Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-15
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be shown there, and when they do
make the request refuse to 60 on be
ing told that they would be compelled
TO drive through narrow, crooked
streets, entirely deserted save for the
few solemn and gloomy-looking CON
vents which line the way
"What do you do here to keep this
town up2" asked a railroad passenger
of resident of Yuma, Arizona, while
the train was stopping for supper.
"Do" was the reply, lets see-we
had fort here once--that gave our
town start; now we have the Terri
torial Penitentiay here, and that in
creases our population amazingly, such
as it is |"
George Bancroft, the venerable his
torian, is a man of fixed and steady
habits. Though now past his I'D year,
he still rises at o'clock every morn
ing, works until o'clock in the after
noon, and then rides, generally horse
back, the remainder of the cay.
Mr., D. r. Locke, petroleum Y.
Nasby) is now fat and fifty, though
/ still hard and steady worker. His
"a InSLuOo Nntil 10 W AlIt d
q whole section in a Pullman car, have
n the curtains drawn and the table set
III up, and proceed to business with a
Il type writer.
Literary: Wanted-A story of a
u burglary in which the night is not dark
without, and the wind does not blow
in fitful gusts, and the old oak in
f.On+ g fbo hn,,no 1oac not o.,,...-
mally On receipt of such we agree
to return tho manuscript.
"Steam is great thing, remarked
n a French traveller in railway car
riage to a vis-a-vis. 80 it is was
the reply. 81 owe my fortune to it. )"
Monsieur is manager of a company2'
No. IAN engineer, perhapsfn
II No; l have lost a number of rich
relations by railroad accidents
TWAS lover of the lugubrious.
melancholy sort, and as they sat in
the parlor he drew up to the
piano and thummed over when You
and | Were Young" So rapt was he
in his own performance that he didn't
observe her Indignation, tear off his
engagement ring and leave the room.
Il A white man not long since sued a
Y black in one of our courts, and while
81 the trial was before the Judge the lit
n igants came to an amicable settlement
M and the counsel so stated to the court.
IN A verbal settlement will not answer, -
sFeplled the judge, lit must be in wri-
ting. Here is the agreement in
black and white, " responded the coun-
sci, pointing to the reconciled parties.
M Pray, what does your Honor want
Il more than this2"
Il General" Totman, a professional
4 dwarf living at Richmond, Me-, is
q % yaars old, thirty-two inches high,
NJ and weighs forty-ive pounds. He
B first attracted ttention IN a Metho-
i dist camp meeting, has since made
n money ION the road, and is soon to
Il mrrry "the German Rose, who is
4 II years old, thirty inches high, and
il weight thirty-eight pounds.
n At the recent marriage of Miss
q Gertrude Tucker, slaughter of Hon.
Randolph Tucker, of Virginia, to Mr..
Logan, of New York, one of the
n presents was a pair of silver candle
y sticks, formerly owned by Lady Spot
II tiswoode, wife of Virginia's old col
Onial Governor. Mr.. fuckers son is
the rector of st. Paul's in Norfolks,
Il Va, and has in his church study the
L chair in which John Hancock sat to
Il sign the Declaration.
Mr. Sturgeon, the famous London
u Badtist preacher is described as q
I'll brown skinned, low browed, bg-cheek-
Isl ed, rugged framed man, stout, of
RI medium height, with iron-gray hair
al short, bristling and impaired, beard
II and mustache closely trimmed, wear
ing Prince AIberts" coat and
black cravat, with nothing clerical in
his appearance, out looking for all
the world like a village blacksmith
with his Sunday go-to-meetingn
clothes on.
The seryant-maid of the celebrated
4 lyric poet lie Brun appearing one day
before him with all his manuscripts
ID in her hands, threatened to consign
GALL his glory to the flames if he did not
marry her. lie Brun, frightened at
the imminent danger in which his
verses were being reduced to ashes,
and thus losing his hopes of immor-
tality, sent for priest Immediately
and married her
A Partisan author has translated
Shakspeare's line, "Out, brief candle"
# That isn't as bad as the translation of
an exclamation of Millions by a
III renchmau, who rendered Hall,
horrors, hall" thus: How dive do.
~ horrors, how dye dol"
N Two ladies who had been to the
u opera were seated on a tramcar. Said
Y one: How do you like Garment"
" i think Carmen perfectly lovelyr
rs replied the other And the conductor
and driver, the great silly creatures.
swelled oUt like pair of inflated
frogs and they have since taken to
v hair-oil, dyed mustaches, patchouly.
scented pocket handkerchiefs, and all
sorts OF egregious vanities
A man going home at a late hour in
She night saw that the occupant of a