Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-04
GLEANINGS.

There are not moro than two or three
women whose wealth is greater than
Queen Victoria's.
A calf that was born without eyes or
tail is frisking around in Simpson
County, Kentucky.
The Chautauqua Literary Society has
enrolled over 10000 names since its
organization in 1878.
Eight hundred and ninety-four thou
sand nine hundred and three dogs were
last year licensed in England.
Thousands of canary birds have been
shipped during the first quarter of this
year from Mexico to Europe.
A woman in Canada has been fined
for persistently wheeling baby carri-
age in front of neighbours door.
A man-eating shark has been caught
in the Hudson, near Cornwall, N. Y,
nine feet long and weighing 500
pounds.
Sea spray writing paper, delicate
pale green, with fishing net or boat
stamped in one corner, is one Of the
caprices of the season.
William II. Montague, of Boston, has
in his possession the bullet with which
General Warren was killed at the
battle of Bunker Hill.
Swedish botanists have discovered
along a railroad seven species OF plants
which were unknown to the region be-
fore the track was laid.
Pittsburg is noted as the dirtiest city
=. 1 Il. 81. lei,
But it is ''clean" dirt so far as effect
on health is concerned.
Lieutenant Emory has brought back
to this country a number of Esquimaux
dogs. He will try and demonstrate
that they can live in this country as
well as in the Arctic.
They are complaining in Texas that
all the professors for the State Uni
versity are chosen from other States,
and that only the porters and bell
ringers are taken from home.
The astonishing fact is brought out
by n writer in the September CeatUrB
that out of our total population of over
80, 900, 600, the white population of
native parentage is only IS, 601, 676.
Congressman O'Hara, the colored
member from North Carolina. is a
graduate of Harvard and lawyer by
profession. He lives in good style and
has a white tutor for his four children.
The fire OF London exterminated the
plague OF London. Paris, in June,
1849, was killing 800 people day with
cholera. A great storm washed all
the filth out of the city and the cholera
subsidized.
Dark compilations coming into favor
it is said there is now what is known
as sunburnt powder introduced for the
makeup of ladies' faces. both young
and old, who would fain keep up with
the procession.
The Ti0o Republics, published in the
City of Mexico, has an interview with
a gentleman who knows, name not
given. in which he states that the
Panama canal will not oe completed
inside of fifty years.
There are 50, 900 more women than
men in Philadelphia In the country
generally thirty States and Territories
have more men than women, and
seventeen States and Territories have
more women than men.
OF 1875 900 miles of railroad in the
United States and Canada all but A.,
600 miles are operated on standard
time. The most important exceptions
are the several Pacific systems. East
of the Mississippi only about twenty
miles adhere to solar time.
Over hundred schools in Paris are
now provided with workshops. At
present they turn out articles of wood
from planning benches and lathes. 1t
is proposed soon to add iron to the
material 10 be operated on.
a Vermont man and his wife publish
the following card in the local paper:
Our sincere thanks to our brother
and sister and nephew for their kind
ness in sharing with us the expense
for the burial of our aged father"
A garbage sitting machine in use in
New York will make way with lao tons
of rubbish day. One hundred tons
is found to be valuable, and so only
forty tons are carted away as waste.
The coal, iron, tin, glass, rags and
paper are saved.
The largest cotton plantation in Ala
pdtud 10 bIidt VI b4s$SIS. IhObHIb
at Union Springs-900 acres-contain-
ing twenty-five miles of bitches, en-
ploying or supporting population of
800 persons, and producing 900 bales
of cotton, beside 5000 bushels of corn.
NJ. De Lesseps sommends the French
man for living on cereals, eight pounds
of which cost no more than one pound
of the Englishman's roast beef, and for
buying American cottonseed oil at 3
cents pound, purifying it and selling
it back to America as olive oil at SO q
gallon.
Contrary to the generally received
opinion, NJ. Anne concludes from ex-
periments contested on himself that
whole meal or household bread, CEN
tanning all the Ingredients of the grais.
is less wholesome and more indigestislel
than pure white bread made of Ne
flour alone.
A bank cashier at Sterling. Mich,
paid q stranger 500 for genuine 81
yer dollar bearing the rare date of 1924.