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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-09-11

bottos.s Everybody admired the
marvellous penmanship, which was en-
pnat'caliy new style. The letters were
awkwardly made, taken singly, but
wnen grouped ina line all looked ex-
actiy alike, as it engraved on copper
plate. You couldn't take thirty words
minute and print like that said one.
can take forty was the reply. The
fastest operator present took one end OF
the wire, and Edison, sitting at the re-
ceiver, picked up sheet of paper and
said, Let the message come He sat
there three minutes and took 100 words
with apparent ease, doing better than
he had promised. The dispatch was
written in that faultless hand that graced
the autograph album"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-09-11

PROFESSOR EDISON, while in Virginia
City, New, stepped into telegraph Of
fee, and local paper describes him as
"the worst-dressed man in the room by
all odds. An old black hat, cheap
shirt with the stud-holes in the bosom
unoccupied, two-bit necktie several
months old, coarse pants and vest, and
mouse-colored linen buster completed
his attire. One of the office-boys asked
him to put his name in an autograph
album. He wtote line that looked
|1ike print and fixed his name at the
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-09-11
Long Johns Bank "Check.
Chicago Times.

It wouldn't do for some of the de.
faulting bank cashiers to live out in
Kansas City, Mo. There is policeman
out there known rs Long John. He
belongs to one Of the oldest and most
respectable families, but he was way.
ward youth, and got away with his share
of the estate early in life. Then with
commendable pluck he got on the force,
Strengthened up, and has been faithful
and temperate man ever since. As
often as he drew his pay he went to a
certain bank and deposited whatever
he could save. He continued this fru-
gal way of living until he had saved
about 500. Not long ago when one of
the solid institutions OF the Chicago of
the West went down, and the "bosses"
Of the institution were "regretting" in
tears to their penniless depositors, Long
John walked up to the President and
said to him. "LoOk here, when l was a
wild boy you used to talk to me about
saving money. You told me to follow
your example. When l run through
my part of the estate you got me on the
police force. You told me to put what
money l could in the bank. l did it.
l worked hard as niger and saved all
l could. Now l am as poor as when l
commenced. And you have nothing
to pay me. want my money"
The great bankrupt banker placed his
hands on Long Johns shoulders and
spoke to him sadly: MY boy. this is a
great tribulation. l have lost every
thing and cannot
Long John took the hand of the bank
er from his shoulder and said: 81 don't
want any crocodile tears from you.
Every cent l put into your hand !
worked for like a niger, and you know
it. l would sooner be dead than lose it.
Now, if you don't pay me that money l
will blow your brains out on the spot. u
And he placed revolver against the
bankers head.
In ten minutes Long John had his
800 and the great penniless banker was
begging him not to give it away lest the
example might be repeated. 1t will do
to try in Chicago.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-09-11

decidedly black. and the grand old
chnrch Of st. Martin-in<the Fields, on
Trafalgar square, il, ifpossible, blacker.
The walls under the .poltico and most of
the columns in front would never be
supposed to be of pure white marble.
As there is scaffoldingt being erected
around it, the purpose is possibly to
clean it Of the accumulated smoke of
ages. They probably think with the
gamin, who, when asked why he did
not wash his face, replied, whats the
use? 1t will only get dirty again.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-09-11

THE perfection of railroad machinery
is surely approaching. A southern in
vention enables the locomotive to con-
sumo its own smoke and cinders, which
is of vast importance, and attention is
called to another valuable invention of
the Ashton valve company, of Boston,
which completely stiles the Eideous
roar accompanying the blowing off of
steam. The advantages of such noise
less attachment to railway engines are
obvious. What specially commends
the invention to railway companies are
its economical features. By an "under-
discharge pop-valve" the escaping
steam is quietly conducted through
pipe to the feed water in the tender.
This materially increases the tempera-
ture Of the water used for feeding the
boiler, and thus reduces the quantity
of coal required for keeping up the
needed pressure of steam. The saving
in this way is estimated at an average
of seven pounds of coal per rum ing
mile, or half of a ton in the working
day of locomotive.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-09-11
UP IN A BALLOON.
Miss Wise's Account or Her Last Ascen.
sion ut st. Louis.
81. Louss Post

