Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-05-21

There is house in Dublin, Irelana n
which is worth at the most ONLY So E
Eighteen families are crowded inte \
who pay rent of S410 year IT, E
owner, it is said, is a gentleman -
wealth who lives abroad.
One of the new laws Of Nebrasb.
prohibits the marriage Of divorced pes
sons within six months after ~
granting of the decree, in order H.
allow time to be given for settins
aside said decree by proper legal pro-
ceedings.
Professor Rldgeway, of the Smith.
London publication his prediction
that 1.-The English sparrow in tn
United States is national misfos,
tune, which is likely ia the near fl,.
t0ee, to assume calamitous propor-
tons.
The phrase printers devil" owes
It's origin TO the fact that the frs
Grant boy employed by William
Caxton, the first printer, was the sor
of a gentleman of French descena
named De Vile, or Deville, and the
name thus came to be applied 10
printers apprentices.
A patriotic Philadelphia sent to
the Worlds pedestal fund the other
day the handsome sum of 500, and
with modesty equaled only by his
muni6cence declined to give his own
name as the donor, but desired that
the contribution should be credited to
General Grant,
An incident happened on Broad
way, n. Y, few days ago which
serves to illustrate the origin of some
fires. A girl was sweeping carpet
with a carpet sweeper, when she
noticed smoke coming from it, On
examination she discovered that z
match had been Lighted by the reve-
luton of the brush inside the sweep
err.
New York men have taken to wear
ing boutonnieres of late, and flower
stands have sprung up from one enc
of the city to the other. Every other
man wears flower in his buttonhole,
even when going up town from his
business, and at night even larger
proportion are decorated with rosa,
lily of the valley or some violets.
Every army has its particular mode
of payment. In France, Italy ETC..
the men are paid every five days; in
Spain-seldom, and in Turkey on still
rarer occasions. In China soldiers
are paid monthly. Out of his month
ly pay of 81 taels, about 30 francs, he
sets aside one third for his keep; the
rest goes for clothing, equipment and
pocket money-should any be left.
The Kansas Supreme Court has
been called upon to decide point
probably never before raised. Il
seems that when the jury went out
one of the number proposed TO open
their deliberations with prayer, and
thcreupon proceeded to pray long
and loud The verdict was against
the defendant, vhereupon his lawyer
moved TO set it aside on the ground OF
undue influence exercised by one of
the jurymen by means of public
prayer in the iury-room."
A long, lofty and wide subterran
can aqueduct has lately been Gscoy
cred on the site OF ancient Carthage,
together with twenty-one Phnnican
tombs and some Phmnician and some
Etruscao vases. Carthage was de
stroyed by the Romans in the year
226 B. Q.
In answer to q question, What is
the highest note ever reached by q
tenor singer2 the World says tenors
have been knowN 10 siGg K in alt, bat
it is question whether they sang the
note in falsetto or from the chest
Wacttel is said to have sung d FROM
the chest.
John Leveridge, born in New York
CITY in 1870, admitted to the bar IN
1912, and a soldier of the war of 1872
is the Oldest member of the New York
bar. He is still, at ninty~dve years
of age, in active practice, and has
son sixty"eight years of age, who is
also lawyer of rcpUte,
Spools are made in immense numb
ers. One factory turns out 100, 00O
gross a day and consumes 2, 500 cords
of birch wood annually. The numb
er of yards of cotton on a spool is de
termmed by the size of the spool.
l. AC tOtbCii ID hCNCI hlUhouiChi SAt VII
spool is gagged to hold zoe, 200 or SOC
yards,
Mr.. D. G. Marshall, of Allentown,
recently consulted Bates History
of the Pennsylvania Soldiers" for the
Number of Smiths that were in the
rebellion from Pennsylvania. The
result showed over 5000 (of whom
It's were field, staff and commission
ed officers, or enough to complete
five full regiments, officers and all