Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-11-04
VARIETY AND HUMOR.

New Jersey invests 81, 900, OO0 per an
mum in cranberry culture.
Rush County, Tex, has the only
chestnut tree in the State.
There is n piece of soap in Albany
supposed to be 100 years old.
Several Atlantic cities are trying to
put down the tiddling, harping and beg
ging nuisance.
The Dalmatians in San Francisco are
raising money to send TO the relief of the
Herzegovinian sufferers.
1t is said that in each Of the forty-five
tobacco factories of Richmond are organ
lied bands of colored vocalists.
Fall River operatives who have been
left out Of work are frequently found as
stowaways on European steamers.
Arsenic eating is universal among
the Styrians, who believe that it is con-
ducive to strength and the attainment of
old age.
Those who doubt the utility of female
colleges will be silcnced on learning that
300 letters were mailed from Vassar Col
lcgc recently.
The tongue Of horse became para
lyze6 in Oneida Valley, N Y, lately.
Being unable to take food or water he
died A very unusual case
"A French widower says that when a
Frenchman loses his wife il is his first
duty to cry over his loss, and then it be
comes habit and finally pleasure.
A man who bought chest of tea in
Binghamton, N. Y, found in il a stone
weighing twelve pounds-a sort of thing
rnlrnlutpI IN ~ ny tn nbr;-
ate
Gen. jeff. Thompson is credited with
the prediction that by Jan. | the Missis
sippi will have cut new channel near
Nicksburg, leaving that place two miles
inland.
"A small island has within the past
twelve months formed in the Delaware
River, opposite Bordentown Vegetation
has taken hold upon it and ii is trequented
by birds.
The Twelfth Maid of Oxford died of
a piece of wire about six inches long, such
as is used in baling hay, and which, as u
post-mortem showed, had penetrated
some distance into the substance of the
heart.
Respect old age. If you have
maiden aunt thirty.three years old, and
she is passing herself off as girl of twen-
ty, there is no excuse for you to expose
her The more you respect her age and
keep still about it the more she will re-
spect you.-7aunton (Wass.) Gazette.
An amateur sportsman in the Catskill
regions was understood to have shot q
bear the other day, ana the telegraph Of
fees within 100 miles Of the neighborhoOd
were paid to send the news TO the gentle
mans friends in town. 1t was subse
quently ascertained that the bear was a
COW.
Said wife to her husband Il" How
is it that You can't come home nights in
some sort of season." The gentle rctort
was You got me in the way of it, Be
fore we were married you used to throw
your arms about my neck nj three O'Clock
and say Don't go, darling, it is early
yet, but now if | happen to stay out till
two ii is a terrible affair."
Nothing tends more thoroughly to
shutter ones confidence in outward ap-
pearances than 10 see IA young man, clad
in the height of fashion, saunter into a
crowded restaurant pull off his kids
languidly, seat himself at a table consult
the bill OF fare and then Immediately after
ward TO hear the walters voice ringing
out the magic words zone plate Of hash
and glass Of waer.-Neto Yorh Commaer-
cjak AdgerttSer.
"A correspondent Of the Jeaotsh Mes
seager says: The small boy sharpcned his
pencil and wrote the adventures of the
day The diary was passed around, and
we admired the graphic description Of sea
life, couched in sentences like these:
June 18Th, Very Ruff. June 18th,
Rutler today. June 10th, To-day we went
81 nols II is still very ruff. June 18th,
There were not many at dinner to-day,
and ] liked the plums. June 10Th, I
didn't keep diary yesterday. Ma said
it was the glums. "a nots to-day"
Alaska is not Territory to which The
emigrant has been powerfully attracted
hitherto. Its settlement has seemed likely
to be postponed until that remote time
when the inhabitants of all the rest Of the
country should begin To feel uncomiorta-
bly, crowded. IT, however, anything can
| turn steady current Of travel toward u
new land it is the discovery of gold there
in. Report of such discovery in Alaska
has recently been made. 1t needs con
tirmatiOn, il IL true, but that is all that is
necessary Ia attract adventures in greater
numbers than could the most salubrlous
climate or a tropically rich soil. Gold
digging is the least profitable OF all dig
ging-to the diggers; but that lesson Is
never learned by those persons who suffer
most from ignorance Of it--N. I. Egen-