Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-03-25
NOTES OF THE DAY.

CClulL bia appropridtes annually s4S.
900 for The increase of the Colleg,
library. Harvard appropriatas $1,000
The second baseball team at the Uni.
versity Of Pennsylvania defeated the
Varsity team on Thursday last.
The first outdoor practice game of the
Yale baseball team was played on
Thursday. The field WIS in good cond-
| ton.
The University of Pennsylvania gym.
nastiC team gave its fourth annual ey-
| hibition at the Academy Of Music on
Saturday night
Harvard was defeated at hockey on
Friday evening by the Quebec team
the score Of s TO 8.
Great Britain's postal service re.
ceipts the past year exceeded expenses
States postal service usually shows
yearly deficit of nearly half tina,
amount
! While eastern farmers are bemoan-
ing the low market for potatoes again
this year, potatoes ere selling at the
Dalles, Ore, at IL cents a pound and
at Rosenberg at 21a cents a pound.
Awakened by the cold nose of his
/ spaniel pressing against his face a
Rockford, Me, man got up from bed
md followed the dog to the kitchen,
Which was flooded with water from a
leaking tank,
/ The distinctions among animals
/ requiring least sleep belongs to the
elephant. In spite of its capacity fo'
hard work the elephant seldom, If ever.
sleeps M re than four, Or occasionally
five, hours
Lightning struck the house Of Pau
| Simmonson, near Montague, Mich, and
split stove pipe, cut picture wire and
| burned holes in a table cloth, but did
not injure any of the six persons within
/ doors.
Barmaids were discussed in the
I Transvaal Second raad recently while
the liquor law was being revised
Some reformers wished to have them
abolished as being dangerous persons.
but the Rad decided to let them alone
Butterflies so many as almost to In
terfere with clear vision were observed
over the Columbia river one evening BY
/ Oregon people, near Lyle. and there was
no indication Of whence the insects
came or whittier they We're going
! Germany's cotton comes to her in
4 large quantities from India, Egypt and
the United States. Saxony alone takes
5000 or 100000 bales from 400 TO
| 700 pounds each, the weight of each
/ bale depending on the country whence
/ it comes.
/ The war correspondent Of the Lon
don Times, with the English and Egyp-
tian forces on the Upper Nile, says
that the fellaheen soldiers Of Egypt
/ have been vastly improved since Eng
I lish officers took them in hand about G
dozen years ago.
1 From present indications America
will soon be outd3ing France in the con-
sumption of frog flesh. The city Of
New York alone consumes 100000
hams Of frogs during the year
/ These delicacies are now sold in tin
boxes like other conserved meats.
/ Part Of the Paris horse market has
been set aside for a public bicycle mar.
ket, which will be held once a week
The track used 10 show off the horses
will also be used for the trial of ma
chimes. All bicycles sold there will pay
a tax OF ten cents to the city.
/ Drivers at Trieste are hunting for a
treasure Of 100000 in gold and som,
valuable jewelry which were on the
/ French frigate Danae, blown up in the
. harbor in 1911 They have found the
skeleton Of the hull and have brought
up some cannon balls and iron fittings.
There recently arrived in C3nstan'
tinople a Turkish peasant from Treb.-
zond, named Mehmed Agha. aged llf
years, but still hale and hearty. 50
far there is nothing very remarkable
but The man Mehmed married at the
age of 1914 and is now the father Of 3
/ girl ten years old