Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-04-29

old soldier, and proposes to name
them Lincoln, Grant, Garfield and
Hancock. The infants are in splen-
did health.
A NUMBER of enterprising little
girls of neighboring town have
formed themselves into a dolPs sew
ing society. Probably for the relief
of nude dolls in shop windows and
the heather lands.
4 Drove of one hundred yearling
calves, purchased at Blanchardville
by Hon. James Spensley, passed
through the city the other day
en- route for their new feeding quar-
ters on Mr.. SIS farm.
DELLER is now receiving his new
stock of carpets, oil cloths, and lace
curtains, to which he invites the at
tentivn of the ladies and all in want
Of such things, as he will not be
undersold.
JOHN c. LEE, agent for the Can
ton, Ohio, bridge company, died
suddenly at his home in Elizabeth,
H., last Thursday. Deceased was
quite we'll known in this section.
He was Az years of age, and brother
in-law to Mrs. John Yates.
ONE of the largest and varied
stocks OF letter and note papers ever
introduced into this market Just
received at the TRIBUNE Office. The
qualities are good and prices to suit
the times. Bring in your orders.
Mr.. Wal. TRELoAR, an old and
worthy citizen of Dodgeville, died
on Tuesday morning about one
o'clock, after long and painful i'll
ness, the result of an accident with
which he met last November by his
horse running away with him.
A LANCASTER, Wis, young man,
in answer to an advertisement, sent
a dollar to a New York firm for "a
book every sporting man should
have" and received by return mail
a small copy of the New Testament.
THOSE who have nothing better to
think or talk about insist upon rails
ing impertinent questions, such, for
instance, as whether it is the sermon,
the choir or the new bonnet that
takes the most people to church on
an Easter Sunday
EGGS were extensively eaten San
day. One little party composed Of
five Of our city youths got at six
dozen-some boiled, some fried
and clicked the platter clean" The
hero OF the occasion will probably
be illustrated in the Police Ga5ette.
Tue annual report of the cheese
factory at Twin Bluffs, Richland Co.,
shows that $7,783.5O was realized on
the sales of 10000 pounds of
cheese, each COW averaging $50 dur
ing the seven months that the fac
tory was in operation. The number
of patrons last year was eighteen
"FANN1E Finch fried five houn-
der fish for Frances Fowler's father"
II large-mouthed girls will repeat
this pretty sentence enough times
and with sufficient rapidity their
will grow smaller. If i'll
gets monotonous they can turn i'll
around and let ''Frances fry the fish
for Fannie's father"
AN Iowa man has invented corn
husker for which he has been offered /
s. 900. He refused the offer, want
ing a royalty in addition to the $5o,-
600. The huskeris bullion the plan
Of a binder. The stalks are cut off
with a sickle and run through a set
Of corrugated rollers which do the
stripping the ear Of corn
clear of all husks.- Galena Ga5ette. 7.
Mrs. ANN McDEEMoTT, of Dodge
vile, widow about so years Of age, |
committed suicide by hanging her
self with bed-sheets sometime dur
ing Saturday night. She had been /
melancholy for some time, and the
coroner's jury decided that she was
temporarily insane. She was in /
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