Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-10-28

Miscellaneous.
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Farmers insure their lives in the
Washington of New York.
Why is an offering like a matrimonial
engagement? Because 1t begins with an
offer and ends with a ring.
Libby Prison, at Richmond, Va, is
now occupied by company engaged in
grinding sumac and bones.
1t is said that the best paid people on
earth are prime dome, English Bishops
and patent medicine sellers.
The La Crosse Democrat says great
deal of bogus small currency is beng paid
10 the Indians for cranberries in that sec
ton.
A Western steamboat captain, impor
tuned by life insurance solicitor, settled
matters by remarking 6 Look here, my
friend, never bet on any game where I've
got to die to bea. ii"
The prison barber at San Francisco
has made the shorn locks of the criminals
who have passed under his hand into a
lariat of considerable length and queer
appearance, which he exhibited at the
county tar.
in Boston, where the annual deaths
from 1928 20 1852 were nearly one IN
twenty-one of all persons living, they
have been for the last twenty years only
one in fortytwo; or one-half as many.
in railroad depot at Boston there is
a sign near certain window announcing
that "this Office is placed here for the pur-
pose of answering all questions about the
Going out and coming in of the trains.
An English mathematician has figured
ND the weight, size, etc, OF the animals
that he says entered Noahs Ark, and the
room required for provisions, and he finds
that the ark was four miles long and halt
mile wide
The District Judge of Monroe, La,
has declared mortgage drawn in French
to be valueless, on the ground that the
State Constitution requires all such con-
tracts to be made and recorded in English.
The case has been appealed.
1t is claimed that the results of ex-
periments made with the troops at Madura,
india, show only five deaths among 400
total abstainers, or about IL IN Lulu,
while the number among the temperate
consumers was about % in 1000, and
among the hard drinkers, "A in 1000
A prisoner in an Ohio Penitentiary
persuaded the son of the foreman OF the
work. shop to head him up in barrel and
roll him outside the prison walls, where
the confederates of the escaper received
liberated, and removed him as quickly as
possible,
San Francisco incendiaries make use
of an Internal machine, composed of two
n1a ctx in
length and two in breadth, lnclosing a
small phial filled with powder, and hav-
ing fuse attached to It, The machine,
except the fuse, is covered with cloth and
Irvine, saturated with oil.
A striking illustration of the saying
that the pith ola lady's letter is in the post
script was that of young lady who, hav-
ing gone out to India, and writing home
to her friends, concluded with the follow
ing words "P. S.-You will see by my
signature that am married"
AT Illiopolis, H., few days ago, a
Young woman was killed by having her
hand caught in moose in the halter at
tached to horse, and being dragged
about mile. She was but eighteen years
of age, and had been married but few
weeks.
A Washington special in the Rich
mond EgeniRg Ne2rs of few days ago an
nounced that Secretary Boutwell, had pur-
chased this month $6,000000 worth OF
"bones" instead of "bonds" Mr. Bout
well soon after received letter from an
enterprising gentleman, inquiring what
was being paid for "bones," in bulk, as
he had a large lot on hand.
"A gentleman who follows the profes-
sion of school-teaching on the Western
Reserve in Ohio, gave out one morning as
a reading lesson to his first class that por-
ton of 1.-THE Merchant OF Venice in
which the pound OF flesh" scene occurs
The reading finished he asked the class
what Shylock meant when he said, oily
deeds upon my head "Well," said the
tallest boy, 81 don't know, unless it means
he carried his papers in his hat"
The following letter explains itself
and does credit to the Company and its
honorable managers;
New YORK, March Is, 1868.
|. N. SToDDARD, Esq.-DEAR SIR:
VOW favor of the 10th instant is at hand
rhe premium on Mr., Johnson's policy
N ltI JdHudIl was uipaiNt, hlld VIZ poilN
would havehpsed for non-payment of pre-
MUM, but for our rule of holding policies
in force while there is any unused divi
dend to his credit This is a rule peculiar
tothis company, and its advantage to the
policy holder is exemplitied in this in
stance. Yours Truly,
Nj. MITCHELL,
Vice-Prest Washington Life.
Some wag records the following ode
n cisions under the Internal Revenue law
n The latest decisions Of the Commissioned
A of Internal Revenue cover the following
4 points: Parties using paper collars must
4 use them from their original package tina
u is from the box in which they have beer
purchased and three-cent revenue STAMP
must be attached to each one when put on
When the collar becomes soiled, and il
turned with the clean side out, it must re