Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-06-18
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The French still fight an average of
1000 duels year.
Football was 4 fagorite game among
the Greeks and Romans.
A French soldier can earn 5shillings
month pocket money.
A Philadelphia Chinaman glories in
pigtail feet II inches in length.
The cocoa tree of the Maldive islands
every month produces a cluster of
nuts.
Among English people dark brown
hair is more than twice as common as
hair Of any other shade.
1t is estimated that about 10000
horses were ousted from street-car
service last year by electricity.
A chicken ranch in Bellingham Bay,
Puget sound, has 1000 fowls. 1t is
said to be the largest in the world.
A tropical moth, called the atlas
moth, has wing spread of one foot.
1t is gray in color and flies by night.
At the present day sacred pigs roam
inviolate about the buddhist monas-
teries of Canton and elsewhere in
China.
A record of 3, 435 immigrants arriv-
ing at a single port in a single day
shows that this is a pretty good country
TO come to.
The largest telephone switchboard
in the world is that in the exchange at
Berlin, whore Z 900 wires are connected
with the main office.
More than a fourth of the gold and
more than a third of the silver pro-
duced throughout the world in the
year 1891 was mined in the United
States
In 1889 fifty Bonapartist journals
fourished in France, but this number
has been now reduced to five, the
others having turned in favor of the
republic.
Musk in its natural state is said to be
the national perfume Of many tribes,
who annually slaughter thousands of
the rats for their musk pouches and
their skins.
People in Japan are called by the
family name first, the individual, or
what we should call the christian name,
next, and then the honorilic thus,
"Smith Peter Mr..
A female physician, DR.. Bissell, points
out the fact that as tennis is one
armed sport, it has tendency 10 pro-
duce one-sided development Yet
she approves Of cricket.
1t is said that in all the forests of the
earth there are no two leaves exactly
the same. 1t is also said tina mid all
peoples of the earth there are 20 two
faces precisely alike.
1t is not everybody who knows that,
besides the ordinary fruits that are
raised in Florida, the pineapple grows
very well there, while the fig, the paw
paw, guaya and sapadilla grow finely.
The custom Of kissing hands as a
mark Of respect is said to be the most
ancient and the most universal From
the remOtest times, through the ages
of Greece and Rome to the present day,
it has existed.
A man in Hagerstown, Md, has an
egg which was laid by a Plymouth
Rock hen which has clearly defined
a foreiGn niece Of MONEY Tbe date
1890 and the word aConstitpfionu can
easily he decinbcrad
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wafer y Is 81 te'' IN olaiHeieii at hlgh
water JRe i..@hllIholuse. whose diameter
al Ihc o"sr Is q o. feet' completely
covers it. It's inhabited by three per-
sons.
I'm California it is found that peach
stone, burn as well as the best coal
ANA give out more heat IN proportion
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