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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-08-01

A New Bird In the Nightingale's Nest.

We translate from a French journal
La Labe'te) curious and interesting
letter from Jenny Lind, the Swedish
Nightingale, now fifty-six years Of age,
written by her at Dresden, where she
now lives, to a friend in Paris
want to speak to you of my baby.
Well, l must tell you that God has given
my dear husband and myself an adora-
BILE little girl, born on the 31st of March
last. She is the perfect image of health
and happiness. She laughs and crows
IN a way to delight all sympathetic
hearts. We have given her little
Katharine among her other names, but
we call her Jenny, | need not say in
honor of whom Our boy Walter will
be four years old the 9th of August
next. He is an intelligent child-very
intelligent, very religious, and when he
has been naughty, it is touching to see
the way he prays TO God to make him
good again-poor little chicken. He
adores me, obeys me and | understand
the child completely, for he is exactly
like myself in nature, very impression
able, active, gay, high-tempered, aflec-
tomato, shy, good-natured, quick to
learn, remembering all that he learns,
preferring to the finest toys horrible
old doll, because it is one with which
he has longest played, caring nothing
about dress, but preferring to be loved
rather than admired Is he musical
Not the least in the world. That is my
great despair. But he is religious, and
| think he will be Christian As to
the baby cannot say as much. The
little creature eats, drinks, laughs, mum
bles over her shoes, and / have nothing
to say against her character. My hus-
band is now in England looking out for
n residence, for we intend, op account
of the children, to settle in that coun-
try. Yours, aticctionately,
JENNY LIND"
As our Paris contemporary observes,
this Is certainly very bright and ma
ternal letter from an artist who is well on
towards her threescore years. -Nem York
World
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-08-01
A CHASTITY PICKET LINE.
An Incident Of the Night After the Bat.
tle of Fredericksburg.

When, on the return to Maryes
Heights, the command first filed IN
from the road, there appeared to be a
thin line of soldiers sleeping on the
ground to DO occupied. They seemed
To make sort Of row or rank. 1t was
as if line of skrmishers had halted
and lain down; they were perfectly mo-
tionless; their sleep was profound. Not
one Of them awoke and got up. They
were not relieved, either, when the 9TH
ers came. They seemed to have no
communicate least none awake.
Had the fatigues of the day complete
" overpowered them, officers and prl-
Yates alike? They were nearest the
enemy, within call Of him. They were
the advance line of the Union army
Was it thus that they kept their watch,
on which the safety of the whole army
depended, pent up between the ridge
and the rivcr2 The enemy might
come within ten steps Of them without
being seen The fog was veil. No
one knew what lay or moved or crept n
little distance off. The regiments were
allowed to lie down. In doing so, the
men made denscr rank with those
there before them. Still those others
did not awaken. If you looked closer
at the face of any Of them, in the mist
and dimness, it was paid, the eyes
closed, the mouth open, the hair was
disheveled; besides, the attitude was
often painful There were blood-marks,
also. These men were all dead. New
ertheless, the new corners lay down
among them and rested The pail of
night concealed the foe now The
sombre uncertainty of fate cnyelOped
the morrow One was saved from the
peril Of the charge, but he found him
self again on Maryes Hill, near the
enemy, face to face with the dead,
sharing their couch, almost in their en-
brace, in the mist and the December
night. Why not accept them rs bed
fellows? The bullet that laid low this
one, if it had started diverging by ever
so small an angle, would have found
the hearts blood Of that other who
gazed upon them. 1t was chance or
Providence, which tomorrow might be
less kind. So they lay down with the
dead, all in IL line, and were lullcd
asleep by the monotony of the cries Of
the wounded scattered everywhere
J,uiye Ro,ne, IN the PhMdtlphia Weekly
Times
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-08-01

