Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-03-28

examine luLU the cOnultlOu VI DullulnR
and loan associations.
The ordinary cost of cable road
has been from 100000 to 10000 mile
of single track. 1t is estimated that
In Washington this cost of construc-
tIon Is brought down to $4,000 a
mile
A Boston manufacturing company
recently celebrated half century of
existence by making a distribution Of
$4,000 among it's employees on the
basis Of s. for each year Of service.
The water rate of large hotel in
New York is equal 10 the rent of an
ordinary house. Every bathroom adds
to the rate. Even some OF the smaller
hotels have TO pay 1000 and over.
The colony Of Waldenses at Yaldese,
Burke County, North Carolina, has up
to this time held the lands there in
common, but now each family takes
what 1t can cultivate and pay for.
The colonists are now above immediate
need.
The railroad suspension bridge at
, Niagara Falls, which Is one Of the
! oldest railroad bridges in the country,
and probably the first large suspen-
sion bridge ever built, will soon be
taken down and replaced by an arched
cantilever bridge.
Rev. DR.. Potter. OF the Baptist Taber-
nacle, New York, caused the arrest Of
George Brummel or Bender, whom he
charged with attempted burglary and
conspiracy, and the prisoner was held
In $1,000 bail. DIR. Potter tells of
sensational plot, which was fooled by
the arrest.
The Iron Trade Review says that
those who have had chance to test
trade conditions among machine shops
and founderies find that recovery has
been more rapid in the west, particu-
larly in the central west, than in the
east"
Although American steel rails are
lower than ever before in the history
of the trade, and terms are easier than
in all probability they ever will be
again, there is still a profit Of more
than % per cent to the manufacture
az the lowest prices recently quoted.
ttndertakers are using cheap cottins
pressed out of paper pulp. When po-
lished and stained, such collins are al
most as handsome as wood. They last
longer in the ground than collins OF
wood or metal, and they can be her.
metically sealed better than heavy
metal.
.'Broiled live Holsters" is familiar
phrase that has been explained to the
satisfaction Of the Society for the Pre-
vention Of Cruelty to Animals, but
live broiled Holsters" which appears
on the enameled sign of Broadway
restaurant in New York remains yet
unexplained.
The estimated losses from hog chol-
era and swine plague of between $780,
100000 and 100000 per annum in
the United States. of the treatment
and means of prevention of these d.
seases in bulletin issued by the az
ricultural department, is of great value
to the farmers Of this country.
T-ntil the dissolution of the old Ger
man empire, the arms of Austria were
the most complicated of any in Europe,
for they contained those of Hungary,
bohemia Dalmatia, Slavonia, Avagon,
sicily, Brabant, Swabia, Antwerp,
Flanders, Burgundy, Naples, Jerusa-
lem, Lombardy and Milan.
The experiment of cooking dinner for
I 800 men belonging TO the guards in
Il single field kitchen ut the Munche-
berg station, near Berlin, took place
the other day. before the troops left
for headquarters. The affair was com
pletely successful Thirty-iiye hundred
pounds of beef and 1900 pounds of
hams We're cooked.
The railways in Iowa represent, on
their mileage in that state alone, an
investment Of S317. $4,000. or this
amount $40 $4,000 is in capital
stock. which is held by 31,521 stock
holders. of whom only 613 reside In
Iowa ana whose holdings aggregate
only S1,s3G0o0, or about per cent OF
this stock and less than , - per cent
Of the total capitalization.
cold, because il was found pure and
fairly tactable, was probably the first
metal used by man. Copper. 1t Is true,
il found us n metal, but only III one
comparatively restricted locality &C.
casionally gold fish hooks have been
discovered in graves in New Granada,
In mining tunnel in Cauca gold
hook was found in 1882 fifty feet
nnder the surface of the ground and
beneath what must have once been
the bed OF river Copper fish hooks
have been found in many of the an
cient burial monnds Of Peru.
FOREIGN.