Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-12-02
Miscellaneous.


What is society, after all, but mix
ture OF histories and miss-eries?
Why are jokes like nuts? Because
the dryer they are the better they crack.
Law is like sieve; you may see
through it, but you must be considerably
reduced before you can get through it.
The floating debt of st. Louis, exclu.
size of treasury warrants, amounts to
81 ,0S9,00O and the bonded debt $12,330,-
900.
"A California town, overrun by ped
oilers and insurance agents, wants to tax
them one hundred dollars day.
Mark Twain says that the Sandwich
Islands dish of plain dog "is only our
cherished American sausage with the mys-
terry removed
Facts prove that the man who insures
his life is more likely to live to an ad-
vanced age than he who neglects to do
so. Insure in the Washington and enjoy
life.
Philadelphia returns ,677 gold and
1854 silver watches, and carriages to the
value of $743,757. She also acknowledges
w LIZ, oOS mlllLld.
Prof W. c. Kerr, State Geologist of
North Carolina, thinks that the Black
Mountains in that State were the first dry
land and the oldest earth on the globe.
=" Lenny, you're a pig" said father
to his little five-year old boy. "Now, do
you know what pig is, Lenny?" Yes,
sir; pigs hogs little boy"
An economical girl in Portland took
all the medicine left in the house after her
fathers death, in order that it might not
be wasted She is recovering.
-" Bill" said one apprentice to another,
"my boss is better man to work for than
your old man. My boss amt always
round his shop interfering with his own
business"
There is an engine company in Ports.
mouth, N. H., whose organization dates
back over $50 years. 1t celebrates its an
niversary with an annual dinner. Elk
Governor Goodwin is member.
Over sixty cents of every dollar paid
for taxes in this country goes to pay such
bills as forty million dollars year for
crime, thirty-two million to1 pauperism,
and twelve million for insanity induced
by intemperance.
1t is sad to witness the propensity
shown, even by the very young, to break
the laws of meum and tuum. We saw a
little rogue the other day, barely two
years of age (ah you may stare , who
had his fathers eyes, and his mothers
nose and chin.
There is a convict In the State prison
at Jackson, Michigan, who has been kept
in solitary confinement for twenty-one
years, having been sent for life for muir.
der at Detroit, and received into the prison
November 80, 1S4S.
If it is wise to insure your house,
where the chances are only one to hun
bred that it may burn down, it is wise to
insure your life, which must certainly end
you know not how soon. Insure in the
Washington Life Insurance Company,
"A citizen of Richmond drives a wagon
100 years old-the exact longevity of the
memorable "one-horse shay" of which
the poet discoursed. With little tying
up at the axles and abstinence from sneez.
ing on the part of the driver, it is said still
In lecture on astronomy at Worcester,
Professor Denton said that Mars was
much older than the earth, and its people,
probably, are much more advanced in de-
velopment than We. He supposed the
womans rights question to have been set
tied, in Mars at period so far in the past
that even the records and the memory of
Iax CT tnr
"A minister met parishoner who had
come into possession Of handsome prop.
erty by the death of his brother, and in
quired how he was getting along. "Oh?
said he, =" / am having dreadful time ;
what with getting out letters of admins
tration and attending probate court, and
settling claims, sometimes wish he hadn't
diel'
Some editor alludes in the following
evidently sarcastic manner to paper
printed at Austin, Texas, and which is not
a beauty geographically: at is printed
with 1870 line plea type, and is very easily
read in the dark They charge fifty cents
an acre for advertising, but man can't
say but few words in that space, owing
to the size of the type.
Among the staple styles Of ladies'
dress goods, the Buffalo brand of black
alpacas finds the highest favor with the
trade. The finer qualities Of this brand,
especially, are in great demand for ladies'
suits, and for outdoor wear they are rap.
idly supplanting the more costly black
silks. The popularity of the Buffalo al
pacas which retain their luster and rich
ness Of color better than any other brand,
has now extended to all parts of the coun-
try, and is without precedent in the
world Of fashion.
of ninety-nine cases in which trans.
fusion of blood was performed on account
of hemorrhage, gathered by Professor Ian.
doris, of Grieswald, the results are thus
stated: In eleven cases, there was from
~ trsf 40 bupaa uf a,naaea 0f thu ~a.