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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-02-19
About Thumbs.

WE suppose that all our readers know
that man would not be what he is with
out the thumb This little fact has been
so impressed upon US from our school
DAYS that we are not likely to forget it.
Without the thumb for lever, we would
be unable to hold anything tightly, and
most of the inventions of our era would
be useless, not to speak of the enormous
general power that would be lost Let us
accent the fact of having thumbs, then,
and be thankful and rejoice over our Oar
winian friends. the apes We did not
know, however, until we saw it in print
YESTERDAY, that the thumb represented in
diligence and affection. Born idiots fire.
ducntly come into the world without
thumbs Infants, until they arrive at an
arc when intellect dawns, constantly keep
their fingers folded above their thumbs,
but they soon know better, and, as the
mind develops, recognize the dignity and
usefulness of the despised digit. At the
approach Of death the thumbs OF the dy.
ing, as if impelled by some vague fear
seek refuge under the fingers, and when
thus found are an almost certain an
nouncement of the end So, in leaving
this world, it would seem that our hands
In their last desire for movement assume,
with our growing unconsclousness, the
same suggestive position IN which the
hands of the newborn babe, with iacul-
ties all dormant, first shape themselves.
Small thumbs denote an atteCtlonate dis
position. loAg thumbs 90 with long
heads; short, thick, stumpy thumbs mark
cruel man. and much more Is told US Of
the same kind-Baltimore Gazstts.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-02-19
WIEN YOU MARRY.

When yea get married don't marry pet,
4 jilt, or a vixen, nor yet u coquette,
But marry q maid-that is if You can
Mere iii for the wife Of a sensible man.
Look out for girl that is healthy and young,
Win more in her eye than you hear from her
tongue.
And though she's freckled and burnt to Il tan.
Yet she is the girl for sensible man.
With riches win wretchedness often in life
so linked when your riches are got with wife;
But marry ana make all the riches you can,
Like bold, independent and sensible man.
Look out for girl who is sensible and kind,
And modest. and silent, and tell her your mind;
u she's wise and bewitching, she'll welcome the
plan,
And soon be the wife of sensible man.
Then cherish her excellence wisely and kind,
And be to small fobes indulgent and blind;
For so you make happy if anything can,
The wife of a sober and sensible man.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-02-19

"A kansas gentleman has thought
fully put his front gate in the parlor, so
that his daughter and her young man can
swing on it without taking cold during
the cold weather This is humane spg-
gestion to all fathers. A front gate in the
parlor may save good many dollars that
would otherwise be paid out for soothing
sirups and cough balsam.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-02-19

"A man went into butcher shop, and
finding The owners wife in attendance, in
the absence Of her husband thought he
would have a joke at her expense, and
said: Madame can you supply me with
% yard Of pork ?" Eyes, sir" said she.
And then, turning TO boy, she added
james, give that gentleman three pigs
feet"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-02-19

Said pompous husband, whose wife
had stolen up behind and given him a
kiss Madame, | consider such an act
indecorous.n Excuse me-" said the wife,
II didn't know it was YOU"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-02-19

Sir'd--Ours being q peculiarly d farmers
We cannot admit all - our ranks.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-02-21

1t is difficult to say whether the
grand annual tomfoolery given at New
Orleans, entitled the Mardi Gras Car
nival, is a symptom Of constitutional
or merely temporary alteration Of
mind. The American people in gen.
eral are of grave and solemn rather
than of rolicking and Frenchified
character, and it is question whether
this meaningless adaptation of a silly
foreign custom does not resemble the
funeral drunkenness of professional
mute. The Southern people are moth
ing if not imaginative and chivalric.
That is to say, they cling to variety
Of customs which were more honored
in the breach than the observance.
even in the ages to whose want of gen.
eral knowledge and education they
were a. necsssity. First, we have the
duello, once the. joy of addle-pated
men Of family, with nothing to do,
now entirely abolished in England
and all sensible countries. Next
comes the tournament, where num-
Der of young gentlemen, arrayed in
toilets prepared by loving female rela-
JIVeS, UCStFluc uOIllc. uIhu6 SU6cuS, anu
rush frantically with long toothpick
at brass ring. Having executed this
dangerous feat to the admiration of
themselves and their Dulcinea del
Tobbsos, the valoreus kniehtsadvance
to a platform, where Miss Fita- Smith,
or De Jones, as the case may be, is
crowned queen Of love and beauty,
and the champiOns who have axeeu-
ted what every cavalry rough-rider
considers the work of a mere novice,
hatter themselves into the belief that
they are q sort of cross between
Ivanhee and an attenuated represent
tation of Front de Boeuf. But the
browning glory of Southern chivalry is
this carnival, and with the assistance
Of a sol DISTANT king and a mystic
crew, everybody turns somersault
fancies himself 8, 600 years of age, and
for the time being, it is to be fervently
hoped, is happy.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-02-21

