Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-02-04
BREvITIES.

! A KENTUCKY magistrate married two
brothers to two sisters at one fell swoop
the other day
| A CONNECTICUT woman, aged ninety,
writes for the local paper. Hope she is
a rising young journalist.
WHAT is that which lives in winter,
dies in summer, and always grows with
its roots upward? An icicle
"THE rude foretathers of the hamlet"
are not known in Utah, but there are
often four rude mothers in family.
Forty girls will run after snob with
a gold-headed cane where one will Shy
up TO a fellow with sound horse sense.
THE farmers in some parts of Connect
| icut go to the adjoining towns and pay
! Sl4 per cord for barnyard manure for
| their farms.
| THOSE New York young women con-
| tinue to marry Dukes. An ourang
outang with title wouldn't be safe
| among them.
lT is proposed to allow the inmates of
Wethersfield Comm prison a commuta-
ton for their ration of tobacco If they
will give it up.
THE Boston Journal is cut to the core
to think it costs more to mail paper to
a subscriber in Boston than to one in
San Francisco,
A NEW HAMPSHIRE boy does not dare
to sass his mother until he is eighteen
years old, and even then he gets the door
open before saying much.
MISS ANNE PAYNE broke through the
ice while skating the other day in New
Hampshire, but was rescued in season to
avoid Annie Paynefull results.
AN Indianapolis woman has sued for
divorce because her husband made her
eat for her supper large loaf of sour
bread she had set before him.
AUBURN, N. Y, hasn't a single bald
headed man among its citizens, and the
Courier-JournaJ inters that Auburn
haired men are never bald-headed.
EDWARD FRoDsMAN, Mormon, of
Ogden, Utah, has been driven out of
town because he wanted to add his niece,
girl of fourteen, TO his collection Of
wives
4 VERMONT woman broke an omnibus
| drivers nose at one blow, and she was
! on her way to a wa'er-cure establish
ment, and supposed to be in dying con
dltion at that.
ALARMING news comes from Salem,
Oregon, where debating society has
Resoloed, That the public press OF the
United States is a public nuisance, and
ought to be abated."
The New Jersey authorities are think
ing about arresting the lady managers of
church fairs where lotteries have been
run during the past month They are all
liable under the State laws.
ABpUoTINc children ought to be en-
couraged. After awhile when the crop
of small boys had become exhausted
some Of the big boobies who fire off pis-
tolls on Christmas might be taken.
GLOVE CAKE.--One cup molasses, one
cup sugar, one cup butter, one cup but
termik, three eggs, three cups flour, one
tablespoon cloves, one Of cinnamon, one
| teaspoon saleratus in milk, raisins
BosToN is said to have less brains than
| formerly; but Boston explains the mat
ter by saying that she has distributed
through the country all the brains the
country has, and what can you expect?
If an Arizona doctor should treat a
man for collie and the disease proved to
be rheumatism the patients friends
would admit that mistakes are inevitable
but would commence firing at long
range.
THE Toledo Democrat heads a recipe:
"How to destroy red aunts." The man
who laws his hand on our aunt, save in
the way of kindness, will never know
how much his tombstone cost.-DctroH
Free Press.
A PAPER, IN speaking Of the good
| things in the village where 1t is pub
| 1;ehal ,ovo. Wa arn prnud IF tho
| impressibly solemn appearance of our
undcrtakers. A smiling undertaken is
| hideous incubus on the growth OF
place"
AN Austin TEX paper advertises to
be rallied for, "an Indian outfit, consist
| ing Of bow and culver and an Indian
scalp. There is also one white feather
| on string, showing that a white man
had been killed by the Indian to whom
it belonged"
HAsTY BREAD PUDDING. - Put one
quart Of milk in porcelain kettle, set
| it over the fire, butter slices of bread and
crumble in until thick, beat three eggs,
add sugar and flavoring as for custard;
| when the milk is hot pour in the eggs,
stir well, take up and serve.
SMOKE and vapor have for some time
been seen issuing from Bald Hill, at
North Fayston, VT, and the snow has
| been melted for an acre around, though
| it is two feet deep in the vicinity. Re
| sponsible persons who have examined 1t
| declare it to be volcano on small
scale.
THE codling moth is one of the great
| est pests the orchardist has to contend
with. Mr.. +. S. Thell gives the follow
| ing preventive: 1.-TWO quarts salt dis
| solved in water and boiled. Slack peck
| of lime in it while hot and reduce the