcopal service has
been translated into Italian. and services
are held in two churches in Rome.
A darkey who died in Louisville was
found to have a hearl weighing two
pounds. The abnormal Development of
that organ was the cause of his death
The Birmingham Neaical ReUjeto rec
ommends for chilblains equal parts OF
dilute nitric acid and peppermint water,
to be applied daily at first and then
Twice day.
A girl employed as spinner in
Lowell mill has taken the first prize
offered by the Boston Musical Society
for the best criticism of vocal and in
strumental music.
The increase in the use of the electric
light is indicated by the fact that forty
nine electric light companies, with $751;
I 100000 of capital, We're organized IN
England last year.
A woman recently arrested in Cincin-
natl for drunkenness proved that she
was the wife of a California millionaire,
whom she had deserted years ago, be-
fore he became wealthy
As Georgia man says he can raise
$4,000 pounds of watermelons to the
acre, the inference is that he has taken
the Herodic precaution to kill all the
boys within ten miles of his plant.
Colorado is becoming civilized. A
man at Colorado Springs was not
lynched for the commission of a horri-
BILE crime, but was "sent to jail in de-
fault of bail, " Just as though he were in
the United States.
A son of Nine Loyson, the wife of
Pere Hyacinthe, is employed in one OF
the bureaus of the Treasury Department.,
He is a fine linguist and draughtsman,
and is quite favorite in certain circles
in Washington
An itinerant comic opera company
was fined $50 and costs at Dallas, Tex,
for performing Patience one Sunday
night. 1t is not clear whether the oilense
was in the presentation of the opera or
the desecration of the Sabbath.
The respectable youth who applauded
by Kissing a song in the New Orleans
Academy of Music was sentenced by the
recorder to pay fine of 20 or be inn
prisoned ten days. He paid the fine
and was released
Mrs. De Points, of New Orleans, offers
to sell to the United States the original
draft of the rebel constitution for $780,
! 600. 1t isn't worth rs much as the draft
of the original compact of The Forty
| Thieves, and that wouldn't bring $780,
600
The late Prince Karl, of Prussia, is
said to have smoked from eighteen tC
twenty-four cigars every day during the
last sixty years His early death, Al
the age of SO years, is a warning which
all anti-tobacconists will welcome as al
argument.
The census report, q little work o
fifteen thousand pages, will probably b,
issued in July. The extrayagant yea
of its authors in collecting a vast mass
of useless information will probably b.
forgiven by persons who find that {
single copy is winters supply OF fuel
Observation-Disclosures would never hay,
won the Vicksburg fair lady who re
fused her sutton four times, but yielded
when he fell on his knees before her il
parlor in the presence Of dancing
company and for the fifth time urget
his suit She accepted him on the spot
and appointed day for the wedding.
She was asked what she thought o
one of her neighbors of the name o
Jones, and with a knowing look replied
"Why, | don't like to say anything
about my neighbors, but as to Mr.. Jones
sometimes ! think, and then again
don't know, but after all, ] rather CUES
he'll turn out to be a good deal such {
sort of a man as | take him to be"
While attending spiritual seance IN
Philadelphia, few days ago, lady re-
ceived a communication from the al
legged spirit of her husband, directing
her to dig up a certain portion of her
cellar, where she would find lot OF
gold She followed the instructions,
but instead of finding money, opened
the mouth of an old well and fell into it,
and was nearly sutfocated-
Dr. Siemens, President of the British
Association, said in a recent letter on
wv dSlc. - ne DuIHlllH VI raw COAL lOl
domestic purposes is very wasteful.
Coal should be reduced to gas and coke;
gas can be burned more economically
than coal, while coke and other so-called
waste products resulting from the manu-
facture of coal gas are of more money
value than the coal originally used. "
A most surprising story is told by q
Southern man. He says that he set a
spring trap to catch some troublesome
rats; that one rat poked his nose in and
was caught; that the sharp edges of the
trap tore the skin of his nose loose, and
his ratship 'griggled himself or forced
himself ouy of his hide, leaving it in the
trap, bearing bloody evidence of the
terrible effort made to get out of it.
1t has come at last A Yirginian
claims that on removing a cake Of ice
that had been for several years in the
bottom of his ice house he found it per-
forated with cells which were occupied
by long worms of a whitish color
Others in the same vicinity report SINH
lar experience. IT will no longer be
considered safe TO use ice until it has
been thoroughly cooked, so as to effect
ually kill these parasites.