Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-09
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there are too few qualified physicians
and dentists in that country.
A man tried TO raise money in
Americas, Ga, the other day By mort
gaging a neutrality-suspicious..
A man who has been bachiug in an
old cabin near Blaine, w. T., climbed
up into the garnet one day and found
a skeleton.
A Florida vegetable grower has con-
tracted to deliver three ton Of water
melon seeds to northern seed houses
next autumn.
Two Young ladies of Pike County
Georgia, have rented a farm, off which
they are supporting themselves and
an invalid mother, besides laying up
money.
An eighteen-year-old girl was arrest
ed in San Francisco the other day who
testified that for the past year she had
been consuming over 81 worth OF NOR
Prime daily.
Two ruilians of Bodie, New, entered
the room Of a man against whom they
had a grudge, tied him to a bed-post,
filed his eyes with red pepper and left
him to suffer
A San Francisco photographer, who
testified in court that his wife didn't
know where he was, was gwen forty
days in the house of correction to give
her an opportunity to find him.
A Connecticut reporter won his bride
by his clever detective work in finding
her long lost mother Having found
his mother-in-law, he may have the
questionable privilege of keeping her.
The following advertisement lately
appeared in "A Partisan newspaper: "a
lady having pet dog whose hair is of
a rich mahogany color. desires to en-
gage footman with whiskers to
match.
Uncle Chas." the mail carrier be-
tween Evansville and Zebulon, Ga, has
been making regular daily trips for a
little more than eight years. 1t is es-
tlmated that his trips aggregate G5, 200
miles.
A man has died at Cherry Tree, Pa,
who was ninety-three years old. His
death will be mourned by twelve sons,
100 grandchildren, thirty-three great
grandchildren and eighty great-great-
grandchildren.
A Dalton, Ga, family owns a clock
which is thirty years old if day. 1t
went through the war, lost one of its
hands by a spent minnie ball, but will
keep accurate time, aud has never been
repaired but once or twice.
The Madrid physician who made
the postmortcm examination of the
body of Pgott declares that he never
saw such a we'll formed skull aud
BRAN, the latter indicating man of
superior force of character aud imagi-
nation.
The kangaroo is said to have got its
name in this way: Captain Cook first
discovered the animal in Australia.
When he inquired its name of a native
the latter replied, "Kan-ga-roo," which
in the Australian language is a don't
know"
A fashionable young woman in New
York has undergone a terrible surgical
operation, long aud painful, by which
her tip-tited nose became an organ of
pure Grecian design. The cruel charge
is made that the new nose does not
suit tine general conformation OF her
face.
Rev Norman La Marsh, an eloquent
preacher in charge of the Methodist
church at Searsport, Me, is totally
blind. A touching feature of the ser
vices dt this church is the sweet sing
ing Of the pastor as he folds his hands
and turns his sghtiess eyes toward
heaven.
Some cotton baled while damp, was
opened the other day at Washington,
n. c., and found TO be almost hot enough
70 burn. Hence it is suggested that
many cases of mysterious fires at sea
may have origin in the spontaneous
combustion of cotton packed or COM
pressed in such condition.
Dr. Rawlins. Of Sandcrsville, Ga,
was called to visit an aged colured
man. An old woman, who was watt
ing upon the man proved to be his
mother When the doctor asked the
woman, who was eighty-tive how she
was feeling, she replied; I'm purity
well, bur my mother is getting rather
feeble now
Hiram LarnSey and Mr. trcze, ot
Irwiuton, Ga, are greatly puzzled.
They hitched their mules 10 a log the
other day and the log refused to stir
Investigation developed the fact that
it was filled with snakes, eleven of
which they killed The mules were
then htchcd to the log again and
pulled il along without any difficulty.
A merchant recently from Constan-
;inople says that $500 ounces ofattar
OF roses were bottled in Turkey last
summer The greater part of this pro-
duet is shipped to France, aud that
which reaches America is said i'm many
cases to have been diluted by shrewd
Yankee merchants, who buy the altar
direct from Bulgaria and mix an in-
ferior oil with it.
A doctor at Corvallis. Oregon, so
the story goes, put thermometer into
themouih of a small boy to test the tenn
peraure of his patient who was i'll