Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-06-07

iahiPsuhe, NutEe the Ofl ttoiut
week idea originated, will celebrate
rom Aug II to Aug. is.
Small families are hardly the rulC
ImonG the English upper ten. Tbs
sverage IS Six or seven. The queen i
he mother Of nine ana the princess o
Wales of six children. Lore
Abergavenny is the father OF ten. tbs
luke of Argyll OF twelve, the dowagel
countess of Dudley is the mother OF
seven children, the earl OF Ellesmere
boasts of eleven. the earl OF Inchiquin
fourteen and the earl of leicester of
eighteen.
Among the employees in the treasury
department at Washington are three or
our blind women typewritarS, and SO
satisfactory has their work been that
II is proposed 10 engage more next
year. Their work is as good as the
best of the operators with full sisn,
1t is said, and has forced their supe
riors to expect as much from them IN
dictation and copying as if they were
in complete possession of their
faculties.
Russia's Academy of Science has a
prize of 100000 rubles to bestow. In
1888 General Arakczeijew bequeathed
to it $4,000 rubles, which were TO &C
cumulate till 1925, when three-fourths
of the sum should be given to the best
history in Russian of Alexander is
reign The other quarter was to be
spent in printing the work, in having
II translated into French and German.
and for prize 10 the second best work
The accumulations will amount to
nearly 100000 rubles.
Boston's park commissioners are
urgent on the need of more play
grounds for the children. The city has
six tracts Of ground provided for this
purpose, with total area of about
forty acres, but the need of more land
for similar use becomes every year
more evident, and it is the opinion of
the commission that it would be wise
municipal economy to eSpend 81 600 coo
within the next four years in securing
additional Fairgrounds of from one to
six acres each
Brunswick, Me, a town of about 1000
inhabitants is probably the frs
municipality of this country to under
take forest planting on a large scale
The town owns tract of about goo
acres OF what once was pine land. At
recent meeting Of the council 500
was appropriated to improve this land
by planting in it white pine. Seed will
be purchased and a nursery established
TO raise young trees. At the proper
age these will be transplanted in rows
and set in the positions they will final
ly occupy.
At recent scientific conference at
Munich Professor Chun exhibited the
results Of the German deep-sea ex-
petition Some of the fish found AZ
depth OF about 10000 feet resembled. he
said, the fossil species in the rocks OF
tho Mesozic era, when the earth 5
atmosphere was dense with carbon.
These fish, in many cases, have special
means Of collecting light Some
possessed enormous eyes, occupying
nearly the whole side of the head, ana !
some were supplied with telescope |
organs Others carried their light on
their heads in manner similar 10
that Of the glowworm
New York's suicide bill which Gov |
efnor Roosevelt has signed. amends |
the penal code so as to make it a mis- |
demeanor to publish or cause to be
published or conniye at the publicaGs |
OF any letter, telegram or private paper |
or any portion thereof found on or
among the effects of any person dan
gerously wounded or VINO has com |
mitted suicide or died suddenly or who
has been found dead The only time
such publication shall be jusufable is |
when the coroner declares in writing
that it is necessary 10 and in the dis |
coyery of crime or in the identif-
cation OF the wounded or deceased
person.
The robins which make their homes
in the white house grounds in the
spring and summer had a great feast
the day after Easter Monday egg roll |
ing. The children who celebrated
Easter Monday on the grounds left
hundreds of pieces of eggs as well as = !
great any whole ones The birds found |
out the true situation late Monday |
afternoon, but they didn't have time 10
do much before dark, and apparently |
passed the word around among the |
robin family about The picnic to be had |
on Tuesday morning. There must
have been $50 robins in the grounds
eating hard-boiled eggs before the |
gardeners could get the grounds
cleared.
FANNY pFITIGREW