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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-08-14
SAYINGS OF JOSH BILLINGS.

Honesty makes reputation, and
honor preserves it.
The only way to make mankind
happy is to make them better.
IffoolS would be content to act nat
ural they would not be noticed.
| like them kind Of boys who are
always trying to lift haif ton.
Mankind don't want much excuse
for pitching into the unfortunate
Looking-glasses won't lie, but the
tell some awful PLAIN truths now and
then.
How many people there are in this
world whose characters are anony-
nous
No man is fit to live in solitude
unless he is as pure as the things
that surround him.
Let the world understand that you
can be spit upon and you are a SPIT
box for life.
a dog is the only dependant that
| know of upon whom you can al
ways rely as true friend.
Friendship is like picked meat; to
be sweet the brine wants to be chan
ged once il & while
My ideal of a delightful woman is,
one who seems to love rybody
and in fact only loves her husband
1T you are going To help a man, be
about it; promised assistance after n
while is considered debt.
Adam probably was never more
tickied than when ne discovered Eve,
which shows now unnatural soli-
IL de is
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-08-14
About Money!.

In Harpers' for April, we find the
following !: Money is the concen-
trated essence of labor. A man who
has thousand dollars, has a thou
sand days work in his one hand. If
he knows its value, he can move
about among men with the force of a
thousand labOrers that is with 100
horsepower. To know the force of
money, One must know labor. When
one man has money, and another has
not, they contend for it's possession.
This is trade, or robbery according
to circumstances.
There are three uses of money-the
use of getting it, the use of keeping
1t, and the use of spending it. Con-
sequently it classifies the bulk of
mankind into money-getters,m money
keepers, and money-spenders. Elk
cept the misers we read of in novels,
men do not love money of itself, any
more than soup tickets, or baggage
checks or promissory notes or title
deeds. The love of money is the
pleasure of mental function in get
ting or keeping or spending. The
sponge and the spendthrift are
equally guilty with the miser. The
class Of money getters includes mer-
chants, gold-miners, pick-pockets,
politicians, and professional beggars.
Americans are great money getters,
but they do not care to keep it.
Hence this is a country of great in
come, but small fortunes. The class
of money keepers is small. Literary
men are not found in it. Lawyers
are good at keeping money, paroicu-
larly ifit is other peoples. Money
like some other essences, has a pun
gent sweet taste but to be kept
must be corked tightly. It evapo-
rates in the open air and the vapor
Is called interest. A mortgage is a
condensing instrument which en-
ables money-keeper to eraporate
a money-spender. The class of
money-spenders includes a majority
of mankind. 1t is natural to spend
money before we earn it. We are all
born TO this, and cost great deal
before We earn anything. The pow
er To get into debt is essential to the
happiness of all shlftless people, in
Guiding most of the governments of
Europe. College students and mar
ried women, who have no legal ca
pacity 10 bind themselves, satisfy
their prosperity by getting their hus-
bands and fathers into debt if pos
sible. Money IS like gunpowder. To
make it carry charges should be
carefully measured and well rammed
down. It's explosive power depends
on the tightness with which YOU
hold it. Scattered loose it frizzles
away with no effect. To become
wealthy one must both get and
keep. To be useful the wealthy man
must be also a judicious money
SnaD0pr
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-08-14
Care of the Watch.

l. Do not make q toy Oft for your
self or the children. Never open it,
except Ter necessary purposes.
.. 1t should be regulated to about
mean temperature, and always kept
as near the same temperature rs
possible.
5. 1t should moi be allowed TO stop.
Better that it be kept running ali
the time.
1. Keep ii in as uniform position
n possible. If in the pocket, better
that the pendant ring be upright.
). Out of the pocket, if it hang on
the wall, let il be upon some soft
surface. Never allow il to lie on
bare marble or other hard surface
fit lie on any surface. let it be with
face up and pendant ring turned
under, so as to keep the upper part
most elevated.
6. Let your key lit exactly, and be
kept perfectly clean by the former
you may save breaking chains, main
springs, ratchets, clicks, etc; by the
latter, prevent introducing much
dust
= Wind, if possible, at the same
hour each day.
S. White winding, hold your
watch steadily in. your left hand.
Turn only your key and that firmly,
evenly, avoiding all quick motions
ar jerks.
9. Set your watch with a key :;
never turn the hands by any other
way Aou may turn the hands eth
or way without danger If they do
not move very hard.
10. On regulating 4 watch, should
ii too gong too fast move the regula-
tor a trifie toward the 'slow,n and
if going slow do the reverse ; you
cannot move the regulator too gent
iy at time, and the only inconven-
fence that can arise Is, that you may
have to perform that duty more than
once.
H. Take note that your watch,
even if good one, vii. sometimes
be guilty of irregularities" in conse-
quence of change of temperature,
from the effects of which none but a
Is exempt /; also from
the jerks and jars of travel.
L. If YOU find any difficulty which |
you do not understand, go at once To |
n good matchmaker. - kemlo's |
Watch-Repairer's Guide.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-08-14
Young Women and Marriage.

