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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-01-09
Uses of Paper.

Paper making among the Japanese
has reached a degree of art uneuualed
probably by any people in the world.
According to their own account they
wrote on silk, faced with linen, and
also on :hin wood shavings, till near
the end of the third century of our era
At that time paper was first imported
from Corea, and, superseding the home.
made fabric, monopolized the market
for more than three hundred years,
when the bark of the paper mulberry
came into use as substitute for all
other material, and has continued in
use to the present day.
From this and from trees and shrubs
having tibrous bark the japanese man
ufacture, it is said, no less than two
hundred and sixty three kinds of pa
per, while they have several plants
from the roots or seed or sap of which
they extract a superior sizing for the
surface of the sheet. And now from
paper We are told that they make
pocket handkerchiefs, waterproof ov-
ercoats, pals, kettles, and even sauce.
pans, which are safely used over char.
coal fires. Of that we would call
writing paper they have an immense
public documents, some for letters,
some for notes, and four different kinds
to be used only for poetry and songs.
There are also kinds for umbrellas,
hats, lanterns, candlewick and dressing
dolls; and special kinds used only as
wrappings for the various styles of re-
ligious, social or civic gifts.
The species of mulberry first used
IN the seventh century is still regarded
as containing the bestfbre, ard is ex-
tensively cultivated, and from the pulp
of the bark, mixed with q paste from
the root of the Tovoro--a shrub re.
sembling the cotton plant-some of
the best paper is made. The paper that
can be washed is made with another
kind of paste, and the oil paper for
waterproof clothes from still another,
and the colors of the various kinds are
applied in powder mixed with bean
paste.
The Boston suits of paper clothing,
either from Japan or manufactured in
the japanese method, are advertised at
sixty-two and half cents suit What
will come next it is hard to tell. Some
one suggests that such suits be printed
with the latest intelligence from every
quarter of the globe, so that every man
may be his own newspaper, or with the
cheap literature of the day, so that he
that runs may read, or that the suits
be printed on both sides, so that they
can be turned the second day, and a
person thus wear a serial through the
week, "tO be continued" being stamped
on the coattail; while if on Sunday a
body would wear veyy good clothes,
they might be printed all over with
sermons or striking religious exhorta-
tions. But joking aside, who can
say that we are not just beginning to
understand the uses of paper !-Battj-
more dmericdR.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-01-09

says, looking out OF the window, a little
bit put ont, but so sweet, too, bless her
psetty face Az, it was the Lady Felicia
herself, as bonny as fairy
"Why, your ladyshipp says I. Well,
I'm pleased to see you. Bless you Eve
kept your hair for you, my dear, and Eve
done it all up in the most beautiful way.
Come in, my lord" says |.
"Oh. Pm not lord,O says he; I'm
only plain Jack Thompson of the Holt ;
and" SAYS he" Creecher, | owe her to
you, my boy"
"Why, how's that ?" says |.
Saws he" The Dock of Dovercourt
were wild to have her, and they say he'd
asked Lord Cromer, her father, the very
night she was burned but when he hear
she had lost her hair, and was likely to be
disfgured, he cried of, else they'd have
forced her into 1t; but then stepped in
and carried her away"
"Ay,n says he. "and much Joy / wish
you Colonel Thompson" says | and "hope
you will accept this hair as wedding
present"
"All right, Creecher," he says; but he
left bit of paper on my counter. 1t
was check for one hundred guineas.
So didn't lose the job after all And
the carriage comes for me every fortnight
to take me to the Holt 10 do the hair of
the young people there but they'll
overmaster me.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-01-09

