Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-06-13
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1t is said that trust is being formed
In New York to control the orange
crop of Florida.
In the way of geology and mineral
ogy Nicarauga is reported TO be the
richest spot in America.
After several failures to run han
SONS in Paris, a sentiment in their IA
vor appears to promise success.
Glass furniture is manufactured es-
pecially for India, where the raiahs
like glittering aud snowy rooms.
A man VINO died in Berks county,
Pa, recently at the age of eighty-nine
years had lived all his life in one
house.
An Ohio schoolmaster got the bounce
the other day because he was forty
five years old and had never seen
canal boat.
An Iowa clergyman recently mar
ried three couples and conducted two
funerals in one day, and to do it drove
fifty miles. Total receipts, s..
The prejudice against horse flesh
has now so faded out in Paris that
there are 1872 recognized butcher shops
where horse flesh is openly sold.
The colored people of the South go
to the postoliice on an average of once
per day and receive an average of four
letters per year as their reward.
The Boston AdUocate, a journal for
colored people, which suspended re-
Gently, had l,12O subscribers on its
list, of whom only sixty-three had paid
up.
At the examination in descriptive
and practical anatomy held by the
Irish Royal College of Surgeons, two
lady students have taken the highest
prizes.
Whoever wants to rent the great
Isle of Arran, one of the greatest
sporting estates known, the property
of the duke of Hamilton, can do SO at
$1,000.
Morphinomanie is becoming such
an epidemic in Paris that the Academy
of Medicine is appealed to. 1t con
stantly appears in new forms, exalgine
being the latest.
The candle in Othello and BESIDE
mona's bedroom in "Othello,' now
being played at La Scala, is an electric
light, no other form of illumination
being permitted there.
A Kansas weather prophet predicts
that the states east Of the Mississippi
River will have butvery little rain this
season, but that Kansas and the other
states west of the river will have
abundance.
"lf Bismarck lives five years longer
free press and free speech will be un-
known in Germany" was the para
graph which sent German editor to
prison. The climax was nearer than
ne thought.
There will be only two-thirds of the
usual crop of peanuts harvested this
year, and the light and airy trne will
be more expensive than it has been
for several years. The circus will be
greater luxury.
Alexandria, Va, has a population
of 10000, yet during the thirty-one
days constituting the month of March
not a wedding occurred in the place,
aud not marriage license was issued
by the clerk Of the court.
Since the charge of the 600 at Balak-
lava over 5000 men have claimed TO
be survivors Of that memorable event,
and the claims are still coming in. As
a matter of fact not over twenty-five
of the number are alive to-day
The fashionable dog is to be the
schipperke, or little skipper, He
comes from the Low countries and is
the old-time companion of the Flem-
ish bargee He is black, with next to
no tail, and a hard coat inclined to be
rough, and does not weigh over twelve
pounds.
The latest freak of English society is
an amateur minstrel company, headed
py noble lord and embracing among
IS members many distinguished per-
sons Of the arstocracy. They black
up, do clog dances and sing negro
melodies They give performances
for charities.
The astounding announcement is
made by Herr Krupp, in reply to some
criticism on his guns, that since 1870
he has supplied con the average 1000
guns per auuum, and of these not one
single piece has given away or caused
trouble" This does not correspond
with statements made from other
sources.
Deer and elk are literally massacred
in Wyoming and western Colorado by
wealthy Englishmen who come over
to enjoy the sport The great herds
along the continental deer trailn are
being rapidly depleted by this useless
slaughter. Men who belong in the
region do not kin an animal except to
use it, and will pass by whole herds
without firing a shot.
The land of dazzling promise, the
Argentine Republic, to which the gov
eminent has been bringing shiploads
Of immigrants at great cost, is as yet
unable 10 maintain its new population.
A dozen families Of coal miners who
went there from France have been
sent back by their consul, and they
say there are 10000 Frenchmen there
now who cannot find work and are
starving.
Thomas Best, Of Newcastle, Pa, who
is eighty-twO years old, has used to-