Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1855-06-20
fOit, Sentiment, ST.

THAT was fair pun of our old friend Finn the
comedian, (whom so many OF our citizens have
so much and such good reason 10 remember,)
when, playing " Paul Pry he offered himself 10
Phabe personated by Mrs. Herring Why
said he nothing is more natural than that Finn
should be attached TO Herring.
VIVA. is that which is above human imper
ections and yet shelters the weakest and wisest,
sa well as the wickedest OF all mankind hat
Doesticks' new book, about TO be published IN
New York, is entitled 8 Nothing In his preface
be saws In literary point of view TINS took
claims nothing This is the manufacturer con-
clusion. In literary point of view this book
amounts to nothing tbs will DC the reader 5
conclusion"
An ingenious chemist has senta bottle oil Lon
don fog to the Paris Exhibition, specimen 81
material.
Johns wife and John were tete-a tete. She
witty was, industrious he; says John, Inv earn
ed the dread we eat" " And F. said she, /" have
urned the tea"
An editor little father West, has become
so hollow from depending upon printing business
alone for bread that he proposes TO sell himself
for stove pipe.
When the day breaks what becomes of
the fragments!
The man who retraced," the past, is suppos
"a 10 have been harness maker.
Somebody says that woman abandones her
opinion the moments her husband adopts 1t; even
t. church, the women sing an octave higher than
he men, in order no; to agree with them in any
Thing.
TIE Reason WHr-An exchange paper says:
I5.eJe IS too much india-rubber in modern relI-
.oa This accounts for the actions which Day
ala Goodyear are continually bringing up agains
al ghristendom. Boston Atlas.
The most tender hearted man ever saw
was shoemaker, who always shut his eyes and
whistled when he ran his awl into the sole OF a
shoe.
An old lady in Alabama objects to the cree
ton of the telegraph near her house. for says she
"supposin' thar should be a war; and they should
be sendin' cannons and bombs along the telgraft,
and they should bust right here and tear every
thing all to pieces, should like to know who's a
SNlle 10 pay iOE II idht l. away oi tIIdI, !oA
don't like the pesky thing no how"
SInrLrc1TY--The other day a school girl was
married in this city. A little girl about Il years
Of age of TIE same school said to her parents
"Why don't you think--is married and she
hasn't gone through fractions YETI
CoMMosPLAcE OUT OF PLAcE-The common
place man speaks like the multitude; but the
man, who is above the common, makes the null
titude speak like him
The telegraph, if the weather is favorable,
can send no news three days after il has been re
ceived by maa.--LBoston Pest
The other day man found mounted on
ladder, with his lips pressed to the telegraph !
wires. He was kissing his wife in Phiiadep hia, |
!. by telegraph
To EXTRACT GLASS STorPLE.--When the |
glass will not come out, pass strip of wooden |
n around it, and then see-saw'' backwards and
ofNards, SO that the friction may heat the neck
OF the bottle. This Will cause it to expsnl, bel
come larger than the stopple, and the latter vii,
drop out, or may be easily withdrawn. A tight
screw may be easily loosened from metal socket
by heating the latter by of a cloth wet with
boiling water, OF in any other way-on the simple
principle of expansion by heat.