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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-27
First Things in American Iron.

Iron was first made in America in
lou, at point on Falling creek, a
branch OF the James river, In Virginia
-, Inc hrst iron manufactured west of
me Allegheny mountains was made in
fayette county, Pa, in 1870.
The first rolling-mill west of the Al
lieegheny mountains was located on Cheat
river, III what is now West Virginia.
Inc date OF It's erection is unknown.
1be first rolling-mill in Pittsburgh
was built by Christopher Cowan, an En-
9ilshman, in 1872. Ct had no pudding
furnaces nor was it intended to roll bar
iron. N-
The first rolling-mill erected west of
the Aueghenies to puddle iron and roll
oars was built in 1916 and 1917. at O
place called Middletown, better known
as Plumsock, in Fayette county, Pa.
f1g-lron, manufactured with bitumin-
Gus coke, is claimed to have first been
made as regular product in the United
States by Z. H. Oliphant, at Uniontown,
fayette county, Pa, in 1886.
Knocked bituminous coal was first
used IN blast-frrnace about the wear
1913, in the Shenango valley. Pa.
Ine first use OF Lake Superior iron
ore IN a blast-furnace was in 1858. by
Davld and John Agnew, at Sharpsville,
Mercer county, Pa.
Cast-steel was made in the American
colonies at an early day. In 1906 there
were two steel-furnaces in PENNSYLVANIA.
producing $50 tons of steel annually.
Bessemer steel was first made in the
United States at Wyandotte, Mich. in
the autumn of 1864.
The first Bessemer steel rails rolled in
tins country were rolled at the North
chicago rolling-mil on the oath of Nav.
1860, from hammered blooms made al
the Wyandotte rolling-mill from ingots
OF steel made at the experimental steel
works at Wyandotte.
The first iron rails of any kind made
in this country were cast by the Lebiob
Navigation Company, at their foundry
IN the upper end of Mauch Chunk, Pa.
IN 1926. A few fiat rails were rolled
prior to 1912, but such rails were only
bar iron. The manufacture of heavy
wrought rails was commenced at the MI.
Savage rolling-mill, in Allegheny county.
Md, in 1914.
The first iron vessel built in the
United States was launched at Pitts
burgh in 1889. It was named the Val,
ley Forge. For general navigation pur-
poses it was completely successful.
Other iron vessels were built at Pitts
burgh within the next decade, among
them an iron schooner for ocean service
and an iron steamer, the Michigan. for
service on the lake-both built for the
Government about 1912. The latter is
still doing Government service Oh the
lakes.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-27
The YeSuYiuS RaiiHaY.

The railway up Vesuvius kn own as
the Funicolare is French undertaking.
It was started from capital of :e72, DOT
and costs ga. 600 a year to maintain. In
fifteen years the company expect to re-
alize the entire capital, and, as the lease
from the Government runs thirty years.
there will remain fifteen years for profits,
which are estimated at Is per cent. after
the working expenses are taken out.
The company is insured in five French
houses at 4 francs per 1000. No En-
glish house was willing to insure it un-
der 10 francs. Everything about the
road is said to be well managed. At
the top there is restaurant, and a
good ones
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-27

The Germans know how to manage
matters. In Berlin, as in other cities
and towns of Germany, street music is
not only tolerated, but licensed, and the
consequence is-what? Why, that there
is little Or no street music. The license
kills it. You need have no alteration
with man or woman who refuses to go
away with his or her gurdy gurdy, bag
pipes or trombone. You take his or
her number, and complain to the police;
and they ''see about it." Merely that
and nothing more.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-27

THE famous big trees of California.
Soo to Oo Feet high and procortionately
try a8 81: Is an acre, End nsy he pougla
up aad destroyed by 1hoevsT wishes le
I;sae use Of them. The Dark has .lready
been peeled from tie butt of ole for a
Snowman, who sets it up at fairs as an
erhibitlon, and another has been cut
doH'z III order to make a dancing plat.
sor,n OF the stump.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-27

School bill. A more just and generous
opportunity will meet a just and gener-
Gus response. 1, for one, sympathized
with the reluctance of women to play
beggar-maid to that little Cophetua.
Ii DE Tocqueville was right in attrib-
uhng the singular prosperity and
growing strength of the American peo-
pie mainly to the superiority Of their
women, it is time that the common
wealth availed itself more directly of the
reserve forces and sources of such supe-
riority."
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-27

1t is minated that lawn tennis and
laziness were prominent factors in CANS
ing the collapse OF Thomas Hughes
Rugby enterprise in Tennessee.
CHESTERFIELD used to say, "Never
walk fast; gentleman is never in a
hurry" But then there were no rail-
road trains or horse cars to catch in his
day.-LoWeU Citizen.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-27
GOSSIP For THE LADIES.
The Sercra5e.

