Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-23
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Inc II9ub-hauu luuilD OF a 49, i
waiter is most unfortunate. II
quently in the soup.
A New York school teacher HAS i6,,
resigned after twenty-five wears .;
service. She is in her eightieth year
1t is said that after fifteen OF tweptr
more interments are allowed in WIS.,.
minister Abbey the room will an NJ
occupied.
Philadelphia has $4,000 people and
179, 900 houses, while New York wjtR
100000 inhabitants, is said to bays
but 1000 houses.
A Frenchman recently remarked
that every one in this world was ohio.
ed to bear his cross, but that the
smart chaps bear theirs on their lapels
There are two Episcopal ministers
missionaries, on the Yukon River
Alaska. They are 5000 miles from
the southeastern line of the TERRITORY,
An Italian named Boggie, lately
keeper OF a peanut stand at AmsteT.
dam, n. Y, has fallen heir to an eighth
of fortune of 100000 left Gy rela.
tive in Italy.
A school of carpentry for women
has been started in the English Uni.
versity, city of Cambridge, not 50
much to teach the trade as to develop
manual dexterity.
The debt of the Dominion increased
last year from 1927, 314,775 to S2S4.
5l3,356. There was an increase in the
cost of nearly every branch of thepub.
lie service.
One of the best lawyers in Virginia
says he would on no account leave his
children any considerable amount of
property, and he gives away not less
than $4,000 a year.
The Amalgamated Union of Ameri-
can Carpenters has 464 branches and
Is. 226 members. 1t is the rival Of the
American Brotherhood Of Carpenters,
which has a much larger membership.
The genius of America is stepping
high about these days. The average
number of patents issued weekly is
over three hundred, and every inventor
has sure fortune before him-of
course.
A Floridian states that it takes Just
half as much food and clothing for his
family in Florida as it did i'll Tennes-
see. where he formerly resided. The
difference in temperature effects this
economy.
The Albany Journal says petriied
fish over three feet long was recently
found at Fort Hunter III one of the
rocks where stones We're eXcavated for
lengthening the Erie Canal locks.
The stone is full of petIiied specimens.
Bibiomanacs occasionally pay enor-
nous prices for ancient documents At
a recent auction sale in Boston a yell
low old pamphlet, published in l747 by
Rev. John Norton, entitled Captivity
mt Canada brought 1903. A lady OF
Brooklyn, N. Y, was the happy pur'
chaser.
Nine. De Barrios, the widow of tht
Gautemalan General, was carried of
from a convent by her husband at the
age of sixteen, and, though she has
seven children, is still young and hand
some. She divides her time between
New York and Europe, and her wealth
runs up into the millions.
Marriage may be a failure, but We
| question whether it is as great as bache
| lorhood. A Paterson, N. J..woman walk
ed the other night into a gambling room
where her husband was steadily losing
morey, found out how much he hat
! lost, demanded that sum from tn
bank got it, and led her husband OF
home. 4 bachelor would have los
his all.
The new naval attache to the Ameri.
can Legations in France, Germany,
and Russia. Lieutenant Aaron Ward,
besides being nephew to Samuel ).
Randall and son-in-law to the poet n.
p. Willis, is an accomplished Russian
student. He possesses historic an
cestry, was educated in Paris and Stutt
CART, has served on the staffs of three
admirals, won prizes at Trench lyceums
and married "a fortune.
The pupils of the city schools of De'
Moines, Iowa, express their affection
for their teachers by bringing then
presents Of fruit. As the amount o
fruit brought indicates the intensity O
the affection, some of the teachers arr
talking of quitting their present occu
patton and of going into the wholesale
fruit business. Several of the scholars
to show their originality, contribute
pumpkins. red peppers, aud potatoes
Professor Kirchoff. of Halle, estl
mates that the languages most spokei
on the globe for the last Thousand
years at least is Chinese, for it is with
out doubt the only one which is talke'
oy over 400, 900, 600 of the human race
the next language most in use, but at
very great distance behind the Chinese
being Hindustani, spoken by over 100,
100000. Then follows English, spokel
by about 1O0,OO0O00; Russian, owe
10000, 900; German 57.0OO,OOO, ant
Spanish, over 100000
Mr.. Gladstones absorbing study G
Homer has led him to form numerou
ingenious theories. One is the belle
that the Greeks were color blind
Otherwise it would be impossible, b
contends, for Homer to have spoken o
a flock of purple sheep He wa
stating this view one day when a eele
brated agricuturist who was presen
rap,orE al. 49, ~ hut 7 lyuOw that n