badly cover it smoothly with rep, or
enameled cloth to match the furnish
ing Of the room, and tack fringe around
the edge. If you have no mantle, saw
a shelf out of piece Of board, roun-
ing the front corners, support on iron
brackets, and cover as above. On
each end of the mantle place vase
filled with pressed ferns, and between
them clock, plaster cast, or any SINH
lar object.
A pretty coral basket to hang in the
window, or brighten a dark corner, is
made of hoops, with the webbing left
on, tied together in any graceful shape.
After the basket is formed, tie on here
and there grape stems or bits of cord
twisted slightly Have ready a mass
of melted beeswax and rosin, equal
parts, colored scarlet with vermilion,
and with a spoon dip it over every
part of the basket until all is covered.
When cold and hardened line the bas-
ket with the gray moss found on rocks,
pressing the moss through the OPEN
ings so as to hold it in place, and place
inside, suspending the whole by scar
let cords, tin can filled. with water in
which branches of Wandering Jew are
growing. If your treatment has been
skillful you will be pleased with the
result
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-08-01
Home Conversat iOnal Training.

There il no nation more fluent in
conversation than the American. The
French are more voluble, perhaps, their
language permitting greater rapdity of
pronunciation than the English. Our
best conycrsationalists are not rapid
takers. One trouble with us is, each one
wants to do all the talking, therefore
Americans are not good listeners. But
mere talking Ia not conversation. In
almost all home circles there Is much
talking done during the day, but we
fear by those who reserve their most
brilliant conversational powers for other
asscmblagcs than the home group.
Many II father comes home tired; he
has worked hard and talked great
deal, told amusing anecdotes. and dis
played much Wit. He has come home
to rest. He takes out his paper, and is
soon obliyious to everything around
him. Wife would Xix to tell him many
of the harassing affections of the day,
and would like to hear some of his in
tercsting experiences, but if he were II
deaf mute he could not be more silent,
only an occasional grunt answering her
many attempts ut conversation; and the
children, except the good night kiss
and often not even that, are not noticed
Such home, whether the abode Of
wealth or otherwise, cannot be Il healthy
and happy one. As contrast, draw
around the evening lamp of another
home circle. The father tells the anec-
dotcs from the papers as he reads them;
mother laughs her sweet, low laugh,
and the children burst into merry Ia!
has, To watch them rs they ask
questions, and listen to the answers and
patient explanations, the wondcrment,
interest, and thought imprinted on their
young faces, Is a picture for an artist.
This home education Is heritage more
valuable than land or money; and one
beautiful recompense in life is, that in
making others happy we bring happi-
ness 10 ourselves Parents who prac-
tee selfdenial, and endeavor, BY cheer
full conversation and playful wit, to en-
liyen home life will reap rich reward
III the better thoughts and nobler ac-
/ tons of their children, and will expert
ence the truest and best contentment
Observation-Disclosures Imerican.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-08-01
Mr.. MINISTER'S GHOST.
Temperance VI the Erratic Young
Englishman Who Suicidcd Mt the Time
of the st. I.o lis Fire.

