Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-02-19
GLEANINGS.


!, .Storm Beaten" Is now a popular
8 tragedy in railway circles.
The photographers are busy with the
Il photography of ''Yseult. "
General Grant is indeed in hard
II ,rck He hasn't smoked cigar since
q Nov. 20.
q The word hell" appears &c times in
q shakespeare's writings, and heaven
81 800 times.
" The New Jersey legislature is trying
n 70 earn its money by making laws
n against the Toy pistol.
81 A sensational and narrowing ru-
n NOR is ahoat that President Cleveland
uses his knife altogether too much at
che table.
An artificial leather, made Of sinews
Daper materials and caoutchouc, is
i coming into use in Germany.
- AT least z, 900 American newspapers
have published editorials bearing the
title THE Fall of Kbartoum."
Rev. Charles Franklin Thwing, the
new president of GrinEell College,
is only thlrty-one years old.
Whistler, the artist is coming back
TO his native America after an alb
sence Of over thirty years. He will
lecture.
In Cincinnati the dirt is said to be a
foot deep on the sidewalk and the soil
is so thick in the air that it SHOWS black
stuff.
The Queen of Belgium is stupid and
without grace. Her passion is for
horses, nothing but horses. And yet
she is Queen.
The latest among the fashionable
! ladies of Paris is to wear miniature
Landscapes painted on their finger nails
by talented artists.
After March 4 next there will be
three Joneses and not one Smith in
the Unlted States Senate Can't Illinois
find Smith.
An East Saginaw man presented
his intended bride with forged deed
y for 500 acres of land few days before
speir marriage.
John L. Sullivan is going to Eng
land and if he happens to run up
against a dynamite conspiracy may
be for once knocked out,
Mgr. Capel, who suggests home
for aged and delicate newspaper men,
has probably tried free lunch route
and learned how barren it is.
For several days the dispatches
iave been giving news about "the
ver-due Alaska The Alaska arriv-
ID in New York last Tuesday morn
ing.
There are on record twenty-four
cases of lead poisoning produced by
the use of meist snuff, samples of
which have been found to contain Q. so
per ceNt. of lead.
Colonel Spooner, Of Wisconsin, will
be the youngest looking man in the
United States Senate. Though past
/ forty he looks not more than twenty
live.
| In the fourteenth century it was the
Icustom to carry tootbpicks of silver
suspended around the neck, and the
Sfashion is now being revived by
kweelthy dudes.
sA few days ago the propr letor of a
New York restaurant cut his hand
with an oyster shell, which caused
Hhis arm to swell and ply emia setting
in resulted in death.
1 The Gillian miner is considered the
strongest man in the world, and he
Hives principally on the lentil, the
cheapest and most nutritious food
known for its weight.
| Of the 5000, 600 deemed necessary
Eor the proposed female college at
Baltimore, under the auspices of the
kAethodist Episcopal Church, $135, 600
pas been subscribed
-Four years ago the United States
government purchased land at Two
Fights, ON the coast of Maine, for a
lte saving station, since when moth
ing further has been done. Already
thls winter there have been six wrecks
IN that vicinity, the last one only a
few days since.
a new thing in pianos has been
brought out at Lelpsic. In outward
appearance it resembles an upright
piano, and it has the ordinary ham
ner action, bat in lieu of the familiar
stnngs tuning forks are substituted
for the purpose of procuring pure as
kew as sustained tone.
y~he average cost of a marriage
acense in this country 1920 Colera.
Y, Pennsylvania, South Carolina,
fhede Island, and Wisconsin charge
hothing; New Jersey, IL cents; New
FORK, 25; Massachusetts, Maine, Yer
hont, and Connecticut, so, and so on
y to Maryland, the highest of the
bt, 81 so.
A Florida man claims to have a
poster of the Shanghai persuasion
FIAT laid an egg last week.
At the Hague a young English lady
sppeared in a hat resembling those
Worn by the students, thereupon the
Intelligent police hustled her off to the
police station, charging her with
Being a student disguised in female at
tire.
An Alfalfa street car company