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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-24
How Married Man SeWs on a But
ton.

1t is bad enough to see bachelor sew
on a button, but he is the embodiment of
grace alongside of a married man. Neces-
sity has compelled experience in the case
of the former, but the latter has depended
upon some one else for this service, and,
fortunately for the sake of society, it is
rarely he is obliged to resort to the needle
himself. Sometimes the patient wife
scaldS her right hand, or runs silver I'M
der the nail of the index finger of that
hand, and it is then the man clutches the
needle around the neck, and, forgetting to
tie a knot in the thread, commences to put
on the button. 1t is always in the morn
ing, and from five to twenty minutes after
this h is expected to be down street He
lays the button exactly on the site of its
predecessor, and pushes the needle through
one eye, and carefully draws the thread
after, leaving about three inches of it
sticking up for lee-way. He says to him
self: swell, if women don't have the east
est time ever see" Then he comes back
the other way, and gets the needle through
the cloth easy enough, and lays himself
out to find the eye, but in spite of great
deal of patient jabbing the needle point
persists in bucking against the solid parts
of the button, and finally, when he loses
patience his fingers catch the thread, and
that three inches he has left to hold the
button slips through the eye in
twinkling, and the button rolls leis-
urely across the floor. He picks
1t up without a single remark,
out Of respect for his children, and makes
another attempt to fasten it. This time
when coming back with the needle he
keeps both the thread and button from
slipping by covering them with his thumb,
and it is out of regard for that part of him
that he feels around for the eye in a very
careful and judicious manner, but eventu-
ally as the search becomes more and more
hopeless, he falls to jabbing about in a
loose and savage manner, and it is lust
then the needle finds the opening, and
comes up through the button and part
way through his thumb with celebrity
that no human ingenuity can guard
against. Then he lays down the things
with few familiar quotations, and presses
the injured hand between his knees, and
then holds it under the other arm, and fin
ally jams it into his mouth, and all the
while he Frances and calls upon heaven
and earth to witness that there has never
been anything like it since the world was
created, and howls, and whistles, and
means and sobs. After while he Gains
down, and puts on his pants, and fastens
them together with stick, and goes to his
business changed man-Danbury Neacs.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-24
The Dead Par =.

THE Augusta (Ga.) Coaetituti0aalist Democrat
lc) does not agree with the Chicago Tribune that
the Democratic party; the great party OF the
people, is defunct. There are quite number of
other Democratic papers that have expressed
themselves III the same way.-Ne.0 York Herald.
The Democratic party has been dead
these dozen years, and its heir and sue
cessor, the Liberal" party, has been very
dead since November last. In the mean
time the real party of the people'-the
Republican party-notwithstand the
falling from grace of here and there a
weakened member or a demoralized
leader continues to have the confidence of
the intelligent multitude, and is in fact
now, as it has been in the nations trying
ordeals of the past, the anchor of the
country's best hopes and aspirations. Be
ing the party OF the people, the people
will, we trust, keep it in their own straight
line. They have the power to do it, and
will be themselves to blame if they do not
do it. Toit the country will look, and not
look in vain, for good government purity
of principle, and a true patriotism. The
IrtbuAeS and Herakds of scheming politics
may attempt TO galvanize the old Demo
cratic party into Il show of new life, or to
organize the incongruous elements of po-
litcal sorcheadism and diabolism into
great new party, but they will fail. so
long as the organs and true leaders of Re
publicansm viii firmly and honestly main
tain the integrity of the Republican party,
insist upon the practical enforcement of
its cnunciated principles and dcnounce
the wrong acts and the treachery of its
pretended representatives in Congress or
out of il, that party will continue to deserve
and receive the support of the popular
voice and vote. In other words, so long
rs the Republican party will be true to it
self il will continue to be the party of all
true nicn-Chicago Jourum
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-24

