Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-02-05
GLEAN1NGS.


# Making bricks of cork constitutes
one of the new German industries.
$ In certain portions of West Africa
ma the natives eat all enemies taken in
war.
s Rails County, Missouri, has child
one year old with three distinct
N heads
III In Dakota there is a lake thirteen
NJ feet deep which is frozen solid to the
II bottom.
MI Nine-tenths of the disasters at sea
MI occur during the watch of the second
Il mate.
There are 500 compositors in
Paris, and their pay averages about 10
I, cents an hour.
5 Fifty years ago the average weight
\ of cattle was 500 pounds, and now it
Z is 1 400
|. The tender edelweiss has been found
on Mount Tacoma, in Washington
Nj Territory, at an elevation of 5000
feet
Ten thousand cats, dogs, goats and
birds Will be exhibited in Madison
Square Garden, New York, early next
month.
Boston has an apple mission. which
distributes from 4 600 to ), 200 bushels
OF apples among the poor every
year
1t has been discovered tn atcrows have
no less than twenty seven different
cries, each distinctly referable to a diff
ferent action.
On several transatlantic ships tele-
phones are now used between the
bridge and the wheel house, instead If
speaking tubes as heretofore.
The old superstitos that the howl
ing of a dog at nigat is always follow
y ed by death still has many adherents
n in the most civilized communities.
A Brooklyn man was recently been
convicted of having stolen pair of
earrings from the ears of his dead
sister.in-law as she lay in her coffin
ready for burial.
1t requires the labor of five men an
entire year to build locomotive, and
this is the average at each of the six
teen locomotive works in the United
States.
Canton, China, with a population
of | 500, 600, does not publish a news
paper of any kind
Science says an earthquake occurs
in the United States or Canada once
every twelve days.
Many physicians assert that the Sc
cret of long life after three score years
and ten is to keep warm.
Horseshoes made entirely out of
the horn of sheep have been success
fully tried at Lyons, France.
The few handsome women Of Tur-
key are importuned never to marry
lest their beauty be marred.
A parrot that swears and tobacco
chewing monkey are the household
pets of an old maid in Nashville.
The expenses of the postal service
in all the southern states exceed the
receipts fro,a the postoffices.
Over $1,000 residents of New York
City live at hotels, and there are 100,-
600 strangers ia town every night.
There are 347 female blacksmiths in
England, all of whom swing heavy
hammers and do mems work gener
ally.
The oldest known tree in the world,
at Mount Etna, is hollow, and large
enough to admit two carriages driven
abreast through it.
Cotton burns more rapidly when
once started than any other infam-
mahle material, and the tighter it is
baled the faster it will burn.
The largest tree in California, al
though dead and fallen, has trace
able height of ASP feet, and measures
liz feet IN diameter at its base.
In one of the Kentucky mountains
a woman has held the office Of justice
of the peace for the last ten years
without legal authority.
Every year 126, 900, 600 wooden
spoons are turned out in Russia, in
the manufacture of which about 49,,
600 cubic fathoms of wood are con
sumed.
Edmund About was gray haired,
high colored, thick set, delicate hand
ed, with one of the shrewdest PAIR of
twinkling black eyes ever set in hui.
man face.
According to French scientist the
force of storms can be lessened by
placing q large number of lightning
rods on the telegraph poles along
railway lines.
A jury ii Athens county, Georgia,
has been out two weeks without
agreeing upon verdict in the case of
man charged with peddling spects-
cles without license.
In photography the left side view
of the face nineteen cases out oftwenty
gives the most characteristic likeness.
while to the same degree the right side
is the most symmetrical
In the Bank of France there is an
invisible studio in gallery behind
the cashiers, so that at q signal from
one of them any suspected customer
will instantly have his picture taken
without his knowledge
Cleveland dogs are said TO be the