Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-07-24
GLEANINGS

During the year 1888 the railways of
Great Britain killed !, 230 persons and
injured s, 1923 persons.
A lump of Alabama coal weighing
40, 600 pounds is on exhibition at
Birmingham, IN that state.
The plains of Texas cover an area of
Tsp, 600, 600 acres, on which feed 3, 500,
600 head of cattle,
An Irish lady living, recently, in
Dublin has bequeathed IS, 600 TO the
national cause for the independence
of Ireland According to the terms
Of the viii the interest of the 5000
is to be given yearly to the highest
form of managing a national govern
ment for my beloved country"
Scarcely anything eaten is more
scandalously adulterated than must
ard A sample purchased and analy-
zed under the direction of the New
York Health Department contained
four-ffth flour and sulphate of lme,
yellowed by a substance which is
hurtful to the tissues of the human
body, and utterly unfit to mix with
anything that is to be eaten,
At the recent celebration Of its tenth
anniversary the Prussian Bible Society
reported that up to the beginning Of
the present year it had distributed
4, 2S3, 254 Bibles and S23, 597 New Tes-
taments. During the past year the
British and Foreign Society, which
has an Office in Berlin, distributed in
/ Germany IS, 495 Bibles. as against Is,
794 New Testaments published by the
Prussian Society.
Vaccination performed once does
not act as preventive of smallpox af-
ter a certain length of time has elaps-
ed. An examination of the statistics
Of this disease shows that of those who
had taken it and had been vaccinated
in infancy, 80 per cent. are over 10
years of age. Revaccination at inter
walls, say, OF seven years, is the only
known effective measure for proLec-
ton.
A convicted thief in Morocco is told
to hold up his hands and then polite
ly asked which one he would like to
keep. When the choice is made they
cut off the other with an ak, and the
system is continued so that an obstin
ate offender sometimes loses both
hands and feet.
American society is no longer pro
vincial, says Edgar Fawcett, the
novelist. People come to us from
European courts and marvel at The
scale of magnidcence on which ON
reveleries are conducted We are
foreign and initiative only in oul
snobbery, and-might | adm oul
immortality.
The free ice water fountain provid
ed by the Business Mems Moderation
Society at the New York post Office
was started Thursday, and was con
stantly besieged by thirsty pedestrians
Over 1900 pounds of ice was used
The keepers of lemonade stands in thu
Reighborhood complained of a grea'
falling Off in business.
Sir Lepel Griffin, the dyspeptic En-
glishman who has Just published 5
book on this country, in which he at
tributes the political corruption preva
lent here to the Judgment of power il
the hands of the masses, is a pitifu
victim OF prejudice. HAD he take1
the trouble to recall the fact tina
although the masses enjoy no poll
teal power, corruption ia politics pre-
walls to an extent unknown here, h'
would have avoided making such Z
fool of himself The Oxford bribery
cases have a world wide reputation.
When the tornado struck Richburg
n. Y, a few days ago, Mrs. Alonzt
Mead was in the kitchen preparing
Goldfish for dinner A tin dipper stooC
on the table and on nail near by
hung pair of hickory overalls
Some days after the storm had passed
which tore up trees, blew Mr. Mead
house down and hurled him a hun
bred yards through the air, there wer,
found hanging in a tree three miles
away a Goldfish and a pair of hickory
0veralls and on the ground beneath
the tree was a tin dipper. They have
} been identified as belonging 10 tn
= Mead household.