Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-06-30
IN A NUT SHELL.

White House 10 give the vice Iresluent
chance.-Pnck.
The heat is expanding everything ex.
cept the time for thirty-dav note
oil City Derrick.
A man fished for two hours in a
trout brook, last summer, and never
got bite until the farmers dog came
that way.
Do not tell man he lies. 1t is vul-
gar. Say that his conversation sug-
gests to your mind a summer resort
circular. philadelphia Nems.
Everybody will be glad to learn that
Mrs. Garfield has so far recovered rs to
be able to travel to Long Branch, where
it is hoped that the sea air will restore
her entirely to health.
Tie London Telegraph tells story of
woman blacksmith who worked
twelve hours day at the forge for a
penny an hour to earn food for her
children.
Out in Cincinnati they propose to
send man to Jail if he reads news
paper on Sunday. Considering the
character of Cincinnati papers, this is
right-BostOn Post
Mrs. ]. w. Mackay's latest purchase
in Paris was mirror with gold frame.
said to have been originally owned by
the Empress josephine.
Emma Abbot has invented a new
kiss. If she wishes to dispose oftne old
lot at cost, she can learn something to
her advantage by calling at this office
out of business hours.-LomeA Citizen.
The Norristown Herald defines city
beer garden as-Two streets, 7x9 flow
er bed, seventeen benches, and six
walters In majority of cases trees
and flower beds are dispensed with.
Thackeray's idea of dandy is given
in the following notes: 'My dear Ed
ward-A "dandy" is an individual who
would be lady if he could, but as he
can't, does all he can to show the world
he's not man."
A circus proprietor in Canada has
applied for the admission of his ele-
plants to this country free of duty.
On the ground, we presume, that their
trunks contain no valuables. Norris.
torn Herald.
Out in Durango, Col, recently mar
riage took place, and the notice of it in
the daily paper said: Cards" Every
person in the whole town bought a
pack, and some couple of them
Puck.
A million young shad have just been
placed in the Connecticut river. II
these shad are rot one day utilized to
furnish toothpicks for the world, the
people of the Nutmeg state will have
forgotten their cunning.-Boston Tran
script.
"Tom, my DEAR" said fond wife to
her husband, who followed the pisca-
tory profession, edo brighten up lit
tie; you look so slovenly! Oh, what an
awful recollection it would be for me if
you should get drowned looking so'
Very practical; "Do you intend 60
ing to a summer resort this summer
inquired Miss Fitzjoy of her practical
friend. ooh, yes indeed If there is
any place where summer resorts this
year we are going, surely. Mem Harel
Register.
Lawyer-"Mr. Smith, remember
you are on your oathl Do you say that
you had three wives?' Smith-"No,
SIR" Lawyer-"What do you say
them s'mith-'I say that the three
wives haG me. "--RhiladeLphia Sunday
Item.
A Washington newspaper printed by
an alleged intimate friend ofSecretary
Blaine, ridicules the idea that the
United States would, in any event, go
to war to sustain the Monroe doctrine
as applied to Panama railway interests.
The state of North Carolina proposes
to break up the "solid south" on the
liquor question. The state election will
turn entirely, this fall, upon the ques-
ton of whiskey or no whiskey. and
politics as politics, are entirely ignored.
The Pueblos of New Mexico believe
that at death they will be carried away
in some mysterious manner to a place
beneath vast underground lake, where
MELONS and peaches and beautiful
maidens and horses are never ending
supply for the good.
A matter of history: The farmers of
Illinois are very much excited about
the depredations of the Hessian fly and
want to know something of its origin.
If we mistake not it was General Wash
ington who first made the Hessian fly
in this country - Yonkers Gazette
The Cornell crew are dissatisfied with
their exclusion from the race for the
Visitors plate, in the Henley Regatta,
which they believe they could win.
They double their ability to win the
Stewards Cup. Efforts will be made
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