Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-11-06
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

the most neal! a fern Is.
SOME poor, but pretty girls attract lovers
| by the face; some plain, rich ones by the
figure.
| A NEW cause of divorce-incompatibil
! ity of temperament of the wife's relatives
lis recognized by the California courts
THE wheat raised in such abundance in
Northern Texas, this season, is said to
| rival the far famed Genesee wheat in quail.
ity and flavor
The religion of many people is kept
for Sundays and funerals. Give us a re-
ligion which keeps bright with constant
use. That is the genuine article
ROUND skirts are again the fashion. "No
| lady in Paris walks out in a dress that
| touches the ground" is the report of lead
| ing modistes just returned from abroad
A GERMANTowNER who had tarried
late at wine supper, found his wife wait
| ing his return, in high state of nervous
| ness. Said she-"Here I've been waiting
| and rocking in the chair, till my head
spins round like top" "Jess so, wife,
where Pve been," responded he "Irs in
| the dtmOspherem
THE Nation thinks "it would be well to
remember, in the present fever of indigna-
ton against fraud and dishonesty, that
| there Is considerable number of honest
| men in America" and calls attention to
the fact that 1.-The defalcations and frauds
bear very small ratio to the trust re-
posed" The admonition is seasonable
| and judicious.
81 FOUND it very inconvenient, and a
great loss of time," said Chateaubriand,
| ito dine before seven O'Clock. My wife
wanted to dine at five o'clock, and insist
| ed upon that hour. After many argu-
ments, and many heated discussions, we
finally compromised upon six o'clock
an hour very inconveLient to US both
This is what they call domestic conces-
sions'
A NEW use for patent pills has been dis
covered: A farmer living in a Kansas vii
lage was abruptly visited by robbers one
| night not long ago, and having gun and
powder, but no shot, loaded with box of
fever pills and blazed away. The result
was as satisfactory as though the rascals
had swallowed the pills One of them
| was killed outright, and another danger
ously wounded.
NOTHING on earth can smile but human
beings. Gems may flash reflected light
but what is diamond flash compared
with an eye flash and mirth fash A face
that cannot smile is like a bud that
cannot blossom, and dries upon the stalk
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night, and
smile is the twilight that hovers gently
between both, and more bewitching than
either.
A MINNEAPOLIS painter received an or
der from restauranter to paint sign
with the word oysters in various Ian
guages, so that man of any nationality
lnh II NJ n hat hat j,
to get bivalvoo. And that painter won't TO
work and made the sign read american,
Dutch, Norwegian and French oysters"
Any one ought to be able to suit them
selves from such an assortment.
THE Boston Transcript states that a
gentleman of that city relates the follow
ing conversation between two bell boys at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York: Pat
asks Mike, whats this suspension Of the
banks?" "Hist yep Mike replies, "pll
tell ye. Suppose We have five cents"
"Yis." Leave it wild me-" "Yis" Next
day ye want it, and ye ak me for it."
"Yis." 81 tell ye, No sir, I've used it
myself"
AT AN examination of the College of
Surgeons a candidate was asked by Aber-
| nethy: "What would you do if man
was blown up by powder ?" "Wait till he
came down." he coolly replied. True"
replied Abernethy. And suppose l
should kick you for such an impertinent
| reply, what muscles would put in mo-
tion?" "The 1exors and extensors of my
arm, for should knock you down imme-
diately." The candidate received his
diploma.
ACCORDING to the latest theory, guano
has not as is generally supposed, been de-
posted by birds, but is the result of the
accumulation of fossil marine plants and
animals, whose organic matter has been
transformed into nitrogenous substance,
leaving the mineral part behind. Of
course it was originally deposited on the
bottom of the sea, but the islands on which
it is now found have themselves been lift
ed up from the depths Of the ocean.
THE weight of the tusk of the male ele-
phant is, on the average, at least six times
greater than that of the female, sometimes
weighing over hundred and fifty pounds,
and being more than ten feet long AS
rule, short tusks are proportionately
heavier than long ones; and it is by no
means easy to obtain two perfect teeth
from the same animal, specimens with
single tusk being far from uncommon,
under which circumstances they are ex-
tremely well developed.
NOTHING, says Elisee Reclus, can con-
vey more impressive idea of the power
of water as a general agent than the won
derful canons of Mexico, Texas and the
Rocky Mountains, where the torrent may
be seen rushing along, through the incis-
ion it has cut out for itself in the hard
rock, at depth Of several thousand feet
between perpendicular walls. The great
est of these canOns, that of the Colorado
is 29S miles in length, and its sides rise
perpendicularly to height of 5000 or
$500 feet.
A SMALL boy has sent an Albany paper
the following information: "a fu dais
ago we lost our cat. She got drownded
in Mrs we'll; but nobody knowd she
got drownded in the we'll and 20 Mr..
IS foxes and Mr. IS foxes, and all
the nabars besides, drinked outen the well
just the saim Tha drinked more'n they
evir did afore l gess-cause the water
tastid so sweete. l went 2 the we'll fur
water tother da and l seed the cat in the
well. She was ded. She was atioatin a
round drownded. Me and Billy fsht
her out with hook and line. She smelt
orful. But the nabors doant drink any
more water outen the well now. Wat /
cant understand is whi they doant They
oughten B moar willin drink the watir
wen the cat is out than wen she is in |
think so. ures trooly. n B. this is a
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