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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-06
Care OF Laying Hens.


At this season of the year when
eggs are rapidly advancing III price,
it pays to give laying hens a little ex-
ira attention, and pullets that are APP
preaching the laying period should
also receive extra care, that they may
commence laying before the cold
weather commences.
A little extra care by way of better
food, and a greater variety, Will make
a great difference in the profits of a
flock of fowl, either old or young.
One of the mistakes that is most fire.
quently made i'm the care of fowl, is
in feeding out cheap food, especially
grain Too many have an idea that
anything is good enough for a hen,
and so they buy poor corn because
they can get it a few cents less or
they buy damaged wheat and wheat
screenings; this IS a very poor policy,
for it not only greatly lessons the
number of eggs, but it also has ten
dency to injure the health of the
| fowl.
Nothing but the best and sweetest
of food should be given to a flock of
| laying hens at this season Of the year,
because if they should stop laying
when cold weather sets in, it would be
very difficult to get them to lay again
until after the LIST of January.
Hens like a variety, and always do
better when given half-dozen differ
ent kinds of food The principal food
may be good, sweet Indian corn; but
with this should be fed oats, barley,
wheat and millet. 1t is also important
| that they should have each day a few
roots which should be boiled and mix
ed with wheat bran; a small ration of
meat is important, also ground oyster
shells and coarsely ground bone.
/ Hens also crave green vegetables, so,
/ if confined in a small yard, they
should be fed daily with green grass,
as long as 1t can be had When win
ter sets in cabbage may be used in
stead of grass and on the sea shore eel
grass may be laid up to feed out dur
ing the winter This is an excellent
material, and the hens are very fonC
Of it Fifty hens will eat small hors,
load of eel grass in a single winter
When nothing better can be had re
sort should be had to rowen, which
may be chopped up and mixed witt
Indian meal or wheat bran. the whole
wet with hot water and fed out while
yet warm, or the rowen can be chop
ped coarsely, slightly wet, and fec
without mixing with meal
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-06
Woman at a Horse Sale.
Burlington VA Free Press.


THE women bless their little
hearts" said Mr.. Drew, of the Van
Ness House, the women can be Just
as sharp at trade as the men. One
winter / went up to Richford to buy a
horse. | found it all right, but all the
time | was making the trade with the
man who owned it his wife kept rails
ing an awful fuss about selling it at the
figure | offered. If the horse was sold,
she said, how would the poor children
get to school, she would like to know
they wouldn't have the horse to carry
them and ii was too far to walk Final
ly, however we made a trade, and l
hitched the horse into a sleigh to drive
home. l jumped into the sleigh, but
the horse wouldn't start. | touched
him with the whip, but he merely
turned around, and fixed a sad, inquir-
ing gaze upon me- | touched him
again, with the same result. Then |
hit him a little harder, and what do
you think he did? He jumped several
feet into the air. | thought | was go
ing up in a balloon. And when he
struck the ground he started off at a
regular Maud S. gait. The fact was,
you see, that horse had never been
hitched single before in his life. And
there was that woman talking on so
about selling him because the children
would have to walk to school On, she
was sharp onel'
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-06
NOblemen at Poker.

A favorite pastime on board ocean
steamships, says a New York journal
is poker and often the stakes are very
high, Our English cousins are espe-
cially attached to the game. a short
time ago distinguished company of
lords and dukes came over the water
to invest in Manitoba land, bringing
with them the equivalent of 1000,
600. Upon their arrival in New York
City they still had their money in
the party, but one man had no fur
Their interest in Manitoba lands. He
was an object of charity until he re-
turned home three months later. This
young man, who is the third son of a
nobleman near the throne, had been
given ESQ, 600 by his father to invest
in American territory.
On the second day out, the Duke of
Manchester proposed four-handed
game in his stateroom. Fifteen min
utes later the game was on. The pot
was at first restricted to e10 ante and
el00 limit At the end of three hours
il was reckoned up that the heaviest
loser was only 81, 500 out. The ante
was raised to 600 and the limit re-
moved to 81 900. This wound up the
third son of nobility in short order
The third son was dealt pair of trays
and the Duke of Sutherland received
three fives. One of the other gentle
men threw up ms hand, not caring to
come in and make good the blind that
had been straddled by the Duke.
Manchester. however, had the nerve
to pay for an entire new hand. After
the third son had dra vn TO his pair Of
trays, Sutherland to his three tiyes,
and Manchester had received five new
cards, the hands stood four trays, four
fiyes, and four SKIES respectively
combination that probably never came
out of sny one pack before.
Betting began lively, being started
by Sutherland The pot was raised
$4,000 each time around. Wine had
flowed freely, and none of the gentle
men would back down. Township
after township Of Manitoba went into
the pot The size of the transaction
sobered up the participants. The
third son was the middle player lie
had no power to call, ard was obliged
TO 60 the length of his pile. The end
came The pot boiling over with
tl2o, 900, when the victim put up has
last Fl, 900 and demanded a sight for
bis money, which he soon received,
but with bullying eyes.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-06
CURIOSITIES IN LITERATURE.
4 Few Specimens of orthograPhS
Culled From Various sources.

