Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-08-19
VARIETY AND HUMOR.

The dOryph0rd decem ante0fd is all
.ronnd us. The reader needn't pack up
ar Furope-it is only the potato-bug.
Can gentleman bet?" asks cor
.osrondent of the New York Euening Post.
ue can. but he had better not.-BoSton
still full of trouble in Nevada. A
,;,izen can't pat out solid silver door
Slate without having to sit up all night TO
watch it.
BOSTON papers are rejoicing over the fact
.bot the health of that place, compared with
,bot If other great cities in this country, Is
very good.
Prof. Tice says that we shall have
srow in October, but if he can fix for
snring weather in January the public
won't growl
Chicago has floating hospital. Pa
ants can hear the sad sea waves beating
ssanst the planks as they imbibe their
mutton soup.
This wear the walters in the White
Mountain hotels are students of Bates
College. 1t has been more or less the case
for several years.
Winchester, Va, which was taken and
rafl
has not varied hundred in population in
twenty-five years.
The sea-serpent needn't expect any
further favors from the press unless he
vricnles into sight oftener than he has for
The last two months.
AT a meeting of doctors in New
Orleans the other night it was unanimous
X agreed that New Orleans is the health
lest city in the world.
-Durlga thunderstorm in Maine the
lightning Killed a horse worth $500 and
never touched an old COW which had just
kicked a woman senseless.
-" Mrs. Mary Coffin" is credited with
an unsuccessful attempt to smuggle Chi
nese cargo into California. Honest tea
i, the best, Polly C."-Graphic.
-Parasos, except in the middle of the
day during the heated term are per-
nicious things. as are the wells with which
50 many fashionable ladies shade their
faces
Schroeder, the Baltimore balloonist,
saws he is going to England sin fifty
hours This seems eXtravagant. Won't
he lust knock off an hour and make it
urty-nine?
Letters and packages from foreign
countries which are suspected of contain
inc articles subject to duty are hereafter
to be opened by the owner in the presence
Of Custom House officer.
A fashion writer says For light
carriage wear crepe de chine shawls are
much worn, and are exceedingly pretty,
cream, white and delicate shades of blue
and pink being the tavsrite colors. A new
blue called blucbell, is disttague having
l. silvery appearance in the evening that
b charming.
A composition, in setting up Scien
gtfc lecture delivered by Prof Smith, of
Philadelphia, came across sentence
(which he pat in type thus; Filtration
Is sometimes arrested by the use Of alder
men" Judge of the surprise depicted on
! the countenancc Of the professor on read
! ing the proof. The sentence should have
been; Filtration is sometimes assisted
| by the use of albumen."
We have seen dyspeptics who suffered
untold torments with almost every kind Of
TODD No liquid could be taken without
: suffering; bread became Il buring acid :;
meat and milk were solid and liquid fires.
To avoid food and drink, and even going
10 the enema syringe for susteuance. And
we have seen their torments pass away and
their hunger relieved by living upon the
white of eggs which had been boiled in
ou5bling water for thirty minutes. At the
enG Of the week we have given the hard
yoIk OF the egg, with the white, and upon
iais diet alone, without fluid of any kind,
We have seen them begin to gain flesh and
strength and refreshing sleep. After weeks
OF this treatment they have been able, with
care, TO begin upon tood.-Wedicat Jour-
aR
The Hartford Post relates suggest
I'VE lit le story, as follows: Early in 1862
youth named Frederick Boyer found a
= olil on the street and turned it over to
Ohlei Chamberlin to be returned TO the
owner. In April Of that year, no owner
having appeared, the money was deposited
ID nc Pratt Street Savings Bank to the
yir.lt OF young Boyer, and remained I'M
disturbed until 1873, when Boyer came to
VIZ. Nhamberlin, saying that he needed a
PAIR ot boots and had no funds. He was
gwen an order on Marcy, and year later
HF thamherlin drew the expense of the
s', from the deposit, which by this time
,'o increased To S9.11 by interest. To-day
P'ysF made his appearance again with "a
~e.Aand for more boots, and went with the
NET to the Savings Bank, where he re-
wed Sj.2S. The money originally found
I"i mus been of much more benefit than
u NE had retained and spent it, and sew
FRA. other boys whose interests have been
.''"ti after 10y Mr. Chamberlin in similar
a'1> nave now, with the original depos-
anu their own additions. some nice
III 4','erss' laid away for the future.
-'0ga deposited in their own names, en-
''' are made in the books stipulating
""' Tire money shall not be drawn without
w. a'4uicsccnce of Mr.. Chamberlin, and
", '"-'rictio.l has been OF real advantage
Tie youngsters"