Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-10-09
GLEANINGS.

made $l75, 900 BY his performances
this year.
Thirty years ago General Phil Sheri-
dan was Lieutenant and known as
the best song-and-dance man on the
Texas frontier.
Most Of the more than 4,000 women
employed in the government service at
Washington are from the Middle and
New England States.
Sunday, saws n California paper, IS
devoted to athletic sports at the pehi-
Tertiary quoting, running leaping'
and similar acts Of worship.
Out Of Japan's total population OF
30 900, 600 there are only 10000 paup-
ers, and OF these more than l,OOO are
ut Toxic in the work-housc.
The Duke Of Westminster. ono OF the
largest property owners in London, al
lows no liquor sold in my building or
on any land rented from MIN.
Bob Toombs, of Georgia, is now 70.
blind in one eye from cataract, and
partially blind in the other. He is
rich, and quite as original rs ever.
An old man in Cincinnati makes o
living by going round between 8 and 8
O'Clock in the morning waking people
whose employment ncccssitates rising
early.
The East Indies aro oyercrowded
with goats. There are millions in the
islands, and the land from one
end to the other smells like an inn
mense stable.
In Chicago there is one doctor TO
every 54S inhabitants; in st. Louis, one
to every 475; in Denver, one to every
26O; in idaho, one to every 81, and in
Wyoming Territory, one to every 30.
A farmers work on wet days in
cludes, according to an agricultural
paper, this miscellany: "Mend the
tools, oil the harness, pick out the de-
Caved fruit and vegetables in the cellar,
read. write and visit the school. -
There is nothing very brilliant
about our Bremen dentists. said u
lady to an individual who practiced the
art in Berlin. "but they are obliging.
If you wish tooth extracted with gas
they forthwith light the chandelier"
HYGIENE pillows are now in vogue.
Three form full equipment for bed,
of which Que is filled with hops, a Sec
ond with pine needles, and third with
marine moss. They are believed to
cure sleoplessness and nervous disord-
ers.
Last year Paris consumed 107, 426.-
900 gallons of wine This was about
forty-seyon gallons to each person, or
over pint q day to each man, woman,
and child. 1t is very common thing
to see French mothers feeding wine 10
u babe.
According to the latest census the
people of the United States engaged in
active business pursuits are thus em-
ployed: In agriculture, %, 000,0 900;
professional and personal service, 12.-
600, 000; manufacturing and mining,
1000, 900; trade and transportation,
5000, 600.
The Dutch have not controlled the
nutmeg trade for many year,. They
tried to coniiue the growth of the nut
meg to the Banda Islands, which they
owned, but the nutmeg pigeons carried
the nuts into all the surrounding coun-
tries, and the trees grew and ilourished
in spite Of the would-be monopolists
In the Luray cavern, the guide re-
marks, Nov / will show YOU the
GROWING wonder of all, and points to
a little circular depression in the rock
"a perfect birds nest--aud there. to
carry out the illusion, is a little white
egg, smooth and perfect in shape as re-
ality. There We're three, but some
Yaudal stole the others.
The question whether or not the use
Of natural gas is safe, as now conduct
ed, is being agitatcd in Pittsburg.
Many persons living along the routes
Of the pipe say that it is only quos-
ton of time when the people will be
Mortified by disastrous explosion.
The same unrealIzad fears prevailed
when the artificial gas was introduced.
The development Of the lumber,
manufacturing business in many parts
of the South is remarkable. From
South Kentucky TO Chattanooga, Tenn,
is an extended and vast line Of saw
mills and staye, spoke and handle
factories. Large numbers Of people
are crowding into that region, Of which
the town of Dayton. Tenn, is the
active business center.
A cement which rcsists damn and
firmly attaches labels to iron and tin
work consists Of a paste of rye meal.
and little solution of glue aud water
TO which as much Venetian turpentine
is added as may be required Ordin-
airy flour paste, when well made, and
some glycerinc thoroughly Incorporated
with it, does very well for fixing print
cd labels on timed shect-iron boxes.
Tho California ostrich farm covers
200 acres, has twenty old birds and
eighteen young ones. The proprietor
is hopeful Of large profit. One-half
the feather product of Africa Is market
ed in the United States, and tho de-
mand is increasing. Each bird ought
to yield fifty long white feathers twice
a year. The feathers have to be washed
and curled, and are then worth 81 TO
Sc each, wholesale.
A correspondent of the Boston Globe
gives the following cure for catarrh:
Take about pint of warm water,
add one or two teaspoonfuls Of fluid ex-
tract of witch-hazel and twenty or