RAILROAD Eting House appears out
side a Pittsburg restaurant.
Il thought yew were abov petty
iellysv." wrote Kentucky belle to q
discarded lover; but | am prowd
to say tibet | fownd yew out before !
married yew.
"She is jellus, hi spirited, allwayes
quarreling, and kant live with her,
wrote James McGrath, of Brooklyn,
to his lawyer, who was getting a
divorce for him
On a tombstone in a Connecticut
cemetery is the following inscription
"She is lade low in the earth, but she
was a loving wife to- yours Respy,
Jeremiah Glenn"
''Pleze find inclosed my report OF
the arrived and departur of our Keyuse
one-hos male, wrote a distributing
agent in the Grow Agency, M. T., IN
his monthly report to Washington.
Joseph Mullane, who recently com
mitted suicide in Cincinnati left q
note on his table stating that he had
maid up his mind to leve this world
ware all the people wir so ungrace
Gus.
One Of the many halfway" houses
on Long Island displays the following
sign outside its door: This is the only
rele Halfway House 1t is ten miles
to the next towne. Stey hear for we
hav good bedds and steibles.'
A New Highlander who had emf
grated to Dakota and grown up with
the country, sent the following invita-
ton to his brothers. Cum on and see
what CRATE mani am heare, OF couse,
theare are sum people jellus of my
follerin'; but i am the big gum of this
town"
The following postal card was recent
ly received by lafayette, Ind, fur
niture dealer. 1t is needless to say the
order was promptly attended to- The
name and location of the writer is, of
course, not given:
october the 10 So
mr., William folckemer,
please let me No Right way what
you will send me SIX Conan Cheers
for cheep ones for kitchen Cheers |
want them with hickory Botams let
me no rite away before saterday.
Direck To
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-06
MRS. MACKEY AND DAUGHTER.
VIII the YounsLady be Man
London World.

London World.
The statement which appeared in
last weeks contemporary, that Mrs
Mackey. the wife of the Bonanza
silver king was the largest bidder for
the Porter Rhodes diamond is utterly
without foundation. 1t is true that
Mr.. Porter Rhodes in company with
the Vari correspondent of London
daily newspaper, went to No. Rue
Tilsit to show the diamond TO Mrs.
Mackey, but nothing transpired as to
possible purchase, although the lady
in question likes handsome jewelry.
Even to the wife of the millionaire,
Mr.. Mackey, the purchase of a gem
costing 100000, requires reflection
and consultation with her lord and
master, who is at the present moment
IN 1.-THE State
| have it on the most trustworthy
authority that the eldest son Of we'll
known Roman Catholic peer is smit-
ten with the charms of Miss Eva
Mackey. 1t is true that many will
assert it is her possible enormous
dowry he is in love with, as for the
most part the Roman Catholic peers of
Great Britain are no, too wealthy to
refuse few of the dollars made in a
silver..mine. In this case, however,
it is not so much the money as the
young lady herself who is charming,
but who at the present moment seems
more inclined to become nun than a
wife, though the sutton is the heir
apparent to a peerage. The young
gentleman in question has recently
left Paris for a tour in America,
whether he has gone to gain the
necessary courage for going through
the fearful ordeal of asking mamma.
The question at the present moment
among the gossips of society in Paris
Isl 'Will Miss Eva Mackey choose a
prospective English coronet or the
veil of Jacre Occur nunW | do not
think am much astray when | state
that it will be the former.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-06
TELEGRAPHIC.
GENERAL NOTES.

