Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-10-23
For the Ladies.
ne-gray jet is coming.

wi tuV lUut>s
Blue-gray jet, coming.
Never marry but for love, but see
that thou lowest only what is lovely.
The law is severe in Missouri: man
was fined for whipping his daughter to
death.
A Texas legislator moved to exempt
the dogs of widows and orphans from
taxation.
A cradle in u Connecticut family is
over 200 years Old This must be the
rock of ages.
They shoot women out OF cannon
In Paris circus, and they talk all the
way as they go along.
Kid gloves have appeared in New
York, the backs of which are covered
with flowers painted by hand.
A lady in Mount Sterling, Ky, now
but Is years old, has been married six
years, and has three children.
A Providence woman whipped u saucy
tramp with an old arctic shoe. She
played the rubber and won
Servant girls cannot be had for love
or money III Boise City, Idado. White
washer-women are unknown.
Mrs. Margaret Herbert and Mrs. Cath
herine Tilton, twin sisters of New Jer-
sey, recently celebrated their ninetieth
birthday.
Boiling hair in a solution Of tea will
darken it. says an exchange; but some
folks don't like to have their tea dark
ened in that way.
Impiety takes woman out of her
sex as well rs out of her place; there
is dash of the bearded lady in every
she freethinker.
Miss Alice Walton, of Muscatine.
Iowa, collected over 1000 specimens OF
butterflies last year. She has the
largest collection in that state.
The girls Of Tuscola, Illinois, place
blue temperance ribbon and mitten
on the table when their lovers came to
visit them, and say, Choose"
Many mothers raise their daughters
on the principle OF teaching them first
to play the piano, second to dress, third
to dance, and sew forth.
With pleading eyes she looked up
from the piano and sung: Call me
your darling again" He didn't co it,
however, for he had already figured in
one breach-of-promise suit.
The supreme court of Georgia has
decided "ior a man, without some in
nocent reason or excuse, to put his arm
around the neck of another mans wife,
is an assault and battery" ..l
There is one thing calculated to de-
velop all the latent pedestrian ability
woman has in her, and that is to be
caught out in shower with her Sun
day bonnet on, and no umbrella.
This beefsteak is awful, Mr.. Hark-
ms" said Mrs. H., what will we do
with it?" Harkins plunged into n deep
study, from which be emerged with the
remark: Lets skillet" lie left by
the panhandle route.
Why represent liberty by the figure
Of a female? Wouldn't it be more ap-
propriate to illustrate the sentiment by
a husband hiding his wallet under the
front door steps before entering his
house at night?
The savages who tattoo their bodies
are considered fools, and yet Chart
able world refrains from expressing the
same opinion of the many silly females
who make rights of themselves, by
plasterng their hair down over their
foreheads.
Madame Quentin Profit, a matri-
monial agent in Paris, lately sued
Prince and Princess Galitzen for 5000
francs, for trying to make a match for
their son and failing Her bill was:
Carriages, 432 francs; COS; Of toilets,
1000 francs, money expended, cores
pondence, etc, $50 francs; honorarium,
4,4lS francs; total 5000 francs. The
court thought it was too much, and al
lowed her only 800 francs.
IL the Alps recently Mr.. and Mrs.
Wainwright and Christian Grass, their
guide, fell down precipice. Hans
Grass, the other guide, was man Of 81
gantic strength, and the rope by which
the four were corded together was stout,
and throwing himself backward by
sheer force Of muscle he held them
suspended and cried to his brother to
cut steps in the ice and mount, and be
quick about 1t for he could not sustain
them for more than half an hour. Mr..
Wainwright had not dropped his hatch
ct, which he banded to the guide, who
soon reached the edge Of the crevasse;
his brother, still sustaining the Vain
wrights, gave him hand and drew him
up. then they hauled up their tourists,
and all returned little the worse for
their frightful adventure.