Miss Lizzie Ihling Wise, the we'll
known lady nronat and niece of Prof.
Wise, made balloon ascension yes
terday from Bodeman's grove in the
presence of a large number of specta-
tors. The day was lovely, and under
the favorable conditions the trip was in
every way q success. An Evening Post
reporter met Miss Wise this morning,
and to him she gave in her own language
the following account of her adventure:
l made my twenty-first aerial voyage
Yesterday afternoon ut o'clock, sharp
time, (I am always punc:ual,) from
Bodeman's garden. From the nature
of the ground, my uncle, Prof. John
Wise, sent me up with an impetus
sufficient to skip all surrounding OBJ.
structions. II was a glorious start and
a glorious sight. rose rapidly to q
helghth OF seven thousand feet, aneriod
barometer measure. At that altitude
the great western metropolis shrank
into village dimensions, while at the
same time the exhilarating atmosphere
moved my blood into activity and ex-
banded my thinking faculties to make
me feel like queen-bee lowering over
a vast hive-indeed the sonorous hum
that came up to me in waves of sound
made me think that the world below
was really hive. if not of bees, GER
tainly of buzzing men, women and
children, Oh! how l wished l could
stay up there always; prayed to the
great God in devout thankfulness for
being so good to me rs to lift me up SO
high above the dust and toll of earth be-
low. 1t always makes me pray when l
get up where deep solitude surrounds
me and microscopic life swarms and
buzzes below me. But l had another
duty imposing. What of the air! The
sunbeams stung like needles: l can
only describe the sensation as II pleas
ant pain, if there is such thing. My
thermometer ranged IS at the start;
ut 1000 feet it marked 76. What APP
peared strange to me was the frigid
GOODNESS penetrating the bottom of my
car. At that altitude, in cloudless
sky, it appears.that in shadow it is ex.
tremely cold while under the suns rays
it is extremely warm. As the balloon
turned round and round one side of
me was warm and the other cold, and
thus the law of compensation was truly
exomplified in fact But am making
my narrative too long for short trip.
The Amazon had been smoking its pipe
for half an hour, i, e., the expanded
gas was finding its way from the mouth
of the balloon in white vapor, and
gravity was gaining on levity. The
Amazon began to slide down an inclined
plane into n lovely esplanade of st.
Louis, as it were, but somehow or
other the great city was sliding off its
moorings, and instead of its being close
by it went northeastward nine miles,
and left me in beautiful, novel sur
rounding near the Gravois road. On
my descent every point Of the compass
was represented with II human motion
to common center, and in few
moments was surrounded by host
Of generous friends. They took hold
OK my cable tow and moored me over
the Gravois road, where l bundled up
my aerial traps, and soon found my way
back to Bodeman's garden. My way
back l toiled as stupidity us my way out
was glorious.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-09-11
One Princess Who Can DO Something.
London Time

London Times.
One Of her Majesty's grandchildren
has recently appeared in print as an
author. or Mt least translator. Her
Royal Highness Princess Victoria, eld-
est daughter Of the Grand Duchess of
Hesse, has published translation in
German Of sermon to children,
preached in Westminster Abbey by the
Rev. I. Teignmouth Shore, Honorable
Chaplain to the Queen. The work,
which is published in Darmstdat for a
charitable object, does the greatest
credit to the Royal and youthful trans
latOr.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-09-11
1t Is Worth Il Trial.

