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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-09-05
isuniot'.
TO keep moths out of old clothing
Give the clothing to the poor,

To keep moths out of old clothing
Give the clothing to the poor.
Man glorics IN his strength; woman
glories in her hair. Butter glorics in both.
They have swimming matches for
ladies IN San Francisco, and crowds
gather and cheer the ducks.
a New Bedford lady, who didnotwant
70 use slang, recently inquired OF ashop-
keeper the price of a" burst ofGenerai
Grant.
Ovcrpolite-A very polite lady, who
did not wish to ask for acradle, ask
ed the shop-man The had any matri-
monial baskets.
When YOU see n pretty girl putting ON
n postagc-stamp, then don't YOU wish
YOU were George Washington?
Jenny Lind didn't have that baby
after all. But Susan b. Anthony calmly
folds her arms and remarks: "princi-
pies, not Women
1t is proposed in Indiana 10 change
the marriage service so MS it will read:
Who dare take this woman?" And
the bridegroom shall answer Il dare
Sitting Bull thus expressed himself to
a reporter who visited him last week in
his rural retreat: Dana big lngunl
Whoop! Dana much bravel Whoopcol
He say cut down Fcddcl army dammit
Me too. Whoop"- Cryptic.
He was kneeling ut her feet and say
ing; My precious sweet, life fingers TO
me as u petnia streaked with the glor-
ious golden f%rctting Of Il soul which
knoweth no love so-' 90 Henry
said she" that's the cheese
Aman out West, who read that cop
pcras put in Il bed of ants would cause
them to leave, put some IN his mother
in-laW's bed to see if she wouldn't 90.
He says she was there ut last accounts.
Her husband had been playing base
ball, and when the doctor came she OK
planned: Poor Adolphus lie got n
pitcher III his centre field, and he can't
walk The doctor thought it more
likely that he had been playing short
stop for Il jug.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-09-05
Early Breakfasts.

y bad custom IS prevalent in many
families, especially among farmers, OF
working an hour OF two before break
fast, attending to chores" hoeing n
the garden, cutting wood, moving. etc.
lhls IS convenient on many accounts,
but IT is not conducive To health. The
prevalent opinion is, hat the morning
air u the purest and most healthful and
bracing; but the contrary Is the fact.
At no hour Of the day is the air more
filled with dampncss, fogs and,
miasmas, than about sunrise. The
heat Of the sun gradually d~issipates
these miasmatic Influences as the day
advances. An early meal braces up the
system against these external innu-
cnccs, Every one knows the languor
and faintness often experienced for the
first hour in the morning, and that this
is increased by exercise and want of
food. We do not agree with the boar
ding-school regime which prescribcs a
long walk before breakfast as n means
of promoting health.
Probably the best custom would be,
to furnish every member Of the family,
especially those who labor out Of doors,
with a single cup of warm coffee. well
MIXED, Immediately after rising from
bed. Then let them attend to chores,
or moving, hoeing, etc, for an hour or
while the teams are feeding, and
the breakfast preparing. They will feel
better and do nor work.-dmeficaH
Ig5icubUyjd
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-09-05
Deadwo0d in Brief.

There Is no such place anywhere. 1t
shows up in its worst forms the fas.
and flash American trait. \ little over
a year ago the sight Of this swarming
camp was a part of the bowling wilder
ness. To-day there. are along the streets.
and up and down the gulches, within a
mile, over 10000 people. Here is a
city Of 1000 inhabitants, with a floating
population Of 1000 more. About 800
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-09-05
Miss ~CoriSaudc.

Miss Corisande was born only two
years earlier than her brother Tom.
When Tom was ten years old she gloried
because she was twelve. When Tom
was fourteen she confessed 80 sweet six
teen. When Tom boosted of eighteen
she tinlidly acknowledged herself past
nineteen. When he came home from
college, with Il moustache and Il vote,
and had a party in honor of his twenty
first birthday, She said, to her friends,
8 What a boyish fellow he is; who would
think he was only a year younger than
~ And when Tom declared he was
twenty-five and old enough to get mar
ried, she said to Il gentleman friend,
" Do you know, | feel savaeely Jealous
to think of Tom getting married? But
then suppose twins are always more
attached to each other than other broth
ers and sisters" And two years later,
at Toms wedding, she said with II girl
ish ~yivacity to the wedding guests,
" Dear old Tom, to see him married to-
night, and then think how, when he
was only five years old, they brought
him in to see me, his baby sister," You
know Miss Corisande, probably; she
lives in your town.-BmAnpoR Hapkege.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-09-05