The celebrated African traveller,
DIR. Livingstone, is again reported
dead. Like the Democratic party, he
has died SO often, and yet escaped
burial, that we deem it unsafe to write
his obituary until We hear from the
man who dug his grave, and, who is
willing to swear that the original
Livingstone-the one captured by
Stanley-tl,e erratic explorer, who
preferred the low marshes Eof Africa
to the high living of England, has in
deed passed away forever. 1t is quite
possible the story is true, butin. view
Of the fact that this identical explorer
has been torn to pieces by lions, killed
dozen times by treacherous savages,
and several times drowned in the
headwaters of the Nile, we can well
afford to wait for the confirmation of
this latest report regarding his fate
The Republic. =
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-02-21

A special to the Journal from Ha-
zleton. Gibson County, Ind. says that
last Saturday the ladies of that place
organized for a movement on the
liquor dealers, and to-day they visited
the saloon keepers and drug stores in
body, held services, and, besought
liquor dealers to give up the traffic.
One Of the saloon keepers acknowl-
edged that his business was not az
holy as it might be, but he has thus
far resisted all entreaties., The work
will be continued tomorrow, the la
dies being determined to- carry their
point. a ~:
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-02-21

It will never do to underestimate.
the strength Of an enemy, in order to
conquer; much better tobe always on
the alert and prepared for the worst,
and take lessons from their vigilance,
aud adopt their oounsels whenever
they are found to be right counsels.
We commend the following advice to
Democrats, by the "Vincennes Sun,'''
to our Republican friends of 1"QM
Wayne" >EslIf--: ig2 gass
Commence at once to make active
and determined preparation for q bold
and hard contested tight. Now is the
time to form plans. Now is the time
to effect local Organisations Now is
the time to look around for the best
men to fill County, Congressional and
State offices. All personal prejudice
and neighborhood combinatie . 8
should yield to . higher and better
principle-that of love Of country and
devotion to the only party that prom
Uses relief and prosperity to the coun-
try" -, = s1ii.'. .S'.t
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-02-21
The Indianapolis Exposition is to

The Indianapolis Exposition 10 to
begin Sept. z, and continue thirty
days. The managers have decided
to issue no complimentary tickets.
That is right. and will be heartily
endorsed by the newspaperimen Of
the State, The practice of giving
complimentaries, especially to ed
itors, is q bad one, and We hope TO
see it entirely abandoned soon.
Let every eooeity, organization,
company, individual pay ~ thOy
go.-Connersmlle Times. a3lft5
We like that move, and say Amen!
heartily to the suggestion of the
Times. s,,f
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-02-21

If it is the fact ~ slleged, the
Winchester Journal justly com
PLANES of postmasters, within Ran.
dolph county, for f,,rnisling lists OF
the Journal, coming 70 their Offices,
to oatside partisa Sueh conduct
is not emily . violatioa Of their du,
ties as officers, but no honorable
man would suffer himself f., Be
thus used. aS.f a6a1 y,tna...ac
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-02-21

Speaking Of strikes" the Morgan
County Republican proclaims the fol-
lowing true Gospel: N VII fia~4,.f
1--WE believe in cooperation and in
union among laborers, but We are ut
terly opposed to strikes. They are
wrong in principle and mischievots in
practice, and never fail 10 injufe all
parties concerned in them, and often
seriously affect the public generally.
They have an inevitable tendency to
array capital against labor, when the
interest of both is best served BY har-
mony and pleasant relations. Like
war strikes should be the last resort.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-02-21

