Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-04
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of whom only. $4,000 are white.
Rochester, N. Y. is said to have +
new, public park at cost of s300,000
REV. DIR. j. ID. Fulton. of New York
saws he found in Wisconsin n tliirty-acre
beer garden, in which every Sunday
10000. people gather
Bishop Williams, of Connecticut. Is
reported as saying that the Pilgrim
Fathers fell upon their knees and ther
upon the aborigines.
Mennwho can swim easily elsewhere
are often drowned in the lakes of Wyo
ming. Territory, where high altitude
reduces the buoyancy of the water.
The Portland 0regoRiap says thai
persons accustomed to the climate o.
Oregon no more expect rain there in sum
mer than they look Tor dry weather II
winter.
The Davenport Brothers were once
noted as Spiritualist mediums. One
died few years ago, and the other re
tired from business; but now the suryi
vor has started out again. |He VII
travel in u gorgeously painted car
The Cunard Steamship Company has
contracted with the Clyde firm OF JOIN
rEldred d Co. for two steamers Of 5000
tons for 1900, 900, being the larges
price ever quoted. They are to dc
nineteen knots an hour and accomplish
the Atlantic passage in six days
A poisonous gas hole among the stall
actite caves in the Yosemite is calico
Stvgian Cave Birds drop dead flying
over the mouth. and small animals en-
tering perish at once. 1t is filled witt
crystalline pendants Of deep emerald
hue.
General Thomas +. Eckert, the real
executive officer of the Western Unior
Telegraph Company, is an Ohio man
who began at the bottom of the ladder.
and was once ON country newspaper
His countena is of boyish east anC
his address pleasing.
Munk Murphy, brakeman, with q
claim to eccentricity, has established II
by riding into Boston coiled up on tho
truck under a car, town bet that he
could not steal passage. Lacking {
flag to wave in token of victory, he took
off his shirt aud flung it to the breeze.
There are now in England and VALE,
between 5000 and 400. 600 womer
one woman to every seven men. More
than Jos, 900 women possess. as house.
holders the municipal franchise. The
number Of women landowners in Eng
land and Wales is 81, SOC.
The consumption of coffee in thi.
country in 1882 was SO pounds foI
each person, and of tea, /. 46 pounds
In 1879 theFrench used onlv3.0 fpound:
per capita, and the English but .99 of s
pound; but the people of the Neither
lands consumed 1870, those of Belgium
9.l&, those u Norway s. IS and those o
Cape ColOny,I72
4 report that there are no state land:
for sale in Florida is contradicted. II APP.
pears that there are from 5000, 900 tc
4,000. 900 acres Of swamp lands subjec'
TO sale to actual settlers. These lands
have been granted to railroads, but an.
ill the law granting them has been com.
piled with by the companies they are
still for sale.
The famous "Sun Cholera Mixture
is said TO be an excellent remedy foI
ordinary summer complaints. but vii
probably not doto depend on in case o.
Asiatic cholera. 1t is as follows Equa
per rhubarb, peppermntand calnphor
Dose, five to twenty drops in three o.
four teaspoonfulls of water.
Father Bosco, famous Italian Cath.
Ollie missionary is now in Paris. He has
erected seminaries which contain $4,000
poor bows. He furnishes 600 priests
every year to the church. Over 20,00(
priests educated by him are now preach
inc in various parts Of the world. He
is almost blind and very feeble. Ii
manner he is chldjike, simple and
gentle.
Speaking of Henry Rochefort, {
writer from France saws IAN odd face
is his long. thin, eager. cranky; NJ
beard except q light mussache and goa
tee; an eve like the headlight of a loco
motive, the white showing all around
high brow and turbulent grayish hair
tumbling in cataraets over his ears anc
rising in a geyset on top.
A Charleston church steeple finds 1t
self suddenly in commercial demand
The owners of few tug boats in tn
harbOr learned that an incoming bari
could be sighted from its summit while
vet afar off Business prospered will
tutun. " uilc liCil liNhAcs OCSl liit audNlo
trious cruising of the bar, could get ne
vessels. At last the secret of the look
out was discovered and now the steeple
is to rent to the highest bidder.
The inhabitants Of Rugby, Tenn.
seem to have acquired the American
power of invention. One of them says
that he was out in thunder storm,
wheeling a wheelbarrow. when there
suddenly descended bali of fire. WheI
his dazzled eyes could see there was
nothing left of the wheelbarrow or it
load but a twisted tire.
A citizen of Boston, whom the Ga
zette of that city does not name, but
loosely describes as "a well-known gen
tleman," has made three wills during
the last twenty years, appointing three
different sorts of executors-nine in all
One after another every one has in some