Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-11-13

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The zephyrs win die when the night is gone,
But the blasted trombone viii still play on
Sonaerville Journal
The Vassar girls do not swear.
They only say buy gum"
A Wyoming man named James
Agon, was recently married. A few
weeks later he petitioned the court to
"y" to his last name.
In bygone days men thought it a
good plan to take time by the fore
lock. " The revised edition says we
should take time by the bang"
There is an advance in butter on
account of the drought. Dairymen
would like to advance milk for the
same reason, but they are ashamed
to.
"Husking bees are in order" says
an exchange. We tried to husk bee
once. one of the 'bumbl variety,
but ne got the best of us.
The cold winds of autumn remind
the farmers that it will soon be time
to put their cattle under cover. Ye,
who have steers to shed, prepare to
shed them now.
This is the time of year when the
young lady goes hunting for autumn
leaves, and finds more hay-fever and
rheumatism and influenza and wood
ticks than she knows what to do with.
An opera is called THE Orange
Girl" 1t is expected to provoke
"peels" of laughter. -Norristown Her
aid. And no doubt the susceptible
youth who sees the orange girl will
want to squeezer. Call.
ga lady, )" writes to the editor of a
medical journal, asking what will pre-
vent stammering. One way is to
keep the mouth shut. We suspect she
never thought of that.
Ouida says; "a girls love must
never be begged, but conquered. "
That's all very well, but how to sub
due the thick soled parent of the
period, is what bothers our young
men just now.
An exchange asks: why do we
carry armsW We do not know why
you carry arms, but we carry two
always from infancy up) to defend
ourselves from manuscript vendors
and from the 'please mention my
name" kind of folks.
Jenks-"Why, what is the matter
with your nose?"
Finks-''It has been frost bitten"
Jenks-"Ohl come, now, you have
not been on any Arctic expedition"
Finks-"No; but the other evening
| kissed Boston girl"
ever had cyclone here2" asked a
Kansas man who was visitinga coun-
try aunt in the east. "a cyclone2
Oh, yes" said his aunt; Deacon
Browns son brought one from Boston
a spell ago; but, law he couldn't ride
it. Tu1nbled off every time he tried
Minks-"T Things seem to have gone
wrong with you. Don't want to hurt
your feelings, but | can't help noticing
that you look very seedy." Winks-
yes, I've been speculating." Minks
well, l supposed you had better
sense than to go into Wall street.
Did you go in of your own notionW
Winks-"N mo; l was taken IN"
"How nicely you carve that chick
en-, Mr.. Crimsonbeak2' said the
boarding house lady at Sunday din
ner. at must be very tender; you
do it so easily"
"You think sol" replied the carver
stopping for breath. You think this
ir;-I cf ,,y1,r1v ,,1y,, as anew ~ mo ~,
a stone carver"
please help the blind" pleaded a
boggar who had little dog with him
attached to a stripg.
You are not blind you can see as
well as | can
II know I'm not, but the dog is. 1t
would be tough luck, indeed, if both
of us were blind"
Look here, Bridget" said a Van
Ness avenue matron to her cook the
other day. 81 really cam: allow you
to have company in the kitchen every
night"
tits all along of the terrible fire in
Chicago, mum.
What on earth has that to do with
lt2n
why, mum, ever since then l do
be afraid of fire, SO that have one of
the boys from the engine house round
the corner come and sit with me eve
nings. 1t do make me feel more
comfortable like, somehow, mum.
what, closing up already p asked
a fat Oyster Stew Of Picnic that was
putting up its shutters and taking Ia
its sidewalk display.
Yes, business is over. The seasons
cool, and I've joined the early closing
movement"
But Isee reighbor, the Camp Meet
ing, is running yet.
"Oh that fellow, cried the Picnic,
with a sneer; that fellows mean
enough to burn ten cents worth of
gas to catch two cents worth of Gus
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