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

sQUIBs.
Peaceful Abode" il the name of a
burg in Delaware County, Ohio
At the drum tap 100000 drilled sol
diers would take up arms in Europe.
In Boston paper spring poem is
signed with these three strange initials
NJ. q. d.
1t is the Paris Morning Ne,cs that
speaks so soberly of 'virginia City, Mon
tana."
Cumberland Nd, company has be-
gun to fetch coal all the way down from
Wales.
dozen Bridgeport men have 1900
acres of wild land near that city and liber-
ated 200 quails on it.
Land in Connecticut upon which pine
trees were planted a few years ago is
now worth about 500 per acre for its tim
Der.
Hereafter examinations for admission
to Harvard College will be held in Paris
for the benefit of those who are studying
in Europe
Haryard's 250th anniversary occurs next
October, the students want to celebrate it,
but the faculty remain silent on the sub
iect,
bill has been favorably reported in
the New York Legislature abolishing the
present Board of Aldermen of New York
and putting in its place fifteen men elect
ed on a general city ticket
81 The official year book of the Church of
I II. Al
years the church. raised and spent for re-
ligious and educational purposes the sum
of $4O7, $3.50, 1856.
English paper makers report an in
crease in paper export. Imports of for
eign paper fall off in quantity, but in
crease in value. During nine months of
last year 100000 worth of foreign sta
tionery was imported into England.
The generation of heat by friction has
been applied in England to the produc-
tion of a friction still, by means of which
survivors of ship-wrecks may obtain
steam, and consequently fresh water, from
sea water without the aid of fire.
Lime cartridges are coming into use for
blasting purposes. hole is bored, the
lime cartrige inserted and water poured
over it, The increase in volume of slack
ed lime splits and cracks the substance
which it is desired to blast.
new gold country is said to have been
discovered by shipwrecked French sail
or in Patagonia, betweed the Straits of
Magellan and the river Gallegos The
man had collected from the sands little
fortune when taken off the coast by
steamer.
In a certain Austrian town thirty female
printers were introduced. The typo
graphical society adopted a novel way of
removing them. 1t took two or three
years to do it, but it was accomplished at
last, by the girls all becoming the wives of
the printers.
Although Winnipeg is the headquarters
of the Hudson Bay Fur Company, it is al
most impossible for stranger to buy
furs there, The company's agents will
not sell, and the only chance Il traveller
has 70 get a robe OF skin of any sort is
from the Indians.
Are we running ON timer" said the
conductor, repeating the nervous pas
senger's question. NO, sir; we are do
ing a strictly cash business" Your fare,
please
boy not yet seventeen years of age,
in Pope county, Minnesota, has invented
"a combined hay rake and cooked for
which he has just refused an offer of $l5,
600.
A carload of fish including Holsters ale
wives, eels and rock cod, is to be taken
to California next July for the purpose
of stocking the waters of the Pacific
coast
Governor Proctor Knott, of Kentucky
has appointed gentleman Major on his
staff with the rank of Mister 1t is
said that he is the only mister" in Ken
lucky.