Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-04

Gently died, and has bsquathed TO
Miss knowles $1,000 in money and
five shares in the first National Bank
ia birmingham.
According to the Lyon Medical,
the Jate eminent German surgeon,
Frerlchs, was rather tough man to
consult. He one day examined a
patient for an obscure malady, and,
recognizing the case as hopeless, dis
missed the individual without word.
But, Doctor. said he, what is the
matter with mel' That" said Ere
rich, will be settled by the autopsy. "
In Boston court Judge Allen ad
mlnistercd severe rebuke to clergy
men who marry minors without the
consent of their parents, the case in
hand being a wife deserted by her
husband, and she was but fifteen
when the clergyman married them.
He said that the laws of marriage
should be stringent and well enforced
if we would check the fearful tide Of
divorces.
Science has come 10 the aid of base
ball players, and announces for the
benefit of 5atsmen who are ambitious
to make heavy hits that the ball
should be struck at an angle OF 90
degrees IN order to send it the greatest
possible distance. Repeated expert
ments in artillery have proved that a
ball fred from a cannon at this angle
will carry further than if fred at any
other angle with like charge of pow
der.
A would be poet" writes: "Believ.
ing L possess a faculty for rhymiNg, l
am ambitious to be a poet, AS have
heard a great deal about the poet
license, | am anxious to know whether
or not it is necessary for me TO take
out one of these licenses, and, if it is,
where shall | apply for one" The
proper person to whom to apply for a
poetic license, it seems to US. says a
contemporary, is Walt Whitman. At
all events, he uses the poetic license
himself frequently, ana with remarks
able success, beiHg able, through its
AID, to make "Afghanistan' rhyme
with green cucumber"
The Grand Duke of Hesse has Just
paid to the lawyers Of his morganatic
wife, Nine. de Kalomine, the first
quarterly installment of the 10000
marks he had agreed to allow her an
nually. Mime. de Kalomine, through
her lawyers, has Indignantly refused
the payment, adding that he should
be ashamed to offer her pecuniary
recompense, and that she does not
wish him further to annoy her with
letters or offers of money.
During very tedious ride on a
Southern railroad the passengers,
tired, dirty, and thirsty, all berated
the company with the exception of
one single passenger dis fellow
passengers commented on this, and
asked him why he didn't denounce the
road too ''It would be hardly fair, ="
he replied, ''as l am travelling ON a
free pass; but if they don't do better
pretty soon blame me if / don't go out
and buy ticket and join you"
Hawaiian currency is not on a
specie basis and great complaints are
heard from the poorer classes, who
are compelled to pay for clothing and
provisions ia gold, but many of whom
receive their pay in silver or depreciat-
ed paper. Some firms are honorable
enough 10 pay in gold, but it is notori
Gus, observes the Hawaiian Gazette.
that the government invariably pays
its employees in the cheating cur
rency.
Mr.. j, e. Carpenter, whose songs
have been known to the public for
wellnigh half century, died in En-
gland recently. He welded a singus
larly prolific pen, and is said to have
published considerably over $500
songs. His What are the wild waves
saying" founded on the incident of
Little Paul ia "Dombey and Son"
was vastly popular FIVE land twenty
years ago, and, it is said, brought in
much gold TO its publisher.
A man named Bowen died in
Brooklyn thirty-two years ago, leav~
ing an estate valued at 81, 500, 900, to
be divided between three heirs by two
trustees. 1t has been in the courts
ever since, and now ali of the heirs,
two of the lawyers and one of the
trustees are dead, the surviving trust
ee being more than ninty years Of
age. An English ChancerY Court
could hardly have doue better.
a remarkable oil discovery recent
ly is that found in the Araso oil bas-
in, in Wyoming territory. In a shaft
put down on the east side of Bath
Creek TO a depth of twelve feet oil
flows in of exceptionally high specific
gravity. 1t is, when first exposed, Of
a brownish color, and can be cut with
knife like butter. 1t gradually
turns black on exposure, and has little
odor when it comes from the shaft
A woman in Springfield, Ohio, has
invented and patented an overshoe Of
cloth. which can be made nearly as
small as the ordinary shoe. The sole,
shank and heel is one piece. The
shoe is light. comfortable and warm.
She has also invented a screw with
four,poinied heads, which screws into
the sole and prevents all danger Of
slipping, either on the ice, car tops or
elsewhere.
The transition from the arm chair
to the eass chair was not made all at