Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-02
NEWS NUGGETS.

a pretty glfl OF dJ cue ~
Pa, aged nineteen, has just married
for the third time.
Prof. Dodge, Of the agricultural
bureau. saws there is not far from
1OO. 600 coo bushels of wheat in the
country now.
Grain men and millers IN Eastern
Washington Territory estimate the
surplus wheat for export from that
region al $50, coo tons.
It is reported that the dominion
government has given instructions to
fit out small vessels for the protection
of the gulf fisheries.
For calling the Conservative party
a "herd, The Triunfo newspaper, OF
Havana, has been suspended by the
government for forty days.
An immense meteor has fallen at
Newburnside, Johnson county, H.,
weighing a ton and a half, and I'M
bedded in the ground several feet.
The Pittsburg authorities have dis.
covered that the officials appointed
to collect wharf tolls have been steal
ing cash by the thousand dollars.
The Roman Catholic bishops Of
Canada have received permission from
Pope Leo XIII, 10 establish semin~
airy in Rene for Canadian students.
At Washington Court House, Ohio,
the corn>6elds are beng injured by
the ravaees of the wire worm, and
the seventeen year lOcusts are being
plowed up.
Five hundred tons OF FISH are re-
quired daily 10 supply London.
The greatest depth of the sea is sup.
posed to be about five miles.
A woman is not OF full legal age
in Pennsylvania until she IS twenty
one.
The height of the tsllest mountain
in the world is a little less than SIX
miles.
and personal property of Pennsyl-
vania is 81 6s3, 469, 0l6.
Mosquitoes, flies and other pests viii
not enter room in which the castor
oil plant is growing, or, if they should
enter it, they are soon. found dead be
meath the leaves.
A double white rose Towering on a
red crab apple tree IS one of the sights
of South birmingham, Mass.
Switzerland abolished capital pun
ishment a few years ago, but the eff
feet was bad, and the penalty was re-
stored.
Corns asd buni0ns may be helped
and ofttimes removed by the constant
employment of the oleate of copper,
spread as a plaster.
The newly discovered Lake Mistas.
sine, in Canada, is believed to be near
ly as large as Superio. 1t was frozen
over last winter.
Can one man be a nob2 a YoR-
kers, N. Y, man was ordered to dis
perse, and upon refusing to do so he
was arrested. The legal experts de
eide that the law applying to mob or
riotous gathering does not apply to
this individual, who seems to have
been justified, therefore, IN not dis
persing.
An Italian caught gathering cigar |
stumps confessed to a New York re- |
porter that he got 10 cents per pound |
for them from a cigarette and cigar |
maker So if your cigarette should |
be off in flavor il may be possibly due |
TO the bad teeth of the other fellow |
who had taken a previous chaw at il. |
The binds of Louisiana, papers Of |
that state say, will soon be extermin~ |
ated. The colored pleople there rot !
only make birds au article Of food |
but have begun to use their eggs for
the same purpose. The eggs Of parts |
ridges, robins, wrens, mocking BIRDS |
and all others that they can get their |
hands on are eaten.
On the banks of the Norbudda, in |
India, stands celebrated banyan |
tree, which is supposed to be that des-
cribed by Neachus, the Admiral of |
Alexander tbs Great. This tree once
covered an area SO immense that il |
has been known to shelter no fewer |
than 1000 men. Though now much |
reduced in size by the destructive !
power OF floods, the remainder is still |
nearly 1000 feet in circumference, |
and the trunks large and small, ex- |
coed 600 ia number
A lady in Brunswick, Ga, found !
nest of half~grown mooking birds in |
her yard recently. She succeeded in |
capturing them They were put in
temporary cage and the cage put in !
room. During the day the mother
bird flew into The room, and was
readily caught and placed in the cage |
with the brood. She began Instantly
to feed them with the food which was
in the cage, and did not seem to notice
the Imprisonment, On the day fol |
lowing the male bird flew into the
room, and offered no resistance nor
showed any signs of fight when the
lady captured him. He was put into
the same cage, and the lady now has
the entire family They seem con-
tented and happy.
You may talk about the uncouth
Western man with hay seed in his
hair but a Boston man rather Grip
pied the frontier notion the other