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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-07-13
How Hotel Lost its BOarders.

The New York World says that "Tbe
captain of one OF the largest steam
boats running on the Potomac was as
tonlshed one day lately as his boat
touched the landing at one Of the river
side watering places not great dis
lance from Washington, to see all the
guests assembled with their baggage
ready to take passage for the city. In
making inquiries as to the cause OF this
general exodus he soon discovered that
thereby hung tail. A cats. It ap-
pears the fare at the hotel had disagreed
with the boarders, and, not satisfied
with complaining, they took French
leave. A batch Of dough had been
prepared for the oven and placed on
table. A playful kitten thought it
would be nice to run over it, it looked
so snowy, warm and tempting Kitty
tried it, and soon found her delicate
little feet sinking in the dough. She
struggled to escape, only to sink deeper,
until that youthful cat disappeared en-
tirely, aud so, like young Lochinvar,
went into the east. She never rose
again, but the bread did. 1t closed
over this unfortunate specimen, not
leaving hair apparent; Cooky, of
course, was not aware that she had
kitten in the dumping, and put the
mass into the oven and baked it. When
the bread was opened at breakfast neqt
morning, the birds did not begin to
sing bat the boarders did. They fairly
howled with wrath. They knew that
there had been a family of kittens,
and, as hash had been served for
breakfast before this extraordinary loaf
was opened, the conclusion was natu-
raj that the other part of the family had
gone into the hash and down their
throats They were first taken with
sea-sickness, next with inconsistencies,
and then ensued general packing mp.
The fashionable summer resort was
left with no inhabitants but the cook
and the bar-keeper, and what remained
of the family of kittens.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-07-13
What the French Did for Mexico.

A correspondent of the Louisville
Courier-Journal, writing from the City
OF Mexico, says:
"The occupation of the French left
its traces Of benefit to Mexico. They
permeated the whole country, and, as
the native Mexicans are quick and alb
sorptiye, ideas and ways are seen to be
left as institutions In looking around
the city [ see blocks OF splendid
/ houses, monuments, gardens and foun-
tains, the taste for which the French
brought with them. And when | take
a morning or evening stroll upon the
Garden of the Plaza de Armas, cannot
help thinking, as everybody must, of
the good and noble Empress Carlotta.
Six years ago this vast square, upon
which fronts the palace, the cathedral,
the municipal buildings and the port
ales, were nothing but one sun-retlect-
ing plane of flag stones. The sight
must have been painful TO Carlotta, for
she sent for two or three landscape en-
gineers. Plan after plan was shown off,
and at last the Empress selected one
and appointed It's author to superintend
the work
After the fall of the Empire it was
predicted that the Liberals would etface
this garden as they tried to etface ev-
erything that could revive its memories.
But this was too beautiful, too attractive
to the inhabitants, and it has been
preserved as Carlotta designed and
left it. 1t is the most perfectly beauti'
full spot my eyes ever rested upon. 1t
is beautiful garden, in the heart of
the city, surrounded by not fence or
gate. 1t is open by hundred walks
from the sides, and is composed OF
plats OF trees, flowers, fruits, fountains,
etc. There is not an angle IN it, and
the undulations Of each plat differs
from the other; orange trees grow, and
although the lowest of the population,
as well as the highest, and boys of all
grades saunter there, not an orange or
flower is disturbed; nor is there even
a sentinel in sight that have seen.
| The trees have grown amazingly III
that brief time some of them are thir-
| ty to forty feet high, and already there
is a shade everywhere. 1t is refreshing
to see the children in their sports,
Skipping the rope, anu What-not ana
the lovers promenading every evening.
One apparently can walk for miles in
this charmed spot without doubling
on his tracks. Twice week band of
music plays for two hours, stationed
on the side of the centre pyramid,
which is characteristlcally capped with
the traditional nopal, or cactus, of
Mexico"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-07-13
Young Widows.

