Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-08-26
VARIETY AND HUMOR.

Reading, Pa, has cemetery for dead
dogs.
"A girl of in.bread usefulness-Sally.
ratus.
California ladies have struck against
wearing earrings.
Boston people have brought out silver
mounted hitching-posts.
They tell of a snow-bank up in New
Hampshire eight feet deep.
--Wyandotte is so busy now that she
graspeth a pencil and hastily writes it
Y &
Turtle meat sells for fivecen pound
in Cedar Key, Fla. More turtles than peo-
pie to eat them, probably.
A grocer at Paterson, n j., died the
next day after advertising in newspaper.
Isn't this warning enough?
A Philadelphia hotel clerk claims that
hotel clerk must be dignitied to be re-
spected A smile would be his ruin
-" What about Cuba?" asks the st.
Louis Times. AS Cuba is an island, we
should -water!-Rochester Express.
Two ambitious fellows who went to
count the Thousand Islands have returned
odd.
A Virginia horse committed suicide
the other day. In most parts of the world
suicide is committed only by asses,
Globe Democrat.
Some chaps in Topeka shaved George
Perkins head just for fun, and a jury de-
cided that his hair was worth 81 300.
Topeka is no place for fun.
-India-rubber horseshoes are coming
into use, and they make a horse prance
whether he wants to or not. There's no
longer any need of driving tacks into the
harness.
If a Missouri man gets killed while
riding a race the crowd is certain to chip
in and raise more money for the widow
than the husband would have earned in
two years.
-Sixty-four convicts in the Maine State
Prison last January agreed to leave off
the use of tobacco and have weekly
newspaper furnished them instead, and
thus far they have held to their agree
ment.
The Danbury Ne'cs says: ga trip to
Europe dissipates many preudices stores
the mind with valuable information, and
inspires many to eat with n fork who had
never before been able to get the hang
of it."
After every hard rain at Hawesvile,
KY, particles of quicksilver, from the
smallest visible size to that of squirrel
shot, are TO be found in the cracks between
the paving stones Its source should be
hunted.
1.-THE love of bonnet is nothing but hu-
man nature at play"
Says his reverence, Prof. David Swing
But when for this human nature at play you
have roundly to pay,
How your reverence for Swing takes wing.
Toledo Blade.
-EX- President johnson was believer
in life insurance, and illustrated his faith
by his acts to an extent that is rare indeed,
even nowadays. The aggregate of the pol
icies on his life is said to lie no less than
$3.50, 000.-Boston Post.
"A New Jersey poultryman has sold
lot ot25S capons, averaging ten and hall
pounds each, for thirty light cents pound.
The total sum of over 81 600 for the lot is
a handsome remuneration for the small
trouble in rearing this small quantity of
fowls.
The lightning came down into Fra
mingham potdto-patch the other day and
dug hole eight feet deep. If the po-
tato bugs don't heed this terrible warn
ing, the Worcester tMass.) Press thinks,
they will deserve no sympathy if one
of their number should get struck some
times.
There's an old antiquarian who has
been travelling about the country for TWEEN
for a ,,,h ip1,
according to some story, an Indian maiden
and her lover didn't throw themselves
when pursued by vengcful tribe. He
hasn't found such rock yet, and is getting
very old and very hopeless.
"A railing accusation is brought
against poultry dealers that they with long
pliers, break the breast bone Of an old hen
about one and halt inches from the point
where nature would make it prominent,
and when the sagacious housekeeper feels
for the same she murmurs young" and
pays the price of the chicken without a
grumble.
The mounds near Lake Minnesota
Mimi, are being visited and examined by
many people just now, and there is quite
revival of interest in these remains of the
race of Mound builders. In fact, no young
lady in st. Paul is considered as belonging
to the ham ton unless she can trace a direct
genealogical descent from some particular
pile of moldering bones in these mounds,
ard a choice collection Of decayed frag-
ments of skeletons is quite essential to the
comfort Of every well-regulated family in
the State. -Chdcag0 Times.
Several ladies were sitting togclheron
the balcony Of the Clifton, Niagara, The
other night, when the moon, although
full, A" was not demonstratiye. A natty
little fellow approached the group and
softly said: -" Pussie, darling" whereupon
all the young ladies jumped up and came
toward him eagerly. He selected one and
walked away with her. The other brides