JAMES l.. CAMP, postmaster at Dixon,
Illinois died Of paralysis in the Metho-
dist church.
THE grave Of Jacob Melting, who was
lynched at Oxfort, Indiana, bears traces
Of having been disturbed by ghouls.
HOG cholera continues 10 rage along
the Sangamon river in the vicinity Of
Dewey, Illinois. One farmer has lost
III out of 1870 head.
THE governor of Virginia is collecting
artillery and ammunition to be used
against the illicit oyster dredgers IN the
Rappahanock river.
CORNELL JEwETr. in "A New Jersey
weekly, IS pushing II. A. w Tabor for
president Of the United States.
No trains are moving on the st. Louis
and Texas narrow-guage road, the en-
giueers and firemen refusing to work
until they receive two months back
pay.
THE colony Of Russian Hebrews To-
Gated on farm Of 800 acres in Middle
county, Virginia, proved an utter fail
ure, after $4,000 had been expended,and
the families viii be sent back to Balti-
more.
Insurance to tho amount of $2Sj, 600
on the life of the late Colonel Walton
Dwight is involved in suit now on tr
at Norwich New York. Roscoe Conk-
ling and Ex-Governor Chamberlain are
engaged on opposing sides, with eight
other prominent attorneys The de
Tense claim that Dwight's death was
caused by strangulation with a rope.
Deceased T.. said to have made failure
in Chicago by grain speculation in
1873.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-06
CRIME.

/ THREE prisoners in the Jail at Lincoln,
/ Illinois, attacked the turnkey at supper
( time and succeeded in escaping.
Miss EMMA BOND, Of Taylorvile, H.,
who was growing nervous from feors of
abduction, was placed by her parents
in a secure retreat. Her alleged assail-
ants will be tried next month at Hills
borO.
OK a street corner in South Chicago,
John L. Smith fatally wounded his wife
with revolver and then took his own
life. The woman had refused TO live
with him.
COMPANIES of cavalry have gose out
from Forts Bayard and Cumming in
pursuitof the Southern Pacific train
robbers, and the road has offered a re-
ward of $4,000.
JAMES RUDDY and his wife, son, and
o lady visitor were murdered at Laconia,
New Hampshire, and the house was set
on fire. Thomas Salmon is suspected Of
the crime, and lies in Jail.
NEAR Roseland. New Jersey, on Satur-
day night, a girl named Phoebe Jane
Paulliu was murdered i'm some under
brush with a razor, after having been
assaulted. There is not the slightest clew
to the perpetrator. The victims watch
and bundles were not taken.
FRANK JAMES has been arraigned at
Kansas City for completely i'm the Blue
cut train robbery. lie has suffered great
ly from his Imprisonment during the
past year His devoted wife rides six
miles into Independence each day to
spend few hours with him in Jail IL
is said that he has actually been prepar-
ing himself for the stage.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-06
Cold Feet.

Are the avenues to death OF multi
tudes every year it is a sign OF I'M
perfect circulation, of want Of vlgor
of constitution. No one can be well,
whose feet are habitually cold w hen
the blood is equally distributed to
every part of the body, there is gener-
ally good health. If there be less
blood at any one point than IS natural,
there is csldness; and not only so,
there must be more than natural at
some other part of the SYSTEM and
here is fever, that is, unnatural heat
or oppression. In the case of cold feet,
the amount of blood wanted there,
collects at some other part Of the body
which happens to be the weakest, to
be the least able to throw up barri-
cade against the in-rushing enemy
Hence, when the lungs are weakest,
the extra blood gathers there in the
shape of common cold, or splitting
blood.
Clergymen, other public speakers,
and singers, by improper exposures,
often render the throat the weakest
part; to such, cold feet give hoarseness
or raw burning feeling, most felt at
the little hollow at the bottom of the
neck. To others, again, whose bowels
are weak through oger-eating, or
drinking spirituous liquors, cold feet
give various degrees of arrangement,
from common looseness up to diar-
rhmas or dysentary; and so we might
90 through the whole body, but for
the present. this is sufficient for illus
tration.
If you are we'll, let yourself alone.
This is our favorite motto. But to
those whose feet are inclined to be
cold, we suggest;
As soon as you get up in the morn
ing PUT both feet at once in a basin of
cold water, so as to come half way to
the ankles; keep them in half a min
ute in winter and minute or two in
summer, rubbing them both vigorous
ly, wipe dry, and hold to the fire, if
convenient, in cold weather, until
every part Of the foot feels as dry as
your hand, then put on your socks or
stockings.
On going to bed at night, draw off
your stockings and hold the feet to
the tire for ten or fifteen minutes UNI
til perfectly dry, and get right into
bed This is a most pleasant opera
ton, and fully repays for the trouble
of it. No one can sleep well or re
freshingly with cold feet. All Indi-
ans and hunters sleep with their feet
to the fire.
Never step from your bed with ma
ked feet ON an uncarpeted floor |
have known it to be the exciting cause
OF months Of illness.
Wear wooden, cotton or silk stock
ings, whichever keeps your feet most
comfortable; do not let the experience
Of another be your guide, for differ
ent persons require different articles
what is good for a person whose feet
are naturally damp, cannot be good
for one whose feet are always dry.
The donkey who had his bag Of salt
ightened by swimming a river, adj
vised his companion who was loaded
down with sack of wool to do the
same, and having no more sense than
a man or woman, he plunged in, and
in a moment the wool absorbed the
water, increased the burden many
fold, and bore him to the bottom.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-06

