Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-04
GLEANINGS.

country produced IA 600, coo tons,
nowEs5, 000, 600 tons annually.
The best shot in Dakota, at least Sc
far as prairie chickens are concerned,
is said to be woman.
1--WE sell several hundred glass ewes
a year." said Philadelphia dealer,
"and send them as far as Portland.
Ore, Denver Col, and Lawren ca
Kan.
The Empire of Brazil represents one
fifteenth of the surface of the globe,
one fifth of the new world, and over
three-sevenths of South America.
The Pennsylvania who has been
waiting for freeze up in order TO fill
a contract for $50 live rattlesnakes
ought to be able to get to business
now.
Since the bridemsids at Miss Astors
wedding carried bouquets of La
France roses there has been a great de-
mand for that fragrant bat hitherto
neglected flower.
There is an eternal fitness in most
things. A man in Buffalo by the
name of ovens is wholesale dealer in
biscuit.
Tennyson's new poem will be out
next month. But no one need get
angry about it. You cannot be com
PEELED to read it.
As a sample of good guessing, Con
gressman-elect Gibson, of Maryland,
said he would get 2, 100 majority. He
got 2, 102.
At Foster, Pa, four generations of
one family voted election day, the
ages ranging from one hundred to
twenty-one years.
An Albany firm has sold over 10, :
600 photographs of Mr.. Cleveland
since his election.
The Methodist Conference in Dakota
declares solemRly that it will never
consent to the adoption of constitu-
ton for the future State of Dakota
which does not contain constitutional
prohibition.
The disco very that over two hun
dred tons of giant powder and twenty
tons of dynamite are stored just out
side the city limits of Cleveland has
thrown the inhabitants into panic.
Were this material to explode it would
destroy the city.
An English 'ladies' tailor" ''by
appointment, etc, is about to open
an establishment next to belmont
cos.
This ticket was voted in the Tenth
Ward in Buffalo: For President,
Grover Cleveland for Vice President,
John A. Logan damn the electoral
method
1.-THE Cleveland Gem, " as the big
diamond is called, weighed rs carats
before cutting, and will pre- badly rep
resent 30 carats~ when facAed. Its
value is $4,000.
The New York Mail and Express
thinks the man was born polite who
will pass a dish of celery to his fellow
boarder without first selecting nice,
crisp piece Tor himself.
Annie Whitney, the sculptor, whose
last work is Harriet Martiueau's sta
tue, has farm Of IT'S acres, over which
the White Mountain range towers
and through which the Androscoggin
runs, and which she farms practical
ly.
The American violinist, Anna
Hardness, now so successfully per
forming in Germany, couldn't make
an anagram of Anna, since it spells
both ways just the same, but succeeds
with her last name and is starring as
Anna Senkrah."
The late Sullivan Dorr, of Provi-
dence, r. l., lived in the same house
and died in the same room in which
he was born. There too lived four
generations of servants, one woman
who was servant ia the family sixty
years ago and is there now.
Many towns on the Pacific coast
forbid Indians to come within their
limits after nightfall-not because the
noble redman is dangerous, but be-
cause he is thief and a sneak, aud
his wife, who accompanies him, more
upon his order and for his profit.
1t requires !, 400, 900 oxen, /, 800, 900
sheep, 1900. 600 calves and $50 600
swine to feed London a year. The
Englishmau never got his "roast
beef reputation without eating it.
Hot air TOYS are a novelty. They
are made of Bristol board, well 18th
ographed, and are to be set in mo-
ton by the air from a lamp, gas
light, stove or furnace. They are
very csmicaL
1t is stated that a letter addressed
to a person at indianapolis, India, I"
meant for Indiana reached Indian
apolis few days ago, after having
gone to India and back. 1t was mailed
August u.
The spade that was used to turn the
first sod IN the construction of the
Central Pacific railroad is now owned
by Albert Gallatin, of Sacramento,
Cal, and it will be exhibited at New
Orleans.
'Irenus," of the New York OBJ
server, says in recent postscript to
one of his letters to that paper THE
grandchildren of those who read the
fret of these letters are now reading