Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-03-04
MANY GOOD THINGS.

BrOt. GUS /. Mason, curator OF l1e
chronological museum of Washington,
has made a study Of primitive methods
of transportation, and in a lecture on
the subject delivered at Philadelphia
bearing burdens on the back, supported
( by band across the forehead, was typ
zeal of the North American aborignes,
and that the practice may be traced
from Alaska down to Central America.
If this was intended to imply that no
other primitive peoples than those Of
this continent resorted to the eXpedient
mentioned, the statement will occasion
good deal of surprise and perhaps
some doubt. Books of travel, if men,
DRY serves, depict the ancient and mod
ern inhabitants of many other lands as
using the band across the forehead as
means of making more convenient the
transportation of heavy burdens.
A New York florist made this state
ment a few days ago. "The ordinary
roses. at this season, from $50 to So
Il dozen. and American Beauty roses 81
apiece The growth of the taste for
flowers at all social affairs is astonish-
ing. Fifty thousand roses Of the s1.50
to SO per dozen kind are sold in New
York every day in these winter months,
and nearly 1000 American Beauty roses
are sold daily by New York dealers at
81 each. Orchids cost about $40 a
/ dozen"
! According TO the inventory Of he es-
tate of the late Joseph =. McCulagh,
filed with the clerk Of the Probate
court at St Louis, the personal property
/ is otunned at sS76,127. The real estate
is ut valued. His stocks consist largely
Of shares in Eureka and Excelsior Gold
Mining company, amounting to s65S, $40
on the face value of the stock. He also
I owned $4,000 in the Pat Murphy Min
/ Illuminating company of st. Louis. In
! the Globe-Democrat he owned 100000 Of
stock
Prof Munk Of the University of Ber-
/ lin. famous for his discoveries in the
physiology of the brain, says it is a
great mistake to suppose that gymnastic
exercises sandwiched in between school
hours rest the pupils. On the contrary
he says, they still more fatigue the
brain, which ought to have absolute
rest If both studies and gymnastics
are TO be INDUCED in on the same day
he says, they should be separated by
intervals Of rest
An east side man who makes hobby
Of the comforts and discomforts of street
and elevated cars says that the com
panies gain nothing by placing the seats
lengthwise. A thirty-foot car only car
( lengthwlse. A thirty-foot car only car
ries forty passengers comfortably, he
/ says, no matter how the seats are ar
ranged. They would do this just as
I well If the seats were all in tiers, or
rows, with the aisle in the center BY
! having the aisle at one side five per
sons could be accommodated nicely he
declares, in each tier, and ten or twelve
rows could be put into each car. In
his opinion it would be infinitely more
/ satisfactory to the public The benches
running lengthwise of the ear are un-
comfortable in many ways. he insists
not the least consideration being that
they compel crowds of men and women
20 sit staring into one another's faces
The suit of Gen. Russell 4. Alger
against the heirs of John T. Anderson.
in the United States circuit court for
recession Of contract and recovery of
Sl03 600 paid for certain supposed min
eral lands in Franklin county. Tenn.
{ resulted in a complete victory for the
plaintiff The court releases the future
secretary Of war from his contract, de-
claring the sale fraudulent and void
and grants decree against the exec
, utrix Of the estate for sl03 600 with in
terest from 1889
The Louisiana tale of the Cow island
hen which Matched out a brood OF young
alligators and nursed them with a
mothers care finds its parallel in the
exT lott of a North Carolina fowl which
has brought trlumphantly forth from