Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1857-04-28
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.8- The Chinese word for eyelid is emf
uentiy beautiful, sgnifying tie cradle of tears.
sB- indispensable in Teetotal Ballroom
Pumps
rs brilliant ideas are like shirt buttons
'hey are always Oft when we are in hurry
Is New Hampshire Yankee says that nc
man IN his State ever need be minus "a pocket
full OF rocks"
~ An English writer classified old maids
aud bachelors as solitary mature men and wo-
men who have nothing happening to them
iY -"oi two evils choose the least" as the
deacon said when his brethren reproved him
for changing his bass-viol for 4 fiddle.
IS ! thief, who lately broke open grocery
store excused himself on the plea that he
" merely went there to take tea"
- An Emerald. in writing his life, SAYS,
: lie ran away from his father because lie dis
covered he was his uncle"
Is q person being asked what was meant
by realities Of life, answered Real estate. real
money, and real good dinner. none Of which
could DC realized without hard work"
RteHr NorIoS OF SoLEMyIry.-" It IS SOL
ean thing to be married" SAID Aunt Bethany.
fes but It'~ q dca! more solemn not to be p
said the LITTLE 4irl, her niece
- 4 pint Of water. evaporated by two
ounces Of coal, swcIIs into two hundred and six
teen gallons Of steam. with mechanical force
sufficient to raise a weight of thirty-seven tuus
foot high.
RAILROAD TO JERUsALEM-A companv Of on
glneers have actually commenced surveying the
Tout from Jatfa to Jerusalem Tor raIlrnad =
jaffa Is The seaport in the Mediterranean. and
: only thirty-'hree miles from Jerusalem, but
T''iiroad would inciude a much syrea5er distance
The road i projected by an English and French
company.
A"yESr OF SFRTSG.--Hov beautiful the in
spIred poet marks the approach of spring:
For 10. the winter is past and the rain is over
and gone. The flowers appear on the earth .
me time Of the singing oftLe birds is come. aud
the voice Of the turtle is heard in the d
The fig tree Putteth on her green figs, ANA. the
vine, with the tender grapes. give good smell
Arise, my love, my fair one aud come away.
The CRMEAS WAa.-ColoncI TuIlocI, has IS
sued in London pamphlet on The Crimean war
IN which it Is proven that out Of 10000 British
soldiers who died during seven months in the
Crimea, only so were slain in battle. .2GO
were cut of by the epidemic, and :. 900 per
iaed, not in battle, nor by pestileucc, but by
" disease produced by causes most of which an
Peared capable at least Of mitigation" The
CrImea, It should be noted, is naturally a.
healthy as England.
s# Here IS good hit at the last dodge Of
the quack medicine manufacturers:
To SUFFERERs.-A decayed gentleman who
has for many years been subject to an attack of
creditors, IS desirous of making known the
means by which he was cured. Letters enclos-
ing postage stamp can be left under the door
during the night.
sT- Two boys, one Of them blind of one eve.
were discussing on the merits of their respec-
tive masters.
How many hours do you get for sleep p.
asked one of them
Eight" replied the other
Eight why, I only get four"
Ah.' replied the first but recollect. vou
have only got oae eye to close and l have two"
VERDICT OF NEGuo IxorEsr-" We de IN
derscribed darkies. bein a Runners Juray ob
disgust, to SIT on de body ob de Niger Sambo
4 " dead gone before US had been sttin on de
said niger aforesaid, did on de night ob de fus-
teeth ob Jrvember came to his deaf by falIin
from de said riber, whar we find he was subse-
comely drowned, and afterwards washed on de
rlber side, whar we spose he froze to def
sF THE PARsoxs joKE.-Tbe Rev Mr. Pet
cTs Of Attleboro', was slightly eccentric in his
habits AID this encouraged hi> people to be free
sud-easy VII. him. One time he was wander
ing over the hills. and got lost IN the woods
AT last he came upon party of men burning
wood for charcoal, but they were so blackened
that he did not recognize them, though they
were his own parishioners. Approaching them,
he said -
Can you tell me who am, where am from
and where l am going o.
/ To which they replied =
You are Parson Peters, you come from At
tleboro, sud you are going to the wicked place -
The Parson responded =
From the looks of the inhabitants. / should
think | had got there already"