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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-09-13
The Peculiar Old Mystery /!


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would patients they prescribing for them They said
patients good know, and that would only be graft
In order keep patients from knowing they
that patients could
All that oftng Ihcpacnwan nowwhat
he be he dypcptc and
wants to digest troublesome liver which he nile
quito Browns Iron Bte about which there
mystery all This the hest preparation Of iron in the world
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-09-13

Prince Bismark has ordered his
final bust. When the next mail
arrives he viii be flooded with CON
gratulatory letters from temperance
refornRrs.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-09-13

THE VoLrAIc BELT Co, Marshall Mich. viii
send DR. Dyes Celebrated Electr -Voltaic Belts
and Electric Appliances on trial for thirty days
to men young or old who are afflicted with nerv-
GUS debility, lost vitality and kindred troubles
guaranteeing speedy and complete restoration OF
health and manly yigor. Address as above N.
BIO risk is incurred as thirty days trial il al
lowed
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-09-13

The best cure for diseases of the nerves, brain
and muscles, is Browns Iron Bitters
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-09-13
PERSONAL 40 Wen Only.

That Husband of Mine is three tunes the man
he was beiore be hegnn using Mells Health NeneNer
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-09-13

Oscar will take his play on a trip.
1t will be a regular Vera cruise.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-09-13

Don't Die IN the house "RouEh on Rats" Clears
out rats, mice, fos, reaches bedbugs. loo.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-09-13
VOLCANIC NEWS.

The following dispatch has been re-
ceived at the navy department from
Commander Barker. of the U, S. steam
ship Enterprise, at Batavia, where she
was directed to go for the purpose of
investigating the results of the recent
volcanic eruptions in that vicinity:
" Enterprise arrived on the 4th inst
Princess and Great channels safe 4;
Avox BEIGE channel, all lights out eX-
cept Java head. Dutch cruisers warn
vessels.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-09-13

DR. Pierces pleasant Pmgative Pellets are
sugar-c0ated and inclosed in glass bottles their
Virtuea being Thereby preserved unimpaired for
any length If time, any climate. - that they
Sre always fresh an reliable. No cheap wooden
or pasteb0ard boxes By druggists
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-09-13

There is talk of desperation between
the King and Queen of Roumania,
owing to the marriage being without
issue.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-09-13
Washington.
NEWS FROM PENSACOLA.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4-Acting sec
rotary of the navy has received the
following telegram from Pensacola
" Since last report no new cases among
the naval force. Death at hospital,
Private Gotten.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-09-13

volcanic eruptions in that vicinity:
Enterprise arrived on the 4th inst.
Princess and Great channels safe
Avox BEIGE channel, all lights out eX-
cept Java head Dutch cruisers warn
vessels.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR.
The president arrived this morning
at 10 o'clock on the Washington ex-
press of the Baltimore & Potomoc
road, which brought down the West
ern * Northern passengers. The run
from Baltimore, sixty miles, was made
in forty-four minutes. The train con
sisted of five heavily laden cars, be-
sides that placed at the disposal of the
president At the depot Private Secre.
tary Pruden and some attaches.
MR.. NEW,
assistant secretary of the treasury, to-
day said that the report that he had
resigned was unfounded. He had not
resigned yet, and did not propose to
talk on the subject. II is understood
that efforts are making by his friends
particularly those from Indiana, to
have him reconsider his determination
to resign. An lndianaian who holds
prominent position in the treasury
department, said to-day after a long
conversation with New that the latter's
friends would not allow him to resign.
1t is believed the visit of Postmaster
General Gresham to the white house
Immediately on the arrival of the
president was with reference to News
resignation. 1t is thought by News
friends that he should be allowed a
leave of absence long enough to at
tend to his affairs in Indiana, and
they believe, should this be done, he
will not want to resign.
SALARIES.
The system of grading salaries pro-
portionally in accordance with the
receipts of the offices is unfavorably
commented upon at the department,
for the reason that under this system
postmasters are continually tempted
to make fictitious sales of stamps in
order to increase their compensation.
AN INDIAN DUDE.
Little Chief, a Cheyenne Indian,
has sent an unique appeal to the sec
rotary of the interior for new suit of
clothes. He says; don't care much
for grub, but | do like to dress in prop
err style. / want the best white pants
you can purchase in the market. "
THE FRENCH WANT TO SEE 10.
In answer to an application from
the French charge de affairs for per
mission to take twenty Indians from
the reservations to France for exhi-
bition, Commissioner Price has ad-
vised the secretary of the interior to
refuse the request, on the ground that
such exhibitions would result in the
decentralization of the Indians, and
render them dissatisfied with life at
the agencies.
THE EXPORTS.
The excess OF the value of exports
over imports for the twelve months
ended July 81, 1883, is $107 379, 236.
The imports of merchandise decreased
1913, 7S5, 054 for the year ended July
81, 1883, as compared with the same
time last year. Exports increased
$40 4S9. TIP.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-09-13