From sensible woman,s commun-
icationin the Country Gentleman,
addressed to young girls, We take
the following "Children should
not marry. A young woman cannot
be considered in any sense prepared
for this union under twenty-one,
twenty-five is better. She is not
physically or mentally developed be-
fore this. Solemn duties, cares and
responsibilities await her, to meet
which she needs large physical de-
velopment mature judgment, good
calculation, domestic training,
knowledge of men and things. Girls
of sixteen cannot have these. They
cannot tell what they like or dis
Hke-wbo and what will meet their
necessities-until married themselves.
=" \ on can not over-estimate the i'm
portance of a thorough knowledge of
the man whom you design to marry.
Uprightness, fixedness Of principle,
unselfish and generous disposition,
and good business abilities, should
be recorded as indispensable. If a
young man is good son and brother,
he will make kind husband, pro-
vided you do your part. Do not be
won by trifies. A handsome face,
fine figure and noble bearing may be
desired (; but they constitute small
part of what you need. They may
be but the gilt which hides some
terrible deformity, and which, by
and by, will cause you emotions OF
disgust, terrible grief or constant I'M
rest. 1t is not wise to aspire far
above your present station in life,
as this would give rise to solicitude
lest you should fail to adapt your
self to your changed circumstances
Marriage should not be entered
upon without a thorough knowledge
of its physiological laws else much
domestic misery may be expected
Neither should it be sought for
worldly gain or position. True es-
| TEEN and affection, united to adapta-
/ ton and cOngeniality of tastes, should
form it's basis. When this does not
exist before marriage, it is hopeless
to expect it afterward. You will
need fully as much tact, skill and
practice to manage another heart a.
your own. Avoid alteration and
recrimination. Be forbearfng and
forgiving, if need be. / would also
suggest that those graces and charms
which won lovers heart be kept
| for the husband. Never consider il
too much trouble to dress tasuefully
and in your best for your husbands
eye. Give him freely those graceful
/ attentions and pleasant surprises
which will make him happy, if you
expect a continuance oflove and Xix {
attentions from him. Hide all the
ldisagreeablenes in person, toilet anG
home, keep the best for love.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-08-14
More Light.

In 1867, a young French chemist,
Mallet, devised an extremely in
genious method, in which, by a
single heating the oxygen was with
drawn from the atmospheric air pass
ed into a given body, and finally
stored up in a gasometer. Upon this
another chemist, Tessie du Motay,
has, a few months since, still farther
improved, by charging simple potash
with the oxygen of tho air. This
successful invention was at once en-
couraged by the authorities of the
Empire, and practical experiments on
a large scale were made at the Hotel
de Vile in Paris. A number of cam
deiabra were erected with five burn
ers each these burners are double,
having one for bi-carbonated hydro
gen and another for oxygen, both of
which are varied in their passage
through two very narrow channels ;
a small stick of magnesium is in
tue centre between them. The light
is magnificent, gaslight looking poor
by its side, and what is equally valu-
able, it remains undisturbed by the
air, 50 that during violent storm
which had put out every gaslight in
Paris, these oxygen lights continued
to burn unmoved.-Prof. NJ. Schele
De We're in Putnam's Magazine.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-08-14
THE ROSE, THE CLOUD, AND THE
ORIOLE.

