Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-08-14
GLGANINGS

blOndliy Cooi, Deln8 IN Idct the coolest
July in 13 years. In July. 1871. the
average temperature was n degrees;
last month it was 74f.
A bank cashier at Sterling, Mich.
paid a stranger 500 for a genuine silver
dollar bearing the rare date of 1904
An Eastern numlsmatist to whom the
coin was sent, discovered that the date
had been altered IN the most artistic
manner, and that the piece had no
special value.
Two very old fools-one of "A and
the other three years his senior-had a
falling out the other day in North
Carolina, though they were members
of the same church aud had been
warm friends for years They appeal
ed to the code, and had met. ready
for business, when they were discover
ed and disarmed
Wooden pavements are now put
down in Paris on concrete founda-
ton, and the contractor guarantees
them for eighteen years
VIM. II. Montague, of Boston. has
in his possession the bullet with which
Gen. Warren was killed at the battle
of Bunker Hill
Swedish botanists have discovered
along a railroad seven species of plants
which were unknown to the region
before the track was laid.
Pittsourg is noted as the dirtiest
city in America, and also as the health
Iest But it is clean" dirt, so far as
effect on health is concerned.
Kansas has eight surviving ex. gov
ernors, and all Of them are expected to
speak at the old settlers reunion in
Bismarck the first week in September
The centennial of the organization
of the Congregational societies at
Manchester and at Dorset, Vt, will
be celebrated the last week in August.
St. Paul and Minneapolis continue
their race for lead in population.
This year st. Pauls directory contains
80, $50 names, and that of Minneapolis
80, 533
The sale of edible snails has become
regular trade in New York City.
Most of them come from New Jersey,
where there are at least half dozen
snail farmers.
The oldest and largest tree in the
world is a chestnut near the foot of
Mount Etna. The circumference of
the main trunk is 2f2 feet The Grizz
ly giant, monarch Of the Mariposo
grove, measures 90 feet.
A London letter, July %, says
The weather is lovely in London
justnow, the recent heat having given
place to cool breezes and bright skies.
The streets are beginning to look de-
serted, and evidently the season is at
its last gasp"
Orange peel is now said to be col
lected, dried in ovens, and sold for
kindlng fires. 1t burns readily and
with great fierceness, and is safer than
kerosene.
The castor-bean plant, says the Los
Angeles (Cal Herald. has been found
very eiicacious 10 killing grdsshoppers
by the million, and is also useful for
killing flies, multitudes of which are
found dead on or under the plants.
The Parisians have reduced poodle
shaving to science. One skillfM
operator goes the length of figuring
OAb lAAO VI tob VII liltAdlo vi ltip Wv iANl
on the back of his canine pet
Near Panama a whale seventy-fve
feet long became cntangled in the
submarine cable, and in his struggle
to free himself was so severely wound
ed by the wire that he died.
A company in Connecticut manu-
features nearly all the liquorice used
in this country-17,0 O0, 600 pounds a
year. Confectionery and medicine
take about 1900, 600 pounds, and the
remainder goes into tobacco.
In Cleveland a COW choled on a
big carrot and was about ready to
kick the milk bucket when an mtelli-
gent dog ran to the house and by
barking and other strange antics call
ed his master to the stable in time to
save the cows life.
1t is we'll said of the young man of
Caledonia Springs, who falls in with
popular mania and is trying to see
If be can drink 500 glasses Of sulphur
water in four days and still live
that he is seeking to anticipate his
surroundings in the future.
A big clothing house in New York
is making suits TO order for SIS to $50,
and taking them back at half the cost
month later in exchange for new
suits, half cost and half old clothes.
The old suits are washed, pressed and
sold in the country.
In a census taken in April last the
population OF Athens is shown to be
S49O3. which is 5000 more than was
the population in 1929, the date OF the
last census. The number of lnhabi-
tants in 1856 was 80, coo; in 1861 it was
Al 2qS. and in 1870 it was A, 80.
1t has been ascertained that the
Washington monument is now IN
plumb. When it was 800 feet high
an examination showed it to be an
inch out OF plumb It leaned to the
south. By careful calculation and
fine workmanship in laying the stone
since that time this mas been corrected,
so that to-day it is straight,