At IABLE.-Nevcr talk Of disagree
able things at your table, but let the
conversation he kind. genial, social and
cheering. The more good company
you have at your table, the better for
your children. Every conversation with
company at your table is an educator
Of the family. Hence the intelligence.
and the refinement and the appropriate
Of i family which is given to
hospitality. Never feel that intelligent
visitors can be anything but a blessing.
to you and yours. How few have fully
gotten hold of the fact, that company
and conversation at the table are no
small part of educationl
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-09-05

II we die to-day the sun will shine
as brightly, and the birds will sing as
swcctly tomorrow. Business will not
be suspended Il moment, and the great
mass will not bcstow a thought upon
our memories. as hc dcad?' will be
the solemn inquiry Of u few, az they
pass TO their work. No one will miss
rs except our immediate connections,
and il. q short time they will forget and
laugh as merrily as when we sat beside
Them. Thus shall VIC all, now active in
life, pass away. Our children crowd
close behind Us, and they will soon be
gone. In a few years, not a living being
can say, " | remember him" We lived
IN another age, and did business with
those who slumber in the tomb. Thus
life! How rapidly it passes!
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-09-05
EPITAPH

EN THOMAS MOORE,
HERe lies John shaw,
Attorney-at law;
Aud when he died,
The devil cried,
"Glvc ms your paw,
John Shaw,
Attorncy.atlaw'
Pull out, Bill" shrieked an engineers
son TO one of his pIaymatos, II brake
mans boy who was in imminent danger
O gctting smashed 10y his mother, who
coming after him. Cit on the line
and give her steaml Here comes the
switch-cngine ~ But before the juvenile
could get III motion, She had him bythe
ear, and he vas laid up with II hot box.
"Sir!' exclaimed II long-suilering Bur
llngton creditor, whose patience was en-
tirely exhausted. Sir! | have sent YOU
no less than seventeen bills for this one
lot Of goods, aud what have you done
with thcm?' Vetoed 'em; vetoed
every last one of en-" was the calm
reply, IL the debtor lit q iftcen-ccnt
cigar, and hailed a street car.
Why She wouldn't; A young lady was
Mt a party, during which quarrels be
tween husband and wife we're discussed.
think, SAID an unmarried older son,
that the proper thing is for the hus-
band to have it out ut once, and thus
avoid quarrcls for the future. | woull
hight n cigar IN the carriage after the
wedding breakfast, and settle the smok-
ing question forever" 81 would knock
the cigar out Of your mouth" interrupt
ed the belle. Do you know don'tthink
you would be there" he remarked.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-09-05

ny III hhs MOORE,
Hers lies John shaw,
Attorney NJ law
Aud when he died,
The devil cried,
give ms Your paw,
John Shaw,
Attorncy.at.law,
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-07-26
DarWinian Relations.

The inhabitants of Kybilia, northern At
RIGA, are much troubled by the depreda-
lions of monkeys, who, in countless num-
bers, infest the hilly forests. The unfOrtu-
nate farmers or market gardeners who
live ON the mountain slopes wage con-
tinual war against these marauders,
failure. For the inhabitants were OAR
whites long before Mr. Darwin was heard
of, and they dare not for their life kill
one of the creatures regarded by them as
their ancestors. So the monkeys in
crease and multiply without the chance
of being thinned off by any fatal battue.
The only thing that can be done to guard
against their attacks is to brighten them
away, and this is effected by some very
cunning and curious devices. tits found
that occasionally, after a successful raid
upon some garden, few of the less hard
ened offenders are overcome by the plen-
teousness of their feast. The potent
Juice of the grapes or Of the figs gets the
better of their reason or of their bodily
activity, and they remain stretched on the
ground to be captured by the furious pro-
prietor. Upon this mild but insidious
punishment is inflicted upon the prision-
ers. Their necks are hung with small
bells or rattles, and they are turned loose
at the forest edge, when the panic created
by their appearance is suoh as to fright
en- all their kinsfolk and acquaintance
away into the depths of the wood. If bells
cannot be procured, another process
has been invented-that Of clothing the
captured ape in stout waistcoat OF red
stuff, and then letting him run. The ef-
feet is magical, and long after the ostra-
cized animal has died or got free from his
slavish badge, the troop Of depredators
holds aloof from the dangerous district.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-07-26
In the Wrong Room.

