Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-05-08
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en- to the bar, but the saloons will see
to them if they bring pitcher to the
gate.
where would we be without WON
an2" asks writer. We would be all
right; but the little pug dog where
would 1T be-
Tue first steamship of the first direct
line between the United States and
Sweden IS now on her way here from
Stockholm.
According to the local newspaper
Senator Hale's new house at Els
worth, Me-, Stands in a 200-acra lot
and will be an ornament to the city
George Mayo, the champion orator
of Lawrence University. Kansas:
stole half his piece from Colonel A.
X. McClures GRAFTON at Dickinson
College, Pennsylvania, in 1873. MAYO
was expelled.
A little girl in town was trying to
tell her mother how beautiful a GER
tain lady could trill in singing, and
said, "Oh, mamma, you ought to hear
her gargle, she does it so swcetly."
MA" said bright little boy, lis
it naughty to kiss2" mo my son. it
isn't naughty. "Then, ma, what
made our servant girl call pa a nasty
mean thing when he kissed herr"
The boy hasn't got an answer to his
last question yet but gracious, didn't
his dad catch it when he came home
The Black Watch Highland Regi-
ment landed in New York in 1850,
and marched to Albany, and were in
the Tlconderoga expedition under
Abercrombie In the storming of Ii
conderoga they suffered a terrible loss
eighteen officers, nine sergeants,
ard 279 soldiers killed, and seventeen
officers, ten sergeants, and sos soldiers
wounded
A cure for spring fever which works
eXpellently with a man is to have a
young woman with her features con
cealed by a veil speak to him on the
street He'll forget all about being
tired and follow her miles if neces,
sary to catch glimpse of her face.
An Irish bride regards it as an i'll
omen to rise before the sun on her
wedding day. Her husband may in
terpose no objection to.such supersti-
ton on that day. but after marriage
he regards it All ill-0men if she does
not rise before the sun and wrestle
with the fire and the breakfast.
There are now 10000 bicycles in
use in America. AS there are about
ope million chanches for accidents,
and two legs to each bicycle, the medi-
Cal profession will pan out just 2, 600,
600 per cent. better this year than or
dinarily.
An eye for an eye and tooth for
tooth" was good old Bible doctrine,
but at the present day it is an eye for
SO and a tooth for 50 cents.
Mr. Blowers wife asked hmm to buy
a thermometer the other day, but he
declined, saying: No, my DEAR we
will wait until next winter when they
will be much lower
The Cincinnati papers, in speaking
Of Borner and the riots call he Grim
inal base Berner," and say that
the fellow who pr posed the destruct-
ion Of the courthouse yelled Lets
Berner." 1t will be impossible to pre-
vent outbreaks as long as the news
papers fire off such atrocious puns.
The announcement that a woman
had been Rugged by bear in Mon
tana caused big crowd of Massa-
chusetts maidens to start for the
West 1t is perhaps needless to re-
mark that the bears have taken to the
woods. The prospect was past bear
ing.
The average political stumper is
now putting his throat and lungs
through a severe coarse of training.
He is also hardening his conscience
with clubs and dumb bells, so that
the statement of his facts will not
make him blush nor turn pale. Ia a
few months he will draw on the cam
paign fund and take the field.
4 man in South Carolina recently
found that drawing a chalk mark
around barrel of sugar made it i'm
pregnable to ants, and then he
got mad when the Patent Office re-
fused to grant him patent for the
discovery.
Tae new imperial palace at Stras-
burg is to be completed in three years
at a cost of 81 $50, 000 1t seems a
preposterous piece of extravaganza,
as the Emperor has dozen palaces
already.
John Hogan, who could not read
or write, died near Columbia S. c.,
on pile of straw. He had 81, 600 in
greenbacks in his belt, and owned
$3.50 worth Of real estate-all got
by hard work.
Chinatown, ia Sacramento, had a
sensation recently over the abduction
of a young female Celestial, valued
at 81, 500. The officers finally recov-
cred the girl, who had been carried to
the out skirts of the town in a clothes
basket.
The bridal veil originated in the
custom of performing the nuptial
ceremony under square piece OF
cloth, held over the bridegroom and
the bride, to conceal the bushes of
the latter At the marriage Of a
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