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

and fifty vessels.
The names of New York benevolent
societies fill volume Of 500 pages.
A Massachusetts woman is suing her
mother-in-law for $25, 900 for alleged
SANDER.
Emigrants from Canada continue to
pour into the United States in large
numbers
DIR. Willis says the American Bible
Society is turning out seven complete
Bibles minute
ST. Petersburg has a population of
928, 016, only quarter of whom were
born in that city
A New York cook ends upher adyer-
tisement for Il situation ''None but
first-class families need apply
On rhe Mariposa road, near Tuolum-
ne, CAL, there are two snow drifts each
a mile long and $50 feet high
The population of Ireland is S,000,-
600 less than it was forty years ago.
The United States has got 'em.
A business dispatch from Philadel-
phia went to London and brought back
uu answer III I'LL " INV ihihutO0"
Last wear there were 1,517 murders
in the United States, SO legal execu-
tions, and lis men were lynehed.
The Dakota newspapers say that Da-
kota will raise about 10000, 600 bushels
wheat this year, against $4,000, 600 last
year
New York has Society for the Re-
Lief of Ruptured Persons, and is char
tered to hold 81, $50 600 worth of prop
erty.
In six years Henry NJ. Stanley has
succeeded in establishing chain of in
ternational stations across the African
continent.
A Spanish coin, bearing date of 1903,
was picked up by +. Z. Vaught, of
! Ohio, on the north beach of st. Angus
| tine, Fla, recently
The Emperor of China recently au-
! thorized the destruction of $4,000
worth of opium, and absolutely re-
/ fuses to accept revenue from its sale.
Emperor Don Pedro of Brazil has
reigned Gfty-three years, or longer than
any living sovereign. He was six
years old when he assembled the throne.
A Philadelphia bride-clcct refused to
po to the altar because her intended
had said he would only have two
spare rooms for her relatives in his new
house.
1t is claimed that the Missouri Botan-
zeal Gardens near St. Louis have a
complete collection of living speci-
mems Of all the plants mentioned in
the Bible.
1t costs q dollar in Milwaukee to say
that a man is personally a very fine
fellow, but politically a scoundrel. y
The rate was fixed by justice in a
SANDER suit.
House servants in Mexico receive
from @9 to $3.50 per month. They do
t not board in the family they serve. but
buy their meals and eat them in their
own quarters.
In the course of trial at New York
it came out that the custom of burying
f forty-lve infants in a single grave was
in vogue at Evergreen Cemetery in East
New York.
The new imperial palace at Stras-
burg is to be completed in three years,
at n cost of $1.250,000. 1t seems 4
preposterous piece of extravaganza,
7 as the Emperor has dozen palaces al
2 ready.
+ George Mayo. the champion orator
/ of Lawrence University, Kansas, stole
l half his piece from Colonel. a. X. Nc
Cures Grafton at Dickinson College,
a Pennsylvania, in 1873. Mayo was ex-
4 PEELED.
John Hogan who could not read or
y write died near Columbia, ). G., on q
: pile of straw. He had $1,000 in green
e backs in his belt, and owned Sl5,OUU
worth of real estate-all earned by
hard work.
A Monongahela City undertaken says
= he once laid the lid of a coffin on bed,
at funeral, and that several women
broke into Mysteries, saying that inc
first person who slept in that edwould
!, die in it.
a The estate Of Daniel Webster in
!, Marshield, Mass. is advertised for sale.
His house was burned few years ago,
and has been replaced by another, but
his law office remains as it was when
he used it.
In illustration of the Scotchman
love of country the Duke of Buceleuch
!. said II would rather die in snow
If wreath on the braes of Yarrow than
d on the softest bed on the shores OF the
h Mediterranean"
, The Hindoo beggars pursue then
calling on horseback. a writer says
they will stand all day before house
unless given aims. and are quite capa'
= BILE of pursuing anybody who tries &c
n run away from them.
| Danbury, Conn, has hermit, who,
unhermitlike, does day labor ahC
dresses we'll His name is Warren, ano
for a couple Of years he has lived II
20 the ruins of an old limekiln almost ma
Of den by bushes and trees.
y A down East jury had to be provided
& with dozen copies Of David Copper
i, field recently, in order to estimate IN
q libel suit, the amount Of damages Inc
: plaintiff had sustained in being com
n pared to "Uriah Heep."
p President M. C. Fernald, OF the