Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-10-09

threat lt is to be swallowed raw
During the year 1883 London had
.974 hours of sunshine out ofa pcs.
sible 4,456, an averag of . 40 per
day
The expectation is that the Ger
man students, IN their convention
next month, will pronounce against
dueling.
a young lad Of abont sixteen sum
mers married a girl recently in Lum-
kin, Ga, and applied for a divorce in
less than thirty days
Another government exploring
expedition is back, this time
from Madagascar, with the important
discovery by Lieutenant Shufeldt
that the natives wear felt shoes
The Topography of TIE moon is well
known to astronomers and has been
carefully outlined on detail maps.
There are five mountains on the moon
more than 10000 feet high, the high
est measuring %, 975 feet.
The family of Widow Elizabeth
Ellis, Of Abeville County, South Car
DINA, has Just held a reunion at her
home. She has II children, and ner
direct descendants, children, grand
children, great grandchildren, and
great -great grandchildren now mum
Der 1875.
An Italian has been studying the
relation of malaria fever ut Rome 10
tho weather, and finds that wet
spring is followed by an excess of
fever in July and August, while those
seasons which enjoy the longest visi-
talion Of the dry sirocco winds show
minimum Of fever.
A Boston young lady, cultured and
Intellectual, of course, received a
proposition of marriage printed with
the type writer.
lit is asserted by writer in The
Husbandmau thatthe oder from strips
of paper dipped in coal .tar will 9tive
rats and mice from garnet, weevils
from granary and lice from hen
house.
Any one who doubts as TO the
best way to have clear Jelly is assured
on strong evidence and many proofs
that 70 allow the juice to drain through
flannel bag without squeezing it will
render this matter easy and satisfao-
tory
Gllroy, Col, has a model justice of
the peace He rerently fined man
So for being drunk, and took in pay
ment thereof one.bladcd jaek.knife,
a deck of cards, clay pipe, a days
labor so CENTS in cash and a premise
to pay the balance the next time he
came TO town.
"A good crop Of onion seed ranges
! from three hundred to SIX on seven
hundred pounds per acre Last year
! the wholesale price ( onion seed in
the United States was only 40 10 30
cents per pound Only the best was
salablC, some growers have several
thousand pounds ON hand which they
were unable to dispose Of,
Nearly 300 people have been ar.
rested in London the past year for
assaults upon the police This evil
donce of increasing boldness of crimi.
mails, combined perhaps with HE
greater activity Of dynamiters, has
weancd the authorities from their
stubborn conservatism, and the night
/ police have at last been allowed
TO 90 armed into the slums il they
choose.
Russia has a prospect in view for
turning the Oxus river from the Aral
to the Caspian sea, which IS rapidly
! drying up This would be only a re-
vivlng of an old state of things, for
ancient records show that from the
fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries,
this river, or branch OF It, flowed into
the Caspian.
The Paris municipal council has
voted S 600 to enable q delegation Of
carpenters To 20 10 Sweden and Nor
way for the purpose Of finding out
how il is that readymade doors and
window frames from those countries
can bo delivered in Paris at less cost
than the price there OF the unwrought
material
The late John w. Garrett was
brought into close personal relations
with President Lincoln during the
war. Mr. Lincoln was once appealed
\ to by "a reputation OF alleged Balt
more republicans to take the road out
Of Mr. CARROTS hands for pseudo
POLITICAL reasons Mr.. Lincoln's re.
\ ply was brief and TO the point;
when any or all OF you, said he,
have done half as much TO aid this
government as John w. Garrett 1
may consider your request
TEN days ago the Mudir of Dongola
telegraphed to Cairo that he had no
ceived authentic assurances Of de
clsive victory won by Gen. Gord,n
over the savage forces besiselug
Khartoum. July 2tlh vas the date,
recording to the Nuoirs advlces, W hen
the rebel army from Kordofan was
slaughtered, and FIVE weeks afterward
the stige was raised. Dispatches
bearing dates down to July 81 lave
now been received from the London
Times correspondent at Kharioum,
and be makes no mention OF any sig
nal triumph won on July q The
gunboais we're doing effective service
buf no odds, ttIt - irtnoesef hlp far itq