Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-04-09
GLEANINGS.

a regular contributor to ,Ae Current.
The spring trade IN garden tools
and seeds and aoTaring plants is not
lively yea
General w. 7. Sherman is to deliver
the address at Springfield, Mo-, ON
Decoration Day.
The 1st day of April, the 10th ami
versary of the birth of Prince Bis
marck, will be observed as 1 holiday
at Berlin.
James Hubbartt, living Aear Indian
apolis, celebrated his Tooth birthday
Wednesday. Thursday is the seventy
sixt anniversary OF his wedding.
Mrs. Cox, mother of Hon. S. S.
Cox, the newly appointed Minister to
Turkey, is lying very i'll at the home
Of her soni1 law, I. +. Spangler, of
GAINESVILLE, Ohio.
Mrs. Vice President Hendricks is
said to be much incensed because Miss
Cleveland did not invite her to assist
in doing tue honorS at the state recep~
ton.
Ages OF three distinguished Chica-
goans: Hon. John Wentworth is
70; Hon William Bross is II; Gornon
S. Hubbard, our Oldest settler is SO (;
physically strong, but almost blind.
Colonel William j. Volkmar, of
Genera Sherman's staff has been
selected for appointment as Assistant
Adiutant General, and Captain George
IL. Burton as Assistant Inspector Gen
cral of the United States army.
The Woman Suffrage party Of New
York has memorialized President
Cleveland, asking the removal of Gov
ernor Gilbert A. Pierce, of Dakota,
for vetoing the Woman Suffrage bill
passed by tho legislature Of that Ter
ritory.
A farmer pear Danviile, ILL.,, has
planted seventy acres with oats, SOW
ing them broadcast over the snow.
1t is estimated that the silver-plated
ware manufactured in this country
annually reaches value Of $4,000,
600.
One Of the youngest telegraph oper-
ators in the country works at Har-
mony Grove, Ga, and is only twelve
years old.
The California legislature passed a
bill appropriating $4,000 to build a
hotel for travellers in the Yosemite
Valley.
In play given at the Kankakee,
H.. opera house last week, all the
male parts were taken by deacons of a
church.
Over 3, 900 children recently did in
the FIJI Islands of whooping cough.
The malady has become epidemic,
A flagstaff at Mount Vernon, w.
T., LAG feet high is claimed to be one
of the longest unspliced spars in the
United States.
Orange CITY, Fla, beasts of a four
legged chicken which is walking
around as lively as any other member
of the feathered tribe.
An aged citizen of Thorndike, Me-,
fell on the ice recently ard rode five
miles before discovering that he had
fractured several ribs.
An Oakland, Colo, boy has calcu-
lated that there sos, 600 beans in a
barrel. This information should be
of some value in Boston.
While large shipments of pig iron
have been made in steamers, the first
shipment in sailing vessel is now
loading at Savannah for New York.
In one county in Alabama mad
dogs were 50 numerous recently that
the schools were obliged to suspend
lest the pupils should be bitten while
abroad.
When the cavalry pistol was first
introduced it was regarded as mar
vel of ingenuity, and won many bat
ties for the troops that employed it.
The King Of Bavaria can exert him
self on occasion. He wrote an auto
graph letter TO Professor Doellinger,
of Munich, on his eighty-sixth birth
day.
The youngest member of the New
York Cotton Exchange IS a lad aged
fifteen and the Oldest a veteran of
eightytwo years. The two are great
friends
The matches consumed in the
United States require wood to the
annual value of over $4,000, 000
The ice in the Missouri River broke
at Ctalpin, M. T., yesterday, but the
river there is very low.
1t IS reported that in Atchison
County, Kansas, the wheat is IN such
a terrible condition that many far
mers are plowing il up.
the thirty,fve acre lot of an invalid
farmer in Mendocino County, Cal,
was recently plowed, sowed and har-
rowed by his farmer neighbors.
Mrs Hinkson, Of South frankfort,
Mich. az the age of seventy nine, has
recovered her sight and sews and
knits like young woman,
DR.. Thomas Dunn English, the
author Of ben Bolt" is lynn. i'll at
bis home in Newark. with a tUmor of
the throat possibly attributable TO his
smoking hasit.
A Louisville gentleman boasts sof
having a silver spoon, heavily plated
with gold, which was used by
Shakespeare in the zenith If l1is