Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-12-16
All Sorts OF liens.

Few women are so modest as to be I'M
willing to sit in the lap of ease and luxury.
- Single-blessedness, like mans fist, be
comes stronger by being doubled.
When do sheep become stationery?
When they are turned into pens.
1t is well that the poets heart is full of
sympathy he finds little elsewhere.
- Why should you be justified in picking
the pockets Of a Eender in engravings? Be
cause he has pict 1res-
- Napoleon is going to smoke out the
Mexican guerillas. Mighty poor smoking.
They are only half Spanish"
- Well behaved boys may be called voun-
kers but rude and vulgar ones are nothing
but young ours.
- Why is a child a year old like sugar
bowl? Give it up? Because its teeth
ing (tea thing.l
Mrs. Darlington SAYS that because dan
cling girls are stars, it il no reason that they
should be regarded heavenly bodies.
Some poet says the wind kisses the waves
That, suppose, Is the celebrated kiss for
blow, about which We have heard so much
Young lovers should remember that the
most tercely-burning fre-brands are those
kinded at the altar.
-" Hurrah This famous old shout is a
a Scalvonic word, meaning in English, "To
the Paradise.
The who beats the drum for the
March of Time, has gone to play on the
Horn of Plenty.
old people are not unfrequently like
ships, moving slower the longer they have
been going, and on similar grounds-the ad-
hesion of weeds and barnacles
The soul OF young woman is a ripe rose:
-r,lr1 Ill
SLY fall after. And kiss may sometimes
| break out the first leaf
An Iowa editor acknowledges the receipt
of congressional documents " in advance of
the mail, " in consequence of flock of wolves
aud bears chasing the post rider across the
the prairies.
- Mrs. Opie said, talking of Byron, "His
voice was such voice as the devil tempted
Eve with; you feared its destinations the mo
ment you heard it."
"A wag, upon visiting i medical muse um,
+ was shown some dwarfs, and nther specimens
/ of mortality, all preserved in alcohol. We'll"
said he Il never thought the dead could be
/ in such spirits
| The late DR. West having married ye1r
| tall lady, whose name was Experience, was
| asked his opinion of matrimony to which he
| replied that, 'by long Experience, he had
| found ii be a very comfortable thing"
A college student being examined in
| Locke, where he speaks of our Citations to
the Deity, was asked, "What relations do we
most neglect" when he answered with much
simplicity, Poor relations, sir"
/ &c Going to be liberal in forcing men to
| fight, " is the forked-tongued Interpretation
| put by Contemporary upon the telegraphic an
nouncement that the government will give
! the enrolment act the most liberal construc-
| ton possible.
| - wish YOU would not give me such
/ short weight for my money, said customer
/ to the grocer who had an outstanding bill
against him "And | wish you wouldn't give
| me such long wait for mine, replied the gro
! Ger.
A Young lady Of extraordinary capacity,
addessed the following letter 10 her cousin
| We il all well, and mothers got the his
/ Terrix brother Tom is got the Hupin Kaugh
| and sister Ann has got babee, and | hope
/ these few lines will find you the same. Rite
| sumo. our aphectionate kuzZen.
A little boy once said to his aunt
Aunty, should think that Satan must be
an awful trouble to God" He must be
trouble enough, indeed, l should think" she
| answered. a ] don't see how he came to turn
out so, when there was dega to PIT him up
| to IL
On the occasion of a magic-lantern ex-
| hibition, the scene of the children of Israel
| crossing the Red Sea was given, and the
| small children were asked if they could tell
what it represented One little fellow imme-
| iiately sang out, - Burnside crossing the Rap
| pahannock !"
-" Vel, suppose you have been out 10
look at Texas-did you see anything of our
old friend JIM out there?"
Eyes; gone deranged.
"Gone deranged how What does be dos
Reai crazy"
Yes, indeed |: he doesn't know his own
| hogs from his neighbor's.
The commanding officers of the United
4 States steamers Reliance and S0t>site, banned
] Walkers and Robinson, ere dismissed from the
navy for neglect of duty in being unprepared
for the attack made upon them by the rebels
| ~ the mouth of &h~ pern.hen~n.L