Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-10-02
GLEANINGS.

Jue pOHc NHdlc hSHlug WOuld no long
er be profitable
A new steamer has been built for the
Cunard line, which, it is claimed.
will make the trip across the Allan
tic in six days and beat everything on
the ocean.
4 gigantic earthworm has Just
been sent from Cape Colony, Africa,
to the Royal Geological Society of
England. 1t is six feet five inches in
length and thick accordingly.
The Maine State Constitutional
Campaign Committee has decided to
organize at once state, city and town
leagues for the enforcement of the
new constitutional prohibitory law.
The title, Your Honor" applied to
American judges, has been adopted ia
England, in accordance TO a ROYAL
proclamation, as applied to country
Judges who hitherto were neither lord
snips or worships
a pack OF Indians camped near
Lansingburg, n. Y, for several DAVIS
and when they left the medicine man
of the gang carried off as willing
captive the eighteen-year-ol daughter
Of respectable parents
a Texas paper paints the following
picture of felicity: "A negro man
with large watermelon under his
arm, large piece of melon in his
hand from which he was eating, while
he was feastiug his eyes on the big
circus show bills"
a New York animal dealer SAYS he
has on the way from Europe two liv-
ing specimens of the mammoth. an
animal long supposed TO have bean
extinct. They were captured in the
mountains Of Malay. They may be
mammoth frauds.
In New York bachelor can live
on 81, 500 a year; if he marries his
annual expenses become $500. AS
most bachelors don't have So, 500 they
get gloomy and go it alone.
Two French detectives swore
mans life away for $500 B,They should
come to this country. They could
get job here where the reward for
such services would not be less than
$500.
An architect says that forty-ninc
people out of fifty who build homes
for themselves voluntarily increase
his estimates from 1000 to $4,000,
and in case they get stuck" they
howl at him.
There are twin sisters near Cleve-
land, Ca, who are exactly the same
hight and balance the scales at the
the same notch. They look so much
alike their own mother can't tell one
from the other
While the teller of the Bank of
Montreal was fishing in the ST. Law
renee river, sturgeon four feet eight
inches long aud weighing forty-two
pounds, jumped into his boat He
killed 1t with an oar
Miss Pearl Tyler, the daughter of
ex-President Tyler, is to be married at
Richmond shortly to William n.
Ellis, member of the Virginia House
of Delegates. Miss Tyler is described
as "a brunette Of a very decided type,
a daring and dashing horse woman
and of charming manners.
During the siege of Paris Project of
Hirault telegraphed to Gambetta, at
Tours, asking him how he should send
10000 pairs Of shoes to the troops from
his province in Paris. After sending
three dispatches the answer came:
Let your shoes be accompanied by
300, 600 mer."
The largest bell ia the world is now
said to be that at Kioto Japan IL is
"a feet high and 1G inches thick al the
rim. 1t IS sounded by a suspended
piece of wood, like battering ram,
which strikes it on the outside, and its
booming can be heard for miles.
Great Britain is better supplied with
newspapers than any other country
in the world. Belgium comes next
and the United States is third. There
are 81, 600 newspapers published in
the world Of which $4,000 are pub
lished in Europe and North America
alone.
Among the edible fishes collected in
the waters about Charleston for the
New Orleans exhibition, by the State
Fish Commissioner Of South Carolina,
are the following: Amber ish sailors
choice, creivale, sheepshead, croaker,
SklpJacK, drum, SNAPPER, chub beam,
black grunt, mullett, bass, salmon,
trout and black fish.
my son, asked a Sunday school
teacher, what do you know Of the
proverb regarding people who reside
in glass houses2' 81 cont know
n0thin," was the response, about
the proverb, but / know that the PEG
pie wot live in glass houses orient TO
lay abed late in the mornin' unless
they pull down the blinds.
A dreadful man, who does not give
his name, writes a Boston newspaper
the following libel on the Boston
woman 1.-THE Mexican women of
the lowest strata of society surDass in
manners, grace, courtesy, etc, the
most accomplished Of what we call
the highest classes here in Boston.
| have seen more grace and beauty
and more savoir among the ladies of
the Rio Grande del Norte than have
ever seen in Boston.