Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-10-14
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eS''eoS III Eh9idhc ana Scotland
A bust Of Washington Irvine i 70 =,
placed in Central Park, New York y
All of the railroads in Loujsian,
run at loss so far as local traffic !.
concerned.
A school for training nurses is m ~
established in Japan under CHARGE Of :
lady from Boston
A son of Edwin NJ. Stanton Is soia
contemplate publishing selections from
his fathers private papers.
George w. Smith, an old figure 4 aroo,
and pantomimist, who danced Win
Fannie Ellsler and Lola Monte il SIN
living in Philadelphia '
Admiral Snufeldt, who went into the
navy in 1889, and has been on the ro
tired list for ten years, has gone on =
holiday trip around the world.
1t is said that the colored peonla .,
the United States maintain more score,
and benevolent societies than any othe,
people on the face of the earth.
Andrews, the Georgian who last ven,
walked from Atlanta to Boston. is NOW
on his second trip, accompanied bv tbe
same little dog The peculiar tbino
about it is that the pedestrian is 90 years
old. ''''
Five years ago Ida Garrison of Deni
son, Tex, fell from tree and hurt bor
self so that she has not since been able
to use her arms. She has succeeded in
learning to paint, holding the brush
with the toes of her left foot.
The squeaking noise of shoes can he
stopped, according to the Boot and Sdos
Recorder, by sprinkllng powdered
pumice stone between the soles durino
the process of manufacture, or by
driving dozen OF shoe pegs into the
soles when the shoes are first to be used
A tramp asked for something to eat
at a restaurant in Nation, ILL., The
cook offered to give him two dozen
fried eggs if he would eat them all
The tramp agreed and the eggs were
set before him. After having eaten
twenty-one eggs, q loaf of bread and
some sardines, he fell asleep.
Luther's boyish home at Mansfield, in
Saxony, has just been restored as far as
possible TO its original condition when
the reformer's parents dwelt there, foul
centuries ago. The old mousse had be.
come most dilapidated. Now it will be
inhabited by body of deaconesses
who will nurse and care for the sick and
poor of the town.
The newspapers of the world, accord.
ing TO statistics given BY the German
Secretary of State number $4,000. with
an aggregate distribution of 592, 100000
copies; 10000 are printed in Europe
$4,000 in North America, 757 in Asia.
500 in South America; 5000 are in
English, 1880 in German. $3.50 in
French and 1000 in Spanish
Most physicists believe a time will
come when the sun will radiate much
less heat that it has furnished the earth
since the life period on our globe began.
If this is true, and there are many good
reasons for believing that it is, time
will also come when the amount of heat
emitted by it will be so small that only
life of the highest and hardest forms
can be sustained on the earth.
lakewood in Ceylon used to be Jack
wood. Handy was early spelled candy
Jungle is uncultivated, usually brushy
ground; native word, iangal. Why
iangal was not as English as jungle is
query. 'Jangala' was the ancient
word, the Sanskrit "Bungalon is q
house; compound" the premises No
body in Ceylon speaks OF his house or
his premises; always "bungalo' and
compound.
German newspapers state that start
ling experiments have been made at
Berlin with new description OF Il shell,
charged with rolls of gun cotton, which
produces extraordinary results. No
kind of defensive works, no matter how
solid, it is stated, are capable OF resist
ing so destructive projectile. The
German Government, completely salts
fed with the results obtained at the
trials, has ordered 10000 of these shells.
One night three years ago Samuel
Smith, of Fruitport, Mich, dreamed
that he saw train of cars pass his
house The dream was so vivid that
Mr.. Smith arose and called his wife and
children, all of whom saw the phantom
train. The dream or vision was forgot
ten until last week, when railroad men
began stalking exactly on the line where
Mr. Smith and his family saw the ghost
ly train three years ago.
Mrs. James Brown Potter, who is now
in London, has been frequently I'M
porlrtned to recite the poem that created
such a Juror last winter in Washington
Mir. Sims, the author, sent Mrs Potter
a note asking to meet her. He thanked
her for the great popularity she hau
given his poem in America. Sims, It
said is to write new poem specially
for Mrs. Potter, which will be her ex
elusive property and viii not be pup
lished.
A life insurance agent states that ne
has Just concluded 81 insurance upon
the life of Il man a. ID one hundred ana
two years. This centenarian enjoys
good health and appears to be in lne
possession of his faculties. He states
that his father lived to the age OF one
hundred and ten, and met his death
from an injury due to the breaking o.
milestone. His grandfather was, n .i
asserts, accidentally killed in his NIL
at the age of one hundred and twenty,
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