Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-12-18
MISSING LINKS.
Spokane Falls is to have a high

IDt Onittu oliitSs dIc Iciu ny iuiti5u-
ers.
Provo, Utah has red-hot anarchist.
His wife supports him by taking in
washing.
An Englishman proposes laying deep
sea electric cables by means of sub
marine boats.
There are 10, S62 school districts, g.
572 teachers and 2S00,0 900 school chill
dren in Japan.
Liverpool has a population of 720,-
900. Methodism has a mem bership of
Is, 600 in the city.
An English firm has purchased the
right to slaughter and pack 800, 900
hogs year in Servia.
There were So, 981 paupers in Lon
don in the third week in July, 2l5
indoor and 81, 766 outdoor.
The American congregational church
es have resolved to give e., 900 annual
ly for evangelical work in France.
There are over 100000 pores in
the human body, and yet we are sur
prised because some men are sponges.
AS soon as the town of Santa Bar
bara, Cal. gets pipes laid to the gas
well it will cost only SO "a year for
fuel to each householder.
Over 10. O00-to be exact, Ill, $50
emigrants embarked during the last
quarter from the various ports of the
British Isles. These include 80, 1913
foreigners.
BY the late cyclone in Finland, al
most unprecedented in so northerly a
region, some 1900 trees have been
blown down between Vi5org and Viii
mannstrand.
1t may interest some of our readers
to know that more than one supposed
authority declares that the leaves Of
the tomato plant are more medical
than the fruit.
A New York money prince has re-
Gently ordered set of brass floor reg
listers plated with gold in an exceed
ingly ornate design. The registers
will be placed in the owners palace.
The pumps in the Gold Hill mine at
Grass Valley, CAL. were uncovered re-
NVutIy altcl ). IhC DihO y Ndin uh'Ni wa
ter. They were put to work and lifted
water as well as the first day they
were put down.
1t is said Ed Osborn, of the Wan
paca, Wis, starch factory will clear
cool $40, 900 on his potato deal this
season. He contracted for all the po-
tatoes in his vicinity ut Is to 20 cents,
and the chances are they will be worth
81 this fall.
A large vein of pure white sand.
suitable for making glass, has been
found near Pittsburg, Pa. The dis
covery will save the glass manufact-
urers of that city thousands of dollars
annually, rs they have hitherto been
obliged to send across the Allegheny
Mountains for their sand.
r. Lyman, of st. John, N. B., is the
possessor of dog that he claims
has quite keen instinct for business.
A few days ago. when the dogs license
needed renewing, he turned up with IA
: + Il It Il IG feet OF the
owner. Mr.. l.. Immediately went and
took out the license.
According to reports from the prin-
cipal applejack producing region of
the country Ga belt extending across
southern New York and northern New
Jersey, between the Hudson and Del
aware river5(, owing to the failure OF
the apple crop, there will be little OF
the intoXicant made this year.
Hearing tremendous noise in the
eugine-room an Auburn, Me-, engi-
neer rushed below to find the governor
belt off, the engine running wild, and
the room filled with steam. He i'm
mediatey appreciated the situation and
did what few men would-groped
about till he found the stop-valve and
slowed the engine.
The worlds stock of diamonds has
increased enormously in the last tif-
teen years. La 1876 the output of the
African mines was about 1000. 900
carats, last year it was over 4 600, 600,
and the trust" which controls all the
principal mines assert that they hav-
100000 carats lin sight at the pres
ent time.
1t is a risky thing to receive into the
bosom of the family long lost son
who has no strawberry mark to identi-
fy him. A Pennsylvania farmer has
been victimized by a clever sharper,
who personated the returned prodigal
long enough to eat the fatted cali aud
secure $1,000 in cash. Then he lost
himself again.
1t is well-known fact that persons
grow somewhat shorter as they reach
advanced years, owing to settling"
of the bonv structure. A noted case is
reported from Harrington, Del. where
man died recently who owing to a
contraction of the spine, had become II
foot shorter then he was when he
stopped growing.
A French scientist, Victor Mennier,
has calculated after careful inquiries
that American dentists insert about
S450, 900 worth of gold annually into
the teeth of their customers The
Scientific american says, that making
allowances for the increase of popula-
ton, in less than 100 years American
cemeteries will contain larger amount
of gold than now exists in France.