Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-10-28
Miscellaneous Items.
A Picture.

| A man with all of boyhood's feeling
| He who is just as old as his dog, Is a
man of cur-age.
= Happiness is like pig with creased
| tail, which every one runs after, but nobody
can hold.
= Some rich men keep cross dogs around
their houses, so that the hungry poor who
stop to "get bite" may get it outside OF the
door.
Will there never be a being to combine
a mans mind and woman's heart, and who
yet finds life too rich to weep over? Never?
- Most of the rebels are pledged to pay
| ten-fold what they are WORTH and when they
die, SAYS Prentice, there'Il be the devil TO
pay.
my party, sir, will not lie in idleness,"
said a politician. every true, sir" retorted
his opponent, "your party is neither chargea-
| bic with living in idleness nor idleness III ~
| ing"
| - The captains of some of our new Sub
| stitute" troops say it is dangerous to make
| the rear rank take close order, for fear it
| should pick the pockets of the front rank.
| = You need not make mouths at the pub
| lie because it has not accepted you at your
| own fancy valuation. Do the prettie8t things
| you can and wait your time.
| u
| cy. There may be some truth in the old SUI
| perstition that no touch is so healing as that
| Of a dead mans hand.
| - PITY is sentiment so natural, so appro-
! pirate to the female character, that it is
| scarcely merit for a woman TO possess it, but
| TO be without 1t IS grevious crime.
| = No less than eighty warnings were given
| during June and July to Partisan journals
| ffty-six of which were given once, twelve
| twice, one thrice, and one four times.
An exchange comes to US with a notice
| that - Truth is crowded out of this issue.
This is almost as bad as the up-country editor
who said O. For the evil effects of intoxicat-
| ing drinks see our inside"
A young widow in Western Tennessee,
reciprocating the Union sentiments of one of
our batterymen, shuts the mouth of secesh
| grumblers by the assurance that her husband
| is not Yankee because he is a Dutchman
A clergyman who had sought for prefer
ment in many quarters, and had failed, once
| said to a bishop: Il never got anything
asked for" And l." replied the bishop,
''never asked for anything got"
- The very best and cleverest men have a
hobby of some sort, which the rules of socie-
" forbid their mounting outside their fami-
lies. Every man would bore you to death if
you would only let him.
COMFORT II DEATH.-A good man, who was
diving. once said Formerly death appeared
to me like a river, but now it has dwindled
to a little rill and my comforts, which were
rs q rill, have b come as the broad and deep
river
\ RIDDLE By LORD DUNDREARY-Why doth
a dog waggle hith tail Give it up? think
moth fellahs viii give it up You see the
log waggles hith tail becauth the dogs stwon-
! IL. al > In, Il, IL, +,.T
would waggle the dog
HUNuwY.-Those showers of grace that
slide off from the lofty mountains, rest on
the valleys and make them fruitful. He Civ
eth grace to the lowly: He loves to bestow it
where there is most room to receive it, and
most return Of ingenious and entire praise
upon the receipt. Such is the humble heard,
and truly, as much humility gains much grace,
so it grows by it.-Leigbton.
In Australia it Is summer in January and
winter in July It is noon there when it is
midnight III Europe The longest day is in
December. The heat comes from the north,
the cold from the south, and it is hottest on
the mountain tops. The swans ,re black, the
eagles are white; the bees do not sting, and
the birds do not sing. The cherries have no
stones; the trees give no shadow, for their
leaves are turned edgewavs to the sun, and
some of its quadrupeds have beak and lay
eggs
Henry Ward Beechcr has taken quite
a fancy to the monks in Europe In his last
letter he says
g am bound to say that have been agree
ably disappointed in the appearance of the
monks and priests in Roman Catholic coun-
tries As a general rule, they have appear
ed to be clear-faced, intelligent, and sincere
men. Only once or twice did We meet the
legendary type of mOnk-round, fat and
worldly. In Switzerland and in Northern
Italy the general impression produced upon
me by the priests has been highly favorable
to them"
- Men 90 an undulating course, sometimes
on the hill, some times in the valley. But he
only Is in the righI who in the valley forgets
not the hiII prospect, and knows in darkness
that the sun will rise again. That is the real
| life which is subordinate to- not merged in the
ideal; he Is only wise who can bring the low
est act Of his life into sympathy with its
highest thought. And this | take to be the
one aim Of our pilgrimage here. l agree with
those who think that no true philosophy VIII
try to ignore or annihilate the material part
of man, but viii rather seek to put it in its
place, as servant and minister to the soul
Margaret FUaer.
PARIs-Of the hundreds of elegant seats
| put up all over the city for the rePosc of the
L
pen-kuife. From one end of the town 10 the
| other. everywhere the choicest flowers are
! blooming. with only barrier foot high
| around the beds, and yet not single plant
! or flower Is ever touched. Paris has become
/ the best lighted city in the world, and will
/ soon be, if it Is not already, the best venti-
| lated Its drainage is nearly perfect The
| policemen are not rulhans, but as civil as gen
| tlemcn-ushers Of the black and white rod
| In the most polite and Oblging manner all
| your questions are answered, and every rea-
/ soEable assistance is rendered if you get into
/ a strait If an Englishman should tumble
| into a gutter in returning from evening
| party, he would be lifted as by the gentle
| hand of the good Samaritan a.. placed upon
/ his own beast
| ~ Mr. NJ, of : certain town in Vermont, is
not distinguished for liberality, either ofpurse
/ or opinion. HIS ruling passion Is q fear of
! being cheated. The loss, whether real or
/ faucied, Of a few cents, would give him more
| pain than the destruction of an entire navy.
! lie once bought q large cake of tallow al a
country store, at ten cents a pound. On
breaking it TO pieces at home, it was found
| to contain large cavity. This he consider
ed a terrible disclosure of eupidity and fraud.
He drove furiously back to the store, enter
/ ing in great excitement, bearing the tallow,
AVA a~g1a5r1frgr ssHera ypr1 rascal Won have