Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1855-09-25

| LOGIC" There is hat in the street, Bob; has
the owner got it ~
"To be sure not. 1t is in the street"
! {" Well, who has got it then a.
| Nobody, OF course
"Who does it belong to ~
! Nobody should Judge"
"WelI, then, if il belongs TO nobody. and no
| body has go, il, hasn't the owner got itan
: To RAISE WINTER WHEAT, &c-The Rock
Island Advertiser gives the following the meth
Cd taken by an Illinois farmer, of the name of
Boyer. to secure good crop of winter wheat =
Near the last of August he pows his wheat
field, breaking them deeply. He then allows his
stock TO run over them till about the middle of
September, by which time they are pretty thor>
oughIy trodden down He then about two
bushels TO the acre, of Mediterranean wheat, or
any other good variety, and plows it in with a
light plow. The wheat requires further at
tention till harvest time. NJ Boyer has raised
four excellent crops of winter wneat in
ion from the same land by this method His
crop this year averages between twenty FIVE and
thirty bushels TO the acre OF the best winter
wheat
A GENUINE American "A short time since
there was a terrific thunder storm at Niagara Fall.
In the reading room of the International,
staid, sober, middle aged man. absorbed in the con
tents OF newspaper needing the raging OF
the elements around him. There came clap OF
thunder louder more terrific than any which pre-
lceeded-reverbrating with innumerabe echoes
through the gorge, and the accompanying light-
ming throwing lurid glare upon everything. Our
quiet man deliberately raised his head above the
edge of the paper and deliberately remarked
:. than's on the American side-they can't get up
such thunder in the Queens deminions," and then
resumed his reading without another word.
Lady Mary Duncan was rich heiress, AMI
Sir William Duncan Physician during a
severe illness One day she told him she had
made up her mind TO get married, and upon his
asking the name of the fortunate chosen one. she
bade HIN go home and open the Bible, giving
him the chapter and verse. AMI he would find out
He did so, and thus he read, Nathan said to
David, thou art The man"
What do you drive such pitiful looking
carcass as that fort Why don't you put heavy
coat of flesh on him :"
"A heavy coat of flesh? BY the powers! the
poor cratur can hardly cary what little there is
on him."
A Sticker TO Rules-We are acquainted with
Printer who is so enthusiastic in his business
that he never sits down TO dinner without insist
ing tn proof Of the pudding
"A lawyer os his death-bed wied his entire
that he
wished to go to the same class OF persons ne took
il from.
- Miss will you take my arm? 2"
Yes, sir. and you too"
Cant spare but the arm, Miss" replied the
bachelor.
Then replied she, / shant take II, as my
motto is. 60 the whole log or nothing
Am ancient and exceedingly common way OF
bookkeeping, is 10 keep all the books you lay
your hands on
Alta forth of July celebration, young lady
offered the following toast:
..The Young men of America-Ihe'r arms our
.n,nort Our arms their reward. Fall in, men
fall in.'
A man yery much intoxicated was sent to
durance vile. why did Mt you bail him outz
/ Incurred bystander of friend. Bail him out! !!
exclaimed the other, "you couldn't pump MN
out
/ Upon the occasion of delivering a famou:
speech in Cambridge, Mass, recently, "endei
PbiIlips remarked that the marking of good
gingerbread was one Of the lost orts.