Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-05-30

grit.
1t is nip and Turk" casually
says the war editor of the Buffalo Ea-
press.
In russia. when person has n
bad cold, he says: I've Gortscha.
koff."
Every man wears invisible spec.
taces which color or diStort the thing
he looks at.
A bar of soap in the tank of a To-
connective Will make suds enough 10 dis
able an engine.
The Norwich Bulletin SAYS sensi-
bic Americans will not marry Spanish
women. They are all S'noras.
In olden times, dogs were yalna-
bly, employed as turn-spits; but let a
dog turn Spitz now, and his doom is
sealed.
Kate ClaXton's route through the
country is said TO be carefully marked
on insurance maps now. Boston Com
mercial Bulletin.
The New Orleans Republican ar
CUES that cross-eyed minister should
never get up and read the hymn, Il
will guide thee with Mine eye"
The Cincinnati Saturday Night
imagines that one of the main reasons
why young men leave the farm is be-
cause they can't take it along with
them.
Applicants for loans generally
adopt a borrow tone-CiHcianaH Sat
urday Night. Especially when they
ask for tenor twelve dollars. Norris
torn Herdtd.
1t would be enough to make any
millionaire's head grow bald by antici-
patton, if he could only look ahead and
see how his heirs are bound to fall out
after his death.
In every argument the great puz-
2le is to find out why our opponent
doesn't see things just rs we do. But
some people Will be persistently blind.
N. Y. Herald.
"A man may have "a beam in his
own eye big enough to start a lum-
Der yard, and yet be able to see the
mereSt chip in the eye of his neighbor
and to blame him for it,
A Wisconsin Constable levied on
1.-the undivided half of a gray mule.
He wasn't particular which end he
took, and ii was thirteen days before
he opened his eyes and recognized his
wife. Exchange.
When you hear mother calling
to her son to Come here and shut the
shutter" and hear him respond, at
is shut, mother, and | can't shut it
any shutter" do YOU ever pause to an
alyze the delicate beauties of our Ian
guage?
The hard times are having u very
depressing effect upon the icon.
science market. Only Il little over I
thousand dollars was received ut the
Office Of the Comptroller of the Treas
ury since the first Of last year. Re.
trou Fre' Press.
And now scientific publication
warns the public against using mod,
ern tinWare for cooking purposes.
Things will soon get to such a pass
that the only safe way will be to take
our victuals raw and eat them from a
chip. 49, Worcester Press.
Music has a wonderful power over
the passions. The man who cOuldn't
set tub out under the caves TO catch
rain-water for his wife without grum.
bling in a most profane way, stood for
half hour i'll the rain without an UNI
brella and listened to the minstrel band
on the hotel piazza with a face in do
Gle repose. -Ddnbuy NetoS.
When guest at the hotel sees the
porter carrying a coil of rope 800 feet
long Ito his room feeling Of tranquil
security comes over him, and he lies
down to sleep without a thought OF
fear. But when a boy sees his father
coming up stairs to his room with only
the little end of a rope, not more than
two feet long, with knot at one end,
ii kindles cOnfagratlOn of wild APP
prehensions and terror in his soul that
all the waters of the Mississippi Valley
cannot quench. -Paragrapher's Rem
iniscences Of Boyhood.
People who have rheumatism,
cOrnS, or a lame arm or leg, are in the
Hablt OF setting VI as weather prophets,
claiming that their diseased members
answer the purpose Of barometers, and
enable them TO foretei. .tormy weather
by their increasing sensitiyeness. DR..
5. Weir Mitchell of New York, quite
eminent specialist inneryous ailments,
has for a long time been studying this
curious influence of weather on pain,
and by the assistance Of one Of his
patients, has been able To take series
of observations which place the sub
ject on a scientific basis. This patient,
an army officer. suffered from an eX-
ceediugly sensitive stump, the remnant
of an amputated arm, and for the sake
of science, has kept, for three years, a
careful hourly record of the sensations
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