The sorrows of Q young widow are
not ended when she gets her husband
under ground, as viii be seen in the
following extracts from a letter written
by lady to the Home Journal:
''Do YOU know, girls, what it is to be
a widow 1t is to be ten times more
open to comment and criticism than any
demoiselle could probably be. 1t is to
have men gaze as you pass, first at you,
then at your black dress, and then at
your widows cap, until your sensitive
nerves culver under the inAiction. 1t
is to have one ill-natured person say
/ wonder how long she will wait be-
fore she marries again 2 aud another
answer: Until she gets good chance,
| suppose 1t is now and then to
meet glance of real sympathy, gener-
ally from the poorest and humblest
women that you meet, and feel your
eyes fill at the token so rare that it Is,
alas, unlocked for. 1t is to have yorr
dear fashionable friends condole with
you after the following fashion: 'Oh,
we'll /, it is dreadful loss; we knew
you'd feel it, poor dear. And in the
next breath; You will be sdre to
marry again, and Your widows cap is
Very becoming to you.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-07-13

draw them. But this one was so odd
he wasn't quite sure he liked it.
cts made of ingin rubber, l dess, !"
thought he ; and he pinched one Of its
little black toes, to see II 1T would
stretch. No; but it puckered its face
ND into a little black knot and sqneal-
ed Then Clubs mother slapped him;
50 he ran to catch up with Nan, who
was going home.
"Who fetched it," thinking of the
baby. as he tugged at her dress.
''God sent it, Club. "
Dod?"
eyes, God, up in the sky amt you
glad?n
Did He frow it down"
"No He sent an angel to bring it.,
so you can have some one toplay with. "
- It's too little.
'"But it viii grow to be as big as
you, sometime
So Club concluded to endure the
baby, though he became very tired
waiting for 1T to grow, and every day
wanted to measure it, to see il it
" hadn't dot bidder" He grew to like
it very much, finally, and brought all
the sour apples, and hot cookies, and
candy balls, that the servant maids
gave him, TO feed it with.
BY and by it could roll on the floor,
and then it rolled out doors; and Club
made it mud pies, and brought it
worms, and bugs with the wings pulled
off, to "see 'em wiggle"
One day Clubs mother went out
washing, leaving him to mind the baby;
so he sat it under the fence with sun
flower to play with, while he vent with
found long stick and a string, and
meant to go down to the lake fishing,
He was thinking whether he'd better
take baby with him. or tie it to tho bed
post, when he heard a great noise, and
saw runaway horse come dashing mad
ly down the alley, and there was baby,
who had crawled out INTO the road
right in the way. On came the horse,
with aheavy wagon crashing and bound
ing behin1 him. O, the poor baby !!
nothing could save it now.
81 spose it'll have to be smashed, "
thought Club, running fast; but he
found 1t wasn't, tor, strange to say, the
horse had leaped over it, and the wagon
had only grazed one of its little, bare
toes. Club Rugged and kissed the lit
tie rubber baby, and said he" wouldn't
nebber do tishin' and leah it any more. y
Then he took it over to see Nan, and
told her how the baby didn't killed, "
And Nan said,
"You ought to thank God, Club
Just rs you learned how to do in Sun
day school, and ask Him to forgive
you, for it was very naughty in You to
leave the baby"
So Club prayed, and this was his
prayer:
Dear bod, Club was naughty TO
do fishin' and leah de baby, but Clubs
berry sowwy, and he tanks bod tauso
he didn't kill baby wild de horse. Amen
and cen he'll be a dood boy"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-07-13
The Visit Of the Car to Berlin.
Berlin June 81 Correspondence of the London
Telegraph.

