Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-05-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

and by crook.
New YORK female seminary is going
to Europe to spend the summer.
4 HONE for aged and INDECENT dogs
where the oyster-can shall cease from
troubling, and the weary canine shall be
at rest-is Bergh's latest
Mr.. 4. d. WILLIAMS, of Richmond. is
become the wealthiest man in Virginia,
by simply investing $1,000 few years
ago in 10000 acres of land, which has
since turned out to be immensely rich in
coal.
4 SCHOOL committee in certain New
England town said encouragingly in their
report "As this place offers neither honor
nor profit we do not see why 1t should not
be filled by a woman."
SOME men spend fortune colorlng
their pipes Others spend fortune color
ing their faces We know one man who
has spent 100000 simply in coloring his
nose, and is not satisfied yet. We hold
him up as a beacon.-Gruphic
SOCIETY is commonly too cheap. We
meet at very short intervals, not having
had time to acquire a new value for each
other. We meet at meals three times
day, and give each other a new taste of that
old muSty cheese that we are. We have
had to agree on a certain certain set of
rules, called etiquette and politeness to
| make the frequent meeting tolerable, and
that we need not come to open war.-H.
ID. ThOreau.
A YOUNG woman, evidently from the
country" was seen standing the other day,
with very perplexed air, at one of the
Chicago lamp-post boxes She was Oh
served to knock several times on the top
of the iron box, but obtaining no response,
| she passed round to the opposite side, and,
raising the cover of the slit in which let
ters are placed, she applied her mouth to
| the aperture, and called out (or I'M, " Can
We let me have a postage stamp, if ye
| please?'
A WORD For THE WIFE-There is
much good sense and truth in the remark
| of modern author that no man ever pros
| pered in the world without the co-opera-
| ton of his wife. If she unites with him
| in endeavor, or rewards his labor with an
endearing smile, with what confidence
| will he resort to his merchandise or his
| farm, fly over lands, sail over seas, meet
| difficulty or encounter danger He then
knows that he is not spending his strength
| in vain, but that his labor will be rewarded
by the sweets of home. Solitude and dis
| appointment enter the history of every
mans life, and he is but half provided for
| his voyage who finds but an associate for
his happy hours, while for his months of
darkness no sympathizing partner is pre-
| pared.
\ MYsTERY.-A California coroner and
| jury were recently in dilemma, the inno-
| cent cause of which was simply corset.
| 1t was produced before the jury to show
the manner in which the wcarer had re-
| ceived two bullet-wounds which had
caused her death. The coroner showed
| the jury exactly how it was done, but the
| position of the garment did not correspond
with the wounds, He had put on the cor
| set bottom upwards. Then he tried it, the
front placed behind. Then he thought it
laced upon the side. The .jurymen then
tried it unsuccessfully, and the doctor
present also failed. \ reporter was re
ing something about everything, explained
it so that the doctors scientific descrip-
tons were proved by ocular demonsua-
ton.
BOYHOOD IN SPRING -TIME.-Rafting is
the prevailing popular amusement this
month. The boy whose parents own the
pond is generally chosen captain of the
raft. The raft quite frequently consists of
couple OF boards the captains father
hand laid away to season. The captain
stands at the bow and h0llers, and the
other officers, whose claim to the berth
principally rests on the factthat they have
dry pants at home, stand at the stern, and
spatter water on the outsiders who stand
on the shore with their hands in their
breeches pockets and guile in their hearts.
They thus navigate for hours at "a time,
and then fight over the distance they have
| made, and finally go home to see their
parents about it, and are dried with bed
cord, and are put to bed, where they can
| feel of their injuries without mOlestation.
-Danbury Neaos.
THE Pacific slope has vet hero unsung
| of Bret Harte or Mark Twain He re
| sides on the Humboldt river in Nevada,
and his name is Poker Brown 1t is the
| peculiarly of this individual that he is
| marvellously successful in every conceiv-
| able branch OF industry except that TO
which his name associates him, and in that
| he Is as strangely and consistently unfor-
| tunate. At mining, farming, freighting,
| and stock raising he has made about a
| dozen large fortunes, which he has lost at
| draw poker in speedy consecution. Some
| time ago he was the pOssessor of a farm
| and 800 hogs, when couple of profession
| ais dropped in on him. Straightway they
had little game, with pig for blind"
| and hog for straddle," +" and in few
| hours Poker sailed forth, hogless and
| farmless, to make another fortune for the
| vampires who subsist upon him. Surely
he deserves an idyl
How THEY GET OVER IT-The threat
ened indictment OF persons lending money
| on Wall street at usurious rates is develop
| ing new capabilities in the enterprising
! borrowers and lenders Several of the
| latter are making restitution of their I'M
| lawful gains, and many of the former have
discovered method by which they can
get all the money they want at lawful in
terest. This is the way it works: Mr..
| Brown-"Say, Jones, I'll bet you $50
| you won't lend me $4,000 for two days at
| seven per cent. per annum.n Mr.. Jones
| (stroking his moustache and musingl-"I'll
take that bet. III lend you the $4,000. :"
| Mr.. Brown-''Lost again, by Jovel Here's
| the $50" Y. B-Fifty dollars is exactly
| the interest on $4,000 for two days at one
half per cent-Neao York Sun.
LANGUAGE OF ANIMALs-Certainly all
animals have mode of expressing their
| feelings to others of the same species.
| Wolves arrange attacks, hunting together
in packs. They are all animated by the
same thought, and therefore travel with
energy for hours to accomplish a design
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