Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-02-04
HERE AND THERE.

q membership OF SSS,UUO IN England.
The pubic debt OF France is the
largest in the world and amounts to
about $4,000, 900 0G0.
A big brewery in Milwaukee has es-
tabhshed free school, library and
reading room for its 10000 employees.
There are tifty-four lady commercial
travellers in England, one II the most
successful of whom takes orders for
corrugated iron.
Switzerland, which has just elected
a new radical president, was the first
republic Of record in Northern Europe
1t existed in the first century before
Christ
There's man at the museum who
has gone 60 days without water
That's nuthin'," sneered the colonel
Il haven't tasted the stuff in 20 yeahs
sab. Detroit Free Press.
Baltimore prohibits the use of bells
on bicycles by "wheelmen longer than
three inches in diameter" Wheeling
in Baltimore must have a great ten
deny to reduce flesh and diameter.
The native police in the foreign set
Element at Yokohama having mastered
the English language, are now studying
the Russian, Chinese and Korean ton
CUES as part of their police duty.
The statement is made that Vice
President Adlai E. Stevenson will, at
the expiration of his term of office, &c
to California and there engage extern
sivey in the business of raising olives
and lemons.
A ST. Bernard dog caught thief al
work in the parlor of a residence in
New York and firmly held on until his
mistress sent for policeman The st
Bernard should be made an honorary
member of the police force.
Cremation does not seem to be max
ing much Roadway in Scotland AT the
annual meeting of the Scottish Burial
Reform and Cremation in Glasgow it
was stated that only eight bodies had
been moderated during the past year
In "Littelps Living Age for Janu-
airy 16, along with other attractive ar
tcles, will be found Lord Roseberry' S
address on Robert Louis Stevenson, de-
livered at Edinburgh to further the
movement for a memorial in that city
of the Scotch writer.
There is no cause, says religious
journal. to fear lest the ranks of tht
ministry should be depleted. There
are now in theological seminaries in
this country 1861 students The var
ious denominations of the Presbyter-
ians have the largest number, but the
Congregationalists have the most II
proportion to the membership of The
churches.
1t is related of George III that he
as the first English sovereign to forbid
fulsome reference to himself in the
pulpit. The court preacher at the time
was DR.. Thomas Wilson, toady of the
Bishop John p Newman variety. The
king sent him an order to confine him
self to the gospel while in the pulpit
and to leave politics to the politicians
This so hurt the preachers feelings
that he subsequently became an advo-
cate of republican principles.
A gigantic oyster shell is on exit
bition at a Portland (Me.) fish market
The shell weighs 153 pounds and is
called by seafaring men a blue point
1t was brought by Captain Griffen, OF
the ship Neversink, directly from the
China sea. Captain Griffen says that
although the oysters in the China sea
are much larger than those in this
part of the world, this is rather g
monster. 1.-THE natives there" so the
captain says, "cut off the flesh from
the oysters like beefsteak."
Mankato has probably the Oldest pc.
lceman in active service in the world
officer James Kelley is over 80 years
of age and, although time has whitenec
his hair and beard, his muscles are like
iron, and the hobo who is strong en-
ough to escape from his grasp has
never visited the city. He is brim full
of courage, and, although he has been
in many exciting scrimmages during
the course of his 20 years service In
Mankato, he has not a scar or so much
as a scratch to show for it.-Minne-
apolis Journal.
SO many Christmas toys sold in the
United States have their origin in
Nuremberg or other German cities that
1t is matter of curious interest to find
none on sale in the big Paris shops
Patriotism forbids exhibition OF the
label made in Germany" which has
caused such a fuss in England and as a
result only toys of French manufacture
are to be found in the world-celebra-
ton bazaars The display was never
finer than this year and the chief
d'oeuvre was an Arab on his steed