Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-10-09
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
HASH is said to be a connecting link be-
tween the animal and vegetable king
| doms.
VIRTUE, though in rags, may challenge
more than vice set off with the trim of
greatness.
The richest man in Denver is a Mexi-
can, with an Indian wife, and she leads the
fashion.
An incurable type Of yellow fever-the
| rage for gold, because it breaks out in rash
speculation.
AN inveterate old bachelor says ships
are called she because they always keep a
man on the lookout.
WHY do girls kiss each other, and men
do not? Because girls have nothing bet
ter to kiss, and men have.
WOMAN ought to do all she can to make
this earth paradise for man, as it was all
her fault that she lost the other.
NINETEEN million cigars are annually
| imported from Cuba. They are princi-
pally manufactured in Connecticut.
WHY does the girl of the period" make
the best housekeeper? Because she makes
50 much hustle about little waist.
You can tell when a newsboy has been
stuck with one of the new $500 greenback
| counterfeits by the unusually thoughtful
| expression upon his COuntenance.
A GooD-HEARTED but partially deaf old
lady is much disturbed by the talk about
the Kickapoo Indians She doesn't see
why anybody should kick poor Indian,
THE new Capitol building at Albany,
n. Y, will, when finished be the finest
structure on the continent. The selection
of ornaments for the lobby is said to en-
brace some rare specimens.
WHY" asked governess of her little
| charge, "do we pray God to give us our
| daily bread? Why don't we ask for four
days, or five days, or week." "We want
it fresh," replied the ingenious child.
IT is not isolated great deeds which do
most to form character, but small con-
terminous acts, touching and blending
into one another The greenness of field
comes not from trees, but blades of grass
John Kerr.
OWING to the war among the dry goods
merchants at Denver, calicoes were reduc-
ed to two cents per yard and every editor,
reporter and minister in the place now
wears shirt-gaudy in some instances,
but still shirt.
IT is related that an Irshman once Wis
tied New Hampshire, and after having
inspected the numerous hills and noun
tain ranges exclaimed: "Bedad! l niver
was in a country before where they had
SO much land they had to stack it."
AN engineer on the Western North
Carolina Railroad shouted to crowd Of
rustics who had gathered to see the first
train of cars come in: Put down your
umbrellas! You'll scare the engine off the
trackl' The umbrellas were lowered at
once.
In disastrous times of peril the greater
the reason for cool heads, presence of
mind steady nerves, calm courage, and
the refusal to add any sensational element
to int1ame excitement Panic never saves
ship or furnishes an escape from a
wreck, when squall comes or tempest
RACES.
THREE blue bulls walked down the
street, As blue as any bulls you'll meet.
The poorest to the others said, What shall
we do? we are busted. A river flows across
this street, It's depth is just seventy feet.
Wen settle down a pier upon, And blow
our brains out one by one.
A RECENT writer says that the japanese
make no distinction between moral and
mental science, and very little between
ethics and etiquette To them education
is morals A cultured man is, in their
view, of necessity moral man. They
say it is not polite to lie, to cheat or to be
angry.
FRED" said young man, walking
up street, the other day, after lis
tening to his wonderful story, "do you
know why you are like harp struck by
lightning?' "No," says Fred 81 give it
up" because harp struck by light
ming is blasted tyre"
CoLERIDGE says there are four kinds Of
readers: the hour glass, whose reading
runs in and out and leaves no trace of
gain; the second, like the sponge, takes
everything; the third retains only refuse
that some would throw away; but the
fourth, like the miner among gems, keeps
the pure and casts aside the clippings.
SOME boys dropped an anvil weighing
two hundred pounds out of fourth story
window on the head of a negro who was
passing, and he had them arrested. He
said he was willing to let the boys have
fun, but when they jammed gemmans
hat down over his eyes, and spoiled it in
that way, the law must take its course.
AN uncouth child of nature writes feel
inglv anent a popular topic: Il could
STAN bein' called liar an a thief says
he, "or even be tole that the ole man KEEP
hoopskirt factory, but when one of
them loatin' goslin's come aroun' me a
sayin' as l had suthin to do with that ere
'Betsey nor is Out jes riz on my hind
legs and combed him down."
THE tallest treesgrowing in the United
States east of the Rocky Mountains are
only about one hundred and fifty feet
high. The big trees of California
(Seq,toia) are from two hundred to three
hundred feet high. The Australian gum
trees are much higher, being the highest
trees known. Specimens are commonly
N 1t with 400 feet in height, and one has
Jeen measured of the height OF 420 feet.
A TOUCHING EPITATH.-
Stranger, pause
Ny tale attend
And learn the cause
OF Hannahs end.
Across the world
The wind did blow,
She ketched a cold
What laid her low.
We shed quart
OF tears, It's true,
But life is short
| Aged 81.
A DowN-EAsT farmer, known far and
wide by his patriotic title, had neighbor
who was in the habit of working on Sun