Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-11-04

matched first rite; one of them is willing
to do all the work, and the other is will.
ing he should" .8gss Qe
TO do the thing properly in New
York at a wedding, the bride must have
eight bridesmaids, and hundred,dollar
poodle beside the one she marries.
1t is said that q hair dressing, exten.
sively advertised and sold at high price,
is made simply of pint of alcohol, two
ounces of glycerine, and halt pint of
water, the whole cheaply scented.
"A comfortable position! A Nevada
editor can see into den of rattlesnakes
from the back window, and at the front
stands buffalo bull ready to go through
him. .,t,
Charles Reade says the fortunate man
is he who, born poor, or nobody, works
gradually up to wealth and consideration,
and having got them, dies before he finds
they are not worth so much trouble.
AT fashionable wedding, in church
at Newton, Mass, the bridal party being
little dilatory, the organist played
Eager to Meet Thee, Love-" and again,
the lovers not coming, he sounded "Rob-
ms Not here
A well known physician WHO had an
extensive practice in Gloucester, Mass
some forty years since, used to say that
roast beef serenity of mind cold water
BATH and an amiable and pretty wife
would make almost any man healthy,
wealthy and wise
-'Dear me p exclaimed Stiggins "that
new surgeon gave Squantum's boy new
| lip from the child's own cheek What a
painful operation it must have been !"
I've had pair of lips taken from my
cheek more than once replied Mrs. Sug-
| gins, land it wasn't a painful operation at
ALL .iu
A petrifed man of extraordinary size
was recently found about twelve miles
south of Syracuse, N. Y, in digging for a
well The body is ten feet five and half
inches long two and a half feet across the
shoulders and twenty-five inches from the
chin to the top of the head One or more
similar giants have beer exhumed on the
Pacific coast. The body, in this case, rested
on clay bed and was covered and packed
around with sandy loan,
A Good Thing. Smith did q good
thing for his daughter the day she was
married. He gave her $1,000 in 1870 bonds,
and policy of insurance in the Washing
ton Life for $4,000 on her husband. The
interest of the bonds will keep the policy
in force for 30 years, and after that the
policy will give them comfortable sup
port through life, and in case of his death
at any time, she would have over $4,000
of her own to face a frowning world.
An American watch maker is report
ed to have made chance discovery that
the balance-wheel in nearly every watch
is, if made of steel, converted into mag
net If this is fact, the magnetic char
acter Of the wheel will account for many
perturbatons in watches which have hith-
erto been inexplicable. A key or the steel
blade of knife in the same pocket as the
watch viii exert disturbing influence
But even if there should be no piece of
steel in the pocket the magnet will neces-
sarily tend toward the north, and so far
interfere with the calculations of the
matchmaker in very delicate piece of
mechanism.
in New York, the other evening,
/ lHTe WAS lcaTucu ulSScTldllOu On tHc SUD-
iect "Bedbugs and their remarkable
tenacity of life" One asserted of his own
knowledge that they could be killed and
come to life. Some had soaked them for
hours in turpentine without any fatal con
sequences. Old Hanks, who had been
listening as an outsider, here gave in his
experience in confederation of the facts.
Says he: "Some years ago took bed
bug to an iron foundry, and, dropping it
into ladle where the melted iron was,
had it run into a skillet. Well, my old
woman used that skillet pretty constant
for the last six years, and here the other
day she broke it all to smash, and what
do you think, gentlemen, that insect just
walked out of his, hole, and made tracks
for his old roost up stairs. But, added
he, by way of parenthesis, "by George,
gentlemen, he looked mighty pale"