Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-03-12
GLEANVNGS.

IL ASidHS icgNIu ltu uduutiSs as a
preventive against cholera, and are
buying it in great quantities.
Somebody has calculated that II the
American people should make the effort
they could save S150,000, 600 in dress
alone each year.
The bread now baked at Naples is Of
precisely the same shape As the loaves
found at Pompeii that were put in the
oven 1000 years ago.
The engravings for Harper's MONTH
n cost 100000 a year The Century
has spent as much as $4,000 for Illus
trations for one article
New York City is borrowing money
on long time bonds, carrying 81 per
cent interest per annum. Such bonds
are selling at per cent premium.
In some parts of North Carolina
candles and kerosene lamps are still
considered articles of luxury, while
resinous torches are to be had gratis.
Ouida says: "a girls love must new
or be begged, but conquered. " Para
doxical as it may seem, the girl can
not be conquered unless she concurs.
Hot air toys are a novelty They are
made of Bristol board well Autographed
and are to be set in motion by the air
from lamp, gaslight, stove or furnace.
The are very comical.
A crane capable of lifting 147 tons is
being erected at Hamburg. 1t viii be
the largest on the continent, the next
being that already erected at Antwerp,
which is capable of lifting 100 tons.
Three thousand horses die each week
in London. Their carcasses are pur-
chased by company which delivers
meat for cats and dogs to many thous-
ands of customers. There are 700,-
600 cats in the city.
DR. Hammond remarks. Perhaps
there is no better test of 4 woman's
health and beauty than her appearance
at an early breakfast table. She is then
more as nature made her than at any
other period of the day"
Ladies who want something in en-
broidery not already possessed by their
dear 800 friends are advised to try the
effect of old gold mohair insertion upon
sage green cloth, working over the de-
sign of the insertion with bright gold
silk.
The Notifications of Paris are threat
ened, not by an enemy this time. but
by the Parisians themselves. The CITY
is outgrowing its old zone, and the for
titications are in the way The room
they occupy is required for building
purposes.
Horace Greeley once asked Mrs.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: ''What would
YOU do in time OF war if YOU had the
suttrageY Just what you have done,
Mr. Greeley" was the quick reply;
''stly at home and urge Others to 90
and fight"
The late sullivan Dorr, Of Provi-
dence, Il. l., lived in the same house
and died in the same room in which he
was born. There too lived four gener-
atoms of servants, one woman who was
a servant in the family sixty years ago
and is there now.
The wire fence is slowly disappear
ing in Wyoming Territory, and it is
thought the cattle dealers will soon do
away with it altogether. The large
owners have concluded that an open
range is preferable, all things consid-
cred, to an inclosed pasture.
A scientific observer claims that the
flatness of the earth at the pole brings
the polar ocean thirteen miles nearer
han any other portions Of the globe to
the central ball of fire, upon which he
believes the earth to be built. Conse-
quently the heat is so great that the
water could never freeze over, and if
there is sea at that spot at all it must
be an open one.
1t is now an open secret in English
official circles that the Agamemnon,
doublc-screw armor-plated turret ship,
is to all intents and purposes utterly
useless. The rudder has been contrived
so as to work only in dead water, and
the result is that it is practically impos-
sible to steer the costly monster, and
when she starts it is a matter Of pro-
found uncertainty what direction she
may take. In all probability it viii be
found necessary to convert the ship
into a single screw, at a cost of $780,
600.
Millionaire Richard Wilson, whose
son has just married into the Aston FAM
lily, kept a crossroads store not so long
ago down at Dalton, Ga. He did it in
a modest way, too. His whole stock
of goods would have brought scarcely
enough to pay for the wedding clothes
his son wore last Wednesday. The lit
tie dilapidated shanty in which with
his own hands he measured molasses,
weighed snuff, and wrapped up soap
was torn down within year or two.
Hugh j. Mohan of San Francisco
says emigrants are pouring into Cali
fornia at the rate of 1000 to 1900 q
week. BY far the greatest number
settle in Southern California, organize
colonies, and engage in fruit and wine
growing. A large per cent are men of
means, and even of wealth, who 90
there mainly for health, but combine
business also. The poorer class of en-
igrants 90 into the northern counties,
the agricultural regions; and about 20
per cent Of the fatal number 90 up to
Oregon and Washington Territory. The
population of California is now about
100000