FABLE WITHOUT MORAL
Rose of Damascus-rose Of all
Queen of the roses of the world
The only flower that ere his fall
Adam thought fit to pluck for Eve,
As on, :, she lay in slumber curlrd,
And he, though half afraid to speak,
said. Lovely being, by your leave,
Your husband gives you this-and this -
Then laid rose upon her check
A daInask rose, and Kiss.
The rose before was not so red
But Eve awoke- And such a blush,
With her smile mingiIn2, oYerspread
Her face, that instantly the Hover
Felt through Its VEINS new colorIng rush,
Till every petal showed the strain
And so, in midsummer best hour,
Upon July's mot radiant morn,
The queen of all the rosy train,
she damask rose, was born
When Eve awoke, and hand in hand
-Iheywaiked to where the Strawberries grew
An orioie from an elm that famed
These earliest lovers, on the rose
Lighted and straight he caught its hue
His white and red To orange turned,
Then the sly bird his moment chose
4 nj snatched IL from her hand, and led
Far ~ an opal cloud that burned
In the bright blue o. erhead.
Now when thou watcbest the west
The dying coiors of the day,
Think of the damask rose that prest
Her cheek whom we our Mother call,
As dreaming in her bower. she lay
Remember, too, the orioles the1t,
First theft that was ere Adams fall
And in the crimson clouds behold,
Unless thy heart all Faith have left,
His orange and his gold.
T. j. PARSONS, in August Galaxy
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-08-14
Fighting Crickets.

Crickets are extremely savage,
particularly so in the hotter coun-
tries +; they frequently attack and
kill each other Indeed, this pug
nacIous disposition is so well known
in China that a larger sort is often
exposed for sale in the markets, each
in its separate cage just as game
fowls among the Malays. The Chi
nese bet very large sums upon the
issue of the bartfe, and many have
gambled their fortunes away upon
the fights between the rival cham
pions, some of the crickets attaining
as mach fame as bulldogs or ter
riers in England. The crickets are
placed in a miniature rat-pit, with
their respective hackers and the
excitement when the contest is long
and severe grows to the highest
pitch. The owner or trainers excite
their crickets with a little stick,
though they scarcely need it, for as
soon as they catch sight of each 9TH
er they are ready for the fray-ad-
vaneing, attacking, and biting their
adversary, the noise of their Jaws
and claws being distinctly heard.
Sometimes one of these insects has
been known to kill vast numbers of
enemies, and bring large fortunes to
its owner. They are easily tanned,
and grow to a large size.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-08-14
To those who are Unemployed.

n our community, as in all others in the
country there are more or less PERSONS tenn
porarily out of employment, who want to know
how to make money. To such persons, espe-
cially if they have energy and intelligence, we
would recommend the inducements offered by
o. r. Stanford & Co, 1873 State Street, Chica-
go, H., and we do so for two reasons First,
we know the gentlemen composing the firm
personally, and know them to be honorable and
liberal in all their dealings and second, We
know that the articles they offer for sale are
really valuable and afford very great margins
to agents. Several young men of our acquaint-
ance have made from ten to twenty dollars per
day in selling them. We take pleasure In call
ing attention to the advertisements of this firm,
which Will be found in another column.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-08-14
Teaching Thimbleriggers.

Visiting sick thimblerigger with
young missionary, l requested the
latter to talk with him on religious
subjects. He did so, detailing to him
the fallen condition Of mankind, the
need of salvation, and the redemp-
ton by Christ, reading to the sick
man, in proof of what he said, passa-
ges from the gospels. The poor fel-
low listened and acguiesced. To
every Interrogation of the mission
airy he answered, Certainly, sir,"-
''In course, sir ~ so that my com
panion was greatly encouraged.
saw, however, that it was all decep-
ton, and stepping forward, said,
"Joe, my boy, the minister is very
kind, and now / will ask you a few
questions. "Do you know who Je-
sus Christ was ?n
"Well, no. said he, after a pause,
II should say that's very hard to
tell"
ado you know why He died on
the cross"
mo, that / don'tu
'Can YOU tell me who The Trinity
are ?'
"No, SIR"
''Are you sinner?n
"Oh, certainly, sir. We are all
sinners, miserable sinners
"Have you ever done wrong? n
"Why no; / don't consider as
ever have not as / can remember. -
sob, certainly, sir; we are all sim
ners.r
''But do you think, Joe, that you
are a sinner ~
"What is a sinner, Joe %
''Wen, blest if / know. / never
have no head-piece."
And yet this man was among the
shrewdest of criminals who had ever
been admitted at Pentonville, and
could both read and write. Put
MANS Magazine for August.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-08-14
Written tor the American Stock Journal
of the Grass Crop in all
Stock Raising and Dairying Dis

