Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-01
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ter, viii go to the White House neX'
week.
The Lords Prayer engraved on one
side of gold dollar makes popular
charm.
They have good joke on John
Roach. saws the Detroit Free Press.
He has for years been chOckfull of
1.-The pauper wages of Europe" but
the last cut in his ship yards dropped
wages per cent below anything
paid in England for twenty-five
years,
Mrs. Lucy Hamilton Hooper, who
is always ready TO rush to the rescue
of her sex, denies from personal
knowledge the story OF Mile Van
Zandt's drunkenness, and pronounces
the attacks of the Paris press on the
prima donna brutal, low minded and
cowardly."
A New Haven man has taught a
wo-year-old colt to pick of the brush
and attempt TO brush himself. What
a God send TO hostlers it would be if
somebody would invent a brush
which horses could manipulate upon
themselves u would give the over
worked barn man more time 10 attend
To- the serious business of life, which
in cold weather IS sitting by the
kitchen fire counting the cook.
When1Mark Twain appeared before
his Buffalo audience the other even
ing he scanned them carefully. He
then said that he missed many faces
that he knew well fourteen on fifteen
years ago. "They have gone" he
added sadly, gone 10 the tomb, TO
the gallows or to-the White House.
All of us must 60 to one or the other
of these destinations, and il behooves
to be wise and prepare for all"
A writer in the Pittsburg Dispatch,
noting the fact that a large proper
ton of the good newspaper reporters
of the day are from country towns,
says zone thing that is in favor Of
the country boy is that things in the
city are strange to HIM, attract his at
tention, whereas one used to them
every day would not EotIce them at
all. City boys are apt to want to
write editorials at the start. Ii they
can't do that they study law or medi-
cine, or play pool.
Philadelphia great city nall begun
many years ago, is MOI = ct completed
The great tower is now about 100 feet
high, and when completed it wilt be
537 feet inches, the tallest structure
in the world except the Washington
obelisk. The building is OF white
marble, 4S6 feet inches by 40 feet
in site, covering Al acres of ground.
with $50 big rooms and total Of 14t
acres of floor room. III is 10 have a
big clock with dialS 20 feet in diane
ter, and if they get off with bill of
costs Of $40, 000,0 COO the taxpayers will
rejoice.
Not only are there letter carriers in |
the large cities of England, but in the
towns and villages, and even in the
rural districts, letters are delivered
direct to the houses of their recipients. (
Formerly the letter carriers went their
rounds afoot, but now all those in the
rural districts have been provided by
the government with trcycles, which /
Iuu sXcelleEtly on the admirable
roads of England. These carriers also
take with them a stock Of stamps and
stamped envelopes for registered let
ters, to sell 10 the people who live at
a considerable distance from the
Office.
At a small French village named
Anberine, in the Department of Isere,
lives a woman named Marie Durand,
whose age is said to be 1913 years.
What is claimed to be the certificate
of her baptism declares that she was
born on March l6, 1861. She belongs
to the peasant class and lives ON pub
lie charity. She has been a widow for
forty-slX years.
Arab Bey and his fellow exiles in
Ceylon complain of i'll treatment
They pleaded guilty on the distinct
understanding that If their country
was confscated they would receive an
adequate allowance TO support them
selves and their families in exile.
Two governors of Ceylon have sue
cessively declared that their allowance
not adequate But the Egyptian
government refuses to increase il.
Lieutenant Schwatka TANKS Alaska
is a good investment for the United
States. 1t already pays nearly 5 per
cent interest on the purchase money
of 81, 000, GOO, and it has a great future
before it, The coast line is greater
than all the rest Of the United States;
its chief river would reach from Salt
Lake to New York bay, and, in short
this explorer thinks that Alaska has
an ineXhaustible store of timber in the
south and facilities en- the Aleutian
Islands to furnish beef for a score of
San Franciscos" In other word,
Alaska is a bonanza.
The height of the principal struc-
lures in the world is AS follows Wash.
ington monument, $50 feet; Cologne
cathedral, 513 feet pyramid of Cheops,
495 feet St Peters at Rome, 4S5 feet;
st. Pdul's in London, 465 feet; 81.
Marks at Venice, 1928 feet, and the
capital at Washington. 3S3 feet.
There is curious statement Of
divers writers to the effect that the
skin of the West Indian creole feels
opplar {bau that Df u E,rONoar ~,