Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-02-26


no value as food, which is not the
case, the occasional change from dry
to green food promotes thrift and con
sequently increases tie production of
milk, butter and beet.
The descendants of the noble
Spartans," says an exchange, ARE
said to be race of liars, beggars and
thieves" This would seem to take in
the American Indian.
A favorite copy set by writing
teachers for their pupils is the follow
ing, because it contains every letter Of
( the alphabet "A quick brown fox
jumps over the lazy dog"
A file and knife throwing artist
nailed con6ding Winnipeg youth to
the back of the stage while illustrating
how near he could come 10 hitting
him without actually doing it.
Arkansas is establishing a standard
of morals. The senate has passed q
law prohibiting base ball playing on
Sunday, and making the offense pun
ishable by heavy fines
Her days have been numbered for
/ Queen Victoria, by an aellged oracle,
who set the date of her death Sept.
\ 10, 1889; she is, this seer SAYS, to die
/ by or in consequence of fire. The
Russian Gar has till 1900 to settle
his earthly affairs; Bismarck TIL May
/ 80, 1890, and the German Emperor
the July following.
/ The Eastman (Ga) Times says:
/ Take blade of bear grass and boil
1t forty minutes. Then beat it with
hammer and scrape it until the
/ threads are smooth. Suspend it to d
whip for a cracker, and after it is
worn little and becomes dry ii will
strike fire like flint and steel when
struck against dry sands"
The Mehdi has little trouble IN feed
ing his army. The native will live
upon a cake of black bread ana few
lentels and an onion, and never care
for animal food. ali that an
Egyptian neutrality-suspicious. re
quires to set up business is few
dates, few oranges, peck of lentels
and onions and half dozen panes of
black bread.
Hira Bates and wife, of South Han
over, Conn, are over eighty eight
years old, and what is an uncommon
coincident, were bern or the same
day, August 5, 1896, within a few
| hours of each other. Barrys history
of Hanover says that they were mar
ried Feb. "a, 1926.
Along the lower course of the Ural
river, in Russia, the prohibitory liquor
laws are so strict as TO prevent the sale
of all distilled drinks. The rich peo
pie in consequence have taken TO the
consumption of cologne, the little
town of Guryeff alone consuming
about 1000 dozen bottles year.
The New York World publishes
the portrait of the handsomest woman
in New Jersey, whereupon the Buffalo
Express cruelty comments: cit repre-
sents person who is nearly up to
the average standard of feminine
beauty as recognized in the United
States"
| Among the people who inhabit New
Britain, which has just been annexed
by Germany, is SAID to be a race OF
men with tails They live in the in
terror and are shy Of visiting the coast.
This being a travellers story shouldn't
prejudice one against it.
In Scotland on the first day of .his
month the Thirlestane Castle cellar of
wines, the property OF the late Lord
Lauderdale, will be sold in Edinburg.
1t is one Of the finest private cellars in
Great Britain, and includes nearly ZOO
dozens of the choicest vintage of the
last sixty years. The wines must be
n fine order, for the cellar has been
closed for many years past The
specialties are port, claret, sherry and
MADEIRA.