Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-18
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.


turkeys at single shot.
The town of Sweden, Ne, has Meth
er doctor Ror a lawyer.
East Tennessee capitalists are pre-
pairing te develop some Of the marble
beds of that region.
II is singular fact that nearly all
the London newspapers buy their
print paper in Germany.
With New Workers Long Beach is
the favorite near summer resort ;
Long Branch next, Manhattan Beach
third.
Elk Gov. Curtin says he spent while
Uaited States Minister at st. Peters
burg $4,000 a year more than his
salary.
A recent invention for the use of
electricians is square wire, which is
claimed to be not only mechanical
but electrically better than round
wire.
The cataracts of the Nile are due to
granite veins, which the river. while
working a way through the sand
stone, had keen unable to destroy or
remove.
Newfoundland has a population of
1913, 600. la 1874, when the present
census was taken, it had a population
of 161, ga.
Five hundred policemen ia citizens
clothes are still employed in guarding
the public offices of London against
dynamiters.
The government of Mexico has APP
pointed a commission for the scien-
tific investigation of the natural
products of the country.
Recent experiments have demon
strated that the heating value of coal
is diminished from Is to % per cent
| if it is used while wet.
President Cleveland has caused it
to be made known that he will accept
no invita- ons TO college com uence-
ments.
Ceylon spiders weave webs so
strong that a walking stick. when
thrown into them, is entangled among
the meshes.
The bridal gift of a California man
to his daughter was spirited horse,
in the first riding of which she was
thrown and killed.
The old soldiers of the Third Ala
bama Regiment are getting a wedding
present ready for 'Stonewall" Jack
sons daughter.
A New York lady had her dress.
maker arrested TOR false pretenses be-
cause her wedding dress did not fit
her.
Mr.. William II. Vanderbilt and
family have released the Pavilion
cottage at Sharon Springs this
season.
Roscoe Conkling is becoming very
stout greatly to his disgust, and all
his efforts to reduce his bulk by exer-
else have been unavaIEng,
The ladies to man are in favor Of
protection. Let any bashful youth Of
good habits ask some bright girl and
see if she does not blushingly say,
yes.
THE man who rules himself, says
an old proverb. us a king. And il
might have added-and the man who
tries to rule woman viii also and him
self aching.
There is baby llama with Bar
NUNS circus at Hartford-the first
ever seen in this country.
IL is said that only 90 per cent. of
the young lawyers who start out in
their profession in New York City
succeed. There are said to be 1000
lawy ers in the State of New York and
0,0G0i in the United States.
I've the hardest name in this
town, said workingman TO a citizen
the other day, I'm bet dollar YOU
haven't" replied the other Ny
name is Stone. Pass over the coin, +"
said If citizen my name is
Harder"
Hear the uewsl The bridge jump
ing craze has struck Chicago. a man
Jumped from Madison street bridge,
IN presence of thousand people and
nobody tried to stop him.
Shameful. Was he killed.
mo, the bridge was just turning
and he was trying to catch train. /"
Judge Laporte, of Huntington, Pa,
is of the same stuff the ancients found
in their heroes. His son, accused Of
numbering friend, fled to his father
for refuge, and there confessed to the
| killing. The old Judge told the boy
he had sworn to obey the constitution
and enforce the law, and taking him
in his buggy to the county seat de-
ivered him over to justice.
Consul Mackey, who raised dls
turbance at Rio Grande do Snl, Brazil
bv shooting an editor who slandered
him. is now on trial His mother sent
him a Bible with her prayers, and his