Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-02-02

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AN Indianapolis paper puts the cap
ture of four pound eel in its chrome
logical record.
A REASON why piano was not saved
at a fire was because none OF the fire.
men could play on it.
A VETERAN angler fished two hours
through the ice in North Stonington,
Conn, one day last week, and caught
fifty-nlne pickerel.
THE Boston Advertiser has been
looking into the census returns, and
finds that Gin Colorado there are many
men of many mines.
"How do you define 'blacll as your
hat r y said n schoolmaster 10 one of
his pupils. Darkness that may be
felt, !" replied the youthful wit
The thrice-tried lawsuit of Rev. Mr..
Gibbs, to recover salary due him from
the Congregational Society of Gilead,
CT, has resulted in a verdict Of 1887 il
his favor.
A MAN who was told by clergyman
to remember Lots wife," replied that
he had trouble enough with his own,
without remembering other mems
wives.
NICE wooden shoes are manufactured
by the Swedish colony in Maine A
pair costs forty cents, and only two
hours time is consumed III the manu-
facture.
THE authorities OF Harvard College
have issued circular announcing that
in 1872 the requisites for admission in
to the Freshman clall will be consider
ably increased.
THE question is now agitating Massa-
chusetts, whether wine cellar i'll a
gentleman's private house comes under
the law prohibiting the vending of in
toxicating beverages.
AN old lady. not remarkable for the
clearness of her ideas, describing fine
summer evening, said: 1t was a
beautiful bright night; the moon made
everything as light as feather"
A LITTLE dog which was not long ago
carried by railroad from Canterbury,
Conn, to Hartford, soon became home
sick and silly started off alone on his
way back. 1t took him eleven days to
accomplish the forty miles,
HIS GRACE JOHANNES, the Russian
bishop of Alaska, held solemn reli-
gious service at the Greek-Russian
chapel in San Francisco on the 9th of
January, that being Christmas Day ac-
cording TO the Greek-Russian calendar.
THE sacrifices the present war in Eu-
rope demands are shown by such fact
as this, mentioned in private letter to
the Moravian. Near Herrnhut, Saxony,
father had three sons and four SONS
in-law in the army They have all been
killed.
"NEvER," says a henpecked man,
"marry woman worth more than thou
art. When / married my wife | was
worth fifty cents, and she was worth
sixty-two cents and when any differ
ence occurs between us she throws up
the odd shilling"
SoJoURNER TRUTH uses this argument:
Ibid Jesus ever say anything against
women? Not q word. But he did
speak awful hard things against men.
You know what they were. And he
knew them to be true. But he didn't
say nothing 'gainst de women.
A MOVEMENT is afoot at Boston for
the relief of needlewomen and other
working girls, many of whom are now
out of employment. Boarding places
where living may be had at small ex-
l., Il
philanthropic plans will soon be carried
out.
A msER worth $50, 900 died III Knox
VILE H., recently, from unintentional
generosity. He drew bank check OF
$500 instead Of So, to present to a
and when he found what he
had done, he cried, "My God, | am
ruined man," and very appropriately
died
A YOUNG LoUIsaLLIAN enjoyed tete-
u-tete with his beloved in a doctors
study on recent evening TIL skele-
ton hanging up began to rattle omi
norsly. Both thought ghosts, and fed.
1t was found that rat was building
his nest in the skull, and his move
ments caused the rafting
The hunters of Siberia, when pressed
by hunger. take two pieces Of board,
and placing one on the pit OF the stom
ach and the other on the back, grad
ually draw together the eXtremities,
and thus allav, in some degree, the
cravings of appetite. This is supposed
to be very economical kind of board,
FORREST acted in Chattanooga, re-
Gently, and a Knoxville paper insists