Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-11-27
GLEANINGS.


certainly takes something beside Eng
lish papers.
A Montreal sexton passed one of the
Pensioners one Sunday without Civ
ing him an opportunity to contribute
to the collection. The parishiener
suei the sexton and was awarded S.
damages
A syndicate of young men has been
formed at ST. Thomas, in Pembina
county, Dakota, where there is a great
dearth of young ladies, which will
send deputation to Boston to secure
wives for the rest of the members.
A number of Staten Island ladies
took fancy to have Joint studio in
in an old barn, which they decorated
with their art works. Anumber Of
Staten Island boys took a fancy to
have Cleveland bonfire. Vale,
Works
There will be no Life Senator's UNI
der the Republic of France after the
present appointees die. France is
gradually working into the true re-
publican IDEAS
Cleveland is the first successful
Presidential aspirant whose name he
gins with @. George Clinton, Dewitt
Clinton, Crawford, Calhoun, Case,
Clay, Chase, all failed.
MIR. Gladstone was described by one
member of the House of Commons
last week as 'cackling old goose
aud Mr. Chamberlain was called by
another "a political drunkardn
n Bartholdi said to an American
in Paris, "a week or so ago that with
the money already spent at Bedloe's
Island he could have built a pedestal
in Paris for the Statue of Liberty.
A problem that is growing in mag
nitude in Mississippi is how pro
perly to dispose OF roaming negroes
Over Eve hundred reached Vicksburg
by water last week locking for work
on the levees.
A Massachusetts, mau has discover
ed sure cure for sea sickness. 1t is
counter irritant in the shape Of a
mild blister application behind the
ear.
Austrian brides are said to be allow
ed twelve dozen stockings, but the
eonsclenceless Boston Transcript be-
lieves the story to be a gross libel.
In thirty years the population of
this country has doubled In the
same time the facilities for manufac-
turirg purposes have increased about
ten fold.
A valuable diamond ring was miss
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last week and search for it high and
low proved fruitless. Finally it was
! learned that the baby had been seen
playing with it. Tie little fodder
was next brought forward for its testI-
mony, and said she had 'put it on
kittie's foot 1t proved, too, that the
kitten was strange one, had trotted
away with the jewel, and has not been
heard from since.
The Philadelphia Ledger SAYS En-
gine No 567, on the Central, has been
run within fifteen moaths distance
equal to over $50 times around the
globe and without costing the com
pany cent for repairs As the
/ locomotive must have Travelled about
%, 600 miles day in order TO have
accomplished this feat, the Led ger
must be mistaken If the engine
/ travelled distance equal TO fifteen
times around the globe in thet time 1T
did well.
Who mas not notice. the increased
STRENGTH in grocery bags. a few
years ago it was dangerous to attempt
TO carry heavy hoods in them. Manu-
facturers tested ell knewn paper max
ing materials in their search for great
or strength, such as grasses, wild rice
straw, Kentucky hemp, flax, lineu
waste, jute aud many others. Manila
was 70 md most satisfactory, but very
expensive. An inch ribbon Of manila
paper has been made sufficiently
stong TO support 200 pounds The
same sized strip Of cotton sack cloth
gives away ~ twenty eight pounds.
Large quantities OF old manila
rope are now worked up into paper
bags.
Strauss has received hundreds of
| letters from grateful young people
who have met with their future wives
and husbands at the Venice dancing
parties, the formation of which has
been stimulated oy his wallzes. The
ungrateful ones should now speak
up.
A Californian's blackberry crop
weighed 8, 400 pounds and was sold at
z cents per pound, bringing him 1882.
/ The roots taken from between the
rows were sold for enough TO pay for
the pruning and cultivation. The
cost Of picking and marketing was
800, which left a net profit of 1906
per acre.
The Springfield armory shops will
turn out more rifles this year than
ever before since the war, the average
beng lao day Last years product
was 80, 600 and the product Of the
year before was 80, 900 The amount
of work depends on the appropriation,
which is about $400 900 year
Forty of fifty years ago, when there
was no agitation Of the woman suf-
frsec question, Talleyrand, the great
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