/ Mad iust finished putting ny my shut
tess Il was getting rather late nearly
ten o'clock, for I'd had hard days
sork Of it and no wonder, for il was the
might Of the Lord lieutenaut's ball We
think o good deal Of the Lord Lieutenant
down in Yorkshire, aud when we get up
n hit in the world, and get asked to his
lordsmr's uail, we think good DIAL Of
oun"lyes and my word, some folks are a
los proud Yes; that very day had
dressed the Miss Milhkin's hair for the
hall. pretty carly, mind you, for wouldn't
pas amy ct my old customers out of the
Nay Tor amy II your upstart people, see
ng 80 I've dressed the hair Of all the first
hin'les Ia Lydiord, and my father before
mf, whereof uo man kuowcth to the con
rayy, as the lawyers say. Now, MilGkin
bas drawn many "a gill Of ale in the DAYS
vhru he KEEP, the up up at Ncwman',
Yard, and has borrowed many n sixpenct
OF me, too-nvi bur what he was welcome
ie them, as ! told his lordship when he
game o ask me for my vote for the town
council i isn't Milhkin aud such like a.
Td take til" trouble 10 tell story about
b vas past nine, rs I've told YOU, and
Was putting up Jhe shutters pretty fast
nos being a thing | often did myself: bu
ii 50 happened that night, and in anothe,
minute should have gone to the " Whit,
Horse" tomsei one or TWO good fellow
who were il the habit OF having glass o.
two together at night but as was screw
ing NJ the bar Of the shutters, what shout,
see drawing mp TO my door but splen
did carriage and two beautiful horses, al
Of lather with sweat Well, that pu
ne about biz, to think what a carriag
should be doing at my door at this time {
night. but | hadn't long TO wonder, for
grave, tail, solemn looking chap comes Il
W my door, and calls out:
as Creecher here ?"
@Thats me, says |.
pa. them SAYS he, jump ia point
Is With his finger to me TO get up tn
,,e,, ,ftha carriage, where there WAS
sniff feaEy aeilsg The door open 'ormct
tal,,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-01-09
THE BARNUM MUSEUM FIRE.

THE BARNUM MUSEUM FIRE.
InternationaIrsrs Suspected ofCausipg
the Confiagratfon-List of An;maIs
Lost.
When the fire in Barnum's Museum
was discovered, the men who slept in
the building threw open the doors of
the opening on Fourteenth street. and
two of the performing elephants.
Jeanette and Betsey, and camel walk
ed out. These were the only animals
that escaped. The remaining animals,
terror stricken by flames sweeping to-
ward their cages, the heat, and the
stlfilng smoke, dashed madly against
the iron bars that confined them, or
crouched in the corners of their
cages overcome with the fire.
The performing elephant Pedro,
magnificent specimen of his kind, who
arrived here only last week from Ham
burg, was securely fastened by chains
on his forefeet Unavailing efforts were
made to undo these, and the keepers
were obliged to. leave him to his fate.
His shrill trumpetings could be heard
for a considerable time after the ad-
vancing flames had driven away those
who had vainly endeavored to rescue
him. The following is list of the
animals burned One elephant, four
giraffes, seven camels and dromedaries,
two magnificent Abyssinian lions, the
only ones attached to a menagerie, two
white polar bears, two Bengal
tigers, one African leopard, one
African and one Asiatic yak, one gnu
(horned horse), one chacema, the larg-
est of the baboon tribe. The celebrat-
ed happy family, consisting of num-
Der of animals, among them raccoon,
rat, dog, cat and other small animals,
and a number of birds living together
in the same cage. A large collection
of apes, gorillas, monkeys, raccoons,
and other small animals. pelicans, os-
triches, and other rare birds, five large
anacondas and boa constructors. One
hundred and fifty persons are thrown
out of employment.
The loss by the destruction of Bar
NUNS Museum and adjacent buildings
is estimated at 100000 The heaviest
losers next to Barnum were Grote &
Co., who had large stock of ivory,
and whose loss exceeds their insurance
by $50, 600 The Academy of Music
was considerably scorched, and was in
great danger, together with the Lotus
Club building which joins it. Bar
NUNS Menagere has obtained the
Globe Theater, and promises to give
performance there by Thursday at the
farthest. All of the horses were
saved, but most of the performers lost
their wardrobes. Barnum will send
agents to Europe by Saturdays steam
er to purchase fresh curiosities, and
the work of rebuilding the Museum
will begin as soon as the place is cool
enough.
THE INTERNATloNALISTs SUSPECTED.
The fire is thought to have been the
work OF an incandiary, and the same
opinion is expressed about the other
fire tonight in Center street. The po-
lice have been ordered to exercise the
greatest possible vigilance, and there
are mysterious movements around
indicating unusual ex-
element. Rumors that the Information
alists set these fires are circulating, but
cannot be creditably traced.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-01-09
CHEER Up, and Stand Ey -

