Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-10-22
NOTES OF THE DAY.

or ROADS IN IOnuOA, ESPECIALLY NHShS
the traffic is heaviest, has in the last
few years rapidly increased.
This seasons crop of corn in Jewell
county, Kansas, will weigh out over b.
900 900 bushels, or $50 bushels for every
man, woman and child in the country.
The people Of St Johns, Apache
county. Ari., are to build sandstone
dam fifty feet high OF the Little Col
orado river. 1t is designed tc water
10000 acres
In an artesian well being sunk at San
Bernardino, Cal, a cedar log was found
at $50 feet and a layer Of charcoal at
fifty feet depth, showing that the val
ley has been filled in by erosion.
A California burglar recently cut the
screen door of room on porch, took
out pair OF trousers and cleared OF
with $16.45, while the man and wife
were arguing as to whether the cat was
making the noise.
A Chinaman was arrested in Virginia
City, New, few days ago for selling
liquor to an Indian. The Indian was
arrested for mixing liquor. The
white man who sold the whisky to the
heather was not molestod.
There were POS Spaniards who en-
igrated from Spain to the Argentine
Republic last year. This great increase
was in consequence of the large number
of young men who leave Spain in order
to avoid militay service.
Two youn men Of Lynn, Mass, are
traversing New England on bicycles on
a $500 wager that, although they
started penniless, they can complete a
tour of the six states on their earnings
along the route and retern with $25
each.
Half a dozen offers were made at the
last of the England VS.. Australia
matches for the ball which ended the
game 1t was in Abels hands when
the last wicket fell, and the famous
cricketer has been offered as much as
10 guineas for It,
Just coming to fruition in the horti-
cultural gardens of Toronto is 30
year-old palm, keutia balmoreane,
which is asserted 20 be the finest palm
specimen In either Canada or the
United States. 1t has sent out two
fruit stems nearly five feet long.
Floating beds of seaweed, which are
often met with in midocean, have been
observed TO reduce the height of waves,
like OF, thrown upon the water TAX
ing advantage OF this fact. French
man has invented thin cotton or
silken net to answer the same purpose.
Argentina means to get ahead of the
European powers in taking possession
Of the South Shetland island on the
edge of the Antartic continent. An en-
petition will be sent out for the pur-
pose in December next. The island
may possibly be of some use as seal
ing and whaling station.
For two months a Lewiston, Me-,
mother has been suffering from serious
trouble with her eyes, the result OF
what was supposed to be the harmless
slap of her baby, who last June poked
a fist into one of them. Inflammation set
in in the eye struck and the other be-
came sympathetically affected.
A Belgian inventor has devised an
immense lamp. such as has probably
never been seen before. The lamp is
composed of 5000 pieces. 1t is six feet
high ana measures three feet ten inches
in diameter. 1t is fed with lard
oil and the consumption is very small,
its light being so powerful that one
may read by it at a distance of 500
feet.
A farmer left his team standing in
the street all day in Boise, Iowa, re-
| Gently When he returned in the even
ing they were gone, but in the wagon
he found note signed by indignant
Boise women 1.-TWO women unhitched
your horses and let them go, we know
not where or care not, but we know
they will get water and grass.
When Paris dedicated short time
ago the Ecole Etie1ne as a training
school for printers, naming it after the
great French printers of the early six
teenth century, Henri and Robert Eth
enne, there was present at the cere-
mony Henri Etienne, thirteenth in
lineal descent from Robert. He is a
working printer, like every one of his
ancestors.
At the first drawing in the lottery
of the Paris exhibition for 1900 the first
prize of 100000 went to two cousins
of Dunkirk, one rag dealer, the other
a workingman in cotton mill, who
bad joined in buying one ticket. The
workmnns wife, who gees out working
\ by the day, had taken the 10 francs
needed from her childrens money box
Germany is fast turning out its older
1 generals thirty-two having been forced
\ to retire within a year, which beats the
record. The average age Of o brigade
\ commander is SO years to 81 in the
\ French army, where the average age
( Of all ranks is higher than in the Ger
! man. No German brigadier is more
/ than Sc, while thirty French brigadiers
\ are over 81.
\ There are signs Of educational ae-
4 tivity in Russia, among which may be
noted increased appropriations for pub
/ lie education. The minister of public