Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-12-30
Miscellaneous.
fare-Army food.

War fare-Army food
-Mended Ways-Repaired streets.
The Last Sensation" tight shoe,
Can a little girl weeping be called a
crisis?
What fairs should young men shun
most! Fair deceivers. W. ...- -
New York is to have homeopathic
insane asylum.
The Washington Life issues policies
on all approved plans
"A farmer out west recently killed
"The destroyer of his pease" 1t was
bug.
Boys will be boys. That is nonsense.
Boys will be men-if they live long
enough. .u,s.. -y..at
"A governess advertising for a situa-
ton says that she is complete mistress
of her own tongue"
Twenty New Orleans bakers were
fined $50 each the other day for selling
bread at short weight.
An Irish absentee is said to have sent
this comforting message to his steward
"Tell the tenents that no threats to shoot
you will terrify me.
In the Iowa Asylum for the Blind,
there are, at present, forty-two males and
females. II is estimated that there are in
the State, 900 blind persons.
-"My Lord" said the foreman of
Welsh jury when giving in the verdict,
1--WE find the man who stole the mare not
guilty u1
-" Young man, do you know what
relations you sustain in this world" said
a minister to young man of his church.
eyes, sir" said the hopeful convert-"two
cousins and grandmother.
Tom presented his bill to his neigh
Dor Joe for services rendered, The latter
looked it over, and expressed much sur.
p Use at the amount "Why, Tom, 1t
strikes me that you have made out a
pretty round bill here seh.' 81 am
sensible that il is a round one quoth
Tom, sand I have come for the purpose
of making it square,
Some men are nothing if not Stats
tical. One of these computes that the ~
locomotives of the Vermont Central Rail
road Company have run during the past
year from December /, 1868, to December
|, 1869, 1,359,178 miles, which Is six times
the distance from the earth to the moon'
and 80 times the distance around our
globe.
1t is no small praise to say that the
Washington perfectly well represents ana
ustties liberal, benevolent, wisely oe
vised and prudently managed system Oh
Life Insurance. It's directors are men nol
merely of wealth, but of high and stain
less character. It's affairs are, and ever
have been, managed with honor, prudence
energy and skill.
The Commissioners of Emigration Ia
New York report that from January 70
December 8, 1859, there have arrived IN
that city psi, 1862 emigrants, against 2Oe' lol
during the same period in 1S6S-being an
increase of 4306l. The receipts at the same
time from emigrant fees have amoun.eu
to 1905, 1893, and the disbursements 10 $2l
S31, with a balance in the treasury %
S305,333. The balance on January /, loo'i
was 1854.
"A milk inspectorship has been esIao.
lished IL Cincinnati, and excellent resans
are already secured. The prosecution "a
one drayman who had watered his miih ~
the extent OF thirty.three per cent ~,
which he was heavily fined, has hau "a
beneficial result. The sale OF tne
adulterated article, in the groceries s.
pecialy, has greatly diminished, @ 'ne
comfort Of those who purchase 'neie
from. III ,s4
--0f The 1 OBS mountains in the moon
measured by Beer and Nader, thirty NM ars
are higher than Mont Blanc, and SIN a.
10000 feet high The annular Sof e. a.
lar) mountains are highest; Dorie.' n 9ea.
the southern pole, measuring 2o'osl ri
or nearly as high as the highest peahss arr
the Himalayas, the Hottest SUBMITS ~ lar
own globe. And there are also e'lCa~b
caverns, OF craters, in our satellite ,on 1,' N
/ are "A 600 feet deep and some are wv