Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-10-17
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will excursh through the Southern cities
rs far rs New Orleans. Stick up the ia
miliar old placard-"T The government
is absent. y Rochester Democrat
A tramp applied to lady in Des
Moines for something to eat, and to the
inquiry rs to why he didn't 90 to work,
said there was not any chance to work
nj his trade now. The lady asked him
what his trade was. Shoveling snow"
was the confident answer. He got his
dinner.
Visitor: Isn't it terrible To think
that the vessel yondcr may dash on the
rocks, and every soul ON board perish"
Old Salt: Yes; but isn't it more terri
bic to think that maybe the crews n
working themselves TO death, and per
haps there's not bit o hacker aboard
the entire craft p
we are going to have hard winter"
said old Wilkins, as he rummaged his
pockets for Il stray piece of tobacco.
Tough times ahead | tell YOU; that is
more than ever apparent Alas
said Bummcrson, SO am l. So are
you WHAT More than ever a parent
it happened last week
A Chicago fashionable clergyman has
| failed. Liabilities, $4,000; assets, TWEEN
ty-two pairs of worked slippers. assorted
sizes, thirteen dressing gowns, thirty
pen wipers, two dozen fancy pincushions,
nie watch pockets, and seven cushions
! for easy chairs. N0niao,cH Herald.
Jimmy said an Englewood father
yesterday morning, the doctor has just
/ brought YOU beautiful, new little sis
! ter. " No, he didn't neither" said Jim
my, " fur | seen him when he KUN in,
an he had cane in one hand an moth
4. in in the other. "-Np York HeYuM
AuTUMNAL Dirty
Oh! there's beauty in the morning,
In the uey bIuey blue,
In the rosy golden dawning
DER the biuey. bucy blue;
But the winters chill II creeping.
With It's blewy, bewy blew,
To SGT your nose 10 weeping,
All 80 bluey, bucy blue Il Ppck.
1t is thought that b. Young ought to
have recovered from his cholera NOR
bus, but when IT came TO fighting with
twenty-sevcn women, each one with
/ different kind Of mustard plaster for her
/ dear husband, and n new kind of herb
tea, it was too much for him. Every
woman laid her plaster where there was
room, and the prophet went down to his
grave like II sandwich. -HouktW
The apartments Of the two eldest sons
Of the prince of Wales on her majcstys
! training ship for cadets, the Britannia,
! have been fitted up at cost of nearly
$4,000, but the princes hadn't been on
board forty-cight hours before the com
moncst kind of a twenty-five cent sea
sick came along and LAID them by the
/ heels, and emplicd enough royalty out
Of them to stock up half n dozen ordi
nary kingdoms. Darlington Haukew
A yellow citizen of this republic APP
preached the clerk of Tennessee coun-
ty court and, prcfacing his remarks with
a roll of currency, said: rs lived froo'
dis worl' so fur, lone. is took it hot
an cool, Is 'spcrcnced desc trials in
comfort an out. De irosts has drove
dis chile to de wall long 'nough. lie
poses to forify 'gainst dc ills of life.
Give dis ere chile papers to unite him
onin dem bounds oh matrlmonity."
=" Far bc it from us To doubt the word
of Il brother editor" says the La Crosse
/ Sun eve believe them all to be truth
full men; but when the Durand Times
says that the water is so low ut the
mouth of the Chippewa river that cat
fish have to employ mud-turtlcs to tow
them over the bar, we feel rs though
the editor must be away, and some local
minister filling his place"
Funeral in story-and-a-half house
Enter fashionably dressed lady (who
lives around the corner at stone 'front.'
with small boy. Lady Ito herself &c
able affair? Don't look much like it
now; not over dozen or twenty here,
and none with carriages My girls did
want to come so bad" Looking out Of
the window -" Oh, here come the Per
cys, and the Armours, and the Bene-
diets in their carriages" Whispering
to small boy)-" Charlie, run home
quic'. and tell Oracle and Amy that it
is all right, and to come ahead" Exit
small boy on the run around the corner
A true story from New Jersey: A
good deacon, E, II pillar in the
church, raised a pair of steers. and final
/ " sold them to Mr.. Jake, who was ter
ribly deaf and not a church goer. Some
1 time after the sale the deacon was agree
ably surprised to see the buyer of the
steers ut church. and, as services were
over, shook his hand heartily ard asked
for the health Of his family. The deaf
buyer, having the sale chiefly in mind,
and thinking the deacon asked him
about the steer. he had raised, answered
in a very bluff and loud voice, heard all
over the church: Lousy. Lousy
Lousy as the devil.'