Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-12-09

Miscellaneous.

Certificate.
"A Good Investment-A policy in the
Washington Life.
Old nen are moved down, but babies
s,e cradl>t.
If love is blind, how can there be any
love at first sight?
A married woman in Baltimore
charged girl with stealing dress, and
NAYS 5000 for SANDER,
The New York Leader estimates that
m less than 90, 900 New Workers are living
above their means.
Smith and Jones were talking about
,encinq. the art of self-defense and the
ike Smith remarked that he had seen a
rail fence. Pooh" said Jones' "that is
nothing-I have seen hat-box."
"A popular French author writes in
his last novel; 1.-THE Countess fell back
in A deadly swoon. When she revived
her spirit had fed" How disappointed
The moor creature must have felt
The Thanksgiving dinner of each
prisoner in the Albany Penitentiary con-
sisted of four pounds of roast beef a loaf
Of white bread, fresh crackers, apples, and
other Injuries, eaten in the loneliness of a
cell.
vestitations once showed that of
seven hundred male convicts in Auburn
prison, six hundred were there for crimes
committed under the influence of liquor
1--WE hundred of whom testified that using
tobacco was the beginning of their intern
perate habits.
A few years ago, says the Neao Hamp-
shire Mirror, we heard DR.. Oliver w.
Holmes, one of the medical professors of
Harvard College, say that for over TWEEN
tv.tYo hundred years physicians had used
The common elder (Sam5ucus), and that
they had just found out that it possessed
no virtue whatever as remedy for any
known disease.
Associations for the insurance Of
lives are to be ranked among the very no
bleSt institutions of civilized society, and
their usefulness can be attested by thou
ands of happy and Independent families,
rescued by their means from the bitter
ness of poverty and the degradation Of
charity. LORD BRoUGHAM. There is no
better company than the Washington
Life.
AS an evidence of the GOODNESS of the
weather in Laramie, Wyoming, a paper at
that place says: "An estimable young
lady Of this town got choked two days
ago, while drinking glass of water, by
piece of ice sticking in her throat, where
il still remains. A council of eminent
physicians decided that nothing could be
dome to remove the obstruction before
next spring"
The lady leader of Sunday School
choir in Deer Lodge, Montana, lately
started the tune of Marching up lions
Hill" on so exalted pitch that none of the
little voices could reach the upper notes.
At the close of the first verse this young
lady turned to the Superintendent of the
school, and inquired, "How is that for
high, anyhow" and then calmly started
the tune on lower key.
AT oxford, some twenty years aco, a
sutOr Of one of the colleges limped in his
walk Stopping one day last summer at
3 railway station, he was accOsted by n
Bellknown politician, who recognized
him, and asked if he was not the chaplain
Of the college at such time, naming the
year The doctor replied that he was. 81
was there" said his interrogation "and
knew you by your limp "Well." said
The doctor, at seems that my limping
made deeper impression than my preach
ing" "Ah, doctor" was the reply, with
ready wit, {" it is the highest compliment
we can pay minister to say that he is
known by his walk rather than by his
conversation"
In the town of S., in Maine, lived
some years ago a couple who had got
tired Of the jars and troubles Of welded
life, and mutually resolved to end them.
But being rather short of this worlds
goods, they hardly felt like paying Oh. the
money necessary to obtain divorce. So
they went to the old gentleman who joined
them in the bonds of matrimony several
years before, and desired him to unite the
knot. The worthy old Squire scratched
his head, thought moment, and told them
that there was no way but to 60 to court.
But hold" says he, II have it. Ysu
promised to live together and be true to
each other until death should you part.
Come out into the yard" Then Selling
eat that sat in the doorway, he directed
John to take her by the tail and Jane by
the head. Then lifting sharp ak, he
aid Now death doth Won mart The