THIS advice, given by bluff Captain Cutie to the
tGrlorn Mr.. Ioots is cordially rendered to all who
are laboring under that cloud Of depression and
melancholy which usually accompanies chronic in
digestion, biliousness habitual constipation and
nervous debility. - Cheer up!" woe-begone in
yalids The causes Of your gloomy feelings though
they may be chronic and of long standing, are
not incurabc. course of Hosteter's Stomach
Bitters, the purest and most genial of all vegetable
stimulants and correctiyes, and especially adapted
to cases like yours, viii relieve you OF your bodily
ailments and consequent mental misery, speedily
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Of the present season. in fact, all its atmospheric
conditions, unfavorable to dyspeptic bilious and
nervous sufferers. They need stimulant as well
a. tonic and Alternative. This wholesome vegetable
preparation combines the three. While It Increases
the digestive capacity of the stomach and changes
and regulates the condition of the liver and the
bowels It gives an agreeable impulse to the mental
faculties and steadies the nerves. Unmedicated
shmutants are never advisable; they are too excit-
ing, ana often react d.sastrOusly. On the other
hand, the sham TONES which contain no difusiye
sinsuaut, and are surcharged with drastic ev2cu-
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Gus. HE system needs more vitality, ana they
PROSTATE It entirely. Hostetters Bters has no
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Aaa7 Is t-s - secret ai lts cures
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-01-09

Lone before daylight on winter
mornings the New York florists mes
sengers are dispatched for quantities
of roses, camelias, carnations, gerani-
ums, etc, necessary for the require
ments of the day. When orders are re-
ceived for weddings, funerals, or large
entertainments, or on days before the
balls at the Academy of Music, an ex-
ira supply is necessary, and demands
are made on Philadelphia and Boston.
Tea roses are largely imported from
the latter place.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-01-09
Affecting Scene in Death Chamber
From the Baltimore American, Dec. Il.

From the Baltimore American, Dec. II.
Last week very amiable young lady
of this city died after a long and lin
gerng illness, with that fatal disease
consumption She was in full posses
sion of her faculties, and conversed
with her relatives almost to The instant
when she peacefully fell asleep. She
was girl of over twenty years of age,
and had always borne an exemplary
character, and for her death had few
terrors. Some months ago an aunt to
whom she was greatly attached died,
and half a hour before this young girl
died she said to her weeping relatives
who Were around the bed: Aunt
Maggie was here few moments ago,
but she has gone. l want to go and be
at rest, but | can't leave until she re-
turns to go with me. | can't leave I'M
til she comes back for me.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-01-09
The DucheSSc d'AngouIeme Pear.

Fuller, in his Pear Culturist, relates
the following bit of romance in connec-
ton with the celebrated Duchesse
d'Angouleme pear; A French noble
man, observing his tenant about to de-
stroy fine, thrifty pear tree, inquired
the cause. He has told that it was
chance seeding, aud had borne no
fruit in twenty years. He had already
cut It's roots preparatory to the first
stroke, but was ordered to let it remain.
He did SO, and IN the following year it
was loaded with superb fruit of an en-
tirely unknown variety, which at once
became celebrated. The rootprunlng
the gardener had given it worked like
a charm. Not many years afterwards,
when the Duchesse d'Angouleme was
passing through Lyons, its inhabi-
tants sent to her their Inequalities.
Nine fair maidens presented the
Duchesse with golden salvers, on which
lay heaped this precious fruit, and
begged her to bestow on it her name.
and the pear, now recognized as the
browning glory of all fruits, was
thence forward known as the Duchesse
d'Angouleme.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-01-09

\ YOUNG lady writes to an exchange
giving a receipt for having fun. She
says invite half dozen boys and girls
to your house when vour pa and ma are
away put a half dollar silver piece in
dish with molasses an inch deep in
1t, and offer it to the boy who gets it
with, has mouth. The more the boy
trys e set 1t, tue more fun win there
be That girl surely deserves a di.
ploma
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-01-09
h cuckoo.
Ky c. 8 CALyERLEY.

