Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-04-23

of directing the peoples attention
TO the Jews, who, they SAID. had
stored victuals. The excited crowd
turned back from the station, went to the
market place, and began to rob The Jews.
A fur store was emptied in five minutes,
and before half an hour was over all the
shops in the market place had been rob-
bed of everything in them. Then the
mob burst into the Jews lodgings, where,
however, they did not find the stores they
expected The Jews had to pay for the
disappointment, and women, old men and
children were cruelty illueated The po-
lice did not appear In the meantime the
mob had robbed some spirit shops, and
macy had become totally drunk and began
to pull the Jews houses to pieces, swear
ing they would not leave . single one
whole. In an hoar and half they demol-
ished ffty-nine Jewish houses.I
Later about one hundred brown loaves
were heaped in the street for distribution
Some hungry Jewish women and children
the mob, perceiving this, threw itself up
upon them and all but killed them. In
Pensa very similar scenes happened. Here
forty-four houses were demolished, and
the attempt was made to blow up the Jew
ish meeting house with gunpowder, but
only the front part Of the building was
damaged.
THE LONDON POOR.
The latest statistics tell us that out of
London four or FIVE millions of people
more than 300, 900 earn less than shil-
lings day per family. Between 10000
children in the board schools alone 90 to
school hungry every morning sand rarely
know at any time what it is to have suffi-
Gent food,
They tell us also that one weeks in
come Of the owners of London's ground,
the value of which increases at the rate Of
over four millions annually, would provide
a dinner every day in the year for each one
of the forty thousand ill-fed children, and
that London's million poor could be de-
Gently housed on the unearned increment
of year.
Facts like these, pictures like this one
before us, naturally make US question
whether the time is not ripe for the favor
ed and happy to stop and consider" the
problem OF the poor.
The same pitiless statistician, who
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piling convincing fact on fact, states
that London has over thirty thousand
people who have no home and no
shelter but that afforded by the four
penny Doss House and the casual ward.
A TRIP ACROSS INDIA.
In book intended to guide other horse
men who may desire to initiate him, Lieu
tenant Varges of the Austro- Hungarian
army has made public the details of his
recent trip across India. He rode 1900
miles in ninety-four days, and crossed ia
rivers, only three of which we're bridged.
His expenses were little less than $3.50,
Of which S45 was for food for himself, his
servant and his horse. The total cost of
his trip from his home and back was $3.50.
The Responsiveness of his trip, as we'll
as the soundness of his health throughout
it, Lieutenant Varges attributes to his
habit of eating only rice during his
journey on horse, back During the ride
be ate ITO pounds Of rice, his servant
seyenty-dve pounds. For the first four
teen days Lieutenant Varges ate peppered
rice; then for three weeks curried rice
Between the 6fth and ninth week he ate
'ugared rice In the tenth week the rice
was sailed; in the eleventh, unseasoned;
in the twelfth, sailed, peppered, curried
and sugared,