Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-09-18
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The coins Of Siam are made of porce-
lain; those of Japan are made princi-
pally of iron.
Mr.. Henry Ibsen makes his wife
copy all his prosy and unSavory man
uscripts for him.
DR.. Mary Walker is helpless Grip
pie for life, without money and almost
without friends.
A failure of the potato crop is
threatened in ireland, and famine will
follow if it happens.
A hunter of Chepalls, Wash, re-
Gently killed Il cougar which measured
9 feet . inches in length.
Mrs. Gladstone always attends meet
ings of Parliament when either her
husband or her son Herbert is to speak.
The wine product of California this
year is expected to reach eighteen or
twenty million gallons, the largest for
several years.
The famous Physick Garden in Chel-
sea, England, whose preservation is
now "A matter of discussion, has 10000
different herbs aud plants.
Charles Nordhoif, Washington corre-
spondent of the Hcraid, has been placed
by Mr.. Bennett on the retired list OF
that newspaper on half pay for life.
4 negro baby, three months old,
down in Hopknsville, KY, can talk.
1t somewhat lessons ones wonder,
however, when we add that it is girl
baby.
William Angus, who recently died in
London, was at one time publisher of
the London Times, He kept the posi-
ton until 1889, when he retired on a
pension.
The fashion for young New Workers
is to 90 to London TO have the wedding
ceremony, where it will be convenient
for dukes and countesSes to run in and
honor them.
The German Empress occupies three
villas ut SaSsnitz, which are furnished
very simply. They just suffice to
accommodate only herself with her
sons and the necessary retinue
Browning had marvellous memory.
He always could tell the exact place of
any quotation or fragment of quotation
referred to him, and was veXed greatly
whenever he heard his own lines mis-
quoted.
Domestic servants are so scarce in
Montreal that women in want of help
are said to visit the jail with a view to
engaging young women to work for
them at the close of their terms of
Imprisonment
1t is said that on the Mexican Gulf
Railroad in Mexico the ties are made
of the finest mahogany and the bridges
built of marsle. These materials were
the cheapest ~ be had, since they were
found along Me track.
\ Detroit man who drank quart of
embaIming fluid in mistake for liquor
became as rigid and as white rs mar
BILE half an hour before his DEATH and
when death came finally he looked
more like mummy than a corpse.
The effect of gum-chewing has been
studied carefully by an expert. In
gum-chcwinr the masseter muscles
which move the jaw are abnormally
developed, aud the fatty substance
which produces fair plump cheeks is
deteriorated.
A writer upon birds says that in the
fields and groves there are many old
maids and bachelors who apparently
never had any iuducement to marry.
There is no doubt that the rivalry in
bird courtship is extremely keen, and
the choice is a deliberate one.
The largest apple tree in Ohio is in
Washington county, and was planted
in 1891 or 1892. The trunk, where it
is smallest, girthS u feet inches, aud
the largest branch girths feet. 1t is
Seeding, which bears large yellow
apple of excellent quality for cooking,
The largest saw mill in the world is
at Christiaua in Norway, aud is owned
by one man. 1t runs thirtv-SiN gang
saws. From forty to fifty ships load
TT one time at its docks. The same
man owns two large flour mills The
lumber yard Of this mill extends more
than a mile,
The newspapers are now trying to
find. the mwa who spent the most days
in rebel prisons during the late war.
So far rs heard from yet +. w. Ware,
of Bangor : ahead, he having suffered
GOO days in Charleston, Columbia.
Charlotte, Raleigh Goldsboro and
Greensboro prisons.
An Auburn, Me, business man was
surprised the ether day to see an old
customer come int his store and pay
him bill with Interest. which was
contracted forty Years ago, when he
was doing business in another town.
1t was small bill, aud the Que tS