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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-29
The Siren Fog Horn.

The Zuyder Zee was recently the
scene of some interesting experiments
with Prof. Holmes Siren fog-horn.
Two steam-vessels, the one the Eva
law, belonging to the Netherland Roy
al Steamship Company, and the 9th
En- the Hollandia, were each fitted
with one of the fog-horns, which
though well-known in our navy, have
up to the present time been used by
the Dutch government as lighthouse
fog signals only The object of the
experiments was to ascertain if a small
apparatus operated by. steam could be
used advantageously at sea for signal
ing on the Morse system of dot and
dash, The two vessels left Rotterdam
at 10 A. NJ, and after passing through
the slulce gates and entering the Zuy-
der Zee, the smaller of the two ships
ceased steaming, while the larger put
out to sea. Telegraph clerks We're EN-
ployed to manipulate the apparatus,
and although the distance eventually
became so great that each vessel was
invisible to those on board the other,
yet the signals reached the car distinc-
thy, and We're at once read off and I'M
derstood. The unusual and unexpected
sounds caused the captain of an out
ward-bound steamer, the Willem III,
to suppose the Zwalaw was in distress,
and to hasten to her assistance. Upon
getting alongside, and ascertaining
the true cause of the noise, he made
no secret of his disgust, and steamed
away at full speed After experiment.
ing for about five hours, at distances
varying from one to five miles. the
signal come to us, was given from
the Zwalaw, to which the Hollandia
replied eve come, and was soon seen
steaming toward her consort There
were present Mr.. Beerlng. of the
marine department; Col. Stephens,
director of the navy-yard, and the
representatives of the various steam
ship companies The results of the
trials were considered to be in every
way satisfactory, and to demonstrate
the possibility of one vessel commani-
eating intelligence to the other at sea,
although separated by considerable
distance.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-29
CRIME

A ROBBER at Oyster Bay, Long Island,
choked TO death Mrs. Lydia Maybee and
her daughter, and nearly killed Garrett
Maybee, paralytlc,
G. j. DEWEY, the f0rger who operated
so extensively in Montreal and Boston,
and was captured at San Francisco ON
an outgoing China steamer, entered a
plea of guilty in court at Boston, and
will soon be sentenced
A. III. ROWLAND, clerk Of the courts
at Pittsburgh, has been held to bail for
the embez2lement of S47, 900 during two
terms of Office.
j. Q. REED, u well-known business
man of Toledo, was robbed in a Wabash
sloepiug-car of "A valuable diamond pin
and $500 in money
MISS EMMA BOND, of Taylorville, H.
who was growing nervous from feors of
abduction, was placed by her parents
in secure retreat. Her alleged assail-
ants will be tried next month at Hills
| bOro
IN a saloon in st. Louis, early Sunday
morning, "a large party of customers
! being present, one young man forced
/ the bartender TO hand over Sl2S while
his armed accomplish kept the crowd
from interfering.
As ieweler of Camden, New Jersey,
was about TO close his store, four men
marched in and drew revolvers The
merchant struggled with the thieves,
while his wife reached the street and
gave an alarm which drove them
away.
A pRY-GooDs store IN the northwest
ern quarter of Chicago was hurglarized
Saturday night, and few hours after
ward patrol wagon loaded with Off
GERS swoored down on "a barn on West
Chicago avenue, where six young roughs
were found dividing We stolen goods.
THREE men have been Jailed at Mil
waukee for vagranCy, one of them being
a grandson of solomon Juneau. the pio-
neer settler They had formerly been in
railroad employ, and thought to get free
passage to the Pacific by ordering a
superintendent stamp to use ON their
requests for passes.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-29
FROM THE CAPITAL.