Berlin June 81 Correspondence of the London
Telegraph.
Berlin has worn during thee two
days gala aspect, which is not often
seen in the business-like capital OF
Prussia. Royal carriages, filled with
strange and brilliant uniforms, have
been perpetually dashing up and down
the Linden, between the Kings palace
and the Russian Embassy; AMI the
usually SLOW traffic has been stopped
altogether in order to allow the quick
trotting horses fair play. The hnper-
orKing. accompanied by the Princes Of
hi. house, the Crown Princes, the
Princess Leignitz, old Marshal Won
Wrangel, and a numerous stiff, re-
paired to the Eastern Railway Station
yesterday morning, to meet the EN-
peror Of all the Russias The station
was gaily decorated, and the six hand
some reception rooms We're bright with
exotic plants and divers colored cos
tumes-the German Emperor and those
of the Princes who hold honorary titles
in the Russian service wearing Russian
uniforms. On the arrival of the Gar,
the band of the Fusilier Guards, a de-
tachment of which was on duty, struck
up the Russian National hymn, and
when the "Father of his people" ar
rived at the Embassy he found 6 guard
of honor of the Prussian Grenadier
Regiment, which bears his name, sta
toned to receive him with military
salutation. Later in the forenoon the
Car, wearing the Pussian uniform
paid visit to his Majesty of Germany
There was a grand dinner at the
Palace at the customary patliarchal
hour of five, and then the Royal party
adjourned to the adjacent Royal Opera
House to see the ballet of Sardana-
palus One Of the grandest of the
pantomimic performances for which
Berlin is celebrated.
To-day the Russian Ministers again
attended the performance at the Opera
House. The State box in the center of
the house was filed with snowy uni
forms, but the front row of chairs was
left vacant the whole evening, the
Royal personages preferring the com
parative seclusion Of the proscenium
boxes. The Emperor of Russia, who
looks worn, and certainly not younger
than his full age, sat in stage box on
the pit tier; and the King OF Prussia,
who, on the contrary, is at least ten
years younger in appearance than he
has any right to look, occupied his Gus
tomary place IN the box immediately
above. Compared with the plain and
practical Prussian uniforms, the Rus
slams, with their large epualettes falling
forward from the shoulder over the
chest, look very gay and snowy; and
the corridors, at all times crowded
with military men, were tonight even
more than usually Respondent with
decorations, and noisy with the sound
of clanking swords and tinkling spurs.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-07-13
The PEOPLES University in England.

Nature SAYS: GA gigantic and i'm
posing educational scheme is about to
be launched, which, whether it proves
feasible or not, must attract the attent-
ION and enlist the sympathy of all we'll
wishers to the intellectual development
and material welfare of the country
This is no less an idea than the estab-
lishment of a National Workingmen' 8
University, which is to be founded
with special reference to instruction in
those subjects which have a direct
bearing on the arts and manufactures
The proposal is to establish metro
poitan institution in which complete
and thorough instruction in all those
branches acknowledge which are Of i'm
portance to our manufacturing industry
sA0ll be given. 1t is proposed to build
ample lecture rooms, laboratories, art
museums, on the most extended scale
to Greats professorships, and to found
scholarships by which artisans may be
enabled to live during the years of their
studentship, This central university
is TO be connected with other similar
institutions scattered over the country
in the foCi OF the industrial pursuits,
each carrying out i'll its locality the
same function which the central one is
to perform perhaps on somewhat
higher scale for the metropolis and the
country in general.
The idea is feeble one but the diff
fculties of carrying it ont are immeuse,
while the dangers of the scheme prov
ing abortive are scarcely less SO The
first requisite in such a scheme for art
isan education is money, the second
condition Of success is good manage
ment
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-07-13
The Tender Passion in the Face Of Death

1t is said that Dr. Tony Molin, who
played an important part in the recent
events in Paris, was permitted before
being shot by sentence of court mar
tial, to marry young lady with whom
he had been living and who was near
her confinement. The marriage took
place Mt three o'clock, and by five in the
afternoon the doctor was dead Wheth-
er this occurrence really took place or
not there can be no doubt, it is very
touching story and will not be forgotten
by novehsts in after days The mar
riage was hardly more singular in its
attendant circumstances. saws an Eng
llsh journal, than one recorded in the
Annual Register for lS0s, in the chron-
icle for the month Of March in that year.
. \ striking display" it is said, OF
the omnlpotence of love occurred at the
High Church, Hull. few days ago.
a young woman having given her heart
to a sailor, who was impressed and car
red on board the tender by the infer
ence Of her friends, resolved neverthe-
less to marry the object of her choice
He was accordingly brought on shore
and escorted by the press-gang to the
church, from whence, after the MARI
age ceremony, he was again conveyed
10 the tender.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-07-13
An Ingenious snindle.,

