Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-11-06
A two-headed child is the latest pro,

uucllon OF Chattanooga, Tenn.
An insurance company threatens to
forclose the MORTGAGE on the Madison
Avenue en- " Congregational
Church, OF which DR.. Newman is pas
tor; The church has a debt of 81, 600
and $50 in the treasury.
A hunting festival has Just been
Kept IN Syria, where Prince Angus
4 tus, OF SAKE Coberg, gave fete TO
commemorate the killing of his /, 000th
chamois. Ali this family are true
lovers of the chase. A relative lately
deceased, the Count Of Erbach- Erbach,
killed 9 202 heads of game during his
sporting career.
Rev. Father De Mario, of San Fran
cisco, has invented an altar lamp
which will burn for a long period,
brightly at night and dimly Il the
daytime. The lamp is said 20 resenl-
bic a small engine and to measure
nearly four feet in height.
A chestnut at the foot of Mount
Etna is believed to be the largest and
oldest tree ia Europe. 1t is hollow,
and large enough to admit two car
riages driving abreast 10 pass through
it, The main trunk has a circumfer-
ence of .2l2 feet; this grizzly giant is
said to measure ninety-two feet in
height.
An ingenious Frenchman has Just
patented an invention from the use of
which ocean steamers may profit He,
has applied a cushion of red india
rubber 10 the bottom of various house
hold, objects in earthenware, por
eelain, glass, etc, so that they can be
inclined at an angle of from 40 to go
degrees without falling over.
Colonel Sellers took clever advertis.
ing advantages of the camgaign ex-
element in Cleveland, Ohio, by par
aiding in Blaine procession men
carrying transparancies bearing the
legend: For Congress-John 7.
Raymond.
J. S. Morgan of London, who says
he isn't about to marry the divorced
wife of the late Charles Summer, has
been making a pleasant and protract-
ed visit in Philadelphia to Mrs. An
thony Drexel, one of his American
banking partners.
Abraham Thomas, of England, re
Gently went to Indian Territory and
married an Indian girl worth $780,
000 That, under Indian laws, makes
him a blooded member of the
tribe, but does not give him any con
troll of the property.
A Swiss mountaineer has made a
bet with a wealthy Englishman that
he can make the tour of Earope on
foot, visiting every separate country,
inside of twelve months. to start on
Jan. /, 1885 The wager is for 81, 600,
with expenses.
A young widow with a genius for
advertising herself had inscri bed upon
the tombstone of her late husband.
Sacred to the memory of Mathusin
Benuchet, who departed this life aged
68 years, regretting the necessity of
parting from the most charming and
best of women.
Your honor may dismiss the jury I;
every man there owes me for suit of
!
/ tailor nolle pressed case against a
county Official whom he was suing for
the price of a spring suit last week.
Ratskin fur and ratskin slippers are
late London freak. Only the skin
above the punches is used, the re-
mainder being too thin. -Four rats
are required for slipper, and sixty
for neck piece.
A recent city ordinance in Phila-
/ delphia has stimulated the activity of
various telegraph companies in the
work of putting telegraph wires un-
foreground. The Western UDion has
already arranged with contractor to
ley 100 underground wires on Chest
nut street and number in various
other parts of the city.
An excessively hard winter, from a
business and financial point of view,
is looked for throughout Southern
Europe, owing to the cholera and fail
ure of crops. The curtallment and
stagnation in trade are complained of
as unparalleled in Central and North
Europe, with no immediate prospect
of relief in view.
Among the prominent and most in
teresting exhibits at the London
Health Exhibition was the dairy. The
cows were MIXED in the presence of
the spectators; the milk was then put
into centrifugal sklmmers, and in
twenty minutes time from the time
it let the COW the spectator could
spread the butter un Ills bread.
The Spanish mandoline is growing
IN popularity among the fashionable
girls who twang the banjo and guitar
The mandoline has fur double metal