Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-03-12
6LEANINGS.


Cromwell considered as his lucky
day Sept. 8. and Napoleon Dec. 2.
The turnkey in a Cincinnati police
station is a colored man worth $50
600.
An Albany, N. Y, storekeeper
never advertises and never reads a
newspaper.
A charming yoAng widow of Biz.
mlngham, Ala, is but thirteen years
old and attends the public schools.
The enamel OF the teeth is the hard
est tissue of the body, and contains
only two per cent. of animal matter.
While filing water tank in pas.
senger car at Altoona, Pa, the other
day, workmen found in it a trout s
inches long
A Clearfeld County. Pa, man con
slderately boards at hotel in order
that his wife can have time to attend
a skating rink.
Within the past fortnight the Eng
lish sparrows have entirely disappear
ed from Concord, Mass. where they
had existed in great numbers
A temperance society in Boston has
just resolved that the use OF tobacco
for the qualification of the appetite is
"a sin against God and humanity"
a sentence containing every letter
in the English alphabet and favorite
with writing teachers is; "a quick
brown fox Jumps over the lazy dog.
The Bicester hounds ia England re-
Gently had a remarkable long run,
which was terminated by the fox
falling down in front of the pack.
Five horses were killed.
The Manchester Union points with
pride to a New Hampshire woman
who hasn't broken a lamp or chin
ney. IN thirty years. Perhaps she
used gas or candles.
Prohibition is evidently much de-
sired by the business meU of Athens,
Ga, siXCY-seven firms there having
declared their intention of closing on
election day and working for it.
A Boston pawnbroker's clerk was
recently fined $40 and costs for selling
rifles to two boys who had fallen vic.
TINS to cheap literature and wanted to
60 West and shoot Indians.
A teacher, speaking before the
Rhode Island Institute of Instruction,
recommended the introduction of
healthful story books as an antidote
against the evil of flash literature.
A Hawkinsville, Ga, negro claims
the honor of being the champion
stump puller. From thirteen acres
of land he removed S27 stumps last
week, for which be was paid cents
each.
By means of ropes and pulleys a
Detroit man, upon retiring at night, |
draws his bed up to the ceiling in
order to get the greatest benefit Of
The warmth that comes from his little
stove.
The Boston Music Hall has not
yielded fair dividend to the stock
holders for some time, it is announced
and IN Consequence are considering a
proposition for its conversion into a
theatre.
The champion pie eater of Dobbs'
Ferry" IS one George Patterson, who
recently devoured twenty-one and a
half pies. He ate the first pie in
minute and a half, and the first ten IN
twenty eight minutes.
Colorado Springs claims the honor of
beating the whole country in the
variableness of temperature, the Their
there having shown d varia
ton of 70 degrees in q hours during
recent cold wave.
A drama Of American life is report !
ed to have made popular success at
Lyons, France. Among the incidents
are bowie knife fight, rifle duel,
lyhching by women and q scene in
Florida in which alligators devour
the william.
Some strong language which Mr..
Amos A. Lawrence recently used be
fore Massachusetts, legislature com
mittee is going the rounds of the !
papers. The Boston Herald declares |
that it is not pleasant to read, for in !
stance: Colonel Lawrence, a resi- |
dent of Boston, says of mis- home: If |
there is any place IN the world that
Sodom and Gomorrah it is
Boston,
For a large portion Of the winter,
SAYS the Greenfield Gazette, wood |
choppers have been exercising their |
calling on Deerfeld Common. Five |
OF the noble elms killed or wounded |
by the burning of the Everett House
have become their victims. And an
other sad blow mas fallen upon us.
In the gale of January II, one-half of |
''Thc Great Elm, the pride of the |
town, the queen of New England |
elms, was LAID PROSTATE.
M. Pasteur recently recommended |
a member of the Academic des Sci
ences to experiment with young ami
mails in order to ascertain if they can
be nourished upou the absolutely pure |
food which many people regard as sD
ideal diet-that is, food wholly free
from microbes. He believed that |
such a diet would not sustain life, and |
that the presence Of common microbes
in the digestive organs was necessary |
to the proper functional action Of |
those organs.