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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-02-11
Grecian Brlgandage.

Writing of brigandage in Greece the
Cincinnati Gazette says
The main object of brigandage is
financial one The robbers are in want
of money and the best way for them to
turn an honest penny is to steal it.
When they capture travellers they help
themselves to watches, money and jew
els and anything else that may be Of
value. But the end is not yet. They
take the captives into the mountains and
hold them for something more, and they
are careful to squeeze out as much as
possible. If the victim is q wealthy
nobleman or some other purse-prOud
aristocrat they think it will be worth
about 10000 to release him, but if he is
some ordinary mortal with no influential
friends in Athens a hundred or two
hundred pounds will be sufficient. The
foreign residents and travellers who hap
pen to be in Greek or Italian city
when ransom is demanded for some I'm.
happy wretch are frequently compelled
to raise money to meet the demand.
There is great deal of complaint at
this and much of it is we'll founded.
"Why should l." said gentleman to me
In Naples, "be compelled to pay some
thing every little while to get one of my
countrymen out of the hands of the brig
ands? / wouldn't venture where the
scoundrels could catch me, and l
wouldn't allow any of my friends to do
so i'll could prevent it. But along comes
some reckless fellow l never saw, goes
into danger and is captured. Then am
appealed to on the ground of humanity
and all that sort of thing, and asked TO
help release him. 1t is his own fault If
he is captured. If he had stayed away
as do, he would have been safe and not
compelled to appeal to strangers. If
man meets with an accident am willing
to help him; but think it hard to De
asked to contribute for man who has
deliberately and with his eyes open
walked INTO trouble"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-02-11
Tale Of "A Sack.

The London Graphic says: Monte
Christo's escape from the sack in which
he was flung into the sea from the Chat
eau off has been initiated by an ingen-
ious Persian Having incurred the dis
pleasure of high functionary at Shiraz,
Mohammel Mira was condemned to- be
fastened up in sack with wiper, cock
and a cat, and after an hours time,when
this happy family had improved their ac-
quaintance, the sack and its contents
were to be thrown into the river. For
tunately for Mohammed Mira, his exc
Cutioners forgot TO search his pockets,
which contained small knife. Directly
the mouth of the sack was closed upon
him and his companions he cut in half
the viper, which was already encirciing
his leg; the cock and the cat were next
dispatched, and our Persian occupied
the remainder of his hour by stimulating
violent fight of the three animals, and
giving forth the most excruciating cries
of agony. In due time sack and all
were consigned to the water, and then
Mohammed Mira, speedily freeing HIM
self from the prison, gained the other
side of the river, and came post haste 10
Europe, for the future a voluntary exile
from his fatherland."
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-02-11
Wanted to Copyright a Dog.

A rather intelligent-looking man came
into the United States Clerks Office yes
terday and stated that he desired to take
out copyright. Mr.. Tom Ambrose ex,
planned that, by the change in the law OF
1870, his application must be made direct
ly to Washington. He said he had
table performance he wanted to get
copyrighted, and inquired how !,
should be done. Capt Ambrose told
him he would have to send three copies
of the work to the department at Wash
ington. "Of which, the table or the
dog?' asked the man. What do you
want copyrighted?n inquired Ambrose.
" Why, a performance on a table oy
dog | might send three tables on. pus
you see | have. but one dog. The niue
feliar acts the cutest you ever seed, anu
there's money il it for me if can only
get a copyright on it so other folks can
learn their dogs to do the same tricks.
How'll it do, Mister" Capt. Ambrose
assured him that he had no rem
edy except to MAXI his dogs acting
so superior TO others that they woulu
not be Unreasonable by dogs of inferior
talent; just the same copyright WHICH
artists enjoy.-Cincianati Enquirer.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-02-11
Amateur Nursing Of the Sick.

