Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-09-06
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Out there.
Grand Island, Neb.. has citizen
seventy-threa years old, who is just
now through with his attack ofwhoop-
ing cough.
Sir John Lubbock. Of England, has
studied the habits of ants for twenty
two years to discover that their aver
age life is only thirty-live days.
Sunday schools are increasing rapid
" in this country. Last year the Anne
rican Sunday School Union organized
1902, with 6,326 teachers and 54,129
scholars
Mount Kenia, in Zanzibar, is declar-
ed by its first ascendant, Count Teleki,
to be higher than the neighboring
mountain, Kilima-Njavo, which is rated
at 1900 feet high.
4 well patrouized restaurant Of Bos-
ton finds use for COO quarts of milk a
day. One might believe that the pa
irons in large proportions make
luncheon of the favorite beverage.
It is said that rhubarb and aspara-
gus can take uudilutcd soap suds in
large quantities with benefit. Other
plants should receive the soap suds by
means Of n gentle sprinklug.
Carson, Nev., reports an arolite
weighing ten tons that is streaked with
horn silver, and fell upon arace course,
narrowly missing a jockey who was
exercising colt there at the time.
Eighteen years ago Mr.. Cotton, Of
Norfolk, Va. paid $1,000 for City acres
of land there and his neighbors quoted
proverbs about fool and his money.
Now he has Just sold the lotfor $50 600,
and they arc kicking themselves be-
cause they did not go and do likewise.
Marungle, Pa, has a case Of witch
craft on hand, and the whole town sits
up o nights to watch "an animal like
a eat, only larger and without a head,
black and with an extra long tail, "
which is said to have been expelled
from bcwitched patient By q conjur-
or out that way.
"Humpy Pennington,a noted moon
sinner, sixty years old, who has made
whisky at pleasure ever since the war,
has lust been, arrested aud carried to
Nashville, Tenn, but his wife has the
still intact and swears she will make
whisky ''in spite of al the Yankees
that ever wore blue"
It is alleged that recently in Nags
pore, India, a boy Of sixteen was offer
cd a sacrifice to the gods, in accor-
dance with a superstition that human
sacrifices caused a bountiful harvest
The head was severed from the body
and offered to a goddess, while the
body was rendered to a god,
The phrase used by the now Empcr-
or in referring to himself in his recent
manifesto to the German army has
puzzled the translators. They have
made it "chief' and 'ruler of the ar
N.Y. and lot Of other things, but have
finally decided that the nearest Eng
lish to il is Lord of war,
A curious piece Of magnetic orc was
recently exhibited at Admission, Ala. IT
was SO strongly magnetized that a
needle would cling to il by its point,
/ then the attraction would become SO
! great that the needle would dance and
wave about rs if shaken by q breeze
and finally cling TO the ore byits entire
length,
Culture is spreading Tho other day
/ MISS FRANK w hIjehead' Oh LcN"r KAMA
bought hetNeii nan q UoIeh Dig ruins A'
tull OF iinery, had 'hem S5!hlPped 10 mel
address at "a ieauing Siri 5 eo'neBe NJ
/ North ana sent the oiilS 10 Aer loIo
iather VINO IS "a man OF worm anu SUI u.
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sIy i'J' ,,.i ''''U ,r, I'll ..hn,"1 ~ baye
$3.50, a..u va 49,, ~ s,,v "'''
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Inc man VINO mas (uSJ become 'h'
/ Ear' OF o@laeid was nara puSheo y
earn liVelihooG rev y ears ago Iu1
/ was 4etih@ as u oaIiilt ln , LnG ne" "et
land town oil Oaharu III 100 = "1eu i M.
father became Earl anu ne O'leIuoS 'ht
Viscouut Reidhaven He was I'll
possession Of q house IN his oticia
capacity when the news Oh ms rise Il
life came, but ne feluseu tne ouet %
substitute ana stuck 10 M posi- /"
two days longer.
Z weather proguostic0tor and anna
tour artist of Prague has painted