Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-25
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.

en- engaged IN giving musical IN
struction in England.
A physician of Hammonton, n. J.,
has four sons who have adopted the
medical profession.
Vaccination is carried out 50 strict
ly in the Prussian army that not a
soldier has died of small pox since
1875.
So far fifty-one persons have com
mitted suicide on account of losses at
the Monte Carlo gaming tables this
season.
Iowa has thirty five and nine tenths
cattle TO the square mile.
Lord Tennyson is writing another
historical drama as a sequel 10
Beckett
Calcutta is the second largosttea ex-
porting city in the world, the leading
being Foochow.
Blacksnakes are stripping the gov,
eminent fish ponds near Washing
ton OF their tinny occupants.
The electric light has not proved a
success in lighting the Leeds Public
Library, and gas has been substituted.
The United States are said to con-
sumo more lemons than all other
countries combined.
There are seven hundred Chinese
scholars in twenty nine New York
Sunday schools.
In Boise valley, Idaho, it is estimat-
ed 500, 600 of fruit was destroyed by
the late frosts.
Prof Agassiz's Oldest son takes
more to fields than to books, and he
owns an extensive sheep rancho in
Colorado.
Ia Boston in 1890 quart Of rum
cost the same as a pound of coffee
TO wit, 1 shilling q pence, and in some
old account books 1t appears that both
were used in the household in about
the same proportions.
A baby 2 months old and weighing
only FIVE pounds is the latest sensa
ton at Los Angeles, Gal.
A New York banker suggests thai
as a precaution against embezzle
meut every bank should have an
album containing the photographs Of
every employee from President TO JAM
itor
A little girl in New Orleans was
recently stung by a bee on the ball OF
one of her eyes, The sting causing the
sight to be utterly destroyed.
Sturgeon from Lake Ontario are
said to be manufactured into smoked
halibut to as great an extent as the
real article.
There was never any law enacted
authorizing the use of "E Pluribus
Unumn upon United States coin or
paper currency.
A sanitary association formed on
modern prib ciples was established
two years ago IN Japan, and now has
over 5000 members.
The negroes in Macon, Ga, are
greatly excited in consequence Of the
number of cases of insanity occurring
among them within the past month.
The horse which General Grant
rode the day Lee surrendered is own.
ed ii Vernon, Oneida County, n. y,
and marched in the procession on
Decoration Day this year.
The dies from which the first Unit
ed States cents, those coined in New
Haven and called the Franklin, were
cast are now used as paper weights In
counting>room at New Haven.
Miss May King kin Yamei grad
uated at the Woman's Medical Col
lege OF the New York Infrmary,
Friday. She is the first Chinese
woman ever granted a degree OF
M. d. in this country.
The English Admiralty has order.
ed that al the guns of every vessel
! leaving Chatham shall be supplied
with arrangements for being dis
charged by electricity, and that sew
eral Of the larger ships will be pro-
vided with the electric light.
The vital statistics Of Washington
show that the death rate Of the color
ed population is so per cent. greater
than the death rate Of the whites
The Jewellers Circular says that
never in the history Of jewelry in this
country have colored stones, both
gems and semi-precious stone, been
more in request than now.
"Sam, you are net honest. Why
did you put all the good peaches on
top Of the measure, and the little ones
belowg Same reason, sab, dat
makes de front Of your house marble
and the back gate chiefly slop bar'l,
san
Professor John Ogden, a scientist,
and enc Of the new settlers Of McIn-
tosh County, Kansas, sees the posi-
bility of utilizing the steady winds of
the prairie, and predicts that in time
they will be used to drive machinery
for ali sorts of purposes.
A curious discovery was made re-
Gently when a lightning rod, which
had been in place fifteen years, en-
bsdded in soft clay, was removed.
There was found attached to 1t a solid
lump Of iron ore weighing ninety.six
pounds, supposed to have been pro.
duced by the conversion Of the clay
by the action Of electricity