Wells Rough ON COrns." i5c. Ask for II
Complete, permanent cure. COrns. warts. bunious.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-09-13

The excess OF the value of exports
over imports for the twelve months
ended July 81, 1883, is $107, 379, 236.
The imports of merchandise decreased
1913, 7S5, 054 for the year ended July
81, 1888, as compared with the same
time last year. Exports increased
$40 4S9. ZIP
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-03-26
QUALITY OF EGGS.

A gentleman once demonstrated
with his market-wOman on the high
price of her eggs, TO which she re-
piled: Eggs is eggs nowadays. |
would have you know" meaning that
they were scarce. II am very glad
to know it, said the gentleman,
4'for the last | bought of you were
chickens"
Eggs are eggs, whatever may be
the price, but there is a difference in
the quality even of fresh eggs. They
are all manufactured alike, but they
are not all made of the same mateyi-
al, and hence the difference. 1T is q
well-established fact that the food oi
fowls affects the taste of the eggs as
we'll as the taste of their flesh The
flesh of water fowls that live on fisl
has fishy flavor, and their eggs par
take of the same. So the odor ant
flavor of onions may be detected il
the eggs of barn-yard fowls, and
does not always require detectiy
10 perceive it. All this might be il
ferred from the slightest knowledg
of animal physiology, and 1t is prov
ed by actual experience.
The quality of eggs cannot be a
cerlained in the market, excepting {
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-03-26
AWicnltural Impairment.
LIGHTER BARNS AND
STABLES.

The rule observed in nearly all
houses is to make a dwelling as light
and cheerful as possible. Men no
longer put windows in their houses
two feet wide and three Feet high,
with panes of glass six by eight inch
es in size. The rule now runs in the
other direction. They want all the
light they can get; the more the bet
ter. They have learned the value of
sunlight not only on the mind, but
also on the health. People don't
thrive in cells from which daylight
has been excluded. Even our farm
ers, who are sometimes slow to fol-
low the fashions of the hour, admit
the correctness and propriety of this
modern innovation. The comfort
able modern farmhouse resembles
the statelier city mansion in this re-
spect. There are large windows on
all sides, and plenty of them. They
feel better in mind and body for
them, and would not do without
them. But here nearly all our farm
ers stop. They recognize the great
benefits that result from well-lighted
dwellings. but when it comes to
building barns, they almost invari-
ably ignore this principle. They want
to live in the light themselves, but
they consign their horses and cattle
to the darkness and obscurlty which
are characteristic of our old-fashion-
ed barns and stables. There are no
reasons for believing that domestic
animals do not enjoy light quite as
much as human beings. On the con-
trary, experiments have proven that
COWS give more and better milk when
changed from dark stables TO light
ones, and also that they can be kept
in better condition on less food. If
returned to their former quarters the
flow of milk shrinks at once. Is q
stronger argument in favor of better
lighted stables needed? When the
gases and smells of stable combine
with darkness, the sight of horses is
injured. Windows that shall admi
fresh air as well as light are abso
lutely essential to their general health
In many new barns these requisites
are carefully observed. The animals
seem to appreciate the changed con
ditIon of things as greatly as human
beings would. Let the same princi
Piles we apply in our houses be ap
piled to barns and stables. If W
find it beneficial, agreeable and de
sirable in our own cases, have W
not reason to think it is equally de
sirable to the inferior animals com
mitted to our care?
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-03-26
gaaiea' G.l Lam.
PRESERVATION OF FURS AND
WINTER WRAPS.

