Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-02-05
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annually in the United States.
One of the steers to be exhibited
in New Orleans weighs over 400
pounds.
Custom compels an Icelander in his
native island TO kiss every woman he
meets.
There is a glacier in Alaska moving
along at the rate of quarter of mile
a year.
Conventions of electors and under
takers were recently held at Erie on
the same day.
Less than seventy years ago death
was the penalty for more than goo
crimes in England.
A Vermont farmer made Q net
profit of 81, $50 from III produce of a
single turkey hen during the past
season.
A lamp taken from The ruins of
Pompeil and alleged to be 9. 600 years
old, is owned by man Of Beverly,
Mass.
One OF the women said To have been
lately cured OF her malady through
the prayers OF miracle-worker,
proves To be a kleptomaniac.
In West Virginia there resides a
woman, aged thirty five, who eloped
with her adopted son, to whom She
had been a mother fer more than ten
years.
The Governor Of the Island of Samos
has discovered tunnel measuring
5000 feet in length, and constructed
at least nine centuries before the
Christian era.
The great grandfather of Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Father Moody, of
YORK, Me. was the first Author in the
limits of Maine, a sermon was printed
by him III 170l
Every common trade in Amsterdam
has government shop where deserv-
ing poor can always lind employ ment
The goods there made are used by the
government instead of beng sold.
The warden Of the Kansas State
Prison reports that more convic in
proportion 10 the population come
from counties whore the prohibition
law is enforced than from counties
where there is 40 liquor law.
A German engineer has invented
an electric target, on which q hand
indicates the eXact point where the
bullet strikes it, That ingenious ar.
rangement.wIll do away with human
pointers and eiiectuolit prcventmany
accidents to life and limb.
The mongooses imported into
Jamaica to-eat up the myriads Of rats
Astounding there have accomplished
their task The important question
now is how to dispose OF the mon
gooses, which the, blacks have a super
stitious fear Of killing.
The Sacramento River puzzles the
ole inhabitants by its eccentric actions
When it is high at certainfpoint 1t
is quite low at all points lower down,
and floods near IFS head are proof that
there viii not beh scarcity OF water
at It's mouth.
The proper allowance Of arr in bar
racks is 600 cube feet man in Eu
rope and / 600 ia India. For hospi.
tails, j 200 cubic feel per bed IN Earope
and 500 in India. Horses require
in England /, coo cubic feet each, or
nearly as much as three'fnen.'
On the island Of Formosa when any
one is taken sick he is strung up by the
neck and let down with the dull thud"
common atexecutiQns. This perform
ance is intended either to kill or cure
the unfortunate patient.
Mr.. Harvey is the American citizen
who squatted' on the only land by
which the grand canyon Of the Color
ado River can lbel reached, and he
charges Sl2 TO visitors for the privil
eye OF looking at that natural wonder.
The DELL of the public school at
Monticello, n. Y, was heard ringing
the ether day at AL unusual time, and,
on investigation, it was fsund'the
new teacher was using the end OF
the bell rome 80 correct a refractory
pupil.
In Wales an enthusiast inthe cause B
OF cremation lately cremated a favor
tie bull The ceremony lasted 8 hours
and was witnessed by thousands,
m,my of whom have since espoused
the incarceration idea.
A young Englishman has various
port IONS of his body insured against
accident, except one leg, which mem
beri is subject to Sudden weakness,
and tbo companies have lost so much
by it that they reject it.
Harrison Hahn, OF Wind Gap,
Northampton, county, Pa, is the
father of a two.year- old girl whose
ears are bent forward and grown to
the face. Both ears are without the
orfice. but deafness is prevented by
The girl hearing every eound, no mat
Ter how light, through her nose and
mout'
Mrs. Charles Tracy, of Kings,rldFe,
KY, has become the mother OF the
smallest midget born this century.
The child weighs eleven ounces, is SIX
inches in statue, its body can be en-
circled by the thumb and index finger
OF fourteen year old child, and its
head is about the size OF large mar
bic, or less than an inch IN diameter
The vvater ~ a small lake near the