Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-07-10
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All the Jamaica railways have
taken by an American syndicate
The New York Bible Hons
April last has issued rs. OO0vol, ,.lcs
The Baldwin Locomotive Worl
pect this year to turn out not H. eA
1000 locomotives.
There are seven monuments tor.
Cayour in various cities of IsI,. %
not one in Rome. o~
In Edinburgh it is found possil1.
supply for hatf penny whole.
meal of vegetable broth and bread
Canada proposes to place dat,
foreign books and pictures and
London illustrated papers are .nro,o
ing.
New York last year spent S17ooa
600 on her public schools. hiriBg n
9S7 teachers to instruct 1903. 667 y -
pills. ]"
The condition of certain cat in T.
moine, Me. is literally at size, 1r5
seyeus. She has seven toes ON her l i-
feet and six on her fore feet.
The Mexican government has s,1
ordered 1000, 600 grape cuttings fr,S
California, and viii distribute fLs-
free to all who wish to plant them h
Mexico.
The London city council has nan
swallowed up the ancient court of I'm,
gesses of the city and liberties of Was.
minister. One by one the old hnj.
marks disappear
A curious fact about cigarette snot.
ing is that nearly double as mann
cigarettes are smoked during Jnlr
August and September as during a6y
other three months of the year.
A grocer in Elizabeth, n. J.. adrl.
terates coffee with small stones. Het
evidently novice ut the business. elss
he would have known that as an adm.
terant of coffee brown sand is uneoual.
ed
The French chamber is considering
a new law for entirely suppres>irs
public executions, The only spectators
would be those designated by the law
and few whom che authorities mich,
invite at their discretion.
China, with a population in the Vi.
entity of $50, 000,0 has only three
newspapers at present Considering
that an editors head is chopped of on
the slightest provocation the wonder
is that there are even three.
The police detectives of New York
made 1918 arrests last year resulting
in sentences aggregating 902 wears.
Two hundred and ninety-eight thou.
sand seven hundred and sixteen dol.
lars worth of property was recovered
The Cape of Good Hope can now be
reached by telegraph via the west coast
of Africa, rs well as via the Red Sea
and Zanzibar. So the dark continent
is bound around by the electric wire
that is constantly making the world
smaller.
In the statistics of the Protestant Eps.
copal church in the United States there
is an increase in the number of sun
day-school scholars for the year lSSS-S9
amounting nearly to 80, 600, nearly q
quarter of the increase being in the d.
ocese of Pennsylvania.
The petroleum production Of South.
ern California last year reached 49,
600 600 gallons, valued at Sl.20000.
The article is of special value to that
region, Its utilization rs fuel for man-
ufactming purposes has had much to
do with solving Il yeNed question.
Although the Yellowstone Park is
full of springs and streams they con-
tain no fish. This is explained by the
/ abundance of lava. which ohliterated life
I when it was forced out and bias since
/ kept the fishes out by the fat that the
/ lava has produced waterfall ia every
/ stream.
The late Thomas Parker of Washing
ton, became so attached to a cane
/ which he had carried for wears that he
kept it in bed with him all during his
4 illness, aud before dying expressed a
wish that the favorite stick be buried
with him. His wish was carried out
the cane being put in the coffin.
During the year 1889 there We're ear
ried over the elevated railroads OF Ne"
York 1872, 413, 9S7 passengers, not one
of whom was injured by carelessne:'
or other fault Of the management lhi;,
is certainly a wonderful showing ana
affords Il marked contrast to the ace''
dents associated with surface travel
Caleb Loengood, Il wealthy resident
Of Pottstown, Pa, possesses an aonoI'
NAL appetite for peanuts. They lorl
his favorite article of diet, and he often
eats six quarts at time. He SAYS Inl'
he eats them scientifically, whatever
this may mean, and could eat MN,
quarts on n wager He wants some
prominent peanut-eater to chahen5'
him.
An eccentric old German living Y
the town of Milwaukee recently wen
to the city and chartered a street gu.
for his exclusive use. He rode all o'el
the line, and would not permit any.
body to get in the car with nm ~
another time he attempted to charie'
a special train to take him to nus ''I
ton. some four or five miles nor'a y
the city.
A mail bag was recently found u
the old law courts of Frankfort-on-l4ie
Main, Germany, containing l.2 uuug N
livered letters, dating back to 1862 Y