Josie johnson, she sweet spinner who spun,
And Sam Salter, her lover, a singer who sung,
And her heart with his wiles like wringer he
wrUng
As the yarn on the spindle was winding she wound
Her affections around him. which finding he found
A pleasure il grinding the bosom he ground
For SANS fcllle heart it did swing as twas swung
TO girl III the choir who did sing where he sung
And made walls and ratters 10 ring Till they rang.
30 one night, serenading her, creeping, Sam crept
10 her window. while Josie who weeping had went
her eyes almost out before sleeping, row slept.
Ihe stars strew the SKY thick twas strown;
Inc 2elhy-s blew banly as ever they'd blown,
And Sam threw his voice slick ever he'd thrown
The maid serenaded. she tore, or did tear.
Out of bed and the clothing she wore she did voar
And herself 10 the window she bore or did bear.
Josie, too, At Sans voice lightly springing up,
sprung
From her couch, and the shutters back Ringing she
flung.
And meanwhile TO her rival Sam, singing, thus
sung:
s.Cruel alto thy voice sends the dart it has sent
That rends this fond heart-rnore precisely, has
And which bleeding now spends the last drop it has
spent.
go deal not the wounds thou has. formerly dealt,
For kneel AZ thy winGow-or rather have kue!t:
But make me feel better than ever I've felt"
Could Sam in his paint more tine spending have
spent,
Or more rathos still 10 il lending have lent
Toward him his girls heart, fondly vending had
went
But here Josie, enraged, cried out, bleeding or
Il teach You you'd better be needing your head;n
And pitcher near by, swiftly speeding, she sped
Now Josie, though not a singer who sung,
Was something in the way OF a finger who flung
tor square Oh Sans forehead the wringer if
wrung!
But The missile was fra, Coz, in c.eavng it cleft
80 then Bleeding in earnest, SAM leaving it left
one G1!ass. LsreaXing. Tie nt.er hareft -
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-27

A Southern law journal thus expresses
its views OF the woman's right question ::
We do not hesitate to express our ut
ter repugnance to all such acts (as those
relating to the separate property of mar
red women). Revelation teaches us
that God made man and wife one. Reye-
latlon is always abreast of the times >
and whenever legislation attempts to
step beyond the boundary lines defined
by 1t Gas We think the tendency of all
the acts Isl, it must be peInicious in its
effects on society,""
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-27

Josie johnson, she was = sweet spinner who s,,un
And Sam Salter, her lover, singer who sung,
And her heart with his wiles like wringer he
wrUng.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-27
Turkish Women.

1mhfSh W Osnens
The Turkish woman is manageable
at the age OF 9 years, and, by Turkish
law, at that age, if married, she is com
petent to manage her property and dis.
pose of one-third of her fortune. The
law allows her to abandon her husbands
house for just cause, and will prote It
her IN SO doing. She can not be COM
PEELED to labor for the support
OF her husband. On the con-
trary, he is compelled to support her
and it is penal offense to insult or IN,
treat her. On an accusation of infidelity
her oath Is accepted as equally good
with his, and collateral proof must he
obtained. Should he not furnish her
with funds she is authorized to borrow
IN his name, and even to sell his prop
erty. After marriage she has the abso.
lutte control OF her own property, which
he can not touch.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-27

Women Voting.
1t Is to be expected that women. so
far as they are allowed to vote. will
use the suffrage upon questions appeal
ing to their natural sympathies with
greater freedom and more instructive
discrimination than in cases where their
ballots would affect purely-political
result. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps touches
upon this point in recent letter con-
tanning the following characteristic OBJ
servatlons $50 far as I understand
the municipal-suffrage plan, it is the
next thing for us women. Hundreds
Of women will vote on sharply-defned
moral questions Ike the liquor prob
lens who would not move for anything
else. It is true that the self-respect of
women was not met by the limited
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-27

