Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-01-02

The lizard Time" party held at
the K. P. Hall on Monday evening was
thoroughly enjoyed by all present. 1t
was a novelty, all kinds of life being
represented, such as colonial life, farm
ers, trained nurses and western life.
AT Marinette, Wis, boy was ac-
cidentally shot by his uncle while hunt
ing. But as the lad had on six shirts
he was almost bullet proof and was not
seriously injured.
An evangelist at Ottawa gave this
advice to the young men in sermon
last Sunday: Get down on your knees
every morning, young man, and pray
God to help you, and then work like
the devil during the day. Quincy
Herald.
The Aurora doctor has completed
his two months diet on peanuts and
says he feels ten years younger than
he ever did in his life. Most people
will be willing to take his word for it,
After a short rest he is going to try
living two months on bananas.
Spend what you can afford, pay
promptly, and put what money you do
not need in the banks. BY following
this plan you will satisfy your own
wants, promote general trade, help
along the restoration of confidence and
furnish your share in giving prosperity
another boost.
Hanover Journal: Hanover can
boast of a young lady who MIXED %
COWS. separated the milk, churned the
cream and fed the buttermilk to the
pigs in exactly one hour and thirty
minutes. If there is another town in
this country which can beat this we
should be pleased to hear from it.
Commencing JAN LIST, the tele-
graph office of Mineral Point will be
open for commercial business between
the hours of 8 a. m. and p. m. This
is owing to the eight hour law recently
passed by the state Legislature, whereby
railroad telegraphists are required to
have sixteen consecutive hours off duty
| after having worked eight.
, Late hours, overeating and drinking
too much, Chicago physicians sag, are
responsible for ten per cent increase
in deaths in Chicago and other large
| cities from heart disease. Life is toe
strenuous. Excess even in pleasure Is
blamed. Our city people are living toe
high; they work 600 hard, they sleeE
, too little and they die before their time
Says an exchange: To cure head
ache take a quantity of black peppel
and put it in handkerchief so that the
grains viii not fall out, saturate thu
whole with camphor, bind this plaster
, on the head and lie down. When th'
handkerchief becomes dry saturat'
! again with capnphor. In very few
minutes the headache will be relieve'
and the patient will fall asleep
! Nature put the eating machine AM
y the talking machine in the same moutl
for economic purposes. The eatlni
machine cannot work while it is talk
ing. That gives it rest and promote
health. The talking machine canno
work while it is eating. That gives tn
ears chance to hear the words of wis
dom coming from other talking ma
:, chimes and intelligence is promoted.
: Taken all in all, the holiday trad
: for 1907 has proven very satlstactor
to the merchants of this city. Whll
the shoppers were not so much
! evidence, during the early portion
= the season, as in former years, Tn
i rush du ing the closing days, brougf
up the average to the high water mari
:. The merchants have thus been repa
"A for their enterprise manifested IN pr
! viding large and well selected stock
! which they offered at moderate price
George Stiff of Calamine met WI
on an accident on Wednesday Of last wee
at that nearly cost him his eyesight' :
s. was chopping cordwood and decided y
o. TO come home to dinner and took aioi
ID some coffee in can. This he placed
Is some Goals to heat and the can bei'
airtignt exploded when the coffee Dole