Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-07-10
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


THERE'S "Society of Unfashionables"
out East, and any member who puts on
style is fined two dollars The women
wear calico and the men denims.
In Plymouth County, Iowa, couple
were divorced The man had his girl
convenient, and the woman her fellow,
and each married the awaiting affinity,
after ten minutes of single wretchedness
ONE of the custom house officials on the
dock yesterday observed woman coming
Oft the boat with bundle in her arms,
and as he thought she rather sought to
evade him, he followed her, and said,
PLEASE unroll that bundle; it looks rath-
er suspicious" Perhaps it does, replied
the woman uncovering the head and face
Of a bright-eyed baby, but I've got seven
more of 'em on the other de."-Detroit
Tribune.
A GOVERNOR of Virginia once wrote a
hostile note to Patrick Henry, to know
what the latter meant by calling the for
mer bob-tailed politician" Henry re
piled as follows: Il do not recollect hav-
ing called you bobtaile politician at
any time, but think it probable | have
Not recollecting the time or occasion, |
cannot say what | did mean; but if YOU
will tell me what you think meant | will
say whether you are correct or not"
CHEEK-A TRIAD
Cheek of the maiden pure and fair,
Where beauty welcomes love, and where
The heart-blood meets tn adoring kiss.
And bushes into bliss!
Cheek of the maiden past her prime,
Where art combats in vain with time.
And paint in glaring red and white,
But signals beauty's blight
Cheek of the cheeky. jowl of brass
Where insoence proclaims the ass,
And never glows an honest flush
Only ashamed TO blush
Richmond IIhiq.
a GENERAL misrepresentation seems to
exist in regard to the new coin which was
provided for by Congress at its last ses-
sion, to be known as the "trade dollar"
The fact is that the sole object of the act
is to facilitate commerce between this
country and China and Japan, by allow
ing silver to be made into these dollars in
the United States, instead of as heretofore
having to send the bullion to London for
coinage This new dollar will be used
exclusively in trade with the Celestials,
and will not enter into general circulation
in this country, and will only be coined
as demanded for use.
AN effort of a very novel character to
utilize the Indians is to be made in Cali
fornia. A company has purchased large
tract of land in San Diego County, which
it proposes to use as a pasture tor vast
fiocks of sheep, until the population shall
have increased sufficiently TO warrant its
being divided into farms and sold The
lands are now occupied by Indians, who
claim to own them, and to compromise
this difficulty the company has deter
mined to give them employment as herds
men. 1t will surely be startling meta
morphosis if Lo shall be induced to bury
the hatchet, and don the traditional crook
OF the peaceful pastoral profession.
ExHALATIoN OF CARBoNIC ACID Gas
The Archie fur Physiol0gte contains an ac-
count of Aubert and Lange's interesting
researches on the quantity of carbonic
acid exhaled in given time from the skin
of man. The experiments were care
fully made in an air-tight chamber, in
which the subject for experiment was
seated, and through which current of
air, freed from carbonic acid was steadily
passing, while the proportion of carbonic
acid in the air on leaving the chamber
was estimated by transmission through
bulbed tubes containing a solution of salt
of barium. The results of these novel in
vestigations lead to the general conclusion
that siXty-twO grains of. carbonic acid-a
considerable amount, certainly-are eX-
hailed from the body of full. grown man,
through the skin, in the course of twenty
four hours.
LEGISLATIVE FUN.-A little fun goes
further in a Legislative Assembly than
anywhere else in the world. A paper
bullet well-thrown will sometimes make
its thrower the hero of the moment among
our Albany law-givers. The closing scenes
of our Congresses are marked with the
most wonderful capers, whose stupidity is
only less remarkable than the apprecia-
ton Of the audience and actors There is
perhaps not so much active horse-play in
the House of Commons, and yet a very
trifling thing will stir its members up to
laughter A short while ago, when Mr..
Hughes was speaking, Mr.. Auberon Her
bert placed a glass of water on the bench
behind him, on which the orator sat down,
breaking the glass and moistening con-
siderable eXpanse of trouser The House
cheered lustily.-N. 7. Tribune.
Down IN ADMINISTRATORS
of the Springfield Ill.) Journal, travelling
oi HOIStDdCh luIOuSu AIhdusdS, gives
this experience of the general intelligence
in the Interior But if travel has its draw
backs, it has also its humors. | asked an
old woman about the road to Pocahontas,
and she was perfectly polite and courte-
Gus. "Ycs sir, I'll tell ye all about it.
You 90 out yer bout a mile and half,
and the road forks, and the Batesville road,
hit put off But you don't take that road,
you take the Pocahontas road well,
madam, which side does the Batesville
road put off" "Well, stranger, | disre-
member. Pears like it was the right-hand
side, and then pears like it wasn't. But
it don't make no difference, no how, stran-
ger kase you don't take that road, you take
the Pocahontas road" And SO | did.
BONE AND MUSCLE ENUTRrMENT-Liebig
has shown that oatmeal is almost as nu-
tritious as the very best English beef, and
that it is richer than wheaton bread in the
eleme nts that 90 to form bone and muscle.
Frof Forbes, of Edinburg, during some
twenty years, measured the breadth and
height, and also tested the strength of
both the arms and loins of the students of
the University-of course, a very numer-
Gus class, and of various nationalities,
drawn to that city and institution by the
fame of his teaching. He found that, in
height breadth of chest and shoulders,
and strength of arms and loins, the Bel
gians were at the bottom of the list: a
little above them the French very much
higher the English; and highest of all