Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-11-18

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The United States has six millions of
dogs. 1t is proposed to tax these animals
dollar head.
There will be six eclipses next year,
out none Of them viii be visible in the
United States.
"A New York firm tre other day re-
ceived 50, 500 from Charleston merchant
for debt contracted before the war,
Josh Billings says that the mosquito
was born of poor but honest parents, who
had in their veins some of the best blood
in the country.
According to the enumeration of I'M
married youth between the ages of 5 and
81 there are, in Hamilton county, Ohio
129903 white and colored, of these 1915 623
are in Cincinnati.
From information received from Mr.
Thornton, British Minister, it appears that
the English Government are willing to re-
duce the postage on letters from this coun-
try to three pence.
Witty sayings are as easily lost as the
pearls slipping off broken string; but a
word of kindness is seldom spoken in
vain. 1t is seed which, even when
dropped by chance, springs up flower.
"A gentleman, takinga apartment, said
TO the landlady 81 assure you, Madam, |
never left lodging but my landlady shed
tears" She answered, 81 hope it was
not, sir, because you went away with
out paying
"A merchant in Leavenworth, Kan,
found a Chinaman's coat in a box of tea
he had Just opened His customers have
not been apprised Of the fact, lest they
tind fault with the flavor of their Bohea.
"A gentleman once asked, "What is
woman ?" when married man replied.
She is an essay on grace, in one volume,
elegantly bound Although it may be
dear, every man should have copy of it,
A scientific article in a magazine says
that not fifty diamonds large and small, are
discovered during any one year, although
over twenty thousand are sold during that
period, and he concludes that paste dia-
monds are fashionable.
-"Why, dear me, Mr., Longswallow,"
said good old lady, how can you drink
a whole quart of that hard cider at
single draught?" AS soon as the man
could breathe again he replied 81 beg
pardon, Madam, but upon my soul it was
so hard | couldn't bite it of"
The foreign letter mails received at
and forwarded from the New York Post
office during the quarter ending Septem-
Der &c. 1869, included 2,625,260 letters,
charged with an aggregate postage of
S335,1S The letters received were L.
234 $50 in number, and the letters for
warded were 1,390,2S0.
81 went in to battle" said Yankee;
"but before was long in the water saw
a huge double iawed shark making rapid
ly toward me- What was to be done?
When he was within yard of me faced
round, dived under the shark, and, taking
a knife from my pocket, ripped the mon
ster up" "But did you battle with your
clothes on?" asked an astonished listener.
"Well,' answered the story-teller, re-
proachfully-"well, | do thinkyou needn't
be so tarnation particular"
Z i insure in the Washington Life be-
cause it offers all the advantages offered
by other companies, and in addition this
peculiar advantage: Dividends MONITOR
feitable by its charter. Moreover, in the
eventof non-payment of premimum when
due ON any policy, the company will,
without notice from the insured, hold such
policy good, so long as the dividend cred
tied thereon will pay the premium at the
annual rate called for by the policy.
Judge Kingsbury, of Portland, Maine,
while travelling in California, wanted to
buy a couple of newspapers, and asked
the newsboy the price, 1.-TWO bits"
said the boy. The judge pulled
out twenty five cent stamp and handed
it to him. The boy looked at it .curiously
for a moment, turned it over, and sand,
whats that %" Money" said the Judge,
twenty-five cents" The boy sung out to
several Others of his fraternity, ~ say,
fellows, come and see what the people
East use for money" The boys gathered
around and discussed it, and the judge was
hoping that the boy would not take it,
when the newsboy turned to him and said,
swell, guess I'll keep this It'll do to
give to some Of my poor relations"
The drill instructor of an old regiment
Of the line--one of the old stamp OF mar
tinet sergeants, who was the terror If
every recruit, and the remorseless tyrant
of the awkward squad-was putting fir
ing party through the funeral exercise.
Having opened the ranks, so as to admit
the passage of the supposed c0rtege be
tween them, the instructor ordered the
men to rest on their arms reversed Then,
by W of practical explanation, he
walked slowly down the lane formed by
the two ranks, saying as he moved, "Now
| am the corpse. Pay attention F." Having
reached the end Of the party, he turned
round, regarded them steadily with a scru-
timing eye for a moment or two, and then
remarked in most solemn tone Of voice;
Your lands is right, and your eads is
right, but you 'aven't got the look of re-
greet you ought to ave"
Industrial.
Iron ore has been discovered in Marion
county, Florida.
-PaDer box making in the United States