Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-01-27

Miscellaneous.

where should Postmen be buried?
In Postscript.
"A friend at pinch-One who shares
his snuff with you.
If man is a tcetotaller, he need not
always be out of spirits.
"A tall man can walk upright down
the tube of the Rosse telescope,
An old maids love-letter is called a
romance of the middle ages.
The policies of the Washington Life
are liberal as to residence.
A Writ of Error-A love letter. wide
"Breach Of Promise suits)
Gen. Spinner's autograph is said to
look like Chinese prescription for chills.
A New York monomaniac has spent
90 wears in collecting museum of pipes.
In one county in Oregon, last year,
there were 1913 marriages and 40 divorces.
A New York reporter says that 10000
people 60 to bed drunk every night in
that city.
Abiding to chignons, Mrs. Clever
saws "a girl now seems all head" Yes,
iii you talk to her." growled Mr. Clever.
Never deal with an undertaken, if you
can possibly avoid it. They are mean
lot, always wanting to scre'0 you down.
The Boston Chief Of Police reports
that 200 liquor shops were run in that city
the past year, in spite of the prohibitory
law.
The births in New York statistics
show. for the year. 1889 whites and 143
colored; 6,464 males and 6,O6S females
The Albany Penitentiary is to be en-
liyened for three months by the presence
of youthful negro who sold dressed
cat for fine large rabbit.
The largest span of any truss bridge
in the United States is that of the bridge
across the Ohio river, at Louisville. 1t is
$40 feet.
The Schenectady Star says that GER
tain Justice of the Peace in that county
has decided that verbal contract is not
good without stamp on it.
Somebody has given utterance to the
following scrap of philosophy: "The poor
mans purse may be empty, but he has as
much gold in the sunset and silver in the
moon as anybody"
F. D. Mansfield, the State Statistican
for Ohio, and the "Veteran Observer" of
the New York Times predicts that the
next census will chronicle population of
42133,021 for the United States.
The Boston Post says: eve had no
idea we had so many excellent and distin-
guished members of the city government
until we read their praises of each other
at the close of the official year."
The local editor of Columbus Miss
paper having recently got married, a CO.
temporary says: "May his father-in-law
die rich, and enable poor Stevens to re-
tire from the printing business, and set up
cake shop at railroad station
Lord c., whose popularity was not
excessive in the Scotch town of A., hav
ing refused an importunate beggar, she re-
newed her application with, "Now, me
lord ifye'd Just give me one little six
pence could treat every friend we have
in town."
of twenty-five companies incorpor-
ated by the State of New York, the Wash
ington is the Eighth in order of organiza-
ton, and may now be regarded as one of
the "Old Companies" thoroughly tried
and established
According to the recent report of the
Indiana State Superintendent of Public
Instruction, the total number of white
children in the State, between six and
twenty-one years of age, is 605,661 col
ored children, 1894 The total amount of
the school fund of the State is $780,
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"A young man living in Lafayette,
Ind, is humility personified. The other
day he asked young lady if he might ''be
allowed the privilege of going home with
her" and was Indignantly refused where
upon he inquired, very humbly, if he
might she allowed to sit on the fence and
see her go by"
The Coming Obituary." Died, in the
thirty fifth year of his age, John Smith,
husband of the Hon. Jane Smith, at her
residence in Solebury, this morning. at
o'clock. MIR. Smith was meek and quiet
husband, beloved for the graces of a cult
waited and trained nature. He exceled in
the domestic virtues; as cook he was
surpassed by few; as a nurse he was
equalled by none"
The Detroit Tribune says: "There
may be some of the handsome and rich
young idiotesses of New York dying for
want of Count or Lord for husband
For the qualification of such, we will
inform them where there is q Count |;
and not only where he is now, but
where he will be for two years. The
titled parsonage is Count Behrtndas, now
serving two years term in the Ohio
State Prison at Columbus, for burglary in
Dayton last summer"
"A Hudson, N. Y, paper holds out an
lnducement to the young men of that
town to enlist in the temperance ranks,
as follows "The handsomest girl in the
village belongs to the Sons of Temper
ance AS she intends to have a member
OF the Order for husband, and as she
has not yet made her choice, here is fine
opportunity for all the young men in the
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