should be broken fine with the back of the
spade. It should besprinkled or scattered
over, not thrown in heavy spadefuls upon
the roots The soil should be SO placed as
not to need any leyeling afterward, No
foot, nor spade, nor rake should be allowed
to touch the charmed circle devoted tothe
roots. If the trees are placed on the nat
ural surface, Of course when the operation
of planting is completed an artificial
mound will be raised on to the top of the
roots, In such cases the covering should
be a few inches thicker than when the
roots are under the natural level.
. The only consolidating agent we allow
is water, and even this may safely be dis
pensed with when the soil is wet In other
cases, the earth may be washed in with
from six to dozen gallons of water, APP
piled over the entire surface of the roots
through a coarse rose. The more rapidly
it is applied the more efficiently it will act
as consolidator of the earth. In a few
hours after watering the surface should be
covered over, or ,mulched, as it is called
with a layer, about three inches deep, of
halfrOtted manure, cocoanut fibre, moss,
or such material. This exerts two intlu-
ences, each of the greatest consequence
1t prevents the earth from becoming dry,
and protects the roots from frost. The
latter is of vital moment. For although
an excessive activity of root action in win
ter is to be discouraged, yet it is most es-
sentlal that any rOotlet that may venture
forth tat this SEASON. should be preserved
from injury or destruction; hence the
planters motto for the first winter. should
be- no frost admitted to a single root.
". ?. Sun
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-24

free use of salt among our domestic ami
mails One of the best known means, both
as preventive and cure of foot-rot among
sheep, is the scattering of salt over the in
fected land.
SALT FOR DESTROYING INSECTS.
I It has long been known that salt
operates fatally upon nearly all cold
blooded animals that live upon land or in
fresh water. Sir. John Sinclair many
years ago said that in Scotland, where the
oat crop was frequently destroyed by
grubs, it had long been the practice to
mix salt with seed in the proportion of
one to thirty-twO, but sometimes one to
sixteen. If we scatter salt upon land in
tested with vermin it destroys them, and
their bodies become the food of plants.
Great care should be taken in applying
salt upon growing crops, as too much is
sure to be Injurious One to five bushels
per acre may be spread broadcast upon
meadows early in spring or upon land. at
the time of sowing grain.
- SALT FOR FUNGOID DISEASES.
Soaking seed wheat in urine or brine to
prevent smut or blight has been practised
thousands of years, as we learn from the
writings of Cato, Virgil, Pliny and Col
umella. Still, we frequently hear farmers
speak of this practice as something new
Salt is employed wherever scientific agri-
culture is practised, not only FOR destroy
ing vermin, but as a preventive of fun
gold diseases in cereal crops. Every means
has been employed by our scientific men
to positively determine its value in agri-
culture, and the results all tend to show
that it is one Of the most important min
eral substances known. The use of salt
upon sheep pastures has been observed in
Spain and Germany from avery early pc
Rod Its efficacy against ''murrain or
rotte" was known in England in the six
teenth century, and for .fertilizing land it
was extensively used in the seventeenth
century. The long and almost obstinate
indifference of our farmers in the use of
salt is almost beyond comprehension, but
the time must come when it will be eX-
tensively employed as a manure.-N. Y.
MN
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-24
" hat Shall We Eat.
BY ;. AUGUSTA WORLD, NJ. d.

NABIETY.-The physical structure of
man shows that he cannot be classified
exclusively with either the carnivorous or
the herbivorouS animals-that he should
not be confined wholly TO the food upon
which either class subsist Human be
ings require variety. By variety do not
mean that at every meal we should seek
TO accommodate all the various kinds of
meats, vegetables, pies, buildings, fruits.
etc, which are set before Us. We should
try TO be temperate IN the variety as well
as in the quantity of what we eat. For
instance at breakfast take one kind of
meat two varieties of vegetables, graham
or oatmeal porridge, and graham bread,
For dinner, meat, not more than three
kinds of vegetables, one Of ripe fruit,
with plainly-boiled, unspiced rice, tapioca
or corn-Starch, and graham bread. The
last meal of the day. should consist of
fruits, canned or stewed, graham bread,
with sponge or other plain cake, if de
sired.
We should refrain from exhausting the
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-24

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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-24
How to Have Early Strawberries.