Why demand that all the morality
should be on the side of woman? What
ever degrades woman also degrades q
man. Take some Of the vices and hab-
Its OF the day. A man smokes filthy
cigar, or carries about half an ounce Of
tobacco in his cheek, and yet expects his
wife to preserve clean mouth and a
sweet breath. Again, a young man
starts out to spend the evening with his
adored Evelina. Should he find her not
at home, but In the neighboring saloon,
however genteel it might be, that would
be his last visit. In his estimation she
would have sunk below his level, and yet
that young man himself is daily visitor
to that same saloon, and engages in all
its exercises.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-27

But the missile was fral, Coz, in ceaving. it cleft
One dainse. bereaving, the ether bereft.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-08-03
Accidents.

TH IRTY cases Of small pox are said tc
exist at Lake City, Iowa.
The steam mill of Skidmore & Thatch.
err, at Walbridge, O., valued at $500
was destroyed by lire, July 30.
ONE MILLION feet of lumber and 100,-
coo shingles were destroyed by fire in the
yard of the Minneapolis Mill company.
ScHwATKA, the Arctic explorer, lies i'll
with malarial fever at the Providence
hospital in Washington.
ELEVEN deaths by lockjaw from the toy
Davenport.
THE glazed. paper factory at Springfield,
Mass, valued at $4,000, was burned,
and four fremen we're seriously injured
by falling wall.
A DUEL was fought at Christiansburg,
Va, between Captain John s. Wise and
John $. Crockett. Two shots were fired,
when the latter expressed himself satisfied.
AN Illinois Central freight train of sixty
cars broke apart near Centralia, and those
remaining on the track were torn to pieces
by the New Orleans express. Engineer
Van Patten and Fireman Weldon sprang
vi anu Ntic 'ttNlJ Ahlui'ts
By collision on the Little Miami road
near Fosters Crossing, O., two engines
were wrecked and two freight-cars thrown
into the river. +. II. McCabe. Judge adj
vocate general of Louisiana, was one Of
the five persons injured.
CHARLrs II. WENDBERGER, residing
near Grard Rapids, Mich, fell from the
window on the fourth flo or of hotel in
Washington, and was so seriously injured
that he lived but six hours.
LAKE MICHIGAN has yielded up the
corpse of Earnest Spencer, whose mystic
rious Disappearance: caused such pro
having gained ground that he had beer
abducted for ransom.
THE works of the Brown Manufacturing
Company, at Zlnesvile, O., covering :
railroad and river frontage of five hundred
feet, were swept away by an incendic-y
fire, causing loss of SIPS, 0O0, including
twelve huldred wagons and cultivstors.
THE people Of Chicago were startled
by an explosion July 30, which forebodeC
terrible results. 1t occurred in stone
quarry on the Whisky Point road, at tat
west end, where workman preparing
charge was opening twenty-five poun,
can of powder with steel chisel ant
wooden mallet. A spark fred the maya
zine, in which two loads of powder wer,
placed on "wednesday. John Sobel, join
Anderson, and Nike Britton were badl,
injured. The buildings of the Chicago
Rubber company and the sheds of the st
Paul road were riddled. and windows wer,
broken for distance Of a mile from TIT
eI plosion.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-08-03
Cablegrans.

GENERAL ULYSSES HKUREUY has been
elected president of San Domingo.
THE Spanish treasury department sent
to Havana 81 100000 in gold coin.
ONE of the assassns OF Cavendish and
Burke has been captured at Puerto Cabel-
10, Venezuela.
A cABLEGRAM from London announces
the death of Edward Arthur Wellington,
second Baron keaue.
ITALY has been invited "a participate
in protecting the Sue 2 canal, and will
probably be asked to cooperate with Eng-
land in restori ng order in Egypt,
THREE hundred houses were destroyed
by fire at Radziwillow, Russia; and a
boiler EXPLOSION sunk the steamer Mos
kow, causing the loss of 200 lives.
EARL KIMBERLY has accepted the chan
cellorship of the duchy of Lancaster,
made vacant by the resignation Of John
Bright.
J. c. HoUsEAU, director Of the Brussels
observatory, has arrived in San Antonio,
Texas, TO prepare to observe the transit of
Venus in December.
IN q courtroom in Dublin shot was
fired at the recorder by a man named Fitz-
patrick, who had been nonsuited as
plaintiff.
THE Dublin papers state that O'Brien,
the selfconfessed assassin of Lord Caven-
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-08-03
How to Keep Butter