Private Dalzell, volunteers the fol-
lowing advice to the women Of Ohio,
and to their sisters throughout our
liquor land, who engage in the
Prayer Crusade: & ~" t'''s
But one danger lies in your path.
That is the charlaltry Of hypocrites,
who will try to coin your .pioas labor
into HUNET,U or Cuuui193y mnnfpu1ate
them into voTBs. 6hun all such.
You need no help hRt, such is the
Lord Almighty win send yon. without
money and without price. q on charge
nothing for your prayers. The thought
is blasphemous. Whoever asks you
for money is a hypoeFite and . scoun-
drel. Shun all SUCH" af.sjt
In Ohio it is believed that this has
dim, but not yet entirely indistinct,
reference to DR.. Dio Lewis, s,,ags.
We take the above from the Indi-
annapolis Journal, and injusticeto DR..
Lewis, who has been the means of ac-
complishing SO much good, We would
say that, Notwithstanding he charges
fifty dollars for going to q place and
lecturing, he oftentimes has to pay
for the use of halls out of his own
pocket, and, together with his neces.
sary expenses, if he comes ont even
he is content. Pectniarily, We learn
that the Doctors outlsys have been
more than his income from this
source; but he considers himself well
paid" in being the humble instrument
in the hands of the Almighty in doing
what he can to dry up the sinks nnd
fountains of iniquity. tract s2
For the encouragement Of the NO.
men, Dalzell says:
"All the angels win quit their loft,
thrones in glory, and join you In youl
pious crusade against rum"
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-02-21

The woman's war on liquor saloons,
is still prosecuted with increasing vi
gor. In Ohio, we see it stated, as q
fixed fact, that cover 1900 saloons
have been closed and tho number fast
increasing" This i glorious news,
and every well-wisher Of humanity
will bid them God speed, and shout,
ut the top of their voices, Pray on,
Sistersr' ga3 sl.S leeFaqb
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-02-21
Senator Cameron has taken up

Senator Cameron has taken up
with the common sense PROPOSE
ton, that if the financial legislation
of Congress is to go no further
than to amend the national bank
ing system, the best thing to do
would be to make itabsolutely free,
under the existing restrictions, to
whomsoever can command the
REQUISITE security. Senator Morton,
it is reported, will support the
proposition of Mr.. Cameron.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-02-21

When q business man finds his
expenses over running his receipts
he invariably retrenches; makes
less show; spends less money in
his household, instead of borrow
ing to meet the deficiencies. If he
doesn't do this, he is nota business
man, but a fool. Mr.. Dawes is
right in laying out such q policy
for the government. If its expens
es in time of peace, after having
had time to gather up the loose
items of war recklessness, exceed
its income, its first and only duty
is q reform in the expense depart
mcnt until the balance sheet is
healthy. Not to do this, is for leg
islators to act the fool. In fact, as
they are custodians of other PEG
pies money, to fail in this necessa-
ry economy is worse than folly-it
is knavery. Let Congress cut
down the appropriations, and then
cut down the official brigade, until
there will be no occasion for o de
ficiency bill next year.-Ind. Jour
nal.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-02-21

EEEH
If Spain would secure lasting
peace she must do justice to the
downtrodden, and remove the yoke
of tyranny which has CALLED the
Cubans for more than two genera
lions. She must place the native
and the Spaniard on an equality
before the law, and give 10 the Gu
ban the same right to rule as the
Spaniard. She must break down
those social and political barriers
which have created a system OF caste
almost as strong a. the one exist
ing between master and slave; In o
word, she must show to the world
that her sway over the island is
not alone for the purpose of enrich
ing the Spaniard at the cost of the
native, but, is just and liberal
enough to comprehend the wants
of all; respecting their rights and
protecting the humblest native
from the rapaoity of those adyen-
tuners who, in the name. of Spain.
have been enriching themselves by
apolitical systsin Of plumber which
has impoverished the native and
driven him into armed resistance.
Unless Spain is willing to accord
Justice to the Cubans no substan-
tial peace can be SECURED If Spain
desires TO establish peace in Cuba
and to win the sympathies Of the
world she must change her treat
ment of the Cubans- She must
listen to the voice of humanity and
put a stop to the cruelties practiced
in the name of loyalty. If the late
proclamations are to be followed by
q fresh series of barbarious acts, it
will be serious question for the
country to answer whether the in
terests Of civilization do not require
our active interference in behalf OF
the patriot causc.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-02-21
There is . proposition o. foot 70
keep the Congressional Library open
ON Sundays. Coed. .i..s J. 5 4.I-aas
An average Of seventy car loads Of
ice is shipped daily ron Aeporte to
the South.

