Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-06-13
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recent hailstorm ut Norri%,own,
p killed sparrows by the hundred.
PRIMES are very profitable crop 10
California. One grower got Sll 600 for
bis crop
Tim Russian government has Just
orjsrt d four new ironclads put on the
stocks.
u limited liability company has beeu
torned in London to build a new
cremItory.
Tie last eyewitness of the battle OF
tyr, falgar. q eeutenarian seaman has
ms, died in England.
The German newspaper directory
snI.ulerator 2. 203 German periodicals,
s-oipst 3. $50 IN 1889 and ,, 729 in 1888
The work on the Congo Railroad is
making rapid progress. About one
thousand negroes are employed upon
it,
One car building company in Penn
svlyania has on hand orders for 49, 00C
freight cars. The largest order is fol-
10000.
Certain European nobles-principally
Fnrlishmen-are now the owners OF
qbGit q, 600 acres of land in the United
States,
The Maori women in New Zealand
are killing themselves in their efforts
to wear corsets since they have seen
them on the missionary women.
The largest sheep ranch in the world
is in the counties of Webb and Dimnet,
in Texas 1t contains 400, 900 acres
and yearly pastures 100000 sheep.
The saloonkeepers of St. Petersburg
have been warned not to sell liquors 10
factory operatives on credit, or to en-
tee them to drink in any other way
During the marriage service in a
church in Virginia the other day a
goat walked in and broke up the cere-
mony by summarily ejecting the groom
with his head.
The great exhibition held in London
in 1851 was attended by 6,039 1875 per.
sons. and left profit of E2l3,305. 1t
remained open from the LIST of May till
the llth of October.
The assessment roll of Los Angeles
County, California, footed up about
$4,000 600 this year which is $4,000.
600 less than the roll of two years ago,
when the boom" was on.
Fruit raising in California is not all
profit Not less than 10000 fruit trees
were lost on "A ranch at Woodland last
winter At the low estimate of 50
apiece, this means loss of $4,000.
A poor washerwoman at Fayetteville,
Ark, who a few days ago was notified
that she had been granted pension
and would receive So 600 back pay, was
SO overcome with Joy that she died.
New England sends $4,000 600 an
nually to the New Orleans lottery, and
in return receives but $4,000. The
managers of the lottery do better to the
New England States than they do other
sections Of the country.
A party of New York and Phiadel.
phia spor,smen recently shot a shoat
IL Maine under the impression that it
was bear, The owner persuaded
them, witt the assistance of a gun, to
purchase the detunct pig
A few days ago the English bishop Of
ST. Asaph referred, in the course of a
speech at some function in his diocese,
to his Younger and rasher days. but
the local papers reported him as having
depIored his younger and masher
DAYS,
Paris gossips declare that one of the
regular physicians who was most con.
spicuous in ridiculing Dir. Brown.
SeQuard's elixir has Just been cured
OlparaIysiS by its administration. and
a Is now as Jealous an advocate of
Seluard as he was previously a scoifer.
The ink contract at 80 cents a gallon,
awarded by the Cincinnati school
board shows how "A great a profit there
Is in selling ink at retail. The ordinary
price is cents for little bottle hold
ing less than gill. aud any school boy
or girl can easily figure up about how
much gallon of ink would cost at that
rate.
At the head Of Onion Valley, in Inyo
County California. are two abrupt
mountains, one IL 900 and the other
1900 feet high. Tumbling down the
side of one is a cataract 500 feet high,
which in the distance resembles falling
SHOW, aud two other waterfalls Of equal
height are visible from the head of the
valley.
An ccuist in Breslau has recently
treated 300 cases Of defective eyesight,
Tor which re cause was not apparent
u rose as suddenly as az epidemic, and
was confined to men entirely At last
be found the reason for it in a new
i4shion Of very tight shirt collars.
de made the young men unbutton their
collars and their eyes got well.
just after the war ended the Navy
Department cave Ericsson l5-inct
s"". found among the ruins of Sumter.
IJnad been fired from one of th,
monitors. and somehow the fuse had
isi.eI 10 20 off Ericsson sent il to the
h.a- Of Sweden, and the good Oscar
placed it in ,he great museum atStock.
..m with % fitting and touching in
n.lan iD honor Of one of the most
a.a'red Of SWedes. It's there now.
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