Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-08-15


/ 900 into Missouri Railroad
/ The shoe factories of Auburn, Maine
/ male1, 900 pairs of shoes per hour
and consume five hundred barrels of
/ -four annually for paste.
/ THERE is a chance for some of us to
/ be eaten, yet. Two million cannibals
are still at large in various parts of the
earth.
/ A VALLEJO, Cal, hen and cat have
arrived at a mutual understanding
/ whereby the former shelters the kittens
when their mother is away.
my son, they have broken nv
/ heart, but it is not bad heart, after
/ all, are reported to have been the last
words of Judge McCunn.
! CALEB CUSHING, viewing the politi-
cal situation in America from the stand.
point of Geneva, doesn't think much
of Greeley, chances.
PRINTING HOUSE square, New York.
| has rumor that Louis Jennings, after
the present political campaign, Will
THE baritone Verger, who was here
with Nilsson, is now singing in Madrid,
and has received from the King of
Spain the cross OF the Order of Char
les III.
Lolita has gone to the boarding
school of French convent to study
| French and music. She had better
study a little grammar while she is at it.
| Con. SKINNER, of the Turf, Field and
Farm, has just received from Egypt a
famous Arabian horse. He is about
! fifteen hands high, gray IN color apd
clean hmbed.
"KEPAroMEATATERIN This was the
note farmer sent to the school teacher
in the potato-digging season, to explain
his boys absence from school.
The Vossische Zeitung, the gre t adj
vertisiug medium IN Berlin, is offered
for sale. A stock company offered
three million thalers for it, but the pro-
prietors asked one million more.
ARCHIyECT-How would you support
Il projecting portico or piazza Student
With brackets or else with what do
ye-columns. Architect-What is rear
elevation Student-Getting your
back up, / suppose.
EVERY one has heard the reply of the
butcher to the sentimental body who
demonstrated against the killing of in
nocent lambs: "Lor, ma am, you
wouldn't eat them alive, would youg"
Apropos of this, there is an anecdote
of Goldsmith not commonly known.
When he had written that beautiful
stanza of the Hermit"
''No focks that range the valley free
To slaughter | condemn:
Taught by the Power that pitios me,
learn to pity them
he submitted 1t to (the future) Mrs
Goldsmith who is said to have sug-
gested the following improvement:
"NO fiocks that range the valley free
To slaughter / condemn
The butchers k,I The sheep for me,
bug N, meat Of Ms1n."
IDA WILSON, nee Lewis, the g Grace
Darling of America" still makes New
port her home, and can often be seen
in the harbor managing her beautiful
boat. Notwithstanding the fact that
she has taken unto herself " a better
half, she still likes to be called Ida
Lewis, as of yore.
"TALK about you shuttin' a feller's
self up with burnin' charcoal and dyin'
easy" said a disgusted .Hoosier, ''why,
| shut myself in the OK yard, and burnt
more'n a bushel of the stuff, and near
ly froze, and didn't die Bit Did
You put the bars up9" asked a COM
panion. NO." replied the Hoosier,
looking blank, "and that's what beat
me-
Mr.. JESSE r. GRANT, father of the
President, last week paid a visit to
Georgetown, Brown county, Ohio, of
which place he was for many years a
resident, and from which the President
went to West Point, The old gentle
man is exceedingly feeble, decrepit not
only from age, but also from recent
attack OF paralysis.
AT the grave OF wealthy and dis
tingmshei citizen Of Vienna recently,
two ladies, each claiming to be the
widow of the deceased, met by acct
dent, each having come to decorate the
tomb with flowers, and other emblems
of aiiectionate remembrance. The re-
suit was that the police were obliged
to interfere TO keep the peace.
PRIVATE letters from Mr.. Jefferson,
the actor, state that his recovery has
not been as rapid as newspapers are
good enough to make it. His sight is
still feeble, and he suffers from severe
pain in the eyes. He will be compelled
to wear glasses until he begins his en-
gagements next season. His eyes are
however, steadily improving, and the
danger OF his losing his sight is passed.
TPE upward tendency in the English
iron market continues Bar iron, which
was quoted at g les per ton. in Sep
temhor last, had advanced to 81 Is