Some ludicrous mistakes are narrated
about the occupants of the suites Of rooms
at the National hotel, Washington, which
opened upon little halls, uniform in appear
ance, connected by long corridors, aud
which were all furnished alike. One
night, Senator Mangum, of North Caro-
lima, then digni6ed president OF the
Senate, a gentleman Of the old school, had
returned from party, when Gov. Uphsm,
a Senator from Vermont, came in without
any ceremony and took seat. The two
chatted away on politics, etc., until the
clock struck one. "Reslly, Gov. Upham,"
said Magnum, ~ am always pleased to see
you, but believe ii is getting very late"
II have thought 20 for some time" re-
piled Upham, but made no movement.
The half hour sounded, and Magnum re-
marked: ~ thought, Gov. Upham. that
you had decided to 60 to bed, sir!" $50
| had, Mr.. President, !" said the Vermonter,
vet he did not bulge. Mangum stared
at him in amaxement and at last ssid !:
but why don't you go to your roomo II
will soon DO two o'clock" Ny room,
Mr.. PRESIDENT Why, this 10 my room.
and have been waiting for you to go
away for two hours pastl" Mangum
sprang to his feet, looked into tho sleep
ing room adjacent, and found that b was
In Upham's room instead Of his own
PAiSadAlpAia Pres.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-07-26

Russian priests are disgrace to Chris
tianity. HE has priests eyes," is a
proverb which means that person so
characterized is lustful, greedy and self
seeking. Moreover, they are, in drunken
nation, the most drunken. A friend Of
mine, who stayed several months at a
Russian country house, says it was COM
mon sight to see two priests lying in cart,
as pigs do when they are driven to mar
ket. One Saints day, he tells me, the
priest came to the chapel too far gone to
read the service; instead of being struck
dumb with shame, he actually whined
out an apology: 1--WE poor fellows spend
all our time in praying for others, and
have no one to pray for us; no wonder,
therefore, we fall under temptation"
Things are just rs bad in Bulgaria; an
English engineer, who has just written a
book Of his experience there, went over
one Sunday to attend church, whose
"pope" had great reputation for sanctity.
There was no service, for the pope" was
lying dead drunk among the nettles at
the back of his Bodko whisky shop.
III heard" quantity adds the writer, ''that
for the five previous Sundays his place
has been among those vegetables" IL il
any wonder that the Turks look on re-
ligion which has such teachers a. filter
for swine than for meni-AH The YsGs
Round.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-07-26
Slavery in Egypt.

In Cairo the slave dealers (djellabs) dis
tribute their stock among their agents in
various quarters of the city, and there
although the police are supposed to be on
the watch to prevent it, buying and SELL
ing 90 on under the thinnest veil of con-
cealment. An intending purchaser goes
to one of the private but we'll known en-
trenos in which the dealers and their
slaves are lodged, and, after examining
the latter, selects what suits him, haggles
for time about the price, and finally
closes the bargain then and there, or sub
sequently through broker, who receives
a small commission for the job. The
djellabs object to show their ware TO Eu-
ropeans, unless they be introduced by a
native, who is not merely dragoman;
but with that voucher and the thin dis
guise of fez and Stamboulee coat, a
sight of whatever is on hand may be
easily enough had. Franks are, of course,
now forbidden by their own laws to buy
or hold slaves, but the prohibition is not
always regarded by residents in the ma
tive quarters of the city, where, indeed,
a single man cannot hire house nor OBJ
tain lodgings unless he have female
slave. Prices range from G1O or G12 for
black boy or girl of as many years old,
to 970 or G1OO for an Abyssinian girl of
from twelve to seventeen or eighteen, and
from $500 to $500, or even $1,000, for a
high-class Circassian. Adult women
slaves who have already been in service
are cheaper, unless their skill in cookery,
needle-work, or some other useful art
balance the vice of temper or some other
grave defect, but for which they are rare
ly resold. The price of males above the
age of childhood varies from eco or ESQ,
600 or e100, Abyssinian youths and men
ranging considerably above negroes. The
neutral class of eunuchs has still higher
value, but these are now found in only
the very wealthiest Moslem families, the
rigorous prohibition which the law en-
forces against their production within
Egyptian territory having greatly reduced
the supply, and correspondingly height
ened their price. Till within few years
ago, boy slaves were bought on their way
down the Upper Nile, and mutilated at
Assiout aud some other stations-Coptic
priests being among the most expert oper-
ators; but this practice has now been sup
pressed, and the whole of the small
yearly importation comes ready-made
from Kordofau aud Darfour.-Fraser's
Magazine.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-07-26
Ravages of Mice in Different Countries.

