Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-08-28
GLRANINGS.

II VI.
Mex, has been humane enough to pass
a law requiring butchers to XIII beeves
either By cerebral conclusion or by
cutting the spinal cord.
In 1000 towns west of the Mississ-
| lppI river there is no Protestant
preaching. The Home Missionary
Society OF the Congregational Church
IS aiding missionaries to occupy that
field.
A colony of bats has been disposs-
essed of its quarters in the s,eeple of
the Episcopal Church at Hopkinton,
N. II. No fewer than 316 of the noe
turnal wanderers were counted, but
there were more than that.
The gratuitous food kitchens at
Marseilles are described as being de-
cldedly unsuccessful institutions.
Food is given without supervision to
all who apply for it, and the applicants
feeling sure of obtaining abundant
nourshment, give up work and con
tract idle habits.
The Catskills have as varied an or.
biography as the name of Shakespeare.
They are spelled Caiskill, Katskill,
Kaater kill anterskill. Katzkill.
kalzberg, Kalzsmberg, kanterzkili
Kastensberg. but are as pleasant and
picturesque by one name as another.
The aboriginal name, Ontorios, is the
best of all
Lille Devereux Blake says "a bach
elor is a man who has lost the oppor-
tunitY of making some woman miser-
able Just so. Lille 1t is impossible
for fellow TO marry without making
all the other girls who happen to be IN
love with him miserable.
Drink wine when you 90 to Paris, "
say travellers; the water is seldom
fit to drink But how good is the
wincl Ia the last report of the muni
opal laboratory, under whose scrutiny
the wires of the city must pass, the
number of good samples found among
3, 361 was only 357 while 1908 were
passable, 1, 700 were bad and POP posi-
tlvel y dangerous
In an action for breach of promise
the other day in England the defend
ants counsel asked the fair plaintiff:
did my client enter into positive
agreement to marry your q Well
not exactly" she replied, but he
courted me good deal and told my
sister he intended to marry into our
family
The natives of Stonington, Ct,
assert that it has never rained there
on the 10th of August for 101 years
That is the day they celebrate, and
the weather record, they say, has been
accurately kept in the borough ever
since the first anniversary of the bat
tie of Stonington.
Mozart, who, while he lived, wanted
bread, now gets stone. Vienna is
building him a monument to cost $50
600, which is much more than he re-
ceived for the whole work of his life.
He died in want, and his dncofiined
corpse was trust into trench in the
potter's field.
Michael Dryer, bad boy of Am
sterdam, is alleged to have waylaid his
father one night last week, and with
a cooked revolver presented to the old
mans head, induced a surrender of
his vest and what money he had
mlcudel IS now WduuGTtf.
The War Department at Rome has
invited all Italian emigrants settled
in foreign countries to return home
and fulfill their military duties, every
male tWenty-one years old being sub
iect to conscription, regardless of
naturalization abroad. Italy has re-
peatedly refused to exempt her sons
naturalized ia the United States.
The Columbia (Ga) Sentinel con-
tains the following short sermon:
Young people who are disposed to
misbehave in church while worship
is being held should be more consider
ate, as they may possibly come to
grief for such conduct. Because sen
tence is not speedily executed against
such behavior, some take license to 60
on. This may prove sad mistake.
People should make up their minds
on going to church to deport them
selves right, or not 20 at all. F."
A coal dealer asked some law stu
dents what legal authority was the
favorite of his trader One answered
Coke. y Right, said the coal deal
err. Another suggested: Blackstone "
Good, tool' said the questioner.
Then little man pped out Little
ton. Whereupon the coal dealer sat
down.
There are now about dozen bridges
across the Thames az London, and the
corporation has just decided to build
another. Two centuries ago London
bridge was the only one, and the bold
proposition to throw across another
as far up as Putney was kicked out of
the House Of Commons. One states
man went so far as to urge that the
second bridge would be an end to
Londons prosperity.
The plan of using the enormous
water power of the Alps for working
electric railways in Switzerland is
about to take a definite shape, the
idea being to connect the towns of st.
Morltz and Pontresina by an electric
railway four and three-quarters
miles long. the motive power to be
supplied by the mountain streams;
the line. in case the plan proves a sue
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