WHEN we read in the English papers a
statement like the following, we are apt to
think that these are very costly luxuries,
and almost envy royalty the privilege OF
enjoying them: about 10000 strawber-
ries are annually forced in pots in the gar
dens of Sandringham (the Prince of
Wales, palace) The usual course with
all the earlier patches is to start them in
pots, plunged in warm leaves, they are
then placed on shelves anywhere and
everywhere that room can be found for
them, and gathered in quantity from the
middle of February till they come in out
of DOORS"
But after all it costs so little to have
early strawberries that it is remarkable
more do not have them than generally do.
OF course, to have them very early it
would be necessary to grow them a few
months in pots, and take care of them
much as is described in the extract quot
ed; but many persons might have them
without this trouble by simply covering
the ground in which they grow with few
hotbed sash. 1t is remarkable that cOun-
try gardens do not make more use of
glass frames for getting things earlier than
they do. Glass is cheap, and the sash
frames are not very costly. One can glaze
for himself, and the frames can be made
good enough for the purpose on any farm.
They come into use in so many ways that
every farm garden ought to have a few of
these sashes on hand. For strawberries,
all that is necessary is to have bed grow
ing on some nice warm spot of ground,
and then set one of these frames over
them. 1t takes very little heat to bring
forth strawberry blossoms, and the glass
covering protects them from frost and
cold at night. A frame five feet wide and
twenty feet long, fixed in this way, would
give many quarts of strawberries for. sew
eral weeks before the regular crops come
in the open ground.-Forney's Weekly
Press.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-24
Never Too Late to Mend.

When the stomach is in state of chronic re-
bellon against every kind of food, and the attend
ing physician with solemn and portentous gravity
declares that such cases Of confirmed dyspepsia
defy all remedies do not put faith in his pse dirit
Indigestion of this obstinate character may be in
durable by his prescriptions, but it is therefore
an irremovable fixture in the system. The fact is
that the great vegetable inygorant and corrective
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, is radically curing
cases of this seemingly desperate nature every
day. Indeed it is in those malignant phases of
dyspepsia which no ordinary medicine can control
that its remedial properties are most wonderfully
manifested. We say to the long suffering martyr,
whose stomach is source of perpetual torment to
him. that by the persistent and daily use Of this
glorious tonic he not only restore the digestive
organs to their full vigor, but can keep them in
good working order through life. If there is con-
stipation, the gentle aperient operation Of the
Bitters will remove all distractions and keep the
bowels in a regular and healthy condition. The
grand characteristic Of this viazing and purifying
vegetable preparation is that it acts benefcially
upon every organ controlling the liver, reinforcing
the nerves, toning the coats-of the stomach, pro-
noting a healthy habit of body. relieving the
blood OF all impurities. clearing the brain and
reviving the spirits a
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-24

ADDING Poison TO PoIsON.-There is
no disease in which the blood is not more
or less impregnated with unwholesome
matter, and the direct, inevitable effect of
all preparations containing spirituous eX-
CHANTS is to increase the volume of poison
in the veins, and thereby aggravate and
prolong the malady. Hence it is that dys-
pepsia, bilious fever, cholera morbus, lung
complaints, govt, dropsy, rheumatism,
nervous disorders, and cases Of general
and local debility, originally mild in type,
are frequently rendered chronic and dan
gerous by dosing the sufferers with the
alcoholic bitters advertised as medicinal
stimulants. AS a counterblast to the
canards put forth by the proprietors of
those pernicious compounds, the plain,
honest, philosophical statements of DR..
JOSEPH WALKER, relative to the nature
and effects of his CALIFORNIA VINEGAR
BTrTERs, are doing world Of good. He
has opened the eyes of the public to the
important fact that pure vegetable tonic
and Alternative, unpolluted by alcohol, if
not an absolute specific for every variety of
disease, is the nearest approach to it yet
attained. His VINEGAR BTTTERs are I'M
questionably working such wonders in af-
fections of the stomach, bowels, nervous
and muscular systems, and the glands and
respiratory organs. 5la
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-24
Poultry and Farming.