WEDNESDAY President Arthur APP
pointed John b. Tanner United States
Marshal for the Southern District of IL
linois.
THE Austrian Minister promised Sena-
tor Vest and Congressman Carlisle and
Casey Young at Washington Thursday
that he would use his best endeavors to
effect a transfer of the late Vienna cleo
trical show to the World Exposition at
New Orleans next year ForeigM coun-
tries are greatly interested in the latter
exposition.
THE National League Base Ball Asso-
citation which was in session in Wash
ington, Wednesday. All clubs were
represented. Mr. Young was reelected
Secretary, and the championship was
awarded to the Bostons. To-day the
league will arrange a schedule of games
for the next season, but will not an
nOunce the details Of the arrangement
until next March.
THE papers in the case of Mrs. Belva
Lockwood, which were recalled by Com
missioner Dudley for the purpose of ad-
ding a recommendation that criminal
prosecution be instituted, have been
sent by the Acknowledgement. upon re-
quest Of Secretary Teller to the District
Attorney for presentation to the grand
jury. The charges are that Mrs. Lock
wood collected and retained money due
pensioners.
ATTORNEY GENERAL BREWSTER, issued
an edict that the Government depart
ments had no right to adopt the new
time until authorized to do so by Con-
gress, and seems to have assumed that
his edict would be recognized through.
out the District. The railroads denied
his jurisdiction, and yesterday, when he
went to take the express for Philadels
phia, he walked down the platform.
leisurely with his watch in hand to find
that he had arrived about eight minutes
and twelve seconds too late.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-29
THE FEMALE FORM.
The Figure of the Young Girl and
How Ii Assumes a Mature Look.

Given a small, straight. fat
figure, with face delicate in its fea-
lures, and the problem of making a
girl look fifteen until she is altogether
past her teens is not exceedingly diff
cult. 1t can be very simply worked
by refusing to let her pctticoats grow
TO 4 mature length, escbewing all de-
vices of bodice that produce artificial
undulation, and enjoining am limo
cent simplicity of carriage and man
ner That was what had been done
with the bride whom | have mention
ed. There was in her family the usual
incentive for thus retardlng her ap-
parent growth from childhood to
womanhOod. Two older sisters wish
ed to matrimonially place themselves
before their ages w.re emphasized by
the youngest daughter becoming an
adult. Why, remember that one
evening at reception the dear girl
came down to the parlor in lovely
costume of white tulle, as simple and
lnfantile as a christening robe, and
with a hem no lower than the tops of
her high boots; but she had presumed
| to give a slight roundness to her cor
sage That was an amendment to
the family resolution which was in
stantly voted down, though she plead
ed hard to carry it.
I'm woman, and | want to look
like one, she pleaded
You may be woman, but you We
got to look like child as long as ma
ture will let you, was the maternal
mandate.
So she had to go back to her room
and fatteA the bosom in which indig-
nation was swelling.
iii develop all of a sudden, the
first thing they know-youll see if |
don, t" she said to me on that occa-
sion.
And she did it on her wedding day,
for certain. The dignifed little crea
ture who dragged a train up the cen
ter aisle of fashionable church was
no longer childish Her babyish
brsids of hair had become an elabor-
ate couture; the ankles were out of
sight, and, instead of the stockinged
displayed, there was a charming dis
closure of bare arms that were far
more plump and tapering than any
body had expected, and as fair as
eighteen years seclusion could make
them her bodice, for the first time,
was shapely-by exactly what means
is none of the public's business. I'm
proved? | should say so. If the
bridegroom had fallen in love with
her former aspect he had every reason
for augmenting his passion as he be-
held her in bridal robes.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-29
JUDGE ALLISON ON DIVORCE.
His Sensible Advice 10 Young Married
People who Seek Separation.
Philadelphia Times

