Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-07-22
VARIETY AND HUMOR.

mon, half skill and half luck.
"A daring climber at Yale, to celebrate
the recent baseball victory over Harvard
climbed the steeple of the college chapel
and attached to the vane large blue flag
over a smaller one Of crimson.
We like to see man reasonably quiet
and peaceable, but when he stands in one
Mace long enough for the wasps to build a
nest in his hair he ought to be kicked into
some sort of Observation-Disclosures
An Irish gentleman of the agricultural
persuasion being recommended by "a friend
iv adviser to heap Goals OF fire on the head
Il an aggravating wife, went home and
did So Her recovery is doubtful, and the
prisoner is remanded.
Places for boys to find work are be-
coming very scarce and the pay for their
work very small of late years, on account
Of the surplus of applicants. There seems
10 be but one remedy for this-having
Fourth of July of(ener.
Mrs. Mohair says she doesn't want to
find fault with the indestructible DEGREES
of Providence, but she really believes that
Old Possibilities has taken prejudice
AGAINST her black and white grenadine
dress. She has had to postpone wearing it
uncomfortable times on account Of the in
coherency of the weather.
A singular case of suicide recently oc-
Cured in Vernon, N. Y. Moses Beken,
an old and respected citizen of that village,
hung himself in consequence of extreme
depression Of spirits resulting from the
persecution of creditor whom he was I'M
able to pay and who annoyed and insulted
him until his life became insuppOrtable.
Moral: Never dun a man.
The other evening Vicksburg topper
got full and started for home, took wrong
direction. wandered into the outskirts of
the city, fell down, and lay beside the
fence all night. He was aroused in the
morning by "A hog roofing him over, when,
lcaping up and hanging TO the fence, he
took look at the porker and exclaimed ::
"P.perhaps you ththink I'm a-a com-com-
mon d-drunkard, but you've made bad
m-mistake, old tellow!'
One of the morning papers has a list
of sixty persons killed, manned, or in
iured Yesterday in New York and Brook
Ign by reckless artillery, premature pistols,
impatient sky-rockcts and eccentric fire
crackers, blue lights, serpents, quill
wheels and other explosives. Surprising
this list to record half of the actual num-
Der of accidents it would imply 4,S00
blow-ups Of one kind or other in the coun-
try at large.-N. Y. Grdphic.
One of our large sheep growers, says
the san Benito (Cal) .4doance, says that
the practice Of annual shearing will be
come more general than it has been in Cal
ilornia, AS the six months clip is too short
to fetch a satisfactory price among wool
1,1
for wool of long staple and weight, and
advanced figures obtained, besides the
ready sale it always commands, will in
duce many wool growers to abandon the
semi-annual clip.
Mr.. Blivens, an old bachelor of Roch-
ester, who is much absorbed in politics,
visited the widow Graham the other day,
lust after reading Grants letter, and asked
her what she thought OF a third term.
Now, the widow had been twice married,
and in response to the question she made
rush for the astonshed Mr.. Blivens, and,
taking him tightly in her arms, exclaimed
"Oh, YOU dear, dear mani What happy
woman | am" At last accounts Mr.. b
had locked himself in his wood-house and
was endeavering to explain things to the
widow through the key-hole.
While attending church at Portland
Me, on a recent evening, Miss Annie
Louise Cary went into the choir and as
>umed the soprano part, which rang quite
low in the closing hymn. When the con
gregation passed out, commenting on the
glorious voice of the unknown singer, q
lady who prides herself on her musical
taste said in answer to the question of g
friend: Il think it is one of that -
street choir. She has a pretty good voice
but it lacks cultivation sadly" And now
the prima donnas friends are urging hei
TO supply that lack during her forthcoming
visit to Europe.-N. 7. Irtbaae.
The San Francisco Bulletin is respon
slole for the story that recently lady ad
yertsed in that journal for a situation as
\ COOK, housekeeper or governess. She was
4 probably successful in her search for EN-
ployment, as several letters addressed tc
her remained in the Office of the news
paper Attracted by his curiosity ;
clerk opened one of these, which proceed
ed from a reputable and wealthy gentle
4 man IN Placer County, who not only re
CURED such service as that proposed, bu
wife to supcrintend its execution, anC
q ule letter added that a woman who had the
4 spirit To thus do for herself was the kind o.
II wife he was in quest of The language o
u me ntS>lve, rs we'll rs its suggestions, SUI
u A1ltnlly attested the honor and sincerity o
q the writer
III knocking worm-nests from apple
II t''> is common occupation at present
IN impetuously removing a nest from
Il uet Oh Spring street yesterday two of tn,
i worms fell outside the nest. and wen
a o'"n the neck of the woman who Wa
a watching the operation. She emitted
piercing scream and went plunging unde
u 4- ree~ uttering shrek after shrek TIL,
Il husband, knowing nothing of the cause o
u Ae outbreak, very discreetly took to th