In discussion on domestic topics a
writer in the Saturday Rspte,o has this to
say concerning amateur nursing:
THE tact required for sick-room
differs from all other kinds of experience.
Amateur nurses seldom possess it. Now
and then a lady is to the manner born
and without instruction or previous eX-
perience blossoms into full-grown
nurse at moments notice. The doctor
who finds one ready in a house rejoices
heartily. His own credit as well AS the
recovery of his patient is probably as
sured. Seldom, however, has he this
good fortune. His ordinary experience
is very different. If he wishes the sick
room kept at IA certain temperature he
cannot have it managed. The fire is al
ternately half extinct and blazing up the
chimney There is no care to have it
warm at sunrise and sunset, and moder-
ate when the sun is shining and the air
warm. The invalid is awakened from a
priceless sleep BY hearing the cinders
fall on the unprotected fender or by the
noise of a clumsy hand putting on Goals,
which might easily have been wrapped
in pieces of damp paper aud left ready
for noiseless use. The morning meal is
perhaps delayed until the patient has
passed from appetite to faintness Per
haps, when it comes, the tea is smoked
Household troubles are freely discussed
in the room. Mary has given warning
because there is so much more going up
and down stairs since missus was i'll the
cook is so eStravagant, and yesterdays
dinner was spoilt; Johnny has cut his
finger, and Lucy has tumbled down stairs;
such things are told as if they would
amuse the invalid. But worse than this
is >. the mysterious whispering at
the door and the secrets obviously
kept to excite the nervous patients
suspicious The irritating creak of dry
boot, the shuffiing of loose slipper. try
sick persons patience unreasonable;
and the amateur nurse argues against
such silly fancies, and thinks they are
matters in which reasoning can be of any
avail The unframed nurse never COM
mences her arrangements for the night
until the patient is just beginning to
grow a little sleepy, She then arranges
the pillows, moves the chairs, stirs the
fire, and perhaps makes up her own bed.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-02-11
Ladies' Shoes.

THE shoes worn by ladies a. present
are far more sensible than those lately in
fashion. The design now is to give SYM
metrical shape and ease to the foot rather
than to cramp it into unnatural smallness.
For this purpose the best shoemakers
now use French lasts made precisely to
the shape of the foot, outlining the taper
of the foot on top, and giving ample
width of sole. Shoes made in this way
do not cramp the toes, or bind the in.
step, or force out the tender joints to
form bunions, as the narrow shoes Of the
past few years have done. Another SEN
sible feature of the present style is the
low, broad heel, which gives the foot a
natural, easy and healthful position, very
different from that suffered when the
high, narrow French heels were in vogue.
Experienced shoemakers ALSO commend
what is called the English Channel
groove in the sole of the shoe that car
ries the stitch connecting the sole and
upper, and prevents the edge from be.
coming rough and ragged Buttoned
boots of French kid are the handsomest
shoes for semidress, house and carriage
wear. For the same purposes there are
also buttoned boots of fine serge foXed
with French and Curacao kid. Heavy
walking shoes with double soles are
made OF pebble goat. of Curacao kid. of
straight. grain, and also the French mat
kid, Sde-laced CATERS are said to be
coming into favor again, as they give u
perfect lit and are easily adjusted to the
foot when il swels with fatigue or over
eXertion; both serge and morocco are
used for these gaiters.-Harper's Bdsar.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-02-11


They are having q mad dog excitement In
Necnah, and the Sentinel says no citizen vent
ures out without q pair Of stills under him.
Anew days ago IN Oshkosh man named
Clark was discovered lying on the floor of the
shanty where he lived alone SO badly frozen
that he died In a few hours. His head was
frozen fast to the floor, and both hands and
arms frozen to the elbow. He was lying
within four feet Of the door and 1t is supposed
that he arose to build a fire, became over
come with the cold, fell to the floor, and being
too feeble to help himself persisted as above
stated. He was eighty years old.
The stave-mill Of Bronson 4 Waldo, at
Winneconne, was burned the other night.
Loss 5000.
Wood County.
During the recent cold Saturday, in the
evening, party Of laborers started from Dex.
teryille for Grand Rapids with hand.car, to
bring back John Kemmitz, who had gone
there to procure medicine for sick wife.
Upon their return Kemmitz was compelled to
abandon the car, and found shelter in house
near by One Of the party named Jack Gar
rity, alias Calforny," rolled off the car and
fell asleep beside the track. The others aban-
doned the car, built fire in a hut near by and
spent the night. Clarity was so badly frozen
that the amputation OF both his hands and
feet became necessary
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-02-11

