Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-10-14
VARIETY AND HUMOR.
Sack for a thief-Ransack.
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Sack for thief-Ransack.
There is no luck like pluck.
The tax which presses most heavily
on school-boys-Syn-tax.
The potato-rot is doing considerable
damage in Western New York.
Fire is said to be adissipated element,
because it goes out almost every night.
Goldsmith Maid" hates to acknowl-
edge it, but she has reached the goth year
of her age.
The Bushes, quite an aristocratic
family, are out in fall style, with various
shades of red and yellow
Now the heart of the average woman
dilatcs with pride as she fondly strokes the
fur Of her seal-skin sac9ue.
Bell peppers make very fine mangoes,
stuffed just as you would musk-melons,
emitting pepper and substituting celery
seed
1T is said that human being has
100000 of pores through which perspi-
ration and exhausted particles of the sys-
TEN escape. We are all pore creatures.
-" Do they ring two bells for school 2"
said father to his ten-year-old daughter,
who attends the High. School No, pa,
they ring one bell twice." she replied.
King Kalakaua is sick, and because
school of red fish came into the bay of
Honolulu lately the superstitious ma
tives believe that their King must die.
Under the Constitution of Missouri
every city of 100000 inhabitants is emit
tied to the right of self government. St
Louis is the only city in the State that can
avail itself of the provision.
Three months ago the Montana pa
pers would have stated that horse dealer
had been invited to a hempen,necktie So
ciable; now they say that the citizens have
put a pull-back cravat on him.
The few people of Florida who have
been graciously saved oversummer are be-
ginning to bestir themselves as cool wealth
er comes on, and invite all the rest of the
world to come down there and live.
-Belleville, Ohio, has a champion
hunter to boast of. His name is George
Bittenbanner. He does not sport a $3.50
breech loading gun, warranted to kill Il
prairie chicken at the distance of 200
yards, but, on the contrary, he is contented
with an old flint-lock musket that does
not look to be worth $3.50. Neither does
George put on style in a fancy turnout,
but drives dilapidated old mare to
little rickety wagon that only holds to-
gether by the force of habit and, strange
to say, his tavorite hunting-dog is com
mon cur that was brought up about town
and never saw "A prairie chicken until he
was five years old But Bittenbanner un-
derstands the nature of his game and has
made a study of its habits, and knows
when and where it can be found in the
greatest abundance, and about four p. m.
he may be seen with his strange accoutre-
ments heading for the country, and about
nine O'Clock he is almost sure to return
with from fifty to sixty roasting ears and
half dozen fine melons lying snug in
the bottom of his little wagon.
The Marietta tGa) Jomnal was told
by a gentleman the other day that human
spittle was as deadly to poisonous snakes
as their bites were deadly to man. He
says while picking up bundle of straw
and trash under his arm, while cleaning Il
field, ground rattlesnake, four feet long,
crawled out from it and fell to the ground
at his feet. He at once placed his heel
upon the head of the snake and spit in its
mouth Shortly afterward the snake
showed symptoms of inactivity and sick
ness, and he picked it up by It's tail and
carried it to the house and showed it TO
his wife, telling her he had spit in its
mouth and that it was poisoned. At the
expiration Of fifteen minutes the snake was
dead. To further experiment he came
across a blowing adder Snake, which
elected from its mouth Il yellowish liquid
He caught it and spit in its mouth and it
died. He caught another blowing and it
refused 10 open its mouth. Hespit upon a
stick and rubbed the spittle upon the adj
ders nose and it died. Afterward he came
across a black-snake, regarded as not
poisonous, and he caught it and spit in It's
mouth Instead Of the spittle killing the
black-snake, as it did the poisonous rep
tiles, it only made it stupidity sick, from
which it recovered. This conclusively
shows that poisonous snakes have as mnch
to fear from the spittle of man as man has
to fear from their bites