Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-05-09
Pith and Point.

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A WESTERN girl, speaking from ex-
perience, says "a kiss in time saves
nine" for she AYERS in every case when
she has refused a man chaste salute,
he has taken at least twenty.
/ A YOUNG lady was looking at pic
ture representing pair of lovers in
boat, with the arm Of the lover gently
enfolding the waist of his dulcinea
when she innocently remarked, How
natural
A LADY entered drug store and ask
Ell for bottle of James Experience -
/ The clerk informed her that Jane
hadn't bottled her experience vet, but
they could furnish "Jayne's Expecto
rant.
THE following curious advertisement
appears In a New York morning journal
Fifty dollars will be paid to any per
son who will in a short time convert a
shy, low-speaking man into an impelti-
nent, loud talker."
/ A LADY in Atlanta tied her husbands
/ hand and feet the other dav, Just for
/ fun, and then went through his pockets
/ for certain bllletdoux, and found it.
His physicians tell him that his face
won't be badly scared, though he may
remain bald
| A THICK HAIRED squire, being worsted
by Sidney Smith i'll an argument, took
his revenge by exclaimiug "If / had
a son who was an idiot, by JOve I'd
make him n parson." every prob
ably" replied Sidney, "butI see your
father was of different mind"
A WESTERN lawyer who tried to col
/ lect a bill wrote to his clients thus
Gents-You will never get any money
from Bill Johnson. The undersigned
called upon him yesterday, and found
him with nary tile, his feet upon the
earth, and not clothes enough on him
TO wad a gun"
THE scratched face of an elderly citi-
zen who has young, handsome and
rather vain wife, is accounted for as fol-
lows: "My dear" she said, "people
say | walk like IN Andalusian. Do you
think so?' "All but the AN, (" was
the brutal reply, whereupon she went
for him.
PROVIDENCE has hit right for once
On the night when the reviyalist Ham
mond closed his labors at Atchison,
Kan, the lightning struck a building
where gathering of intidels was in
session, while "265 feet away, in the
Methodist church were 1000 persons
singing the praises Of Jesus" But
nobody was hurt.
THE latest autograph story is good
one Somebody wrote and re-wrote to
Gen. Schenck, our Minister to Eng
land, asking for his autograph. The
General is said to have responded as
follows: "Sir, | hasten to comply
with your request, and take this meth
Cd of informing you that You are an
unmitigated nuisance r. c. Schenck."
DURING Prof Rust's first visit to the
"Nursery,n at Louisville, he proposed,
among other things, to give the little
ones n lecture on the Give Senses"
which was done to the apparent salts
faction Of I'll, except one little fellow,
who remarked, on the Professors re-
firing: :. hain't seen nothing of them
nickels yet"
THERE is one part of the world where
all the bellies are diving bells. The
girls of the Island OF Hirnia, opposite
Rhodes, are not permitted to marry till
thew have brought up from the sea
certain quantity of spOnges, which
abound ON that part of the coast of Asia
Minor; or even before they can give
proof Of their agility by taking them
from certain depth.
A "MAGIcIAN was displaying his
powers in Texan town, a few days ago,
and introduced the familiar trick of
pretending to load 4 pistol and then al
lowing spectator to fire at him. The
spectator, not TO be outdone in sleight-
of-hand, managed to drop bullet in
the barrel and killed the luckless ex-
hibitor off hand. Practical joking has
evidently been reduced to n science in
In the Lone Star state. The grim
humor of this Jest cannot be sur
passed.
A TRAVELLER in Paris, having occasion
for a halr cutter, sent for one. At the
appointed time an clegGntly-attired
person arrived, and the gentleman sat
/ down before his dressing-case to pre-
pare for the operation. The man
walked round his " client once or
twice, and finally, taking his stand at
some distance, attentiyely scrutinized
the gentleman's face with the air of
connoisseur looking at picture.
"Well, " said the traveller, impatiently,
'when are you going to begin ~ g Par
don me, sir, was the polite reply, 81
am not the operator, but the physiog-
nomist ~ "Adolphe." he cried ont,
and sleeved and aproned barber en-
tered from the hall, "a Ia Virgil