Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-01-05
VARIETY AND HUMOR.

-EiOpcmenL IN california is called the
Pacific slope.n
Six hundred less marriages in Boston
| this year than last!
There is a large amount of counter
felt tifty-cent currency in circulation at
Cleveland.
Why is young lady forsaken by her
lover like deadly weapon? Because she
is cutlass.
Florida is progressing in population
| and wealth, it is said, more rapidly than
any of the other Southern States.
"A large seal has made its home in
New Haven Comm harboR, and amuses
the sailors on the various crafts by his
pranks.
Canes or umbrellas containing swords
or other weapons cannot be sold hereafter
in Paris without permit from the Chief
of Police.
If you haven't sent a poor widow
barrel Of flour this winter you haven't
made any tally-marks in heaven. Detroit
Free Press.
William Aston Hayne, a son of
Hayne, Webster's antagonist, sits in the
California Legislature for Santa Barbara
and Ventura.
a.,
the owner of thirty acres ct land, died OF
starvation recently. He IVES found dead
in his shanty.
The prayers of nations are rhythmic
have iterations and allilerations like the
marriage service ana burial service in our
liturgies. -EmerS0n.
Jacob Donahouer, who committed
suicide in Reading, Pa, lately, is said to
have passed $50 900 in counterfeit money,
and yet he died poor.
Kerosene Is superseding pine knots
for ire-kindling in North Carolina, and
the old sexton singeth gayly: Il gather
them in, gather them in.'
If you want to know how giant-pow-
der works just kick in the head of small
keg. The display will be all that any
reasonable man could ask for.
-HaUs JournaE of Health saws that 1t
is very healthy for young men to get out
OF bed at six in the morning and split
wood for an hour. Look out for rush.
Quicksilver is slow, and the Califor
MIA papers look for the closing OF several
of the less productive quicksilver mines
unless there is soon considerable rise in
price.
Since the dynamite explosion abroad
it is fashionable with the average man to
call his house his Mosel." There's
where he gets blown up.-St Louis Re
publican.
This may possibly be old, but it's un.
deniably good: Every man fances he
can do three things--farm a small prop
erty, drive gig and write an article for
review"
his house from Council Bluffs to Omaha
by taking it apart and loading it upon
wagons. He will take several building
lots over next time
The Mellonville (Fla.) A9gertisey
states that the Norway rat, unknown in
that State five years ago, has multiplied
so prodigously that it has been found
necessary to import ferrets for their ex-
tirpation.
An Alabama Grange has appointed
Committee of Review, the duty of which
is to visit the farms Of the members month.
ly and make a report before the Grange as
to their condition, improvement and gen.
eral management.
Two sisters in Brownsville, Ala.-one
married and the other single, but en-
gaged-had dispute, the other day, upon
the personal beauty of husband and lover.
when one gouged out the others eye with
pair OF stove-tongs.
Ninety mechanics and artisans, with
their families, have emigrated from Penn
svlvania and settled on Hood River, Ore
gon, and over 800 will follow in the
spring. They intend building college,
woolen-mill, grist-mill, etc.
A juvenile criminal sentenced few
days ago to five years penal servitude at
LoIdon, cried because the Judge would
not send him to sea- and as he left the
dock exclaimed: II hope you will send
me to sea next time, my Lofd."
"A bill in the Legislature OF West Vir-
ginia authorizing towns throughout the
State to establish chain gangs is pending,
with aprospect of its passage. The Wheel
ing Standard thinks the chain-gang is
degrading and barbarous Institution.
-" The excuse Of the third man." said
Mr.. Moody, illustrating the parable of the
guests who were backward in coming for
ward was more absurd than any: J.
have married wife, and, therefore, can
not come Now, why didn't he take his
wife along with ham ~