Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-03-12
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a gain Of nine during the year.
Ancient monuments show that the
cultivation Of wheat had been estab-
ished in Egypt before the invasion of
the shepherds.
The jeweler has drills SO small that
they can bore hole only one
thousandth of an inch in diameter
through precious stone.
Il is a common sight among the Es-
quimauN, according to a travellers
story, to see nursing infant with
a quid OF tobacco in its mouth
In the last seven and twenty years
the number of students attending
Scotch universities has more than
doubled; for in 1890 it was 1000 odd.
Venezuela has ffty-six HOLIDAYS
every year On these occasions the
people close their stores, and enjoy
themselves in chicken fights and other
tropical amusements,
The giraffe is now threatened with
permanent extinction. Ten years ago
herds of seventy and eighty could be
found where thirteen would be an ex-
ceptionally large herd
The mother of Kansas City, Mo,
baby is sixteen years old, its grand
mother thirty-three, and its great
grandmother is but tifty-two years old.
All reside in the same house.
The low volcanic island which rose
so suddenly out of the sea near Paler-
mo, and from which fire was emitted,
has entirely disappeared, even the water
that covers it having ceased to boil
The largest gas meter in the world
belongs to the South Metropolitan Gas
Company, of Salisbury, England. 1t
is about 256 feet in diameter aud is
capable of holding 100000 cubic feet
of gas.
When a Missouri cabbage was cut
open il was found that the outer coat
ing contained twenty-eight perfectly
developed little heads in a cluster,
about the size of a walnut and nearly
as hard.
At communion service in a Han
well pauper school little girl who had
charge OF the chalice dropped it, and
some of the wine was spilled on her
pinatore. The chaplain ordered the
pinafore to be burned
A fine deposit of asbestos has been
discovered in jackson County, Oregon.
1t is pronounced by eastern experts to
be OF the very best quality. The ma
chinery for cleaning, baling and ship
ping will soon be nut in.
The new emigrants to Palestine are
worthy Germans and Jews. The
former conine themselves to cultiyat-
ing the soil the latter get the fella-
heen TO do their farm work and take
life easy under the shade trees.
A healthy girl Of seventeen who de-
votes herself to hospital work will die
wcnty four and one-haf years sooner
than a girl Of the same age in the gen
3ral population. This is supposed to
DE due to her liability to tuberculosis
The following advertisement appears
in several leading papers of Georgia:
Wanted A young lady for clerk OF the
County Court of Gilbert County; it viii
be necessary for her to marry the
county Judge. Address County Judge,
Elberton, Ga"
There is grim humor in one clause
in the viii of the late solomon Abra-
hams, of Boston After making num-
Der Of charitable requests the testator
remarks: 81 remember all my cous-
ms, aunts, uncles and grandfathers,
bat ! give them nothing"
Florida is probably the best timber
ed state in the union. Out Of about
3S.O)J,O)) acres only some 5000 900
are included in farms, the rest, nine
teen-twentieths, exclusive OF the area
covered by lakes and rivers, being
covered with heavy forests.
1t would seem that the ladies of the
harem possess a wonderful capacity
tor dispoSiug Of sweet things France
alone last year exported TO Turkey
aud Egypt for the harems 100000
francs (E64 900 worth Of fondants,
pralines and marrons glaces.
(Which succeeds better, the city or
the country boy9 is said to be a
favarite question for discussion in
country debating societies The gem
eral trend Of opinion seems to be that
the country boy succeeds better, but
only after he becomes n city boy.
A North Carolnian Of timid nature
cried to run away from his wife, whose
sharp tongue kept the poor fellow, as
he expressed it, "on tenter hooks" but
he lost his way in the woods, got badly
and returned as soon as he
could get his bearings to captivity.
A California prune grower has re-
fused an offer from a Bordeaux firm
for his prune crop in sacks. They
would Of course be repacked and ship
ped as French prunes But the Cali
fornian means to improve his style OF
packing and make the profit himself.
One Of the missionaries Of the Sea-
mems Mission in England has during
the year visited 5000 vessels and read
the Scriptures in English, Danish and
He has distributed 1900
New Testaments and 100 gospels TO
English and foreign seamen and emf
grants.
The timber cut in one year in Florida
averages a little short of 200, 900, 600
feet. which is over 3 per cent Of the
whole amount of mercantile timber
standing in her forests. At this rate
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