Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-06-19
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The milk of human kindness.
Why is an old coat like an iron kettle?
Because it represents hardware.
SEE, in another column, the advertise
ment headed II eoiU help any man,
PEOPLE who are always wishing for
something new should try neuralgia
Low SHOES and stockings of gorgeous
colors and patterns, are the fashion for
gentlemen this summer.
AT coroner's inquest, a witness was
asked, "What was the last thing seen by
the deceased?n g Kerosene" was the
reply.
IT is a curious fact that, while beaux
are permitted to 90 on the way they are
bent, bellies are expected to go in the way
they are told.
An obituary notice in a New England
paper concludes with the information that
the deceased "leaves two infant daughters,
both girls"
AT a recent dinner of shoemakers, the
following toast was given: May we have
all the women in the country to SHOE and
all the men to boot"
AN industrious somnambulist in Haver-
hill, Mass, is said to get up in the night
and do the family washing, without know
ing anything about it.
LADIES' waterproof cloaks, so light that
they can easily be folded into a parcel
small enough to be carried in the dress
pocket are now sold.
LONG POINTED paper collars, extending
down so as to dispense with shirt bo-
som, the points fastened to the pants but
ton, are now fashionable at Omaha
THAT farmer understood human nature
who said: "If you want your boy to stay
at home don't bear too hard on the grind
stone when he turns the crank"
A JURYMAN in Pennsylvania recently
informed his eleven fellow, jurors, with
great gravity, that mo external magnetism
being visual, he would vote in the defen-
sive." No effort was made to change his
determination.
THE Dundee Scotland AdUertiser ap,
peared in print the other day on jute paper
manufactured almost wholly from refuse
jute bagging. The impression is said to
have been very neat, though the paper-a
defect easily remedied-was too thin and
transparent.
THE Jouaoal Of the Franklin Institute
says that a French inventor proposes to
photograph dispatches to microscopic
fineness, and blow them through a tube
sunk in the streets Of Dover When at
their destination the dispatches could be
enlarged again. BY this method long dis
patches could be sent about as cheaplv
and expeditiously as short ones
a REPORTER for a New jersey paper,
speaking of a certain fair creature, re-
marked that 'the profusion and color Of
her hair would lead one to look upon it as
though it was spun by the nimble fingers
of the easy hours, as they glided through
the bright June days, whose many sunny
rays of light had been caught in the
meshes, and were contented to go no fur
ther." This is better than saying the girl's
hair was red.
A KANSAS editor thus begins a descrip-
ton Of the scenes Ofhis happy boyhood :
at was one of those magnificent Maine
farms with a solid granite foundation,
slate roof, and ornamented with young
mountains two or three rods apart. Spruce
gum was our only sure crop, and we used
to raise few of the large red horse pota-
toes common to New England soil. These
potatoes, with goldfish, are the staple com
moditieS on the coast of Maine"
INTELLECT AND LOVE- won't say the
more intellect the less capacity for loving
for that would do wrong to the under
hand, that the brain often runs away with
the hearts best blood, which gives the
world a few pages of WISDOM or senti-
ment or poetry, instead of making one
other heart happy, l have no question:
0. ". Holiness
DR.. ANDERSON, who accompanied the
British expedition in 1868 to the valley of
the Tapeng, mentions q very singular
method by which the natives of Sanda
valley contrive TO conceal gold and preci
Gus stones. Sits are made through the
skin of their chests or necks, and the
coins or stones forced beneath, the wound
being allowed to heal. When the valu-
able objects are wanted, a second cut is
made upon the spot, and they are extract
ed.
ONE of the most recent discoveries is
that of iron suspension bridges in the west
of China. The river Taho is spanned by
an elegant iron chain suspension bridge
built upon massive stone buttresses
Planks are laid over the chains, covered
with earth and straw. Many remains of
similar bridges are found in Western
China, we are told by DR.. Anderson.
These bridges have been used for CEN
turies, but the art of building them seems
to have passed away. The idea has re-
newed itself among the Western barbar-
ians.
THE prosperous undertaken of neigh
boring town is a shoemaker by trade, and
an acquaintance calling on him a few
days since was surprised to find him seat
ed at the bench, and pegging away at his
former business. Halo, c." said
the visitor, II thought you had left the
care of soes for that of bodies" so
had, so | had" said the carer for sole and
body, with an emphatic rap of MS ham
mer and a shudder of his left eyelid.
But DR. s. went TO Europe last
month, an the berr'in' business amt wut'
follerin' now
RATHER TOO SIGNIFICANT.-A certain
marble dealer, residing not hundred
miles from this village, recently received
an invoice of gravestones, upon some of
which were inscribed touching sentiments
of sympathy and eulogy ready made for
the fortunate person whose tomb they were
intended to designate. Among them was
one with an index finger pointing heaven
ward. and under it the motto: No graves
there" One evening the dealer received
an order for a gravestone, the style and
decoration of which were left pretty much
to his own judgment, the price only being
fixed. As he had to leave the CITY the
next morning, he hurriedly selected the
stone bearing the above motto. The in
dignation of the surviving relatives of Mr..
Graves, for whose cemetery lot this stone
was intended, when it was received, can