Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-04-01

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remaining unbroker part.
Chestnut aces at Toronto, Ont,
which were blighted and it was thought
destroyed by caterpillars, are blossom
ing anew near their tops.
The biggest cricket field in the world
that is to say, the biggest ground
set apart entirely for the game is The
oTal at Remington London.
Grasshopers ere so thick in some
parts of CaDGda that it is said that
often the insects may be seen floating
foot thick down the lie Soorelois
river.
While in England potatoes are grown
almost entirely as an csculent aboGt
100000 tons are annually used in
France in the manufacture of starch
and alcohol.
Watches are accepted as security for
fines by the police courts of Knoxville,
Tenn, and are to be sold at auction by
the city,
1t has been said that nowhere in the
worlC are gathered SO many stately,
beautiful and well-dessed women as al
Covent garden during the grand opera
season.
A horse in New Augustine, Fla, was
bitten in the nostril few days ago by
rattlesnake. -Four quarts Of whiskey
were administered at once. The horse
got drunk, but recovered from the
snake bite.
Professor Stewart accounts for the
dngy and inconspicuous hue of the
pMmage Of female birds by the state
ment that were It otherwise 1t would
fall an easy victi1l to enemies during
the nesting period.
One of the city parks of Memphis,
Tel H., wi .Ch is desc, bed as having
upholstered seats, has proved so in
viting lourgng place for vagaboEds
that the keeper is kept busy arresting
tramps for sleeping or lying down
there.
Public libraries, maintained by
municipal corporations in England are
literary Institutions and consequently
exempt from taxation by a recent de-
cision if the house Of lords, oyeruling
the decisions of the divisional court of
appeal.
Toads in such numbers came with a
shower at Topeka Kan, last week that
a freight train, in charge of Engineer
Charles Bates, was unable to make a
grade just west of the city, and had to
back to a siding until a down bound
passenger thain had cleared the track.
Three fruit stores in Jacksonville,
Fla, are almost wholly supported just
now by the negro watermelon trade.
They are near the river front, where
the melons are unloaded in great num-
berE, and the darkies MUNICH so assidu-
ously until far into the night that bar
rels full of remnants are carted away
each morning by the street cleaners.
A husband and wife on bicycles con-
rected transversely by steel rods, from
which was Suspended a seat for their
7-year-old child, rode through Augusta,
Me, on tour OF New England the
other day. A tent and luggage, which
brought the weight of the whole outfit
up to 400 pounds, were carried, and
they travelled about twenty miles a
day, they said.
Captain Deasy, an English army Of
ticer, who is trying to cross Thibet,
from west to east, is soing to make a
curious attempt 10 solve the mystery Of
the final outlets of the Thibetan rivers.
He will throw soldiers tin cans into the
chief streams he meets, enclosing in
them notices written in French and
English. on parchment, in the hope
that they will be picked up in the lower
waters of the Brahmaputra, Salwee,,
or Mekong.