Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-17
NUMBER Is.

have married wife, and therefore cannot
conae'-he suddenly paused at the end of
this verse, drew off his spectacles, and
looking around on his hearers, said, with
emphasis: The fact is my brethren, one
woman can draw man farther away
from the kingdom of heaven than five yoke
of oxen,'
a HINT TO GRUMLERs.-"What a noisy
world this is" croaked an old frog, as he
squatted on the margin of the pool "Do.
you hear those geese how they scream and
hiss! What do they do il forg" "Oh
just to amuse themselves" answered a
little field-mouse. presently we shall
have the owls hooting; what is that for,''
"lt's the music they like the best" said
the mouse. And those grasshoppers;
they can't go home without grinding and
chirping; why do they do thatg" "Oh,
they are so happy they can't help it," said
the mouse. You t.-.d excuses for all; |
believe you don't understand music, SO
you like the hideous noises" well, friend,
| TO be honest with you," said the mouse, II
don't greatly admire any of them; but
they are all sweet in my ears compared
with the constant croaking of a frog
AppIes Of Gold.
MAMMA IN CAIIFoRNIA-The Oakland
|
ment made by Mr. Brannan.
before the California Academy of
Science, that honeydew had fallen
| twice in the last decade, viz, 1862 and
1872 says: "If Mr.. BrannGn was posted
on what he was writing about he would
not have confined the falling of honey
dew to the years mentioned. 1t falls near
ly every year in the Sacramento valley.
The Indians gather it in large quantitiAs,
and the honey-bees fill their hives with
the rich mamma We have seen balls of
the mamma as large as apples gathered by
the squaws, and not confined to any par
ticular years either-though it falls more
extensively some years than others. We
have seen the oak leaves dripping with
the precious saccharine matter In 1866
it was very abundant in the Sacramento
| yalley-more SO than in 1862. In 1868 it
also fell in abundance. Mr.. Brannan was
probably in the country only in the two
years mentioned and that accounts for
his wonderful discovery"
DIVORCES FOR LIMITED PERIoDs-The
Binghamton On. " Republican recalls
to mind instances of divorces for limited
periods in that State, the statute reading:
"A separation from bed and board forever
or for limited time may be decreed by
the Supreme Court on the complaint of
married woman" The Republican says:
a few years ago Judge Balcom, acting
under this statute, at a special term of the
Supreme Court in Tioga County, made
decree in divorce suit that the husband
and wife should live separate for two
| years, the wife to have the custody of their
only child in the meantime. He advised
them to consider the matter as husband
and wife. He thought separation during
two years would satisfy the husband the
best thing he could do would be to treat
his wife kindly and properly, and not
cruelty and inhumanly. The report is
that before the end of the two years the
old love between this couple was revived
and they forgave each other, and are now
living together as happily and lovingly as
they did during their honeymoon. Judge
Balcom informs us, while practicing law
he obtained an absolute divorce for wife
from her husband; but that they remar-
ried each other within ninety days from
| the time the wife obtained her divorce,
and thereafter lived happily as husband
and wife many years, until the wife died.
Also, that the husband became his person.
al friend, and so remains"