Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-07-03
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

extremely becoming if not put on.
PEARLS require airing as much as horses
and babies. Unless they are constantly
worn they change color and finally crum-
BILE to pieces.
THERE is Il movement in New York
against fashionable funerals 1t is thought
that with less expense there could be more
of them.
A YOUNG LADY in Nashville is changing
her views somewhat relative to the cues
ton of matrimony. THEY say that when
she came OUT in society she determined
that she would not marry man unless he
was an EpiscOpalian. Time passed on,
and she did not get married, and then
modified her views and concluded she
would marry no man who was not Chris
tian. That young lady is still unmarried,
and says now that all she is looki ing for is
man that don't drink whisky.
AN eXasperated Bostonian is rushing
around with an unshaven face, and de.
manding to know if these women will
never learn anything. The Slight cause
for all his mental disturbance is found in
the fac; that one of his daughters had used
one OF his razors TO cut maple sugar with,
and another had taken It's mate to sharpen
her lead pencil with, while his wife had
rendered his shaving brush somewhat too
stiff for its original purpose by using il in
gluing some broken furniture
CHRISTOPHER SHEARER, a fruit farmer
near Reading, Pa, has probably the larg-
est refrigerator in the country. 1t is 55
feet square, and holds, when filled about
140 carloads Of ice and 1000 bushels of
fruit. Last fall Mr.. Shearer placed in it
1900 bushels of apples, 450 bushels of
Bartlett and so bushels of Lawrence pears.
His brother, who is the owner of an ad-
Joining farm, also stored 100 bushels of
apples in it, some of which are still there
and as solid as when they were taken from
the trees.
IHE New York practice of using a re-
Hector and throwing a ray Of roSe-colored
light upon the brides cheek as she passes
up the aisle of the church was sought to
be introduced in San Francisco, but the
man managing the reflector was little
nervous, and directed the rays upon the
nose of the bridegroom, and the conse-
qucnce was that those who assembled to
witness the marriage and were not n the
secret, thought the bride was throwing
herself away on a magnificent rum-blos-
somed nose.
On one Of our Eastern trains, the other
day, newly-married couple starting on
their wedding tour, after comfortably ar
ranging themselves in their seats, gave
vent to their emotions as follows: Hus-
band Qeaning over tenderly toward the
partner of his joys and sorrows)-"Oose
little pet lamb is 'ou?" Wife with re-
sponsive tendernessl-"Os.n Husband
900 does 'ou love?" Wife-"Ou." The
individual who heard tins conversation,
being single man, was completely over
come at this point of the conversation, and
joined the euChre- playing crowd in the
smoking-car
ENDLESS BURNING LAMP.-AmOng the
lost arts is that of the endless burning
lamp. 1t is said that in the time of Ed
ward VI. a lamp was discovered in the
grave of Constantine, at York, which had
been burning since his burial to that time,
period of twelve hundred years. Also,
in the grave OF Tulia, daughter of Cicero,
was found burning lamp, which was
lighted at her death, fifteen hundred and
fifty years before. 1t went out as soon as
daylight was admitted Yet it is certainly
a clever device Of the ancients to invent "a
lamp which would illuminate through all
time the home of their dead.
THE usefulness of cold Probabilities {"
has been shown in one way by the Allan
tic Yacht Club of New York, which tele-
graphed to Washington for forecast of
the weather for next day, when a regatta
was to come off. The answer being salts
factory us to the probable force and Girec-
ton Of the wind, arrangements for the re-
gatta were completed and the race came
off satisfactorily, the prognos.ication being
fulfilled to the letter. Coming down to
domestic and individual use we know
families who consult the Probabilities !"
before putting their weekly wash out
doors to dry, and persons who carry an
umbrella or leave it at home according to
the suggestions from Washington.-Ciece
ldl11 Herald.
THE story is told of woman who
freely used her tongue to the scandal of
others, and made confession to the priest
of what she had done He gave her a
ripe thistle top, and told her to 90 out in
various directions, and scatter the seeds
one by one. Wondering at the penance,
she obeyed, and then returned and told
her confessor. To her amazement, he
bade her go back and gather the scattered
seeds; and when she objected that it
would be impossible, he replied that it
would be still more difficult to gather up
and destroy all evil reports which she had
circulated about others Any thoughtless,
careless child can scatter handful of
thistle seed before the wind in moment,
but the strongest and Wisest men cannot
gather them again.
\ NEEDING Tour ON THE ERIE CA
NAL.-A young man residing at Castleton
eloped with grass widow recently. Ar
irving at Albany the bridegroom fell short
Of funds; but this mishap was remedied,
however, by a gencrous-hearted canal-boat
captain, to whom they had related their
misfortunes, and the nuptial not was duly
tied, after which they shipped with the
gallant captain, the bride as cook and the
bridegroom as driver, for a "trip to Buffalo
When a short distance from Albany, the
captain declared the bridegroom to be ut
terly incompetent for the position of dri-
YER and accordingly landed him on the
tow-path, and left him without money and
without friends The bride was informed
that she could accompany him if she de
sired, but she elected to remain with the
brave captain, and the honeymoon was
promptly ended.
He looked like sailor, and said he
had pens for sale; and then he winked.
He looked cautiously around the office
and then whispered, give just landed"
and pressed a bundle under his coat He
had silk dress there, which he had given
a few tin kettles for in China, and he
wanted to sell it ''for anything Almost" be-
fore he went back to ship. He just want
ed to get a little grog money. He twisted