Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18
GLEANINGS.

tronage,
A New York bride is indignant be.
cause enc of her wedding presents, an
alleged seal-skin sacque, proves to be
dyed beaver
1t is estimated that at least one hSlf
of theexhibits displaye ed at the London
Health Show Will find their way to
New Orleans
Basiness is depressed in Canada
even more than in this county. 1t
cannot be the effect of the Presidential
election in Canada
1t is said in Washington that Score
tary Chandler will become editor of
the Washington Republican, of which
he Is owner.
Letters to the San Francisco news
papers complain that the missionaries
IN Alaska are, in many instances, I'M
principled adventures.
1t takes the labor of FIVE men an
entire year to build locomotive.
This is the average at all the sixteen
locomotive works in the United States.
An English doctor says that a per-
son who can move his ears at will is a
suspicious character and can not be
/ trusted
A worm which thirty years ago des-
troyed many of the pine trees in
North Carolina is agaie making havoc
this season.
Florida oranges are booming this
year and coming north very early
They were ming at the rate Of 5000
boxes a week the week before Thanks
giving.
Fashionable ladies who get them.
selves talked about by doing exccen,
trio things are no longer said to be
crazy Their trouble is boldly as
serted to be malaria.
The Common Council of Bronson,
Mich, posts in ten public places the
names Of men TO whom, in conse-
quence of their habitual drundkness,
run is not to be sold.
The Boston Post knows all about a
man by passing his house. If he has
a stone dog on the lawn that settles
it, and he is classed under the head Of
eminent citizens.
A Newark maiden attempted to
play on her piano the other day, but
could not sound a note. Invt stiga-
ton showed that her small brother
had filed the top full of molasses.
Enough liquor was consumed in
Great Britain last year to make lake
a mile long, mile wide. and thirty
five feet deep What lake of fire
that would make if lighted.
DR.. John Buck, OF Bedminster
England, administered bi-chloride of
methylena as an anaAsthetic to a
patient and put him out of pain and
out of eXistance in less than one sec
ond.
The Portland Oregonian says.
"The vote of Washington Territory
was about AZ, 900, of which number
the women contributed perhaps one
third. IL was found a mistake to say
that women would not vote. Very
few omitted to do so. &"
There is an eccentric old man nam
ed Patrick Kennedy at the Scheneota
dy, ~ Y, Poor House, who thinks
he must receive his salary every Sat
urday night, and to satisfy him he is
given a spoonful of castor oil, which
he accepts as his wages.
Sofa pillows, filled with spikes of
green pine and hemlock, with pine
bough and appropriate quotation en-
broidered on the scarlet covers, are
among the attractive novelties. These
pillows retain the DELICIOUS piney odor
Tor long time, and are said to be
hygienic.
An eagle kept in Vienna, Austria,
died after confinement Of Ia years.
Swans on the Thames river-about
the ages of which there can be no
mistake, since they were nicked an
nually by the Winners Company,
under whose keeping they have been
! for five centuries been known
to survive for $50 years or more.
Sturgeon says he only finds ten
commandments to Keep. and not one
of 'em against smoking, so he pro
poses to smoke and let such of bis
Pensioners as please coatine TO
| fume.
Nine car loads Of Christmas trees
passed southwark through Maine last
week, consigned to New York deal
ers, They were all frs, and there
were about twelve hundred trees on
/ car.
Girl grape pickers ia the California
vine yards are tempting Providence
by putting thair names and addresses
in the boxes which are shipped East
! Their idea is doubtless to catch hus
band.
Tie New York State capitol build
ing is the most expensive ediiice on
this continent. 1t has already cost
SIC 400. 600, aud estimates Of the
| further sum required vary from g.,
900, 600 to SIS 900 600
Mrs Langtry is said to have the
most beautiful shoulders and back Of
any woman on the stage. The Jersey
Lily has photographs Of her shapely
back taken as it is seen upon the
stage, and its beauty is marvellous.
Cremation has made more progress
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