Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-07-03
NUMBER q.

"How muchs" said she. Guess said
the delighted husband. "Well. il would
/ cost in the Bowery about S14., "If that
/ teller ever comes back "-Neio York Star.
a JOKE NENTRILoQUA.-One of the
| most remarkable ventriloquists that ever
| lived was Nj. st. Gille, of St Germain en-
| Laye, France, whose performances have
! been recorded by the Able de la Chapelle.
Once, when overtaken by storm, st.
! Gille took shelter in a neighborinm con
vent, where the monks were in deep
mourning over the recent death of much
! esteemed member of their community.
While lamenting over the tomb of their
deceased brother the slight honors which
had been paid to his memory, voice was
/ suddenly heard to issue from the roof of
the choir, bewailing the condition of the
deceased in purgatory, and reproving the
brotherhood for want of zeal The It'd
lngs OF the extraordinary event brought
the entire fraternity to the church. The
voice from above repeated its lamenta-
} tons and reproaches, and the whole com
! pany fell upon their faces and vowed to
make reparation for their error They ac
! cordingly chanted in full choir a dc pre-.
/ ttatdts, during the intervals of which the
! spirit of the departed monk expressed his
/ satisfaction at their pious exercises. The
! prior afterwards inveighed against mod
ern skepticism on the subject of appar-
tions, and st. Gille had great difficulty in
convincing the fraternity that the whole
thing was deception.
SUDDEN CHANGE IN THE Color OF
! HAR.-Two sudden changes of the color
| OF hair from black to white are reported
/ in a foreign medical magazine. 1t seems
/ that a physician Of Berlin, a strong,
healthy, and less than middleaged man,
sent his wife and one daughter to spend
last summer at Il watering-place. The
| day that he expected letter informing
/ him of their arrival, there came one say
ing that his daughter had been taken sick
very suddenly, and was already dead.
! The shock was terrible and instantly his
hair became entirely gray. He had to
visit some patients that same afternoon,
and they scarcely recognized him. Their
peculiar actions revealed the change to
him. The other case was of man tlirty-
! five years DID, living in the Netherlands.
He was one day passing the canal in Rot
/ tcrdam, where he saw "A child struggling
| in the water He plunged in and Bought
! it to land, but il was already dead by the
/ time he had rescued the body. Bending
over it to try to restore life, he discovered
| that the dead child was his own son.
| The blow, so sudden and unexpected, and
coming upon him when he himself was
! so much exhausted, turned his hair en-
tirely gray, and left him scarcely rccog
niZable.
| A SARDINE SToRY-In one of the cities
! of New Hampshire, some years since, IL
man named H-y was elected Mayor,
and very important he thought his posi-
| ton. During his term of office IA fire
company sent word that they should visit
the city and remain several days. The
! Mayor called meeting of the City Coun-
Gil to see what should be done toward en-
,ertaining the firemen. He wanted to show
! the hospitality ofthe city in its most muniti-
| cent form, and proposed that a collation.
/ should be given the strangers.
/ "And what asked one of the aldermen,
edo you propose to put on the table for
! the collation."
1--WE will give them,' said his honor, in
reply, "hOt coffee and sardines."
One of the council thought that sardincs
and coffee were hardly up to the mark for
the hungry tiremen.
IL know BETTER" said the Mayor, in an
angry tone. "Sardines are hearty, and will
/ be just what the men need"
/ perhaps" said an alderman, "his hon
| or does not know what sardines arc.n
/ The Mayor sprang TO his feet angry all
/ over.
Il know" he shouted, "what sardincs
are as we'll as you do, or any other mem
! Der of the Board. I've eaten enough Of
them in my life. They are easily prepared.
! J ust take two pieces of bread, and pu' a
/ piece Of ham between them, and then your
/ sardine is maden
/ His honor sat down amid u roar Of
! laughter. He'd got things, such as sar-
! dimes and sandwiches, kinder mixed up in
/ his mind