An outrageous matchmaking trick is
still successfully resorted to, and should
be understood by all inventors, espe-
cially by those who apply for extensions
or renewals of patents. The lawyer, in
common with the public generally,
having access to the records ofthe Pat
ent Office, prepares list of all applica-
lions made for renewals or extension of
patents, and files with the Commits
sioner "a notice of protest on his own
account. He then acQuaints himself
with the particulars of each case, and
writes TO the applicant that notice of
remonstrance has been filed here that
he has been employed by the persons
whose interests are affected by the pro-
posed extension to argue the case
before the Commissioner but that
rs his clients are disposed to deal
frankly with the applicant, he (the
lawyer) thinks that the case might be
compromised and the applicant saved
much trouble and expense; he adds
perhaps, that failure to settle the
matter beforehand will probably result
in refusal Of his petition for extern
sion. The lawyer is mot at liberty to
name his clients" but will be glad to
communicate to them any proposition
which the applicant may make. If the
inventor is timid, as is often the case
he will agree to buy off the imaginary
remonstrant, and the black mailing
lawyer pockets the money. Ii, on the
other hand, he feels sure of his case
and goes to great expense to collect
evidence and present itin the strongest
possible light, he finds, when he comes
before the Commissioner, no opponent.
One OF these swindlers has made large
fortune in this way, but their tricks are
now SO well known in the Pension Blu
reau that the simple fact that one of
them is connected with any case is not
calculated to help it any in the estima-
ton of the officers of the Bureau
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-07-13
\ Bit of Astronomy.

suspect that not one child i'll fifty,
under twelve years of age, could tell me
exactly how any one knows that the
moon is really larger than a soup plate,
or whether it is rs far or farther away
than Boston.
Now don't shrug your pretty should
ers, and langh, and say must be crazy
to think you don't know that. 1t is
not so easy matter to know many
things just right and hope you will
not say one boastful word about your
knowledge of the subject, until You
have thought it over carefully, and seen
how much You really know certainly
Wise men are very cautious indeed,
and know what they say, and the rea-
son for It,
No one ever comes from tho moon
country, to give us descriptions of IL,
and one has a great deal OF trouble in
studying it, since he cannot go there,
/ The "man in the moon is not ut all
social, either, in his ways, asyou know,
and | never heard of anyone getting
any sort OF information out of his ugly
mouth. We have to learn things the
best way we can, all by ourselves, one
thing Mt time, and that often very
( long time.
viii tell You to-day about the size
of the moon, and how men are able to
find out eXactlywhat its size is.
The moon is globe, whose diameter
is two thousand miles; about one
forth of that of the earth.
Now, how, " do you ask, "can one
know that
I There is a method something like
this Let MS take, for example, cent
piece, which measures about an inch
in diameter, and let il be placed be-
tween the eve and the moon, at any
distance from the eye. 1t will be found,
ON the first trial, that the coin will APP
pear larger than the moon; it will, in
fact, completely conceal the moon from
the eve, and produce what we may call
a total eclipse OF the moon, Let the
coin be moved further from the eve,
and it will then appear smaller, and
viii seem to GROW less IN size as the
distance from the eve is increased.
Let it I've removed until it seems eX
actly to cover the moon, and neither
more nor less.
If the distance from the coin to the
eve be measured, it VIII be found to be
about ten feet, or one hundred and
twenty inches, or, what Is the same,
two hundred and forty half inches.
But it is known land the way in which
that also is known / viii explain to you
at another time,) that the distance OF
the moon from the earth is about tive
hundred and forty thousand miles; SC
that it follows in this case that one
Thousand miles in the moons distance
is exactly what hall an inch is in the
COINS distance
Now you all understand, I suppose,
how, in geography. you measure d
country on a map, when YOU know the
scale OF the map il, for instance, You
have the map OF Illinois before You,
made ON a scale OF fifty miles to an
inch, and find, by measuring, that
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-07-13