There are two ghost stories in the air
here. One is CHASTITY thing; the other
merely vagary of the spirituali,ts
The story of Lord" Munster, who
committed suicide ut the time of the
Southern hotel fire, will be remember
ed. Munster had come to st. Louis
months before, the son Of promi-
nent Englishman, himself II late mem
Der of parliament, and generally
known here, though incorrectly, ~
Lord Munster. He married y prom
incnt belle, went away on Il wedding
tour, and returned to be in the hotel on
the night of the great fire. Separated
from his wife when rescued, he was
taken to n room where many OF his
friends young mem We're III the habit
of meeting, passed the remainder of
the night there, and in the morning
dertakerS were hard mt work that day,
and did their work hurricdly. The
body of Munster was taken at once to
An undertakcr's viewed briefly by the
coroner, and prepared for burial. The
writer saw him lying there in the I'M
dcrtakers back room, brown bearded
and brown haired. with the features of
an Apollo, n handsome man out of II
thousand. He was buried. and then
came the stories that he might not have
committed suicide just rs was de-
Scribed. 1t was said that he had put
the pistol III his mouth and discharged
it, His lips were not discolored, and
the only wound perccptible was II small
one III the back of the head. The cor
oner, rs already stated, did his work
hurridly ON that exciting day, and SO
the story has grown. Now comes the
ghost 1t is told that one of the rollick-
ing friends of Munster, sitting lately in
the room where Munster met his death,
was startled by the entrance of a man.
He looked up and recognized Munster,
clad rs when he died. The ghost looked
at him, appeared offended that he did
not speak, and passed out rs quietly as
he had entered. The occupant of the
room didn't like ghosts, and didn't oc-
cupy that room any more than was alb
solutely necessary for days afterward.
He drove ont great deal though, and
one day, driving alone, was suddenly
aware that the seat was scarcely large
enough for two when one showed n dis,
position to crowd. Terrified, he SAW
Munster sitting beside him. He drove
the horses to the nearest stopping place
ON Il gallop, leaped out, and foreswor,
driving, though the figure i'll the seat
had vanished. Soon afterward he was
taken very sick but is now recovered
Such is the ghost story of the young
bloods about town, and some of them
believe it.--Erom S. Louis Letter.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-08-01
Pneumatic Clocks.

One of the latest and most mover HF
plications of compressed air Is TO .ns
regulation of clocks at distance, winch
has just been introduced into Niehlla,
We now get our water and our *,
through pipes laid in the streets, anu ~
has been proposed to distribute hea' ~
Il similar way; but it is novel idea ~
:'turn on" the time for our clocks :.
kindred mechanism. The following L "
description of the Vienna system, Io; u,
an English journal: Tubes are laia N n
the streets from the central station -
which is the master clock," or Talli iIj
two clocks working together; ana 7il ,,a,,
enc get wrong the other keeps IN nio'l0 ~
and an alarm-bell is rung to indicate
the attendant that something Is "ion2
and he ut once rectities 1t. Inc ~.
pumped from the station, ana )usl .
gas or water can be taken INTO hous.
by means of pipes, so can the pileuil,,;;,rs
tubes be laid, and people can recei ,aT
their time just as they get tneir H civ
or gas. the tubes being always kep' i'''''
charged with air.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-08-01
IN OCEAN STEAMSHIP on FIRE.
Terrible Panic on Board the Pacific
Mail Ship Granada..W What the Rats
Did. Chinese Bravery.

At 3:15 A: NJ. on Monday last, while
the Pacific Mail ship Granada, from
Panama was beating against a heavy
wind and running sea about forty miles
off Point Conception, some Chinese
sailors, who were asleep in their ham
Knocks over the forward hatch, were
awakened by smoke. At the same
time the watch on deck discovered the
smoke issuing from the hatch, An
agile Mongol ran abaft and informed
First Officer Hart that the ship was on
fire. simultaneously the boatswain,
also Mongol, violently rang the fire
bell. First Officer HaEt is afraid of fire.
He has been burnt out several times,
and was On the Japan when that steam
er was burned off the Chinese coast
about two years ago. He has for years
made it his habit to have
the hose placed on the deck every
night ut o'clock. Rushing forward he
found that the ship WAS indeed on fire.
The captain was instantly notified, and
Hart, Selling an axe, chopped "A hole in
the hatch, and called for small sized
volunteer. A Chnaman, stark naked,
sprang forward, and Hart ordered him
to take the hose and go below to extin-
guish the fire. TIE Acknowledged tar
bound a wet towel over his face and
obeyed with alacrity, and Hart, who is
a large man. enlarged the aperture and
followed Seven Cinnamon went down
after him like monkeys, and the pumps
were manned. The engine was stopped
and ceasing its task Of driving wheels,
commenced forcing water. BY this
time the passengers, alarmed by the
unwonted tumult and the changing fire
bell, were huddled, half-nakcd, on the
deck in "A panic. The woman shrieked
and the sterner sex felt decidedly shaky.
The exploring squad below decks
CROPPED their way through the suflocat-
ing smoke to the store-room in the
forehold, where they found the fire.
The pumps were already working, and III
three and half minutes after the
alarm water was playing on the flames,
and in three and half minutes more
the blaze was cxtinguished. The origin
of the fire was certainly very curious
In the store-roOm was n barrel Of
matches in paper boxes. Rats are re-
markedly fond of phosphorus. This
outro taste caused the fire. 1t was
found that rats had gnawed their way
through the walls of the store-room and
into the matches. and in their nbbings
ut the lucifers the attrition Of their teeth
lgnitcd them and created the blaze. In
surance men state that the majority Of
the instances of fire by spontaneous
combustion " are really caused by rats
nibbling at matches.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-08-01

