Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-22
GLEASINGS.

One county in Australia has this yeai
paid the bounty on j,S40 dozen Of cap
tured sparrowS' eggs.
Shakespeare daughter could not write
her own name Her father could write
it, but nearly always spelled it wrong.
At the recent Cat Show in London
one feline valued at $500 600 was eX-
hibited. and $4,000 cats were plentiful
OF the 4. 600 Cinnamon in New York
and BROOKLYN over three thousand five
hundred are engaged in the laundry
business.
The London Empire seems to be an
observing paper 1t says: America is
ahead OF US in many things, and behind
us in a few things. "
The process Of drying lumber by sur
rounding it with common salt is just
now attracting attention. The pecu-
liar power Of salt for extracting mois-
turc is well known.
The number Of patents for veloci-
pedcs of all sorts, including saddles, is
about 900 OF these, tricycles consti-
tute the great majority, or nearly two
thirds of the whole.
'Irenus, Of the New York Observer,
says in a recent postscript to one OF his
letters to that paper: The grandchil-
dren Of those who read the first of
these letters are now reading the last
of them.
A Chinese play at San Francisco
theatre has run forty-two nights and
only reached the third act There are
twelve more acts to come, and it viii
be year or more before the critics can
begin their abuse.
Virginia has a larger state debt than
any other state in the Union, Tennessee
being second, and Louisiana third. The
total debt, state, county and city, is
larger per capita in Massachusetts than
in any other state.
A good authority calculates that the
six leading nations OF Europe have
standing armies of about 100000
men, with reserves which could be
brought into the field within three
months Of about 10000 600.
The London Gioje, in an article on
Nationality in Voice declares that
America for the next century will pro-
duce the finest singers in the world,
owing to 1.-The sem-barbarous condi-
tons essential to such productions
A man who lives near Pittsburg has
six pieces of silver, each weighing
little more than the standard silyerdOl-
lar all perfect, and dates as plain as
when new The dates run from 1886
to t7jA On one side the figure resem-
bles General Washington head, the
other side being hieroglyphics. These
pieces were plowed mp in a field, and
their oHpor wants somebody to tell him
what they are.
There have been fifty Speakers Of the
National House. Henry Clay served
longer than any other, holding the POI
sition during six Congresses. Joua-
than Dayton served two terms, Nathan
lei Macon three, f. A. Muhlenburg (the
first Speaker two, Joseph b. Narnum
two. Andrew Stevenson four. james
X. Polk two, Linn Boyd two Schuyler
Coliax three. James G Blaine three,
and Samuel j Randall three.
An expert in pianos remarks: 'Peo-
pie win not learn that a cover on q
piano, no matter how much high-art
heedIc"ofk they are may ne ON H. Is
almost useless unless 1t Is Waterproof
Have q fancy = piano scarf as you Ike,
but Keep one OF the plain and homeIy
drab rubber covers under II or you
Won Keep your piano The better
your instrument Is The more suseeptI-
bic is it 10 the eaects Of moisture.
The Aliens Baaacr tells how Il man
Vile "at'e trade with him and thus
ga'e thal eelion good preacher 1t
,ays ha went to preaching Just TO
Keep ont OF the War, and after The War
was over he mad got to be sueh q goou
one he kept on iils "lie was Bap-
tl,t and he was Methodist, and she
told ann It he would 20 to preaching
end keen ont Of the War that she
would ioip the Methodist Church. The
trade was made. and since tbst time
he has been bio Methodist preac6ar
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lofoly fine distance he,veep London
and Fdinb,trrb v,s oogorsd IL, tbroa
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