Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-01-21

her na,ronlr sorrow by Nursing ,te
rabbits.
The streets Of London are cleaned
/ between in the evening and in the
morning. Many Of the carriageways
are washed daily bv means OF 3 hose.
and the courts and alleys inhabited
by the poorer classes are cleaned once
a day.
A coppersmith at the Bath. Maine.
. ironw0rks has hammered a miniature
teakettle from a small copper cent.
The small teakettle has a swinging
handle and movable cover ard noz-
zle, Just as any teakettle has, and
water can be boiled in ii.
The measles bacillus, discovered in
Berlin BY DR.. Canon, varies from one
three-thOusandth % one one-thou-
saudth Of an inch in length, and pos
sesses characteristics said 10 be "dif-
ferent from those Of any other bacillus
known.
On one o. the islands off the coast
of Maine lives man. now 80 wears
old, who was born there and has never
been off the island. He has accumu-
lated fortune in the grocery business
and is content to live and die on the
few seagirt acres
At Tucker, in Ripley county, Mo,
there is a curiosity in the peach tree
line which viii be sent to the worlds
fair The tree is three years old.
about one and 0ue-han inches in dia-
meter at the butt. is thirty-seven feet
high and has no limb or branch on it,
It is reported in the Hebrew Stand
ard that a big soap factory has been
set up near Jerusalem by Hebrew
s0apmakers. Its managers offer to
sell soap to mohammedans, christians
and intidels, as well as to the believers
in Judaism. whether orthodox or re-
formed.
The centrifugal force developed by
the earth's rotation tends to throw
bodies off its surface as a stone is pro-
PEELED by sling and in consequence
Of this fact .29Sth Of the weight Of
every particle Of matter lying along
the equator is employed IN keeping it
on the earth.
Blushing has been for some time
looked upon as a disease. The dis
covery of its proper microbe has not
yet been made public, but publisher
III Liverpool announces the l2lst thou
sand OF pamphlet explaining Its
cause, self-treatment and a rapid per-
manent and inexpensive cure
In twenty-four DAYS Handel wrote
"T4e Messiah Dr. johnson wrote
"Rasselas' in the nights Of a single
week. Schubert sometimes wrote four
or five immortal songs in a single day.
yet he set to music 634 poems by l0J
different authors in addition to writ
ing other musical works
Jacob Kcarns, Of West Virginia,
hasn't forgotten how to tramp even if
he = % years old. He recently walked
over - his daughters house, seven
miles away in the country, and with
her examined the famil, bible to see
if the names of his thirteen children,
eighty grandchildren, 127 great-grand-
children and seven great-great-g grand
children had been properly entered
upon the register.
James Redicker, of Fort Fairfield,
Me. has Just been released from Houl-
ton Jail after an incarceration of four
years for debt. He was able to pay
but wouldn't, and transferred all Of
his property, worth several thousand
dollars, TO relatives, saying that he
could 81 md boarding at the Jail as
long as the county and his creditors
could The amount Of his indebted
ness was Insignificant.
At Shanghai. China, there is a Eu-
ropean quarter which contains hand
some buildings for banks and public
Offices In most of the streets colon
nades are built. while the open spaces
are utilized and made places Of Beauty
by being filed with trees ana flowers.
The inevitable race course, which
seems to follow as IA necessary adjunct
To- western civilization, is a promi-
nent feature outside the city bounda-
res.