Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-06-19
GLEANINGS

ALs AAlii AlitA = WIN
Los Angeles, Cal, is to have Span
ish campaign paper.
Railway, N j. compromises $2, 600,
OF debt for $3.50, 600.
The Brooklyn fair for the Bartholdi
pedestal got 81, 400 into debt.
Popular editions both OF Queen Vic
torias book and the Princess Alice's
letters viii be published early in the
autumn The Queen is anxious TO
have sixpenuy edition Of the latter
work.
Oscar Wilde writes that his late
marriage was intended to realize a
poetical conception he has long enter
tanned, and he intends to set an ex-
ample of the prevailing influence Of
art IN matrimony,
Notwithstanding Lourdes entirely
failed to give eyesight 70 their son and
heir the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk,
steadfast in their faith, are now there
on another pilgrimage, this time for
the latter's health.
Captain Robert w. Andrews, the
ninety three-year-old citizen of Sum
ter, 5. c., now on a pedestrian tour
from that place to Boston, averaged
twenty three miles day TO Philadel-
phia which lie reached Saturday.
Miss Sallie Jones, of Selma, Ala,
before leaving with her mother for
Europe last week. gave the Ladies So
ciety of United Charities, of that city,
a valuable aud eligible piece Of ground
containing three and a half acres, for
the erection OF an in6rnary for the
poor of the city
a proposition made at the last meet
ing OF the Missouri Historical society
to invite ladies to read papers before
it was speedily rejected, because, as
the ST. LOUIS Republican asserts, ut
would be too dangerous an undertake
ing, as the ladies might not always
use proper discretion in preparing
their papers.
Miss Nellie Kane, formerly a school.
teacher at Glenwood, Vt, is now do
lug successful stock and brokerage
business in San Francisco. a Boston
1 family, out of funds in Frisco, we're
recently given the means for return
ing east, and other like kinduesses are
attributed 10 her.
Hard workers out-of-doors seldom
have insomnia, according to an emf
inent physician. Possibly because
they work hard and get tired and
sleepy But we arc not an eminent
physician and may be wrong.
Peaches and apples, we read, have
been affected by the frost, but as the
watermelon crop hasn't been affected
there is no necessity for the doctors
and druggists going round with
gloomy faces.
Deafness, 1t is said, can be cured by
one being suddenly surprised. All a
physician need do, therefore, is TO
whisper to the patient that he doesn t
intend to charge anything. Ten
/ chances to one the patient will hear.
An Ohio physician is preparing a
medical lexicon in forty-two languas
es. Just think of a sick man being
compelled to swallow a nauseous pre-
scription in forty-two languages II
he recovered after that it would be a
miracle
About twenty-five hundred Chinese
coins, some of which represent
mintage of thirteen or fourteen cen
turtles ago. are to be added to the com
department of the British Museum.
They are from the Tam5a collection.
A shoal of Goldfish one mile in SUI
perfcial extent contains 10000, 00C
fish. Yet not more than half of that
number Of these fish arc taken in one
year on the coast of Norway. The
cod lives on herring, and such a shoal
viii eat up 10000, 600 behring's in a
week.
A Spanish dagger, in fine state OF
preservation, was discovered recently
| in digging the foundation for bridge
across the Scheldt, at Client. 1t had
probably belonged TO one of the vic
TINS Of the catastrophe in 1911 when
the old bridge exhisting on the spot
fell in.
Matte Lee, a magnetic girl, gave
a performance in Frankfort, Ky, the
other night, in presence of Proctor
Knott and a large audience A man
weighing 225 pounds sat in chair,
and she easily lifted him and the chair
by touching the chair with the tip of
her finger
All British Boston is delighted to
learn that Lieutenant Colonel st.
John Midway, Of the British army,
has married the late John Lothrop
Motley's third daughter. whose tTo
older sisters captured English hus
bands, one of them Sir William
Vernon Harcourt, present Home Sec
rotary in the Gladstone Cabinet
THE record Of the court Of inquiry
in the case of General Swain judge
advocate general Of the army, reports
the facts as developed by the evidence,
and concludes as follows; The court
is Of the opinion that while it is not
prepared to say that any specific aci
developed by the evidence IS actually
fraudulent yet the evidence does
SHOW a series OF transactions discred-
table 10 any officer Of the army, and
which especially demands the severesi
condemnation when engaged in by an
officer holding the high position and