THE California Lick Observatory.
with its mammoth 100000 telescope,
is II promise which is being slowly
nursed into fultillment. Richard :.
Floyd, Il director of the Lick estate. is
now making careful study in Europe of
the telescope question. with special
reference to the new California inStru-
ment. After this telescope is finished
there will be others in the world upon
which more money will he spent, but
these instruments are seriously defec-
tive in some of their parts, and. bv
taking advantage of the knowledge and
experience obtained from othcr, mis-
takes, the trustees expect that, although
their instrument may not be any larg-
er, It will be more perfect. and will
therefore secure more satisfactory re-
suits than any other instrument. ut
least upon this continent
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-08-01

The Huntsville ala advocates pen is
mightier than his little Ratchet, for it
has evolved n giant u feet 3 inches
high and feet across the shoulders:
his feet measures "a inches 10y II, and
he steps over seven rows of cotton ut
each manly stride The people living
near July Mountain, in jackson county,
termed out several days ago some hun
drcds strong and pemed him in a ravine.
He submitted to be bound and mcasur-
ed, then broke his futile chains, crossed
the river near Bellefonte and made for
South Mountain, the residents whereon
are being baptized and staying at home
O nights
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-08-01

AN Iowa paper speaks of nan
having been lynched " for burning the
barn and contents of his son-in-law."
Any man who would deliberately burn
the contents of his son-in-law ought to
he lvnchcd
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-03-30
Knowledge Ia Power.

This nation of enlightened freemen. Edus
cation Is the cornerstone and foundation of our
government The people are free to think and
act for themselves, and that they may act wisely
it is necessary that they be wellinformed. Every
individual gain increases public gain. Upon the
health of the people is based the prosperity of a
nation, by it every value is increased, every joy
enhanced. Health is essential to the accomplish
ment of every purpose; while sickness thwarts
the best intentions and loftiest aims Unto US
are committed important health trusts, which
we hold not merely in our own behalf but for
the benefit of others. In order that we may be
able TO discharge the obligation of our trustee
ship and thus prove worthy of our generous
commission, it Is necessary that we study the art
of preserving health and prOlonging life. 1t is
of paramount importance to every person not
only to understand the means for the preserya-
tiOn of health, but also to know what remedies
should be employed for the alienation of the
common ailments of life. Not that we would
advise every man under all circumstances to at
tempt to be his own physician, but we entreat
him TO acquire sufficient knowledge of his sys-
tenn and the laws that govern it, that he may be
prepared to take care of himself properly, and
thereby prevent sickness and prolong life. In
no textbook will the people find the subjects of
physiology and hygiene, or the science of life
and the art of preserving health, more Bcientif-
cally discussed or more plainly taught than in
1.-The Peoples Common Sense Medical Adviser, "
by r. V. Pierce, NJ. D., of Buffalo, N. Y. 1t ID
a volume of over nine hundred large pages, il
Illustrated by over two hundred and eighty-two
engravings and colOred plates, is elegantly
bound in cloth and gilt and is sent, postpaid.
70 any address by the author Rt the low price of
one dollar and fifty cents a copy. Nearly one
hundred thousand copies have already been sold,
and the present edition, which is revised and en-
larged and more especially adapted to the wants
of the family, is selling very rapidly. 1t treats
Of all the common diseases and their remedies,
as we'll as of anatomy, physiology, hygiene, hu-
man temperaments and many other topics of
author styles it, medicine Simplifed."
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-03-30
Onion Culture.