In the report of the Vermont Dairy.
mems Association, Mr.. X. A. Willard
stated that he knew from actual expe-
rience that good butter put up after
the following directions will keep in
sound condition one year: Use for a
package tub somewhat tapering, with
heavy slaves and heads provided at
both ends, so as to make package that
will not leak. In packing, the tub is
turned on the small end, and sack of
cotton cloth Is IL ade to fit the tub, and
into this the butter is packed until it
reaches to within an inch of the groove
for holding the upper head. A cloth is
next laid upon the top of the butter
and the edges of the sack brought over
this and neatly pressed down; then the
head is put in its place and the hoops
driven home The package is now
turned upon the large end and the sack
of butter drops down, leaving a space
on the sides and top. Strong brine is
then poured through hole in the
small end and until it will feat the
butter. The whole is tightly corked,
and the butter is pretty etfectually ex-
cluded from the air. Where only
small quantity of butter is to be pre-
served, l.. B. Arnold advises packing it
it in selt-sealing fruit jars. By this plan
little brine is put into the jar. which
is then packed not quite full of grauu-
lated butter. Some bleached muslin is
laid over the butter, then the little
place above filled with salt, and finally
enough strong brine, made from butter
salt, poured in to I'll the can. Mr.. Will
ard advises when packing roll butter in
jars that the brine be made strong en-
ough to bear an egg. To three gollons
of this brine he suggests adding quar-
ter of pound of white sugar and one
tablespoonful of saltpetre. Bell the
brine, and, when it is cool strain care
fully. Make the butter into rolls and
wrap each roll separately in white mus
lin cloth. Pack the jar full, weight the
butter down and submerge in brine.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-08-03

dish, sailed from Northwall ten minutes
before the tragedy occurred. His real
name is Westgate, and he is 2 Sootchman.
THREE Americans and an Austrian,
while Oil dehauch at Ningpo, China, bru-
tally assaulted Chinese captain of war
Junk, and at latest accounts the safety OF
all foreigners was ieopardized by the in
dignation among the natives.
JOHN DILLON. M. p. in an address at
Mallow on the 26!h, said if Parnell had
sixty firm supporters in parliament they
could render imperative the repression
bill, as for every person arrested under its
provisions, they would waste two days
time in discussing it in the house.
THE O'Flaherty brothers, who were ar
rested in Ireland on suspicion of con-
nection with the assassination of Cav
endish and Bourke, we've recently re-
leased at Tralee. One is railway eugi-
neer from Chicago.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-08-03
PlOughing Under Clover.

A New York State correspondent
writes to The Country Gentleman: Flowing
clover for wheat is still largely practic-
ed in this section with the difference
that now the top is mostly cut off and
and saved for hay, and only the roots
with what foliage cannot be re-
moved turned under. One fact about
the recently cut clover hay may not be
generally known. 1t is that so long as
the clover is standing the soil will be
as hard as brick and almost unplough
able; but if plowed within three or four
days after the clover has been removed
the soil will turn up with comparative
case. | have noticed two instances of
this within the past month, and it is a
fact which | have never seen re corded.
That the mass of clover foliage should
dry the soil rapidly is not strange. The
inexplicablc part Of it is that after this
foliage has been removed, without any
rain, the soil should become friable and
comparatively moist. 1t may be that
the process Of drawing water from the
subsoil, which with full foliage, is at
once evaporated, goes on with little in
teIIuptioH lOl tlihc dltel tuo iOiiaSS
is removed. The surface roots will thus
be made very sappy, just as the sap
exudes from the stumps of vigorous
trees cut in the spring after the flow of
sap has begun. Probably the effect in
helping the blowing by removing the
summer foliage, would not be the
same with plants not having the long
deep roots of clover The experiments
of Voelcker have shown that clover
makes the best preparation for wheat
after the first crop has been removed.
The soil is then richer in fertilizing
material than at any previous stage of
the clover growth. 1t is its beneficial
effects on the sub-soil that makes clover
so good preparation for wheat. Other
forage plants with roots near the sur
face, are of little value.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-08-03
Criminal.

