Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1853-04-14
Darietp.
White and Black Labor.

White labor at this time is much cheaper than
black, and we greatly wonder thar persons need
ing active men i0r ordinary purposes, do not en-
ploy white ones Able bodied negro men Will
hire, the ensuing year, at prices ranging from
500 to 5 so Industrious white men may be had
at SO per month, the year round, and we ven
ture the assertion that one OF them will do more
service than two negroes. In addition to this, the
hirer has no doctors bill to pay, while the lest
time OF the laborer comes out of his own pock
cts II we had Iaborers to procure for the in
coming year we should most assuredly employ
white ones, believing, we honestly do, that they
are far mere valuable than black ones and much
cheaper Richmond (Ya.) Enquirer.
u The ruling passion was recently exhibited
in remarkable manner. on the occasion of fu-
neral. An old lady had lost her husband, and on
the day Of the funeral her neigE5ors were some
what tar.lv in appearing at the soieTnnities.
~NaJby." said the old woman, hand me my
lzaittngi might as well be taking few stitches
while the gathering is taking place"
II The whole universe is your Library. Study,
then. the Volume of Nature for Nature and Rea-
I son never split upon the same text. The globe
on which you tread, and the wide expanse you
behold. make bu, a small edge of its title page
Its contents are bound in Imperial folio, iettes ed
with the stars and given to each subscriber gratis
Eriaeues Of FolIy-Neglecting to advertise, and
wondering that you do net succeed in business.
Refusing to take newspaper, and being sur.
prised that the people laugh at your ignorance.
To The Industrious A reward of $500 viii be
given to tbe first active man who discovers one
single ne,rspaper-borrower that is willing to ad
nit that there is anything published nowadays
worth reading"
~ A dandy lawyer remarked on one summer
day, that the weather was so excessively hot, thai
when he nIt his mead into basin it fairly boiled
Then sir, = replied dirty looking Hoosier, 'Yor
have calls head soup at very little expense"
II There lives near Cambray an old lady who
is above 90 years of age. She lately said to on,
of her children My daughter, tell your daughter
to tell her daughter that her child IS crying"
u a wag on reading that in an engagement
a Dev and two Knights were killed remarked
that that was what he called killing time with
vengeance
II An exchange paper has this advertisement
.-~two sisters want washing" We hope the
may get It.
II Our government lands cost 1925 an acr
on an average, and champagne two dollars bot
tie. How many a man dies laudless who dur
ing AIS life has swallowed township, trees ant
all
II K xiii not DO TO hoe great field for littl
crops, nor 20 NOW twenty acres for FIVE loads Q
hay. Eu1ich the land; il will pay you for it
Better FARM twenty acres well, than fifty acres b,
halves.
L. 4 loafer happened in at one Of the PRINTING
Offices in lynn, a few days since and asked III
question: What's the news - Two dollars
year in advance" was the reply He subscribed
II There are some that live without design d
all, and only pass N the world like strsws IN
river; they. 90 not go but are carried
II B4l tor pride, many a man who sits N tn
poor-house porch 30 day, might have rested IN In
shadow Of bis OWE household tree.
II Girls who rise early and walk apaee, stsa
roses from Aurora face but when they yawl
in bed till ten. Aurora steals them back again