Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-09-04
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


In nearly all sections of Vermont the
apple crop is almost an entire failure.
ALWAYS going and going but never
gone-Auctioneers.
THE Chinese make their paper money
from the leaves Of the mulberry tree.
THE largest farm in England, compris-
ing 5000 acres, is owned and run by a
Yankee.
NEVER fall in love with a woman by
the water side; there are situations in
which every woman looks an angel
Beecher
THE fall is the best time for transplant
ing all trees. Commence the work as
soon as their leaves fall, and they will
have time TO become used to their new
homes before the ground freezes.-Cor
Country Gentleman.
NOTHING can be more cruel and nothing
more foolish than to place children where
they must be dressed every day in fresh
and fashionable clothes, and their freedom
| to play curtailed for the sake of appear
| anceS.
OF all the blessings enjoyed by human
| beings, there is none better or more de
| sirable than cheerful, happy home 1t
| is, therefore, the first duty of every one to
endeavor to promote the most amicable
relations in the home circle.
| AT a small village in Grass valley, Cal,
| it is considered contrary to etiquette for a
funeral to pass before the doctor of the
place, because he keeps loaded cannon
in front Of the house ready to discharge
upon any such person.
THE phrase "loanable capital" is never
applied to houses or lands, horses or car
riages, goods or chattels; but by. general
usage restricted to capital existing in the
! form of money, either in actual possession
or III bank deposits payable on demand.
The reason why common salt some
! times becomes moist when exposed to the
atmosphere is because it is not pure.
| Chloride of calcium and chloride of mag
nesium are impurities generally present
in salt, and they absorb moisture from
| the air.
| MANY of the men whom we calmly set
down as failures may have been doing
as much as those who have made ten
times as much noise in the world. 4
| great deal Of the best work in the world
| is anonymous, if we do not cOnfine the
! term to writing.
A NEW and cruel invention is the in
| PRODUCTION of living butterflies into the
| centre pieces of flowers, which usually
adorn the middle of the table at fashion
able dinner and supper parties. The un-
| fortunate insects are fastened To a fine
wire, which is passed through their bodies
and concealed among the flowers.
| CALIFoRNIANs are boasting of new
| domestic fowl, the chaparral cock or
| churra, which is easily domesticated, and
| when properly cooked is superior to
| chicken for eating. The churra is about
| the size Of a curlew, with a top-knot, and
a long tail of beautiful c0lored feathers
1t is great enemy to snakes and vermin.
WHETHER the dweller by the sea go in
| land for his summer play, or the resident
Of the inland city 60 the sea, he should
| seek some spot unvisited by those devoted
to fashionable display, and employ his
| time in unrestricted communion with ma
ture, and in those pursuits which, without
let or hindrance, perform the Office of
| recreation.
| PLANTS have commonly been thought
| to differ from animals in the gases which
they secrete; the animal parting with car
bonic acid while the plant gave out oxy-
| gen. DR.. j. &. Draper, of New York,
| however, maintains that all living things,
whether animal or plant, absorb oxygen
| anu give oGb CdIDDlliC dCltl anu liIdl tllt
life Of the plant is one continuous drink
ing in of oxygen gas.
ALI. over the world it has been observed
that very few things will grow under the
| shade of beech trees, and this has given
rise to a suggestion that the beech roots
eXcrete some matter injurious to other
vegetation But the true explanation
probably is that the great tendency of the
| beech to root near the surface, and the
| great number of these surface roots, so
| dries the ground and eXhausts the soil
that there is not enough food or moisture
| for most plants.
THE Je1oish Chronicle, of London, sug-
gests that it might be practicable TO found
a State in our Union composed wholly OF
Jews. Its language is noteworthy: "We
have even anticipated the possibility OF
wholesale importation Of Jews from those
countries in which they are oppressed,
either by law or by circumstances, either
| by Government or by popular bigotry, to
| those vast tracts of territory whereNature
| is bountiful, where freedom is secure and
where nothing is wanted but an industri-
Gus population"
AMONG the plant puzzles, Where did
apple originate? has been one OF the best
discussed of questions. a few years ago,
| when the remains Of the lake-dwellers-a
people who lived in houses made on piles
driven into the mud Of the lakes-were
discovered, and apples were found in the
mud beneath, it was thought we had got
nearer the origin of the apple; but when
they found wheat, flax, and other things
also in the mud, and which certainly were
not indigenous to Switzerland, it was felt
that the great apple secret was as far away
as ever.
Nor the least ingenious suggestion
offered TO the commissioners OF the cen
tennial exposition comes from New Hamp-
shire. A citizen of that State cOmmuni-
Gates the following colossal plan: DEAR
SIRs: | speak OF cheese-cheese in the
grandest and most sublime sense OF the
term. cheese such as the world has never
seen cheese! hundreds Of thousands Of
pounds of it. 1t shall be an immense
plain. the consolidated efforts of every
cheese manufacturer in the United States,
and will be capable, when laid down
upon its side, of accommodating many
hundreds of people. Such cheese as the
one I sneak Of would certainly create as
tonishment, and would gain for our manu-
facturers the admiration OF the world. L
desire space for such cheese. Can
have it? Answer.
THE Boston 1'raUeller thinks it some
what remarkable that the temporary IN
sanity so much spoken of in these days,