Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-10

would be required Of him. One of his
friends, observing him frequently'do-
ing so, questioned him as to why he
did it: he told him he gave too much,
and said ii was to his disadvantage.
Now. mark the answer of this excel
lent man God has permitted me
but one journey through the world
and when | am gone cannot return
TO rectify mistakes" The old farmers
mistakes were of the sort he did not
want to rectify
A gentleman residing at Aiken. S.
c., recently sent pair OF ponies that
had been driven to the family car
rjage for a number of years and the
coach dog out of his plantation to be
kept until the roads dried up. Shortly
after that he bought a pair of korses,
which he drove occasionally, but
which were intended for the farm
One day the dog visited the family
residence and saw the horses hitched
to the carriage, which evidently
caused grave suspicious to rise in its
mind. Without remaining as long as
usual it fastened back to the farm
and the next morRing returned with
the ponies. The driver firmly believes
that the dog told the ponies that they
were about to lose their places, and
they came to see aboutit
Z A French gentleman and scholar
recently visited one of the Oldest
| families of Boston, who reside in the
Oldest house in the suburbs, which is
heated through the registers in the
floor. The visitor planted his chair
oyer one of these, where he sat swell
tering and sweating for an hour or
more, not knowing where the hot
wave come from, and was entirely too
polite to speak of his discomfort
Noticing that the others were perfect
I ~ comfortabl he concluded that the
Temperature was probably not at all
uncomfortable to tbeliterati of Ameri-
ca, which he had often heard were
extremely cold-blooded The family
were terribly mortified when they
heard of how their distinguished
visitor had been boiled and rendered
so uncomfortable. He threatens to
write book on America.
''The trunk of a sycamore near
Madrid is forty three feet in circum-
ference" This is a pretty big thing
for priest-ridden Spain, but in free
and enlightened America it wouldn't
be considered worth mentioning.
/ Why, we have seen little feeble
looking woman going out into the
country for week or so with a trunk
with a bigger circumference that six
or more sycamores. Boston Tran
script.
Tanner has been entirely outdone,
and BY a native of his own place. too /.
The first week in September, 1883,
George Burr, a prominent and wealthy
stock dealer, residing about mile
west of Leroy, O., lost valuable
Berkshire hog, and after freely adver-
Using with no result, he gave up that
the animal must have been stolen or
killed. The mystery of its disappear
ance has just now been explaied. The
hog has been discovered under the
been made last September, and
although the animal had been impris-
oned under the stack without food or
water for 1877 days, it was alive when
released and the hog gave a grunt of
satisfaction, and seemed remarkably
lively for its condition. 1t is quite
living curiosity, as it has
scarcely hair on its entire
body and appears a walking skele-
ton 1t weighed about 800 pounds
when it disappeared last fall, bat will
hardly weigh much over half of that
now
1870