Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-18
HumOr.
Eight hundred thousand base ball bats

les why a boys hand viii blister so much
sooner on a hoe-handle than it will
on a baseball bat.
Keep still. The Fourth of July will
be along in a few weeks, and, if possible,
the small boy should not be informed of
its approach until it is all over.-Nsw
Haren Register.
A"Hardly Ever" Temperance society
has been formed down East. When Il
man is asked if he drinks he says,
I" Hardly ever, but if l do, it is about
this time of day"
Il rise, sir. for information" said an
official in a Western legislature. 81 am
glad to hear it," said a wag, for no n
needs it more than you do"
1t is said a Mrs. Crow, of Moundsville,
Va, hung herself without a cause. 1t
would have been more curious II she
had hung herself without a rope of
some kind.
A Bob Ingersoll sort of a Christian
wants some one to explain why, when IL
thunder storm visits a town containing
thirty beer saloons and five churches,
the lightning will travel all around the
saloons and strike a church?
Miss Josie Baker, sixteen years of age,
has been appointed Greek tutor in an
Illinois college. She is proficient in
Greek, French, Latin and German, but
can't make bread Or sew on a shirt but
ton in simple United States.
In consequence of the threatened
trouble in Alaska, the United States
army is being rapidly put on a val
footing. Two more soldiers have re-
ported for duty at San Francisco, and n
man in the hospital with a sore leg will
be ready for business in less than a
fortnight.
A contemporary wants to know, says
the Norristown Herald, "why m
never sleep in church ?" And it is
difficult to tell whether it is because
they go to bed SO much earlier than the
men on Saturday nights, or because of
the dread of waking up and finding
their mouth open to the extent of ten
inches.
At the marriage Of an Alabama
widower, n of the servants was asked
if his master would take a bridal tour.
Dsnno, sab; when old missus's was
alive he took n paddle to her; dunno il
he take a bride to the new one or not"
A man who drinks on the sly when
he does drink, inadvertently began a
speech the other night. "Unaccust-
omed as l am to public drinking
stopped, stammered and tried to recover
himself but the point was seen and the
applause became tremendous.
A Greenfield child has said Its prayers
regularly every night since it was taught
to lisp Now | lay me down to sleeep."
Hearing that its parents were about to
remove hither, it closed it's last evening
prayer thus: "Dood-by bod, ives goin'
to live in Turner's Falls"
81 move the present question" said a
delegate to a Montana convention. The
chairman-"If the chair recollect right
the question was on adjourning for
drinks. Those in favor say yes; contra
ry minded, no." The chair was about
to announce the unanimous result when
he noticed the room was empty.
Then out spake Charles Augustus,
To his sweetheart at the gate:
What does your placid pap remark
When We hang out 20 late ~
"Oh, that's all right, my Gussie dear"
She blnrted out en- masse,
ole says it saves II heap of coal,
Likewise the parlor gas
A New Jersey physician, heavily load
ed with town lots, for which he had paid
only in part, hastily prescribed a box
of pills for a patient and allowed his
mind to wander back to his real estate,
The patient asked how the pills were to
be taken. The doctor replied, "One
months, with interest"
When a woman buys a kettle ofpaint
to paint. say, the Kitchen door, she
doesn't let what's left after covering the
door dry up. No; she paints everything
%palntable in the house with it till the
last drop is exhausted; until all things
about the premises tubs, boxes and
barrels, hower-pots, wheelbarrow and
Northumberland put on the kitchen
door tint, be it green, yellow or brown,
black, purple or crimson. She does
this to save the paint; only this, and
nothing more-B0ston Iranscript.
A little Elko New girl surprised a
compony of visitors by her knowledge
Of the Creators works. AT the dinner
table she exclaimed: GOD made all
this big world in just six days. God
made me and everybody else. He
made mamma, too, but he forgot to put
any hair on her head, and papa had to
buy it for her." When the mother got
through interviewing the young miss,
after the company dispersed, the little
one wished she hadn't known so much.