Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-05-04
General Items.

uNuSA - AsSs0oS
The entire alphabet is found in these
four lines. Some of the children NAV
like to learn them: -
God gives the grazing OK his meat,
He quickly hears the sleeps low cry.
But man, who tastes the finest wheat.
Should joy to lift His praises high
A PUPIL in the High School at Pitts
field, Mass, who lost both of his arms
by railroad accident when very small
boy. manages his book, uses his Slate
and writes legibly with his mouth. H.
can also write with his toes.
Krses Chapel, Boston, was built Of
granite taken from Quincy, and the
legislature at the time, by resolve
ordered that no stone should be taken
from the ledge for any other use until
the church was completed, fearing that
the supply might be exhausted.
WHEN the water gets low We are
going to have sensation from St.u.
benville, where eighteen boxes of nitro.
giycerine repose calmly on the bottom
Of the river, emptied there by drunk,
en- skitf not long since. Steamboats,
say their Nov I lay me- every time
they pass that spot.
A son of the late President Tyler
only q years old, is uhlan IN the 18th
army corps of Saxony, ani served
throughout the Franco-Frussian wal.
He has been for five years a min.
ing student at Frieberg, but when the
clash of arms came he laid aside his
books and sought admission to the ser
vice.
THERE are premOnitorv symptoms of
q rush OF European travel the coming
summer, and fashionable bridal tours
will take that direction, and we shall
have numberless letters written thence
from the track of wal The Cunard
line is to have an extra weekly steamer,
and two new and elegant ships will be
put upon the Inman line.
A GENTLEMAN in Peabody, Mass, had
a serious fit fifteen months ago, and, on
recovering, missed seven false teeth,
with the gold plate to which they were
attached, Since that time he has been
in poor health, until few days ago,
when he was seized with a sudden fit of
vomiting, and threw up the missing
leetQ, WHICH HUI Ieuldlueu III Ills Stom-
ace all that time.
A GIRL of tender sensibllities eloped
with a man near Knoxville, Tenn, and
when her father sought to detain her.
she knocked the old gentleman with a
shovel. Her parent pursued the couple
after the marriage, and the husband
and father having exchanged shots, the
blushing bride emptied revolver at
her liege lord, disabling him complete.
", and then returned home with papa
Who says that the age OF chivalry is
over in Tennessee?
THE Alba Iowa) Spirit of the Times
tells the following There Is an Old
gentleman travelling through the coun-
try as a peddler-his name We have for
gotten-who is the author Of pretty
good thing. A short time ago he stop
ped at hotel in Knoxville, and when
the dinner bell rang was the first to
take a seat at the table. He is mon
strous eater, and on being asked by
the waiter, roast beef, roast pork, or
roast chicken he answered, roast
chicken, my child, roast chicken, by
an operWhetming nlHority.' 1t Is
needless to say that he got it.
WHO, WHEN HIS BROTHER ASKS FOR
BREAD, would give him a serpent2 Yet
how often when the sick ask for medi
cine, they receive poison Mercury,
iodine, strychnine and prussic acid, are
prescribed daily, ana the larger the dose
the more heroic the practice Shun all
deadly minerals, and concentrated veg
etable poisons. Let DR. WALKERS Vim
EdAR BITTERs be the first resort of all
who suffer from general debility, indi-
gestion, constipation, biiousness, in
tarmittent fever or rheumatism They
will need no other medicine.