81 will absolutely have no further
communication with my husband, y
said Mrs Annie Rennie in the deser-
ton court yesterday He has i'll
treated me he has used profane Ian
guage to me; he threw egg-shells in
my face, and twice he struck me.
But if he should give you assurance
that these things shall not be repeat
ed; that he will treat you kindly,
leaving it to me TO use strong measures
if he should fail to keep his promise,
what them" asked Judge Allison.
Would you not try him again, and
go live with him2"
No; | shall not see him again.
That is wrong disposition, an
swered the court. Marriage is com
ing to be too lightly regarded in this
city. There are causes that Justify a
wife in separating from husband and
husband in leaving his wife; but
they are not trihes. Every case is
not such a cause. Husbands and
wives must learn to bear and forbear.
Annoyances that may make life per-
haps ess.comfortable than il might be,
will not always justify one in violat-
ing the marriage vow and rending
asunder the marriage state. 1t seems
to me that the natural feelings Of
sympathy for a woman in this court
is working harm. If a woman feels
that if her husband otfends her she
may leave him with the certainty of
getting an order of support against
him out of this court, she is encouraged
to take up her pack and abandon him
In the last ten years this weekly de
sertlou business, as it is called, has in
creased four-fold There must be
something wrong somewhere. y
In the case in hand, Andrew Rem
ME, the husband, ascribed all his
troubles to his mother-in-law, and
said that he wished to have his wife
back, and had rooms awaiting her re-
turn. The nother-in-law denied that
she was at all to blame, and declared
that her son-in-law's misfortunes were
all upon his own head. Mrs. Rennie
said that she would make living for
/ herself, and asked only that her hus-
band might be decreod to contribute
to the support of his two little children.
The Judge declined to make an order
for the time, but suggested that the
support ought to be given, "and as in
centive to reconciliation" he added,
addressing the husband, "as an evil
dence of your good will, you should
contribute to the maintenance of your
wife also Then, when you prove to
her that you really mean to do well, |
hope that you will come together
again"
mo, said the WIFE in low, decided
tones; mo, l trusted him before. ]
will not try him again.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-29
THE MADISON DISASTER.
Tho Contractor and the Architects
Found Guilty of Error and Negli-

Tho Contractor and the Architects
Found Guilty of Error and Negli-
gence
The Coroner's jury investigating the
State House disaster at Madison, Wis,
rendered a verdict of which the fol
lowing is the concluding portion
That the internal construction Of
the building was such as to render it
especially subject to disaster from &C
cidentS liable to occur during erection
That during such erection, and proba-
bly, because of the settling of the east
ern and western walls, cracks occurr-
ed in the brick piers and the pilasters
supporting the ends of the Orders and
the columns, endangerlng the build
ing and the workmen in and about it,
That one of the cracks occurred and
was known To the contractor in charge
TO exist for several weeks prior to the
said falling in the second story pier of
the south portion of the wall near the
southeast corner of the building, and
that said contractor attempted to
strengthen said pier in an entirely in
sufficient manner That at the time
of such repair Tuesday, Nov. 6. said
pier was apparently yielding under
the weight it supported, and was in a
precarious condition That at this
time there rested on the column hay
ng its base upon said pier a weight
variously estimated at from fourteen
to eighteen tons, which was gradually
increased by placing the concrete fill
ing of the arches above That the day
Of the falling Nov. S, the pier had
given way still more. That in all
probability the building gave way at
this point first.
We therefore find that Oscar +.
Nowlau, one of the contractors, by
causing the said second-story pier of
the south partition-wail near the south.
east corner of the SAID south wing to
be improperly and iuSufhciently re
paired, was guilty of grave error, and
contributed thereby to the falling OF
the south wing ON the Sth day of No
vember That d II. Jones and II. c.
Koch, as designing and consulting
architects. We're guilty of negligence
in designing the internal construction
OF said south wing of the capitol ex.
tension without due and proper regard
for It's safety during its erection. and
thereby contributed to the falling OF
the structure the Sth day of November,
1883.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-29

