Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-05-02
Indies and of Central America to the


York syndicate proposes to spend
$4,000, 900 or s5,ooa, GOO on the project.
having acquired from the provincial
government the necessary rights. The
largest pulp mill in the world will be
established on the Upper SagUenay.
amount Of about ss,000,O00 a year.
That is the exporting, not the retail
value. The island of Jamaica alone is
sending to this country over 100000
lunches year, which means $780,
900 to the producers and shippers Of
the colony. The contributions of the
tens of millions of lunches which this
country consumes annually come from
Costa RIGA, Nicaragua, Honduras, Mex
leo, Cuba, Porto Rico, Jamaica and
San Domingo.
The Rochester Railway company
has decided to equip its cars with
fixed individual straps for the benefit
of standing passengers. The almost
universal custom is to arrange the
straps on horizontal pole. 1t is ar
gued that with fixed strap one pas
senger cannot monopolize two straps,
that the straps cannot become punched
and that the regular distribution OF
the straps at fixed intervals tends to
distribute the crowd throughout the
car. In Rochester the straps are hung
about eighteen inches apart
A Connecticut journal accepts with
becoming gratitude what was meant
to be a complimentary allusion to it.
self by a state contemporary, which
spoke of one of its editorials" as
wonderfully fair" but it somewhat
plaintively adds: I'VE have no desire
or ambition to be anything but fair
and would prefer to have our contem-
porary do its wondering when it
thinks this journal unfair
Peter Evans of Auburn. Ind, was
recently arrested on charge of
drunkenness for the one hundred and
sixty ninth time. In all but forty
cases he was sent to Jail ito sober up"
On the other occasions he was given
Jail sentences. He has cost the coun-
ty nearly 500 and altogether has
spent 1,429 days in prison. Evans at
one time was worth about $4,000 but
has lost it all through drink.
An Arkansas planter is making ar
rangements to start a kangaroo ranch.
The hides are valuable and the ten
dons much more so. The latter can
be split extremely fine and are the
best thing known to surgeons for sew
ing up wounds, and especially for
holding broken bones together, being
much finer and tougher than catgut.
The great brood of the seventeen
years locust, according to Professor
p. r. Uhler, provost of the Peabody in
stitute, Baltimore, will reappear next
year in most parts of Maryland north
Of the Patuxent river. Great swarms
of this species may be expected in
1902 between the latter part of May
and the early part of July.
The historic plains of Abraham,
near Montreal, have been appraised
by an expert in the pay of the domin-
ion government He declares the land
to be worth $1,000 as real estate.
The Ursuline nuns, who own the land,
offer to sell for $4,000 if the govern
ment will give them another piece of
property worth $4,000
| The heaviest man in America, if not
in the world, is Lee Tricky of Glen
wood Wis, who tips the beam at $50
pounds. A few years ago he weighed
TO, but has fallen away to the former
figure. Trickery follows the tccupa-
ton of teamster for living, having
125-pound wife to support. He is
light eater.
The discovery of coal in the Klon-
dixie has brought forth an order from
Ottawa that royalty must be paid
on coal, just as on gold. This order
was recently received at Dawson and
caused a general protest, as consum-
ers say the price of fuel is already
sufficiently high without the addition
of royalty.
A Montreal reporter described Rud-
yarl Kipling as "red haired, squint-
eyed little pomposity." An English
commentator says the description Is
accurate in every respect, with the fcl'
lowing reservations: First, Mr.. Kip
ling is not red haired; second. he does
not squirt; third, he is not pompous.
One of the special bicycles built for
the use of the British troops in south
Africa, which went through the cam
paign with General Ian Hamilton's
column, was recently exhibited in Lon
don, where its excellent condition, con
sidering the knocking about it had re-
ceiYed excited general comment
Il is noted that at the celebration
Of the Lords supper at one OF the
Presbyterian churches in Washing
ton the elements were passed by two
admirals of the navy, a general OF
the army. two justices of the supreme
court and a former secretary of state.
Pierre Lorillard is having built Oh
the Hudson the most ENORMOUSLY
equipped houseboat OF its kind. 1t
will not have TO depend on tows for
its movements, as II Is equipped with
twin screws and can 90 where its
gunner nlpasps