Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-01-06


veins, has ever since been sour in her dis.
position.
There are 1000 inmates in the county
infrmaries of Ohio. Of this number 900
are under IL years of age.
There are more convicts in the Cali
fornia State Prison than that of any other
State in the Union in proportion to its
population.
81 come to stealr' as the rat said to
the trap. "And Ispring to embrace you"
as the steel replied to the rat,
"A Milwaukee man gave his wife a
fifty-dollar greenback a few nights ago for
safe keeping, and she concealed it in the
coffee mill In the morning the husband
ground the coffee, and made rather an ex-
pensive cup.
"A lecturer in New York recently said
that Laughing was one of the best sani-
tary agents known to the medical faculty,
and was withal an indication ofintellectual
vigor and moral soundness. :"
A regular physician being sent for by
quack, expressed his surprise on being
called in on an occasion apparently tritling
Not so trifling, either" replied the quack {;
" for, to tell you the truth, have, by mis-
take, taken some of my 0aon pills"
=" Who's that gentleman, my little
MANI" was asked of an urchin. "That
one with the spike-tailed coat Z" eyes,"
was the response. "Why he's brevet
uncle of NINE" "How's that ?" was
asked. "Cause he's engaged to my aunt
Mary"
An Appeal
I'll not recall the broken VOWS
Thou once didst breathe to me;
Thy conscience will not arouse
Though deep my misery;
may forget, and will forgive,
rhoGgh deeply have sorrowed
But, obi be gen'rous and give back
The-money you have borrowed
Life Assurance Companies not only
undertake the equalization of life, but
also the return of the sums invested with
compound interest They are capitalists,
constantly looking out for long invest
ments, and well organized to deal protita-
bly, in securities FAIR The
Washington is one of them.
One of our subscribers sent us two
dollars the other day, with request to
"send The Courier as long as the money
lasted" AS the money didn't last more
than about two hours, we hereby ask for
another remittance, for, according to his
terms amt his time out ?-Great Barring
tom (Mass.) Courier.
The New Haven Register says:
"The best game of baseball we ever
read of, transpired in East Bridgeport
few nights since A party of foughs
attempted to clean out beer saloon, but
the owner seized ball-club and put them
out, scoring three strikes and three runs
The roughs went out on fly, and were
caught by the police"
"A Berkshire, Mass, paper tells about
a very inexperienced youth of 20 engaged
to strong-minded woman of 30, who as
the time for the wedding drew near, be-
came so much alarmed that he offered her
twenty-five dollars to relinguish her claim;
but she scorned his cash, and insisted on
having him, and he was finally compelled
to face the parson.
"A scholar out West, during his pars-
ing exercise, came to the word with"
which he boldly declared "a noun" "You
have never seen it used as such," replied
the teacher But have, though" con-
fidentially retorted young hopeful.
"Where :" Doesn't the Bible say: Bind
me with seven aoiths, and l shall be as
another man 2" The teacher was van
pushed.
Taking the cue from the recent
woman's lecture, that men should pay
their wives wages" the Louisville Courier
Journal says: "The general bad condition
of the linen of the men of the nation may
now be accounted for. A wide spread
conspiracy to reduce it to buttonless
state and then strike for wages has now
been discovered through the talking pro-
pensities Of one of the conspirators."