Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-21
PERSONS AND THINGS.


many others, to think that Jumbo is
not so large as the pictures represented
him.
New York's gambling rooms and
policy and lottery shops have been
closed. 1t is believed that the back
doors will remain open, however.
The cost of the strike of the iron
workers in Pennsylvania is estimated
at So, 100000. That is, the world would
nave been weather. by S3,000,OO0 had
the strike not occurred.
The London World has statistics to
prove that lawyers have less sickness
as class than physicians, but as an
offset physicians can get their medi-
cines for about 80 per cent, Oft.
There were over forty girls at Old
Orchard Beach this summer who gave
out that they were heircsses, out they
found that string broken. The young
men turn to the comm ercial agencies
when they want want to know about
such things.
A city belle at Newport won wager
that she could milk cow the first time
trying. Perhaps the COW was too con-
siderate to disappoint lady. IF :. mar
had tried it, he'd have got belt in the
jaw from her hard old tail thai would
have loosened four teeth fol him.
McGrathiana, near Lexington, KY.
the farm of the late Price McGrath, the
well-known turfmsn, h vs. been sold to
Milt Young, of Henderson, Ky, for
sac, 912.50. Il is reputed to be one of
the handsomest farms in the blue grass
region. The price paid was about SIP
per acre,
A young fellow asked another at
bail if his girl was there. YES" said
he; "do you see that girl dressed in
pink?' what, that splendid woman
with such magnificent eyes? Yon
don't say so. How lucky you are"
Just so. OF course am. Well, my
girl Is the next one to her."
The Elmira Gazette says that William
Peak, formerly manager of the Peak
family of bell-ringers, was recently ar
rested in Goshen, N. Y, as vagrant,
and sent to jail for ten days, Ten
years ago he was worth 100000, but
now he is a pauper. Benevolence is
said to be the cause of his poverty, as
he was always liberal to a fault.
The London Truth says: at is only
by corporal punishment, literally ad-
ministered, that the horrible brutality
of modern roughs, both young and old,
can be checked. The efficacy of the
cat in depressing tendency to crime
was proved by the remarkable effect it
had in putting down garroting."
The gentleman who was appointed
by the court to obtain the secret of
keeley's alleged motor reports that he
has not yet obtained the secret, but
that he has discovered that the motor
is really wonderful affair This is
not important, because Kelley ad
mitted rs much years ago.
Owing to the frequency of suicides
from the summit Of the Vendome Col
umn, Paris, the authorities have
thought fit to exclude the public from
that building. In thirty-two years
eighty-two visitors have thrown them
selves from the gallery.
Words of wisdom: First thoughts
and mortgages are always best. The
girl with the biggest feet always wants
to play Cinderella. A fan may be used
to hide the absence of a blush. No one
accuses hotel piano of being out of
tune.
The weather bulletin says "the rivers
will remain stationery" This is truly
ungrateful on the part of the rivers.
After the liberal appropriations that
have been bestowed on them they
should each and all rise, if only to
express their thanks
A missionary in jamaica was once
questioning some little black children
on The fifth chapter OF Matthew's gos
pel and he asked: "Who are the
meek?' A little fellow answered.
CHOSE who give soft answers to rough
questions"
John Jones lived in Cleveland. While
milking he tied the cows tail to his leg,
as the flies kept that appendage flop
ping. After he was taken three times
around the COW pasture on his back,
he remarked: II recognize my mis-
take. ! should have tied her tail to
her own leg instead of mine"
Egypt's torrid term begins the latter
part of September and lasts till the
middle of October. From Cairo to
the canal and indeed throughout all
the Nile delta, the sands blaze in the
heat of pitiless sun, the mercury at
Cairo perching at the dizzy altitude of
1852 or 1909.
Nine. Missions drawing room in
London is full of beautiful paintings,
portraits, busts, china, carved worries
and bronzes. Among the bric-a-brac
are pieces of old Venetian and Persian
embroidery, clasps that once belonged
to Ivan the Terrible, and the picture
of monk for whose head the brother
of the queen OF Spain sat.
The thoroughness with which a Can
adam journal occasionally gathers the
news may be inferred from this brief
extract from the Rockville Recorder of
recent date: THE governor generals
hair wants shingling. He passed
west for Toronto and we had a chance
to see the bapk of nis head only and