Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-10
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who is the father of forty-seve II child
rem.
a man named Herold opened a
saloon in Canton, Kan, in defiance
of the law. The women of the place
raided his saloon and poured his
liquors in the street.
In base ball game with his pupils
at Lawrenceville, Ohio, the teacher,
Harry Kiger, struck tremendous
blow at the ball and knocked out the
( brains of IA year old-boy.
A deer was lassoed near Amador
Cal, recently, which had, in addition
to two large and welldeveloped ant
lers, about a dozen or more small
horns protruding from different parts
of the head.
A Charlotte, n. c., gunsmith, has
made a gun to fit a man blind in his
right eye and unable to shoot from
his left shoulder. The butt is decid
eddy crooked 1t rests on the right
shoulder and brings the barrel to his
left eye.
1t will take three weeks to open the
snow blockade on the railroad be-
tween Needleton and S;lverton, Colo,
The people of the latter place have
had no fuel for thirty days, snow from
eight to twenty feet deep preventing
their getting any.
The Mannonaessof Lancaster Pa,
gathtsd 1920 stEc}gss Sunday aud
twenty applicants 20 preach opened
twenty books, in oneof which was a
slip of paper indicating the lucky
man. While the choosing was going
on, the congregation was weepinp.
1 The German town ofgHurstenfeld
thinks it has the Oldest tree IN the
world tits a linden standing in the
! churchyard among the tombs of cen
turtles, has trunk fully Is feet in diam
eter and twisted branches which seem
to stretch out all over the inclosure,
and is supposed to be 1000 years old.
Joseph Newman, of San Francisco,
claims that in 1870 he presented TO the
/ United States Senate an American
/ flag 20x36 feet, made by himself out Of
| California silk, the first flag ever
manufactured of American grown
silk, and he has sent letter to Sena
tor Miller asking what has become of
lit.
The great drainage system for the
recovery of the Florida swamps now
covers a tract 200 miles long and 80
miles broad. Nearly 1000, coo acres,
hall of which goes to the syndicate
and half to the state, are wholly re-
claimed. Land that one year ago
was two feet under water is now four
feet above, and is being planted with
sugar cane.
Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, has
reigned fifty-thrce years, longer than
any other living monarch. He sue
ceeded the throne in 1881, when he
was only six-years old, but he was
not crowned until 1841.
81 love to tell lie, l love to tell
lie" sang little Dick, with all the
strength of his three-yearold lungs.
"Why, Richard" said his mother re
provingly, you must Rot sing that.
1--WE singed that in Sunday -school, !"
stoutlv asserted the little fellow; I'VE
singed j love to tell story, and
story is a lie. Mamma had to eX-
plain.
Grecian women delight to deck
themselves in the dresses worn by
their grandmothers, wearing bands of
gold and silver coin about the fore
head and neck. 1t is still the custom
in some parts of Greece for a girl to
wear, generally on her head, all the
money she possesses, so that any
young man desiring to marry her
may know how much her dowry is.
Charlotte, N. c., was visited by q
plague of muskrats last week. Near
ly 200 of the creatures, all of them as
large as cats, made their appearance
and created considerable excitement.
They attacked the farmers while at
work, and they were compelled to take
refuge in flight after being severely
wounded. Where they came from is
a mystery, but they took possession of
the streets of the town.
In California they are beginning to
plant mulberry trees around the pub
/ lie school houses, so that the teachers
may be able to supplement their
salaries by raising silk worms during
vacation. The Silk Culture Society
of Philadelphia suggested a similar
policy in Philadelphia, as this seems
10 be the only chance of raising
the starvation wages of our school
teachers.
George Smith, of Indiana County,
/ Pennsylvania, put SIS, 600 in bills IN
wooden chest in his cellar He
would not trust his money to the
banks. When he brought the chest
to light few day ago 10 count over
his treasure he found that the rats
had burrowed through and through
the chest lutil only small fraction
of the original package of bills was in
a negotiable condition.
A company OF shad fishers in Glou
cester. near Philadelphia, has a shad
seine that's one mile in length. 1t is
now being repaired and tarred pre-
paratory to opening the season April
10. 1t requires the united efforts of
ninety men to handle it and two hours
is the average tiole necessary to pull
it in. A single haul in it often ex-