Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-01-03
SQUIBS.

0fS,V 4O OF last year.
Strawberries are in the Savannah.
Ga, market. The fruit is grown on
open ground near the city. They sell
for 81 basket.
The debt of the city of Elizabeth,
n. j., is Sc. 500, 600 the total valuation
of real and personal estate in that
city in 1882 was S12, 1872, OBS.
During the year ending Oct. Is,
7S0, 405 salmon, weighing over 9, 900, =
600 pounds, were taken from the Sac
ramento river and its tributaries.
The man who married a girl because
she Struck his fancy" says she
strikes him anywhere that comes han
dy now.
A frightful-looking creature, stand
ing erect, with long, shaggy hair, is
striking terror into the hearts OF the
psoplc at Calcutta, O. Has anybody
lest a poet?
The century plant, which takes 100
years to ripen in the north, takes but
twelve years to mature in California,
and takes only five years in Mexico.
An aside from Crossgrain: Land
lady-It's singular, but true, Mr..
Crossgrain that all my boarders re-
main with me. New boarder Cat first
meaD-Too weak to leave, / guess,
after the first week.
An exchange says: Have the cour-
age 10 discharge debt whileyou have
the money in your pOket" which
seems to be case Of eating ones cake
and keeping it.
A woman always carries her purse
in her hand so that other women
will see it; while a man carries his in
his inside pocket so that his wife won't
see it.
In these times nothing goes to
waste. Antique eggs are now used
for certain manufacturing purposes,
and butchers sell cats heads for bon.
net ornaments.
Queen Victoria is very fond of APP
pies, and they do say it is interesting
to watch her popping the seeds on the
kitchen stove 20 see if she viii get
married this year
Well, my | hope, then, dearest,
that at some time may have the hap
plness of making you my wife, yes,
l hope so, / am sure, she replied II
am getting tired of suing fellows for
breach OF promise.
II remember you very well, said
the hotel-keeper, but your wife has
grown very thin" Eyes. ''She was
taller. Eyes. "And lighter com
plexion, was she not?" yes. Besides,
you know, she is not the same one.
The immigration to this country
during the last eleven months was
about 53G, 900, against CSC, GIG last
year, 672, 1877 in 1880, and sos, 391 in
1881 In November there We're 80, 1893
arrivals
One of theresidents of Athens, Ga,
has in his possession a copper penny
made in I'M, with the famous words
of Pinckney stamped ON its face:
Millions for defense, not one cent for
tribute
1t is said an Arizona Judge resign
ed from the bench to become a hotel
waiter The judicial ermine may sat
isfy a mans vanity, but it does not al
ways fill the void created by the want
of three square meals day.
Disraeli said short time before his
death: "You cannot convert 1000
tons into 10000 tons. This will
cause ice dealers to smile until the cor
ners Of their mouths get all tangled
up on the backs of their necks,
If New York was to wager $500 that
its pedestal for the Bartholdi statue
would be finished before Philadelphias
Keely motor is completed, betting
men would be greatly perpleXed as to
which side to stake their money on.
''Wera you in the late war;" asked
q veteran of a badly-demoralized citi-
zen who came hobbling down the
street on a crutch. 81 don't know
how late you mean, was the sad reply.
"She gayeme this one last evening be-
fore tea.
You have all noticed while visiting
a menagerie, how inditferently the
lion gazes over your head into
the space beyond. Well, that is
about he same expression of the British
lion when asked by this country to
grant O'Donnell a reprieve.
According 10 the Fail Mall Gazette
a pound of Hyson tea contains poison
enough to kill more than 2, 900 rab-
bits, and if boiled down To a gill it
contains poison enough to kill 10, 500
cats in the same space of time.
1t is now claimed for the dense and
almost suffocating London fogs that
they are powerful disinfectants, and
absorb n0xious gases and deadly germs
that left -undisturbea- HeH+d- work
terrible results in the health of the
population of the city.
On account of the fact that many
Of the Jews do not understand the
Hebrew language, and therefore do
not take interest in the services in
that language, a Rochester, n. Y,
synagogue has decided to adopt the
English translation Of the ritual
Respect for the father is the first
duty of a young Corean. The mother
is regarded merely as nurse, and he
considers himself as in no way bound