Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-09-18
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

ing-school misses.
How to keep your head above water
Never be above drinking it.
THE man who pretends to know every
thing generally knows nothing.
A CORRESPONDENT wishes to know
whether horse is a dumb beast. Neigh.
AFTER ALL it is rare that man gets ut
terly at the end of his rope until he is
hanged.
A GOOD appetite is a good thing; but
not if it is to be worried by urging or by
neglect.
THE cost of days sojourn at Niagara
including the sights, is now S1S so, which
is pretty close to a prohibitory tariff
against the place.
AMERICAN ship-building is reviving
Seventy-tive thousand tons were added to
the registry between June 1st and August
9th OF the present year.
A NEW use of anathesia has been devel-
oped by London physicians, IN conveying
invalids from place to place, without in
jury to their nervous system.
DURING the past fourteen years there
have been received at the Chicago Stock
Yards over 1000, 900 beef cattle and hogs,
and over 15,000,0 600 have been shipped
during the same time.
MANY persons regard hearty desire for
food as something unretined, indelicate,
and to be constantly discouraged. This
is a greater and more harmful mistake
than that Of coaxing the appetite
IT is proposed to get up a cemetery near
New York, of about one hundred acres in
extent for the burial of people who have
been talked to death. The idea is a good
one, but the cemetery ought to be larger.
THE value of land affected the rate of
interest in former times. The number of
years at which the rent of real estate
would pay for its purchase, was the test
applied to the value of money for general
uses.
Now that the new comets are being
| frequently discovered, the Professors hav-
ing them in charge should give them "a
little less ascension" and more descen-
sion, to place them within the reach Of
our natural vision.
THE question of the taxation of weiss
beer, hitherto exempted, is under cOnsid-
Grafton by the law officers of the Internal
Revenue Bureau, with probability of a
| decision recommending the imposition of
tax of 81 per barrel
AMERICA went into the Vienna EXposi-
ton with the meekness of lamb but
comes out with the lions share of honOrs.
The most prominent thing exhibited in
the American Department seems to have
been Yankee shrewdness.
THE wages of the freedmen in Virginia.
| as farm laborers, range from $12 to $15
per month and board, or % per cent.
more to board themselves For haying,
/ - Il
harvesting, $500 to $3.50, work from six
to six.
THE use of grass, in England, to which
sewage was applied as manure, rendered
| the butter from the COWS fed on it SO of
fensive that it could not be eaten; and the
serious question arises, whether vegetables
grown on land cultivated with sewage do
not become poisoned.
AN exchange says: "The Nebraska
Indians are allowed to ride free on all
are in motion. The tribe is being re-
duced very rapidly" This is by all odds
the most effective and economical system
Of dead heading on record.
THE New York Tribune is reported to
have cleared some $4,000 during the first
| six months of the present year, which is
! the price of the latest shares sold. Eight
/ shares of the New York Times stock has
/ just been sold at $4,000 each.
/ DON'T live a single hour Of your life
! without doing exactly what is to be done
/ in it, and going straight through it from
| beginning to end. Whatever your work
may be, take hold at once, and finish it
up squarely and cleanly; and then to the
next thing, without letting any moments
/ drop in between.
THE InternatIonalists" number 10000
members in the State of New York, one
! half of whom who reside in the metrOpo-
| lis. The society is a secret one, holding
the most radical reform ideas, and favor
ing the largest freedom and the fullest
rights of the individual. 1t is expected
that they will soon attempt to make them
selves felt in political matters.
THAT'S very stupid brute of yours,
john" said Scotch minister to his par
ishioner, the peat dealer, who drove his
merchandise from door to door in small
cart drawn by donkey; Il never see you
but the creature is braying." "Ah, sir, "
said the peat dealer, ''ye ken the hearts
warm when friends meet"
An Englishman has invented an i'm
proyement for twO-wheeled cabs, which is
/ certainly ingenious and apparently prac-
ticable Beneath the vehicle, and under
/ the control Of the driver, is shifting
| ballast-bo which can be so adjusted by
a lever as to counterbalance any excess OF
weight upon the horses back.
A CASE occurring at Wurtemburg and
reported in the Phar. Joatr. and Ir0ns.,
shows the necessity of using carbollc acid
with caution. A physician prescribed
/ thirty grains of acid to be mixed with al
cohol and water, and rubbed briskly upon
the skin of two patients suffering from
itch. As result, one of the patients died
within an hour. and the other narrowly
escaped with his life.
THE Iowa train robbers are reported to
be living quietly and almost publicly in
in Lafayette count, Mo, and local paper
at Sedalia records the passage through
that city OF posse of armed men, who
'created an unusual commotion by march
! ing soldier fashion from the depot to the
hotel" They were under command of a
! Sheriff, and started off Immediately to
capture the robbers. They evidently be-
Iieve in securing birds by plentifully
/ sprinkling their tails with salt
EVERY Woodworking man should have
/ a hobby, and those men who have learned
and taught more TO the world than any
others are those who, outside OF their
regular employment, have pursued hob
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