Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-10-30
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

HE WORM THAT DYETH-CoChlneal.
WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GoID-A guinea.
Russia is reported to have but 100
| newspapers, Germany 1890.
SUsIcULTURE means hog raising as far as
gentlemen farmers 60. Common farmers
are still hog growers.
Few men perish so happily as j. Parker,
of Byron, Ill, did He died at the break
fast table, slowing away square meal.
\ SCHooIMAsTER said of himself g
am like a hone, | sharpen a number OF
| blades, but | wear myself out in doing IL"
WHILE witnessing game of base bail
/ out West, a boy was struck on the back OF
/ his head, and the bawl come out of his
mouth.
! \ CONNECTICUT man has christened his
/ daughter Giycerine He says il VIII be
easy 10 prefix " Nitro If her temper re-
/ semhles her mothers.
WHY should we celebrate Washing
I tons birthday NOR than mine ~ asked
/ sehoolteacbar Because he never told a
| lie?" shouted a little boy.
| AN Irishman having been told that the
/ price of bread had been lowered, ex-
/ claimed, This is the first time | ever re-
/ joiced at the fall of my best friend
| 4 MAN out West brags that all the fur
niture and flooring of his house is made
| of live oak, but his wife, who does the
/ hard work of the house, says it's nothing
/ but scrub oak
! y CHARITABLE Cincinnati man keeps a
| pair of dogs chained at his front door SO
! that poor people who stop to "get bite"
1 can be accommodated without the trouble
J of going into the house
| A LARGE BIRD, measuring feet from
/ tip to tip Of its wings, and standing feet
/ high, was wounded and captured alive by
! two hunters near Brookfeld, Vt, lately,
/ just as it was carrying off q sheep.
! THE Laramie Sentinel sends up this
/ Macedonian cry: There is fearful and
/ terrible scarcity of girls in this country,
/ not only for Cooking purposes, but we
know lots of young men who would he
/ willing to take them raw, and for life at
/ that"
1 IN Golden, Col, an editor wrote some
advice to newly-married friend, and was
! foolish enough TO print it. After his wife
[ had looked over proof Of the advice"
the editor felt compelled to add this post
/ script: Have your hair cut close TO the
/ skin"
I
in the depth of the waters, and the eagle
in the sight of heaven; the one, though
/ high, may be reached with the arrow, and
/ the other though deep, with a hook; but
/ the heart of man, though foot distant,
/ cannot be known.
| THE San Francisco anti Chinese papers
| advocate forcing the Chinese to live in
quarter by themselves, instead of allow
! ing them TO overrun the whole city, as
/ they are doing at present. Such an isola-
! rion the papers say. is essential to the
+ health and business interests of the city.
! CONTENTMENT.
! lie that holds fast the golden mean,
And lives contentedy between
The little and the great,
Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,
Nor plaques that haunt the rich mans door,
/ Embilterlng all his state.
I FIRST Uses OF BUTTER-The Scientific
/ american states that butter was not in use
/ before the Christian era. twas first used
/ as a cosmetic for Embarrassing bywomen.
! For some centuries later it was used as
! burning oil; lamps and churches were
/ lighted with it in France at 50 late a
period as 1900. Since then it may be
considered an article of food solely
/ As AN illustration of animal instinct,
/ correspondent Of Nature notes that on
I one occasion, while he was waiting at an
! inn door, he noticed some pigeons feed
/ ing on the oats which had fallen from
/ the nose-bag Of horse in the yard; when,
/ however the supply was exhausted,
large ''pouter'' would fly up and flap his
( wings in the horses face, thus causing
/ him to upset his food by a shake OF the
/ head; when the supply was again eX-
+ hausted the stratagem was repeated.
4 nl e
/ ly used in Chinese Tartary as beast Of
! burden, and whenever the feet OF the ami
nal becomes tender and sore from long
marches, the poor creature lies down. His
driver knows at once that his feet hurt
] him, and looks to find out if the thick
skin Of the feet is blistered. Whenever
blister is found, two or three strong men,
usually Mongols, watch the camel until
ii is not noticing. At just the right time
they make a rush all together upon the
camel, throw 1t over upon It's side, ana
make it fast Then, with needle made
| for the purpose, they sew square piece Of
/ feathers large enough to cover the hurt
place, over the camel's foot, the skin Of
/ which is thick enough to sew through
without hurting the animal. With his
+ new shoes on, the animal IS quite ready
+ to get up and march on. The pieces Of
i leather are very carefully prepared for the
I object in view.
I y NEwLY-MARRIED COUPLE recently
made their headquarters at the Farmers
/ Hotel, in Bethany, Mo, and the young
/ sters Of the town concluded TO have some
/ sport at their expense. They attached a
! string to the bell on the hotel, and carried
/ it of to a distance, and about midnight
! commenced tolling it. The landlord sur
missed the cause, and, procuring a ladder,
/ ascended TO the roof and cut the string.
/ On his return he found the boys had taken
away the ladder, leaving him on the roof
/ in his nightclOthes. He attempted to
rouse his wife, that she might come to his
rescue, but in vain. To add to his dis
/ tress the boys commenced pelting him
with clods; and in trying to avoid them
/ he missed his hold and rolled off the
house to the ground. As boniface was
pretty fat, he alighted with simple thud
with no broken bones. That ended the
/ performance.-Peoria Transcript.
THERE are some big farms out West,and
before the war some pretty extensive
/ planting operations were carried on in the
l South; but probably the most extensive
farming the world ever saw is now beng
/ done by the ruler of Egypt He has, this
/ year, %, 900 acres in sugar cane, and he
viii raise about 10000 bales of cotton,
some of which, being of the sea island
sort, will sell in England at seventy cents
!. lsa.r raSatx, III