There are many ladies at the end
of a season. who evince very care
less spirit in the way they have of
laying aside articles of wear, which
the weather no longer renders neces-
sary. This is more applicable to ex-
pensive furs, which if not properly
taken care of, will be in a short time
rendered perfectly useless. A fire.
quent cause of the decay of furs is
their exposure to moisture, by being,
IN many instances, hung up or laid
aside in damp state. The conse-
quence of this neglect is evidenced
by the delicate under-fur quickly rot
ting and falling out. To preserve
furs in good condition it is, there
fore, necessary that they should be
perfectly dry when laid away. Furs
that have been exposed to rain or
snow should first be well shaken, and
afterwards thoroughly dried at a
moderate temperature.
They are also liable to be injured
or entirely destroyed by several spe-
cies of moths; who make nests and
deposit their eggs at the roots of the
fur. Directly the worm is Matched it
goes on it's travels, eating a way
right through the fur or skin, accord
ing to the species it belongs to, some
attacking the fur and others the skin.
This goes on until the insect changes
into a moth, and by this time the fur
has become total wreck.
To prevent this, furs, before being
laid aside for the summer, should be
thoroughly beaten, to destroy any in
sect that may have already attached
themselves, and if the boxes in which
they were bought are still entire, they
may be laid aside without further
protection. But in this case it is ne
cessary to renew the beating process
once in four weeks, and carefully
comb the fur with a coarse toothed
comb.
They may be successfully preserv-
ed for the whole season if a quantity
of crude camphor reduced to powder,
is we'll mixed with the fur; this can
be supplemented by few pieces
dropped into the box. Another good
, way is to slightly dredge the fur with
red pepper, and carefully wrap up Oh
5 put it in box. The great objection
, to the use of camphor and pepper i:
5 the disagreeable smell they leave
when the furs are wanted. Wher
e pepper is used, the odor is not yer,
disagreeable or permanent, but tina
D of camphor can be detected for man
n weeks on articles that have beer
: treated with this gum.
If the furs are free of moth germs
5 and secured in a Theoretically scale,
# box, they want no other protectiv
). preparation. Some ladies, in prefer
y ence to using paper or boxes, seN
: their furs up in cotton and linen
e very good plan after the furs hav
u been we'll beaten and treated to
IS little red pepper.
IS Fine India shawls and wooden dress
y es may be preserved by a simila
Is process. With these precautions
a the most valuable furs and wraps ca
h be kept unlnjured for any number {
ID wears
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-03-26
WASHINGTON COUNTY
DAIRY NOTES.

The farmers in this section find in
the dairy account their largest source
of income. In fact Excluding the
products of the forest and quarries,)
the income from the COWS will exceed
that from all other sources in this
county. A few raise horses and
oxen; some sheep are kept; but
most farmers keep all the COWS their
farms will keep, with just sufficient
teams to do their work. The school
district where / have always lived
has 10 farms, or about 1000 acres,
and there are kept in it 200 cows.
AS near as | can learn, we have sold
over IS, 900 worth of butter during
the past year, besides providing our
families with milk, cream and butter.
Many other districts have doubtless
done better, and some may not have
done as well. Prices for butter have
been high enough, ranging from p
to ~ cents. Sold at Montpelier in
open market every week in the year,
without contract or special customers,
my own butter has averaged 271a
cents per pound for the year 1882.
In 1881 il averaged "a, in 1880 it
averaged 81 cents; and in 1879 II
cents.
There are some fine cows in this
county. | visited the farm of Mr..
Ketchum of Barre, recently; he has
fine herd of Jerseys that have av-
eraged $40 pounds of butter in year
for each COW and heifer of the herd
of ten. Levi 5. Pitkin of Marshfeld
docs about as well with larger herd
Nathan Skinner of Plainfeld, has
made 500 from one cow and 500 il
$50 days. But these bright exam
pies have too little following and TO
the whole county the average is no
over $50 pounds per COW in year
With good breeds Of COWS we'll fe'
and tended the average ought to b
at least 800 per COW, and with on
sweet pastures, good hay, pure waite
and neat dairy women, it ought t
be all or nearly all sweet butter
Still, with dairying as it is, and otf
er farm products bringing good pri'
es, intelligent farming pays; and
believe it always will. 1t is a goo
time TO get out of debt and 4 splel
did time to keep out. Brother farm
ers let us thank God and take cou
age; let us labor and study to il
prove ourselves and our noble cal
mo Mirror. and Farmer.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-03-26

