Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-04-15

MINERAL POINT, WISCONSIN.
A PAms1AN street beggar is said TO have
compiled and printed directory Of phil
anthropists and soft-hearted persons to
whom it is worth while to apply for aims,
and the police are trying to suppress the
book.
DURING period of ten years, from
1870 to 1879 inclusive, an average of 1900
men in the old country ." struck for an
average of thirty-eight weeks. The aver
age cost of each of these strikes was
$4,000 and there were 1852 strikes in the
ten years. The total cost of these to the
workmen was $l34,064.000 or a yearly
loss Of $18,40G.4O0.
THERE are five minis in the United
States, viz; At Carson City, New; Denver
Col; New Orleans, La; Philadelphia Pa.
and at San Francisco, Cal. The Denver
mint is not a coinage mint. There is no
mint at Washington. Besides the mints,
there are a number Of assay offices: viz.
at Boise City, Idaho r.; Charlotte N. c.;
Helena, NJ. r.; New Yourk city, and at st,
Louis, Mo.
Ar Krupp's, in Essen a railroad truck
has just been built with sixteen axles. 1t
was made for the special Pourpose of
transporting by rail a cannon, which is
50 feet long and weighs nearly 1876 tons,
from Essen to Spezzia, in Italy, by way of
the St. Gothard tunnel The truck is rs
feet long and the axles are divided into
groups of four, which easily adapt them
selves TO the curves of the road.
THr official statistics OF German trade
in 1856 which have just been published,
have caused the Liberal press 20 take
very gloomy view Of the commercial sit
uation. The figures show thas there has
been a great falling off in the export of
textile fabrics, ready made clothes, sugar
machinery, and iron work generally, with
tne exception Of rails, the export of which
was above the average. The increased
export was chiefly to America, Belgium
Italy, Russia and Japan, in all of which
countries German manufactures are com
peling very successfully with English
Generally speaking, however, the volume
of trade last year was below the average.
THE government OF Uruguay is disposed
TO adopt no half measures in order TO re
tain its home markets for it's own people.
The imposition of heavy duties ON
goods is not sufficient. Commercial tray
elers are 10 be taxed. The nunoer of
these has increased to such an extent in
the territory of the republic that the
merchants have complained that their
business is almost paralyzed. In conse-
quence the Government has decided that
commercial travellers not residing in
Uruguay and not representing a house
established in the country, must obtain n
license, the cost of which viii be $1,000 in
gold. The license must be paid in ad
vance and renewed every year.
The Victorians have very sharp way
OF dealing with the cheap labor difficulty,
No vessel is allowed to bring to port more
than one John Chinamon for every one
hundred tons of its size. Consequently
ship OF fourteen tons hundred tons would
only be allowed to carry fourteen of the
heather ones, We have just seen a file of
Victorian papers that vessel of that size
was found to have fifty Cinnamon ON
board, and the captain was mucted in
penalty of $500. Every Chinaman com
ing 20 Victoria has to take out papers Of
naturalization md pay poll tax. But
the cute Celestiuls post their naturoliza
ton papers to their friends in China,
who come over with them, and thus as
cape the tax.
LEW CAssApy, of South Bend Ind, has
invented an invisible duca boat which is
said TO Ice a success. He took an ordinary
hat-bottom boat, cut the sides, from the
bow back ope-third of the length, down
10 the water line, covered this part and
made it air tight, and then placed at the
rear end Of this compartment mirror
twenty-eight inches high. and as high as
the boat, Behind this mirror he had the
two Thirdly of the hoat in which to paddle