Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-04
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1t is estimated that the depredatiors
of the British sparrows in England last
year viii reach 100000
1t is said that the wife of President
Adams contributed largely to the state
papers of her honorable and distin.
guished spouse and that Mrs Madison
was often useful in moderating the
temperament Of the addresses which her
husband wrote during his term of office.
'Piute-Jim, the Indian poker-sharp,
says a Nevada paper 'lately beat the
champion Chinese gamester Of Bullion
vile out of $40 in cash, an ivory-han'
died pistol, and gold ring. During
the game it was laughable to see the
Pluto box the cards on the unsuspecting
Mongolian.n
This is wonderful city of over $50.
600 souls, and q revelation to me,
writes Minister Hanna from Buenos
Ayres. There is more money here than
in any place | ever saw, but just now
there are having our grecnbac6 days
over again. gold being worth 4l5. 1t is
the most extravaganza government on
earth,
The late Mrs Fillmore's library at
Buffalo has in it a scrap-book made by
Mrs. Fillmore with much painstaking.
The covers, OF green Russian leather,
contain all the newspaper articles that
she could find to clip, telling of the last
illness and death of her husband, the
president of the United States. Mr.. Fill.
more's right arm was palsied while he
held his razor in his hand in the act Of
shaving.
During the last thirty years the con-
sumption of malt liquor, which had been
very inconsiderable and confined 70 a
few localities, has greatly increased in
Ireland Brewing in the last century
was in some parts a very tlourishing in
dustry but when the duties on u barrel
Of corn brewed into ale became nearly
double the duties on the same quantity
distilled into whisky the latter became
the popular tippIe.
A railway is building from the South
ern Paciic's main line TO the celebrated
Cinnabar mines, producing quicksilver,
in the neighborhood of New Almaden,
Cal. Great difficulties have always been
experienced in getting cheap and suit
able transportation to and from these
mines. Donkeys have been largely en-
ployed hitherto, and at one time many
of the camels now running wild in
Arizona were used there.
Gen and ex-Prcsident Gonzalez, OF
Mexico, was born in Texas, opposite
Matamoras, about the time or Just be-
fore Texas achieved her independence.
He is the son of private soldier, is
half Indian, and is one of the hand
soonest men in or out of Mexico. He
has been a soldier all his life. and
worked his way up through all the
grades, from private to commander-in-
chief of the Mexican national army.
A Georgia lady has a suit Of clothes
in her possession that is one hundred
and three years old. Her grandfather
cut out and made the suit with his own
hands. The suit is made of flax, and
the buttons are cut from a gourd and
covered with cloth. The trousers are of
the old hap-knee- breeches style, and the
coat is an old-fashioned sack A pair
Of flax stockings, made at the same
time, completed a wedding suit l03
years ago
A Georgian tells how colored parson
in. his State once made clear even to the
dullest of his flock the difficulty of tread
ing the straight and narrow path as
contrasted with descent on the spacious
highway leading in the other direction.
Before he was wen started in his dis
course he ran down the pulpit stairs and
proceeded to suit the action to the word.
''AIy brethren, he cried, "the road to
heaven is like this, and lying fiat on
the banister he began topull himself up,
hand over hand, as laboriously as a boy
climbs creased pole. At last be
reached the top and got on his feet
again, happy in his Christian victory.
Then, having taken breath, he exhorted
his hearers 10 look at the road 10 hell,
doubled one leg under him and slid
down the rail, III half sitting posture
with a rapiditF and grace that betrayed
a juvenile familiarity with this route.