A sCHooLMAsTER thus describes
money-lender: He serves you m lnI
present tense, he lends in the conditiohas,
mood, keeps you in the subjective anO
ruins you in the future tense"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-02-11

THE production of lace occupies eio,
600 women in the departments of Calvs-
dos and Auvergne, France.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-07-24

A GHOST, OR WHAT ?--For the past
four or five nights the men working at
the New Caledonia shaft have seen.a fe-
male figure in and around the works,
from l O. clock till 3 O'Clock in the morn
ing Several of the men made attempts
to get near enough to talk to and dis
cover who she was. but could not succeed
in doing so. One man in going home
about 3 O'Clock in the morning, two or
three days ago. passed her at the powder
magazine. a short distance away from the
mine. and was followed by the figure un-
til he came to the old works of the Gale
donia, when it suddenly vanished from
his sight. He is firmly persuaded that
no live woman could have kept as close
to him. at the rate he was going. as the
figure did. 1t will be remembered that a
man met with. a violent death at the shaft
some time ago, and this fact, together
with what is stated above, leads some of
the men to the conclusion that the figure
is not that of material woman. Some
people may scoff at the idea of spirits re-
visiting the earth, but it would be hard to
convince the men at the mine that il was
a live woman who made the unseason-
able visits referred to.-Gold Hill Ne,cs
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-07-24

IMAGE SMASHING. Every day some
cherished idol of our earthly youth gets
everlastingly smashed up in railroad
train of new discoveries. We have be-
lieved for years that Capt. Miles Standish
piloted few friends over in the May
fowerand invented Plymouth rock. Now,
we are told that a previous party, known
rs Bartholomew Gosnold, made the trip
eighteen years before, in small bark, and
went arhore somewhere in Massachusetts
bay, and that he got up the first clam
bake. We always thought until recently
that Sir Walter Raleigh landed on Roam
oke Island. No such thing. He was
never in Virginia at all. He always had
the credit of introducing tobacco into
England. and there is little crossroads
tavern-The Raleigh's Head-in Somer-
setshire. at which the landlord, will swear
to you on a stack Of bibles that in that
very house. the weed was first illurni-
mated. Nearly all Of it is wrong A
Capt. Lane carried tobacco to England
first in 1886, and it was called Uppo-
moe
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-07-24
THE BLACK CROOK.

The New York Sun Of the 1st instant
says On petition of Washington Barras
of Beverly, N. j., an accounting was yes-
terday filed in the Surrogate s office. by
Hiram Barras, administrator on the estate
of Charles M. Barras. The deceased actor.
who, a few years ago gave new aud
startling impulse to the spectacular
drama by writing and introducing to the
public the illusions and realities of the
Black Crook, met a violent death Just
two years and three months ago. It is
said that the railway train which was car
rying him to the lady he loved stopped
only at the next station beyond the vii
lage in Connecticut in which she lived.
AS the cars were swiftly passing the resi-
dence of his betrothed, he forgot. danger.
aid thinking only of her and happiness,
leaped from the steps, and his lifeless
body was picked up from the foot of a
clay embankment.
The unromantic part of it, like the dis
robing of the illusioned dancers and their
return to old clothes when the play was
over, is that the papa of the young lady
put in claim of $3,500 against the es-
tate for services on the occasion.
AO oCtOL . Obiy ACAt VI NIL WcIG HIS
four elder brothers, John. Alfred. Hiram
and Washington, who lived in New Jer-
sey, Pennsylvania and California, un-
couth, and except the San Franciscan,
illiterate men, between whom and the
dramatlst there was no mutual tastes nor
intellectual sympathy. They all hasten
ed on here as claimants to the estate of
the brother whom they had seldom seen !;
and as the matter of administration was
for some time before Surrogate Hutch
ings, their faces became familiar in the
Surrogate's quiet Courtroom. Their
identity having been fully established,
letters of administration were granted to
Hiram, tire San Franciscan, the 14th OF
August, nearly two years ago. Washing
ton Barras, impatient of delay in the
settling of the estate, after much urging
and stimulating of the administrator, APP
piled to Surrogate Hutchings three or
four months ago, and the result was the
full account and inventory now before the
Surrogate. The author left more than
S43, 900 of personal estate; royalties
from the performances of the . Black
Crook " since his death have added
8,225 more, making the estate amount to
nearly $4,000. Debts, not collected,
fees, and mutitudinous other expendi-
lures deducted, leave $37, ,671 to be dis
tributed.
The 'tBlack Crook" as property. fell
equally to the four brothers. and was
traded among them until Alfred owns
three-fourths of it and Washington the
other fourth. John sold his interest to
the administrator, Hiram, for 81 ,0G0, and
Alfred bought the half then owned by
Hiram for $1,000.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-07-24

