Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-01-24

Army Medical Museum, is polished
and bleached like ivory.
About $50, 900 worth of property
has been stolen from express wagons
in New York this winter.
Efforts are being made by the Cath
olics of Denver to make this city the
seat OF the largest Jesuit college in
America.
Transportation and commission
cost the South Florida orange raiser
81 500 for oranges that are sold for
50, 600 wholesale.
Horas K. Thurber, head of the
New York house of Ill, X. & +. B.
Thurber, is about to retire. Although
but "a years of age, he is reputed
worth So, 000, 900.
According to the figures Of the
Agricultural Department, the aver
age yield of wheat per acre in the
United States in 1883 was 11.5 bush
els, and Of corn, 1877 bushels.
The surprising sunsets of November,
which reached around the world,
created superstitious fear in India,
and numbers Of holy men went 2asosa-,
preaching impending disaster.
Doylestown, Pa, IS tin a ferment
over an attempt of the RosQa,an CatA
olic parish priest Of the toTto to ~
tain a portion of the school mon
ey for the support OF his parish
school.
In a sermon Sunday, Rev. Heber
Newton, of New York, said he sus-
pected that the story Of Joseph and
his brothers was simply an ancient
drama. It's literary merits we're of
very high order.
The daughter of an Orange Earl il
Ireland has eloped with her groom.
The wretched experience of daugh-
ter of an Ex-Governor of Connecticut
in the same moon-calf business, had
no deterrent lesson for her.
The Boston Congregationalist wishes
that ministers afflicted with draw
ing, drowsy, clipped or other obiec-
tionable habits of utterance, could
have business talks through tele-
phone half an hour every day.
The Jews are more numerous in
Hamburg, Frankfort, Amsterdam
and Warsaw than in any other Euro
pean towns OF all European coun-
tries, Ireland has the least number of
Jews in it, strong indication of its
poverty.
The salary of the American Presi-
dent is $4,000 year, Queen Vic
toria's income, including the returns
from her property, amounts to $500,
600, while the Emperor of Germany
and King of Italy are each in
receipt of much larger sum.
Alabama is looming up as coal
producing State. In 1875 it sent
1900 tons of Coal into the market
Now it is 10000 tons, and Mobile
used to pay $14 a ton for coal that to-
day sells for 81. The Alabama fields
are destined to supply all the South
ern States.
There are many Colonies, Judges,
honorables and Generals registered
at Florida hotels as coming from New
York City. 1t is said that New York
never contained so many distin-
guished gentlemen as are numbered
and titled on the hotel books of Flom-
da.
A man IN Onondaga county, New
York, writes that last season, owing
to cold and wet, was a poor one for
honey, yet, after dcductlng all ex-
penses, save his own time, he has, by
the sale of honey, bees and queens,
ATTAINED years salary of 81, 02l.3O
for ATTENDING EIGHT sWarmS
A man at Biddeford, Me-, found in
his woodshed recently dead weasel
with his tongue frozen to an AK blade.
The ak had been used in cutting beef
in the morning, and the animal, in
attempting TO secure a piece of the
meat which adhered to the blade, had
singularly met his death.
The Portland Oregonian wisely
warns people intending to emigrate
to that section to wait for season
able weather, unless they are well
provided for. The great Northwest
is frozen up just now, and there
will necessarily be suffering for
new Corners. The advice is equal
ly applicable for all northern lati
tudes.
THE Mexican Government has
made contract with Mr.. Oscar A.
Droege to plant 1000, 600 trees in the
Valley of Mexico within four years.
The contractor pledged himself to 80,
900 ASH. 25, 900 willows, 100, 900 pop
lars, 10000 eucalyptus trees, 10000
trnnosjapones, 10000 mountain cy-
press cedars, 60, COO acacias and 1870, 600
of miscellaneous varieties The trees
must be in plantations of from 80, 600
to 100, 900 each.