Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-06-19


will be a treat as soon as the American
travel sets in, to sit on the steps of st.
Lawrence Hall and watch the arrival of
coaches full of large, handsome, rosy
checked American girls-girls with
roguish faces, paniers, and the general
hifalutin of New York toilet. The men
are stout, strong, large, handsome, and
healthy. They improve on the male species
in Canada, but we are ahead on the girls.
THE following elegant extract is vouch-
ed for as a genuine document presented to
a horse owner in ST. Louis: SAINT Lewis
Ganewerry the 4d 1878. Mr.. r oiames
HanKox Vetturerinary physickian and
Sergeant DIR. Too medil1le advice twict,
3 dollars; Konsultation over ded mare
sed too hev he'd the eppzout, 70 cents
Coin TO see two sick hosses in the mite
very cold, dollars; to treatment of a
kream kolored hoss two DAYS with medi-
suns, 4 dollars and 80 cents. To making
an Obstetrikul eXaminashun of a hosses
throat, 1 dollars and 80 cents; To settin
up all mite in barn with a sick hoss, 2
dollars and 80 cents; To written pree-
skripshun for bolts, and also one for
spaving 1 dollar; To holding a postmor-
tim eXaminashun on hoss who after
wards recovered, / dollar 80 cents: To
givin my opinyun one day on the street
regarding the kause Of the Zoot, 4 dollars.
Totil, 20 dollars and IS cents.
HUMoRs OF PRoHIBITI oN.-A lady but
lately settled at Concord n H,-relates
the Patriot of that city-went into drug
store and innocently asked for pint of
| alcohol, to be used in a spirit lamp.
Have you prescriptions" inquired the
| clerk, politely. "a what?" asked the lady,
in surprise. "a prescription from a ply
sician,' explained the clerk; ''we are rot
| allowed to sell alcohol unless it is ordered
| by a physician" Not even alcoholic
said the astonished customer. "Well,
| that is strange. | was not aware that any
| one ever drank pure alcohol as bever-
/ age" VERY true. | think myself that
| such regulation is ridiculous, but we
must obey it. | am sorry if you are in
convenienced, but cannot sell you any
alcohol unless you bring a prescription"
| The lady left the drug store, and when
| last seen, in the middle Of the afternoon,
was circulating around looking for a
| physician who would be willing to certify
| that her spirit lamp was seriously ill
| with some disease or other peculiar to
| lamps at this season of the year-and that
| its case was one requiring treatment with
| stimulants.
| a DOG STORY OF THE OLD-FAsHIoNED
! KINDA few days since, Mrs. Joshua
! Hewitt, living near Pennsgrove, n. J., left
| her little boy, about three years old, in
| the yard, where he was amusing himself
with dog. Some time after she heard
the dog creating a great disturbance below,
barking and scratching at the door lead
| ing to the stairway, and making other
Gp Gfy.1+I Of Il
| ing that something was wrong, she ran
! down stairs and opened the door. With
almost human sagacity the dog gave a
bark of delight, and ran to an open we'll
in the yard. The frightened mother ran
to the well, which was fortunately filled
nearly to the top with water, and discov-
cred her child in time to snatch him from
the waters just as he was sinking beneath
the surface. When rescued the child was
insensible, but, restoratives being applied,
consciousness returned. The dog mean
while manifested its joy by capering
about the room jumping upon the couch
where the infant was lying, and licking
the face and form Of the unconscious little
one, which its sagacity had saved
A RIGHTEoUs JUDGMENT-The several
millions Of tortured and corn afflicted pco-
pie in this country should read this para
graph and forever after bear the name of
Humphreys in grateful recollection.
Humphreys is a Judge at the city of Wash
ington in the District OF Columbia Before
him came as party plaintiff a shoemaker,
and asked judgment against man for
whom he had made pair of shoes. Came
also the defendant and made answer that
the said shoes did not fit. As TO the issue
which was Joined on the averment of the
defendant, the shoes were the best wit
nesses, and they Were brought into the
court and placed upon the feet of the de
fendant. That they would go on is a fact
that would seem to have initiated some
what against the theory Of the defense; but
the defendant swore that being on, the
shoes made existence insufferable. Then
it was that Humphreys uttered the great
principle that should make his name i'm
mortal. He said, in substance, that tight
shoes were a torture that no freeman
should be required to endure, and that
when a shoemaker fails to consult the com
fort Of his patron, the latter is under no
obligations to pay for the work. Judg-
ment for the defendant. And yet the Pres
ident hesitates as to who should be made
Chiet-Justice !-Erchaage.