FRANCE AT THE CENTENNIAL.-We are
pleased to observe that the French Gov
ernment enters heartily into the Centen-
nial scheme, and is doing all in its power
to encourage O full attendance from that
country at Philadelphia next year. We
hope this interest will be thoroughly ap-
preciated and generally recognized in
our own country. Whatever may have
been the follies and the faults of France,
the American people owe her debt they
can never pay. She was our friend when
we needed friends, and when friendship
for US cost more than it ever has since
It is not too much to say that France
gave US the independence whose birthday
we are about to celebrate. Without her
timely aid we might indeed have ulti-
mately succeeded in breaking the chains
which bound US to England. but our re-
lease could not have come when it did
and as it did, The revolution of 1776
would probably have dwindled into a
mere rebellion. and many weary and
wretched years might have passed before
that failure was compensated by final
triumph.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-07-24
RUFPIA1sM RAMPANT. IN ENGLAND.

b Is. there really tendency to increasing
brutality among the lower classes in Eng
land /? This is a question which is just
now exciting unpleasant interest here.
II is notorious that in the northern and
middle counties wife-kicking, with heavy,
iron-plated boots, and ruffianly assaults
of ali kinds, have reached such point
that the Government has thought it me-
cessary to bring in a bill to apply the
whip to offenders Of this class. More
over, the Juvenile population of the
country has lately been seized with a
mania for discharging weapon called
catapult, which, it seems, is a sort of
india-rubber sling loaded with stones, at
persons in the streets or travelling by
railway. A few weeks ago the window
of carriage in which the Prince OF Wales
children were going down to Windsor
was smashed in this way, and other cases
are almost daily reported. People In
passing trains have apparently taken to
peppering each other, and the day before
Yesterday young man had his face bad
ly cut open by a large crab-shell, launch
ed at him from another train. Then,
again cock-fighting, which everybody
thought had died out. appears to be regu
larly practiced, in defiance of the police,
in various parts of Lancashire and else
where. 1t is evident that large stock
of game-cocks are kept ready for sport,
and the matches are attended by large
numbers of people. Admiral Rous, the
President of the Jockey Club, and an
enthusiast for all kinds of sport. has come
forward as the champion of cock-fght-
ing. He confesses that /" if cock-fight-
ing, which was once grand sport of the
mobiles of this kingdom, be now sin, he
is an old and hardened sinner. In 1927
he brought ten English-bred cocks from
Sydney to Malacca, and fought and won
ten battles with Chinese merchant who
had defeated all the Malays, and he adds:
I" / would go two hundred miles to see
main between the Cheshire piles and the
Lancashire black breasted reds, if there
was no legal prohibition. - London Cor.
N. Y. Times
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-07-24
FRENCH AND AMERICAN WOMEN.
Albert Rhodes. IN nisbook, The Frenci


