Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-04-16
MISSING LINKS,

One of the greatest libraries in this
country is that of Adolph Sutro, the
borer OF the famous SutrO tunnel. Mr..
Sutro has, secured Europe in search of
rarities, and has now stored in San
francisco enough books to bring the
title alone up to $50, 600.
A natural curiosity in the forna of a
chicken which had neither ears, ewes
nor nose, Is mentioned in a Georgia
naper as having died recently. 1t
ate food and seemed to thrive until il
was chilled by exposure and died.
The Waldensians at present number
seventeen congregations, with 10, 600
members; 195 day schools, with ) 500
scholars and 200 teachers; seventy
Sunday schools, with $500 pupils.
The principal stations of these people
are Turin, Florence, Rome and Ma
ples. The Waidensians are increas-
ING but slowly, and the schools are
becoming smaller, because the Roman
Catholics are everywhere planting
schools near theirs, and thus drawing
off many of the children.
Curio parlors is the latest name for
dime museum in the West, where
attempts at reinements of language
often seem to be in inverse proportion
to popular taste and culture.
The number of non working holi.
DAYS in France, including Sundays,
amounts to 100 whole days in each
year. In Greece they have 100 days;
in England there are 81 ia Russia Sc;
in Brussels IS; in The United State it
varies in different states, but few, if
any, of the latter have more than
seven or eight legal holidays in the
year in addition to Sundays.
The st. Mary's Md) Enterprise re
lates that few days ago buggy &C
cupied by a gentleman and lady
caught fire from a brick that was
heated for the benefit of the lady's
comfort, and, owing to the wind being
ia their faces, it was not discovered
till the bottom of the vehicle was al
most consumed by the flames. Their
wrapplngs were very mucn damaged,
but no personal injuries were sustain
ed.
An ancient burying ground was
recently unearthed in Paris while dig
cling a trench in the Rue Salande
The collins of stone and plaster found
there have been traced to the seventh,
eight and nine centuries. They were
pointed to the east and had crosses on
a circle, symbolieal of eternity, and
other emblems of Christianity. The
collins were found filed with dirt,
their covers having given way.
A strange sight was presented in the
streets of Tucson, Arizona, one day,
last week. A woman appeared carry
ing chlld's empty coffin on her
shoulder, followed by a lot of little |
girls. Later the scene was reversed. |
and the coffin was borne by four little |
girls, followed by several women. 1t
is no uncommon sight there to see a
coffin borne to the grave on the
shoulders of man, but a woman
rendering the service was a novel spec
tacle.
Maine papers say that Bath board |
ing mistress surprised one of her |
boarders, who was learning 10 play on |
the banjo, by reducing the price of |
his board on the ground that his sing
ing and playing had frightened away
all the rats. The compliment dis.
coured the young man so much that
he has given up practice.
Should all the men, women. and |
children in London be seized with a
laudable desire to attend church on
the same Sunday but a trife more
than one third could be accommodate
ed; or, to put it in another way, al
most million of the inhabitants of
London who are old enough to attend
divine worship are unprovided for.
The Medical times thinks there is
something anomalous in an age
which is at one time charged with
cultivating muscle at the expense of
mind, and at another with forcing the
brains and neglecting the bodies of
the rising generation" A judicious
care Of both brain and muscle would
be a common sense solution of the
difficulty.
Nc one has ever been able to tell
why one side of a street should be bet
ter for business purposes than the
other side, but it is fact, neverthe-
less. In New York the west sides of
the streets running east and west,
seem to be the favorites.
Cardinal Newman has just celebrat
ed his saith birthday at the Birmlng
ton Oratory. Heis enjoyinga second
youth and shows an amount of vital
ity quite surprising to those who some
little time ago were anxious about his
health. He said mass on the morn
ing of his birthday, and later receiv-
ed visits from number of his friends.
SMILE whenever you cannot the
stereotyped, sickly so often affected in
society, that has as much relation to
a real, hearty smile as an ecllpsed SUM-
does to the full -orbed god of day but
a Joyous, ripping smile, that comes q
rom sunny, contented heart-one
mat bursts in upon gloom and dis Y
content; flooding it with sunshine.
Everybody is benefited by it, yourself
10 particular.
A VERMONT paper describes the man
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