Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-09

troops in India in 1888 was POO,
among whom the death rate was but
lc. So per 1000. The native army
showed an average strength of ia, $50,
with death rate Of 14.3l. The most
fatal diseases for the Indian troops
were those of the respiratory organs.
The time Of day is announced every
day at Woolwich. England, at p. M.
and $3.50 p. M by firing off blank
charge of powder from q nine FOUNDER
bronze gun. Notwithstanding this
fact, a courageous little sparrow made
her nest ia one of the boxes OF the car
riage on which the gun rests. and
Matched out five little sparrows.
Mark Twain's wealth is stated thus:
From the publication OF his books,
5000, 900, the amount OF the sum being
due to the fact that he has always been
practically his own publisher, and
thereby made all the profit for himself;
lecturing, 100000; scrap book, S50,-
600; wife's fortune, $75. 900; total, 1920
600. That is about the sum he now
possesses,
Judging from the experience OF the
Odd Fellows it is reasonable conclu-
sion that the average sickness OF the
better class Of the adult male popula-
ton of the United States and Canada
is one week and ahalf each year. This
is equivalent to an income tax of 9 per
cent and the greater share of it could
be avoided by the use of simple pre-
cautions
1t is said on good authority that cy-
clones always originate in equatorial
regions, but never occur within eight
or ten degrees of that line. Another
thing that is peculiar is, the whirl Is
from right to left in the northern and
from left to right in the southern henri
sphere Masters OF sailing vessels
caught in one of these cyclones by
knowing its laws of direction can easily
sail out OF its course.
The Commissioners of the Auburn
Theological Seminary found fault with
many members of the junior and mid
| die classes for going out to preach SO
| frequently as to neglect their seminary
studies. 1t was ordered that when
| students did such preaching they must
! obtain the unanimous consent OF the
faculty every time; and ii they persist
ed in the habit, whatever compensation
they received for preaching must be
| deducted from the amount Of charitable
funds which they would otherwise re-
ceiYe.
Sir Henry Thomson, the eminent
physician, says. concerning the middle
classes of people; that three-fourths OF
the nutrient matters they eat are from
the animal kingdom, and that re-
vorsal of these Proportions. e., one
fourth only from this source and three
! fourths from vegetable sources-would
tend to maintain cleaner palate, q
lighter and more active brain and 4
better state of health for most people
not engaged on the most laboriouS em-
ployments of active life.
A Salt River jeweler has invented q
novel time-piece in the shape of steel
wire stretched across his show window
on which Il stuffed canary hops from
left to right, indicating as it goes the
hours of the day by pointing with 1t:
beak mt dial stretched beneath thu
wire and having the figures from | tC
"a. When it reaches the latter figure
it rlides across the window to | again
There is no mechanism whatever thai
can be seen, it all being inside the
bird. The inventor says he was three
years in studying it out.
Prof. Paine's assertion about the in.
considerable part played by women q.
musical composers has resulted in tht
collation. Of the titles of a small list o
well-known songs. the airs Of which
were written by women, and few
cantatas and OperettaS, by CORES
pondent who aids in bringing to ligh
the not very numerous examples, adds
in a communication to the Boston
ErcRing Transcript There is moth
ing which can be brought forward il
contrayention of Prof Paine's asser
tion and | think am safe in sayin!
that no woman is entitled to rank eycl
as fourth-rate composer.
In making soundings in the slim
soil OF the Nile valley, two baked brick
were discovered, one at a depth o
twenty and the other twenty fou
wards. III we estimate the thickness
of the annual deposit formed by tn
river at eight inches a century, say
Professor jolly. 1--WE must assign t
the first OF these brick an age of II, 0O
years, and to the second that of l4,00U
BY the means of analogous calcula
tions, Burmeister supposed 12,0O
years TO have elapsed since the frs
appearance of man upon the soil Q
Egypt, and Draper attributes to tn
European man who witnessed the las
glacial epoch an antiquity gilmore tha
$4,000 years. "