Aside from the satisfaction the farmer
wife takes in her feathered property, there
is profit in it. The Western Aqriculturfst
thinks raising poultry in connection with
miscellaneous farming is one of the most
profitable and pleasant departments of
Western farming. For the amount of cap
ltal necessary no kind of stock raising will
give larger profits, but too many of our
Western farmer are disposed to look upon
raising poultry as rather a small and in
significant business. The time was when
raising chickens was attended to entirely
by the farmers wife and children, and even
they We're often grudged the little grain
they used to feed the chickens but then
the profits were not SO great Eggs would
sell Tor hive cents per dozen, and spring
chickens 81 dozen, but now we have a
ready market all over the West for eggs
and poultry at good ts~ices, and we have
improved breeds of fowls that are at least
100 per cent. more profitable than the old
barn-yard fowls, and with little attention.
comfortable poultry house and small
outlay to procure the improved breeds
every Western farmer could realize hand
some profit, requiring but little labar Of
course II would not do for farmers to ne
Siect the general farm interests. or to let
anything interfere with the regular farm
operations. But farming here in the great
west Is made up of several departments
and poultry is one of the most profitable
among them.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-24

THE Troy On, " Times mentions GU
riour case of somnambulism which re-
Gently occurred in that city. A young
lady, a visitor from neighboring State,
who was an accomplished musician and
gifted singer, one night recently attended
a party where, in response to repeated de-
mands, she sang and played until she had
quite exhausted herself. The company
broke up about one O'Clock, and at two
O'Clock the young lady retired. In about
an hour music was heard proceeding from
her room. 1t continued so long that one
of the members of the family arose, and,
upon entering the apartment of the young
lady, found her asleep and singing with all
her power. She tried to awaken her, but
the effort was unavailing. She continued
to sing, going from one song to another,
for upward of an hour, when nature
seemed to be exhausted, and the somnam-
bulist sank into real sleep. Upon awak-
ing the next morning she knew nothing of
the occurrence.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-24

CONsUMPTION.-For the cure of this dis
tressing disease there has been no medicine
yet discovered that can show more evidence
of real merit than Aliens Lung Balsam This
unequaled expectorant for curing consump-
affections of the throat, lungs, and all dis
eases Of the pulmonary organs, is introduced
to the suffering public after it's merits for the
cure of such diseases have been fully teated
by the medical faculty. The Balsam is, con-
sequently, recommended by physicians who
have become acquainted with its great sue
cess.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-24
TO INVESTORS,
The Northern Pacific Railroad
40 First Mortgage Gold Bonds,

The Northern Pacific Railroad
7-3O First Mortgage Gold Bonds,
which we recommend as profitable and
well-secured investment, bear 7 $40 per
cent. gold interest about Sd CURRENCY
and have the following elements of secu-
rity, viz:
l. They are the obligation of strong
corporation.
2. They are First Mortgage on the
Road. its Equipments, Rights and Fran
chises.
3. They are first lien on its net earnings
4. There is pledged, in addition, for the
payment of principal and interest, Land
Grant of 1880 acres per mile through the
States, and $4,000 acres per mile through
the Territories traversed. The Company
is already entitled to nearly Ten Million
acres of its Grant, and its Land Sales thus
far have averaged $500 per acre.
With nearly 500 miles of the road con-
structed and in operation, the earnings for
1878 will be large.
All marketable stocks and bonds are re-
celved in exchange for Northern Pacifics
on most favorable terms.
JAY COOKE g. co.,
New York, Philadelphia and Washington.
FOR SALE BY BANKS AND BANKERS.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-24

