Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-03-30
GLEANINGS

nc FACULTY at OperNn Will not hlOW
tho boys to have chess club.
Another extensive blast furnace will
be put in operation the coming summer
at Birmingham, Ala
Wheat-telds in the entire belt ofcoun.
ties OF northern Pennsylvania are re.
ported to be promising.
a Fall River turkey in being prepared
for the spit was found TO have q hand.
come gold thimble in its gizzard.
Mr.. Cobbrecently married Miss Webb;
he Knew they were intended for each
other as soon as he spider,
The girl that has the most freedom
and runs at large most persistently at
this are is tho one that's maid fast
The young man who boosted that he
could marry any girl he pleased, found
that he couldn't please any.
"My daughter" exclaimed fashion,
able mother ''is innocence itself. You
can't say anything in her presence that
will make her BUSH
Sham: At curiosity shop-"Oh, the
charming little box! Antique, isn't it?'
mo, madam, il is modern" What a
pity-it was so pretty
Miss Alice Longfellow, the daughter
Of the poet, has u strong and cleverface,
with charming brown eyes. and deb
cate, SOFT color in her cheeks.
The Zurich doctors took advantage Of
Lavater's remains having lately to be
moved to examine his skull. which they
found small but well-proportioned.
A COW at Vicksburg ran her tongue
through lattice-work, when an I'M
neighborly mule made snap and bit off
four inches of it.
Meetings of miners in the bituminous
coalfelds of Pennsylvania are now OF
constant occurrence, but for what pur-
pose does not appear, they being con-
Quoted with the utmost secrecy
A party of lumbermen, while cutting
large ash tree in Parton swamp, YER
mont, discovered that the inside was
alive with coons, and after an exciting
chase captured six nearly full grown.
The state reform school at Meriden,
Conn, received 1876 boys last year, dis
charged LAG, and now contains 357. The
expenditures for the year were SS4, 1863,
of which Sl2, 400 were for salaries.
BOY, I'll teach you to tear your
pants, said m irate parent. swinging q
strap; ~ teach you. Don't hit me,
pa; l know how already. just look as
EN-"
Two considerations; what change"
exclaims the novelist Roe, zone little
woman can make in mans lifeN tx
actly; and what a heap Of "change" she
requires while doing it.
Her loving salutation: II thought,
Miss s., that you hated that fiirty mink.
Yet you went up and kissed her" Miss
S.-'I do hate her, and that IS why /
did it. Look at the big freckles on her
cheek where l kissed the powder of. y
Il don't mind the pi-anner much"
said fond but perplexed mother, re-
Gently, "but when Marier gets to sally
in around in front of the lookin' glass
and disputn' in French with her own
shadder, it makes me right nervous"
Miss Henrietta Dewcome-In answer
to Your question about "unkissed kiss
es," we may say we are prepared to I'M
kiss any kisses we may have kissed out
side the family for the last five years.
HARVARD Lampoon.
A celebrated lawyer said that the three
most troublesome clients he ever bad
were young lady who wanted to be
married, amarried woman who wanted
divorce, and an old maid who didn't
know what she wanted,
A Boston artist discovered an ancient,
moss-grown. vine-clad stone mill in
Maine, and sat down to sketch it, much
to his own delight az well as that OF the
owner. When night fell he had his
| sketch half done, and the next morning
he returned to finish it. Meanwhile the
owner had "tidied up the place by
grubbing up the vines, scraping of the
moss, and giving the stones fine coat
of whitewash.
Sophia (sentimentally)-'I dearly
love to listen to the ticking of clock.
1t seems to me that clock has lam
guage of its own" Mr.. Smart-"Yes,
Sophia, the clock has language you
might say dialect"
Some Princeton College boys offered
to saw wood for poor widow, but she
replied that if they would relay the four
rods of sidewalk torn up by their crowd
she would ask Heaven to see to the wood
pile.
There is a giant measuring six feet
eight inches in height and weighing 294
pounds among the working population
of Crisiield, Nd. He is a colored youth,
only 10 years old and has grown up
under diet consisting principally Of
sweet potatoes. His shoes are sixteen
inches long.
Forest and Stream charges the resi-
dents around Lookout Mountain with
making bogus war relics Don't pay
ten cents apiece for bullets from any
battlefield. You ban buy 'em at the
junk shops in Richmond for five cents q
pound, warranted pure.
A party of New York capitalists have
purchased $50 acres of land near Rock
away at $3.50 per acre, and viii com
mence the work at once of laying the
property out into villa sites and erecting
dwellings for sale OF rent,
A Spectator in the neighborhood OF