Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-25
SQUIBS.

Rule for church fairs and oysters
Twice one is stew
Knoxville, Tenn, has a centeuarian
who claims TO be ll3 years old HIS
name is Southy Nelson, and he has a
grandson who is 73 years old. He is
stone blind, but his hearing is sing
ularly acute
A Marion Ala, paper complains of
peStiferous rats that climb the corn
stalk and eats the ears of corn. and
says, impatient creatures, they are
not willing to wait until the cropis
harvested.
Mr., Samuel b. Harrod, who is now
on a visit to LousvilleS big show
claims to be the first white child born
in that city Mr. Harrod resides
in Scott county, Indiana. and GO
years old.
A colored man standing on track
near AnSonia, Conn, recently, was
struck by an incoming train and
thrown a distance of twenty feet
but landed alongside the track I'M
hurt
Red bananas come from the West
Indian island of Barac0a The vel
low variety are grown ON other islands
of the West midas and in Central
America.
The published report OF n bcuevol-
ent society says Notwithstanding
the large amount paid for medicine
and medical attendance, very few
deaths occurred during the year
civilian, said teacher to one of
his pupils, can you tell me
why the sun rises in the eastl'
Don't know, sir, replied William,
" 'cept it be thatthe east makes every
thing rise Teacher tainted
"Then Augustus is to preach! Is he
to study, or viii he be merely a lay
preacherm / guess he will be "A lay
preacher most of the time laying
around out of a job.
Guest "What do you mean by
bringing me fish like that 1t smells
horrible. Waiter: Beg pardon,
sir; that's not the fish at all The
smell comes from the kitchen.
Are YOU aware that breakfast is
ready and waiting for your she de
as she nearly shook his
Off. Yes he sleepy re-
piled 81 am just awaking up to that
fact
TITS growing cold and chilly
And Mary Jane aud Willie
No more uion the front stoop chew the IN gum.
Gone Che bulziug hy's weird chorus
Aud mosquitoes cease 10 bore us,
And the humble bee no more doth sNccuy hum
General sherman wears IN his Office
since his return n pair Of huge Chin
ese spectacles, which he purchased
while absent They have thick frames
of tortoise she'll, and branches from
the outer edge of each glass form
sort of shade for the eyes.
News has been received at Hartford
from Paris, that the wife OF United
States Minister John Russell Young
now in China, is rapidly falling, and
can live but few days The was
Miss Coleman, q niece Of the late
Governor Mashall Jewell, Of Connec-
ticut.
Professor Kedric Of the Michigan
Agricultural College, is making eX-
periments that thus far show that
growing plants in a close room are
not injurious TO human life He says
that the notion that it is unhealthy TO
sleep in a room containing growing
plants is sheer nonsense.
A Stratford, Conn, woman dream
ed that she saw her husband kissing
wife, and she awoke and
struck him across the nose. The next
night he ate mince pie Welsh rarebit,
dried apples, and wedding cake 10
have a dream to get square with her
They tried hard to smuggle opium
into San Francisco, hiding it IN ordI-
nary blocks OF wood followed out.
The blocks were placed under a gang
way. so as to support it, and mislead
the Custom-house officers but a pro
screw exposed the fraud.
1t is estimated that the now. build
ings TO be erected in Knoxville, Tenn,
in the coming twelvemonth will cost
81 100000 Northern capitalists arc
TO build a 500, 900 hotel there.
James f. Voorhees,, the son Of Sen
ator Daniel w. voorhees,, Of Indiana,
has been taken to the New York Hos
pital in consequence of "a disordered
intellect. He had written several
dramas ard many contributions to
and magazines, but fail
ing TO meet purchasers, his financial
troubles have at last driven him in
sane. lie has a wife and two chill
dren deuendiug upon him----
81 have got two invitations to NOR
row, said Clara Charley wants me
to 20 with him, and Fred also sept me
an invitation ! hate Fred, and the
place he is going to | don't like one
BIT" Then you viii 90 with Char
leyT suggested her friend No; 1
shall 20 with Fred. The tickets to his
excursion are 81 apiece, while the
tickets 10 Charley's are only ~ cents
He was a masher holding up the
corner, and q very pretty girl came
along and he spotted her and made
break to mash her. ''Ah, he said
with greasy smile, tipping his hat
81 beg your pardon, but are you not
Miss" But before he could con
tinue she interrupted with Not mis-