Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-27
GLEANINGS.

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Mrs. Fred Prince, Boston. had a
800, 900 check in her wedding gifts.
Mrs. Lawrence, of Chicago, has
given Yale college $50 600 for a DOR
mitory.
One thousand people are flooded
out of their homes along the Cumber-
land.
DR.. Carver shot 1,003 balls in sew
enty-one minutes recently at New Or
leans.
Abram Fisher, SO. was married to
a girl of 16, at Knox, Ind, the other
day.
New Orleans city authorities have
rented steamboat and fitted it out to
repair levees.
The American Electric Light com
pany has sold its Canadian business
to tie Royal company.
Harvard's faculty announces that
the college club must play all games
on the college grounds.
Melvina Mitchell, Fall River, Mass,
sat by her fire with toothacne. Her
clothes caught afire and death ended
all.
Rev. Hiram Gee, Ithaca, n. Y,
Methodist, is under Indictment for
renting property for purposes of pros
titution.
Schenectady n. Y, is talking about
sewers. Although one the oldest cit
les in the Union, it has no sewer sys
tenn.
Louisiana eonvicts are working on
the endangered leyees.
Sewing is now taught in the public
schools of Springfield, Mass
A woman started the first daily
paper in the world in 1902, in Lon
don.
Mrs Frank Leslie is to be married
soon to the Marquis de Leuville, who
is rich and respectable.
There were fifty-nine carriages in
the funeral procession of Ben Thomp-
son, the noted desperate, at Austin,
Texas.
The rattle in New York for the
trotting horse Judge Fullerton, was
wen by G. H. B. Winship, of Provi-
dence, Rhode Island, by a throw of
forty-seven.
Colonel George T. Warnings son
Guy, just out of Harvard, has mar
ried his step-mother's sister, who is
thirty-six years old and mother of
three children.
William H. Vanderbilt is shaved
every day by the same barber, an
old German, Jacob Aber, who shay
ed Fernando Wood for over thirty
years.
John Dawson put out one of his
wife eyes in a fight in Boston two
years ago, and the other day, in fit
of rage he knocked OUT the remaining
one.
George Hammond, a convict in the
Ohio penitenuary, has been pardoned
but refuses to leave until cured of an
injury received while at work in the
prison.
Nobody supposed DIR. Mercer of
Newport, was rich, but when he died
it was found that he was worth $780,
600 and the city collector will sue for
back taxes.
II. Peoples, Charlotte, N. c., has
got divorce from his wife. She made
him climb up an apple tree and then
chopped it down. In the tumble he
broke bones.
Her latest photograph shows Sarah
Bernhardt enwrapped from head to
foot in q wonderful wad of furs, swell
ing her to the size of dime museum
fat woman.
There are eleven states in which
women vote for school directors.
Most people will be surprised to learn
that Kentucky is one of the states.
Captain Waddell, who commanded !
the famous Confederate cruiser, the |
Shenandoah, has been elected com
mander of an oyster police boat on
the Chesapeake.
1t is said that when the cyclone
demolished the Baptist Church at
Mount Carmel, S. c., the pulpit was
left standing, the Bible and hympbook
remaining undisturbed.
Laborers on the Cape Cod ship
canal have struck for novel reason
the unpalatable quality of the food
furnished by the employers. They
say either the cook or the contractor
is to blame.
One of Davy Crockett's old hunt
lng-knives, with four-inch wooden
handle and a six-inch blade, with
silver hand around the handle, has
been presented to the Tennessee His
torical Society
Ii is several centuries since Italy
has taken part in polar expeditions,
but one is now about to be sent out
under the command of Captain Fen
dacaro, Of the Italian navy,
Samuel w. Jacobs, of New York,
has been driven insane by the return
of the Lasker resolutions, and wants
TO kill Bismarck. His wife has turn
ed him over to the police.
Austin, Texas, boys amuse them
selves by dropping cats from the Colo
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