Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-09-15
IN A NUTSHELL.

Cotton has been used for garments il
! India for 5000 years.
The first knit silk hose made in Eng
land were worn by Queen Elizabeth.
Some people are so nervous tina,
they cannot even rest assured.
The young man whose pocketbook is
crammed should Immediately quaran-
tine against picnic invitations.
The stories of Jack the Giant-kille,
and Tom Thumb, we're brought to
| England by the earliest Saxon invaders
The man who was the coolest person
| at the battle of Waterloo has Just died
He hid in the icehouse of the chateau
during the contest-Boston Post.
A strange astronomical phenomenon
is seen in the fact that when the irate
father takes down his trunk strap there
are liable to be spots on the SOM ouela
Citizen.
One of Barnum's clowns says he has
] had as many as twenty-five women
4 offer to elope with him in single sea-
son. What's more, it worried him al
most to death for fear they would
On the body of an outcast woman who
drowned herselfat Detroit was found a
gold medal, which she had received for
remarkable scholarship on graduation
at an academy.
The song writers painful working of
the mother theme would seem to have
| eliminated in the latest production,
/ Judging by the title, "An Old-F Fashion
ed Photograph of Mother"
The project of a second Suez Canal
under English auspices is the subject of
discussion in the Alexandria press.
The advantages proposed include a
quicker transit and reduced tariff
Six Nevada widows each worth over
100000, have formed compact SOL
EMMY agreeing to take no men but ed
itors for second husbands. So says an
airy editor of that stuek,up little state
of the big hills.
A sexton and his enemy fought in a
churchyard at Millsboro, Del and the
sexton was thrown into a freshly dug
4 grave. Then the other undertook to
bury him alive, and had almost COM
Il pleted the job when help came.
an ellcan mans gun shootee pletty
good" was the patronizing observation
with which Yung Kee returned their
u weapon to a group of astounded mill
#tia-men at Carson City, New, after
Hmaking five successive bull's-eyes on
the 200 yard target.
S what are you going to do when you
grow up if you don't know how to
ls|cipher?' asked an Austin teacher of a
SNrather slow boy. II am going to be q
#school teacher, and make the boys do
AL the ciphering," was the impudent
reply.
'& There is a young lady i'll Keokuk,
+ Iowa, who is six feet four inches tall,
Ind she Is engaged to be married. The
man who won her did it in these words;
filthy beauty sets my soul aglow-Td
Eed thee, right or wrong; man wants
but little here below, but wants that lit
u Re-loLg ."-BufaIo Express.
Hunting hummiug birds is favorite
port in Brazil. The natives arm them
Selves with blow guns made of reed,
about fourteen inches long, and take
$peliets of cotton. With these they so
Il stun the little creatures that they fall
an easy prey to their pursuers, and
3 their beautiful plumage is thus unin-
jured.
Il IT is well known that birds of differ
emf kinds, notably the ostrich, turkeys
and chickens, swallows stones to help
digest their food. Recent researches
show that seals swallow stones of one,
two or three pounds weight, and one
investigator, not long ago. found ''ten
pounds of these boulders in the stom-
ach of a sea lion"
The tolling Of the church bells in
Westfeld, Mass, for lost 6-year-old
boy about 1890 the other night, startled
all hearers into thinking President Gar
field was dead, and drew many out into
the streets. After searching all about
town for the child, he was found asleep
under tree in his fathers garden.
A Leadvile man in one week was at
hurt by an explosion, had a boulder
roll down on him and stave in two ribs
and was Kicked by mule. A local
editor remarked that he had "been
somewhat annoyed by circumstances
lately"
Familiar as its people are to heat,
it is seldom that Morocco has witnessed
heat so intense as that which prevailed
in August last Arabs refused to hire
/ their camels for the transport of pro-
4 duce to market, and during move of
the sultans camp many of the poor
beasts of burden persisted outright, the
number being placed at more than 200.
n "a judgment on me for Decorating
Vi the Sabbath" said Harrison Munsey,
III of Jefferson, Me-, as he lay on his bed
n WI b broken shoulder. He is a prom
a inent Methodist, but, looking from hi1
n window one Sunday morning, he saw a
flock of crows pulling up his corn, and
Selling an old musket that had been
loaded for years, he fired among them
His shoulder was broken in three
places by the recoil
Put new suit of clothes on a boy
o, md then warn him not to climb fences
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