Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-11-25
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/ ic tiitt dcfttSes All fHdhhinu OF COrIup-
ton ought TO remember that he is sure to
| convict ouly one.
- Grandmother used to say to grand
father, 1T is no quarreiing, NV dear,
when you know we must make it up again ;"
= In holy human nature we found no
| string to be cut of, only to be tuned-Jea1s
| Pad
= The greatest hypoerite never imposes
upon his neighbors half so often as upon
himself
= Men resort TO all sorts of DISCUSSES, and
| then complain bitterly that they are not IN
derstood.
= The power of fortune is confessed only
by the miserable, for the happy impute all
their success TO prudence and merit.
- Wm. l.. Stone, lately elected Governor
of Iowa, when studying law twelve years ago.
worked eight hours day, for the purpose of
| earning money TO pay his board and tuition
A slave woman was recently arrested in
Richmond for stealing dress. Evidence of
good character offered-her mistress saw
ing that JEFF Davis would soon steal as
| Emeline would. The woman was sent up.
- Confederate currency has so deprecia-
ted, that the Richmond people say If you
60 TO the market you have to take your mon
ey in the basket, and carry your beef in the
pocket-book."
- Good enterprises find support in Il sell
fish and frivolous age, the Israelites did
not devote all their treasures to making the
golden calf, but had some gold left to furnish
and ornament the tabernacle.
Concerning the sweetening required for
rhubarb pies, Pittsfeld lady gives the fol-
lowing infallible rule: Throw in sugar as
long as Your conscience viii let YOU then
shut your eyes and throw in one handful
more"
- The Austrian journals state that COM
pany has just organized pleasure excursion
round the world. The screw steamer Uarco
Polo is specially engaged TO leave Trieste on
the 9Th of March, and the trip is to last eight
months and cost =, 800.
A BLAzED TREE.-The Sixth Ward-inclu-
ding the Five Pointsn-of New York noted
as the receptacle of all the scum, ignorance,
depravity and RIGHTEOUSNESS of the city, gave
| 2,O37 votes for the Democratic ticket, at the
| recent election, and 2I9 for the Union ticket.
A printer named VIM, who died at
/ Rochester, England, recently, was heard to
mutter to himself few moments before his
| death: . am on my last stickful; am com
/ ing to a paragraph, and l suppose I'll have to
wait for old Death to put in a period.
! "A geographical garden is being made in
/ Paris, Mont Blame, Is feet high is the point de
| deparf and the face of Europe, with real min
! iature seas, rivers, railways, &c, viii be rep
/ resented in the same proportion The seas
will have artificial tides, driven by steam.
| - Would you throw Vallandigham, an
/ ex-Congressman, into Jail with common vaga-
/ bonds?" asked a sensitive copperhead of
! Judge Holt, when the famous, or rather infa-
NOUS traitor was arrested. Certainly said
the Judge, eff the vagabonds don't object"
There has Just been discovered in Spain,
II
/ literary history of that country being the re-
ceipt for IL, 500 Maravedis paid to the Faith
ers of the Trinity for the ransom of the author
J of ''Dou QuIXOtte' then a prisoner in the
/ hands Of the Moors. The receipt states that
the prisoner was then thirty-thrcc years of
age and had lost his left arm.
The Poorer Glasses of Women in Eng
| land, as late as the beginning Of the present
| century, were employed in many towns in car
! rying bricks and mortar on their heads to the
| masonS at work on even the highest build
ngs. Women stripped from shoulder to loins
| may even now be seen picking up Jumps OF
| coal from the Tyne mud, when the water Is
low, much to the offence Of strangers, if not
the people Of Newcastle.
Florence Nightingale has published som.
/ observations on the sanitary condition Of the
| Indian army, at the request of the commission
on that subject. She was particularly reques-
| ted to give her opinion on the " consequences
| of a vicious course of life. " The London
! critic remarks on this request that it mnst
! have been thought & she had more ser than
! an angel. But she excepted the task with
| the rcpUlsive sigh of mortal woman, and
the courage Of an immortal angel "
How To COURT ~ CHURCH.-A young gen
| tleman happening to sit at Church in a pew
| adjoining one in which sat Young lady for
| whom he conceived Il sudden ana violent pas
! sion, was DESTROYS of entering into a court
ship on the spot; but the place not suiting a
| formal declaration, the eXigency of the case
suggested the following plan:-He politely
handed his fair neighbor a Bible opened with
! pin stuck in the following text Second
| Epistle of John, verse fifth -" And now |
/ beseech the lady, not as though wrote new
| commandment unto thee, but which we had
| from the beginning that we love one another. "
She returned it, pointing to the second
| chapter of Ruth, verse tenth" Then she fell
| on her face and bowed herself to the ground,
| and said unto him, ." Why have l found grace
| in thine eyes, seeing that | a stranger )"
! He returned the book, pointing to thirteenth
| verse of the Third Epistle of J ohn-"H Have
| ing many things to write unto you, would
not write with paper and ink, but | trust to
| come unto you and speak face to face, that
| our Joy be full " From the above interview,
| a marriage took place the ensueing week.
| Elk.