Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-01-24
PERSONS AND THINGS.

List, the pianist, is now ~, and vi
vacious as he was at 40.
AS the thermometer goes up / go
down, said the pedestrian as eslipped
on the ice.
Mr.. Kelly now thinks the motor
viii move on Feb. l. He does not men
ton the year.
We don't Just see why a saw horse
should be called a tramp's fiddle,
since tramp can't be induced to play
on one.
The Prince of Wales refers to cham
payne as 'the boy" lie would prob
ably speak of Jersey tightening as
''the old man eloquent"
George @. Harding's widow is con
Quoting a restaurant at indianapolis,
Indiana
The Weather Bureau, too ready to
surrender to the cold, runs up white
flag.
The Harvard boys are hard stu,
dents. Their gymnasium is crowded
every day.
The milkmen are heavy losers by
the recent cold. A frozen pump can
not be MIXED.
Bismarck rubs Insulating rink every
day with fresh spare-ribs, but the hair
stIll refuses to sprout.
"Real good, square weather." says
the Boston Post. Well, that's the
kind of weather to be round in.
The Eastern nailers have refused TO
submit to a further reduction of wa
ges. This will soon bring things to
head
1t will not be in good form for any
female to wear seal sacque when
the coldwave flag sn'tflopping on the
staff.
The Peoria Transcript has noticed
that the fair sex clings to la-da-da-
collars, knitting-needle canes and
tight pantaloops.
The question now is, can man who
rejects leap year proposal be sued
for breach of promises Things are
looking very dark for the male sex.
What French King did she mention
when she answered Louis question as
to what day of the month it was2
This is, Louis, the Eleventh.
The Widow Van Colt says no
Christian ever went to theater.
There has to be very good acting,
that's fact, if Christian is to pay
out his money for 1t.
Charles Anderson Dana advises pa
rents to give their children no middle
name. Another thing Mr.. Smith
should never name any of his boys
John.
A new York miIkman was so base
as to desert, after he had married her,
widow with eight children. It is
strange what prejudice some men
have against children.
The New York Sun argues that as
some of the canals visible on the sur
face of Mars are sixty miles or more
in width, they can not have been
built by the inhabitants. "
There were only nine accidents to
trains IN 1888 in Great Britain by
which passengers were killed. 1t was
a dreadful dull year for the newspa-
pers.
The Spaniards have a religious rev
erence for the banana, believing it to
he the fruit Of which Adam partook
1t has caused the fall of many son
of Adam,
No, said the generous man, i
haven't got that horse now | found
it cost me more to keep him than he
was worth, so | gave it to my brother
as christmas present.
Things are not fairly and equitably
divided IN this sad and Sustained
world. Some men haven't hair enough
on their heads to make a baby's eye
brow, while some butter looks like it
was the boss of wig factory.
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Harry you ought to know better at
your time of life, ogling at all the girls
you meet. ''Fact is, / do know bet
ter, said Harry; " but then 'tisn't
good taste YOU know, for a fellow to
parade his knowledge in public.
{" O mother said the high school
girl, and pointing to her brother Jim,
who was making faces at her, compel
James to cease those extraordinary
physiognemical phenomena. The
old lady was compelled to seize the
back of chair for support.
Ex-Congressman Jay A. Hubble il
of Michigan, now declares himself to
be entirely out of politics. He is
devoting his attention principally to
the interests of his big stock farm in
Nebraska
United States Senator Ben Har-
rison, of Indiana, has gone to Omaha,
Neb., to attend the wedding of his
son aud Miss Mary Saunders, daugh-
ter of ex-senator Alvin Saunders,
which occurs there tomorrow even
ing.
Rev. Francis Hawley, a faithful
pastor and long laborious worker in
the anti-slavery cause. and also that