Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-16

| he EnghSh crown 10 William tha
! Conqueror, and at which Harold tbe
last of the Saxon Kings was kineS
occurred in the year 1866.
The New England Conservatory ne
Music, Boston, Mass. is the Oldest in
America. II attracted otis halls laet
year /, 978 students from fiftv,6vs
states, territories, provinces and for
eign countries.
Forty Moors sent out by their gov,
ment TO study the manufacture og
breech- loading guns, are coming 10
the United States, and will enter tho
employ of various arms>mapufactur-
ing concerns.
However reluctant Lord SALISBURY
might have been to take office until
after election, he has a wife who
thought six months premiership in
the hand worth six years one in the
possible future.
In the winter hotel at Opalacochie.
Fla, there is trained alligator who
appears around the grounds of the
establishment and allows himself to
be shot at for a certain sum a shot.
provided the guests aim at him. He
mas never been wounded
A maiden lady who has chair
which she claims came over in the
Mayflower would not speak TO a
friend who asked her if she came
over with it.
One of the queerest sheets of water
in Maine is called Shows Ocean. It
is little pend in Orringtou, near
Bangor, and its peculiarly is that,
although situated away up amenp
some hills ON the bank of the Penob-
scot, it rises and falls as regularly as
does the river.
A Kingston, Ca, man has a curl
oslty in the way of fowl. 1t is a
cross between a turkey AID guinea,
and it is between the size of turkey
and guinea, and it makes a strange
noise more like Il dog barking than
anything else.
The following appears in London
paper: London season. A lady of
good position, without children, Of
fers to take charge of young lady Of
good family, and present her to wide
circle of the very best of society, this
season. Exceptional advantages of
fered. Terms, $500. All communi-
cations confidential. Address" etc.
1t is said that the third cos.liest
building in the world is the New
Y ork State Capitol. Started under 2
Legislative limitation of 81, 600, 900, it
has already cost nearly $1S,000,0 600,
or more than the national capitol
a h
millions more will be required to
finish it.
A man, his wife and three children
reached Ipswich, D. T., last week,
from the State Of New York, having
travelled the entire distance on foot,
the head of the family pushing a
hand cart that carried all their world
ly possessions. They were in search
of free lands Omaha (Neb.) Bee.
Mrs. Melody was arrested for
locking her husband out at midnight.
When the magistrate asked her what
she had to say about it she replied;
We'll, your honor, I'm dimmyc
and my old man voted for Blaine, and
shure | turned him out for offensive
partisanship Begorra, that's the
shtoile now" The magistrate, being
a civil'service reform democrat, dis
charged the women.
In Ecuador there is church, it is
said, for every $50 inhabitants; and
10 per cent. of the population are
priests, monks or nuns. The priests
control the Government in all its
branches, and 272 days Of the year
arc observed as feast o. fast days.
Ope~fourth of all the property belongs
to the church. Seventy-fve per cent.
of the people can ntither read nor
write
A tail, lank man boarded an out
going western train near the stock
yards. He looked like farmer, and
there was an odor of cattle cars about
his clothes. He walked through the
car and looked all about for seat,
but nobody stirred TO make room for
him. A drummer was spread over
two seats, and a woman and her two
children over three. Several men
occupied whole seat apiece. The tall
lank man gazed up and down the car
a moment and then exclaimed:
"Well, by gosh. | cum up to Chic
ago with a load o. hogs, but I'll be
darned if l thought I'd have ter ride
home with load, too"