Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-08-09
MISSING LINKS.

There are 400 less boats engaged in
me salmon industry al Astoria thisyear
than last
A lily jet black in color isin bloom at
at Chico, Cal. 1t emits very disagree
able odor.
It is expected that thousand Ice
landers viii arrive in Manitoba during
tho summer.
It is estimated that tho girl who
dance. eighteen values travels about
fourteen miles.
Cattle raising and milk farming are
receiving increased attention in Mis-
souri, every year.
The average Mexican laborer sup
ports his family on 10 cents per diem,
invested in corn and beans.
All the policemen of Kansas City are
church members. two of whom are
elders and several of them are deacons.
George Shenberger, Of York, Pa, has
a German Bible which was printed in
the yeal 1880 The print is quite plain.
MissAlice McKecl, of Wayery, Tenn,
while working in the garden, killed a
rattlesnake by cutting its head oil with
q hoe.
tits said the tightening rod is relic
of superstitutiOn, and will soon be re-
garded in the same light as a horse
shoe over a door
A curious theft was committed by an
old woman of Orange, n. j. SOC dug
up the cobble stones from tho highway
TO pave her cellar floor.
The New York NAL and Express
wisely remarks that nobody regrets tho
departure from town Of the women
whose specially is subscription papers.
An English canal company makes use
OF the locomotive upon the towing path.
A small engine employed upon lo-lnch
rails draws four boats At the rate Of
seven miles an hour.
Alexander Rostof is tho name Of q
laboring man in Bridgeport Conn, who
can speak Russian, his native tongue.
and German, Hungarian, Hebrew Latin
English and Italian
japanese engineers propose to adopt
system Of earthwork defenses pro
iectad by an iron shield one foot in
thickness and extending twenty-five
feet each side Of the gun.
There is a couple in Wilkes County,
Georgia, who have been married about
forty years. and during that time the
wife has never asked the husband for
any money except ten cents.
A South Carolina girl was married
five times in seven weeks. and is now
bothered TO know which one Of the
chaps is her true husband, She has
been sent to Jail to think il over.
Pullman has invented street cars
with reversible seats and Il central aisle
as in passenger coaches, and proposes
TO uphoster them like tbs vesubule
cars and make smoking rooms.
A New York paper tells of Harlem
woman who has double rows of teeth,
while her son has no teeth at all. There
mauifestly is such thing as carrying
this woman s-rights matter too far.
A Now York studio is dimly lighted
as dusk comes on by Il pile Of skulls
smesred with PHOSPHORUS. To the
topmost one is fastened bone con-
tanning y candle. 1t is lady's studio,
too.
A Burton. Ohio, man, suspecting
that one OF his fowls had stolen her
nest, Watched her and found that she
had appropriated a hollow apple tree
and built "A nest ten feet from the
ground.
A number Of society girls in Mobile
recently organized Themselves into o
minstrel troupe. BACKED their faces,
donned tho professional wigs and gave
a performance for the boueGt of o
charitable society.
Some Australian parasites that are
warranted To Kill fruit pests have been
received in California, and are Enc
tried bv orChardists. It is claimed
that these little bugs, no larger than
heas, feed on fruit posts, and rapidly
destroy thom.
A new table ornament Is Jelly illumi-
mated BY electric light The dish,
hidden from observation at first by a
silver cover and mass flowers, is
suddenly reyeed from tho light shin
through the mass from the center and
the effect is electritying.
Shortsightrduess in California is at
tributed by some physicians to the alb
seuce Of color tn that country, the pre-
Vailing tint being dull brown or drab.
In tho land ot perpetual sunshine
white houses and white concrete side
walks arc said 90 be most injurious to
the sight.
The rain seems 30 Do appreciated at
the South, If Que can Judge from the
following lines from % Southern paper:
60, tho rain the beautiful rain, flood
ing the valley and soaking the plain,