81 was troubled for many years with
kidney complaint, gravel, &C.; my blood
became thin; l was dull and Inactive;
could hardly crawl about, and was an
old worn out man all over, and could
get nothing to help me, until got Hop
Bitters, and now l am boy again. My
blood and kidneys are all right. and l
am rs active rs a man of so. although I
am ~, and have no doubt it will do
as we'll for others of my age. 1t is worth
the trial."-(Father.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-09-11
Az Old
QUACKS & QUACkERY'

Sufferers from Nervous Debility, Lost Manhood
aud other effects Of early indiscretions, tnstssd
tampering with quacks who advertise remedies
Tree. can 20 oured for life y snelosia9 !,s y.
for Book and Recipe lOf self-curs oy Gnps
physiological means The book 10 SisoA
Marriage Guide Of 800 psgss and nane!os
engrsvinas which win enable them g avs "a
quackery. and the Recipe has been used n w
authors private practice upwards Of twenty !ss"
End cured over 20, 900 cases.
Address Or. T. W0llIAMy,
Is E. WArEA ST., nnwAuxsl, W.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-09-11
Gen. TallaferrO Drained by Lunatic.

A desperate and fatal ARRAY occurred
in the lunatic asylum at this place to-
day, between Gen. John F. Taliaferro, a
former prominent politician in the
state, and Newton Cunningham. Both
were inmates of the asylum, and were
of influence and fortune before their
loss of mind. Cunningham became
offended with Gen. Taliaferro because
ne said that a flying-machine, upon
which Cunningham had been at work
for nine years, would not navigate sue
cessfully. He seized a heavy spoke
from one of the wheels of the flying
machine and struck Gen. Taliaferro a
fearful blow on the skull, MASKING it in
and killing him instantly. Gen. Talia-
ferro was eighty years DID, Williams
burg (Na.) Special.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-09-11

To CoNsUMERs.-It costs you but a
trifle more to buy full pound of d. B.
DeLand & Co.'S Best Chemical Sakratus,
than it does other kinds that are very
crude or badly adulterated.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-09-11
Wants Z Ticket.

Detroit Post and Tribune
The officers of the state fair associa-
ton are overwhelmed with requests for
dead-head tickets. The following re-
freshing communication, which was re-
ceived by Secretary Thompson yester-
day, is fair sample:
Mr.. Thompson ESQ
SecretOre
Michigan State fair Society
Detroit Mich.
Dear Sir.
Will you please allow me to ask for
q familie ticket during the State fair at
Detroit. My familic consists of My
Selve Wife and only 8 children, boys
e. 5 Girls. for amy Information in re-
gard the fair will be very much
ablige
Very Respectfully
yours
C.
Postmaster & Justice
of the peace
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-09-11
ESTARLISHED 1851.
Electro Medical Institute.
4ILWAUxRB, Wis

Nervous and Rheumatic Gui.
fsrers from sarly indiscedoDs,
Impotence, affections Of The kid.
neys, heart, lung and liver,
should not lail 70 consult conf.
DIR. MCNAMARA. 500
BROADWAY. he hm remedies
with the aid Of electricity that
win stop those nightly emissions
build up the nervou''yS1enl, re-
store the sex ual povsn 70 theii
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-09-11
London Smoke.
Baltimore American.

The houses Of London are mostly of
yellow brick; but those Of a more pre-
tentious character are of Il yellowish
sandstone, which soon becomes black
ened with the smoke that enshrouds
lthe city. Iron buildings are not known
re-at least, We have not met with
in our wanderings over the city,
cling an entirely American insti-
A stranger in London is aston
he appearance Of most Of its
ldings and churches. They
ostly of white marble; but
pas blackened them to such
ht were it not that their
metimes a portion of their
white, they might be sup
of black marble. The
ont of st. Paul's Cathedral
eck; and so is most of the
If "a pot of black paint
yer the magnificent statue
abeth and her four maids
hich stand in front of the
would scarcely haHnliGed.
they becop1
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-09-11

oriCinaI cheerfulness and strength. The Doctors
skiIlin the treatment Of Seminal weakness
or Nervous Exhaustion cannot b. ssesllsd IN tN
,haalips art oECirculars sent free. ~
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-09-11
TRUTHS.
as Z. WArEa ST., MnwAuxss, W1

