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

u who has the reputation for ill-luek.
II The desire for Egyptian curiosities
q has assumed the proportions of a craze
N in London.
n Miss Lulu Hurst has made $4,000
within a year out of her wonderful
magnetism. =
Brooklyn is said to contain more
gambling houses than any other city in
Il the country.
The city of Berlin budget viii this
wear cover Sl5,000,000. 1t is the high
4 est on record.
The twenty-iifth child has been born
to man and wife in Dillon township,
Tazewell county, ILL.,
Gen. Phil Sheridan has a recipe for
curing cold. Ii is Stay at home and
sit in front Of the fire.
A mule owned hv farmer in Terrell
County, Ga, has been actively at work
for the past thirtyfour years.
Silver and gold hoop bracelets are
again worn outside the glove. Three
or four are often worn on one arm.
1t was discovered after his death that
Sicnor Brignoli had barely enough
money to buy the necessities of the sick
room.
The new treasurer of Habersham
County, Georgia, has given his bond
for $4,000 There is just $3.50 in the
treasury.
Cameron, the correspondent who was
killed in the Soudan. was unmarried,
but his aged mother was dependent up
on him for support. The London StaH-
dard for which he was working. has
granted her u handsome life pension.
One of the funny bills in the Califor-
mia Assembly is one which gives to any
Young man under twenty-one years Of
age, who learns Il trade by serving an
apprenticeship for three years and is a
moral young man, $3.50 outof the State
Treasury
The latest thing in stockings does
away with carriers or supporters from
above The hosiery is kept in its place
by lacing from under the knee to the
upper bulge Of the calf. Thus the cir
culation OF the blood in the limbs is not
impaired
The New York World publishes the
portrait Of the handsomest woman in
New Jersey, whereupon the Buffalo
ErprcSS cruelty comments: at repre-
scnts.a person who is nearly up to the
average standard OF feminine beauty as
recognized in the United States.
An eccentric individual residing in
Detroit keeps his face clean shaven and
his hair clipped close by singing, and
his cheeks, chin and uppcf lips are
marked with many sears where they
have been scared by the red-hot plate
or steel with which he plays the bar
Der.
During lifetime Of fifty years n man
on the average spends G,000 DAYS in
sleeping aud the same amount in work
ing; 1000 days in eating, 500 IN walk
ing, IS i'll 500 days, and the remainder
of the half century nearly nine years
lis frittered away in recreation and
amusement.
In one of George Eliot's letters, to be
found in the third volume of Mr. Cross
biography, she refers to remark which
Prof. Huxley made on those good peo-
pie of London who have pursued him
with false witness in their anti-vivsec-
ton zeal He declares himself to be
especially yeXed with the "profligate
lying of virtuous women.
The oldest apple trees West of the
Missouri River are said to be those on
the AlpowaiX. Some of them are over
q foot in diameter. The seeds were
brought over by Rev. Mr., Spaulding,
the missionary who was stationed at
Lapwai many years ago, and father OF
Mrs. Eliza Warren, the first white child
born on the Pacific slope
BY the recent decision of Maine
Judge all ponds in that State contain
ing more than ten acres are public
ponds, and the right to cut ice upon
them free to all. In this particular the
owners of the shores have no greater
rights than other persons who can
reach the ponds without trespassing
upon the land of others.
London women and girls who make
up fashionable society have entirely
abandoned the bang and all methods
OF wearing the hair down on the fore
head. They brush their hair straight
back, showing the whole of the fore
head and temples, knot it carelessly on
the very top of the head, and wear it
without the faintest suspicion of 4 curl
or crimp.
The fellow who threatened 10 make
up faces at the other fellows sister had
better beware if the bill defining as
saults is passed by the Legislature. 1t
provides that whoever annoys another
by looks or gestures is guilty Of assault.
IL is a question whether, under such
law, the earryingof an extremely home
Iy couutenance wouldn't be actionable.
--BeJa& (Ue.) Age.
Superintendent Bennett, of Piqua,
Ohio, has been investigating the extent
to which tobacco is used by boys in city
schools. lie finds that in two grades
OF IS boys from twelve to fifteen years
Old, 81 habitually smoked cigarettes,
and only could say they never had
smoked. Of96 boys from ten to twelve
there were 6S smokers, and in the A b
{ class many had begun the practice.
Prof Z. G. Marshall says: | have