Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-02-12
GLEAN1NGS.


Old, broken-nosed pitchers which
| during the recent ancient craze
brought S400 are now worth only 30
cents.
A resident Of Manchester, Mass,
planted half peck of peas and sowed
half an acre of rye on the 18th of Jan
uary, this year.
The New York Mail is authorized
for the statement that one of the most
prominent churches in that city com
pels its female members who confess
having sinned to wear next the skin
g heavy brass plate, on which Is a
crGcltiX. The wearer can scarce y
move without pain from the pressure
of the plate
: The wife of Huntington County
man, having neglected her household
by calling too frequently upon her
neighbors, is Row abliged TO remain
at home, inasmuch as her beautiful
false teeth have been hidden by her
husband, who refuses TO deliver them
up until she solemnly promises to re-
form.
A 200 acre park, midway between
Minneapolis and St. Paul, now in pro-
cess of construction, will be the only
neutral ground between these two
cities, which were fifteen miles apart
ten years ago.
The musk beetle, according to an
English observer, has the power of
emitting or supressing its odor at
pleasure, but when dying the scent is
continuous, and after death more
powerful than at any time during
life.
Each political faction of the Ger
man Reichstag rejoices in the possess
in of Parliamentary snuff box of its
own--the Gift of an enterprislng snuff
dealer, who sees that they are Kept
well filed with the best maccabees.
In Des Moines the number Of
soloons has increased from sixty to
102 since the so called prohibition
went into effect. AS the sellers have
no license to pay they can stand an
occasional confiscation of stock,
which is kept low in expectation of
such emergencies.
Suicides in Vienna are on the in.
crease, the number for 1884 being 344
for 1883 276, for 1882 266, and fol
1880, 306. OF these 2S1 were males
and sixty-three females The young
est was a boy of thirteen and the
Oldest woman OF eighty-four. Shoot
/ ing and March were the favoritC
method and month respectively.
At the university of Virginia there
is no prescribed course of study, nc
entrance examination, no vacation
except the Summer one, and but SIX
holidays.
The Turkish woman believes in
charms and always carries on he per
son three.colored bit of leather
which encloses the mystic phase tina
is potent to ward off the evil one.
The revolving statement is given ou
that the skin of Campi, the Paris
murderer, has been tanned and will b.
used in binding the books and docu
ments relating to his crime.
Between the clapboards Of his hous,
A Billings, of lie Roy, MINI, founC
115 pounds of honey One piece o
comb was feet 8 inches long and 9
inches wide
According to reports an applicat
ion of gun-cotton has been made il
such manner that it will eventual,
supersede the use OF steam for the Pur
pose of light locomotion and drivin:
small machinery.
A New Haven gentleman has one o
the old 1862 Spence pieces coined IL
Boston, and as to which it was recent
ly said none were known to be ia ex
istance The first American coinag,
was of this year.
During a recent performance at ;
San Francisco theatre an appreclativ'
individual became so enthusiast,
over the Introductory performance
that he began throwing money on tn,
stage.
Senator Vest, of Missouri, the frenG
of Dakota, is described as "a littls
fellow with fat waistcoat. He hai
a blonde head, fierce mastache of 4
sandy white, end complexion Of the
kind denominated doughty"
Handsome fortunes have been mad,
in the Kennebec ice buziness, but tn,
man who showed the Kennebecker!
how to do it, who introduced Kenne-
bee ice to the world and gave it its
first boom, is to-day not worth dol
lar.
From o'clock p. m. on Dec. 81 last
to noon on Jan. 1, 5000, 600 letters
and cards arrived in thecity OF Berlin,
which, together, with a round oil
1000, 900 city letters, make total de
! livery of 1000, 600 letters and cards.
AT skating rink in Columbia, Cal,
the other evening, Willie Ebeler was
seized with fit of laughter and spit
out tack which had been in his lungs
seven years. 1t was supposed that he
was gradually dying of consump
ton.
A mound drawing Of a rattle
snake on Lake st. Croix, in MiEnesa
ia, shows a length of 149 feet, the
section of the mound representing the
head swelling out to the width Of %
| feet. Three mounds at the rear end
denote the number of rattles.