Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-07-31
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INDIANAPOLIS claims ',OOO children.
THE dog tax in Washington Territory |
is $50 per cur.
IT is never proper to stone your neigh
Dor, but you may rock his baby.
WHAT God gives men as stepping
stones, they often make into stumbling
blocks.
TINE is short, and if your cross be |
heavy remember you have not far TO |
carry it.
THERE is nothing that so refines the
face and mind "a TIE presence of great
thoughts.
THE sale of the Minnehaha lands,
Minnesota, realized over $250,0OO. There
were 5000 acres.
If you are short of ice during the warm
weather, you can always get nice carte
at the photographers
A LATELY married couple came near
separating on account of a squabble over
their wedding presents.
A LEAvENwoRTH stationer was asked
the other day if he had "any overalls for
letters" He had
IT takes twenty-five cents worth of ice
to keep ten cents worth of beef from
spelling until dinner time in Texas.
from Derby for Glasgow, Scotland, on the
way to Edinburgh, the wife having on
her knee her thirty third baby.
A TRAVELLER in Wales, seeing a sign
over the door with this one word,
"Agorsequr dere," asked the woman what
she sold, when she said she did not sell
anything, but that "agues was cured
here"
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disturbance in a Texas church, the other
day, the preacher raised up shotgun and
said: "William Dello, sit down, or Ill
make it painful for you" William sat
down, and was as quiet as a lamb.
A REMARKABLY dirty man stopped in
front of small boy sitting on fence, ex-
pecting to have some fun by chatting him.
He said: How much do you weigh ?"
The answer was, "Well, about as much as
you would if you were washed"
A PORTLAND man who was caught fish
ing for trout on another mans land, the
other day, completely silenced the owner,
who demonstrated, with the majestic an
swer: "Who wants to catch your trout?
I'm only trying TO drown this worm"
SUE BLAIR, of Fond du Lac, Wis. play
ed her lover a game Of chess the other day
to decide whether the wedding day should
be fixed for this year or the next. Sue de-
sired more time, but lost the game, and
must face the parSOn before the coming
January.
THE theaters are now used in London
for special religious services for the
masses, which, during the past season,
were attended by 100000 people The
friends of the movement are making an
effort to secure halls in all parts of the
city where theaters cannot be had to ac-
commodate the non-church- going popula-
ton.
The Rev. William Morley Punshon be.
fore leaving Canada was presented by his
admirers with $4,000 gold. He has mott
fed the donors that he will simply draw
the interest of this gift during his life,
and that upon his death the principal shall
60 to the fund for the support of worn-o out
ministers in Canada. 1t may interest
many of his American friends to know
that Mr. Punshon WIS married on his re-
turn to England.
HERE we are now, within quarter of
mile of land" was the joyful announce
ment made by the captain of an ocean
steamer to his grumbing passengers
"Where? Which way is it?' were the
eager eXclamations which followed.
"Anywhere down below there" said the
captain, pointing toward the bottom of
the sea. THE lead gives us just two hun
dred and twenty fathoms water, and the
land comes slap up against the brine"
IT is refreshing to learn of a deed so
generous as this, which we find recorded
of the Tabernacle Church, Jersey City:
Their pastor was taken sick, and the ply
sician said he could preach no more, and
that his sickness would be lingering, with
its end certain. The pastor resigned, and
the church at once voted him $1,000 a
year during his natural life. This was
paid promptly every quarter day for
eighteen months; then the church gave
their beloved teacher fitting burial.
A PARIS dentist was reported to have
hung out gn on which was Inscribed
Teeth Extracted
Without pain for francs.
To his disgust, no patients made their
appearance, and after enduring the heart
sickness of hope deferred for three
months, he added a line to his announce
ment thus
with pain for franc
To his qualification, he had crowds Of
patients, but they all preferred to pay two
francs.
A NEW style of thief practices what is
known as the umOfeila uOu3e. Inc ODer- |
ator enters a store where small articles are |
kept for sale, and hangs his half-Open UNI |
brella on the counter; he asks, perhaps |
for gloves, and, when he has a quantity !
before him, inquiries for another kind, |
which will cause the clerk to turn his |
back, and then down goes several pairs |
into the half-open umbrella. The artful /
dodger then makes some slight purchase, |
carefully tucks his umbrella under his /
arm, and walks away. At convenient /
time and place he makes a transfer of the |
property to his own or some accomplice's
pocket
Two CROPS A YEAR.-Such thing as
two crops of grain in one year is by no
means rare in California. Apple trees
have been known to yield two crops, and
pear trees three crops; but such a phe-
nomenon as that related in the subjoined
item from an Alameda paper will be like
ly to create surprise: a sixty acre field
on the rancho of Juan Peralta near San
Leandeo, was farmed to barley last year,
and good heavy crop of the grain har-
vested from it. This year it was allowed
to volunteer, and it has produced heavy
growth of clear oats, which now stand
about three feet high, and is in a very
thriving condition"
A VERY small actor in a Partisan thea
ter lately achieved a great success by
-, In eptitTaI !