Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-10-12
Wifi and Wisdom

DOGS peat dentists. 1hey insert
natural teeth.
WHAT key is the hardest to turn
Donkey.
WHEELS go best when they are thor
oughly tired
GREAT souls have wills feeble ones
have only wishes.
WHY was Eve not afraid OF the mea-
selsl Because she'd Adam
IN Vienna it is forbidden to publish
matrimonial advertisements in the
newspapers.
THE female barber "out west . has
retired from business on account of the
arrival of L" little shaver.
WHAT is the difference between a coat
and a baby The one l wear, the 9th
er | was.
To poultry -keepers-Ie there any diff
ference between hen stealing and cock
Robin
BALD-HEADED MEN, who wish to be in
style, should paint monograms on the
exposed spot. Frescoing is going out
of fashion.
SOME Harrisburg wag wrote in the
taxable list, after the Mayors name, and
under the head occupation" Has
dogs caught"
4 GENTLEMAN of color, arrested re-
Gently, had four chickens N his carpet
bag. He said, "De man dat put EN-
dar was no frien' ob nine
4 FOOL in high station is like man
on the top of a high monntain-every-
thing appears small 10 him, and he ap-
pears small to everybody.
To fatter person aGroitiy one must
know three things-what they are, what
they think they are, and what they
want other people to think they are.
INA, dear, Ada won't take her ply
sic. I've mixed hera dose of and, and
she says | must take some first
Doctors never do, do they ma, 4
REcroR's daughter (to a Sunday
school boy. 80, You have an elder
brother; well, how old is hex"
Schoolboy-" Dunno, miss, but he
is just started o swearing"
A CHINESE who had his nose cut oft
during a little alteration in San Fran
cisco, had it carefully packed and sent
home, to show his friends one of the
American customs.
THE character of Xantippe is now de-
Tended on the ground that the income
OF Socrates, her husband, was only four
teen dollars year, and he had a habit
of bringing somebody home to dinner
every day.
CUSTOMER I say, this umbrella ]
bought last week Is all coming to
pieces :" Shopman - . Indeed, sir
you must have been taking it out, and
getting 1t wet, sir, / think
AN editor, who doesn't know much
about gardening, suggests that for gar
/ den making, a cast-irop back with a
hinge On i, would be az improvement
~ the spinal column, now III use.
SOMEBODY told Jerrold tLat George
Robbins, the auctioneer, was dead,
"and, of course" added the gentle
man, "his business will 60 to the dev.
I H." ooh, then he'll getit again, said
the Wit
IT is curious, but true, that if man
have his left hand amputated his right
hand Immediately becomes his left
hand, and he may always be described
rs an oft-handed fellow.
A REVEREND gentleman in Pittsfield
has received from his attached parish
oners a touching and expressive token
of their good wishes in the form OF
charming burial site in a newly estab-
Hshed cemetery.
A LITTLE fom-year-olL while comb
ing her fathers hair, one sunday, was
asked if she saw any white hair
Yes, was the reply, lit looks just as
if it had been showing in your upper
story.
THE Stockton Herald SAYS: During
the delivery of her speech last night,
Mrs Laura de Force Gordon said; 1
am an American citizen, and over y
wears of age To this q crusty and
probably Disguised Benedict cried out
You bet you are The effect was
electrically
\ STRANGER meeting q man in the
streets of Boston q few days since
roughly accosted him with Here, /
want to go to the fremont House
The deliberate reply was, Well, you
can GO if you won't be gone long.
A COUNTRY girl writes to q male ac-
quaintauce "Come over and see me;
we have a new lamp at our house which
we can turn down, down, down, until
there is scarcely bit Of light IN the
room.
SOMEBODY once asked Tom Corwln II
he had heard a certain story of Louis
d. Campbell's, Was il about him
self Z" inquired Mr. Corwin. "No,
believe not. well then, | never
heard it, said Mr. CoIwin, very
gravelv.