Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-09-25

IN THEF.iLL.

froH Of the leaves--3ft #is0 7 ! mi
And tbs wh,rr of the partridge. etc,
In the fall the hazy cleaning with purple glory
In the fall Miss Georgiana In the Bible places
them.
1" the , sl a.; s1o ',d the valley snowy eloucl
In the fall tho Broadway windows are moths
:. with Paris styles
Much 10 the Joy OF the ladies' be II said
In the fall the merry songster leaves his pretty
summer leas,
In the fall the politician Is divorced from rolls or
VS. "
For reasons which require no explanation
In the fall all breasts with .cveric are buoyapt
| and elate,
In the tall man will fonoly kiss is pretty cousin
Or Mary Anne, as the case may be.
In the fall the soul of beauty dwclls within the
| garden sele,
In the fall we all are positive TIA, winters draw
| ing near
| The other nall happenings are too numerous to
mention.
-Now York Graphic.
Corn exchange-The chiropodist fee.
Ills not usually good omen to owe
men.
A finished rogue--One at the end of
n rope.
Who can understand corns,a.a9-
Camden Post
A bad sign-To sign another mans
name to n note.
Not butter, but her--The milkmaid,
not made of milk
There's n bis difference between din
ner for nothing and nothing for dinner
Apatient is undoubtedly in very bad
way when his disease is acute and his
doctor isn't
The papers speak of a man who has
turned up missing" In other words,
he was found lost.
Lightning struck an piary in Denver
recently, and astonished every bee-hold-
er.-Gncianati Saturday Might.
Farmer Jones caught rooster steal
ing his corn, wrung his neck, and claims
to have killed cock robbia'. Boston
Transcript.
have seen men who had worn out
their vices, and supposed, of course,
that they were living on their virtues
Josh Billings.
1t is said that mosquitoes are bred
upon the waters. In that case they
will return again before many days.
Ne'o Orleans Picayune.
Lady-"And how long have you been
out of placer" Lady help Indignant at
"out OF place. II have been NAL apro-
pos only few weeks, madam"
The grand and awful difference be-
tween n tree and a bore is-hurrah, now!
the tree leaves in spring, and the bore,
why, he never leaves. Syracuse Sunday
Times.
The man who can hum hymn while
Jolnting stove pipe is good enough to
walk right into iull membership of any
church, without probation. -Clncinnai
Breakfast Table.
An exchange praises very large egg,
which, 1t says, was laid on our table
by the Rev DR.. Smith," Brother Smith
seems to be layman as well ~ a
preacher.
This is the season Of the year when
the night mir is very dangerous, but the
girls face death Mt front gates with the
same heroism which has always been
one of the chiefest adornments of the
sey.
A Dutchman was seated in a shoe
store trying his best to get his unfairly
like feet into number nine slipper.
Said he to the clerk: "Say, Mr.. Clerk,
dis warm vedder ish shrinking up der
slippers like der tuyfel. Dond it?"-
Et'nira Gazette.
A magazine contains sonnet "On
Returning Consciousness" There is no
footnote, and the reader is left in the
dark as to whether the poet was stepped
on by pile driver, or kicked over the
fence by the family mule.-M 9th Der
rick. p.
There are some scenes almost too
pure and sacred to be viewed by the
thoughtless world. One o. them is a
acknowledgement woman with mole
on her chin talking baby" to an
ounce and-a-half canary bird in brass
age.-Rockland Courier.
Shopkeeper to Commercial traveller
-" Can't give you an order; quite over
stocked" Traveller" Let me at least
show you my samples" Shopkeeper
-" Spare yourself the trouble; can't
look at them" Traveler-"Then will
you allow me to look at them myself?
1t is three weeks since have seen
them"
| A scarlet glow IL in the west,
The bird has lett its summers nest
And now it is high time each fellow
| Should lay aside his white duck vest.
". Y. GrapAic
! The queen OF night, with pale, cold eye,
Looks down upon the rivers ashore,
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