Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-04-14

| keep lookout for the eggs of the
caterpillar, which form a ring round
the shoot, usually several hundred in
mass. They may be found by the
thickened appearance of the shoot.
| Cut off the twig and burn it, You will
have cleaner trees, and healthy
with better appearance and bearing
larger, Fighter, handsomer fruit.
1t looks suspicious for dramatic
critic at play to laugh until his vest
buttons rattle off like peas from a pod,
be affected TO tears until he has to bcr-
row an extra handkerchief to absorb
the moisture, applaud till he seems to
| lead TO an encore, and then TO write a
criticism next morning condemning the
play as execrable and the actors as
worse.-NeU Harea Register.
A bicycle exhibition has proved very
attractive in London. That exciting
most attention is a new invention
known as the ''Otto," or safety bicycle.
In this the two wheels are parallel, IN
stead of one in front of the other, and
the person of the bicyclist is balanced
securely by most ingenious arrange
ment between the two, The speed at
tanned by this instrument is said to be
very considerably greater than that on
the tricycle..
my husband is a brute declared
Nine. Y. 10 All intimate friend the 9TH
er day why, my dear, what is the
matter now?" ''He found fault with a
little vivacity of mine, yesterday, and /
threw candlestick ut his head; then
what do you suppose he did ~ II
don't know" Why, he stood before
the mirror, 50 that couldn't throw the
other The brute'
Just as they were to be Frustrated by
smallpox, the family Of Charles Foster,
near Lexington, H., were turned out
into the storm by the burning of their
house. Rather than endauger their
Geighbors, they protected themselves
for seven hours with bed clothing, and
then travelled eight miles in lumber
wagon to reach the residence of n fam
lily already stricken by the epidemic.
A mechanic OF Rochester, n. Y, has,
according 10 his own statements, just
completed duplicate of the celebrated
astronomical clock of Strasburg, in
which city he was born and lived for
many years. The only difference be-
tween the workings of the two clocks
is III their size and i'll the form of the
Astronomical portions. The case for
the main part of the Rochester clock is
ten and one-haf feet high, while tits in
all particulars exactly proportionate to
the clock seventy-ti five feet high which
it initiates.
Red as rose is She" Several gen
tleman were standing on the corner Of
Galveston avenue, when one Of the
most fashionable ladies o. Galveston
passed on the sidewalk. "Ahw ex-
claimed one of the gentleman, what
a complexion! There is nothing to
beat it inGalveston. | am proud Of
that woman, ! am" "Are your her
husband?' asked n stranger. "No, sir. "
Her father them ''No, sir; | am no
relation of her, but / am proud of her
complexion. | am the druggist that
sold it to her. | made it myself y
Galveston Ne,M
In connection with the plague Of tel
egraph poles and the peril of the mn
der ground wires it is of interest to
l.now that the work of laying subter-
ranean cables is proceeding favoIably
from Nancy to Paris. The telegraph
line is composed of twelve insulated
wires placed in large tube Of cast iron.
For each length of 800 meters doors
have been arranged so that any section
can be removed and replaced without
having to open the ground, which is
Necessary in the German system of lay
ing the cables in solid bed of asphalt
When tt ) experiment shall have been
fairly tried it will be in order to consider
the subterranean question on this side
of the Atlantic.