Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-22
SQUIBS.

'|All French dresses now allow
space for the hustle All mems inside
coat pockets allow space for the bot
tie
Cetowayo's army is reduced to sixty
men and women. He will soon be in
condition to be imported by some cir
Gus manager as a curiosity.
When a man wakes up at midnight,
with the dream of a delicious sym
phony lingering in his ears, and reali-
yes that the shed roof is all speckled
with tomcats, it makes him feel sick.
Cut this out and paste it on your bed
post
A one sided show: mo, said Mr.
Dash Cutter, II can't afford a new
suit of clothes myself, it has cost me
so much for liveries for my coachman
and footman.
The Rev. Robert Collyer says that
''novel-reading is only a stepping
stone to higher education. " BY high
er education Mr.. Collyer probably
means newspaper reading.
care you going TO follow the sug-
gestions Of the railway officials and
adopt the mean timeW inquired the
matchmaker of Mr.. Stubbins. MEAN
timer No, indeed Ny watch keeps
mean time enough now"
Health is the bed-plata ON which the
whole mental machinery may rest and
work. If this be cracked or displaced,
all the mechanism that stands on it
will be Jared and disturbed, and made
ineffective.
AS in mans life, so in his studies l
think it is the most beautiful and hu-
name thing in the world so to mingle
gravity with pleasures that the one
may not sink into melancholy, nor
the other rise up into wantonness. -
[Pliny.
Be fearful only of myself; and stand
in awe of none more than thine own
conscience There is Cato in every
man; a severe Censor of his manners.
And he that reverences this judge will
seldom do anything he need repent of.
Fl Fuller
No Government in the world was
ever so generous toward its defenders
as the United States Government.
During the last ten years SAG, 1874, All
has been paid to the soldiers of the
late war in pensions.
1t was a very bright little girl who
remarked to her authenticated moth
er; ma. some of the trees are getting
red-headed just like you" OF course,
being a little child, she was not ex-
pected to 60 into ecstacies over autumn
leaves.
80 your husband is a contractor.
In what particular line is he2" In
the debt line" In the debt2" Eyes,
he has contracted about $40, 900 worth
of debts during the last two years.
Everybody says he is very successful
in his business.
At a church fair in White Plains
n. Y last Saturday, prize was of
fered for the young girl who would
come forward and assert that she had
declined all invitations to eat ice
cream during the summer. The man
who offered the prize was perfectly
safe.
Mr.. Beecher does not think we car
ry with us the needs of our present
physical organization into the spirit
ual world. And a man who has
been paying coal bills says he's glad it
won't be necessary to buy coal there,
and his wife assures him that she
doesn't think he'd need to buy coal in
the next world, anyway.
A Hartford intelligence Office aa-
vertises in one of the evening papers
for two young ladies not afraid to
talk four hours day, at 81 an hour"
This is singularly supertluous. An
:
would have covered the whole
ground.
my dear, :" remarked an old COB
bier to the hen turkey as they lit on
their roost in a tree. 81 notice by the
papers that the Governors of the var
ious States arc issuing their Thanks
giving proclamations, and | am lit
tie nervous. Suppose you hop up q
few twigs higher. | think | had
better have my life insured to-mor-
row.
A lady at a hotel, whose unrHly
children annoy everybody in the
house. the other day said to a noted
teacher. sitting near her at the table:
Professor, do you believe IN the use
of the rod in the management OF chill
dren2n The professor glarcd at her
annoying children, and grimly repli-
ed Sometimes, madam; but there
are cases when | should prefer re-
volver.
DIR. Marion Sims, who died so sud
denly in New York Tuesday, was one
of the most famous physicians not
only in this country, but in the world.
He was a Gouthprua. nv birth a ma
tive of Montgomery, Ala, but remov-
ed to New York in 1858, and has since
lived there and in Paris.
An autograph in a certain album
runs: Or. Sir The safest prediction
can make respecting Christmas is
that it will occur before New Years,
and IN immediate proximity to the 25th
of December. To such prediction |
may safely append my signature.
Yours sincerely,