Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-18
GLEANINGS.

Ulm Cathedral will shortly be com.
pleteI, after remaining unfinished
for nearly 400 years. Begun in 1877,
the building was concluded in 1894,
with the exception of its towers, which
are now being erected according to
the ancient design. This cathedral is
one of the largest in Germany, being
nearly as large as the Cologne Dome.
Among the lads" of a New York
daily is one out of the ordinary line
of such things. 1t states that noble
man, 81, line appearance. fortune in
view, desires the acquaintance of a
refined lady of wealth" Whether he
is 'nobleman" or not, he is of
course a swindler and in need of the
money that he hopes to get by marry
ing 'lady of wealth.
The people of Columbus birthplace
-Genoa-are discussing the proper
method of celebrating the fourth cen
tennial of the discovery of America.
1t is proposed to send over twelve
Cfenoese sea Captains to land at the
spot where Columbus landed, and
also to send over, for temporary ex-
hibi6on at New York, the fine statue
of the great navigator which stands IN
the Piazza di Colombo.
A new method of finding husband
has been tried by young lady of AL
bany She sent up a toy balloon to
which she attached a card bearing
her name and the further inscription
eff any gDodlookipg young bachelor
or widewer finds this, will he please
return it2" After a weeks absence
the balloon was found by young
farmer, who returned it with his
compliments and his photograph.
A celebrated biological savant in
Germany divides humanity at large
into two grand categories, the intel
lectual and the animalistic AT the
head of the first stand the Germans
and the English, with cognate lower
gradatons, and in the second cate
CORY Spaniards, Italians, Russians,
Croats, Turks, Arabs, negroes, Chi
nese, down to North American Indi-
ans, entirely given over to brutality.
The best cocoanutS come from Cen
trail and South America. They are
not picked nor shaken from the trees,
but when ripe fall off themselves.
From 10 to 20 per cent. are lost in
transportation. Those partly spoiled
are made into cheap confectionery
the others are burned, shell aud all,
and ground up into what is called
spice mixture, which is used to adul
terate pepper, cinnamon, allsplce, etc.
There is thus but little loss or dam
age except to the conscience.
Though there was little said about
it, on Wednesday, August 81, there
was celebrated in one of the Western
towns of Pennsylvania the twenty
fifth anniversary of the first oil well
ever drilled 1t was sunk near Titus
vile, and yielded ten barrels a day,
the product being then known as rock
oil. This was the humble beginning
of the business which now employs a
vast number of laborers, millions of
capital, and exported last year over
SOC, 000, 600 gallons of petroleum.
The reason why education is usually
so poor among women of fashion is
that it is not needed for the life which
they elect to lead With a good
figure, good clothes and a handsome
equlpage; with a little reading of the
daily newspapers and of the fashion
able reviews; and, above all, with the
happy tact which often enables wo-
men to make large display of very
small requirements, the woman of
fashion may never feel the need of
true education. We pity her none
the less, since she will never know its
peace and delight.-Julia Ward
Howe.
A singular mode of preserving pre-.
historical records has been discovered
in Ireland. On Case Hill, near Bel
fast there was a sholt time ago an
ancient castle. In order to protect
its ruins from the ravages of time and
passing vandals, some local anhquar-
ians determined to surround it with
wall, and employed a contractor to
execute the work. The wall was fin
ished in due course, but when the
antiquarians came to admire the
castle it was gone Thu contractor
had used the ruins for building ma
terials, and not a stone of the castle
remained.