Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-11-03


same was erected there.
Ah Dearest friend and must we part
And bid farewell, with angushd tone 2
lis like a drge upon the heart
When every earthly joy has flown.
But mem rvs voice will tendery
Assuage our heart depressing woe
If you will but fork out that ~"
We loaned you, Charley, long ago.
oil CITY Derrick.
A New York Judge has decided that
a "colossal liar and literary thief" APP
piled to dramatist, is not libel. This
shows the danger of giving a Judge free
passes to New York theater. They
get to know too much about new plays.
philadelphia News
The rose avoke one morning fair
Its petals filed with dew
And bending DER thistle there
She filled its crown with tender care
Until the dews and perfume rare,
Forced the poor thistle to declare
Sweet Rose o Thistle do!
Hmgo,d Times,
\ hat upon the sidewalk lay,
And meath it lay brick
IN aged bum came past that way
And gave that hat kick.
And people who had stopped TO see
The awful kick he dealt
Al knew the old hats quality,
They knew that il was felt.
ErcasrHe Argus.
The London Echo says: "To write
about a rebellion is generally more
pleasant and profitable than to be en-
gagged in one. Mr. Jefferson Davis po-
litical endeavor brought him nothing.
His history of the endeavor has already
made him sure of no less than f10, 900. "
SAID Master Jones Now must we go,
Without delay to the dee-put
Laughed sweet Miss Jones, Il should say SO,
Let's start at once 10 the day-pot.
Smiled Mrs. Jones, In quick step, oh
We all run down to the depot
Groaned Mr.. Jones, IT'S mighty hot
To drive you all to the dee pot.
These conflicts of pronunciation
Would not be if they d call it station
Norristo,ca Herald.
Anything that is worth doing is wor tn
doing well. Always remember this
when you are sparkling girl, and don't
sit looking at her with your thumb in
your mouth when she feels faint and
needs your strong arm to support her.
Waist no time, but sieze the opportuni-
ty-and the girl.-Keokuk Gate City.
Frederick Douglass, the venerable
colored orator, was originally named
Frederick Augustus Washington Bal
lev. The name he now bears was CIV
en- him by Mr.. Nathan Johnson, of New
Bed lord, Mass, who befriended him
soon after his escape from slavery. Mr..
Johnson had been reading "The Lady
of the Lake." and was so pleased with
its great character that he desired his
protege to take the name of Douglass
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Sometimes we want the door between
our Office and the one next to it closed,
and the editor in that room of course
feels, if we get up and shut it, that we
are getting heightened and exclusive,
and it wounds him. And we don't like
10 do that, so we have invented way
to make him shut the door himself.
We sing.-Boston Post.
Whether the soil has a greater infu-
ence on health than the air and water,
was, we see a subject eagerly discussed
ut the Salzburg congress. DR.. Petten-
kofer contended it was the soil, and air
and water had their partisans in other
learned men, The discussion seems to
us TO be much on par with that as 10
whether the hen first came from the
egg, or the egg was produced by the
hen.
An ex-gendarme of Pope Plus TX,
WAC is employed as guardian of the
tombs in which are buried the soldiers
who fell in the battle of Montana, has
been accused of a most unnatural
crime. He has been selling the bones
OF these heroes to tourists, his fee being
Tor each bone from ST. to 20f., accord
ing TO size and condition. He has, very
properly, been arrested, and will soon
be tried in public.
Inc Princess Maud. daughter of the
Prince and Princess of Wales, has de-
veloped decided talent for vocal mu-
SIC. She Is said to have voice com
bining power with rare sweetness. She
is so passionately fond Of music, and
has devoted herself to il 80 assiduouslv.
that both medical and musical advisers
have cautioned her royal parents
against encouraging the young girl in
her favorite study for a time at
least.
The meanest man in the world live
IN Burlington. While deaf, dumb,
and blind haud-oroanis, ,,as sleaninp