Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-09-12

OF Chicago have had their houses
equipped with telephones
France has two centenarian artists
lie Lourd -Beauregard and Adolph
Thiac both architects, They were
born in 1900,
1t is said that automobiles have SO
cheapened the cost OF harvesting grain
in the immense California fields that
wheat can be raised there at less ac-
tual cost than in the Argentine Repub-
lie
The people OF Ameshury. Mass. have
started "A movement for the erection OF
monument to the memory of the poet
Whittier. who lived In their town for
80 years and did much of his best
work there
The ship Muruvet has left CONSTANT
nople for the Yemen with Z04 exiles on
board several OF them being women.
Among the prisoners are the servants
and palace employees charged with
completely In causing the recent fire
in the harem apartments ut fildiz
Kiosk
on,y three families remain in the
Ruskin commonwealth OF socialists In
failed Their printing outfit is add
vertised To be sold by the sheriff on
Aug 81. and the land will go the same
way on Sept 3
Herbert Putnam, librarian OF con
gress announces that tho congressional
library wishes to complete it's list or
foreign and American negro composers
OF music. voca. an Instrumental, and
requests corporation In the suggestion
OF such names and titles to be includ-
ed in the list.
New York has something of a cater
pillar plague. Thousands OF caterpil-
lars of the white-spotted tussock moths
have invaded the uptown sections. and
tho shade trees in Harlem already
lave been seriously damaged. So far
the park officers have been able to
keep the pests out of the parks,
Prof, Foxwell's library said 10 be the
largest private collection OF works on
political economy in tho wcrld. has
been purchased by the Goldsmiths
company uf London for $50 600 They
have not yet decided what 10 do with
it, but It will probably be made Access
sible to the public in some way.
En- Judge Logan Bleckley Of Charles
Vile Ga. who attended the Universe
ty of Georgia last term in order To
brush up on mathematics. will become
a student again next term. He has
solved the mathematical problem in
which he was interested and Is In
search OF information now on other
topics.
AS an evidence Of the advances that
,t,,. ,ia,r
II is stated that 50 years ago II required
Z 90 men per 100 tons OF shipping while
In 1900 only 3 l-2 men were necessary
Tor the same amount, and that Ave
pounds OF coal per horse power hour
was then needed. hut that now ] IL
pounds nre sufficient
The work of the new nnti-toSine Ia
boratory OF the New York department
! of helnth. the establishment of which
was provided for by the last Legislature.
has begun. Near the laboratory AN AMI.
NAL house viii be fitted up, which viii
! house about fifteen horses for the man
| ufactnre OF serum TIL Laboratory viii
supply state institutions with diphthe-
ria and other anti-toxines.
Mrs Theresa Wilcox, wife Ut the
Hawaiian delegate to congress, was
made Indignant because the captain OF
the steamer Oceanic stopped her from
having n hoochcy -coochey dance In Che
saloon OF his vessel for che amuse-
nent Of the passengers, Tho captain
who had seen the dance In It's native
haunts, insisted that II was immoral,
but Mrs Wilcox took issue with him
on that point.
The Yale Summer School OF Forestry,
at Milford. Pike county. Pa. IL having
n successful session Twepty-seyen
students are enrolled--twanty men and
seven women or these students six
are from New York six from Massa.
chusetts, five from Connecticut, three
from the district Of Columbia. two from
Pennsylvania. two from Maryland and
one each from New Hampshire, Ohio
and South Carolina.
The peiri6ed forests 81 Arizona were
recently examined anew under tho d.
rection Of the general land Office. The
silicifed logs lie In the greatest abnnd-
ance within an area Of eight square
miles in Apache county. In some
places they lie more tbIckly than they
could have stood while living AZ trees.
and it is thought that they mus have
been carried there by swif. current
OF water In the mcSozotlc age
President James y Angel Of the Uni.
vcrsity OF Michigan, says that the en-
tire expense Of his four years course
AT Brown college now university was
but 5000 Nowadays q student who
can keep his expenses down 10 s 000
for the course Is thought TO be very
economical President Angel IL going
10 write an article for one of his col
lege papers explaining why a college
education costs more than formerly.
The Paris fire department has re-
Gently put into successful operation an
electric automobile hook and ladder
wagon. which completes the oraaniza
ton Of the automobile system which
the Paris authorities have hal IN Goa
temptation and with which they have
been experimenting for several yems.
The truck carries ak men and the APP
pafatns FIRST needed At hre--ladder6,
ropes and reel Of canvas hoge.
The twenty leading hotels u Lon