Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-08-11
IN A NUTSHELL.

UUO IN bank, money MADE from SELL
ing papers. The publisher probably
sunk ten times that sum during the
time the boy was acquiring his wealth.
The fact that tfe custom in Georgia
now is to sell watermelon by the pound
doesn't discourage the negro in the
least; he takes, in his nocturnal raids,
the largest melon he can lay hands on.
Rosa Bonheur is So wears old. Not
infrequently she has been paid for her
work at the rate of $500 day. Her
first picture was received at the Paris
salon when she was but 10 years old.
"And so you learn dancing Bob.
And how do you like waltzing?" ooh,
it's not bad. / can manage very well
by myself, but think girls rather in
the way?"
A little fellow, eating breakfast, said
to his mamma, "Why don't we have
some pudding for breakfast" Mamma:
ooh, people don't have pudding for
breakfast" Boy: "Well, We have
breakfast all the time, then"
The true way to mourn the dead is to
take care of the living who belong to
them. These are the pictures and stat
ues of departed friends, which we
ought to cultivate.
A writer in a London paper says:
l once abolished bugs in house
where they swarmed thus: Every in
terstice between timbers | filled with
putty and every crack in the plaster
with plaster of Paris"
Lady Ledger -" Your dog, sir, is
unbearable. He howls all night"
Male ledger -" Indeed Well, he
might do worse than that-he might
play the piano all day !"
Boynton, the swimmer, says he car
keep the cramps away by strong eff
fort of will. If he'll let us select the
cucumber for him to eat we'll bet seven
to one against the effort of will.-Boston
Post
Small boy in Sunday school, the
class having been instructed in regard
to cleanliness. Teacher-How should
we keep the Sabbath day? CieanN
said little seven-year old, thereby
preaching whole sermon.
Scented camelas have been pro-
duced by an Italian gardener, who has
been engaged on the experiment for
years past. Only those flowers of a
pale hue possess this perfume, the
white flowers remaining perfectly scent
less.
Bunches of roses as large as tall
cabbage are fastened above and in
front of the hip and below the breast
of the most fashionable women at Sara
toga and Long Branch whenever they
are costumed for a carriage drive.
Olive Logan comm enced one of her
lectures recently with the remark,
Whenever ! see pretty girl | want
to clasp her in my arms" $50 do
We" shouted the boys in the gallery
For a moment Olive was nonplussed,
but, recovering her self-possession, she
replied, "Well, boys, | don't blame
you"
A medical journal of Munich says
that diphtheria caught by kissing is
likely to assume a much severer form
than if the disease were contracted or
the contagion impaired in some other
way. This should be warning to
married men and hired girls. Chicago
Tribune.
A Syracuse girl broke off her en-
gagement because her lover joined
baseball club. She felt that she would
never be happy with man who had
SIX fingers and his nose broken, and
four teeth knocked out, and who was
liable to dream that he was batting for
q home run and knock her clear across
the room.
Two great bells have been cast at
West Croydon, IN England, for the
tower ofthe new Eddystone Lighthouse.
Each has weight of about 1920
pounds and diameter at the mouth of
5 feet / inches. Their note is G, and
they are intended to act as fog signals;
the one to leeward, the other to wind
ward.
A ton of paper pulp from sawdust is
to be sent to England from Weland,
Ont, III order to test its value. 1t will
be tried nj an English factory, and the
paper propduced will be sold as an ex-
pertinent. If it can be successfully
utilized IN the manufacture of paper,
several city capitalists will at once start
a factory at Ottawa.
Poor little fly He was fitting about
the table, and in a little while he set
tied on the glucose, but the waiter
brushed him away SO rudely that he
fell into the oleomargarine. There he
struggled bravely, and at last he got
his legs loose and fiew-alas only to
drop into the sulphuric acid that had
been poured over the beets.