The mischief of the little field. mice is
done so very quietly and adroitly that
few are ever caught at it, and much of
the blame is put ON the moles, squirrels
and woodchucks, that have enough sins
of their own to answer for. The meadow
mouse of Europe, which is very like our
own, forty or fifty years ago came near
causing a famine in parts of England,
running the crops before they could get
fairly started, and killing almost all the
young trees in the orchards and woods.
More than 10000 Of the little rascals
were trapped in one month in single
piece of forest, beside all those killed by
animals. About year ago, too, SINH
lar disaster was threatened in Scotland,
where millions Of mice appeared, and
gnawed off the young grass at the root
Just when it should have been in prime
condition for the sheep; and when that
was all' gone they attacked the garden
vegetables. The people lost vast numbers
of sheep and lambs from starvation, and
thousands of dollars worth of growing
food but, all finally, by together waging
war upon them, the pests were partially
killed off. The mice did not in either
case come suddenly, but had been ln-
creasng steadily for years previous, be-
cause the gamekeepers had killed so many
of the ''vermin" Gas owls, hawks, weasels,
snakes, etc., are wrongly called which
are the natural enemies of the mice, and
keep their numbers down. Farmers are
slow to learn that it doesn't pay to kill
the birds or rob their nests; but the boys
and girls ought to understand this truth
and remember it. In this country, the
greatest mischief done by the feld-mice
is the gnawing of bark from the fruit
trees, so that in some of the Western
States this is the most serious difficulty
the orchards have to contend with. Whole
rows of young trees in nurseries are
stripped of their bark, and of course die;
and where apple-seeds are planted, the
mice are sure to dig half of them up to eat
the kernels. This mischief is mainly
done in the winter, when tie trees are
packed away from the frost; or, if they
are growing, because then the mice can
move about concealed under the snow,
and nibble all the bark away up to the
surface. Rabbits get much of the credit
of this naughty work, for they do good
deal of it on their own account. The
gardener has the same trouble, often find
ing, when he uncovers a rare and costly
plant in the spring, that the mice have
enjoyed good winter quarters in his straw
covering, and have been gnawing to death
his choice roses. Millions of dollars,
perhaps, would not pay for all the dam
age these small creatures thus accomplish
each year in the United States, and l
fear they will become more and more a
plague if we continue to kill off the
harmless hawks, owls, butcher-birds and
snakes, which are the policemen appoint
ed by Nature to look after the mice, and
protect US against them.-St. Nicholas.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-07-26

THE Sons OF ToIL.-They build and
organize, and rise into the control of our
they conduct our mills; they
guide our ships; they open the paths for
capital; they fill our schools; they apply
their ingenuity to the soil; they legislate
tor us; they rise into the highest seats of
power. The farmers boy, to whom nei-
ther academy nor college was ever
opened, spends his youth in clearing the
forests, and his manhood in guiding the
councils of his country through great
war, dying q martyr to the cause of hu-
man freedom. A young village merchant
becomes Secretary of the Treasury; and
upon his integrity and sagscity the coun-
try implicitly relies. The highest judi
cial officer in the land once laborcd on
the SOIL From our workshops and farms
sprang the heroes Of the war. And all
over the land stand the tasteful and ele-
CANT abodes of those who have not forgot
to cultivate themselves as they have pro-
creased, and who remember literally the
intellectual and moral and religious wants
Of . rising generation.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-07-26

