Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-05-28
SCRAPS OF NEWS.

Peter the Great for publication.
The population of Washington is
now placed at 202 600.
New Mexico spent last year foI
liquor Sc, 385, 600; for churches and
schools, $45, 900.
Tie Mexican annual rainy season
began this year six weeks IN advance
of It's usual time, but no apprehensions
are felt, for daring the past two sea
sons the northern Mexican states have
experienced very severe drouths.
The Mexican government has re.
Gently perfected arrangements for a
fast mail service between Ell Paso and
the City of Mexico, designed more
especially for faster transit of Ameri
can papers and letters into Mexico and
the south.
An oyster has a stomach and a
heart. In America it has sex, but
none in Europe. We have male and
female oysters on The American coast.
Those of Europe combine the two
sexes in one animal.
Historian Bancroft is busily en-
gagged, writing his protest against the
legal tender decision of the United
States supreme court, He says he
has but brief period Of life vet re-
naming, and has little time TO spare
from his work.
Charles O'Connor enunciated the
principle that "a reporter should get
all the news he can aud give it to the
world, but lawyer Should get all
the news he can and keep 1t to hipl>
self.
A Sacramento, Cal, farmer who
has II acres set out in asparagus esti-
mates the yield this season to be
worth $4,000, of which 1000 is
clear profit.
Mohammedah citizens of London
are making arrangements to build a
mosque in that city. 1t will be the
first and only edifce of the kind in
Europe outside of the Sultan's do
mains.
The Russian Department of Manu-
facturers has awarded patent to the
inventor of means of so impregnat-
ing wood with certain chemical that
hldiNhEo lIOu IL al DC QStu
several times over, thus affecting
saving of, it is claimed, at least rs
per cent.
There are still fifty survivors of the
Palmetto Regiment, to which was
awarded the silver vase left by Gen.
Jackson for the bravest man in the
Mexican war. The vase, which weig
ed 600 ounces, was presented by the
ladies OF South Carolina to General
Jackson after the battle Of N CIV Or
leans.
A German entomologist, + Dahl,
claims that spiders have perfect sight
only at very short distances. Their
sense Of touch is consequently re
markedly we'll developed, enabling
them to locate disturbances in their
web. Their smell is so good that they
can distinguish odors, and their hear
ing is excellent.
A dealer in Baltimore sold over
500, 900 worth of diamond black ter
rapin during the season which has
just closed. The appetite for terrapin
is of recent growth, and he says that
not many years ago he had the hard
est kind of work To sell 81, 900 worth a
year at from So to $40 FER dozen.
The London Medical Press SAYS
that the fact has at length been made
abundantly clear that trichinos;s is
contracted mainly by those who con
sumo pork derived from the more
carnivorous wild swine which abound
in forests. Persons whose pork diet
is derived from animals carefully fed
on large dairy farms do not suffer
from the affection.
In the London Grocer NJ. Nlkatin-
ski states that the weight of the ash is
a very fair test of the quality of the
tea. Good Shanghai teas give 5. 16
per cent, green 'brick" tea 6. 81, and
Orenberg teas, which were known to
have been adulterated with rose
leaves, yielded from z, So to 10. AZ per
cent of ash.
The board of managers for the con-
struction of the State Capitol at Den
yer, Colo, have offered such low
terms to competing architects as to ex-
cite the ire of Cleveland architectural
urn. Iney nave answered. the Clfcu-
lar of the board by saying that their
usual professional charge is $25, 600
for what they are now asked to do for
$500,
Max Muller has calculated that at
the close of the next two centuries
there will be ia the world SO, $40, 600
people speaking the Italian language;
72,571, 900 the French; 157 $50, 600 the
German; sos, 286, 600 the Spanish, and
1887, 2S6, 1853 the English.
Several years ago systematic efforts
were begun to introduce shad into the
Alabama and OHIO rivers, and recent
reports indicate good results, several
hauls of moderate sized, but good
quality, fish having been made this
season from both tie streams named.
There is a remarkable absence of
pauperism in Japan, bata man with
an income Of 81, coo a year is cons
sldered wealthy and peasant or far