Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-10-31
OLIO OF EVENTS.

I'm met IN IDtl SttllCiltht VI luC W al =,
is now the property in perpetuity OF the
city of Quebec
what is called a railroad graveyard
hos been established by the New York
Central at Rochester. Hundreds OF cars
rut ont of service by wreck or condem-
nation. are there torn apart and De
stroyed.
movement Is on foot in North Car
olina. prompted by the tobacco dealers,
~ erect a statute of Sir Walter RAJ
1eiph in Raleigh Collection boxes are
m he placed in stores where tobacco il
sold.
OF all the European countries which
enjoy representative government, but
fonr declined the bicameral system OF
parliamentary construction. These
countries are Norway, Servia. Greece
and Bulgaria
Italy has a debt OF $500, 100000
which is growing at the rate of 914,-
600 600 a year. The only way the Ital-
ians can escape the taxation is to emf
crate. and this they are doing in con-
siderable numbers.
The municipalities of Stockholm and
other cities of Sweden have entered in
10 contract WIFI LHG Eodlf dllOA al NY w
look after the poor and distressed and
10 take care of the tramps and other
floating population.
The magistrates OF Madrid, at a re-
cent meeting, voted the sum of 250 900
pesetas for the erection of eight stat
utes of Lope de Vega Murillo Moratin,
Kentura- Rodriguez, Arquelles Quevedo
and Salamanca.
Australia has proportionately more
churches than any other country, the
number being 6,013, or 210 to every 100,
600 people England has 144 churches
to every 100000 people, and Russia only
So to the same number.
Andrew C. Mckenzie, a newspaper
man of Boston, has gone to Ecuador at
the head of an exploring expedition
which is backed by the president OF
that country. The expedition will make
study of the least known portions of
Ecuador.
An Italian pays away in taxes % per
cent of his earnings, compared with
the Britishers 93. The population of
Italy is 100000 less than that of
Great Britain, and yet the income tax
in the former country is made to pro-
duce as much as in the United King
dom.
London school board has opened the
first Of series of schools for crippleS.
The children are taken from their
homes to school in an ambulance, and
afterward taken home by ambulance.
The school curriculum includes a sub
stantial midday meal.
Marquis Ito, formerly prime minis
ter of Japan, who came to this country
not long ago seeking health in trave.,
has been attacked by chronic heart
affection in Chicago, and is i'll there.
His physician, F. Koyama, is afraid
that his patient may be forced to return
TO Japan. abandoning his plans for fur
Their journeying in this country and
Europe.
Three women are at present engaged
at Swiss high schools as instructors. or
"privatdocenten." At Bern, DR.. Anna
Tumarkin, of Russia, lectures on his
tory of philosophy and aesthetics. At
Geneva lectures on botany are deliver
ed by DR.. A. Rodrigne. while German
literature and language are the sub
jects of Nine. Browski at the Neuren-
burger academy.
Though President Roosevelt is spok
en- of as a young man, he Is eighteen
years older than was the younger Pitt
when the was prime minister Of Eng
land; eight years older than Gladstone
was when he entered the cabinet; eight
years older than Napoleon when he
was made first consul for life, and old
er than Frederick the Great when he
invaded Silesia, or Grant when he took
Nicksburg.
Out of a total OF 465 advanced stu
dents enrolled at Johns Hopkins uni
yersity, Baltimore, during the past
year 239 were from the South. The
sons of the South enjoy the benefits of
a. scholarships out of total of 70 and
compete on equal terms for the remain
ing q and for 20 fellowships. Nearly
200 former students of the university
are now teaching in the South, distri-
ulted among 65 institutions of learn
ing
Otto Schultze, a stenographer, writes
IN the Bradenburg Schlublatt that Bis
march had wonderful memory
When he had delivered a two-hour
speech, and looked over our shorthand
reports the next day, he remembered
every expression he had used exactly
and did not forget them for years, The
novelist Spielhagen once told SchultZe
that he could recall wildly every one Of
tae thousands of persons he had met in
ms life, and every word spoken by cas-
val acquaintances. together with their
gestures. and the cut Of their hair and
clothes.
ln discussing Siberia. says the Ma
'"'al Geographic Magazine state
WaEts Of dimension and distance con-
'@ and bewilder rather man enlight-
'. il is Of small advantage to dwell
H"01 its area Of over 4,e0G 600 square
-..7s If the As states which compose
'.e American union were taken up and
laEie1 bodily in the midst Of Siberia
l."y would be inclosed in every direc-
0 by a wide border of land. In this
..Taer territory all the countries Of Eu-
rope except Russia could likewise be
ted bodily and there would remain
.. unoccupied 800 900 square miles.
d.. area twice the size of imperial Ger
r.ny