Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-05-14
GLEANINGS.


A salt lake, reported in Hidalo
County, Texas, is one mile in length,
FIVE miles in circumference, and from
three to four feet deep. Its bed con-
sists Of crystals of pure salt.
The flags of no nationality are
more common along the Philadelphia
docks than those hoated by the Nor
wegian vessels, which do an immense
business IN oil carrying.
= Secretary Lamar prefers the poems
of KnaLs and Shelley TO all others, and
has committed many of them TO mem
DRY and is ready to repeat them on
the slightest provocation
With the exception of a boy Eve
years old, who is now down with dis
ease, a whole family, consisting of
five members, in Davless county, KY,
has died since the 9Th OF March from
measles or some outgrewth of that
mslady.
A jury in Burlington county, n. j.,
in a recent suit for the killing Of a pet
rabbit, according to the Toms River
Democrat, assessed the damages at
$500 for trespaSs, to which the cost
were added, making total of 81, 400.
Buried treasure fends were at work
in BRENNAN, Tex, week or so ago,
and dug down 10 solid rock without
finding the large sum OF money which
the principal in the scheme AYERS was
buried there by Spaniards sixty-hve
years ago.
Daniel O'Connor, the youngest son
of the Irish orator of the same name,
is enjoying a comfortable old age in
London. He lately emerged from
his retirement to defend the memory
of his brother from some aspersions
incidentally cast.
Arrangements are being made 10
hold SIX days convention at the
Weirs, New Hampshire, in July, at
which a representative man from each
of the prominent religious denomIna-
tons is 20 state his respective belief or
creed and give the reason for it.
r. Fl. Newell, better known as Or
pheus G.. Kerr, who as writer was
once very popula~, is now broken
down, old and respondent. His family
has cast him off, and he is obliged to
see his manuscript, once so eagerly
sought for, either coldly rejected or
mutilated beyond recognition.
According TO an exchange, dry
powdered salt will keep moths out of
carpet. The saltshould be sprinkled
freely over the carpet, particularly
along the edges, then sweep thorough
ly. This should be done about once
a month in moth time, and there will
be no trouble from the destructive in
sect.
1t is told on the authority Of the
superintendent of an ecclesiastical de-
partment in a jewelry establishment,
where the work was done. that New
York gentleman has a babtismal font
made for each child born 10 him, the
number at the present date having
reached five.
San Francisco is enjoying build
ing boom. From March 10 to April
10 there were begun in that city 178
buildings, of total value of 81, 221 =
CAS-. This is by far the best showing
in number and value ever recorded in
similar period in the history of San
Francisco.
The building of the Philadelphia
exposition cost IS, 242, 295 and the inn
provements on the grounds 1922, 782.
At New Orleans only 1919, 600 has
been spent on both buildings and
grounds and greater area OF exhib-
ifin1 cpoaa hoe bnap Oainad
The Albany Journal complaias that
the valuation OF property by the ass
essors of that city is most extortlonate
and oppressive. 1t cites in proof the
fact that at a sale Of real estate assess
ed for SO, 500 the highest bid obtain
ed was only 81, 100.
A farmer near Macon, Ga, has 400.
600 willows growing ON his place. He
has set out so, 600 this season, and will
set his entire levee with them. A ton
TO the acre is the average yield and
when dried they are worth 5000 per
ton.
It is reckoned that the marble bust
ness OF Rutland, VT, has trebled in
the last ten years in production and
wages paid. The total amount of sales
in 1854 Appropriated $4,000, 600. and
this year it is likely to exceed that.
The operation Of the mechanical
appliances in watch factory have
become so rapid and systematic That
it is possible to take the raw materials
from stock in the morning and have
a watch running by noon.
Fifty thousand lawn-mowers are
produced annually in the United
States. The cutting season has begun,
and will soon be characterized by a
cheerful chorus of the machines from
one part of the country to the other.
Liquor sellers are said to do a good
business on the grounds Of the United
States at the Soldiers Home in FOCUS,
Me. They claim that the state has no
jurisdiction over land coded to the
United States.
The case is mentioned by the Utica
Herald of the Postmaster OF Scio, who
in a pril, 1884, suddenly regained his
hearing, which he had lost ten years
previously. He was in enjoyment Of
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