Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-11-06
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1t Is a fact OF interest that Strau IS,
the great composer of waltzes. does
not waltz himself.
St. Louis will add ninety-two miles
of electric street car service before the
present year has expired.
Z Gainesville boy seventeen years
old, ate forty-eight bananas in an hour
on wager and then wanted more.
A Spartansburg, Pa. man eats his
meals in Eric County and sleeps in
Crawford County, all the same house.
Herbert Gladstone, son of the Grand
Old Man" whom Mr.. Gladstone refers
to as my boy Herbert" is nearly forty
years of age.
Sir James Miller, owner of Sainfoin
the winner of the Derby. is but 26
years of age. He paid $500 guineas
for his ileet-footed horse.
The largest beer barrel in this coun-
try is an attraction in St. Louis sa-
loon. 1t is % feet high, % feet wide,
and has capacity of "a, 400 gallons.
The Ceylon pearl fishery. it appears,
was failure last year, the number of
pearl oysters collected not more than
covering the cost of obtaining them.
There are about thousand elk
killed in Oregon and Washington every
year, the antlers from most of which
are shipped to England for ornaments.
Postmaster General Wanamaker's life
and accident insurance now amounts
to 81, 800, 900, the largest insurance
carried by any individual in the world.
Prince d. Chimay. recently married
to Miss Ward, of Detroit, is the head
of the Belgian noble house of his name,
an d is reputed as skillful diplomatist
and violin player
Our new American Minister, Charles
Emory Smith, and his accomplished
wife, have made most favorable i'm
preston in court and social circles at
the Russian Capital.
The wealthiest man in Alabama is
probably Josiah Morris, of Montgom-
cry. He has a fortune of $1,000, 900
that was made for the most part from
operating in real estate.
Mrs. Jane Kirkwood, of Eaton, Ind,
is lightweight years old, the mother of
fourteen children, grandmother of
tifty-eight children and great-graud-
mother of thirty-three children.
An Ovid man got mad at mis- horse
fourteen years ago and has kept it in
side dark stall ever since, refusing to
let anybody see the animal or to per-
nit it to get sniif OF fresh air.
The monotony of life in Saccarap-
pa (Me. undertaker's rooms was va
ried, whea man walked in and want
ed to make arrangements for his own
funeral, saying that he contemplated
suicide.
The Egyptian government has paid
to Captain CursaLi, in behalf of Emin
Pasha, more than Go 900 as Emin's
salary for seven years services as gov
ernor of the equatorial province in
Africa.
Mrs. Martha Lumpkin, of Epson
County. Ga, is in her 99th year and
enjoys good health. When 90 years
of are she knit sixty-tive pairs of socks
during the year. She has 400 children,
grandchildren and great grandchil-
dren.
An Australian musician has invent
ed trombone that is played by steam.
Its God Save the Queen" can be heard
IA distance OF four miles. He had hard
luck with it. however, for the people
of his own town drove him out as a
nuisance.
Count Charles Dillon, who died in
Paris recently, was one of the few sur
vivors of the court of Charles X, to
whom he was page OF honor during
the last four years of his reign. The
count had lived in England, and spoke
English huentIy.
Pierre Lorillard, whose brief career
has been most remarkable, is in the
prime OF life. with II strong and robust
figure and aruldy complexion. The an
nual expenses of his stable have some
times reached the sum of a quarter of
million dollars.
The chief chemist of the London Gas
Company has succeeded in making
from the refuse OF gas retort perfect
emerald. The cost of making the
gem, however, was many times great
er than that for which a natural stone
could be purchased at jewelers..
A curious trap at the patent office is
an imitation rat that has a piece OF
toasted cheese stuck on the end of lit
tie spear that projects from his nose a
short distance. When a real rat comes
up to nibbe at the cheese the spear
Jumps out about six inches and impales
the unfortunate,
In his last will the late Franz Schultz
Ter, of the town of Oak Greek, said:
Il will that my wife schal own and
controle the real and personal property
as long as she lives-alter herr death
herr children from her second husband
schal own and control the real and
personal property
Mrs. Amelia +. Barr, Ike well-known
novelist, lives u hermit sort of life on
the summit OF the Storm King Noun
tain on the Hudson. She goes to Eu-
rope to gather material for a new
novel which will deal with the subject
of Calvinlsm. Mrs. Barr writes all her
novels with a typewriter.