Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1865-03-29
CLIPPINGS.

In a late hunting excursion, the king Of
Prussia killed 20 deer and 50 wild boars,
i and the emperor of Russia killed II deer
/ AMI o. boars
+ y pretty girl was nrreste in New York
1 the other day for being pickpocIet Sho
/ said she had been in the business since
] she eleven years old, and had realized
S35 900
John &. Nickolay, one Of Mr. Lincolns
private secretaries. is about to marry Il
daughter of ex-Attorney General Bates,
! of St. Louis
Kerosene oil caused all the diphtheria
awhile ago, and now it is charged with
producing the fatal spotted fever Petro-
leum is to blame for great mary things.
One Dr. Robinson of Toronto, Canada,
/ has been trying to prove slavery a divine
! institution Other d. D's have made q
similar attempt 1t hasn't proved eternal
at any rate.
The Russian Government is making
large appropriations for organizing schools
>
cipated serfs. Books are to be purchased
for the poorer peasants, and other steps
taken to difuse the blessings Of cduca-
ton
The mania for collecting relies at
Charleston and sending them North seems
to be on the increase. Wendell Phillips
has the bell once attached to the slave
market General Butler the door plate of
Mr.. Richard Yeadon, who it will be re
rnembered once offered $4,000 for tho
Generals head and one gentleman boasts
the characteristic trophy OF n bunch of
about fifty unpaid trIdesman's bills,
found in the desk of Mr.. Barnwel Rhett.
South Carolina chivalry, like the tre-
mandous roar so generally aseribe1 to the
lion, is all myth.
The rebels are trying to belittle Shcr-
man by words. lie is bcliitlins them by
deeds.
The Richmond Whs thinks Sherman
is a very vaccilIating General 1t is
very true that he can't make up his mind
20 stay long in any one place.
1t is said John Bell is now in very poor
health and is living with friend near
Flat Shoals, Meriwethcr county, Ga. Mr..
Bell has lost all his property.
1t is not true that wells Of sperm oil
castor ii and oil Of vitriol have yet been
Struck in Pennsylvania.
/ The extensive SHOWS, and lorg continu-
ance Of them, arc said to have rendered
/ the wheat crop Of 1855 a certainty.
! The first to strike lie, it now appears,
was job, who SAYS: When | washed my
steps with butter, and the rock poured ne
out rivers Of oil job 50; G.
y @raccIess writer in n London paper
says: ladies heroes may be ranged in
two prncipal iii isions gloomy mcsmer-
il RS, " h compel pretty women to marry
them bv the p"w,r of the eye, and ire
cI nalle scampS, with whom al the fair
sex fail in love from their own delightful
instinct.
! a cave ne ,r'y rs large as the Mammoth
/ Cave of + entucky has recently been dis
covered about ten miles from Fort Ruby,
California 1t was fuund to he an i'm
mensc subterrancan lake Of clear water
with hi.h walls Of limestone on either
side. The ceiling or arch is fifty feet
high
\ critic malignant enough to tell the
truth. saws that the most awkward thi@g
i'm Nature is Il woman trying to run.
i Men look at the faults Of others with n
teIescope-at their own with the same in
strnment reversed, or not at all.
There is moro light in quart Of ink
than in a million feet Of gas, IA million
quarts Of oil, and n million pounds Of tai
low.
The very best kind Of agricultural fairs
farmers daughters
The small er the caliber of the nind the
greater the bore of perpetually open
mouth
The Jews would not set their foot upon
a piece of paper lest the name of God
might be written upon it. Take care,
lest YOU set your foot on man, for the
name of God is written on him
it is very easy to give what is OF no value
to YOU \ person may do that and he ex-
tremeIy selfish The hardest and hcs. Of
all giving is giving up; and no person de-
serves to be called generous who canros
give up his selfish viii TO make others
happy.
I We all reeollect the anec,lotc Of the
proud boy who boasted that his father
had horse, when his companion of poors
er parentage replied, e:.ultingly ''And my
father has horse aud sa,c too r
Dickens tells us that ".nuch IS said
about the tongue" Trre. the thing is in
evcrybody's mouth,
\ Little girl was told to "speI ferment,"
ard give its meaning with n sentence in