Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-12-05
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English importation.
Glue from whale refuse is new
article Of commerce in Russia.
At Frankfort. Germany, 500 horse
power is transmitted by electricity to
a distance of 40 miles
According to Chauncey NJ. Depew,
more than million dollars is spent
in New York annually for public ban
quets.
Corporal Tanner is said to have
made $l97 900 since leaving the pen
sion bureau in fees out of pension cases
he has handled.
Tsheug- Ki-Tong, the Chinese gen.
eral has published in French book
that is said to be an imitation of the
modern French novel.
Robert G. Ingersol denies that he
made the prediction attributed to him
that about this time two theaters would
be built to one church.
During the last academical year at
Cambridge 1924 students matriculated
and l. $40 degrees were conferred, both
being the largest numbers on record.
Won Moltke on his ninetieth birth
day. was asked how young he would
like to be. about 80" answered he,
the vision of youth rising to his minds
eye.
The submarine war boat has led to
the flying Of balloons from war ships.
A balloon lowering over a ship can de-
tect every movement of a submarine
boat coming to the attack.
The city gas works of Berlin brought
$1,750 600 clear profit into the treasury
during the last financial year despite
the unusually heavy expenditures for
new gas house and conductors.
A Connecticut boy is famous just
now because he has tin whistle one
aud "a half inches in diameter and
several inches long in his stomach. He
swallowed the toy while playing on it,
There are few such common-sense
proverbs as every man is the archi-
tect of his own fortune Arpius
Claudius a Roman censor. used it in
speech delivered By him $50 years be-
fore the christian era
Birds are the only animals besides
man which can be taught distinctly to
articulate and utter sentences, which,
though of course not understood by the
birds themselves. are none the less sur
prising to listen to.
1t is an old remedy for the hiccough
TO hold ones breath. and il that fails
then to gargle with little water and
if the hiccough still continues to tickle
the nose to the point OF sueeziug once
or twice, when the hiccough is sure to
20.
The Panama Canal works are
wrecked; even traces of the eXcava-
tious are vanishing and the construct
i've machinery is worthless. This en-
terprise, in which $4OO. 600 900 has
been sunk will figure as the monument
al failure Of the age.
In the discussion lately carried on in
Europe as to the distance at which
large objects on the earlh's surface are
visible, it was stated that the Himalaya
Mountains have -ppeared to view from
the great distance of 224 miles, and
Mont Blanc 2l0 miles.
According to Weismann, every
character possessed by every animal is
due to the preservation in the struggle
for life of minute accidental variations
in the molecular structure of germ
plasm, which alone has adapted every
being 10 its environment
Bones are necessarily more or less
heavy structures, but the bones of most
birds, while their solid substance is ex-
ceedinglv strong, are wonderfully
lightened by the details Of their ar
raugemeut, and still more by the fact
that most Of them contain not marrow,
but warm (and therefore lighD air.
Birds stand between beasts and
reptiles hut are widely distinct from
noIh. All beasts possess, as we
2 bird is warmer still. and thus birds
differ greatly from reptiles, in spite OF
their possessing certain structural
characters in common with that cold
blooded class.
1t is told of Able List that on one
of his concert tours through Germany
he was rendered banquet mt a small
town by his admirers. When it was
found that thirteen were seated at the
table the general embarrassment was
checked by List remarEiug: DO not
be alarmed at such triAe. | can eat
Tor two persons.
So careful is the packing process i'm
birds that the parts that grind the food
and act as teeth are placed, not in the
Jaws. but in the center of the body-in
the gizzard These parts consist Of
small stones which most birds swallow
for this purpose-all those that is
which feed on grain and other sub
stances that require grinding
Baron Nathaniel Rothschild Of
Vienna can be seen walking about the
village oil Waereshofen, near Munich,
barefooted undergoing the nerve-cure
af the Roman Catholic priest Father
Kneip. This doctor makes his patients
70 harefooted most of the time take "A
plunge every morning into icy cold
water, aud eSchew ali meats and in
toXicating drinks.
Am. vessel c.uSino a disaster nj her