Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-02-12

doctors discovered that il was owing
\ to his use of snuff put up in so-called
tin foil wrappers. According to the
Medical Press there are now on record
thirty-fou cases of this kind. Some
samples of moist snuff contained ?. 80
+ per cent OF lead.
During the seasons when game may
be killed the markets of Cheyenne
have for sale elk, vension, antelope,
+ bear, mountain sheep, grouse, ducks,
rabbits and other game killed in Wy
oming. The game laws are rigid,
however, and the seasons are short
when il is lawful to kill game for any
purpose except the individual wants
of the hunter.
Professor Huxley is wintering at
Florence and trying to regain his
health, much impaired by incessant
mental work. He, like Herbert Spen-
Ger ana other great thinkers, is tenn
pera te III all things save brain work.
Huxley, while resting, is yet working
SIX hours day.
Seven men between the ages of
twenty and twenty-five years recently
sat down to dinner IN Chenango
County, New York and on compar-
ing notes ii was found that not one
OF the seven smoked, chewed or used
tobacco in any form, and never drank,
went to the theatre or played euchre.
ALT Prater, of Gainesville Ga, has
constructed a model of the Brooklyn
bridge. 1t is four feet wide, thirty
feet long, and weighs $50 pounds.
Three hundred and Fifty figures are
kept moving on it, representing men,
women drays, carriages, cars, etc,
and under the bridge are boats in reat
water, making the scenes wonderfully
! like the real bridge
There is no such a thing as fire
place or stove in all Mexico, and hence
no chimneys. The temperature re-
mains at about 60 degrees The year
round, and while the stranger viii
complain of being chilly at first, he
Will soon become accustomed to the
atmosphere. The cooking is all done
in Dutch ovens, with charcoal,
During 1884 new members joined
the Masonic fraternity in the state of
Connecticut to the number of 400, los
affiliated from other lodges, 43 were
reinstated, 104 withdrawn, 1853
dropped for non-payment of dues, %
suspended, expelled, 1877 died. There
are 1879 members at the present
time, as against about Ia, 942 last
year The cash on hand at the be
ginning of the present year was 1854
OF receipts OF the past year, 81, $50 %
expenditures, s., 5S4 46.
An inability to clearly perceive
forms and outlines, or form blindness,
is q new defect that has been dis
covered by a New York artist, who
says he sometimes placed objects in
the shape of heXagons, or octagons,
or decagons, or even so common q
shape as a pentagon or a five pointed
star before certain pupil as test, and
almost invariably they were unable to
distinguish one form from another,
even when with careful distinction
| the differences were explained tC
them.
Judge Lynch holds court even il
China. Just outside the gate o
Shanghai recently a son killed hi
father, when q sudden conclave o
the latter's clan hastily INST, deliberat
ed for about five minutes, and thei
took the parricide, bound him hanc
and foot, and threw him into holt
previously dug for the purpose MuC
was threwn into the hole and tht
members of the clan stamped By
turns on the grave until it was leve
with the ground, and SO, withou
leaving mound or any mark to poin
the parricide's grave, the assembled
crowd dispersed.