Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-10-23
THE memory strikes me as perhaps the

most astonishing of all the works of God
How such infinite qualities of reminis-
cence can lie stored up in the brain, ready
10 start forward at the call for them, is be
yond all conception. 1t is utterly mex
piicaole II one supposes that, in some
way, all these images are piled up there
INSIDE ones head, In their several pigeon
holes, all handy for the minds use 1t is
no less inexplicable if one takes differ
ent view, and supposes that there are not
these cellars full OF bottled images, but
that somehow certain suggestions excite
the brain III just the same way as it has
been excited before and thus the old i'm.
| age or thought is created afresh. h.-Charles
Eurton.
IN the good old DAYS when flogginc
was considered as means of grace. and
anniversary professions, picnics, and
Christmas trees were in the very distant fu.
ture, boy was asked by his Sunday school
teacher: John, how many Gods are
there ?" Two. " (Sternly)-"How many ?''
lhree, sir. John, how many Gods are
there = -Four, sir" AT five the fiogging
commenced aud continued, while John
rose rapidly and by regular progression,
to ten. Beyond ten he refused to 90, and
was finally sent home. As he dragged
| his slow length along" he met boy on
his way to the same school. Going to
that Sunday school?" Yes" "You are,
| are you? Well, how many Gods are
there?" "One," stoutly answered the boy,
'onen "Ons," chuckled John; ego on,
my boy. Go up there with your one God,
| and good time you will have of it. |
had ten, and they fogged me nearly to
DEATH
THE native mammalia, in the Sand
wlch Islands, were originally limited to
pigs, dogs and rats. The first horned cat
| tie were introduced by Vancouver in 1902,
since when many of them have become
wild and wander at will through the for
ests md natural meadows, where they are
frequently hunted and captured by the
lasso. Goats and cats have also become
very numerous, both in a domestic and
wild state, and the sheep, recently
introduced by Americans, seem to have
become fully acclimated, although the
climate of the group is less favorable to
their development than to that of cattle
and horses. The latter have multiplied
to an enormous extent, and it would be a
real blessing to the country if at least two
thirds of its wild horses were destroyed
they swarm everywhere, and, breaking
into the fields and gardens, make great
havoc among the crops.
A LITTLE boy in Portland Oregon, has
gotten off the following luminous view of
Oxen" His composition" is given
uerbatim ct ljteratem: Oxen is very slow
animal. They are very good TO
break up ground. | would rather have
horses if they didn't have collie which
they say is wind collected in a bunch
h ioh Il t1 IL hnr
than oxen. If there were No horses peo-
pie wood have to wheal their wood ON a
wheelbarrow 1t would take them too or
three days to wheal a cart mile. Cows
are useful to. | heard some people say
that II they hau to be a OK or COW they
wood sooner be a cow, but | think when
it come to be MIXED on cold winter
morning | think they wood sooner be
oxen, for oxen don't have to raise calves.
If | had TO be a OK or a COW | wood be
a heffer, but if | could not be hefier
and had to be both | would be OK.
THE most romantic of all numbers is the
figure nine, because it can not be multi
piled away or got rid of anyhow. What
ever you do it is sure to turn up again, as
was the body of Eugene Aram's victim.
One remarkable property Of this figure
(said to have been first discovered by Mr..
Green, who died in 179D is, that all
through the multiplication table the pro-
duct nine comes to nine. Multiply by
what you like, and it gives the same
result Begin with twice nine, 18; add
the digits together, and / and make o.
Three times nine are 81; and and are
8. SO it goes on, up to eleven times nine,
which gives 80. Very good add the dig
its, 8 and are IS, and and 1 are o. Go
ing on to any extent, it is impossible to
get rid of the figure nine. Take a couple
of instances at random Three hundred
and thirty-nine times nine are 3,051; add
up the figures and they are nine. Five
thousand and seventy-one times nine are
A., $50; the sum of these digits is %; 2
and are 8.