Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-12-11
MISSING LINKS.
A state official of Maine is wearing .
straw hat which he bought in 1859.

"Blind johnny Is SAID TO be WORTH
$50, 900.
! An Englishman recommends toma-
toes as remedy for dyspepsia and
biiiousness.
1t is estimated that fully 1000 Penn.
sylvanians are in the employ of the
United States government.
A German professor says all who eat
| water cress consume at the same time
full assortment of minute insects.
| A tennis shoe, bracelet. a restaur
/ ant carpet. tooth powder and
polish for silver have been named after
Stanleys bride.
Mrs. Maggie Ellis, mulatto OF
Chattanooga, Tenn. has given birth to
| the smallest child on record. IL weighs
thirty-one ounces.
A man at Langhorne, Pa, is fitting
up a pigeon house to accommodate a
thousand birds. 1t will be the largest
flock of carriers in the country.
At L'Orient Arsenal, in France, a
! great ironclad war vessel of IL, 900 tons
is nearly completed. 1t is strongly
armed with immense cannon in revolv-
ing towers.
1t is said that there are 1000 vacant
houses in Kansas City, Mo-. and that it
has lost many thousands of population
I the last two years since its "boom"
collapsed.
The Grass Valley (Cal.) 7ydings says
that George w. Jones' who lives in
Nevada County, recently shot a rattle
snake, a porcupine and bear inside OF
! twenty minutes.
! The longest American railroad tun.
mel is the EIoosac tunnel on the Fitch
/ burg Railroad, four and quarter
miles; the st. Gothard tunnel in Europe
in nine miles long.
The Italian minister of agriculture
has recently purchased in England a
splendid stallion named Melton for
/ $50 900, 1t is intended for the royal
stables at Venaria and Pisce.
An English medical writer asserts
| that cancer is not hereditary in the
vast majority of cases. no less than
/ SO per cent being caused by external
! influences upon the sufferers.
A bookbnder in Vienna was called
upon to bind IA volume of 100 leaves
worth 100 900 guilden. Each leaf was
a bond for 1000 guilden, the book be-
ing the owners gift to his only
daughter
Sevres ware has so fallen in public
estimation that the annual sale scarce.
| " exceeds $40 900. The works receive
ell, nf hA
quality of the wares produced has
deteriorated.
Dr. Koch read before the medical
congress in Berlin paper in which he
is said to have declared that he had
discovered way of killing the tuber-
culosis bacillus and of curing tubercu-
| losis dieaSe.
The following notice is posted on the
main street ut Athena, Oregon: To
my neighbors: If my spring chickens
are disturbing your garden kill them
and eat them. Don't pile them out in
! the alley 10 became nuisance. John
Ellington"
A man namr1 Tinsley, living in
| Toronto claims 20 be l07 years old. He
| is hale and hearty. He says he smoked
once IN 1900. but never since, but has
been in the habit of taking little
liquor. He has worn spectacles foy
eight years.
The wire to be used for the telephone
between Paris and London is made of
! bronze. 1t is estimated that the French
share of the expense of establishing the
telephone will be about $3.50, 900. En-
thusiasts believe that all the tele-
graphic communication will be super
seeded,
The house of commons in England is
obtaining reputation rs dining re-
sort. owing to the custom that has
grown up of introducing ladies to the
privileges of the dining-room and ter
/ race. Forty walters are employed in
miniStering to the wants of hungry
| legislators.
That England intends to 90 to
| Mecca one of these days is clearly in.
! dictated by recent utterances in the
English press. Pilgrims have been
treated so badly at Mecca of late years
that the Turks and Egyptians are be-
! ginning to be very anxious to see Mecca
in neutral hands.
The N0U0ye Vrenlya is informed that
! several societies agitate the project OF
petitioning the government for laws
! by which the number of foreign labor
ers in Russian factories shall be di.
unfinished. This, the paper says. would
be a great benefit for the Russian
| laborer, who cannot compete with the
foreigner either in skill or in the ability
/ to economic time.
A new disease has appeared in the
governments of wilma and Rovna and
spread so rapidly that there are five or
| more persons suffering with it in every
village of the the entire region. The
! symptoms are quite similar to those OF
| the cholera vomiting, headache and
| the obstruction of the nasal canal. The
| persons inflicted with this disease suffer
for three days. The physicians are not
| able to define it,
In 1864 Z. H. Backshear, con-
federate soldier. wounded by a
federal bullet. viii Il entered his breast.
T ,,,SsaI tbrNumb his bod,- onI lO1noI in