Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-03-11
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Doctors have removed pie OF glass
seyen-eighths of an inch long from the
eye of little child in Barbourn couny,
Almany. The glass had been there for
about eight months.
young Engishman from Johannes
burg, now in Washington. says that
shopkeerers in that town make at esst
100 per cent profit Everything Is
booming and wages are high.
In the safe of certain under aker
in Augusta there are five envelopes
which contain fun Instructions from
people now living rs to what to do with
their bodies after death
a bird lover of Louisville writes de-
piorins the extinction of song birds in
the south and says that for three years
he has not heard mocking bird In
woods where they used to abound
Russia will take a general census OF
the empire on Feb. 0 Gan. 2S old style)
next The enumeration will begin two
or three weeks earlier in the more re-
mote districts of Siberia and central
Asia.
A pleasant guess" Is to name how
many dollar bills would be required to
weigh as much as $50 god piece.
Answers tuctuate between 800 IS the
lowest and 1000; the correct number
being thirtyfour.
Another of the Chilian thirty-knot
torpedo-boat destroyers the Captain
Munos Camera, built by the I.airds,
Birkenhead England, has been tested.
making an average of 3042 knots an
hour on the official trial
Though the Cook islands in the south
Pacific have been annexed to the Brit
ish empire for but eight years, their
federal council has pas ed bill t. keep
out persons of bad character. drunken
habits and unsound mind
On Victorian railways "station mis-
tresses' are rapidly replacing station
masters. Over 200 women are now
holding the post, and they do their
work as well as men. Their average
annual salary is 800, whereas the sta
ton masters received $3.50
Shipping at Hamburg amounted to
6,256, 900 tons in 1895. while Liverpool
has only 5,965, 959 tons to its credit for
the same year. In ten Yeas Liverpools
shipping has increased about 40 per
cent, while lIamburg's shows an in
crease of about 20 per cent.
Wild dogs. as dangerous as wolves,
have lately been abundant In those
parts Of Japan that were devastated by
the tidal wave of June l5 They
these officials were supplied with trum-
pets, OF which these animals are afraid.
Canadian paper calls attention to
nursing bottle advertisement which
concludes with the words: when the
baby is done drinking 1t must be un-
tap. If the baby does not thrive on
fresh milk, 1t should be boiled"
Under the operation OF the Vermont
library law ffty-nine towns have estab-
lished libraries within the last two
years making a total of 118 public
libraries in Vermont. The cost OF
books given by the ate, including the
expense OF the library commission, is
placed at only about $4,000.
1t is said that almost every morning
a score of more dead birds are found
at the base of the Washington monu-
ment, at the national capital. They lose
their lives by flying against the shaft
in the dimness Of twilight or daybreak
All kinds Of birds meet death In this
way, but the English sparrow Is a rare
victim.
Prince Mestchersky's newspaper, the
Grazhdanin, has been suspended for
month by the Russian censorship on ac-
count OF articles dlsrespectful TO Presi-
dent Faure. As the prince has now
been warned three times, the news
paper can be published after the month
is over only on condition that every
issue submitted to the censorship for
revision
The rivers OF Guiana are so surCharg-
ed with alluvial tina. the sea for fifty
miles from the coast is dark and IN bid,
and az this alluyial settles the mud
banks are extended, while vegetation
moves forward, ever retaining land
from the sea This sol Is loose and
hurricanes often tear great gaps in II,
but it is a perfect protection against
seismic disturbances
In the West Indies two-thirds are
negroes and Of the remaning Third by
no means all are English. In the
Straits settlements and Hong Kong on
ly sixth are whites, but these are
mostly OF British descent. In Hon
duras and British Guiana the proportion
Is even smaller; in fact, in the latter
colony there are only 5000 Englishmen
out of a population Of 800 900 people
coolies, negroes and Europeans,
Native policemen Of India are, I'M
like other hobbies very unassumlng
individuals peace can claim kinship
or karki garments. with uiblns and
trimmings OF the town color. In Bonn
bay, they wear yellow iurb1ns and flc-
ings but the Indian defender OF the
peace can claim kinship with his En-
glish brother on the score that he near