JOAN n. DONALDSON. of Milwaukee,
has challenged Tug Wilson, or any other
man except John l.. Sullivan, to fight
within six weeks fer 5000.
TEE body Of John Weber, mill-owner
of WATERFOWL, W., was found in Rock
river, July 81, and it is believed that in a
fit of insanity he drowned himself.
JOHN RUDD. postal agent on the Lit
tie Rock and Memphis road. who confesses
having robbed the mails for some time,
was trapped by decoy letter.
SAM. LAWRENCE, colored waiter of
Chicago, has been held Dy the coroners
jury for the murder of DR.. Joel Prescott.
Rev. HARVEY SrEARNs. of Fort Worth
in an ARRAY with farmer named Jeffer-
son, inflicted upon him fatal wound with
a club, and has been lodged in jail.
THREE masked men robbed stage near
tered packages from the mail pouches and
relieving four passengers of their money.
A GANG of convicts were sent to Benton,
Ark, to gravel on a railway, but the citi-
zens burned their stockade. and compelled
the party to return to Little Rock under
threats OF death.
MANY members OF the Navajo tribe are
off the reservation, and are daily commit
ting depredations. One band was driven
back to the agency by company Of New
Mexican militia.
JosEPH SAVERS, an inmate of the Cen
trail prison at Toronto, was given twenty
FIVE lashes on the bare back for an attempt
to outrage young girl
AT Augusta. KY, July 2S, while Mar
shall r. ID. Lane sat in front Of a store
engaged in conversation, Ivan ". Bow
man rushed up and killed him with shot
gun, firing into his breast.
AT the Indian agency near Arkansas
City, party of Cheyennes and Conan
ches recently dropped down on the Otoes
and Nez Perces, and urged them to take
the war-path and secure larger rations of
beef.
ANTHONY CoMsTocK, followed by nine
policemen in citizens dress. raihed 2
pool-room in Barclay street. New York.
Fourteen employees Were taken to the
Tomb, and $3.50 in money and $4,000 pool
tickets seized. The penalty for pool-sell-
ing is 1000 fine or imprisonment for one
year.
A. j. KISLooH, the dissipated younger
son of Scottish nobleman, has for three
years been in the clutches of hotel-keep-
err at Kansas City, who managed to secure
the allowance of $1,000 per annum regu-
larly forwarded from Edinburgh. When
kinloch became too ill to move about
Coyne had two negroes place him on the
train for New York. where he died at a
police station.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-08-03
The Singing Tree.
From the Y outh's Companion.

The "stinging tree" Of Queensland is
luxurious shrub, pleasing to the eye
but dangerous to the touch. Il grows
from to or three inches to ten or tif-
teen feet in height, and emits disa-
greeable odor. Says q traveller:
Sometimes, while shooting turkeys
in the scrubs, l have entirely forgotten
the singing tree till | was warned of
its close proximity by its smell, and
have often found myself in little for
est of them. | was only once stung,
and that very lightly. It's effects are
curious; it leaves no mark, hut the pain
is maddening; and for months after
ward the part when touched is tender
in rainy weather, or when it gets wet
in washing, etc. | have seen man
who treats ordinary pain very lightly
roll on the ground in agony after being
stung, and l have known horse so
completely mad, after getting into a
grove of trees, that he rushed open
mouthed at every one who approached
him, and had to be shot. Dogs, when
stung, will rush about whining piteous-
ly, biting pieces from the affected part.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-08-03

CONGRESS has made small appro-
priation to defray the expenses of max
ing preliminary Government survey
of the proposed Hennepin Canal. The
scheme is one Of the most feasible and
practicable for connecting the great
lakes and the Western rivers, and
making continuous water route to
the seaboard, that has yet been sug-
gested, and the people of the East and
West are to be congratulated upon this
initiative ctof Congress. The rich and
productive West needs the canal to
cheaper Interpretations, and thus re-
ceive higher price for their corn, beef,
pork, flour and other agricultural prod
ucts, and the consumers of all these at
the East need it because it will make
their food cheaper and the cost of liv.
ing less. The question of its construc-
ton underlies the whole transportation
problem, or at least it must be corsid-
cred now as a prime factor in the case,
and will nelp to solve that disagreeab'e
and perplexing but very important
subject.