Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-04

4 The purchase of Maud S bv Mr..
Bonner does not consigu her 10 OBJ
security. She Will be given ample
opportunities to show what speed is in
her Mr.. Bonner proposes to send her
to the Hartford or some other good
track to trot at her highest speed He
believes that she can make a mile in
200, and perhaps in 2:o7.
M. De Lesseps commends the
Frenchman for living on cereals, eight
pounds of which cost n0 more than
one pound of the Englishman's roast
beef, and for buying American cotton
seed oil at cents a pound, purifying
it and selling it bacl, to America as
olive OIL at So a g?ilon.
A huge electric eel is now in the
London Geological Gardens 1t is
evidently one of the largest of its
kind, beng nearly six feet long, while
the largest specimen measured by
Humboldt was only five feet five
inches. AT present the eel can hardly
show its curious powers, as it is in a
bad condition from its long voyage
from South America, whence it ira
veled coiled up in a vessel too small
to ALLOW it to move without chatting
itself raw.
Political feeling in Scotland displays
itself IN odd ways, Admiration of
the great Liberal premier was mani
Tested at recent procession in Abcr-
deem IN the form Of a large Short
horned bull drawn by four horses
and labeled Mr. Gladstone, and ha.
tired in a lean OK ridden by a ragged
urchin labeled Lord Salisbury. In
another part of the demonstration
Lord Salisbury was represented by
dead horse followed by a number of
worn cut horses representing other
members of the aristocracy.
On the night of the 10th instant
there were dreadful tempests in Hun
gary which caused much devastation.
In the village of Zebegenv a whole
family persisted. The water having
penetrated into a room, The husband
broke a whole in the ceiling aud drew
the inmates through it up into the
loft But soon aiterward the entire
house fell in, and the wife, four
children and a servant were drowned.
The man was saved by clnging to a
rafter, and was dmfted some four
miles further down. On the line Of
the State Railway no fewer than
seventy houses were destroyed.
A singular instance Of the impor.
lance of botanical science TO national
industries has Just been afforded by q
discovery which promises to save the
wine industry Of France from total
rum by paylloXera A vine has been
found in Japan which is capable Of
yielding good wine and also of resist
ing extreme cold, and the devastated
yards are TO be repauted with 1t
Wheat is now selling in the New
York market at y cents less than it
sold year ago, that Isl England to-
day can buy one and a third bushels
of wheat for the same money it last
year paid for one bushel. Yet the ex-
port demand is only small, except as
compared with last years small move
ment In England wheat rules lower
than it has before ia 100 years.
People in Italy are beginning to get
tired of their experiment Of abolishing
the death penalty 1t is found thet
murderers sentenced TO life imprson-
ment generally live longer than the
average Of people who have to work
for a living outside, and hence the
punishment is deemed insufficient.
One of the most remarkable facts in
the recent history of English journal
ism is the great increase in the space
devoted 10 American news and to
editorial comment thereon The
American department is now a recog-
nized feature of every daily paper,
and the quality as well as quantity OF
the matter referring TO the United
States has vastly improved