Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-02-23
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/ Thomas Randolph, of Ohio county,
I Ky. 66 years Of age, took his first ride
/ on a railroad train recently.
1t is asserted that New Years calls
have had their day in New York, and
that the custom is beyond resuscita.
+ ton.
A half-breed Normandy horse lately
drew a wagon with two men IS mics
in hours and 81 minutes, including
an hour rest.
1t is now an imperial regulation in
Brazil that persons who de from vel
low fever all be cremated, the State
bearing the expense.
Here is a bit of Chinese philosophy.
Observe not the stranger in thy mel
on patch too closely. lnattention is
often the highest form of civllity.
David Six, of Monongahela Town
ship, Green county, Pa, will be one
hundred years old next spring. Mrs.
Atwell, of that county, is one hundred
and three.
During a recent storm AZ the mouth
of the Columbia river in Oregon the
ayes dashed over the top of the light
house, 100 feet above the sea level, and
eXtlngulshed the light.
The cultivation of Indian corn is
rapidly increasing in Russ a. 1t is
now used for fatteuing hogs. Large
quantities are likely to be exported to
Western Europe in the near future.
London has a 3 o'clock tea school of
art criticism. After an art lecture
audience is provided with refresh
ments, over winch opinions are ex-
pressed in Il discussion of the lecture.
Talking of encyclopedias, the acad-
envy at Pekn has got up one of those
treasures of human Wedge which
leaves the Britannica far behind so far
as bulk is concerned, being in 100000
volumes.
OF the toelve men, including Will
liam LLOYD Carr son, who met in Bos-
ton on January 6, 56 years ago, and
signed the constitution of the Anti
Slavery Society, only one, Oliver john
son, Survives.
President Cleveland has sent his
p otograph and a S. bill to the parents
of Kentucky baby at was named
for him. Bah es in other States get
only the picture.
Experiments on the speed of the
electric current prove that if proper
conductor could be wound around the
globe "A signal parting from it at any
point of it would return To the starting
point in One-half of a second.
Ashes from the volcano of Cotopaxi.
whic fell at d stance of 100 miles
from the mounta n, was found by an
alysis to consist of quartz, felspar,
maquetite aud spccular IRON ore. l.
yer was present at the rate of 200
grains per ton.
At eddngs the Greek Church uses
two rings, one of gold, the other of sill
ver in Spain and Portugal three
rings are placed upon the fingers OF
the bride at the words: lin the name
of the Father, and of the Son. and of
the Holy Ghost"
Mrs. James Longstreet writes to the
Atlanta cOHSt tutsoH declining to be
considered an object of charity, and
says that "the General, though far
from rich, is able with hat he owns
ma uder of his life"
A prominent society lady in New
York can not 90 to sleep without put
ting her thumb in her mouth. She has
tried IN vain TO cure herself of the
habit. She got it in childhood aud
has kept It IN mature years, in spite of
many attempts at cure.
In cutting do an old apple tree in
his ore ard "a Connecticut man found
a SOU rre's nest and in it watch and
cham W ieh ne had lost last summer.
Whether the squirrels had carried it
there or not is the question which h,
is now laboring hard to solve.
Mrs. Paran Stevens, who owns the
Victoria Hotel, in New York, vas ir
her z rlhood a waiter girl in Lowell
restaurant, W lie her husband began
life rs stable boy. She is now worth
Sc 600, 900, and ner holel is headquar-
tiers for the English aristocracy in this
country.
ST. Petersburg has only one steam
fire engine, and the same precautions
against fire are taken there and at
Moscow a We're in use century ago
Watchmen are stationed on towers 7t
or 100 feet high, and q hen "a fire is dis.
covered signal IS given and the fire
department turns out.
Pope Leo has conferred upon Mr..
Charles l.. Webster, the New York
publisher, the decoration which IS worn
hv the Knights OF the Order Of Pu5
TX, in recognition of his services in
bringing ont the Life Of Leo XIII.
The Order of P us * is the highest
order OF knighthood under the Roman
Empire.
Mrs Margaret Conduit of Pttsburg
has just shaken off the shackles of I'M
agmation. and for the first time in y
years walked like other women, All
these years she has lam helpless upon
her bed, a victim of hypoehondria,
aud when at last she was persuaded to
rise she uad to be taught to walk, like
a child I
Senator Evarts, upon seeing the new
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