Chief Justices Chase 4sada Tsney,
are to be perpetuated BY busss- both
Houses Of Congress have passed : bill
for that purpose they are 20 cost
about $1,000 each. A stataefof Gent
Baker, who fell at Balls Bluff, has
also been ordered BY Congress- that
is to cost $40, 900. = e...t, IS,
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-02-21

While the opposition papers are
chuckling over the supposed perplexi-
ties of the President, it may not be
amiss to recall Frank Blair opinion
Of him: 40 go. ..Ssel i', ~
Nobody seems to understand him.
Even his friends do not give him cred
it for the power he undoubtedly pos.
scsses. No man is, considered. able,
nowadays, unless he can write leader
or make SPEECH, and Grant can do
neither. Yet it seems to me that
man who won so many battles, and
that too, when others had failed mis-
erably, might be credited with some
he has succeeded where weak men
would have failed He did not
strengthen his administration at, the
start by drawing around him the
ahlest men in the party which elected
him. He did as jackson before him,
selecting unknown 1nen;I but they
might. be good men for all that. Few
Presidents could have afforded to
quarrel with such leaders as Trumbull,
Sumner and Schurz. Each of these
had strong faction at his back, re-
presented q certain portion of the
party strength, and yet Grant was re-
elected as easily as if these men had
never been cast aside, though the de-
fections of the three would hayo ruin
ed the prospects Of an ordinary man. y
The Petty Feeling Of Jeasousy
Which still bars the way Of women to
professional eminence in Europe and
America does not exist at the anti
podes. The University, of Melbourne
has opened its degrees to the gentler
sex. At a meeting of the Acadcmi-
cal Senate it was agreed that the re-
gulations permitted women to attend
lectures and to pass the examinations.
It was also resolved that 1.-THE Coun-
Gil should grant to such females as
have attained proficiency equal to that
attained by Bachelors of Arts and
Masters Of Arts certificates thereof,
and also to throw open to them the
pecuniary prizes of the University"
AT the last matriculation examination
two young ladies were, the only can
didates who passed with credit.
This example of colonial liberality
might we'll shame the mother country
In England female aspirants to diplO-
mas, first classics, and senior wran-
glerships are still kept out Of the quiei
cloisters and Gothic halls Of Oxford
and Cambridge. But breech in the
Chinese wall of antique prejudice and
learned cxclusiveness is gradually be
ing made. Every year the assaults on
the stingy old preserves Of masculine
scholarships arc becoming fiereer, and
the time is not far distant when the
princely revenues at present employed
to keep drowsy beadles in dimly light
ed corridors, and to decorate the
| ghosts Of medieval funtionaries fol
an annual puppet show, shall be de
voted to the training of the feminine
mind. When the skirts of s.'sweet
graduates" with golden land other
hair, brush tho silk gowns Of the mo
rose dOns, the streets of the shady ole
towns on the Cam will. no. longer be
| given up to the contemplation of ,celi
| bate monks. - WI 'tsfe :,
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-02-21

Mr.. Bugbee, Of South Bend, has
invented a steam canalboat, with
which he expects to scoop" the $780,
600 offered by the Canal Commission
ers of the State of New York for such
an invention.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-02-21

In Congress. the first Of this week,
Mr.. Shanks defendsd the memory Of
Captain Jack and his iModocs, and
stated it as a fact that when General
Candy was holding hist conference
with Captain jack H. imilitny lines
were being closed aruhnd the Modocs.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-02-21