TRUTHS.
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Rake cheer, for /
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M YOU feel weak in'
|ly knowing why
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md have overtax'dyoui'
duties or . mother WOKE
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|incss, weakened oy a.
duties; or . man OF l'
midnight WORK.
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shop. on the farm, ~ y,
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Fpulse Is feeble, YOU
|your faculties wahlns,
|e,veyou ns~l"
Nlgor. ~.
and Pain RellG'
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-09-11
VALUABLE

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Ing on Q bed Of sickness, u
,Hop 0itters y
Ifyou are simply ailing; u
dispirited. without clear y
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II you are a minister. q
self with your pastoral ot
ont with care and work,
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-09-11

Parsons Purgative Pills make Nav
Blood, and will completely change the h'od hlca
the entire system In three months ANY S pey.d
may be restored to SOUND health il such 20 week,
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-15

SUPREME CoURT DECISIONS. supreme
court closed the January term at Rutland on
Saturday, after hearing 40 cases, among them
several notable ones. Hayes, the young har-
ness-maker, formerly of Northampton, Mass.
who was under arrest for some months accus-
ed of setting the opera-house on fire, but was
finally acquitted, secured favorable decision
against the fire association of Philadelphia for
insurance on his stock burned in the opera
house. In the case of Osborne against Ste
vens, the court decided that a man who acts
as the paid agent of one person in the sale of
property and then procures another party to
purchase the property by acting as his friend
while concealing his paid agency cannot re-
cover the price which was promised him for
procuring the sale Judge Pierpoint giving u
scathing denunciaton of the dishonesty of the
transaction. Burchard q Page lost their suit
against Trenor w. Park for $1,000 on a con-
tract while running the Harlem Extension
railroad 10 years ago. The decision in the
suit of the Rutland railroad to compel the
Central Vermont receivers to pay taxes ASSESS
ed along the lines of the Rutland and Addison
roads requires the Rutland company TO pay
their own taxes and the Central to pay those
of the Addison. In another suit two-year old
colts were decided not to come under the
statute exempting horses from attachment
and the suit of Holcomb against Dandy for
injuries received upon the highway while
travelling on Sunday was decided for the
town.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-15

The PARIS EXPOSITION. Gov. Mccormick
the United States Commissioners General to
the Paris Exposition. has returned from
Washington. 1t is expected that the Presi-
dent will soon announce the names of the As
sstant Commissioners most if not ALL of
whom have now been selected. Lists of the
names Of the American exhibitors. with the
character of their exhibits and the locations
from which they are to come, will be prepar-
ed as soon as definite acceptances have been
received from all who have been glantcd
space. The Art committee is progressing in
its work of securing exhibits, and expects to
be able to make n creditable display. The
ships Supply and Constitution, the former of
which is to take exhibits from this port. and
the latter from Philadelphia are both to sail
on the 2jth inst Commissioner Quinby.
from California, arrived yesterday. and states
that exhibits representing the mining, cereal,
wine, and other products of that State are
now ON the way to this port. A section of the
American annex building on the grounds of
the Exposition, 50 feet square, has been set
apart for the exhibition of staple agricultural
products of the United States, and is to have
an ornate star-shaped structure erected in the
centre of a circle. At each point of the star
Is to be a crystal pillar, surmounted by vase,
and in each vase will be plant representing
a leading staple of the United States The
circle surrounding the star is to be faced with
glass, in compartments behind which are to
be exhibited seeds of the various agricultural
products of the United States. An American
engine is TO run the machinery in the Ameri-
can department. but the, steam is to be fur
nished by the French Government. In the
space between the annex and the main build
ing Pullman palace car and a modern Amer
lean school-house are to be exhibited. ". \.
Times. lSt inst.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-15