Onion seed should be sown as early in
the spring as the earth can be brought
| into dry, friable state. If the soil is
clayey it should be plowed rough in the
fall and the seed sown upon the fine,
disintegrated surface that may then be
thus obtained without replOwing. If
the soil is inclined to be light it should
be rendered compact with the roller, and
a surface tilth then worked up for the
seed. If the land is weedy, the first crop
will probably cost more than its value
when raised. In this case it would be
altogether better to give season of fall
low and heavy manuring, or some pre-
paratory crop that may be easily kept
clean. There is no better one than early
potatoes, which gives the late summer
and fall to perfect the cleansing of the
land.
New land that has been brought into
good tilth will raise good crops of onions
without manure; nevertheless, the onion
is a gross feeder, but, unlike many other
crops, may be raised successfully year
after year, on the same land, by yearly
manuring.
The ground having been leveled and
smoothed, run the plank or light roller
over the surface-this, to assist in the
first cultivation while the plants are yet
young, Sow in drills, equi-distant, and
at the rate of four TO five pounds Of seed
per acre--the latter quantity preferable.
When the crop is three or four inches
high we prefer to cut out supernumerary
plants with the hoe or other suitable i'm
plement, leaving the punches of plants
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-03-30


at a distance of nine OF ten inches
These may be thinned to three, four or
five in place, according as you want
the individual bulbs large or medium in
size. The seed may be uniformly and
accurately sown with any of the better
class of garden drills.
A word here may not be amiss, in re-
lation to mistakes made by beginners in
gardening. These are, failure TO have
the land perfectly smooth, in fine filth,
and as level as the nature of the ground
will admit. This may be quickly accom-
plished by means of the harrow, the lev
eler, planker, light roller, and, per-
haps, smoothing harrow. Thus, the
surface being left tolerably compact, the
drill will leave q mark that may be easily
followed by the wedding machine, even
before the plants appear above ground.
Another source of failure Is in not SOW
ing seed enough to provide for every con-
tingency. Sow thick, and thin quick,
will apply with especial force in garden
ing. The means we have indicated will
enable any person TO put his soil into the
best condition for gardening.
To sum up: High manunng, a perfect
tilth, smoothness of surface, early and
thick seeding in accurate drills, an early
use of the wedding cultivation between
and as close to the rows as possible, thin
ming the crop as soon as 1t begins to fill
the drills, and the removal of superHuous
plants at the second wedding, will insure
success, and that at minimum cost; and,
above all, at profit to the cultivator.
This, and never allowing weeds to make
headway once the ground is cleared, may
be called the sum of good practice in the
cultivation not only Of onions, but of
every other crop in the garden. In fact
the same cleanliness observed by our
best farmers in the cultivation of the
corn crop will insure good garden to
every homestead. Prairie Farmer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-03-30


A GERMAN journal thus describes the
manufacture of "dried potatoes" as con.
Quoted at Carsten's works in Lubbock
The potatoes are peeled with the hand,
and cut into disks by machine. These
are put into basket, and this into a
boiler, where the potatoes are nearly
but not quite boiled. The disks are
next put on wire frames in dry oven,
where they are dried quite hard. 1t is
important to preserve the color of the
potatoes, and to prevent their turning
gray, as they would by the above proc
ess alone, the material after being sliced is
treated with cold water to which has
been added / per cent. of sulphuric
acid or 1 to 2 per cent. of muriatiC
acid. Then it is washed in pure water,
and the drying proceeds. The prepa'
ration obtained, which has lost none OF
its starch, is of slightly citron-yellow
tint, and transparent like gum. Boiled
with water and little salt, it is said tc
resume the natural color and tibrou'
structure Of potatoes, and is not dis
tinguishable in taste from newly boiled
potatoes,