Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-07-15
VARIETY AND HUMOR.

A toast to the American team-May
they be successful rivals, even as their
guns are rifles.
with nothing to do, are daily "strolling on
the sand" at Saratoga.
The Didrio Espdnol, the Ministerial
organ in Spain, has published an article
in favor of religious freedom.
BE careful how you insult your ac.
| quaintances on postal cards. A Brooklyn
man has given So, 500 bail to answer just
such charge.
| Kelley, the new motor man, says he
will be ready in about month to ring the
| funeral chimes Of steam. So motor be-
Detroit Free Press
! "A North Carolina boy started out
three years ago to explore cave, and as
he hasn't returned yet it is believed that
he liked the place.
1t makes one feel good as the perspi
ration trickles down his back to know
that the coal miners have resumed work,
and that he can start his stove again
Cincinnati is to have a $50, 900 organ
Weep, Boston, weep remarks the New
York Commercial Adcertiser. Boston says.
noWcNci, Not 'cai. INeIucmDer
Bunker HILL"
"A Norfolk man went down in a div
ingbell the other day to see how it
seemed. The public will never know
from him how it seemed, as they drew him
up only to bury him.
-"Who will care for mother now?"
sighed a Carondelet girl the other day as
she left her aged parent bending over the
washtub while she started out to play
croquet.-St. Louis Republican.
"A lady of New York, Miss Alvord,
has secured patent for new coal-cart,
which is provided with flexible spout to
discharge its contents directly into the
coal-hole, and not upon the sidewalk.
"A New Orleans paper says that the
coming cotton crop will number 3,650,O21
bales. When an editor can figure crop
down as fine as that he'll soon be ready to
carefully estimate the sands on the sea
shore.
The Brooklyn A1y1s, after months of
careful observation, has come to the con.
clusion that no woman can eat corn-beef
and potatoes gracefully, and when it
comes to boiled cabbage they break right
down.
joaquin Miller's latest is about the
Quaker City, as follows:
There is nothing to see,
In Philadelphia,
Until you get
Outside of it.
The question has arisen in Chicago:
Does woman ever strike at a fly with
out closing her eyes?" She never does
we all know it, but she'll sweep that
broom-stick through the air at her beloved
husband and never wink either optic
1t is a nice thing to be moderator of
the Established Scotch Presbyterian
Church. He gets 81 600 pin money for
entertainments. Each morning during the
session of the assembly he is expected to
give apublic breakfast, besides grand
entertainment at the close
Imaginary evils soon become real
ones by indulging our reflections on them;
as he who in "A melancholy fancy sees
something like face on the wall or vain
scot can, by two or three touches with
lead-pencil, make it look visible and
agreeing with what he fancied.
The new Postal law regarding money
orders went into effect July /. BY its pro
visions all orders under x15 will be charged
ten cents; above SIS and under $50, fifteen
cents, and between $50 and $40, twenty
cents. Thus, by far the greater number Of
orders, those under $40, will be charged
an additional five cents
"A new machine for pressing coal.dust
into fuel was recently put into operation
at the Harrisburg pa machine shops,
and ton of solid coal was made in six
minutes. The machine is simple and
universally practicable, and it is prophe-
hat ,p;1 ODD | nf IL all 10,
the coal wealth of Pennsylvania.
To the question of how to keep teach
ers bright an educated contemporary an
swers; "The isolated teacher becomes a
fossil. He needs to come in contact with
men of progress. Association, mental
conflict, observation, omparison-tbese
are the conditions Of professional growth
Each teacher needs the experience of all
teachers"
Druggists who sell citrate Of magnesia
would do well to pay strict heed to the re-
cent decision of the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue, who says: "The medicine
is ofticinal, but ii is put up in a style or
manner similar to that of patent or propri-
etary medicines in general, having direc-
tons for its use printed on the label and
without the formula by which it IS made
being either printed or referred to on the
label and consequently in the opinion of
this Office is liable to stamp tax"
The Churclman says music ceases to
be sacred when employed in Sunday con
certs, and continues: There is no pre-
tense that it is then used for worship.
Moreover, under this title anything pretty
much that was ever composed can be
called sacred, since operate strains have
done ample duty in church choirs For
music to be sacred, it should be conse-
Grated, that is set apart for purposes of
worship, and when it is simply used as "A
money-making and pleasure seeking de