Mrs. Woodhull's husband, who
bears the sanguinary appellation of
Colonel Blood, visited the Office of
the st. Paul Press the other morn
ing to destroy the ruthless editor
who ventured to remark that Veto
ria was ''nasty. blasphemous, and
foul mouthed slanderer.' Luckily,
Colonel Blood did not find the
editor in, but we imagine he re.
turned soon afterward, for we find
in the next days Press repetition
of the offensive words, and mild
conviction expressed that
"There are women in st. Paul,
leading dishonored lives and under
the ban of law and society, who
would feel rs if adding inimeasur-
ably to their shame by resorting to
such q malicious, mercenary, and
filthy rut of defamation and indis-
criminate scandal as is found and
followed as q money making high
way by this rowing brood of foul
birds who glut themselves on car
rion and fatten on it,
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-02-21
The temperance war still goes on

The temperance war still goes on
with vigor in London, Lancaster,
New Vienna, Washington G. H.,
Athens, Riply-in short, there is a
lively fire all along the line, which
is rapidly extending. III Dayton,
Springfield, Chillicothe, and other
pieces, the forces are getting ready
for the battle, and Major General
Dio Lewis is expected soon at The
front. Van Pelt, of New Vienna,
has at last grounded arms, destroy
ed his whisky, and had a collection
Of $50 taken up for his benefit.
To be CHILLED "the wickedest man
| in Ohio was too much. On whom
win the old mantle fall next7
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-02-21

The report of the City Treasurer,
of Omaha, Nebraska, shows a total
city indebtedness of S2SS,695 80,
and assets, 1856, 401 Is.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-02-21

The State Grmge Of Ohio, met
at Xenia on thef17th. SIS dele
gates, all masters Of granses were
present. There are 600 granges
in the State $50 have been organ
lied in the State since April last 4
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-02-21

An Old Maine Liquor LaW-l0oo.
July Is, 1690s InRth Court Of Res-
siQns of Re Vice for the Pr [ncc
MayIH he sat York. 9elere
ajor John NkEis, Deputy i-
dent;C aptain fancis Hook Nl or
&Ghaf3es Nrost 3ohn Winco4, a.
tees. -
WHEREAS, There is great complaint
made Of several abuses taken notice OF
in Ordinarys by excessive drinking Of
Rum, Flyp, &C., The I'll consequences
whereof is publiekly seen in the mis-
behaviour of several persons in the
. presence VI authbritS FIR ftd pyeent-
ing the like for the future, it is, there
FORE as,sss
Ordered, That, from .henceforth
there shall not be any Rum, or other
strong Liquors OF Flyp, be sold unto
any Inhabitant Of the town or in any
Ordinary keeper sell unto any stran-
ger more. than one gill fora person at
one time. And all civil officers, es-
pecially select men and Constables in
the respective towns in this Province,
are required to take especial care. by
inspecting any suspicious blouse or
Houses where any such abuses or
profancness may be added and in case
any Ordinary keeper shall presume to
Transgress this order he shall imme
diately forfeit his License. bus .Gai
If they have been endeavOring to
prohibit the sale of liquor since 1850
two hundred and seventeen years-
with SO little effect, is it not about
time to try some other method 2d s,p1,
The New York Tribune is respon-
sible for the following Sontk Carolina
story: A jury, composed ~ 4selve
colOred citizens, came into opurt after
a case of grand larceny had been sub
mitted to them. Having been asked
two or three times if they had agreed
upon a verdict, they responded ssNo
BILL" which they finally altered to
None guilty" 1t was then discoy-
cred that. not one of the jury gould
read and write, whereupon the Judge
discharged them on. the ground that
they We're incompetent. The mem
hers of the jury and their friends took
offense at this ruling, and took the
case to the Legislature upon petition
for the Judges impeachment The
committee charged to inquire into the
facts simply submitted them, ''leav-
ing the House to judge of their impor-
lance and legality but the chairman
of the committee said he wanted the
Judge to understand that he was elec
: ted by colored. people mainly, who
were themselves elected by thoselyery
colored men,whom he had pronounced
case is still pending in the Legisla-