Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-06-03
VARIETY AND HUMOR.

-Bessemer's swinging.saloon steamer
has been thrown up as a wretched fail
urc. The crossing of the channel must
ever remain sick transit.
The Mississippi buffalo-gn which
has done so much execution among cat
tie is described as being about half the
size of a common horse-hy and let black.
They have hump back or shoulder like
the buffalo, and hence their name.
| -ExGov. Powers, of Mississippi, was
foreman Of a Grand Jury recently which
| found an unusually large number of
true bills for larceny. After adjourn
| ment Mr.. Powers found that one member
had latrociniously found true bills to the
extent of $75 in his pocketbook.
"A correspondent of the Land and
| Water says: "If a field il infested by
| thistles give it turn of rapeseed and
the plant will altogether starve, suffo-
cate or chill the thistle out of existence"
| which is valuable discovery, pro-
vided the rape IL not worse than the
| thistle.
| The body of John Blackboard, an
| American actor, who was lost three years
ago in trying to ascend Mont Blanc
without guides, is said by a Swiss news
| paper to have been found in an immense
block Of ice which recently fell from
the mountain. The body is thoroughly
| preserved.
An old lady, starting from the Roch-
ester depot, New York, for Chicago,
said to her daughter: 1t isn't likely
I'll ever see you again-I'm getting SO
old" A moment later the train started,
and the mother, leaning from the win
dow, saw locomotive dash over her
| Ior Ch tar ,tv1o hor t> n oil
In the stomach of valuable horse
that recently died at East Nantmeal,
| Chester County, Pa, were found half u
| pint of cinder, or sand, six fourpenny
| nails, seven pieces of horseshoe nails,
| one carpet-tack, a ROSTERS spur an inch
and quarter long, six stones the size of
| beans, and one cent bearing the date of
1864
Monmouth, Oregon must be sweet
J ly sonorous place. With only forty
houses it has nine organs, three piano.
fortes and one instrument described rs
"piano. melodeon. Moreover 1t has for
street purposes cornet band ef fourteen
performers, with nuMberless guitars,
| flies, flutes, clarinets and other private
implements of melody.
York County, N. b., has curiosity
in the shape of one James O'Hcrn, who,
though twenty nine years old, has never
| yet talked or walked a step. He has
never stood erect OF been moved from
one room since his infancy. He Ia four
feet in height and weighs about sixty
pounds. His arms and legs are very
| small, and he appears to have power to
move them in any direction he chooses,
independently of either joint or muscle.
The next centennial celebration in
Boston after that of Bunker Hill will be
on July 3, the anniversary of Washing
toms taking the command of the army.
The committee appointed to decide upon
the matter report that in their opinion it
should he "more local in its scope and
intellectual in its aim than was the case
at Lexington and Concord or than will
be at Bunker Hill" The intellectual"
part of that opinion is not calculated to
excite the most amiable feelings.
| The following sentences are those Of
the Baltimore Gdsette 1--WE shall hail
the time when every idle and truant boy
may have cause Of fear each bush an
officer and recognize in the baton of
policeman the rod of the professor; anG
If every roundsman shall be invested
with the additional dignity of scholastic
authority, SO much will be the general
gain. And we would see the girls not
only have equal privileges in the schools,
but placed under like restrictions with
the boys"
In order to throw additional safe
guards around the elective franchise In
| Nova Scotia new ballot system has
| been devised and will shortly be tested
will be printed the names of all the can
| didatcs. Each one will bear a different
color. Thus the tickets will be strictly
nom partisan. At each poll there will be
a presiding officer who will have charge
of the tickets. He will be provided with
| only such number of ballots as there
may be voters registered at the polling
| places. All the tickets will be officially
| stamped and must be accounted for by
the presiding officer after the polls are
| closed.
People who voluntarily frequent the
| haunts of the sanguipary mosquito are
not wont to welcome his tiny note Of
warning, nor the admonition OF bis point
ed and tubular proboscis. We are con
fident therefore, that the scientific con-
illusions reached by DR.. Samuel w. Fran
els will be welcomed by all who contem-
plate passing the summer months in the
mosquito bearing districts. The doctor
declares it TO be his firm conviction that
genus c,tler was created for the purpose
of driving man out of the malarial dis
tricts Since, however, man IS thick
headed, and often won't go when he is
| driven, Providence has commissioned
the mosquito first to punish him for COM
ing, and then TO apply prophylactic in
view Of the malaria he must of nccessi-
ty inhale That is TO say, she (for it is
only the female mosquito that bites hy-
podermically iniects into the wound