A CoUGH, COLD, OR SORE THROAT, requires
immediate attention, as neglect oftentimes re-
suits in some incurable Lung Disease.
"Bro'rn's bronchial Iroches" will almost in
yariably give relief
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-24

JoHNsoN's A',odJme Lininent may be admin
istered to children with perfect success, in
cases of Group, whooping-cough, influenza,
and almost any Of the diseases to which they
are liable.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-24

cEIsTADogo's EXCELSIOR HAIR DYE stanas
unriyaed and alene; its merits have been uni
vcrsally acknowledged that it would be superero-
CATION to descant on them any further-nothing can
beat
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-24

OPPRESSION after eating, headache, nervous
debility, are the effects of indigestion. One or
twoat most, of Parsons PWgatioe Pills will
give immediate relief.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-24

FLAGG's INSTANT RELIEF has stood twenty years
test Is warranted to give immediate relief to al
Rheumatic, Neuralgia, Head, Ear, and Back Aches
or HaOneV refunded.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-24

IT Is ALTOGETHER WRONG to trifie with a Bad
Cough or Cold, when the risk is so great and
remedy so sure. prompt and thorough as DR..
Jayne's Expectorant can be readily found
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-24

,E BEST AND OLDEST FAMILY MIpIcISE.--,Sagford $
1ontc-for Dyspepsia. Con stipation, Debility, Sick
Headache. Bilious Attacks, and all arrangement of
Liver, stomach and Bowels. Ask your Druggists for
1t. Berafe Of limitations.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-24
BRASS DASHES.
LEADS.
SLUGS.

PCT n.
Nonpareil and larger,
cut to any length. 80 Is
Labor-Saying, put up
in fonts of % lbs,
and upwards, accu-
curately cut. from
4ems Plea upwards
including all sizes,
to justify with La
bor-Saving Rule. q 80
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-24

time a ad nave Ague In any form you will save both
af nn o 4loney oy trying Shalrenbergers Anttdote
~ once. The cure is Immediate 4Ai'Siuotc
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-24

ii IS said that a maple tree does not
yield more than thirty cents worth OF
sugar per year, and that. the labor re.
quired represents half OF that amount
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-24

ASK for Prussing's Cider Vinegar, and take
no other. Warranted to preserve Pickles
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-04-24
What rho Doctors Say.


Amos Woody. NJ D., Of Koscfusco Co, Ind. says
sam extensively in my practice, and am satisfied
there Is no better medicine for lung diseases in
Isaac A. DOran, NJ. D., of Logan Co., o. says:
ALIENS Lung Balsam not only sells rapidly but gives
perfect satisfaction In every case within my knowl
edge. Having confidence in 1t, and knowing that it
it in my daily practice, and with unbounded sue
As an expectorant II is most certainly ahead
Nathaniel Harris. NJ b., of Middiebury, vt. says
81 have no doubt it will soon become classical rem
eal agent for the of all diseases OF the Throat
Bronchial Tubes and Lungs" 9sst
DR. Lloyd, OF Ohio, surgeon in the army during the
war, from exposure, contracted consumption, he
says: have no hestancy in saying that it was by
the use Of Lung Baisam that lam now alive and
Or. Fletcher. OF Lexington, Mo-. says. I recon-.
cine for Coughs, and 1t gave satisfact ton" -
Drs. Wilson Ward. physicians and druggists, write
Lung Balsam, and it sells rapidly We are practising
physicians as wen as druggists, and take pleasure
recommend ng great remedy, such as We know this
uE Physicians do not recommend q medicine
which has no merit. What they say about Aliens
Lung Balsam can be laken as fact. Let all af-
hicted test it at once and be convinced of its real
merits .ss-t ~
1t is harmless to the most delicate child.
1t contains no Opium in any form.
Directions accompany each bottle.
Call for Aliens Lung Balsam.
J. N. HARRIS T. CO., Proprietors,
CINCINNATI, OHIO.
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