Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-07-01

MINERAL POINT. WlsCON9lN'
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Tpr officers of the Irish National
.eapue of America have issued call for
General convention to be held in Chi
cgoo august IS aud -. Every local
league will be entitled to representa-
tive ON the basis of one delegate to every
City members.
THE largest shipment Of Spanish pig
metal which ever came to this country is
now being unloaded at Philadelphia. II
comes from Blboa, Spain, and amounts
to 10000 tons. 1t was consigned to the
various Bessemer steel companies of
PENNSYLVANIA. though the largest lot is
for Pittsburgh. Some of it is for expert
ment. and the whole lot comprises about
G7.oOOO0o pounds. The metal is said to
be non-phosphoritic, and will be used
largely in making steel rails.
DOG owned by New London, Conn,
woman should be in the employ Of Henry
Bergh. On a recent day this model canine
sat in its mistress lap on the front seat
of A street car. The horses were lazy, and
the driver began laying ON his whip, The
dog watched him closely. and each time
he struck the weary steeds, howled dis
mally in sympathy with the suffering ami
mails. He kept it up so vigorously that
for peace sake, the driver had TO put up
the whip, and then the pug seemed quite
relieved
TuEnr has been no small discussion Of
the question as to the proper punishment
of wife heaters. The Brooklyn women
have perhaps reached as good solution
of the problem as anybody can. Having
husbands who made q regular practice of
INDUCING in this sort of domestic past
time. the women, at M agreed hour ofthe
night, turned upon their natural protec-
tors and beat them 10 merciles-ly that the
fellows had to be carried TO the hospital
for repairs.
Tur word graduate has come to have
different meaning of late years. 1T
used to be applied exclusively to the end
of the college course. and-then it was
employed to SIGNIFY the termination of
the school studies. Now children are
said to graduate from their several classes
ana it will not be long before little tots
will graduate from the kindergarten, 1t
will then only remain to speak of babies
graduating from their cradles, SO our
noble English language improves day
after day
ABOUT q mile below the city of Macon,
Ga, is an ozier willow farm. The willow
switches at the end of two years, are
from four to seven inches long, and are
cut ana gathered into punches like
shcayes of wheat They are stepped in
water and the bark at the larger end
loo-eued for q couple of inches by ma
chiuery. The leaves and bark are re-
moved by q little machine, and the
switches are placed in the mechanical
-tripper, and with pair of pliers ARE
pulled through with sudden jerk.
They are then wiped off with a wooden
cloth, bundled and laid away to dry All
the leaves and barks are dried and bailed.
They are used for medicinal purposes,
and command price of twenty-five
cents per pound The average yield is
ton to the acre, When dry the willows
command $500 per tom ana find q ready
market.
The great seal of England has only
three times been lost twice temporarily
and once permanently. james H. on
leaving the kingdom on his abdicauon,
threw the seal into the Thames. whence.
however it was next morning fShcd up
ana brought to the Whitehall Lord III
don buried it i'm his garden in Queen
Square during one night when his house
caught fire and he thought in the CON
fusion i; might he stolen. And" writes
the chancellor in his diary when the fire
was cxungui,hed / quite forgot In the
morning where had buried H. and while
the carriage waited to take me TO court
my lady and aud an the household We're
digging with pieces of stick tl we luckily
found it, Lord rbudow who always
held it during the uiehtm his bed room,
had actually carried oH ~ burglars,
from whom ir WAS never recovered A
priyy council vn- called the next day. a
new seal was rapidly made, ana during
the remainder Of Ii. continuance in
Office Lord Thwlow invariably deposited
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