Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-02-26
GLEAN1NGS.
imports corn from Texas.

blossoms thrown IN.
Proctor the astronomer is the au
thor of a new work on whist, just
published in England.
The Ohio legislature will adjourn
that its members may 60 to the lnau
guration.
To recover an old goose worth 40
cents, claimed by neighbor, cost a
Kentucky ltigant $40.
A Buddhist temple has been opened
in Paris, and the officiating Clergyman
is a priest from Ceylon.
The Mormon temple at Salt Lake
will vet require more than four years
for its completion, and will cost So
100000.
A condemned murderer at Marshall
Texas, passed his hat around the court
room for the benefit of bis wife and
children.
Anderson County, KY, has a jack
mule that is feet and 1 inch high.
Congressman John d. White comes
from the same region.
There are eighteen thousand veterans
going about the world on wooden legs
who lost their limbs In the United
States civil war.
In England every chimney-pot that
catches fire pays fine, and for every
call on the fire department tine man
on whose property the fire takes place
is fined if it can be shown that it was
due to carelessness.
Dorsey's ranch is said to have paid
a'dividend of $500, 900 for 1884 The
capital is 81, 900, 900, of which Dorsey
owns one-half, John B. Alley. 5000,
600; Colonel Ingersoll, $230,000, and
hurry Nelson, $170, 900.
Among the persons calling at the
Office of the register af wills in Phila-
delphia recently was determined
looking young man with bride and
some rope ON his arm, who demanded
mule and COW which his uncle had
bequeathed him.
A German jilt has just been pub
lished by the Maipz tribunals, her
aggrieved betrotsed having been
awarded $3.50 damages, with all costs.
This is the first time that lady has
been sued for breach of promise of
marriage IN Germany.
The wonderful picture of Rem
brandt, "The Glider, has been pur-
chased of the Duke de Morny by a
New York banker for $45, 600 1t is
one of the recognized masterworks Of
art and will be quite the most valuable
painting in America.
Irregular eating eating at restau-
rants is becoming a fruitful sourse of
dyspepsia in our cities, according to
an eminent writer on hygiene.
If the day is not cloudy on Aug. -.
1899, England may view a total
eclipse of the sun, the only total
eclipse in the next 250years.
AT Prince Bismark's private table
no member of the household speaks a
word until its head has tacitly or
otherwise given him leave.
II is belief Of the Buddhists of
Ceylon that if woman behaves her
self properly she will eventually be-
come man. Snail temptation to
virtue, that.
Senator Cameron has new claim
to fame, A hog with SIX legs beneath
and two above its body, and two tails,
was borne on his farm last week.
An Ulster County, New York wom-
an whose pet cat went the way that
cats must 20, wrapped it in a shroud
of crazy work in silk and consigned it
to grave.
A letter received at the postoffice in
Washington last week was addressed /;
Hon. Mister Cleveland, in the White
House at Washington. Please ex-
anime quick"
A North Wilmot, N. H., little girl
has now living two grandmothers,
three great grandmothers and one
great great-grandmother, but has
neither uncle nor aunt.
A Rhode Island man proposes to
found a society whose sole object
shall be the advocacy of change of
the ugly names so frequently borne
by villages. He believes there is
something actually immoral in such
names as "Bugtown," skunk Hol-
low" and "Woodchuckville."
Justice Field tripped around with
little banjo, in company with Mrs
General Logan, carrying miniature
oAAh lag was OilC vi hlAO ON40 * Alba7 VI
recent German in Washington.
Colonel Majendie, the authority on
explosives, had actually made the
round Of all the cellars and corridors
of the House of Commons the day be-
fore the explosion of dynamite took
place.
At Mr.. Tilden's gigantic stone castle
of Greystone Mr.. Cleveland had to
sleep in bedroom forty feet long and
twenty feet wide - and this is only
one of the ninety nine rooms in the
building.
Sturgeon has turaed out 69S preach,
ers from his Pastors College" in the
twenty-eight years it has been estab
lished. Surgeons theory about
learning 20 preach Is "as dog learns
TO swim; jump in"
A Mexican vaquero in Arizona
recently endeavored to lasso an in