Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-08-07
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

tells us that In the midst of life we are
in debtr
A wELL-KNowN belle is writing "the
American society novel" Vont the crit.
les have fun?
KRoUGHKAIG is the way they spell ..
popular game in western locality.
THERE is man (0 in Hartford who
drinks keg of lager-about seven gal
lons-every day
NEVER ask favor of anybody before
breakfast. A man who is hungry is always
stingy.
WHAT state in the Union can never be
out of debt Iowa.
THE latest scientific discovery is that
Z" the man in the moon" is woman.
SOME men are fond of their species, but
all men are fond of their specie.
WHEN is fowls neck like bell
When it is rung for dinner.
A FAvoRITE dish with the ladies'
Tongue sandwiches.
THERE were only 179 divorces granted
in New Hampshire last year.
A CYNIc describes marriage as an altar
on which man lays his wallet and woman
her affections.
IT is suggested that young ladies are so
anxious to get husbands, because every
woman is a-miss until she is married.
CALIFORNIA, after electing a Legisla-
ture in September will elect a Supreme
Court Judge in October.
WEALTH, after all, is relative thing,
since he that has little and wants less, is
richer than he that has much but wants
mOre.-C0ltOn.
MAN is, physically as we'll as metaphy-
sically, thing of shreds and patches,
borrowed unequally from good and bad
ancestors.
DR.. Hermann KLEIN concludes that
the earth has been 1000, 100000 years
forming since first it had a crust.
MONEY is reported to be very "easy" in
Wall street, but it is very hard to get it,
nevertheless
AN Ohio man who had his choice be
tween marrying a writer for the maya
zines and girl who could bake bread,
wisely chose the latter.
DURING the last six months 12, 500 Chi
nese emigrants have landed in California.
OF white folks there were 600 less.
THE Catskill Mountain House, at this
season Of the year, is sufficiently warmed
by two old fashioned stoves.
A RESPECTABLE English magazine re
cords, with evident pleasure, that of the
80, 900 clergymen of the Church Of En-
gland fully 1000 abstain from the use Of
spirituous liquors!"
A NEW HAMPSHIRE paper speaks of
the "idiots who are climbing the White
Mountains to get a view Of the cows pas
turing in the meadows below"
A FLORIDA paper has ascertained that a
healthy alligator can eat seven negro chill
dren inside of seven hours and not display
any symptoms of disquiet
A CURIOUS sight is to be seen at meal
times at any of the seaside hotels, when
seven or eight hundred ladies are stimuli
taneously using the huge fans now so gen
orally fashionable
Moss agates have been found in the
vicinity Of Clear Lake, Iowa.
AN Iowa paper says that commercial
travellers from the city are Of great advan-
tage to the country dealer, as a matter of
economy, and hopes that the system will
not be abandoned.
THE Missouri State Editorial Conven-
ton recently presented to the officer at
tending them on their late editorial ex-
cursion an elegant gold headed cane.
THE arkansas Gazette reports its State
scrip as advanced to 45 cents" There
is room for future advance.
THE golden" sand-ridges of Morgan
County, Ind, are selling for more money
than business lots in indianapolis. The
people are still excited over the gold dust
of those parts.
A WASHINGTON paper announces that
the public printer will shortly issue a
complete complication of the postal laws
Of the United States"
SIXTEEN years ago, a North Carolina
father, who knew the virtues of the rod,
thrashed his big boy, and sent him out to
hoe corn. The first seen of him since
was recently, when he returned from Cali
fornia with $4,000 on his hoe. The
moral is obvious.
THERE is promise for novel sensation
for some of the reporters who will accom-
pany Prof Wise in his trans Atlantic bal
loon voyage. The sensation will probably
be that ofstaking water.
THE sidewalk brigade of Sullivan, Ind,
| had its nerves shocked by notices signed
| * X. k warning all loafers to go to
WI n, anu III tiiN hiINob III CeitS
against those who are not industrious at
| least two days a week.
| A MORTGAGE for $799, upon which
| eighteen months interest had accumu-
| lated, was declared null and void at
| Lyons, n. Y, recently, on the ground that
| So5 paid for services in procuring the
money for which the mortgage was given
constituted usury.
| JOURNALISM is an art of modern growth
springing from the demands of the com
mercial as well as the intellectual world
| 1t is, in fact, so largely dependent upon
| the commercial rather than the intellect
ual world that the mere scholar, however
brilliant he may be, would make a very
poor ournalist.-E1c7ta'age.
| CONCERNING Wise's balloon project the
Scientific american says: ''To US the
probabilities of his success appear TO bt
| little better than those of an individual
who. in an open boat, without sail oil
oars, should attempt to float across the
Atlantic upon the surface of the Gull
| stream"
| THE Kansas woman who went TO sleer
with one limb across a railroad track
recommends that method of amputatior
| for its cheapness; the only difficulty
about il is, that it takes so long to get up
! That is what the man said who was struck
| by lightning.
| LIKE to read about Moses best, in tht
/ Old Testament. He carried hard busi
paco ,raJ thror1rh and died whom othe,