One of the spontaneous productions
of the soil is grass it is an outgrOwth
that ALWAYS shows itself when the
soil : permitted to rest or even while
the soil is being cultivated its pres
ence is intruded where 1t is not want
ed. This goes TO show that every
farmer can have grass, though very
few of them give thought or take
the trouble to estimate1ts value. We
are so accustomed to grazing our
fields to produce milk, butter, cheese
or the growth of stock; or NOW them
and make the grass into hay for our
stock To live and 1atten on in the win
ter, at SO little cost or trouble, that
we do not place n sufficient estimate
on its value.
Let the farmer calculate what it
would cost to pasture his wholestoc
on n neighboring farm at so much
per head. per week for each variety
or what he would pasture stock for a
neigh Dor through the whole pastur-
ing season on his own farm, and add
To this the neighborhood price per
ton ofhis hay and sum upthe amount;
he will then be able to place a due
estimate OH the value of cultivating
a grass crop. 1t is worth no less
money because it is not sold, but
used by the producer. The pound
of butter consumed in the farmers
family is worth just as much money
as the one he sends TO market.
The cultivated grasses have de-
cided advantage over those that
spring up spontaneously, because the
cultivated ones can be brought into
use, covering the whole surface, in
about a year /; whereas the natural
Y L l.
with thema large amountof ru bbage.
and after all are only fit for pasture.
Farmers in stock raising and dairy
ing districts should pay particular
attention 10 keeping their fields we'll
set with the cultivated grasses this
is the sure foundation on which TO
build their annual profits.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-08-14
Handy to keep Gowr IN :"

\ poor old woLlan having been re-
moved to the aims house was very
to have an article of
household furniture she had left be-
hind. Her unceasing request was
at length complied with, and men
were dispatched TO transfer her
household property To her new abode.
Imagine their surprise, on arriving
at her former residence, when they
found nothing but a coffin, which,
however, they forthwith brought to
the old woman. much to her joy and
who pleasantly observed
she found it very handy to Keep her
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-08-14

The JAPANESE AT HONIE.-Ar-
rivIug as we did from China, the
land of pug-nOseS and yellow skins.
we We're at once struck with the fires h
ruddy compilations. and in MANY in
stances weil-cut eatures, of the Jap
anese. Besides the difference in their
personal appearance, they offer a
marked contrast to the Chinese in
manner and bearing. In place of the
cringing abject demeanor OF the lat
ter, they carry themselves as becomes
men, fearle>sly and UprIghtly. look
YOU straight in the face, and consider
themselves inferior to none. The
better class are a fine bold set of men.
Like knights of old, they are ever
ready To avenge n wrong, or even To
provoke a quarrel and with their
terrible two-handed swords would
be amy thing but contemplate an
tagonlstS in hand-to-hand fighting.
Their manners are polished in the
extreme. As rule they are exceed
ingly good .a;,.red, and have a keen
sense of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. too
much SO ; for we believe that if the
most dutiful son, possessed of the
greatest tilial piety, were too see his
father dying, he could not repress a
laugh if the old gentleman were to
do so i'll at all n comical way. The
Japanese ladies are almost as fair
skinned rs their sisters of the West.
Small but neatly-nay, sometimes
faultlessly-shaped their flowing
robes displaying in lis own graceful
ness the model that nature has
and which none of the
receptions of civiliza-
ton can improve upon with pretty
manners, and a language
musical and soft as Italian, the
nymphs of the Ris-
ing Sun have many and powerful
charms. No one who has ever been
in Japan will deny their claim to
beauty ABBOTT, in Hdr-
Der'S Magazine for August.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-08-14
THE SOLD STORY.

