Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-10-08

divine.
No MATTER what you want in the
furniture line it can be bought at
cost at John Hambly's for the next
fourteen days.
AN effort ought to be made to
have tobacco asserting house To-
Gated in this city, which will surely
be central point for large terri
tory to be devoted to tobacco grow
ing in the near future.
DETROIT FREE Press: The only
thing about an hog that packers can't
use are the eyes, and nododbt anoth-
season will see them packed, shipped
and sold to some market as dried
green-gage plums.
a TOWN the size and pretentions
Of ours ought to be supplied with
street lamps. The Investment would
no doubt prove cheaper in the long
run than to risk the opportunity of
having to pay for broken limbs.
SPLENDID cotton fannels at cts,
per yard-new, fresh goods and as
many as you want. No remnants. AT
Deller's, of course.
On Monday Mr.. and Mrs. A. +.
Randall, Of Monroe, celebrated the
10th anniversary of their wedding.
They have both passed their Goth
year. The country can't furnish
many cases of this kind.
Ir has been definately settled that
Platteville will be the place for
holding the first Agricultural Insti
tute for Southwestern Wisconsin.
The dates for the Institutes and the
entire programme will soon be
published.
THE duck season has opened and
sportsmen are bringing in few of
the webb-footed birds. Teal are
about the only kind of duck which
have yet made their appearance, but
mallard, red-heads, bluebills and
the various other species are expect
ed soon.
TnE NJ. e. Conference declared
by resolution that no christian ought
to raise tobacco. This will be bad
news to the tobacco worms, as it
will leave them entirely at the
mercy of unchristiau and unregen-
crate people who will cruelty
smother them in cases of tobacco
and sell them at eight cents pound.
Star.
ALLOWING three and one-half
cases as the probable yield per acre,
the 'S5 Wisconsin tobacco crop will
not fall short Of 100000 cases. To
bacco is now raised in forty of the
sixty five counties of the state.
Wisconsin will this year lead all tn e
seed-leaf producing states in the
quantity of tobscco raised, as she
has already in quality of leaf grown.
SOME Kansas city ladies are going
to act as canvassers for the census
taker, "just for the fun of the thing,
you know" That is, they want Ii
cense to invade the houses of other
women and ask impertinent ques-
tions about ages and occupations and
incomes and the like. The streets
Of Kansas City will run with tears
and be strewn with hair before this
thing is over.
BOYS and girls, be careful how
you run with things in your mouth.
Think of this A boy named Bal
ser, residing in Dubuque, was run
ming home from school Wednesday
evening last, when he fell. a slate
pencil in his mouth was driven
through his jaw, and its outline was
visible through the neck, which was
almost penetrated. The boy was
chloroformed and the pencil ex-
tracted.
THAT yarn, to the effect that a
boy had been fed to threshing
machine by a cruel man, started by
the Mazo Mamie Sickle, which we
gave publication last week, lacks
further confirmation. There is no
doubt but what every civilized being
hopes that it will prove a canard.
Tbare &c nou, n nrpsur1DtiOn that the