there are about two inches of the map
from Chicago westward to the limits of
the state, you would at once be able to
say that the real distance between
those points must be about two times
fifty or about one hundred miles
Now, in the case of measuring the
distance across the moons disk with
the coin, we have found the scale to be
half an an inch to one thousand miles !;
since, then, the coin measures two half
inches in diameter, the moon must
measure two times one thousand miles,
or two thousand miles IN diameter. -
LITTLE COrporoi
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-07-13
FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS.
Children, Try to be Good

Children, try TO nc good.
That IL the end of all teaching;
Eaaily understood,
And very easy in preaching.
Il II easy to do?
Speak, Il you've really been trying
To be entirely true,
Aud utterly sell denying.
To weep with those that weep
TO be just In every dealing
A careful watch to keep,
ON temper and tongue and feeling
Your greatest ioy 30 find
In giving another pleasure,
Aud tryhlQ not b. micd
That vonfs f. the smaii,r measure.
With heart to hold and blee7
Both LOYALTY and freedom
with a Loving little Yes,
And q smile Tor those that need thehl'
Yet all the time 30 show,
OF steadiast faith the beauty,
And be able % say No.
When saying No is duty.
Children. try 10 be good
That is tho end Of sill teaching
Easily understood,
And very easy in preaching
And If yuu aad Il bard,
Your "a lrts you need but double,
Nothing deserves reward
Unless L has given us trouble.
--Ffgm GOOD H0rds for thc Young.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-07-13
Louis Blame aud the Commune.

NJ. Louis Blanc has written the
following letter to the editor of the
Paris Figaro; "Sir; l read an article
signed by you that the honest Repubh,
can party is justified in expecting from
me a protest against the denominations
OF which Paris has been the theater and
the victim. l am surprised mt that re-
mark. What honest man could, with
ont failing in that respect due to him
self, feel obliged to state publicly that
he views murder, fire, and plllage with
unmltigated horror | value myself
highly enough 10 think that such a
declaration on my part is perfectly I'M
necessary. Also, when public indig-
nation is great and so legitimate, 1t
is only too much in the nature of par.
ties to turn thatindignation to account,
and make 1t serve their resentment and
their designs. We should not aid them
in SO doing lest anger take the place
of Justice, the innocent should be in
yolved in the punishment meted out to
the guilty. You are aware, Sir, that
before a tribunal lockers on are bound
to be silent. II IS the duty of all to be
silent when the judge is about to speak,
Receive, etc. Louis BLANC.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-07-13
4 Novel Contest.

The Nation I'll } Journal says:
. A novel race is being run on the
Grand Prairie now. 1t is one between the
tracklayers of the Bloomington & Ohio
River Railroad and those of the Chica-
go 81 Illinois Southern, to Sullivan, for
$4,000. A heavy force on the former is
slapping the iron down ON the prairie
sod from Bennett, on the Great Western
Road, while the contractors, Messrs,
Tuttle, Keys & Co, on the Chicago X
Illinois Southern, between our city
and Sullivan, yeabouta thousand men
grading, bridging and stringing down
the continuous rail. The force late at
work for the company, south from orr
city. has been replaced on the work on
the Sullivan end, and orders telegraphed
TO the south end of the line for mas
sing of all the forces at our city imme
dlately. SO, ii Mr., Craddock, the push
ing President of the Bloomington Road,
gets the $4,000, he must do some tail
scratching. In the mean time, if you
want to see drift fly on grand scale, go
out toward Sullivan.