freouentlv needs to store his cheese IN
a room of uniform temperature 10
preserve it fresh and prevent 1t from
becoming overripe. For this purpose
large and deep vaults and cellars are
built where the air is neither too not
nor too cold-and the cheese Will keep
well in summer or winter. 1t IS made
with less expense than American
cheese. its price is less huctuatlng,
and hence the milk of the dairymen
is bought largely by dealers and
made up by their employees; Pro,
prietors pay, we are informed, eight
cents per gallon for milk to be made
into Limburger, or the price of milk
will be regulated by the price received
for American cheese at the factory
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-06
How Limburger Cheese is Made.

The milkiS delivered at the factory
and strained into watts, as for other
cheese. 1t is then raised to a tempera-
tWe of 80 degrees Fahrenheit, when
enough repuet is added to coagulate
the mass in about thirty minutes. The
curd is then cut crOsswlSe and length
wise of the vat with a gang of steel
curd knives. Soon after it is turned
with ten Shovels frequently for an
hour when ID is left for the whey to
settle II the curd is of the propercon-
sistancy about two-thirds Of the whey
is removed. Tho curd is now ready
for the molds. into which tits dipped
the whey remaining and escaping
through the perforated sides of the
molds. After the curd has hardened
to a proper degree it is placed upon "a
table slightly inclined and the whey
drained OIL, care being taken that the
cheese retains the form of the molds.
Then they are turned several times.
and finally are ready to receive the
salt, which is rubbed Ia BIZ hand
morning and evening for four DAYS.
thus gradually hardening until they
can be taken to the curing room.
where the bricks of cheese are set on
edge close together. After being pro.
perly cured they are then packed for
market But prices for this cheese
are also frustrating, and the dealer
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-06

THE theory that France would en-
courage the rebelsin the Soudou is eN-
ploded by the news from Tunis and
Algiers. The movement of the Mahdi
is as much Of a menaec TO French
authority in Africa as it is to British,
and it was clear from the FIRST the two
governments would make common
cause against the fomenter Of distur-
Dances. The plea from Algeriais the
same as that from Egypt-tor more
European troops
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-06

III fe.tH- nom any and a.l The disaEferahIe sFmp
ia7- NAicG pro -el fram disorder s. th. 8v.r
experience 0y Those whouSe Host-uer stomach
n.lltis a. lu auxiliary go health. Ur relnr#F ar
'seaSe Constipation, ye80wness II tha Ssn
nausea dltsae. aat pains through tae ti-Ie
sila aHl s5uuI Ger blade are thencef rth unsuue f
against those maariai ailments 81 which rs
tan-rntnt 20 tlr liver is an iuvariable attendant
a1a winch Il invites ana fosters, this standard
.sli. ia" ls q most afiicleut - web as pleasant
=. r@AAlA Regularity af the h0wels-a CONDITION
5Heh Tails OF permanent attainment hv the usa
+ average calh3rtie invariably results from rs
Use. tnd eampasire ~ the nerves and sound di-
session. az Also among the benefcent consequent
GEES ot a course ST the grand rafermIna. tonis Il
aise reheFes rheumatism and inactivity q the
hidneys aud bladder
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-06
ONE THOUSAND RAT CATCHERS.
a Fierce Army that the Owner w Guild
Not Sell for 100000.


