Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-06-02
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The modern style of doing up a
oman's hair is so complicated that it
difficult to tell which is switch.
The only form of oath among the
! hoshone India is, ''The earth hears
+ be. The sun hears me. Shall | lie?'
The receipts of the Cunard Steam
hip Company for 1880 were close on
( |, l40 600, and the net profits about
100000.
The population of Liverpool, ac-
Il ording to the late census returns, is
is .9SS, being an increase since 1871
n 62,0S3.
al In Portugal a widow cannot marry if
PIE be over fifty years of age. Who
liver heard of widow as old as that p
Boston Post.
n 4 Chicago military com pany's scheme
y for replenishing its treasury was to
3urn its armory into dance house
Ind barroom. The adjuant-
Hisbanded them.
a A hermit has built little house in
3ree at Morrisville, VT, forty feet from
Ethe ground. He has had enough of
searth, he says, and desires to live as far
from 1t as possible.
n The fence between the Bemister and
Brace farms, near Utica, it is. the sub
ect of a lawsuit. The ground involved
worth about s., and thus far $1,000
ave been spent in litigation.
n The New York Sun has discovered
Hhat snakes have to be fed four times
ear to keep them in good condition.
How much more economical to keep
nases than hens!-DetroH Free Press.
Farragut's heroism The difference
between Farragut and a girl smitten by
"A cobbler's charms is that the one was
dashed to the mast and the other is
8nashed to the last.--Lo,ceH Courier
q Christian f. Rapp, principal of
4'incinnati school, married one of his
3upils, and within three days so far for
Y rot their changed relations as to whip
ler for disobedience. She has sued
3or divorce.
4 Ella Wheeler, in poetry, says II
bitten dream of love, holy as the moon
d light on grave" We should like to
3know if moonlight on grave is any
Anore holy than moonlight on a wood
&hed roof-Boston Post.
The Post Office Department has rul-
I'd that husband has no control over
Tthe correspondence of his wife, but this
%lecision will not prevent man from
a carrying his wife's letter in his inside
4, oat pocket three weeks before mailing
H.
4 The whisper of a beautiful woman"
$ays Blazac, "can be heard further than
VI he loudest call of duty" But the man
yho is creeping up stairs with his boots
|8of at 2 o'clock A. NJ, and hears the
whisper of his wife as she leans over
Athe bannisters in the darkness, doesn't
Sthink of her beauty. His chief thought
II how much he would like to exchange
ms boots for pair of wings.
Not long ago, two girls beg an to see
how many stamps they could lick in
/ ten hours. One licked 247 in three
hours and the other got as high as 247.
Then their tongues swelled up and they
had to stop. They want the heker law
repealed, A girl who can accomplish
50 much in three honrs, is able to lick
4 man IN two minutes.
An authority on dentistry stated in
recent lecture that the first knowledge
of dentist surgery was brought to this
country by a person who accompanied
the French troops here during the
revolution. The first dentist was es-
tablished in New York in 1888. George
Washington's false teeth were retained
in the mouth by spiral springs. In
1880 there were 800 dentists in the
country; in 1912, 1000 to-day, $1,000.
Col. DEVICES death was published in
the St. Louis newspapers. Next day
the same publication said that be was
awe. This supposed correction was
based on the positive assertion of a
railroad conductor that Col. Devoe had
been a passenger in his train that
morning. On the first day, the notice
OF hIs death related Somebody had
undertaken to ride on the dead mans
pass, and that had led the conductor
astray
Did you ever notice how things get
ID your way when you're in a hurry? A
Boston woman told her husband run
away horse was going by. He jumped
50 quick he sprained his knee and in
MS frantic haste fell over two chairs,
md skinned his shins, stepped on the
Dog, upset the table with books and a
{ op-light on it, ran against his wife and
hnrt her, and got to the window just as
hey were stopping the horses two
locks away, round the corner.
Yes" observed a friend the other
ayening, "she certainly is highly cul-
waited. She Is very sty iish, plays