Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-27


married her late husband because he
had wooden leg, and their only son
walks abroad on an @aken stump.
Mrs. Llewellyn recently told face.
tous lawyer that wooden legs were
better than wooden heads any day in
the week.
A son of Connecticut preacher re
Gently joined a band of juvenile cut
threats, called the ''Watchful Nut
meggS He was introduced by his
guide as 'Jackass, and the password
at the threshold of the lodge-room was
Can he eat bloody oats ~ He was
treated so roughly during the initia
ton that he disclosed the secrets to
his parents.
Postmaster Vansickle of Vansickle,
Hunt County, Texas, is veteran of
three wars, and has lived under five
different governments, viz: Spanish.
Mexico Republic of Texas. United
States, the Southern Confederacv. and
the United States again. He was
born in Monterey, Mexico, of Polish
parents, and emigrated to Texas at an
early age.
A peculiarly sad accident happened
recently to the year old daughter of
William Curry, of indianapolis. AS
she was reaching up to closet shelf
for something she wanted her hands
knocked over bottle of carbolic acid
and the liquid flowing over on her
upturned face not only put out her
eyes, but inflicted other injuries which
will certainly prove fatal.
1t affirmed in Egypt that Ell Mahdi
possesses eighteen wives, and that his
vakeel. possesses twenty-four. The
Moslems in Khartoum ARE Mortified
at the Mahdl's exceeding the number
permitted in the Koran
The riegon south of Cedarville, Kan,
is infested with wild dogs, which have
already killed two large steers. nearly
wiped out two hocks of sheep, and
eaten two litter of pigs. The dogs are
more difficult to capture than wolves.
A young lady in Hartford objected
to the multilation of a tree in her
yard by a party of telephone line
men. They didn't heed her protest
until she covered them with revolver,
and then they decided to stop
Mrs A. r. Allen heads the list of
millionalres in st. Louis, paying tax
or s1,197, 800 Henry Shaw is put
down as worth 81, 176, 1870 ;'the heirs of
Jesse G. Lindell 81, 115, AGO and Miss
Bernice Morrison 1864, 800.
Chasing women who never marry
by their complexion, it is said there
are more blondes than brunettes
among them. This is supposed to be
due to the preference of marrying
men for brunettes. But perhaps the
women who do not marry fade out.
p Arbor Day in Indiana has been set
for April II, and efforts are being
made by means of circulars to the
Superintendent of the Public Schools
to awaken an interest IN it among the
pupils, and secure the planting of
many trees in the school yards.
David f. Whitmer, still living in
Missouri at the age of eighty, was one
of the three witnesses who in 1S30pub
lisned certificate declaring that they
saw an angel come down with the
golden book which Joseph Smith, the
Mormon, pretended TO interpret.
Lieutenant Danrnhower is reporte
TO have won his wife, as Othello did,
by thrilling tales of his most disas-
trous chanches. He first met her du-
ring his lecturing tour and afterwards
in private narrated his adventures in
the arctic seas, and so gained her heart
as we'll as ear.
A jealous Providence husband be-
came so indignant at fellow passen-
ger in a street car because he gazed
directly across at mis- wife that he got
up and slapped him in the face. Just
then the car stopped and little thinly
clad girl assisted the offender of the
car He was stone blind.
Miss Martha Mason, of Elkton,
Nd, has broken off her engagement
with her betrodthed, because the lat
ter wished to postpone the wedding
until the bill reducing the price of
marriage licenses should become a law.
The present rate is $50, and the pro-
posed law reduces it to 60 cents. 1t
has not passed the Legislature, how
ever.
Tauth says that Mrs. MaclIey has
given pain 'to all right thinking per-
sons in Paris by appearing in dress
of white velvet trimmed all over with
the wings of robin red breasts; and
to complete this barbarioas toilet, her
shoes of red velvet were entirely
covered with the toes of little robins,
The dress is made in the Princess
shape. with vatican back and com
ct train of portentous length, and
the corset is hagrantly decollete, and
is bordered with red feathers, with
which all the train is edged.
Cardinal Hussum, the Armenian
patriarch, died few weeks ago. He
is the third Cardinal whose death has
occurred within a short period There
is an old Roman superstition that
three Cardinals always go together |
Bilio and De Luca are the other two
Cardinals that died recently.
1t has been noticed in Washington
that all the deaths which have tsken |
place among members Of the House