.aH Home, just published by Dodd 4 Mead,
says:
The face of the American woman is
more beautiful than that of any other
country. 1t has delicacy of color and
feature, and .faesse and intellectually OF
expression but the body supporting the
head, regarded from an artistic and hygi-
enic point of view, is inferior. For
breathing and digesting the upper part is
lacking in depth. In a word, the Ameri-
can woman IS more fragile she is hardly
q Diana. and the French is something
more. although not the Hebes of Rubehs.
The French woman's face is as hand
some as that of any other in Europe, and
fades more slowly. AT forty she glides
into an embonpoint with an unwrinkled
face and good compassionate the age
when an English woman becomes heavy
necked and frowsy, and the American
pale and wrinkled. The climate has
something to do with this, but doubtless
her nourishing food, generous wine and
outdoor air much more Her mode of
living contributes thereto-the exercise
and development of each function in a
more natural aud sensuous manner than
with US. There are ascetic ideas in
America which have tendency to retard
the physical development of women, for
mind molds matter The extremes of
Amerlcan life are unfavorable to a healthy
growth, in its fastness as well as its asce-
ticism, where the flesh is corrupted by
dissipation or mortified by certain reh-
gious teachings. Aside from these
causes is the prevalent notion that it is
beneath the dignity of man or woman
TO occupy themselves with what they
shall eat and what they shall drink.
The American has more intellect than
her French sister. but the latter has soft
ness where she has pertness. There are
nervousness, excitability and cleverness
in one, mellowness and equality of char
acter in the other. The forced, brilliant
vitality of women in America is subject
to fits of reaction. for nature has its lim-
its. In the French woman the mind is
more even and cheerful. and in the alb
senee of exhaustive and regular demands
made upon it, the uniform health is
better
In qualities of purely mental charac-
ter the equal of American women cannot,
perhaps, be found in the world but
with all her knowledge and Intellectual
activity she lacks that which made the
Greeks what they have been, and the
French what they are-organic cultiva-
ton. Entwined in these words are taste
and art. A ripper civilization, though not
a purer, shall invest her with a knowl-
edge of these things. and harmony of
character not now possessed. and with il
will come, alas that decadence in NOR
ais which always marches on the heels of
the beautiful in every age and in every
cline. sE
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-07-24

KINGS OF BUSINESS. The great
masters of business have no mysteries,
no cunning tricks. They simply serve
the public with great skill and systematic
fidelity. That is all their cunning:
A. I. Stewart once held language
something like this in conversation with
a friend:
People come to me and ask me what
is the secret of success in business. Why.
l have no secret. / tell them nv busi-
ness has been matter of principle from
the start. If the Golden Rule can be in
corporated into purely commercial affairs,
1t has been done in this establishment,
where every customer is treated precisely
as the seller himself would like to be
treated were he customer. What
mean is this First of all, nothing is mis-.
represented and no faults are concealed
Then the price is fixed once for all, at the
lowest possible figure.
Finally, neither the circumstances Of
the buyer nor the magnitude of his pur
chase are suffered to influence the sales.
man in his conductor demeanor In ou1
dealings with employees the same princi
pie of justice is adhered to. s
After pause. Mr.. Stewart added
Of course, I don't speak of this a.
deserving of praise. We find it absolute
iy necessary. An establishment like thi
could not be conducted for any length O
time in any other way. The one thin.
which we cannot afford is a violation ol
principle. @re 500 sia.
In the whole world I do not beliey
there can be found one business of fort,
years standing which is not founded Of
the same principle Of giving good dol
lars worth for dollar.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-07-24

1T is a proud hour for the Virginian
when he pilots the Eastern visitor about
town to see the sights. He can afford to
laugh patronizingly as the stranger won
deringly snatches up glittering fragments
of quartz from the street. He becomes
absolutely arrogant when the Eastern
man looks with Mortified amazement at
the reckless drivers of the ore wagons
urging on their eight-span mules teams
with dollar chunks from their priceless
loads. How placidly he enjoys the wild
ening stare as he points to the Consoli-
dated Virginia hoisting works and casually
remarks that 600 tons of ore come out OF
that hole every day and pan out $5O,OOO.
No sweeter sound to the Virginian than
the stunned, "God bless me !! Is it pos
sible ?" It's worth living in a place where
whisky is worth two-bits a drink to have
these elephants to trot out. We long foi
these editorial excursionists. - Virginia
Chronicle.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-07-24

RETURNED TO LIFE. .--Brest is q good
deal perplexed by this incident A sea-
man died at the Naval Hospital there
The usual escort was ordered to attend the
funeral, and did attend it. Three hours
after the interment, to the astonishment
of the officer who attended the escort,
who should he meet in the street but the
very man, alive and well, whose funeral
he had few hours before attended 1t
seemed the seaman had fallen in leth-
argy; taken to be dead, he had been car
ried to the dissecting room, where he lay
on Q dissecting-table for twenty-four
hours, when he came to his sense, found
where he was, and considered the peril
in which he had been placed. When the
coffin came, the first handy corpse was
tossed into it, and was buried as being
the aforesaid seaman.