Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-01-31
GLEANiNGS.

Women outnumber the men ten
TO one behind the retail counters in
New York
There are over 100000 horses and
100 600 vehicles Of all kinds licensed in
New York city.
Jay Gould figures out his losses in
stocks ut various times at over $780,,
900
The New York electric light compa-
MES have been given two years in which
TO bury their wires
There are mountains of solid iron
ore in Northern Sweden less than a
hundred miles from the Atlantic ocean.
One hundred vessels, SO, 600, 600 worth
of property, and two hundred lives.
were lost in our lake navigation the last
season.
The ordinary Japanese bed consists
of quilt spread on the floor, blanket
with sleeves for q coyerlet and q block
OF wood for u pillow.
Mississippi has gained 100 per cent
in five years in manufacturing indus
tries, having at this time $1,000 600 in
vested in such enterprises.
The century plant, which takes 100
years to ripen in the north, takes but
twelve years to mature in California,
and takes only five years in Mexico.
George Goodnow, Of Savannah, and
Mr.. McGaiG, of Cochran, Ga, both coll
ored preachers, have gone crazy, each
thinking he is John the Baptist.
Statistics just issued BY the Dutch
Government show that an area of at
least 92, 900 acres has been recovered
from the sea during the last three CEN
turtles
Uncle Remus' states in the Critic
that the banjo is the instrument of the
stage negro, but not of the plantation
negro He never saw pair of bones
in the hands of an old time slave.
Professor Alphcus s. Packard, OF
Bowdoin College, who is now in his
eighy-ffth year, said the other day
that he had never been i'll a day in his
life.
a daughter of Minister Sergeant is
making speciality of the eye in her
medical studies in Zurich. Miss Sar-
geant is graduate of the American
medical college.
Gwinnett county, Ga, has Il magis-
trate who grants divorces to parties
who will swear that they cannot live
peacably together and pay the costs Of
the proceeding.
The late Professor Sophoclcs, of Har-
ward, had no faith in Che modern meth
DDS of transmitting money, and used
every few years to cross the Atlantic for
the purpose of carrying to his mother
sucn OF his savings as she needed.
A visitor at St. Louis, looking out
upon the river, remarked that it was a
fine looking stream of good, Textbook
| ING water, and that st. Louis was the
only place where he had to pick his
teeth after drinking.
Since July | there has been a shrink
age of $40, 900, 0O0 in the Willard stocks
OF which $4,000, 600 was in Northern
Pacific, $4,000, 900 in Northern Pacific
preferred and $40,000,O00 in the Ore
gon companies.
The area of the amber fields in Prus-
STA is nearly fifty miles long by ten in
breadth, and it is reckoned that every
Twelve square feet of surface will pro-
duce pound, the value of which
ranges from s pence to Il sterling.
There are six full grown sons. all of
one family, employed in the cotton
mills ut New Hartford, Conn, not one
of whom can read or write. The Yam
kee schoolmaster must be abroad,
teaching the heather in other parts Of
the world.
M Btadlec, an architect, has proved
beyond all dispute that Portland &C.
ment does expand. He filled three
glass bottles with cement and closely
sealed them. One of the bottles burst
in two days, anotherln eight days, and
the third in ten days
The Eddystone Light of the Pacific is
to be erected on Seal Rock, ST. George S
Reef, eight miles from shore, opposite
Crescent City, Cal, and will cost $500,
600. The highest point Of Seal Rock is
fifty-four feet above the mean tide. The
light will be one hundred feet higher
Bridal tears" spiced wine, is
drank to the health of the contracting
parties at q betrothal party in Norway.
When u child is born placard bor-
dered with red silk and lace is tackled
to the door, and friends pour in and
are treated to mulled wine and CHINA
mon cake.
The railroad bridge over the St. Law
renee from Ogdonsburg to Waddington
is to be two and a half miles long, and
will cross the St Lawrence canal with
swing bridge 1873 feet long. The city
of Ottawa agrees to pay $3.50, 900 Of the
cost, if the railroad company will make
a wagon road on the bridge.
DR.. Richardson. Of the State Uniyer-
sity of Pennsylvania, says that before
vaccination was discovered, during every
epidemic of small pox, one of every five
persons died, and another of the five
was injured or crippled for life. Only
one in 100000 is ever injured by vac
cination.
An inquirer asked what he should do
with a horse that vas troubled with
periodical dizziness, and the editor an
swered in these words: "Our advice,
based upon a perusal of the valuable
book, Every Man His Own Horse Doc
tor, would be to take the horse some