China possesses the longest bridge
in the world. 1t is at Lagang, over
an arm of the China sea, and is five
miles long, built entirely of stone,
20 feet high, with roadway 20 feet
wide and has 800 arches. The par
apet is balustrade, and each of the
pillars, which are ~ feet apart,
supports a pedestal on which is
placed lion q feet long, made of
one block of marble. The Victoria
bridge at Montreal, is only $500
feet; the old long bridge at Wash
ington is one mile and one eighth.
while the Brooklyn bridge is 1888
feet, two spans, one single span be-
ing 1 ,595H feet, the height of the
main towers being 278 feet, while
the bridge itself is 120 feet above the
water, and the Niagara is only 80
feet long.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-03-26

Old run out lands be restored to their original
fertility by thorough cultivation and liberal applica
lions of Bradey's Phosphate, for good crops he
grown with this Phosphate alone, even if the land be
poor. L. A. Nichols of Lunenburg, VT. says in this
connections
plonghed six acres of WORKOUT meadow land that
would not produce than one-half toti OF hay to
the and sowed it to oats. using 200 pounds Of
BradIeys Phosphate to the and other manure.
harvested S20 bushels Of good oats. and the straw
was worth Tor Ray etocE than the hay this land
would have produced. The oats we're entirely free
from rust. which also attribute TO the use Of the
Phtsphate
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-03-26
DOMESTIC RECIPES.

PUFF PUDDING.-One and half |
cups of flour, one of milk, two eggs,
and little salt; bake in hot oven
twenty minutes in patty pans. Serve
with sauce.
Boston TEA-CAKEs. = One we'll
beaten egg, two tablespoonfuls of
sugar, one cupful of sweet milk, one
teaspoonful of soda dissolved in the
milk, two teaspoonfuls of cream of
tartar sifted into the dry flour, two
heaping cupfuls of sifted flour, one
tablespoonful of butter, melted.
Bake in small tins.
Snow CAKE.-Three-fourths of a
cup of butter, two cups of sugar, one
cup of milk, one cup of corn starch,
two cups -four, one and one-half tea
spoonfuls of baking powder; mix
corn starch, flour and baking powder
together; add the butter and sugar
alternately with the milk; lastly add
the whites of seven eggs. Flavor to
taste.
EGG BALLs.-Boil four eggs ten
minutes; drop into cold water, and
when cool remove the yollls; pound
these in a mortar until reduced to q
paste, and then beat them with tea
spoonful of salt, speck of pepper
and the white of one raw egg; form
in balls about the size of a walnut ;
roll in flour and fry brown in butter
or chicken fat, being careful not to
| burn.
FINE PANCAKEs.-Take a pint of
cream, eight eggs Qeave out two of
the whites), three large spoonfuls of
orange-fower water, a little sugar
and grated nutmeg; melt a small
quantity of butter with the cream
over the fire then add three spoon.
fuls of flour, and mix well together
butter the frying-pan for the first
let them run as thin as you can in tn,
pan, fry them quick, and send then
up hot.
OYSTER SoUP.-Put a pint of oys
tiers with their liquor into colande
and let them drain for five minutes
then after removing all the oyste
liquor, pour pint of boiling waite
> on the oysters. Throw this waite
> away. Add pint of fresh boilin
! water to the oyster liquor; and let
d boil in a porcelain-lined sauce-pa
until all the scum has risen and bee
i SKINNED off then add pint {
Is fresh milk, one powdered watt
. cracker, a piece of butter, a lit
: salt and pepper. Boil ten minute
'e and just before the soup is to. |
le served turn in the oysters from tt
- colander and let them scald for thrt
minutes. Oyster soup prepared
this way will not disagree with il
:" valids.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-03-26

