Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-01-21

/ paratiyely free from tramps this
winter, while many towns in this
state have been overrun with them.
There is one advantage in living at
the terminus of a railroad after all,
for these weary mortals usually
follow through lines.
1 AN exchange Gays: SIT has been
discovered that lhe homegrown,
hand.spsnked, ragged, barefoot,
country boy makes better fighter
in the battle of life than does the
| pampered, well clothed city boy, the
seat of whose pants are busted with
a golden slipper. Give us the hand
spanked country boy every time"
IT is no longer king corn or king
cattle. The great American hog
has unsurped the crown, and his
royal highness is lord of the realm
and monarch of the market. A
farm, well stocked with Poland
China, is proving better invest
ment to-day than any pawn shop or
a first national bank, or a gold
mine.
Hon, VIM. BAINBRIDGE, of Miffiin,
is not only one of the best citizens
of Iowa county, but one of the
most active for his years. Last
Saturday you remember was very
cold day, but not too cold for him
to come from his home to this city,
(ten miles at least), transact bust.
ness, circulate among friends, and
return the same day, although he is
i'll his 80th year.
LOOK out for a chap who is now
travelling through the country try
ing to swindle parties with a con-
tract for wire fences. lie offers to
give enough wire to fence a ten
acre field if the party will sign a
contract to take the agency for the
wire. The contract is where the
swindle comes in, for if read closely
it turns out to be pronissory note
for $3.50, after a few words are
erased with oxalio acid.
AFTER spending several months
in this city at the comfortable home
of her uncle, Ro5t, James, Miss
Matties Jones has departed for her
far away home in New Mexico, with
intentions of stopping while en-
route at Storm Lake, Iowa, for a
brief visit with relatives there.
Miss Jones proved a most pleasant
and agreeable young lady, and she
goes from our midst leaving many
new and admiring friends behind.
WARREN has a lady who would |
make an admirable financer, claims
the Sentinel of that place, On a |
recent Sunday the lady in question,
not having any change in her
possession, asked her husband for a
nickel to put in the collection
basket The husband, ever willing |
to meet the pecuniary requests of
his wife, doubled the amount asked |
for But instead of parting with |
the ten cents, the lady borrowed a
penny from one Of the children,
and laid the dime by for future use.
The preacher got the penny and |
the child got left.
WEDNESDAY lot of printers
visited the TRIBUNE. They were
not tramps either, although their
coming in a body produced a sound |
not unlike tramping on the stairs
leading to our office. They were
piloted by J. w. Taylor, Esq, of |
Linden, and proved to be the Misses
Mollie Smith, Lena Rolling, Lille |
Heathcock and Nora Stevens, type
settlers in Mr.. Taylor's printing
establishment Two other young |
ladies and John Wearne comprise
Mr.. T.'s entire force, which plainly |
proves that there is considerable |
activity in the printing business in
our neighboring village.
PORK has reached the highest
point in several years owning to a
very short crop. There are not
enough hogs to supply the demand