Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-03
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

GRAYsoN SPRINGS, Tenn, has had the
same postmaster for forty years.
AJEwIsH synagogue recently completed
in Philadelphia cost $500, 900.
He is happiest, be he king, or peasant
who finds peace in his home Goethe.
ATRUE American is too proud to beg
and too honest to steal. He gets trusted.
I-Dan5at7y Neaes.
A CoNNECTIcUT editor having been
elected fence-viewer, calls on all who
have fences to be viewed to bring them
to his Office, under penalty of the law.
A HOUSE is never perfectly furnished
for enjoyment unless there is child in i,
rising three years old, and kitten rising
six weeks.-Soutaey.
THE news seems to be almost too good
to be true, but it is officially announced
| that false hair is hereafter to be entirely
tabooed from the heads of fashionable
ladies. But what will tney look likes
BRIGHAM You've, according to the Dan
bury Nesos, is troubled with perpetually
recurring silver, wooden, tin, glass, linen,
and pewter weddings. He is becoming
demoralized. and the Government is pre-
pairing to withdraw its troops.
LET young man at twenty years OF
age put twenty dollars at interest, instead
Of expending it for tobacco. Then. at
the beginning OF the next year repeat it,
and include also the principal and interest
to do from year to year, until he shall
have reached the age of seventy; the
amount he would realize would exceed
tn irtv fhOu aopd Anllara
In RUMNEY, n. H., little dog was re-
peatedly baified in his attempt to catch a
woodchuck as it ran in long drain,
making it's exit at the other end as the
dog followed through. He finally brought
a neighboring dog, stationed him at one
end of the drain, then drove the wood
chuck through, and he was caught. In
East Woburn, Mass. large Newfound-
land dog lately caught a mouse and car
ried it about until he found q kitten, to
which he gave it.
LEARN TRADE-One man with a
trade is worth thousand without one.
The hosts of young men in every large
city who apply for employment and fail
to get it, for the reason that they can not
truthfully affirm that they are educated
or especially fitted for any particular
business, constitute potent argument in
favor of reform. Under the apprentice
system, we should have fewer ignorant
mechanics and incompetent business
men. A trade is fortune in itself.
whisper broke the air
A soft, light tone and low
Yet barhed with shame and woe;
Now might it perish only there,
Nor further 60.
All! me, quick and eager ear
Caught up the little meaning sound,
Another voice had breathed it clear,
And so it wandered round
From ear to lip, from lip TO ear,
, Until it reached gentle heart,
And that it broke.
CONVENIENCE OF A DISH KETTLE
"You want nothing but dish kettle, y
said an old housewife in the backwoods,
to her daughter, who had just got mar
ried. "Why, when your father and !
commenced, | had nothing but dish
kettle. used to boil my coffee in it, and
pour it into pitcher; then boiled my
potatoes in it, and set them on a warm
plate, while | stewed up the meat in it.
used 10 milk in it-and always
after meal, fed the pigs
out Of the dish kettle. Sal, if you are
only mind to, you can use it for any
thing.
A SOLICITOR who had recently been en-.
gagged by prominent life insurance irm
returned to the office of his employers,
the other day, and complained that he
had been snubbed by gentleman on
whom he had called ''Snubbed," cried
the manager, "snubbed? Why, what
did you do that he should have snubbed
you? I have solicited life insurance from
the Atlantic to the Mississippi, and have
never yet been snubbed. | have been
| kicked down stairs, beaten over the head
with chairs, and thrown out of the win
dow, but snubbed / never have been. y
The solicitor is driving coal wagon.
PROF TYNDALL illustrates the value OF
a single potato by supposing that every
potato in the world but one were destroy.
possibility of again stocking the world
with an invaluable article of food. II
! one potato would produce, when planted,
only crop of ten potatoes, in ten years
| the total product of the produce of this
one potato would be equal to ten thousand
millions, which would be sufficient to
stock the whole world with seed. The
| real value of that single potato, then
would be such that it would be better that
the city of London or New York should
be totally destroyed than that tuber should
be lost to the world.
SIGNS OF FDEATH-In 1870, the Academy
of Sciences in Paris offered prize OF
30, coo francs $4,000 for simple bu
positive sign of death which any non
professional person could understand anG
apply. The British Medi:al Press ant
| Circular says: "The most practical anG
satisfactory one given was to tie string
| firmly around one of the fingers of tht
supposed corpse; if the blood circulate.
in the least, the whole finger, from tht
string to the tip, will swell and become
| disco,ored. This depends upon the fac
that, however profound the syncope, o.
| however death-like the person may ap
pear, if there is any circulation whatever
| the person is not dead. The test Is sim
| pie and conclusive"
| INVISIBLE WATKR.-There is nc bette
example of invisible water than that giver
| by DR.. Tyndall. At every puff of rail
way locomotive, cloud is projected intt
the air. Watch it sharply; you notice
! that it first forms at little distance from
| the top of the funnel. Give close atten
ton, and you will sometimes see per
! fectly clear space between the funnel an(
| the cloud. Through that clear space tn,
thing which makes the cloud must pass
What, then, is this thing which at on,
moment is transparent and invisible, ant
at the next moment visible as q dense
opaque ciouds 1t is the steam or vspo