Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1878-11-08
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| heStnurateuf-' chicken, ~ francs.
Guest-I say, see here, the Exposition's
nearly over, you know. Restaurateur-
That's fact! Chicken, 40 francs"
Nothing tries the patience of truly
good man more than to step on ba-
mamma peelng and 60 down with crash
on wicker flask with a pewter end,
that nobody would have believed it of
him. Burlington Haukeye.
As everything indicates that we are
going to have one of the coolest winters
ever known Oh the continent, Lydia
Thompson went and bought another
bracelet. She says she is going to keep
warm if she has to smoother herself
Burlington Hapkeye.
John, it seems to me that you are
not doing your work as well as you
used to-not as painstaking as you
might be-" IL will tell you why, mi
ladi. ! thought that if made myself
indispensable, when | came to go it
would cause you too much inconveni-
ence and regret. See?'
First pickpockct, on a Sunday out
ing, to second ditto, who lounges along
with his hands in his pockets: ! say,
AIRY, it isn't genteel to keep your
hands in your pockets that way" Sec
ond pickpocket: cob, that's my way
of observing the day of rest. I've got
'em in other peoples pockets six days
in the week"
Why don't you marry?" said Pope
Alexander VII. one day to Al!aci, the
librarian of the Vatican. $50 that,
Your Holiness, il an opportunity offers
may enter the priesthood" "Well,
then, why don't you become u priest?"
+" | don't, Your Holiness, in ordes that if
an opportunity presents itself ! may
marry well"
A butcher complained to il lawyer
that somebody's dog was in the habit of
stealing meat from his cart, and asked
what he should do about it. The law
yer replied; Prosecute the owner of
the dog, Of course" But" said the
butcher, at is your dog" " / will pay
the bill" said the lawyer, bringing his
hand suddenly on the place where his
pocketbook was supposed to be, " if you
will tell how much the meat was worth. "
The butcher replied, about 81" "All
right" rejoined the lawyer, " hand over
81 to me and we will be square. The
advice which | gave to you in the be-
ginning was worth $2."-Sprinqdela Re
publican.
EGGS IN WlNTER.-Fresh laid eggs in
the winter are worth much more than
summer eggs, and by the requisite care
and pains.taking every poultry-raiser
may have good crop of eggs in the
winter. A warm place with u southern
exposure should bo provided, and the
fowls be well supplied with stimulating
food. A meat diet is necessary for lay
ing fowls, and the supply Of insects be-
ing cut off by cold weather, the loss
should be made up by small rations Of
fresh meat three or four times u week.
Parched corn, oats and bnckwheat are
excellent food for laying hens. The
light Brahmas and Leghorns are con-
sidered among the best wintCr-layers.
-kdnSdS Farmer.
II there is any one thing more than
another TINT convinccs Il man Of the
progress of education in our common
schools. and the sound practical instruc-
ton communicated to the rising genera
ton, it is TO have his daughter bring him
Il problem something like this If eight
oxen consume twelve and one-eighth
times the amount of food in five days
required by one-sixth Of the square
root Of sixteen sheep, at "a cost of 29.7S
cents, how many oxen will be required
to consume the amount required by J
Of the cube root; Of an equal number
Of sheep in forty-two days time at a
cost of 4.16 of that amount, and tri-
umphantiy point to the answer ut the
foot of a whole slate full Of figures AS
being -, lS7 800 oxen-x.-Boaon Com
a,t4eial Bulletin.