Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-04-23
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sheltered by 800, 900 dwellings.
/ Several temperance military com
panies have been formed IN New York
City.
There are sixty elephants in the
United States ranging in price from
SO, 900 to 10000.
Wine over two hundred years old is
among the contents Of Emperor Will
liam's cellars.
The popularity of the classic foot is
the width between the large toe and
its neighbor
/ For the first time in twelve years,
1 Washington society possesses a Vice
Presidents wife.
There are twenty persons whose
gifts to American colleges aggregate
over 1913, 100000.
Oliver Wendell Holmes carries a
horse-chestnut in his pocket in full
faith that it prevents rheumatism.
Peanut foNr is becoming an impor-
tant product of the South. 1t makes
very palatable biscuits and pastry.
/ Experiments made in Paris show
that the crocodile can bring It's jaws
together with force of over 800
/ pounds.
Every Italian Member of Parlia-
ment 'dead heads" it all over Italy,
and is entitled to compartment to
himself.
In giving his daughter $3.50, 900, the
Duke of Bedford gives her about half a
years income.
According to the statements of a
Boston editor the Old Testament con-
tains 5, III, 10 letters.
Kangarooing is one of the most in
teresting sports in Australia, and is
one of the most exciting in the world.
Cedrac the Saxon, the famous boar
hound, is the largest dog in the
world. He weighs more than 200
pounds.
A negro in Newberry County, South
Carolina, is the father of forty-two
children and has 324 grandchildren.
The editor of Vermont journal
offers his papers free for six months
to every newly married couple in his
neighborhood.
There are twenty persons whose gifts
to colleges in this country aggregate
over 1913, 000,0 600. Three of these rich
men-Stephen Girard, John Hopkins,
and Asa Packer-gave over $14, 000,-
600.
There are 10000, 900 women and
girls in China, nearly all of whom are
uneducated and ignorant. Chinese
women are secluded, aud it is contrary
to custom for stranger of the male
sex to speak to one.
A room at Harvard is decorated
with the hankerchiefs snatched by
the Harvard boys in the Blaine torch>
light PROFESSIONS from the hands of
the girls on the sidewalks.
An Iowa mathematician declares
that the dogs in that state eat enough
to feed 100, 900 human beings, but
render very little service for the cost
of maintaining them.
Bread made with sea water is
recommended by German physician
as wonderful remedy against
scrofula and disorders resulting from
insufficient noubishment.
Near Rising Sun, Ind, the remarks
able coincidence is reported of two
brothers named Thurmer becoming
violently insane about the same time.
The cause is unknown.
In a burning cabin in Franklin
County, Ca, two colored children
persisted, and dog which had been
left with them refused tie leave them
and was burned to death by their side.
A party of Savannah capitalists
have purchased Tybee Island, and
declare they will make it the Long
Branch of the South, A big hotel
and an opera house are among the
things promised.
Miss Fanny Mills, who lives on
farm near st. Thomas, Pa, has feet
eighteen inches long. She is only
twenty-five years old.
Children grow taller, it is said, dur
Ing an acute sickness, such as fever,
the growth Of the bones being stimu-
lated by the febrile condition.
In fox chase in England the exer-
ton killed five horses, and the fox
finally fell dead from the same cause
in front of the Blcester hounds.
A man in Mansfield, Mass, failed
in an attempt to commit suicide. The
next day he was accidentally killed
by falling under the wheels of a rail
road train.
Two young foxes are being raised
with litter of pups in McCracken
County, Kentucky The mother, pup
pies, and foxes are all on the most in
innate terms.
The ploasantest fashionable parties
given as yet in London this season
have been those of Nine. Washington
nee King, of New York, wife of TIE
French ambassador.
About $4,000, 900 worth Of colsets
were sold in the United States last
year.
The New Orleans mineral exhibit
includes all building stones found in