Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-03-19
GLEANINGS.


exclusively by men some years ago.
To produce sensation by an orig
inal performance, young man in the
CITY of Mexico attempted to commit
suicide by stabbing himself with a
corkscrew.
There are said to be no hos carriers
in Germany, the bricks being passed
from hand to hand, and the higher up
the bricklayers are the more men are
required to toss the bricks.
In New York there has been organ
lied bureau of useful information, Z"
composed of literary and scientific
men, who propose to answer any
question propounded for a moderate
sum.
The young ladies in Cleveland, O..
are organizing a society for the sup
preston of Slang. Every member
found using slang term is TO be
fined, and the money will be devoted
TO charity.
AS an argument serving to prove
that plants are beneficial TO health it
is observed that no class of men aver
age healthier than those who work
constantly among growing plants in
hot houses.
a popular dentist of Galveston,
Tex, has been sued by colored man
for $50, 600 damages, growing out of
the death of the plaintiffs wife under
the influence of chloroform in the
dentists office.
There are a number of eligible
young meu ia Pembina County,
Dakota, but no young women. They
have pooled their issues and deputed
one OF their number to 60 to Boston
TO secure wives for the rest
The story is now going the rounds
that q widow, who recently died out
West, found herself suffering actual
poverty on the day that r. B. Hayes,
whom she once Tilted, was inaugural
ted President.
The royal seraglio of Persia contains
no male persons over the age of eleven
and no Europeans. Each royal favor
lite has her separate pavilion and her
staff of servants, her equipages, and
her jewels and her revenue.
According to late decision of the
Illinois Supreme Court, a ''hoe, in
legal significance, is deadly weapon
AS much so as loaded pistol or an
axe, >" it having been shown that a
man was killed with an article of that
kind.
Nothing exasperates woman, who
has been shading her eyes from the
gaSlight with her hand all the even
ing, so much asto findshe had left her
best diamond ringon the washstand.
1t seems little bit extravacant to
put a $500 sealskin upon IS woman,
but it is sometimes excusable when it
is the only way OF smothering three
thousand dollars worth of ill-temper.
The numerous market is dull We
quote coachman jokes. prime, at to
ceats per million; ice cream jokes,
no demand; bank cashiers jokes, weak
att to cents per ion choice plumb
er jokes IN great demand at 81 to 50
per ton.
A new chin holder, which is pro,
nounced the most satisfactory one
ever known, has been invented for
violin players. Now, if some inventor
will adapt it to Congressman, the
whole country will rise up and vote
him a pension.
A halter les one Of his debtors pass
him by in the street without any rec
ignition OF his existence, and straight
way becomes as mad as-as halter.
Curse the fellow" he says, 'he
might, when I bowed to him, have at
least had to decency to lift nay hat. "
In Canada-''Well wife, suppose
we ought to call on the Mandelbaums,
hadn't we2' eyes, dear, I suppose
so, but they are horrible common
people; just think, they only stole
S13, 600"
An English gentleman recently re-
ceived a novel boquet from lady
admirer. Vegeta bles only were used
IN its production, as follows: Carrots
in two shapes, long and short, rad
ishes tue same. Brussels spouts var
iegated Scotch kale and the broad
leaved Batavian variety, parsley being
used instead of the usual fern frond
seenin ordinary bouquets The whole,
including the holder, measured fifteen
inches in diameter, and was mounted
in the usual way with wires
A Madison street girls answer 70
the current conundrum ''Will the
coming man work2' Isl "He will if I
get him.
There are good and bad points
about this coli ee, " said the boarder in
a judicial tone. ''The good point is
that there is no chickery in it, the bad,
that there is no coffee in it.
The girl who hangs on the gate with
her sweetheart says she hopes gas VIII
not get to be cheaper than moon,
light.
A man in Georgia boasts that he has
three mothers-in-law living. Strikes
US the thing to boast of is that he is
living.
4 Chinese doctor at Victoria is said
to loose very few patients. Hard
ly any physician does; he puts
them where he can find them at any