Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-06
GLEANINGS.
Boston has cremation society 81
raoI,, f,r hnoiuous


Numerous purchases OF cart horses
in England for American account are
reported.
Boston has a female hygiene club
that goes about inspecting the plumb
ing in houses.
The Smith family occupies fifteen
closcly-printed pages OF the London
city directory this year.
The British Columbia Assembly pro
poses law limiting the amount OF
land that one man can own to go
acres.
The National and Mercantile banks,
in the City Of Mexico, are to be CONSOLE
dated. Their combined capital will be
s20,0l0000
Matthew Arnold viii write book
about America when he gets back lie
will pay rs OIL for our failure 10 APP
prcciatc him.
c ows first appeared in Russia after
the French retreat from Moscow, and
the people still hate them aud call
them Napoleon's scaycngcrs.
4 Worcester, Mass, fiddler named
R.rdl took his old instrument to be re-
paired, when the reDairer found it to
be an AWAITS Of 1870, worth $4,000
The largest school in the world is
probably the Jews Free School in
Sptaitields, London. 1t has q daily
attendance of nearly 5000 people
A Detroit man, who has not received
y valentine in nine years, wants con
gress 10 pass law authorizing letter
carriers to dump all old valentines
through an air hole ia the river
Fifty years hence" says a Detroit
lake captain, 'Hho sight OF bark, brig
or schooner on the inland waters will
draw Il crowd as q curiosity. Steam Is
knocking out the sail-craft by the doh-
en-.
Two coiorcd members Of the Texas
legislature sit apart from the other
members, and appear TO be spectators
merely Of the proceedings. They never
Join in the debates. but vote without
molesration.
In 1870, when William b. Astor died,
he had 72O houses on his rent-roll.
The present number OF Astor houses
exceed l 200, the whole estate being
NtlNftt az bBbht 9tBs g9'ff BtRNfsNAAtf Is
an income Of $1,000, 900 year
There is big shoe on exhibition in
Providence. r. l., made for a negro
preacher in the West The sole meas
urcs y - inches in length. around the
instep q. and around the sole l8nches.
The future wearcr weighs 40 pounds.
The supreme court Of Iowa decides
that wife deserted by her husband,
without her fault, and left with no
means OF providing for her family OF
young children has authority TO sell
the personal property OF her husband
10 OBTAIN money.
1t IS now being found out that the
terrible volcanic eruptons which took
place recently IN Java were not an un-
mixed EVIL. as the enormous masses Of
ashes hurled ont OF the craters arc ex-
ccilput fertilizers, which, with proper
treatment. may make Java bloom
again.
A friend Of Jay Gould says; Il don't
believe there Is = soul that cuuidcs in
HIM Thousands fear him. And yet
he Is one ui the uatticst, most agree
able little men. perfect IN polish; but,
mt+r all, q Fra D.ayolo In business.
With him the human heart is q hollow
muscie,
"Ouida" writes OF llu IN Italy:
"liere one wants 50 i.tic the sir and
the llghi, aud little red Winr and the
rmjh ~ wind, AMI uNn iu, Of
maiz3 or OF grapes, and ou otG guitar,
and a niche 70 sleep IA near fountain
that murmurs ana sings 10 Tie mosso.
and marbles these arc crougl lp
Italy
The Hungarian patriot, kos>uh. /.
now 81 years Of aye, aud Ives quietly
at Mlaa. Ho neither believes IN th,
alliance of the Latin races, nor in tHat
OF the Ieutonc lie tnc.cs that Aus.
tria and Russia vii, ere lour bo 40
dacger5 drawn, and hopes that, as hc
has no iud-miL.cs save ih9ee oi OH
age, he may 1--we to see i.
Tho Boston Post tells of some col
lego boys who after dark took an en-
tire load o. wood from q farmers sled,
lief, in the street over night, and with
great labor piled it zap in cit!zou' s
woodshcd under the impression that
he'd be charged with stcaliugit. They
found the next morning that tho citi-
zen had bought chat wood the night
before
On the authority Of a lady in Wash.
ingloa Mr. j. X Randall relates the
following. "A rich master machinist,
every now and then, fancies he is q
boiler and about to burst lie throw
him glf prone upon the floor and jn-
Nists upon his family drCnchng Il nj