Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-17
GLEANINGS.

"A trout has hved thirty years in a
well in Harwich, England.
Mgr Capel, having lost his voice,
has been compelled to cancel his lee
ture engagements in this country.
Elephants in the ST. Petersburg
Geological Garden tear down the signs
requesting the public not to feed
them.
The Florida veterans send 20 the
Richmond Fair in aid Of disabled Con
federate soldiers S61S, and promised
more.
The Second District OF Gibson
County, Tennessee, has three men
that have sixty three children, twenty
two apiece. One of them has seventy
five grandchildren.
a New York Bible cauvasser has
been arrested for obtaining goods on
false pretenSeS, and among the effects
found on his person were pawn tickets
for three bibles
Captain Traynor. of Bath, Me, has
started for New York to prepare for
his attempt TO row across the Atlantic
in a boat 10 feet long and feet wide,
pcSluHihN VI - uht.
A large Newfoundland dog that
held one end of rope while one girl
at the other end swung the rope so
that another skipped it, amused New
York in City Hall Park, Sunday.
! Queen Victoria has developed quite
q passion for letter writing. One of
her latest epistolary achievements
takes the form of coincidence with the
Khedive of Egypt on the loss Of his
mother
The latest return of the number of
volumes in the British Museum is
Just over 1900. coo. There are 100
miles of shelves and about twenty
more miles to fill. 1t is calculated
that about one ton OF literature a day
is sent into that institution
Indian story-tellers very often give
their variations entirely in sign Ian
guage, and the laughter Of their hear
ers will often be the only audible
sound for an hour.
Victor Hugo, at eighty. writes with
: his own hand all the important parts
|, of his MS 'rhose of my thoughts
! that are immortal he says, Il would
not trust to an amanuensis.
E "Will you have an orange on a iig2'
4 inquired DR.. Jackson Of fine little
boy somewhat under the weather.
"a fig. answered the child with alac-
4 rity. mo fever there, said the doc
tor, or he would certainly have said
q an orange.
A gentleman writes to the Scienti-
1 fic American from Iowa that last fall
b. he came across large garter snake
? out Of whose mouth protruded the
e heads Of VA little snakes. Near by
/ five others We're basking in the sun,
!. each of which she swallowed success
sively when he went near her
S Texas has cattle queen besides her
Numerous cattle kings. She is the
~ wife Of an methodist preacher
named Rogers and lives in Nevices
/. county, where she owns and manages
, a ranch of 80, 600 head of cattle, while
I her husband attends to his duties as IA
= member of the state legislature,
1 A little boy was buried in Meridian,
D Miss, the other day, and behind the
S hearse in the funeral procession walk
a ed his pony with its saddle draped
y with Grape Strangers even looked
with moistened eyes upon the little
p fellows pet, upon which he had been
b often seen to ride through the streets
c but little while ago,
A rather handsome young lady in
Pittsburg called on a physician the
other day and complained of q slight
2 dullness of hearing, which inferred
with whispered conversations A
shoe button was found in one Of her
= ears and o couple Of beans in the
+ other. She supposed they had been
: poked in there by her lover as a joke.
I. Mary Raspberry is the romantic,
ruby and fruity name Of an ardent
old lady who aspires to be in Atlanta
what for many years Mrs Myra
i Clerk Gaines was in New Orleans
. She sues the city for the recovery Of
9 twenty-five acres, on which are eighty
, houses, claiming the property as in
I herited from an aunt whose will was
4 lost or stolen.
THE Prussian people believe that
, Bismarck is superstitious The say
; that he is awed by appartions in UNI
+. inhabited castles, shrinks from din
j. ing where thirteen sit down at the
. table, believes in unlucly days, and
adheres TO the ancient belief of the
r. influence Of the moon on every living
! thing But, according TO Or. Busch,
this is all nonsense, with the eXcep-
ton of a single story which happened
a atSchpnhausen (where the Chancellor
heard mysterious footsteps in the
q antechamber of his bed room. The
jests about my superstitons, " he said
few months ago, 'are nothing but
tests. or consideration of the feelings
OF others. / will eat at table with
, twelve others as often as you like,
and will undertake the most i'm
portant and serious business on Fri
day"
I A celebrity Of certain sort in Brus
J sells known as Ia Manchotte, from her
; having but one hand, was lately found
, with her dog dead from charcoal