Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-01-14
NOTES OF THE DAY.

"A COlOuy Oh bEFTten CUuilly, MiClik-
gan, farmers will endgrate to Texas
in the spring.
Sheriff- Elect Chapman of Wayne
county Michigan, proposes to have his
deputies wear uniforms.
Thirteen letters written by George
Washington over 100 years ago were
sold in London recently for $3.50.
Owing to low prices 1t is estimated
that fully one-eighth of the potato
crop in southwestern Michigan has
( been left in the ground.
The administrative board OF Ann
Arbor university have refused per-
mission for the musical clubs to make
their annual tours in the spring.
I Reports made to Commissioner Bill
ings show that the railroad passenger
earnings in Michigan for October were
the smallest in fifteen years.
Unless the Michigan State Agricul-
tural society can effect settlement
with Lansing creditors or renew notes
for about $4,000 there may be no
state fair next fall.
Saginaw valley, Michigan, people
who recently went to Alabama to es-
taolish new town for the National
Operative association are pleased
with their venture and have no doubt
Of success
AT public dinner on the occasion
of the opening OF new club In the
English metropolis one OF the news
paper reporters was woman who
calmly produced and smoked cigar
cite when the dinner was over.
Atlanta is having a city census
taken with a view to securing a new
postoffice rating. If it Is demon
/ strated that there are $4,000 inhabi-
tants in the city It's postoffice will be
rated as tirst-class and the facilities
will be enlarged.
/, Among the attractions at Governor
I Tanners inaugural ceremonies will be
/ the second battalion, naval militia Of
Illinois. This will be the first time In
| the history of the state that the sta e's
middies have been on dress parade.
| A reform against nature is in
progress in Bridgeport, Conn. A
bachelors club is attemp ing to force
unfaithful members to abstain from
Sunday evening counting. Last Sun
day night the club visi et! houses
where their weaker brethren were
making calls and abducted the tender
hearted youths.
4 According to the latest estimates OF
! population in several states, nine of
them, namely, New York, Pennsyl-
vania, Illinois, Ohio Missouri, Texas,
Indiana Michigan and Iowa, have an
aggregate population of 1925 900, or
more than half the population Of the
entire union, which Is about 72 001 900.
The report of the commissioner oil
internal revenue shows that moon
shining has steadily inc. eased. Las
year 1905 Illicit distillers were seize1
the largest number in any year. In
the last twelve years ten federal Off.
GERS have been killed and fiftee1
wounded in conflicts with moon
sinners.
One of the most novel of the recent
inventions is a foot lante n inven ec
and patented by Francois Lucas Of
Munson Station, Pa This device con-
sists of lantern which may be wo n
upon the boot, a support comprising
a stirrup being adapted to encircle
the foot of the user, with means pro-
vided for holding the stiraup and Ian.
tern ir place.
4 In England. according to official re-
ports, tobacco is adnlterated with
sugar, alum, lime, -four or meal
rhubarb leaves, saltpeter, fuller's
earth, starch, malt commings, chro-
mate of lead, peat moss. molasses,
burdock leaves, common salt, endive
leaves lampblack gum, red dye.
scraps OF newspapers cinnamon sticks.
cabbage and straw brown paper.
J A doctor asks why It is that a man
! in his hours of relaxation crouches
down in a chair, puts up his feet OF
assumes some other abnormal atti-
tude. II am convinced he says,
THAT man can sit much longer in an
upright position, with his spine
straight, than he can In any other.
That he does not sit correctly / cs1
only consider the force OF habit"
The account Of expenses given TO
congress for ex-Speaker Crisp's fun
erel is the smallest rendered In recent
years, being 5000, as compared with an
average of about $4,000 for the burial
OF a member of congress Mr.. Crisp
left little or no property and the
house committee on accounts has
voted to report a resolution paying
the expenses Of his last sickness.
The stomachs Of about 1900 crows
have been examined and the percent-
age Of food found therein reveals the
satisfactory fact that the crow instead
OF being the bandit we supposed him
to be, cnnningly fattening on the
graineries and crops Of the husband
men, is a benevolent scavenger. clear
ing fields, orchards, etc. OF all man
ner OF mischievous worms. mice and
insects.