Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-09-25
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS,
BEAR CIvILITY,-A hug.

DEAR S1NILII1,-A mug.
OPEN TO CoNvIcTIoN.-Ap pickpocket.
A NoToRIOUs EAvEsDRoPPER.-Rain
THE BONE OF CoNTENTIoN.-The law
bone.
To THINK what we do not feel, is to lie
to ourselves.
n MAN THAT OUGHT TO BE RE-MEM-
BERED.-A one-legged soldier
A BARBER and surgeon don't differ
much. One lives by his heads the other
by his heals.
Why is young lady like a bill of ex-
Change? because she ought to be settled
when she arrives at the age of maturity.
THERE are four tribes of Indians re-
naming in Delaware, and the aggregate
number of the four is only sixteen per
sons.
AN irate man who was disappointed in
his boots, threatened to eat up the shoe.
maker, but compromised by drinking a
cobbler
WHAT is the difference between tenant
and the son OF a widow? The tenant has
TO pay rents, but the son of a widow has
not two parents.
a GENTLEMAN reading newspaper, a
day or two ago, asked Il friend: whats
the meaning of the Bohemian Diet, about
which we hear so much of late?" Free
lunches" was the reply
A NEW ORLEANS juryman was asked
by the Judge if he ever read the papers
lie replied: Yes, your Honor; but if
you'll let me go this time, I'll never do so
any more"
A GLASGOW manufacturer has turned
n11t a l., .l,
in circumference. 1t is designed to keep
the sun off an African chief.
IT is estimated that the number of Ger
mans who have emigrated to this country
during the last decade will reach 600 900
1t is also thought that this number will be
increased during the present decade.
AN Irish gentleman of mechanical
turn took off his gas-meter to repair it
himself, and put it on again upside down.
At the end of a quarter it was proved with
arithmetical correctness that the gas COM
pany owed him eight dollars and fifty
seven cents.
THE coal-mining interests of Kansas
are rapidly becoming important, Dur
ing the mining season of ~ and '13 400
600 tons of coal have been taken from the
Carbondale mines. FROM 800 to 800 per
sons are employed, and the payroll is
$4,000 to $4,000 month.
y CORRESPONDENT of the Country Gen
tIemah has discovered that as law of
nature, every spotted dog has the end of
his tail white, and every spotted Cat the
end of the tail black. He says he has ex-
amined many dogs and cats in France,
England and America, and always noticed
the same result.
Two MILEsIANs were standing at the
Paramount Water-works in Philadelphia,
watching tire big wheels splashing the
water in every direction, when one of
them remarked: mike, isn't this a
quare country, where they have to grind
their water before they use it,"
AN elastic apparatus has been lately in
vented to signal the entry of water by
leakage into holds of vessels. When the
water enters it establishes Il current, and
a communication is thus set in operation
which gives notice to the officers on deck
A RHODE ISLAND blacksmith has sue
ceeded in changing the gait of a pacing
horse TO that Of trotter, by simply fast
ening an extra pair Of shoes heavier than
usual TO the fore feet, whenever he wants
the horse to trot, and taking them off at
all other times The sudden change of
weight on his fore-feet forces the horse to
change his gait.
LIKE many good things, the flute is
very old instrument. The Egyptians
played upon it more than four thousand
years ago, and the ancient Greeks, espe-
cially the Spartans, loved its strains. The
name flute comes from the Latin futd, a
lamprey or kind of eel inhabting the
waters of Sicily, whose side is perforated
with seven holes, as the flute was in prim-
tive days.
THERE is a singular natural curiosity
in a lake in Vermont, consisting of one
hundred and fifty acres of land floating on
the surface of the water. The tract is
covered with cranberries, and there are
trees fifteen feet high. when the water is
raised or lowered at the dam Of the pond
the island rises and falls with it. 1t at-
tords fine shelter for fish, large numbers
of which are caught by boring hole and
fishing down through, as through the ice
in winter.
II Naples museum there is a relic
from Pompeii exhibited in the shape of a
small vessel for heating water, a foot high,
in which all the principles Of our modern
vertical boiler are combined; it has the
e-box, smoke tlue through the top, fire
door at the side, and a water-grate made
of small iron tubes crossing the fire-bOx
at the bottom TAis last idea has been
patented Il score or more of times within
the history of the modern steam engine.
How many or rather how few Of our
modern patents are really modern inyen-
tiOns.
IN the instructions which a general
manager of leading railway has issued
to his subOrdinates, he says: Treat peo
pie as if you appreciated and were willing
to acknowledge their custom. Try to ac-
commodate and please. In short, act as
any good business man would toward his
customers. Don't treat people as if you
were comforting a favor on them by letting
them ride. Rather seek to make the line
popular. because its business is dependent
on the good will Of the people. You
need not be ashamed to let people under
stand that you acknowledge this"
A BOY only fifteen years old, in Black
hawk County, Iowa, whose father died
three years ago, leaving his widow and
son an eighty v-acre farm burdened with a
81 600 mortgage. has taken whole and
sole charge of the farm, hiring help only
in seed time, harvest and tnreshing paid
off the mortgage, purchased harvester, a
sulky plow, a wagon and a set Of harness,
besides a sewing machine for his mother,
and is now out OF debt. He is a member
of the Cedar Valley Agricultural Society,
cobnoI fhren months each