Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1857-07-07
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Cau'st thou love me gentle stral ger ?"
Blushing like 4 rose she stood
And the knight at once admitted,
That he " rather thought he could"
.9- To ascertain whether woman is pas
Tomato or not, take muddy dog into her par
lor
G95 ! new play has just been written. Ii
is called the Links Of Mystery" or the
= Haunted Sausages."
How 70 MAKE AN ARrsrocpAr.-Rev. Z. H.
Chaplin tells US:
Take plebeian rascal. and half million
Of dollars, and let them slowly simmer togetk-
er
eE- Mike, if you meet Tat, tell him to make
haste"
Sure an l Will" said Mike, "but what shall
I tell him ii | don't mate him q
s5- Figgers Won't lie, will they ?" muttered
cockncy arithmetician, who had just reel,d
out of Gn anti-tempeTance resent, and was hold
ing on to lamp post. We'll perhaps they
Won't" remarked observer; " but see fig
ger as wont stand, any how
IS Joseph Stokes says that when he was
first married, he loved his wife hard enough to
eat her uP-and now he says he shall always
be sorry he didn't
Stokes Is a man, too that appears to under
stand pretty wei what he is talking about
- The local editor of an exchange, pub
fishes 4 punuing market report" in which lie
states, tin plates fiat, lead heavy, iron dull
ralles not much inquired fterchampagne brisk
rhubarb and senna are drugs, starch is stiffen-
ing, and paper stationary. There is no HE in
dead hogs, but considerable animation in cd
cheese
LEssox IN GEoGRAFHY.-" Annette, my dear
what country is opposite to us on The Globe %
" Don't know. SIR
We'll, now said the teacher, if | were to
bore a hole through the earth and YOU were to
90 in at this end where would you come out o.
Is Out of the hole. sir, replied the pupil, with
air of triumph at having solved the great
question.
sS- IN old woman who lived near the from
tier during the last with Great Britain, and
possessed a marvellous propensity to learn the
news, used frequently TO make enquiries CT
soldiers On one occasion she called to one OF
those defenders of our rights whom she had
( frequently saluted before.
What's the news %
why good woman" says he, the Indisn-
have fixed 4 crow-bar under Lake Erie. and
are going to turn it over and drown the world.
" On mercy, what shall do ?? apd away she
ran to tell her neighbors of the danger, and in
quired of the minister how such calamity
/ might be avcrted.
why" SAYS he, you need not be alarm d
We have our Makers promise that he will not
again destroy the world by water"
IL IL 1,rl
I " He's nothing to do with it, its them plaguey
I Indians
/ WAHAr THE POoR CREATURE TooK.-A young
+ lady of Boston, died lately, of consumption. \
physicians inquest was held upon the body, a
/ the request of her friends, when the " doctor
who had attended the patient fer two years ties
tfed that he had not departed in the siightes
extent from the rey,2r practice, and had givel
her nothing but the usual remedies Itappear
from testimony of what drugs he had admins
tered during the time of her sickness, that h
had given her IN the form OF Dovers powder,
pounds of saltpetre, pound of Epicac and
OF Opium. In addition, she had taken dram
of Morphine, 90 bottles of Codliver Oil. ant
over quarts of Laxarative Pills, composed \
he, the Physician, testified of no more activ
ingredients than Rhubarb Aloes, Gambogt
Scamony and CASTLE soap. As external appli
cations, he had used but two bottles of Croto
Oil, one half pound of Antimouial Ointmen
and only 80 blisters. The physicians holdin
the inquest informed him that he ought to b
arrested for an-slaughter-whichs SO frighten
and has not been heard from since.