Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-03-20
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A GERMAN colony has purchased 10O,-
600 acres of land of the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe Railroad.
THE inmate of boarding house in
Hoboken describes the programme of his
breakfast as ''bells tangled out of tune,
and hash"
A CINCINNATI belle, upon being asked
her fathers profession, said he 'em'
balmed pork, she believed" He was
hog-packer.
A JAPANESE ten cent note is thus de-
scribed: The note is made of heavy. yel-
low silk paper, about 2ll by ~ inches,
| and is printed in black with ''tea-chest
| letters, y in q very tasteful manner. Upon
one end is stuck peculiarly-shaped ad-
hesive stamp, printed in purple, with a
curious arabesque design, in which the
words Imperial Treasury of Japan" Gin
English) are frequently repeated. Three
seals are imprinted on the note in red ink.
THE politeness of street-car drivers
will never become proverbial. "Do you
want to rider" yelled one of these
worthless yesterday to lady and gentle
man who were standing on a crosswalk
as the car dashed up "No," was the re-
ply Then why didn't you say SOP
Neao York Tribune.
| A BIRD SONG
| It's year, almost, that have not seen her;
| Oh, last Summer green things were greener,
| Brambles fewer, the blue sky bluer.
| It's well nigh Summer for there's swallow;
Come one swallow, his mate will follow,
| The bird race quickens and wheels and thickens
! oh, happy swallow whose mate will follow
| O'er height, DER hollow! I'd be a swallow
To build, this weather, one nest together.
| Jean Ingel0lo.
THE Union and american says: GA
| lovely Nashville girl went into shoe
store yesterday to buy pair of shoes for
| her pretty little footsie-tootsies The nice
young man who parts his hair in the mid
| die and who stands behind the counter
because he desires to occupy his mind
with something, asked her what size she
wore, to which she replied, Number
twos.' The Dice young man handed her
the desired number. Young sweetness
made valiant effort to put them on, but
| finally confessed they were "a little too
tight She finally contrived to squeeze
on pair of number fives."
In 1870 citizen of Baltimore insured
his life against accidental death. Subse-
! quently, desiring to visit Europe, he OBJ
tanned permission from the company, on
condition that the policy should be for
felted if he died from any accident Oc-
curing in hunting or exploring expedi-
ton. While in Europe, he made the
ascent of Mont Blanc, was overtaken by
a snow-storm, and frozen to death. The
company now claims that he forfeited his
policy, because he died while engaged in
an exploring expedition, and the courts of
Baltimore are now trying to determine
what an exploring expedition" is.
THE latest phase of servant. galism was
developed in Cleveland. A lady in that
city advertised for "help,' and among
those who applied was one who subjected
the advertiser to a severe catechism as to
the desirability Of the situation offered.
The questions were all satisfactorily an
swered, until the young woman inquired
how many times week the man of the
house was obliged to give it up, and the
visitor departed without an engagement.
AN immense canal is being built
through the San Joaquin valley, in Cali.
fornia, for the double purpose of irriga-
tion and navigation. The canal will ez
tend from 1ulare lake, at the upper end
of the valley, to tide water at Antioch,
near San Francisco-a distance of two
hundred miles. 1t will have various
branches and feeders, and will supply
water for manufacturing, domestic and
irrigating purposes to the towns along the
line. Forty miles are already completed.
A STONY HILL party has rooster
whose wings are silvered by the frosts of
thirteen winters. Its head is almost bald,
and about its neck are the marks of the
fingers of the many who have attempted
to adapt 1t for the pot by wringing its
head off. The aged grandsire, the man
in his prime, and the prattling child have
each taken hand at that rooster, but il
is no go. AS soon as it is dropped, il
shakes its head, winks a few times, and
steps off with a martial tread, licking its
chops, and appearing to consider the
whole affair as good joke.--DGn5ury
Neacs.
GEORGE NJ. BEARD, M. D., writes of
"Overtaxing the Brain" in the Independ
e1at. He says: "The motto of the over.
taxed brain worker should ever be-more
sleep, more sleep, and as much as posi-
BILE of the folding of the hands to sleep.
By day or by night, after meals or before,
early or late, IN the horse car or on the
ferry boat, we should welcome each
desire to doze as an angel from heaven
The habit OF early rising which, under
the old dispensation, before the era of the
telegraph, steam power, the press and
other agencies that rob us of our nerve
force, was virtue-we, IN this year
1873, should, with all our might, avoid
Early to bed and late to rise makes the
modern brain-toiler healthy and wise"
A REMARKABLE discovery has recently
been made by Professor O. c. Marsh, in
the upper cretaceous shale of Kansas
from which it appears that the long ex
pected link between birds and reptiles
has come to light. The skeleton of bird
was first found, which was about the size
of pigeon, and had the remarkable char
aeteristics of bird skeleton, with bicon
cave verteora, belonging only to reptiles
On subsequently removing the surround
ing shale the skull and parts of both jaws
were brought to light, bearing undoubtec
reptilian peculiarities, with other parts O
the skeleton entirely avian in type Tha
all the parts belong to the same individ
ual is unquestionable, thus furnishing
the Darwinians another proof of theil
theory. 1t was an aquatic bird, carniv
orous, and it is the only one, thus fal
found. exhibiting these double character
istics of bird and reptile.
AN UNsoPHIsTICATED emigrant from
Queen Vic.'s little island, carpet-bag il
hand, came down to the river bank a
Poughkeepsie, n Y, one bitter cold day
recently, and not being very well postet
about matters and things generally in thi
| 'blawsted' country, asked innocently o
some OF the frolicsome youths who wer