Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-01-12
VARIETY AND HUMOR.

expects the Legislature to reflect him
next month.
-Helmbold is becoming sort of luna
tic asylum jack in the box. They have
him strait jacketed again in Pennsyl-
vania.
Forty five mutes from the Maryland
Asylum spent Christmas at Baltimore
among their friends They passed their
holiday very quietly.
"A man in South Hadley, Mass, who
has just got out of a lawsuit, wants to OBJ
tain large framed picture of COW, with
| one client at the head and the other at the
tail, pulling, and the lawyers meanwhile
quietly milking.
| The antipathy of the public to gas
companies is the same all over the world
| individuals are SO unreasonable. Here's
Springfield Mass. man now contesting
a gas bill of eighteen dollars, for 10 better
reason than that there are no burners in
| his house.
Complaint has been made against
| several milkmen in Virginia City, because
an occasional crawfish has been found in
| the bottom of milk pitchers Do the
Comstockors expect the dairymen to
| furnish them trout and salmong-San
Francisco Bulletin.
Prof Doremus having demonstrated
the fact that an average-sized squash can
| lift POO pounds, there no longer remains
any mystery attached to the wearing Of
tremendous stovepipe hats by slim young
| men in their teens and standing collars.
| Prof. Doremus is a public benefactor
People who use hired pianos in the
| city of New York are musing over the
late decision of Judge Daily, inasmuch us
it notifies those who hire such music
| boxes that the instrument can be seized
for their debts. The dealers who do a
large business in hiring out pianos are
| greatly disturbed By the decision.
There will be four eclipses the CON.
| ing year-two of the sun and two Of the
moon. Only two of them will be visible
in this country. namely, a partial eclipse
of the moon at midnight, March 9, and An
| annular eclipse of the sun March %.
| Sept. IL a total eclipse of the sun will be
visible in Australia and the Southern Pa
cific region.
Kate Coffin, of Newburyport Mass,
was belle in her youth and psupcr
| in her old age. She found herself in mid
die life in destitute circumstances, and
utterly refused to do anything for her own
support She said she could never forget
that she was born lady. A few days ago
she died, aged eighty three, and was
| buried by the town
"A Circassian girl in Reading, Pa,
| shows pair of stockings that she says she
made entirely out of her own hair. They
are thick, heavy and soft and seem to be
of pure hair The upper edges are Sc
cured with scarlet worsted work She
| says her hair grows to great length and
that she is compelled to have it cut. The
stockings were knit while she was on ex-
hibition AT Barnum's Museum.
Mr., Israel Fegely, of Longswamp
| Township, Berks County, Pa, has three
| frogs in his house, which he has tanned
and MAIDS household pets of They have
taken up their abode among a number OF
| window plants, where they sleep at night
and feed upon the aphides, plant-lce and
other insects injurious to plants. They
have become greatly attached to their new
| home and hop from one room To the other
Bernard Eth, OF Cincinnati, shot him.
| self through the heart because he was
| dunned for twenty-four dollars After
| all, happiness and misery are relative
| terms, and debts, upon which happiness
and misery so largely depend. are philo-
| sophical distractions. Bernard Eth, who
could not bear to owe twen,y-tour dollars,
should have lived in the aye OF chivalry,
when nobody would have lent him the
! money.
An eight-year-old boy in the North
| End sent the following rather warm
epistle 10 one Of his little playmates: .
Dear Minnie love tae ador YOU don't
/ show this 10 your mother If | don't love
| the may the lions tear my heart out may
| be thrown from third story window if
| don't love YOU may be torn in halls
| by wild beests but 90. Answer this.
Get good paper and leave |, sheet for
| me you are q pretty girl and III have
you. Charley.'-IHdIandpolts Herald
Mr. Plimsoll has secured Immortality
! slready, whether he ever has monument
! or not. \ short yellow band. painted
/ amidships, about six inches below III a
/ which has always been regarded as the
! ships watcr-line, which is being put upon
British vessels BY order of the Board of
Admiralty, is called by the sailors
'~Plimsol's mark" It has made a CON
siderable difference il the amount of cargo
which il Will be lawful for the ship
| carry.
| BY cooling glass p.0rc rapidly than
I could occur in ordinary atmos pheric tenn
| perstureS, that Is, by process the re-
verse of annealing, Prince Rupert's drops
/ are made. The ordinary way 70 make
/ these scientific Curiosities Is to drop a
I small quantity, usually less than half an
| ounce, Of perfectly riUid glass into water
I In falling the glass viii form The shape
/ Of "a 'sSr, with an elongated end extend.
p, ing into thread Rupert drops are clear.
bright and hard. and may be struck with
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