Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-15
GLEANINGS.

A New Jersey, girl who heard that
some OF Der callers liked mixed drinks,
provided four kinds of WATERMAN,
spring, well, aud melted snow.
Colorado women tramp around in
Gotten stockings with tine thermometer
at 40 degrees below zero. Their feet
don't get warmed up until about the
last of July.
1t has just trsnsplred that the chill
! dren originals of "Helen's Babies"
had been dead year before their
amusing pranks were written up and
published for the world to laugh at.
Cinnamon are beginning to monop-
olize large share of the business of
furnishing wood for the Central Paci-
tic Railroad, which has constituted an
important industry of the Truckee
basin.
A huge lemon has recently been
picked at Panasofkee, Fla 1t meas
ured twenty-four inches in cmcumfer-
ence one way, twenty two inches the
other and weighed four pounds thir-
teen ounces.
The total amount of authorized
street railroad capital in England is
$91, 250, 000 and the length of line
opened for traffic TSP miles. The num-
Der of passengers carried last year was
nearly 331, 100000
A conductor in Massachusetts put
tramp off his train and threw him
bundle which he supposed was his
baggage. The tramp threw it back,
and it was afterward found to be
package of bills containing $4,000.
The ancient house, which is one of
the few buildings at Stratford on Avon
England, that remain in precisely the
same state as in the days of Shake
speare, has lately shown signs OF
giving way. The house is one of the
most interesting sights of the town,
and great attraction to American
tourists.
/ As an evidence of the slow pace at
which the British Postoffice authori-
ties move, il is noted that the London
letter carriers still use the common
twisted canvass bags, secured at the
top with a string. The Philadelphia
Record thinks John Bull ought to
take a trip westward ana see how
Uncle Sam does things.
The city expenses of New York are
now $33, 900, 900 year. Those of the
general government are about 1865,
900, 900. With a population of a mil
lion and a half, or one-fortieth of the
entire population of the country, the
city expenses of New York are one
eighth as large as the expenses of the
General Government.
One Of the best of tho Christmas
stories was written by j. Soule Smith,
Falcon, who is a lawyer-journalist
of Lexington, KY. This versatile
gentleman is a good lawyer, orator,
romancer and poet. In social life
he is the peer of the best gentleman
Kentucky ever produced. He writes
for the Louisville Times,
1t is a little remarkable that Of the
three statues raised to women in this
country-all withiH the present year
One is to an English women, Harriet
Marhneau; another to an Irish woman
Margaret Haugherty, a successful
New Orleans baker, and one to an
American, Mrs A. Tevis, of Shelby
Vile, KY, a successful teacher.
Quotation parties are in style. Each
guest comes with three quotations,
and the company is gwen the names
of the authors. Prizes or favors, as
flower, or whatever you like, are pre-
scented to those returning correst an
swers. When there are number of
correct answers the favors are drawn
by lot. All winds up with supper
at the expense of the hostess.
The superiority of American dredg-
ing machines, which had been shown
in the work on the Panama Canal,
has led to orders for them by four
teen governments. The last of these
is from Spain A drag boat, with a
screw propeller of 100 horse power,
five iron barges and two tow-boats
have been called for to 5e used at the
port of San Juan Porto Rico.
Victoriano Nlevez lives at Carmen,
in Mexico. and is millionaire. The
other day he and his wife celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary
He gave a banquet and scattered dol
lars right and left. Five hundred
thousand dollars in one lump was sent
to the poor in the locust-eaten dis
tricts and $4,000 was given to the re-
public to help pay off the American
debt