RHUBARB OR Pie PLANT.-This
plant should be in every garden. It
comes early, before there is anything
else fit for pies OF sauce. 1t is east
ly raised, yields largely, will grow on
almost any soil, though it does bet
ter when it is rather moist. 1t is a
gross feeder, and no one need be
afraid to apply fertilizing material in
abundance in some form. 1t does
better if transplanted once in three
or four years. If it is not so treated
the stalks will be smaller and not so
saleable when raised for market.
When it is set roots with only two
eyes should be used. These will
very soon increase so as to form
large stool. Moist, rich land will
give the best crop, but if one wishes
to get it very early it is better to put
it in warm exposure on light land.
Many start it in a hot-bed or green
house, and so get it very early. Some
people can it as they would fruit OF
other vegetables, and esteem it high.
ly for that purpose. The Linnaus
is one of the best sorts for home use
| though the Victoria is larger and the
variety generally grown for market
The roots are inexpensive, and there
Is no excuse for any one to 90 with
out rhubarb.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-03-26
A Good Odd Fellow
Mr.. Cutler, of sf Lyons ST., New Haven,
Can..--aow He takes Life Easy now
;aas how lie Obtained, the Means
TO Regain his Health.

Mr. Cutler of 81 Lyons ST. is faithful Old Fellow.
and for forty II memlei of Gum piac Lodge No
(the oldest orgaIiz Of its kind in the State of
Conn He is much respected in New Haven.
Your reporter found him al his pleasant home Ly
street afternoon, taking life easy "You see"
he says, I'm trying to make myself feel little indis
losed. presume it's the lingering results of Lodge
dinner which attended while ago down at the beach.
l have been as many Of my friends in New Haven
know. sufferer for years from Indigestion and bilious
When have INDUCED in too hearty food I've
had to suffer at times extremely AS result I've had
to place myself under my physicians often and
have taken great many remedies, but l find after
thorough trial that DR.. Kennedys FAVORITE REM
EDY is the most excellent medicine have ever had
knowledge of for any of the disorders above mentioned
1t leaves exhaustive effects but rather strengthens
and regulates the digestive organs in charming
manner We keep it as household medicine, and
have recommended 1t my friends, for it is excel
lent preparation"
MIR. Cutler is whose word can be depended
upon. His testimony is but reecho Of the words of
thousands in New England who have received relief
from the sole use of DR. Kennedy's FAvoRITE REMEDY
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-03-26
IIAILOG(U / :
Between two Youug Men who buy their
Cigars at Presten's. (iEcDoHgaii Biock),
Carton, ycrIaGnt.


Earton, yersaanf.
"Good morning, John"
e'Good morning, Frank. What makes
you look so smiling this morning?'
sob, nothing, only have been over
to Preston's and bought one of his boss
sc Cigars, called Preston's Spoonies,
and it beats any thing | ever saw
eyes, they all say he keeps the best
Cigars in Orleans County. He sells at
wholesale and retail, and as be buys
direct of the manufacturer, and the
largest in New England, of course he
can beat them all He sells the famous
Trump Cigar (the best DC Cigar also
Olden Times and about forty other
kinds 2
''Yes, and he has got the largest
stock of Stationery, Blank Books and
Papetries IN town, and sells at lowest
prices. He also has a good stock Of
Groceries and says he will not be beat
IN prices"
Il guess that is so | bought pound
of his Csc Uncolored Jap Tea the Other
day, aud it was the boss
Eyes, and he has Coffee for 81
that he sells stacks of. He also ha
Teas for 80 and Coo, and good COTE,
for zoe. Also, Lard, Tripe. Sugar
Canned Goods, Spices, Tobacco, Con
fectionery, &c, &c.'
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-03-26

Use an even teaspoonful of pulver-
lied borax to two heaping teaspoon
fuls of starch and one and one-half
cups of cold water, and when dis
solved wet collars and cuffs that have
been previously dried, and there will
be no complaint of lack of stiffness.