Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-11-11
VARIETY AND HUMOR.
The last trump-Spades.

The last trump-Spades.
=" Vagabonds Of the heavens" is what
M. Guillemin calls comets.
Only 10000 bushels of cranberries
this year. The war on Turkey will not be
so sassy.
That menagerie rhinoceros which fell
through Florida bridge injured its owner
$50, 900 worth.
"A new series of revenue frauds, by
repeated use OF stamps on casks of lager
beer, is reported TO have been discovered
at st. Louis.
A man was fined ten dollars for try
ing to shoot his wife in a country town
of Massachusetts but then it was in evil
dence that she wasn't very good wife.
"A man who is going up in balloon
in New Haven has received letter from
some amiable husband, offering him $500
to take the writer's wife along and quietly
drop her out.
"A New Orleans property holder wish
ing to sell, finds his title clouded by q
Judgment against another person of the
same name, and he is driven to the courts
to get it released.
"A lady having been ordered by her
physician to warmer climate, her hus-
band remarked that if there was a warmer
climate than he had been living in since
he was married he was not aware of it.
A Chicago fire-sufferer may be occa-
sionally encountered on the highway or
the doorstep, but it is evident that an
ether year will cripple the last one so that
he cannot get about.-Detrott Free Press.
"A Chicago paper contrasts certain lu-
gubrious forecastings concerning harvests
with actual returns, and remarks that at
is generally safe to discount croakers
predictions about crops from 80 to 100 per
cent"
"A Burlington (Vt.) boy being asked
by his teacher, the other day, what occa-
stoned the sadness of the sea, after rehec.
ton, advanced with some confidence the
opinion that it "must be owing to the
codfish.'
Buy of and sell to men whom YOU
know personally, or who are engaged in
regular permanent business, whenever
this can be done. Other things being
equal, buy and sell in the market nearest
home Western Rural.
"A three year-old child of Samuel Han
son, of Biddeford, Me-, was shockingly
bitten in the face by small house dog,
with which she was playing, the other day.
The cur tore out one side of the child's
mouth and bit off its tongue.
"A Baltimore husband complained in
the Police Court the other day that he had
been swindled by his wife, abetted by a
nurse, the fraud consisting in making him
believe that a baby procured from a found
ling asylum was his own offspring.
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ploded the other night under the windows
of the Harvard (Mass.) College buildings,
and several hundred panes of glass were
shattered. 1t was q narrow escape from
more serious damage. Some of the stu
dents, it is said, were the perpetrators.
"A lady, who in 1871 was in the Con-
gress Park at Saratoga, was attacked by a
stag there that was in a fierce state and it
injured her badly. She sued the Congress
and Empire Springs Company for dam
ages, and has just received a verdict for
$1,000. The deer are kept loose in the
park as an ornament and objects of inter
est.
"A medical contemporary, lauding the
system of International weather bulletins
lately established by our Signal Service
Bureau, goes on TO hope that similar
scheme may ere long be applied to the
record of prevalent zymotic diseases, in
the form of AN International bulletin set
ting forth officially the movements of
waves of epidemic disease from their
initiation to their decline, medical signal
officers becoming the counterpart of the
weather observers"
Recently man named Gavan Green
way was arraigned in the Superior Court
of Atlanta, Ga, for horse-stealing, and
obtained continuance by swearing that
two witnesses whom he wanted to bring
saw him pay $50 for the horse. A few
mornings after the case was again called,
and Greenway promptly pleaded guilty.
thereby perjuring himself. Judge Hop
kins called the attention ofthe Grand Jury
TO the fact which promptly indicted him
for perjury, to which he also pleaded
guilty; whereupon Judge Hopkins SEN
fenced the prisoner to ten years in the
Penitentiary for horse stealing and four
for perjury All this was done in very
few minutes.
We have it on good authority says
the Council Bluffs Qowa) Globe, that neal
this city, a few days ago, game OF " sew.
en-up" was played, a little girl of five
summers being the prize. The father had
played and lost everything he had and
while under the influence of liquor, pro
posed to put up his little girl against 6
certain amount of money. The PROPOSE
ton was at once accepted and the game
began. At the last hand the game stood
father FIVE opponent two. In the deal thu
father received the following trumps
King, ten, seven and tray. Els opponen
received ace, Jack, four and deuce TIL,