Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-30
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bogus etnSrdut Wagon ls new IN
I dustry in probibitory Iowa
! Curled maple is only an accidental
:. form OF sugar maple, in which the
grain lis beautifully contorted. This
!, for,n is highly priced by cabinet max
ers, and 1000 has been given for
single tree.
Peanuts never were so cheap as they
now are, the price per pound being
}, from 81 cents TO 3 CENTS. Last year
prices were high, and the result was
heavily increased acreage and an
overlooking crop.
} a cycle of Opponents and one or
drowning casualties are sweeping
through the country. The only sure
safety is to keep out of love and off
the water. '...t ..,A ....
Governor Patterson, OF Pennsyl-
vania, has vetoed eighty bills 1t is
apprehended that The legislative gems
\ tlemen ol Pennsylvania are not max
ing mach money this year.
They were going to ask w. b.
1 Brooks to become superintendent of
n the Sunday>school at Gierbord Point.
Md, but before the committee got
around to 1t Ae vas indicted for steal
| ing twenty-five horses,
The typical baby walks in forty~
seven weeks, kisses in twelve months,
and jumps in twenty>seyen months,
but 1t takes longer TO perform these
operations with Intention and success.
The typical mother, however, claims
that her infant accomplishes greater
feats in one~halfahe time.
Our national air of Yankee Doodle,
4 says Webster, was composed by Brit
ish officers, in ridicule Of American
troops Yet ere long the last OF the
British army laid down its arms at
Yorktown while the same air was
played III the ears Of officers and men
A thrifty resident of Milford, Conn,
who is worth $4,000, walked ten
miles TO Birmingham TO receive his
July dividend ona SO 600 investment,
;. amouAting TO about 5000 He said he
could not afford to'liire a team or pay
his fareontthe cars, ii to.ut1Jta
One OF the celebrated protests
against selling slaves came from DIR.
Gordon, of Massachusetts in 1776.
, ''If God, y he says, hath made of one
blood ali races of men | can see no
reason why black rather than white
man should be slave" '.'.s'
One of the most offensive orchards
ia this country is that Of Robert
McKinsley, of Hudson, n. Y, whose
! farm of 800 acres is entirely set to
apples, pears and cherries. The or.
chard consists of about 80, 600 trees.
Most of the fruit is shipped to Eu-
rope. 80. .......,
Railway men declare that there is
no advantage in using a rail heavier
than sixty five pounds TO the yard, as
only so much can be worn from the
surface anyway, when the rail will
: have to be replaced. 1t is even con.
: tended that heavier raids make the
track too rigid.
Railway newspapers report that the
! Monarch Parlor Sleeping Car Com
pany has q capital of IS, 600, 900, that
it will construct ard ftih cars designs
ed from a new invention, which is
said to be superior, to tapything now
in use, and that six cars have already
been placed in service.
Z Watermelon seed pools are the new
est style Of gambling, Each player
puts IN quarter, or any other sum
; agreed upon, and makes his guess,
: then the melon is cut and the seeds
are counted, and the best guesser takes
the pool. Something over GO seems
to be the average number
A tailor named White, living near
: Nuneaton; in England, recently plac-
ed scarecrow in !fs garden TO fright
en- the birds. a robin has, however,
built her nest in one of the pockets,
while tomtitt has utilized one Of the
sleeves for the same purpose. Both
) birds have reared their young.
A man at Bath, N. Y, entered an
old tannery 10 scare up rats with
hoe handle. About 200 attacked him
and tho doctors have given him six
weeks TO rest in bed tbs gang inflicted
seventYlnine bites.
Philadelphia BARRIERS have been
compelled to close up their shops on
Sunday and theywant,to see the soda
water sellers also stopped, They hold
, that shave is more matter OF me-
cessity than a glass of soda water.
The Mayor of Helena, NJ. r., is a
barber, and, after enjoying shave
at his worshipful hands, visitor
went to '1ool, for an Alderman to
black my boots, " for which disparagS
Q ing sarcasm he was hunted out Of
s town.
The average property loss by.each
fire in the United Statee last year was
81, 1859. The heaviest average loss
was on ten rubber factories, S63, 727;
the lowest on 7,074 dwellings, 81 39G.
Hotels came nearA st the average, $40,
with an average Of 1870. On 72S
saloons and retail liquor stores the
average loss was 81, 4l9.
A girl at Harvard, Miss Brown, Of
the Annex has led the entire college
in all its departments, She passed
! the examinations to enter on an equal
footing with her brothers, has taken
; instructions from the same professors,
though at separate Rotations, and
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