Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-02-14
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.

Mrs. Bean, Brunswick, Ca, gave
birth to three children Saturday.
Il.Use of bloodhounds to catch con
yicts ia Texas is to be investigated.
Brooklyns art loan exhibition took
in 50, coo for the Bartholdi pedestal.
Montreal's ice palace cost Sc, 600
There are $4,000 visitors in the city.
De Nell, of the last big divorce
case in New York, has gone home to
Dresden.
Mules are in big demand in the
south and bring $500 span in the
coast cities.
The San Diego, Cal, ostriches are
laying eggs-something new in their
imported state
Three days strike was enough for
the New York cloak makers, and they
gavein.
Billy McGlory has reformed in the
tombs and threatens to lecture on
temperance when he gets out.
The Ohio department of the G. A.
r. resolved against the proposed abo
lition of pension agencies.
New York fish dealers complain
that Boston rivals get discriminating
rates from the railroads.
The Texas legislature has appropri-
ated $50, 900 to send detectives and
rangers against the fence.cutters.
Wendell Phillips did not like titles.
He preferred to be called Wendell
Phillips, and nothing else
The Smith family occupies fifteen
closely-printed pages Of the London
city directory tins year
Matthew Arnold will write a book
about America when he gets back. He
will pay us off for our failure to APP
preciate him.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pitts, at Avon, n Y,
are said to be almost heart broken
over the marriage of their daughter to
Frederick Douglass.
Edwin Booths engagement which
has Just closed in Philadelphia, was
the longest he ever played in that
city, and has bad no parallel in the
history of the Walnut Street Theater.
At the meeting of the National
Rife Association. in New York, re-
Gently General Philip I'll. Sheridan
was elected president ia place Of Gen.
Grant, whose term has expired.
Mrs. Strong was the first cotton
raiser in California, and last year she
produced 100 bales
The Standard Oh company's ware
house on Sixty-Third street Chicago,
was damaged by fire $25, 600.
The Irish-Amercans Of Milwaukee
will hold special memorial services IN
honor of the late Wendell Phillips
The legislature of British Columbia
asks the dominion parliament 10 i'm
pose a tax of 500 per annum on ev-
cry Chinaman entering that province.
DR.. Damrosch's son has been Sc
cured as organist of Mr.. Beecher's
/ church
Senator Edmunds has ordered a
bouquet of sweet flowers for his desk
every morning.
a large fund is accommodating for
the widow of the late DR. Wood, of
the New York Sun
Seth Low, mayor of Brooklyn, ac-
cording to his private secretary, will
be candidate for governor the next
/ time
The wife of Robert p. Porter, the
noted statistician, has got a divorce.
She lives at Rockford Ill.
Oscar Wilde has Just completed
his lecture tour in the north Of Ire
land, and reports differ as to his sue
cess.
Where may we hope never to meet
o friend While we are ascending the
hill Of prosperity.
Why may stone cutters reasonably
believe there is no such thing as
GRANTEES They never saw it.
Why should potatoes grow better
than other vegetables Because they
have eyes to see what they are doing.
Why is woman deformed when
she is mending her stockings! Because
her hands are where her feet should
be-
Why is q woman like a locomotives
Because she draws a train after her,
scatters the sparks and transports the
males.
Why should work people initiate the
wind? The wind is always busy, and,
like a cheerful operator, 1t whistles at
its work
4 duck before two ducks, duck be
hind two ducks, and a duck between
two ducks; how many ducks. were
there IN all2 Three.
Con Orem once fought the Hon. 0.
Georghegan, and ia 1863 was the mid
dle-weight champion He will spar
four rounds with John L. Sullivan.
The 'huale" of Thatcher, Primrose
and West S MINISTRIES represents base
bail game. George Thatcher umpres
and Billy Rice plays first base 4
fiat bat is used.
There is grief in the horse family
/ Jaw Eve Sees mother is dead. 1t is
rumored that Jay Eye-See will not
20 on the turf next season in con
4 sequence of the bereavement.
\ Fourteen valuable stations were
/ burned in Lord NOrrv's stables near