~ Nf''h'"s
BY c. s CALvERLEY.
Forth / wandered years ago,
When the summer sun was low,
And the forest all aglow
With his light:
Twas a day Of cloudless SKIES
When the trout declines to rise,
And in vain the angler signs
For bite.
And the cHckoo piped away
How | love his simple lay,
Der the cowslip-hclds of May
AS it floats,
May was over, and of course
He wa s. a little hoarse,
And Q ,t red 10 me to force
Csrlain notes.
Since mid-April, men averred,
Peoples pulses, inly stirred
By the music Of the bird,
Had upleapt:
Il vas now the close of June
REFLECTED that he'd soon
Sing entirely out of tune,
And wept.
Looking up, | marked a maid
Float, balloon-like, DER the glade,
Casting evermore a staid
Glance around
And thrilled with sweet surprise
when she dropped, all virgin-wiso,
First q courtesy, then her eyes
To the ground.
Others eyes have p'raps to you
Seemed ethereally blue,
BIT you see you never knew
Kate Adair.
What a mien she had! Her hat,
With what dignity it sat
On the mystery, or mat,
or her HART
We were neighbors. | had dod7d
Cap aud hat to her 80 oft
That the latter had grown soft
Ia the brim
HAD gone ont Of my way
TO bid cen her sire good-day,
Though | wasn't, may say,
Fond of him =:
And we'd met, in streets aud shops,
But by rlil or may cop4c,
Where your speech abruptly stops
And you get
fncohcrent ere you know it
Where, though nothing Of poet,
You iutuitiycly go it,
Never yet
So my love had nG'cr been told
Till the day when forth | strollcd
And the jolly cuckoo trollrd
Out his song,
Nought had passed botwiXt us two
Save a bashful g" How dye do
And q blushing " How do yOu
Get along p
But that eve how swift it passed T.
Words that burned flew from me fast
EUl tae first time and the last
IN my life:
! l.......s. r,.-......I Ia, al,
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-12-09
Dze. Tom1IDson'5
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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-12-09

CHARLEsTowN LYcEUM.-The first pub.
lie meeting of the Charlestown; Lyceum took
place on last Saturday night, Tn the brick
school>house on Samuel street. President
Henry b. Davenport being absent, Vice Pres
ldent VIM. II. Kable presided. Thequestion
for discussion was ..Does the material pros,
perlty OF nation tend to destroy, its literary
TASTE" Mr.. B. G. Washington, who had been
appointed to maintain the affirmative, was ex-
cused from the debate by the Vice President,
presiding, and the Rev. VIM. H. Meade, who
had boon appointed on the same side of the
question with Mr.. Washington, was neces>
sarily absent. The Chair, therefore, appoints
ed Messrs. Wilson and Trundle to maintain
the affirmative in the places of Messrs. Meade
and Washington. The debate was then con-
Quoted by Messrs Trundle and Wilson in the
affirmative, and Messrs. Travers and Beck-
with in the negative. Upon the conclusion
of the discussion Mr.. Wilson, as Chairman of
the Committee upon questions, reported this
question for the next debate, .sHas the in
fuence of the Puritan been more beneficial
than that Of the Cavalier to Modern Eng
land" The question was adopted by the SO.
ciety, and DR.. J. v. Simmons and Blr. J. NJ.
Mason were appointed to maintain the afirma>
tive, and Messrs. Baylor and Brooke the neg
alive. The Society thereupon adjourned to
meet again on next Saturday night, at 7
o'clock, in the same place.
WM. II. KABLE, V. Pres.
O. ~ ~
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-12-09

