Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-06-26
NUMBER 26.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

in the world-one who cannot write his
own name.
THE New York gamin amuses himself
by dropping lighted matches into street
letter boxes.
A BOsToN finn of clothiers have got
out patent trousers for boys, with copper
rivets and steel knee plates.
FASHION and common sense new go
hand in hand as regards feminine foot
gear The broader the sole, the more
stylish the boot.
DOVER, VT, has not had death for five
years, and the town hcarse was put up at
rattle the other day and won by man
who is going TO alter it over into milk
cart.
A YOUNG man who prided himself on
his mental qualifications, once speaking
of the advantages of these, remarked:
"What is better than good cducation:'
Common sense, you fool, you," quickly
remarked one of his hearers
DANIEL BooNE's rifle, shot pouch, pow
der horn, hunting knife and section of
beech log on which he cut his name and
date, 1774, are in the public library at
Louisville, Ky. The wooden stopper OF
the powder horn still bears the marks OF
his teeth.
CURRENT PARAGRA PH-"The two hun
dred divorce lawyers of Chicago are i'll
mourning over the silver wedding that
occurred there inadvertently last week.
They ask for suspension of public opin-
ion, since this is the first time they have
slipped up.'
A DEALER in artificial eyes, who
thought to find handsome business
opening in the far West, has been utterly
ruined, it is said, by competitor who
has devised a process of hardening and
preserving the unclaimed natural optics
which are swept out of the different bar
rooms every morning.
DIo LEWIS advocates sunlight. He has
been trying experiments He attempted
to make plants grow in a parlor, not very
dark to be sure, but kept in the dim,
twilight condition considered fashionable.
The plants looked sick in four days, then
they turned yellow, and finally died. He
reasons that girls kept in dim, unsunny
rooms will grow pale, yellow, and sickly
also--if they do not die.
We feel it a duty to inform our readers
that there is a favored spot in the interior
of California, desert about 120 miles
from San Diego where catarrh is banished
in twenty -four hours, where the atmos-
phere is so dry that pail of water Will
evaporate in one day, where there are no
dews, and people do not die, but only dry
up. Here live, according to report, camp
of Indians many of whom are from one
hundred and twenty to one hundred and
thirty years old. We regret that the
sources of our information do not furnish
the name of this wonderful place.
REST
| o earth, lie heavily upon her eyes;
| Seal her sweet eyes, weary OF watching, earth;
Lie close around her: leave no room Tor mirth
With its harsh laughter nor for sound OF signs
She hath no questions she hath no replies.
Hnshed in and curtained with blessed a:i dearth.
OF all that irked her from the hour OF birth;
With stiffness that Is almost Paradise.
Darkness more clear than MONDAY hodeth her,
Silence more musical than any song;
Even her very heart has ceased to stir;
Until the morning of eternity
Her rest shall moi begin nor end but be-
And when she wakes she will not think 1t long.
A LADY writes to the New York Xerald:
l happen to be the wife of an invcteraie
smoker, and do boldly avow that | love
the perfume of his cigar better than all the
perfumes of Arabia. l think there is
nothing more delightful, and l am never
more happy then when my husband is by
my side, with slippers on, and fragrant
Havana between his ips-a picture of
nOillc CoIuloft pun iNb
man has never seen, who is driven from
home by cross, selfish wife, who would
rather send her husband to the club or
worse places, SO as to be rid of his after
dinner smoke"
WE do our very best to believe all the
queer stories that we find for we could
not conscientiously present them to our
readers unless we believed them to be
L,,t 10 hat fhn
public, seems to us little doubtful. We
will not say it is lie, but it is improba-
ble A horse in st. Paul, Mimi, drank
beer till he was in beastly state of in
toxication. His owner, knowing that his
previous habits were exemplary, thought
he was dead, and skinned him. Next
morning CHASTITY steed, without hide Or
hair was found grazing on the public
common, and skillful veterinary surgeon
is engaged in planting his superfcies with
hair from neighboring tannery.
AN official paper, read recently before
the London Society of Arts, presented the
remarkable statement that, in 1871, no
less than 1908 people were killed in
India by tigers, cobras, and other wild
and venomouS animals mortality far
in excess of that caused by the East Indian
wars in any year. Another remarkable
feature brought out by the paper is the
fact that the number is constantly incrcas-
ing, notwithstanding the improvements
in firearms and the increase Of hunters
who make tiger-killing their business.
Unlike most other animals the nearer civ
ilization approaches them the fierccr they
become, and the less disposed to quit
their haunts.
The LENGTH OF DAYs.-The days of
summer grow longer as we 60 north
ward, and the days Of winter shorter. At
Hamburger. the longest day has seventeen
hours and the shortest seven. AT Stock
holm, the longest day has eighteen and a
half hours, and the shortest five and a
half hours. At ST. Petersburgh, the long
est has nineteen, and the shortest five
hours. At Finland, the longest has TWEEN
tv-one and half, and the shortest two
and half hours. At Wanderbus, in Nor
way, the day lasts from the twenty first of
May to the second of July, the sun not
getting below the horizon for the whole
time, but skimming along very close to it
in the north. AT Spitzbergen, the longest
| day lasts three months and half.
| THE fist excursion trip with train of
/ passenger coaches run by steam, IN the
State of New York, was on the Mohawk
& Hudson Railway, from Albany to Sche-
nectady, on August 3, 1881. A sketch OF
the locomotive, tender, and two OF the
cars, was made by William II. Brown, one
of the excursionists and is now preserved