II am fond of rats, mice, moles,
reaches. flies, heas, moths, ants, scor-
pions and like vermin, because / have
studied their habits and ways nearly
all my life, said little man in spec
tacles the other day. He sat at his
desk in a small shop in a busy street
down town, writing busily. At his
side was a pen about five feet long,
two feet WIDE, and three feet deep. In
it were twenty or thirty ferrets coiled
together in an undulating mass Of fur,
with here and there a sharp muzZle
and a pair Of bright little eyes rising
above the mass and looking intently
at the little man who wrote at the
desk.
There was a time, many years ago, "
continued the little man, wheeling
around in his chair when vermin
were more or less obnoxious to me-
but | began to study their habits and
natures and in a short time | became
so much interested in them that all
dislike disappeared. | went into the
business of destroying them about
1850 and since that | have had my
hands full, | make contracts to rid
houses, hotels, and institutions of rats
for so much year My charges vary
considerably For a good-sized city
residence | remove all rats and keep
them away for year for $50.
How do you do it3N
"With these little beauties, said the
little man. turning atYectlonately
toward the pen. Ashe did So the ferrets
wriggled out of the coy tangles in
which they had lain and bounded up
ward with their fore paws in the ain
and their heads thrown back. exhibit
ing JOY at every Jump. They We're
pretty little creatures, about as large
in girth as an average rat, but almost
twice the length, Their heads were
rat shaped, their four claws very sharp,
and their activity and quicknesS amaz
ing.
Il have a thousand of them, said
the rat-catcher, and wouldn't sell the
lot for $50, 600. nave trained then
all so that they obey me unhesitating
ly. When | wish To clear q house Of
rats take some of my ferrets five
OF six or ten-aud slip them into the
rat holes / leave them there all
night, and whistle for them OH
following day. They come
right to nae, and l take them
home. No rat can escape a ferret
g. The rats run from lerrets like mad
p but tits useless Wherever a rat goes
a ferret eau go. The ferret catches q
g. rat and then eats him-hesh, bones,
e hair, tail, everything. FerretS cannot
1--we without rats for any length of
time. l feed mine hair. feathers and
fur regularly twice "a week.
5 Where do you get your ferretSf
II breed them Different breed,
can be crossed as eaSilyas with dogs
This one, he said, holding italoft,
''is new breed 1t is q cross between
the American mink and the Fitch fer
ret and can stand the climate better
than the increased breed Ferrets re
qujre considerable care, but | avoid
any contagious diseases 10y "a very sim
pie plan.
What is it3'
AS soon as ferret gets the least
bit OFT / shoot it and throw II away.
, Il Is q wise plan for the rest are never
troubled
Handsome is as handsome dozes.
remarked Deacon Dewgood IA he saw
2 81 8 "A
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-06

PEOPLE who predicted, within a few
years, that Memphis would be scourged
to death by the yellow fever were
very much in error. That city has
now population Of over $4,000,
showing an increase of nearly 5000
DURING the last year
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-06

BALTIMORE mas a new lodge, which
is called The Provident Woodward
Association. Ithas 500 cords of wood
piled mp to start with When tramps
apply for ala, they are given ticket
ON the woodward, and earn their board
and lodging Fifty cents pee cord is
given for saving, ana the wood is
sold, SO that the concern supports
itself
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-06

The greatest destruction of proper
ly in the United States by fire upon
which there is no insurance is cigars
There is absolutely no salvage except
the stumps, which are said 20 be work
ed into fine cut and No. ] cigarettes.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-06

Mr.. YosHDA, japanese Minister at
Washington, when leaving the city
few days ago, uncovered his head and
made a profound bow as he passed the
silver star which marks the spot in
the railway station where Garfield
fall
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-06

WENDELL PHILLIPS says the Boston
Courier, always remembers a certain
organ-grinder who appears before his
residence regularly every day. If Mr..
Phillips goes away in the morning,
Mrs Phillips says "Wendell, don't
forget the cents for the organ man.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-06

NEARLY all the Justices of the Uni
ted States Supreme Court are good
whist players, and they have formed
themselves and their families into
whist party, meeting every Saturday
evening at the home of oae Of their
number.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-06

with every prospect Of total destruction;
II was formerly known as the Statd
theater, and is the largest in that dty
F. JENKEL, a jeweler Of Dubuqr,, and
his two sons and a friend. went down
the river to Green Island. Sunday. with
hunting dogs. Their boat has been found
capsized. and one of the animals lay
dead near it. from which it is believed
that the four men have lost their lies.