Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-05-07

A farmers wife in Indiana who runs
the vegetable garden OF half an acre
not only kept a large table beautiful
ly supplied, but sold last year more
than 800 worth of vegetables to the
town folks few miles away. This
half acre was of more profit than any
four acres which the husband cult
waited.
A London paper makes mention OF
cat which would recognize his mast
er's footsteps after a three months
absence, and come out to meet hum in
the hall, with tail erect, and purring
all lover as il TO the very verge of
bursting. Another one comes up
every morning between and z o'clock
to make his master, sits ON the bed,
and very gently feels one eyelia anG
then the other with his paw. When
an eye opens, and not till then, the
cat sets upq long purr, like the prayer
of 2 fire worshiper to the rising sun.
The famous "Codex Argenteus,
the four gospels translated by Bishop
Ulphilas, is preserved in the Univer-
sity Of Upsala. II is written on rs
leaves OF parchment in letters of sill
yer on ground Of faded purple. /
is kept ia a glass case and under lock
and key. IL dates back to the second
half of the fourth century, and, be-
sides being Of value to the religious
world, il gives the secular world all
the knowledge it now possesses Of the
early Gothic, the parent Of all the
Germanic tongues.
TIE Fenian ram that aroused con
siderable public curiosity through the
columns of newspapers two years ago
is still at New Haven, Conn, in a
wooden building on the bank o. Mil
River. II is about thirty feet long,
cigar shaped, burns petroleum for
fuel, and can make excellent speed
under water. TIE said TO have cost
SIS, 600. No one is allowed to see it
except those in whose charge it il,
and they refUse 10 talk about it. The
building has no side windows and tn
door is strongly barred,
Not even an orator endowed with
the magic Influences Of Ireland's fam
Gus barney stone could excel the
compliment Paid 10 the ladies by Sen
OF Don j. Ramon de Ybnrrola, a Mex
lean gentleman who responded 20 a
toast to the fair sex at q banquet ~
New Orleans few days ago, Rising
to the magnitude " the subject, he
remarked Beauty and womanhood
have for me no nationality. Blonde
and brunette, black eyes or blue, raw.
en- locks and golden tresses, wherever
/ end them the whole world around
DO homage TO them As one OF nay
own race mas said in liquid Spanish;
Blue eyes say. Love me. or dier
Black eyes say, Love me- or kill thee
And as / neither wish 10 cause TIE
death Of one Of them BY not loving
her, nor TO die myself because do not
love the other, ! worship them both.
/ love them all. y A shower of bou
quets aud the beaming smiles of the
ladies rewarded the gallant Mexican
for his tribute.
The Baltimore appetite for terrapiu
is OF recent growth. Thirty years
ago, with the hardest kind of labor,
says dealer, q succeeded "a selling
81, 900 worth Of diamond black terra
pin at from S. to $40 dozeu. IN the
season which closed on the LIST OF
April sold over 100000 worth. and
my sales would have reached a half
million If could have gotten the tar
rapin." There are several methods
Of catching the tarrapin. One is by
dredge, another by a seine, another
by O net, and still another by n three
prouoed stick. With the latter the
catcher prods in the mud until he
feels something move, and then he
reaches down for the diamond,bzck.
The element Of luck enters largely in
to lerrapin catching, but experience
frequently shows where they most
abound. Good catchers know, tho,
creatures peculiarities, and when
they discover a luxurious growth of
water cress they lie down for their
prey, and that is sure to prove ) ,teg;i.
rapin feeding ground.