Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-06-03
PITHY PARTICLES,
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a day from her physicians.
THE New York Supreme Court has re.
fused Mrs. Belva Lockwood admission
to practice at the bar
PAUL BRUSELLE. of Putnam, Conn.
has made walking cane which contains
GAG pieces of wood, no two of the same
kind.
MARIO, who lives in Rome and holds a
post at court, with a salary f $4,000 per
annum, has resumed his own title of
Marquis of Gambia.
ABOUT ten cents worth of damage was
done to fence by boy with knife, at
Galesburg, ILL., The owner manned the
boy by kicking him, and has had to pay
| $4,000.
| HENRY CHISHOLM, of Cleveland, cele-
| bIated his birthday in novel and very
agreeable manner, recently. He pre-
scented to each of his five children
check for $4,000.
| A MONTANA stage coach fell into an
abyss, making three complete revolutions
before striking the bottom, and killing
the driver and four horses, but the two
passengers were not dangerously hurt.
Two girls at Cincinnati boarding
school, though of wealthy and reputable
parentage, stole $40 worth of books from
the library, sold them for Sl5 and spent
the money for candy.
CHARLES ALPHoNsE of Stamford, who
has been growing deaf, consulted a
| physician, who, on examining the ears,
found in one o. them a wad of cotton. 1t
had been there some two years, forgot
ten by the patient.
DIR. PECK, of indianapolis, has ampu-
tated the legs of a young girl on account
of decay in the bones, produced by ex-
cessive rope jumping. Headvises parents
and teachers to prohibit this play under
all circumstances.
HENRY G. RICH, who redently died in
Massachusetts,, and his brother, Robert
f. Rich, who survives, are said to have
lost leg each on the same day during
the war, one ON the Susquehanna, the
other at Antietam.
WORD there is Of plural number,
Foe to case and tranquil slumber;
Any other word you take
And add will plural make,
But If You add an to this
So strange the metamorphosis,
Plural is plural now no more,
And sweet what bitter was before.
ANTHONY DE COSTA, of Massachusetts,
owns a deed from King Phillip, of Mount
Hope, chief sachem Of the Pohanankett
tribe of Indians, conveying Vests
island, in the township of Dartmouth
NOW Fairhaven), to John Cooke, his
heirs and assigns forever The deed was
read in open court at Plymouth, Massa-
chusetts, on the 2Sth of August, 1866,
and has attached the "mark of Philip
and other Indians.
! OF course, matches were lit by touch
ing the sand with them. People who
worked their metal instruments without
gloves-and every one expect their
effeminate servant here did-got awk-
ward big bhsters. Even the mahogany
| tripods-unfortunately not polished
were painfully hot; and an eyelid too
near the ass-work of the telescope was
instantly baked into pretty loaf
Desert Life.
Mrs. LIZZIE l.. KING, an insane wom-
an confined in the insane department of
Auburn prison, has made long letter
which is in the hands of Gov. Cornell by
cutting letters from a book and sewing
them on page, 50 as to form words aid
/ sentences. The work is carefully done.
! The letter is petition that the law that
persons indicted but not convicted of a
crime be sent to insane asylums, when
/ they are insane, be repealed.
| A SCARLETTsTowN, PA, young man
tried to prevent his father from chastis-
ing little girl, when father and son
clinched in a. hard tussle for muscular
supremacy. The pugilists rolled into q.
mill race and fought in the water for
some minutes. Having ended the
struggle at last, the father packedu a
few buds and left home for the west. The
son also packed his trunk and left for
parts unknown.
WHEN a trembling tramp who fired
/ Stuyvesant, n. Y, which was burned
last week. was arrested, an excited crowd
rushed upon him, intending lynching, A
burlv man stepped before the criminal
and said, BE careful; this man may be
innocent. Hang them both, was the
cry. to which the stranger retorted,
"All right, come on; You cant mob tins
man without putting me outo the way.
I The sheriff hurried the prisoner into
safety, and the stranger turned out to
be Donovan, the prize fighter.
IL the outskirts of New Orleans lives
an old man whose only companions are
spiders of every shape and hue. he has
never attempted an accurate census, but
/ he believes that there are five or six hun
dred of them, and the ceilings of his two
rooms are completely Hidden by the
webs which they have spun. For the
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