NkT&rpoE rheumatism, neuralgia, lock Jaw I,
palsy ,sprains swellings caked breasts burns
salt-rheum ,sear-achc, SC, upon the human frame,
and of strains, SPAWN gals. &c. upon imals in
one year than have all other pretended remedies
since the world began. 1t 10 counter: irritant,
ail-healing pain reliever. Cripples throw away
their crutches, the lame walk. poisonous bites
rendered harmless and the wounded ARE healed
wit bout a scar. 1t ia hunbug. The recipe is
pu bished around each bottle. It is selling as no
article aver before sold and it sells because it does
just what it pretends to do. Those who now suffer
from rheumatism, pain swellin deserve suffer
if they will not Centaur Lib ;nlent. More than
1000 certificates of remarkable cures. including
frozen limbs, chronio rheumatism, govt, running
turnors. &C., have been received. We will send a
circular containing certificates. the recipe, SC >,
gratis, to any reques ting One hottie of the
yellow Wrapper Ceutaur Liniment is worth one
hundred dollars for spawned sweenied hor ses
and mules, or for screw worm in sheep. Stock
owners-thia lin imcnt is worth your attention. No
family should be without Cen teur Linimcn.. Sold
by all Druggists. so cents per bottle; large bottles
$l.OO. J. B. ROSE & Co., SO Broadway, Now
York.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-12-09
COUNTY lrEMs.-From the shepherdstown
Register Of Saturday We clip the following

COUNTY lrEMs.-Fromt the Shepherdstown
Register Of Saturday We clip the following
items
Pork sold in this town on Wednesday
at $3.50 per hundred.
= Samuel Agge, the scolored boy who at
tempted to murder Mrs. Kelly in Washington,
by shooting, some days ago, was arrested at
Harper's on Tuesday and taken back to that
city, by Detective Coomes.
The Lutheran Conference.-The Virginia
Lutheran Conference which was in session in
this place for several days, closed on Saturday
evening last, after very harmonious session.
DIVE learn that Mrs Levi Miller.
near Scrabble, from whom an ovarion tumor
was removed by DIR. Tanner and other ply
sicans, mentioned in our issue of week before
last, died on Thursday of last week.
Brooks Us. Lsicds.-In the case of Robert
A. Lucas, Executor, vs.. p. G. Brooks, in the
Supreme Court of the United States, at
Washington, the judgment of the District
Court for the District of West Virginia, in
favor of Dir. p. Q. Brooks, was confirmed.-
The property involved is an excellent farm
lying about 3 miles South of this town, on
the road leading to Duthelds, and upon which
DIR. Il. A. Lucas has resided for number of
years.
Playing tie Nisc1tec-Ws understand
that on Tuesday night of last week, some
Wholesale destruction was committed in the
churches at Unionville by some person or
persons. In the Lutheran Church the Bible.
lamp chimneys. curtain, &C., were carried
away aud destroyed. In the NJ. E. Church,
lamps and windows were broken and carried
away, and lamp ohimneys from the school
house. The parties then proceeded to Capt.
Joseph Hess clearing, and carried FROM the
cabin there a lot of bed clothing and chickens.
We hope the parties will be ferretted out and
dealt with to the extreme penalty of the law.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-12-09
ESTRAY COW.

(tAME to the residence of the undersigned,
~ some time during the month of August, a
SMALL RED COW. supposed to be about four
wears old. The owner Will please come forward,
prove property, paw charges and take her away.
December 2. 1S7S-St. L. L. WAGER.
"ANTED.-All indebted to do what they can
w towards furnishing money to repienish my
STOCK. will go below in a week ten days
Dec. ., 1875 w s. MASON
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NOTICE.

A Ii persons knov wing themselves to be indebted
"A TO the late firm OF Hilleary. Wilson x John
Son. are requested TO make immediate settlement,
az the business OF the firm be cIosed. All per-
sons having claims gaihst them requested to
present them settlement Either OF the late firm
JNo. J. HILLARY.
w. NC. WILSON,
.- - H A. JOHNSON.