POLAR CONFERENCE.-The bill APP
propriating $4,000 to equip an expedi-
ton to the Polar regions is likely to be-
come law when the next Congress mee's,
and Capt. Howgate proposes to send, in
advance of the colony for which the ap-
preparation will provide, small vessel
under command of Capt Tyson, to gather
together Esquimau. dogs, sledges, and
Esquimau clothing for the regular ex-
pidition. Capt. Tyson will start in July,
and Capt. Howgate will follow next
spring To get out the advance party
about $4,000 or $4,000 will be needed,
and this must be raised by subscription.
Capt Tyson makes this rough estimate
of his needs: Charter of vessel for fifteen
months, $500; fitting out of men for
cruise, $1,000; $4,000 gallons of casks,
81 900; boats and whaling gear, $1,000;
bread, $3.50: flour, $3.50; pork, 5000; oat
and Indian meal, $50; coffee, $l25; tea,
$50; sugar, $4S; mOlasses, $3.50; butter,
500; whisky, $12O; coal, SIS; tobacco,
out of bond, 500; guns, knives and saws,
for trade, $500; probable incidental ex-
penses, $500; total, $500. The whaling
gear is provided to give the party oc-
cupation and profitable employment, and
it is believed that enough whale and seal
oil will be obtained to pay the cost of the
expedition.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-07-26
Loves Reveille.


Love in lethargy once slept
Aweek without waking;
And day and night his mother wept
As If her heart were breaking.
The graces pinched the boy in vain:
He never felt their stingings;
They sang to him Paphian strain;
lie sleeps through all their singings.
Tc Jove at length the goddess scared,
Most miserahly crying:
"Oh, save my son, heavens mighty Lord
The God of love is dyingw
ITO EARTH" said Jove, "once more repair,
And cease your cries and weeping;
A friendly leech will meet you there,
Who'll cure loves oversleeping."
Venus flew back; the boy was free;
For Jove, on special mission,
Had sent him green-eyed jealousy,
Juno's own state physician.
The cure, much worse than the disease,
Olympus shook with laughter;
For love was never yet at ease,
And never slumbered after.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-07-26


THE TRUTH-TELLER.-It is worth
while now and then to have what is
called the truth told you about your
self. There are times when such truth
telling is of great and immediate service.
Dut l have noticed that persons who
plume themselves upon speaking the
truth to their neighbors are persons who
really have no special devotion to truth,
but who have, on the other hand, pas
sion for making people uncomfortable.
They do not love their neighbors; they
hate them, or are Indifferent to them.
With them so-called truth-telling is mere
ly form of self-indulgence.
How would it do, the next time the
village truth-teller comes around, for you
to tell the truth to himl
"Kind friend, l thank thee for telling
me that my daughters manners are rude,
and that my uncle, the parson, should be
spoken to about his method of public
prayer, and that my best Sunday-go-to
meeting hat is two seasons behind the
times; but let me reciprocate thy kind
ness by informing thee that thou art a
selfish old gossip, without enough brains
to perceive the whole truth about any sit.
uation, but only silly half-uuth, or q
miserable distorted truth, which, from
the best of motives, advise thee to keel
to thyself."-"TAe Old Cabinet" Scri6ne,
for JUN.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-07-26

RUSSIAN LADIEs.-The ladies in Russia
are very anxious to marry, because they
have no liberty before marriage. They
are kept constantly under the paternal
eye until given up to their husbands, and
then they take their own course. Al
most as soon as girl is born, in the
better rank of society, her parents begin
to prepare the dowry she must have when
she goes to her husband. She must fur
nish everything for an outfit in life, even
to a dozen new shirts for her coming
husband. The young man goes to the
house Of his promised bride and counts
over her dresses, and examines the fur
niture, and sees the whole with his own
eyes before be commits himself to the ir-
revo6able bargain. In high life such things
are conducted with moro apparent del
icacy but the facts ere ascertained with
more apparent accuracy, the business
being in the hands Of . broker or notary
The tvss1essss h exposed in public before
ths wedding.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-07-26

A FooLIsH man by the name of Grape,
with his foolish wife, lately sailed from
New Bedford, Mas, in little sail-boat,
twenty feet in length, intending to cross
the Atlantic and hoping to bring mp II
London soas forty days hence. We -
no sssss in such silly experiments. even
IL succsesful.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-07-26

neIILrNoIs has passed law prohibiting
newspapers from publishing those 'di.
A rec without publicity" advertisements.
st. Louis lawyer who engaged In the
uusiness was expelled from the bar for
nprofeooiOnal conduct.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-07-26

FoUn ladiss have bssn elected on Tie
school board a Loadou, Enoland. One
Of then, Mn. Eastlaka, rscoivod ~ eoog-
noos nunbs q $4,000 voles.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-07-26

teen years may elapse before we shall
need to repeat the precaution.-Neo York
Tribune.