Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-07-02
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AN aiioltii' wa. vi Tocklng u man TO
sleep was stoning him to death. -Nao
Orleans Picayane.
Ii the planets ever have to give to
each other n lift, how much will the
sun rays?--Ne,p York Nacs.
The Postage stamp, says the New Or
leans PicoyHle, knows lis place after it
has peen once licked.
The free lunch levels rack. - Nau Or
leans P,cuyuae. you mean the butter,
say So Boston Post.
Verdict of the New York police re-
gardlng the murdered Mrs. Hull" 1t
was the cat "-Bu6;do Express.
"And the iron entered my sole"
said Grayhead, as he pulled the tack
out of the bottom of his slipper Bos-
ton Transcript
This country will now have to begin
to import missionaries. We under
stand that some one has invent ed a
cheap hand-organ that will only play
one tune Wheeling Sunday Leader.
,- Now the swell In style arrayed
Goeth forth TO promenade,
But willis meath the feryor of the suubeam's
glance,
And SO do hp collars and his jacket and his pants.
-l0Hkers gazette.
"Stand up ard tell the truth like a
little bell punch" is the latest addition
to the phraseology of slang.
A lady recently appeared at Il fancy
dress ball at Richmond rs "a mushroom.
But she looked just AZ much like a
toadstool-and not resembling either to
any appreciate extent, there was mush-
room for speculation rs 30 the character
she did Norristown Herald.
A Rhode Island Sunday-school SUI
perintendent, last Sabbath, in touch
ing missionary address, told the child
rem that away out west, tar, far in Hi
inois and Iowa and Nebraska, there
we're people who had never been to a
calm bake. And when the contribution
box went around after that the nickels
refined into it until it weighed IA tom
Burlington Haokeye.
Even so able an author as James
Russell Lowell didn't consider it be-
meath his dignity to invent conun-
drum. His canundrum is quoted every
summer. "What," he asks, "what is 50
rare as day in JUneY The answer is
we'll, II Is too long to print here. And
besides, 1t is poetry-NorriStopn Herald.
This is the view taken of it by an in
FAINT Of st. Joseph, Mo: Little Freddie
was undergoing the disagreeable opera-
ton Of having his hair combed by his
mother, and he grumbled at the man
euver. "Why, Freddie" said mamma,
"you ought not to make such fuss.
don't fuss and cry when my hair il
combed," "but your hair amt hitched
To your head. -Harper's Magazine.
Mr.. Sturgeon recently told this anec-
dote as he gave but An anthem. A
high churchman and Scotch Prcsbyte-
rian minister had been at the same
church The former asked the latter if
he did not like the "introits" He re-
Piled: II don't know what an introit
is" Said the churchman, "But did you
not enjoy the anthem He replied.
mo, did not enjoy it at ALL" 81 am
very sorry said the churchman "be-
cause it was used in the early church;
in fact it was originally sung by David"
"AhW said the Scotchman, then that
explains the Scripture. | can under
stand now, if David sung it at that time,
why Saul threw his javelin at him. "
This was followed by lound peal of
laughter, when Mr.. Spurgeon said:
"Now, let us sing the anthem"
A minister, who has written book
against dancing, gives this description
of &. bail Gust look at them. There,
elevated en- a table, is mustached
Gentleman, holding a piece of wood TO
his shoulder and frantically drawing
poor horse hair over the dried vscera
of dead feline, shouting vocferously
incoherent sounds, the meaning of
which must be guessed at, while men
and women are mostly jumping up and
down, scoldipg, laughing, shouting,