1.-THE sails are set and the breeze is up.
And the prov is turned for a northern sea
Kiss my cheek and vow nae VOW
That you VIII ever be true to ne -
81 kiss Your cheek, and kiss your lips
Never a change this heart shall know,
Whatever betide-c0me life, come death
Darling, darling, love you so -
Oh but the northern nights are keen
The sailor ciings to the frozen shrouds
A kiss burns hot through his dreams of home,
And his heart goes through the flying clouds
The maiden laughs by the garden gate
Dreams of love are the soonest Ger
Kisses fall on her lips and hair,
And the world goes on as it went before
From the August number OF LippiI cot :
Magazine.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-08-14
AERInIa nERIIITN viii, L. aInn,

NERVOUS DEBILITY, with Its gloomy
attendants, low spirits, depression, loss OF
e IN ry n nd tn ntened impotence and i'm =
bcci,ity, ind sovereign cure in Hum
phTey's Hom1 ophathic specific No. Tween
ty-eight. Composed of the most aluabie,
mild and potent curauyes. they strike at
once thu root of the matter, tone up TIN e
system. arrest the discharges, and i'm / ri
yi2or and energy, life and Vitality 10 the en-
tire They have cured thousands oil
cases. Price SIS per package of six boxes
and vial, which is very important in obsti
nate old cases, 81 single box.
sold by ALL druggists, and sent by mail on
receipt of price Address Humphrey
special H0mGop nthic Medicine Co, 562
broadway, n v
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-08-14

A maiden lady, residing in great
seclusion, had not been to church for
several years +; but on the accession
ola small family property she bought
herself a new bonnet, shawl, and
dress, with the appropriate gloves,
boots, etc, and appeared on the fol-
lowing Sabbath in a style which al
most destroyed her identity with
the hitherto shabby and hopeless old
maid. Just as she was walking up
the aisle, and as every eye seemed
turned upon her, the choir commence
ed singing an anthem, the burden of
which was "Hallelujah . Hallelu-
jah - The indignant spinster re-
traced her steps Down the aisle in
high dudgeon, exclaiming, lizard
ly knew you, indeed Why, this is
not the first time I've been dressed
don't come here again very soon.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-08-14
St. Louis Comm erciaI College.

The millions OF patrons, teachers, friends OF
the Spencerian system OF Penmanship, and of
the cause of business education, Will feel in
terested TO know that in st. Louis, the central
city of the nation, an institution is established
dedicated to the dissemination of a current
knowledge of the branches of learning which
lead to the achievement of success in business
affairs. Sec advertisement.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-08-14

CARBoLIC ACID.-A well-known
citizen of Philadelphia, who had
been using weak solution of carbo-
lie acid as wash To correct the Of
fensive odor arising from cancerous
affection, discovered that the appli-
cation also entirely removed the can
Ger One-fourth of an ounce of car
bolic acid is diluted with a quart
(thirty-two fluid ounces) of water,
and the lotion is applied three times
day a weaker solution, contain
ing one-eighth of an ounce of car
bolic acid to the quart of water,
would probably be safer applica-
ton.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-08-14
The excellence of the Washington

Life ms. Co. of New York cannot be too warm
ly acknowledged. Its story is the story of a
noble success-ofa wise and generous design,
prudently and thoroughly accomplished. 1t
was organized on principle of novel and pc
culiar nberality. Itproposed TO give all profits
to the insured, paying only legal interest on its
capital and it has accomplished its purpose.
In a career OF progress altogether satisfactory
adamant.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-08-14
A new subs titute for tobacco. called

Lange's plugs, patented March 9th, manufac-
tuued by j. c. Lange & Son, Pittsburgh, Ia,
in plugs like Navy Tobacco, is meeting with
great success wherever ii is introduced. We
would say to every tobacco chewer try it as
parties having used it would not be without 1t,
their craving for tobacco, having entirely
ceased and they claim that it is the best Tonic
for Dyspepsia, Indigestion and general Debili-
ty; tase is pleasant and unlike tobacco it makes
the breath pure and pleasant. All our drug
gist should have 1t. 1t retails 10 cts. per plug.
"a
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-08-14

New Hampshire papers are calling
upon the authorities TO put stop to
the nuisance OF painting and posting
patent medicine" advertisements
upon public buildings, trees, rocks,
watering troughs, and almost every
other accessible thing or place. The
whole thing is in violation of law,
and an outrage on public decency.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-08-14
BY-AND-BY.

There's little misunderstanding
Elm, who is ever nigh,
Thwarting every undertaking,
And his name Is By-and-by.
What we ought to do this minute,
''Wilf be better DONE he'll cry,
sfIf tomorrow We IL begin it
Put 1t Off, - says By-and-by.
Those who heed his treacherous wooing,
Will his faIthless guidance rue
What we always put of doing,
Clearly We shall never do.
We shall reach what we endeavor,
Ii on Now we do rely
But unto the realms Of Never
Leads the pilot By-and-by.