Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-03-25
PITHY PARTICLES.

led at 81, 100000.
A VERMONT magpie worried toad in
to hole made for a post, and then gath
cred pebbles and stoned it.
A WAITER in Las Vegas. New Mexi-
co, was displeased with an order given
him by guest, and procuring pistol,
shot him fatally at the table.
AN enterp1ising merchant in Bing-
hampton allows one mans salary in ad
vertising, and believes it to be his best
and most valuable salesman.
SOME humane gentlemen are protest
ing the practice in vogue III the Ken
lucky penitcntiary of requiring the
female prisoners to wear pantaloons
ROBUST countrvman meeting ply
stefan ran to hide himself behind wall.
Being asked the cause he applied: 1t
is so long since have been sick that l
am ashamed to look physician in the
face. "-B0Ston Post.
WASHINGTON, d. c., has pig that
insists upon living in the kitchen of its
owner 1t wallows in the mud as deep
as any pig but plunges into brook near
by to cleanse itself before entering the
house.
A CONSTANTINE, Oswego county, n. T.,
man thought he he'd struck an oil well, be-
cause the water in his well had acquired
an oleaginous flavor Persistent pump
ing disclosed the cause to be two kerosene
lamps which had been stolen from the
Methodist Church.
The Dennis family at Beaucoup, ILL.,,
found bits of glass in the sausage at
breakfast, and that day the children's
teeth crunched powdered glass in their
luncheon at school. The mother con-
fessed that, wishing her relatives to die
in the most horrible manner possible,
she had planned to kill them with the
glass
Mrs. SKEEN, living in Van Zandt
county, Texas, dreamed of buried treas
ure in Cedar Grove. The dream was re-
peated for six nights successfully, when
her husband took chart Of her visions
aud went to the spot and began to dig.
Suspicion was aroused in the minds of
others who also dug, which resulted in n
vessel being rnearthed with s., 400 in it.
1t was found by man named Hill.
a A SIMPLE and usually successful mode
@ of extracting a needle or any piece of
steel or iron that has broken off in the
flesh is by the application of a simple
pocket magnet. Iron-hlings have a way
i of embedding themselves in the eye
which defies almost every ordinary
means for their extraction. For their
removal a small, blunt, pointed bar of
steel, well maguetized, will be found ex-
cellent.
The shifts to which teachers may be
driven to find punishments for children,
when the use of the rod is forbidden,
was curiously exempltied at Harrow,
England. A complaint was there made,
at a meeting of the school board, that
girl who had been caught copying, had
been forced to stand for two hours in the
her forehead on which was written the
word sneak"
a LADY called at photograph gallery
IN Columbus, o., the other day, with
baby whose photograph she desired
then. The necessary arrangements
were made, the little cherub was propped
up III chair i'll the best possible posi-
ton, and the artist was proceeding to adj
Just the camera, when the mother ex-
cused herself for a moment. The mo-
ment to minutes, and the minutes to
) hours. In short, the mother did not
come back, and the artist inds himself
with ready-made baby on his hands,
whose name and origin are unknown to
him.
Is notice of the memoir of Henry
Armltt Brown is quoted singular dream
which he once had. 1t was, in brief,
that he was attacked in the street and
Killed with Ratchet, and at the moment
of the blow he saw friends coming to
the rescue, and marked especially one in
lfont. Two OF these friends, who did
net know each other, afterward told him,
! without knowing anything of his dream,
tliat on that same night they had dream
ed he was killed by the blow OF . Ratchet,
and that they went to his rescue too late.
As coincidence in dreaming this has
never been matched.
HERE Is child in Bangor that has
quite an eventful history, although still
less than five years old. Some two
years ago while painters were at work in
the house the little one swallowed some
Oh the paint, but physician was called
VINO succeeded III remedying the evil.
Sot long after this the child tried some
nuaanum which was left in a bottle
within reach, and again the physician re-
paired the evil. Its next exploit was
near Belfast during a visit, at which time
Atrael OF corn was introduced into the
nos1rl and it was necessary to ride zine
tract it. i--' ''o''' " "a
81 l%o men from Maine recently made
NN"4Ell III a.