Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-03-27
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
MAIDEN SPEECH" Ask papa "

A MAIDEN SPEECH" Ask papa"
OF rHE hundred good things in this
life, ninety nine are health.
Miss LIZZIE CoLT is a frisky belle of
Washington, and has said neigh to a hun
dred offers.
PEOPLE who have luxuriated on buck
wheat cakes all winter are backing up
against door,iambs and gate posts with
good deal of pleasing activity
hers
A CALIFoRNIA firm has set up an incu-
bator of 1900 eggs capacity. 1t is 8 feet
long, 31a feet wide, and 16 inches high,
and is expected TO turn out live chickens
promptly and unerrlngly.
A YOUNG lady having read about man
having invented a stove which consumes
its own smoke, hopes he will devise
method whereby tobacco smokers can be
run on the same economical principle.
AN OLD bachelor says if girl wants TO
know when she looks most charming in
the mems eyes, it is when she wears
simple muslin dress, with q frill of lace
around the neck and at the waist, and no
ornaments but youth and freshness.
| HAVE known a vast quantity Of non
sense talked about bad men not looking
you in the face. Don't trust that conven-
tional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty
out of countenance any day in the week,
if there is anything to be got by it
Dickens.
THIS was Mrs Poyser's remark to the
young ladies who thought her farm house
was beautiful: Eyes; farm house is
fine thing for them as look on, an don't
know the liftin' and the standin' an the
worritin' o the inside as belongs :o't'
4 MAN recently broke off a marriage
because the lady did not possess good
conversational powers. \ cynical friend
commenting on the fact, says: 'He should
have married her, and refused her a new
bonnet, and then he would have dis
covered her conversational powersl"
The Lawrence american says there is
a boarding marin" in that city whose
economical tendencies lead her to place
her bo2rders upon an allowance of
matches. Every evening at tea she goes
round and places single match at the
plate of each boarder, and should that
match fail, there is no appeal to the match
safe.
A COUPLE of Yankee girls put a bull
frog III hired mans bed, to see if they
could not get him to talk. Daniel threw
the frog out of the window and never
SAID word. Soon after he put half
bushel of chestnut burs in the girls bed,
and about the time he thought they would
make the least shadow Daniel went to the
door and ratified it furiously. Out went
the candle, and in went the girls; but
they didn't stick, though the burs did.
THE Willamette Farmer contains long
description of the dairy farm of Mr..
Henry Ankeny, near Salem, Oregon. The
farm contains 1000 acres, on which are
maintained 800 head OF cattle, besides
swine During the past season, the pro-
ducts of 200 cows were made into cheese,
of which there are now on hand, ready
! for market, some 26, ,000 pounds The inn
provements upon the farm are described
at length, and with the land are stated to
be worth seventy thousand dollars.
MONEY was so scarce in 1851 that the
price of days work was fixed by act of
Parliament at one penny, and in 1413 the
allowances of the chaplain to the Scotch
bishops (then in prison in England) was
three half pence per day. At this time
twenty-four eggs were sold for penny,
pair of shoes for four pence, fat goose
for two and a half pence, a hen for
penny, wheat three pence per bushel,
and a fat OK for six shillings and eight
pence.
CANINE MAIL CARRIERs.-It is said
that the officers of the Signal Service on
Mount Washington are trying to teach
dog to carry the mail to and from the sta
tion. There is tradition that, previous
to the year 1850, the mail between Ports
mouth, n. H, and Wells, Me-, for seven
years was regularly carried by dog,
! The mail was carefully made up, tied to
| the animals neck, and carried safely
/ through, until, at last, on one Of his jour
neys, the faithful creature was killed by
/ the Indians.
} LANGUAGE AMONG ANIMALs.-M. HOu
/ zen maintains that not only does each
/ group of animals possess a language
| which is understood by other members of
the same group, but that they can learn
! to understand the language of other groups.
/ His dogs, for instance, perfectly under
/ stood his poultry. Cocks and hens have
! one danger signal for the approach Of
! bird of prey, another for that of terres-
/ trial animal or for man. When the lat
ter was sounded, the dogs would rush out
/ and bark, while to the former they paid
no attention whatever. He therefore
concludes that fowls have the power Of
expressing slightly different but closely
/ allied ideas, and dogs can learn to under
stand these differences.
a MONKEY, finding heap of cocoanuts,
/ gnawed into one, then dropped it, gag
/ ging hideously. "Now, this is what
call perfectly disgusting" said he. az
can never leave anything lying about but
some one comes along and puts a quantity
of nasty milk in it' A Cat just then hap
pening to pass that way began rolling the
coeoanuts about with her paw. "Yeow"
she exclaimed; ''it is enough to vex the
soul of a cast-iron dog Whenever | set
out any milk to cool, somebody comes
and seals it up as tight as drumm Then
perceiving one another, and each think
ing the other the offender, these enraged
animals collided, and wrought a mutual
exterminatioD, whereby two worthy con-
sumers were lost TO society, and a guam
tity of excellent food had to be given to
the poor.
A LITERARY SELL.-The Spring
field Republican has the following
A good story is told in literary
circles in New York of an enthusiastic
Carlyle Club OF ladies and gentlemen OF
Cambridge and Boston, who meet period
ically to read their chosen prophet and