Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1857-07-21
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HorE-A sentiment exhibited in the wag of
a dogs tail, when be is waiting for a bone.
IS There are some lessons which a,Iversitv
will be sure 10 teach Us. and among thiS-that
goodness ia wise men is more admirable than
beauty.
e IN Irishmau complained of his phySi-
cia7 that he stuffed him 80 much with drugs,
that he was sick after he got we'll
- Iona-hans idea Of 4 STERN at sea. If
You would Lave an idea Of the ocean in a storm,
just imagine ten thousand mountains. ali drunk.
and chasing one another over newly ploughed
ground, with lots Of cavcrus in it for them to
step into now and then.
- The man Who. : too poor to take a pa
per has bought slab-sded dog. an old shot
gun. and twenty shilling gold watch He ed
ucates his chIIdred in the streets and his shanr-
HAS board on his neigbbors
,E- 4 countryman Went to the telegraph Of
fee at St Louis, and learned that his wife had
given birth to a fine I'olian boy, the operator
meant to say interesting boy"
Death and glory" eaid the man Jumping a.
bout three feet high, i thought the dretted
varmiuts We're about. Death and glo-roe In
j,,,r't
FrSNr GERf..--' Do Won hear This Canary bird
here sing 2 inquired we Of young lady. TO
whom We were showing our collection of pc,
warblers. No" replied she archly, " Can AIRY
hirc acre sing g. We caved
- What's whrskey bringing :" inquired
a dealer in that article,
Bringing men to the poor-Louse. peniten-
tIary and the eallow4," was the reply. Sensi-
hle man that
-. The elastic tissue packed within each
h,.ot of a horse Is 50 folded backward and for
ward, that ii wouId present a surface Of four
feet square were it spread out. Thus his limbs
and The entire weight OF his body rests on spring
cushions packed in boxes
- Some one congratulating SAKE upon his
recovery from his recent daugcroug illness, the
wlt replied =
could not die, you know, that would be
running it entirely into the ground"
-" Come here sonny and tell me what the
four seasons are" Pepper, salt. mustard and
vinegar-thcm's what mamma always seasons
with" " Mary, put that boy to bed, he Ia 50
sharp he VIII cut somebody"
~ A sub-editor lately announced the IL
ness of LIS principal, and piousl, added
"All good paying subscribers are requested
to make mention of him in their prayers the
the other class need not do 50. as the PRAYER OF
the wicked ava.leth nothing. according to good
authority"
ga Cen YOU teach the bee to build better
cell. or tie bird better nest They teach Us
however, wisdom by noblest and silent exam
pies
IS y young woman in Pittsburg, who wa:
disappointed in love, jumped into the Allegany
river, few days ago, but was unable to sink OF
account of her hooPed skits. As she foatet
calmly down the stream she was rescued, auc
went home quite ashamed Of herseif.- Waute
( gan ErceIsjor.
/ \ PRNTEP TO THE LAsT.-During the last mo
ments of Winn. Rochester printer who latel,
{ died, he was heard to say, having relapsed int
/ a semi-delirious state: I'm on my last stick
full--Tm coming to paragaph--and suppos
I'll have to wait for old death to put in the Pc
Rod"
HUMAN ELrv rvArIoS-"I | know" says Chan
ming, but one elevation of human being, ant
that Is elevation of soul. Without this it mat
Jers nothing whore man stands, or what h
possesses and with 1t he towers he is one
Gods nobillty-no matter what place he hold
IN the social scale There are not differeu
kinds Of dignity for different orders of men, bu
one and the same to all. The only elevation
a human being consists in the exercise, growt
and energy Of the higher principles aud pow
ers of its soul. a bird may be shot upward
the skies by foreign force, but 1t rises, in ii
true sense of the word. only when it spreads i
own wings and scars by Its own living powe
, So when man may be thrust upwards in
conspicuous place by outward accidents, he Wi
rise only 50 far as he eNherts himself, and e,
, pands his best faculties, end ascends by q IN
effort, to nobler region Of thought and action