Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-07-06


hings.-lndianapoli Journal.
The air was hot at a. m.
No fresh and cooling breeze
Famed mother earth or softly stirred
The leaves upon the trees.
AT 10 a m. the sun was working hard
With fiattering success;
The mercury was boiling hot
Ninety degrees or less
AT noon the heat was furnacelke,
Dogs gasped for want of air,
At l great strong thermometers
Were bursting everywhere.
And then at last one prim old maid
Said, with a modest cough:
Il think I'll &c upstairs and take
My winter flannels off"
-Somerville Journal
Did you ever save a dollar?' asked
I the citizen, severely.
Never, answered Meandering
Mike
Did you ever do days work."
Never"
why not?"
| Mister, you're an intelligent man
an you can see dat desc discussions
] between capital an labor is bound to
| continue. What I'm amin at is to
keep me mind perfectly free from pre-
judice on either side SOS to be- right
in line when dey wants someone TO
do a good job of arbitration. -
Washington Star.
A man entered an 'ice cream par
Tor" and slowly and thoughtfully ate
his portion of vanilla. While he was
paying the cashier he said, quietly:
Il notice you advertise that you
make your own ice cream
| YES"
Let me give you pointer which
will help your trade amazingly"
"Well?" asked the man, curiously.
The reply was bland and apparently
courteous:
Get some other fellow to make it,"
-Harper's Bazaar.
| The French president was surround
{ ed by a bowling mob. But he never
! quaked a quake of fear.
Suddenly somebody threw a dyna-
mite bomb.
1t failed to explode
The crowd grew frantic.
| They yelled, threw up their hats,
and lifted the president upon their
shoulders. crying:
"Vive Loubet! "-Syracuse Herald.
Il guess that I'm making some head
way" said the persistent lover, who is
not in favor with her father.
But | thought the old gentleman
| kicked you out whenever he found
| you at the house?'
| He does, but | have noticed that
he is not kicking nearly as hard of
late. | feel sure that he is gradually
relenting. Detroit Free Press.
"Wot are you breathin' so hard
! for, Dusty?"
"A shoemaker run me out O. town
fol most mile
"Wot riled him?"
"He runs a quick repair shop, an
he got mad cause | handed him a
couple o. boot heels an a shoestring
an told him I'd call fer de shoes in
half'n hour. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Rodney Jones is awfully in love
, with Alice Virgins"
How do you know"
He sat behind her at the theater
and l heard him tell her there wasn't
anything on the stage half so beauti-
full and interesting to him as the back
of her hat.'-New York Evening
World.
Crawford-Are you a good judge Of
girl, old man?
Crabshaw-A better judge never
drew the breath of life. In all my
experience was deceived in only one
girl.
Crawford Which one was that?
Crabshaw-The one I married. New
York World.
Young man, said the veteran,
learn to say"
Il know what you are going to tell
me" said the high browed youth who
wore a uniform You are going to
advise me to learn 10 say no."
Not at all was about to advise
you to learn to say nothing. Wash
lngton Star
Emma-Charley asked me 10 marry
him last evening and ! had to refuse
him, the dear fellow.
Ella-How did il happen?
Emma-Of course l like Charley,
but as to marrying him
Ella mean how did IL happen that
he asked you?-Boston Transcript.
Struggling minister-There was
stranger in church today.
"Wife-What did be look Ike?
Il did not see him