The BLAND Bill AND THE WoEKINGNEN. .--
The first effect of the Bland bill becoming Il
law would be to reduce the currency dollar to
the value of its silver dollar-about ninety
cents or n little less; and the present wages
in all manufacturing, mechanical farming and
commercial industries would be reduced prac-
tcally ten per cent because the legal-tender
dollar would be reduced to its silver dollar
value. Nobody has the hardihood to-day to
say that the wages of labor are too high. or
yield such profit that the Government is JUS
tilted in scaling the dollar down ten per cent
in order to reduce them. Such reduction on
the going rate of wages will be disastrous to
the workingmen. The price of commodities
which they consume will nominally advance
in the new valuation of the dollar, although
their gold value will remain unatered. Thus
the workingman must pay Sl.lO, new curren-
cy values, for what previously he paid Sl.0O
for. He cannot stand this discrimination
against him, and must demand correspond
ing rise in wages to cOunteract the conse-
quence of being paid in debased currency.
With such demand, difficulties between EN-
ployer and the employed, the unsettling of
the cost of production must ensue, and the
suffering and bearing of the burden of the
change must fall ON the workman. He en-
dures patiently till the grievance is intolera-
BILE he bears the cost of the change out of
his wages the whole expense and loss of
making it in the transaction of business falls
on him. The employer gains so long rs he
can thwart the workman in his effort to have
his pay made equal in buying power to what
it was before the Bland robbery law. There
are other evil effects on the employers which
we are not considering here.
The workngmen of the United States must
suffer and lose at least two hundred millions
of dollars in their wages during the coming
year. and probably much more, if the Bland
bill becomes law. This is not a brilliant
prospect for them especially when we con-
slider that the Bland bill diminishes their saw
ings in bank ten per cent. on every dollar to
their credit in those institutions, which is
another ninety millions loss to them. We may
reasonably ask the silver statesmen to show
us where the bone and muscle the brawny
honest labor of the United States, North and
South East and West gains any equivalent
to compensate for the loss of the three hun
dred millions such law will cost them P
Boston Post.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-15
NO. T..

telegraphed by Prof. Tyndall to the London
Times, and TO be announced at scientific CEN
tres all over the world. Now comes the an
nouncement that the remaining gases have
undergone a similar treatment, and are lique-
fed nitrogen, under n pressure of 200 Mt
mosphercs; hydrogen, under $50. The lat
ter gas was only reduced to an Opaque mist
but the air which we ordinarily breathe was
converted into liquid, and poured out in a
fine stream. The cold required for these OK
perimonts is almost inconcevaIle; it is est-
mated at 300 deg below zero of the Cent?
grade thermometer, equivalent to more than
800 deg. below, Of Fahrcnhcit's scale
The discovereIs who have achieved these
results-M. Cailletet, Of Paris, and NJ Pictct,
of Geneva receive due honor from their
scientific brethren. It remains to be shown
what the discoveries teach. The degree of
cold that was required in condensing common
air, though remarkable, is not greater than is
estimated for the void of space through which
the planets are travelling that extends in
fnitely between and perhaps beyond the stars.
1t was the low temperature-not the great
prcssure-which hqucfod the gases; they
took the liquid form while escaping from pres
sure, and, in the act of escaping, the extreme
cold was attained. II follows that in the
cold Of space, unwarmed by the sun, an at
mosphere like that of our globe would freeze
first into liquid, and then into solid mass,
becoming at last a mere rock as hard as gram
lite. We can now better appreciate the vast
changes which comets undergo in Passing
from the frozen confines of our solar system
to so close a neighborhood of the sun that
they are reduced to vapor Knowing now.
as we do with certainty, the extremes of form
to which all matter is liable, we may surely
predict that the future Of our globe simply
depends upon the amount Of heat received by
its surface. If the heat diminishes, all earth
and air will be sil, stone without the breath
of life upon II; if the heat Increases the
whole world will melt in thin airy y.