lishmen meditatlng a visit to France
regarded the possibility of feasting
unawares upon frogs as one OF the
gravest dangers of their expedition.
The peril was not great, for no
restaurateur was likely to supply any
of his guests with such bonnie bouche
without duly notifying the fact and
making a corresponding charge III
the bill. Still, the frog eating French
man was a byword on English lips.
1t appears, however, that frogs are
regularly served in all the frst-class
hotels at Boston, and are greatly es-
teemed as delicacies in private fami-
lies. In fact, the catching, breeding,
rearing, fattening, and sending to
market of frogs has become a great
business. in which many hundreds of
persons are employed. The country
towns in the neighborhood of Boston,
Cape Cod and Main are the chief dis
tricts where these creatures are caught
and prepared for the market. One
frog-catcher alone sends from fifty to
one hundred dozen per week to the
New Orleans market, where the de-
mand is so great that the supply falls
far short Of the requirements of the
public, and the price is correspond
ingly high. We presume that in
America, as in France, the hind
quarters are alone eaten, and as the
cost of frogs is from thirty cents to
fifty cents per dozen, the dish must
be a tolerably dear luxury, and is
likely to become more so as frogs be-
come fewer and their admirers more
numerous. American connoisseurs
prefer the speckled frog to all other
species, but. more catholic in their
taste than the French, they eat all
kinds. What is still more interesting
to Britons, they are already meditat-
ing large export trade in this new
luxury to England.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-29

most prominunt merchants of Balti-
more, formerly, president Of the Balti-
more and Ohio road, died of heart dis
ease, Sunday evening.
THE steamer S. II. Parisot, with a
cargo Of cotton and oil-cake, was burned
near Natchez, causing a loss of over
$3.50, 600.
JACOB j. KEMPTER, of Chicago, was
50 deeply affected by the death of wife
and son that he lesped off the pier at
Fortieth strees, October -. His corpse
washed across Lake Michigan, and was
found at St. Joseph last Friday
THE superintendent of the Toronto
observatory says that on Sunday morn
ing November II, between 10 and II
o'clock, storm signals were ordered at
all the Canadian stations. He thinks
ships from American ports suffered ter
ribly from insufficient warning.
HEAVY rains at indianapolis have
flooded the northwestern quarter of that
city the damage aggregating S2p1 600.
Water is three feet in Dickson's lumber
yard, and the railway tracks cast of the
Union depot are submerged
THERE is an extensive cave-ln near the
Logan collier in Pennsylvania about 700
yards long and 600 wide. al0ng the
main line of the Lehigh Valley road.
The entire track is endangered, and
large amount of property is jeopardized.
EARLY Wednesday morning cyclone
swept across southern Missouri and
Arkansas At Melbourne, in the latter
state, ex-Sherif Hinkle was killed, his
wife and two children were injured, and
the courthouse and two churches We're
DESTROYED
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-29
Morning NIists

AMI a.sht dauv- generate nlaIarial disorders and
rheumatism Iu thAse Obliged t1 be abroad ln them.
t1r tarN aD'tar The early rising artisan and the
SehiAs protection against tnr effect. Uf exposure To-
TIE weather ana damp or t,etil AIR. aud also pleas
aht ne3uS &c euuuteracting the effects 0f eXces-
dlie measure " natures sweet rr~torar'' sleep
they who work early aui tate the year round
neet occasionally. thr healthful stimulus impart-
So hN wholesome tonic like This To all its pur-
NY ami rfasleEcy as q remedy aud preventive 81
disease commend t. II checks ,ueipient rheumA-
tlsm ami maarlal symptoms relieves conStipa-
Non dyspepsia ami bdouSness. arrests premature
1ecat II The physical energies, mitigates the I'M
nrtniues " ase aud hasteuS oouyalescence.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-29

THE sensation IN London, WedueS-
day, was small fire near Windsor
Castle. The flames started ina boot
makers shop in Windsor situated
near the castle walls. Before the en-
gines could reach the place the flames
had full possession OF the shop-build-
ing. The wind az the time was
strong, and was blowing i'm a duec-
ton straight from the shop toward
the castle, carrying sparks and Ham
ing embers which flew over the pal
ace. Some Of the sparks fell upon
the roof of the Royal Chapel of St
George, and blazing there produced a
slight ignition The fire brigade and
military soon gained complete mas
terry Of the situation, the fire at the
shop was under control, and the
siarks upon St. Georges Chapel were
extinguished before they had gained
any hold or done much harm. In
London the usual rumors of a Fenian
attack prevailed. Dispatches fron
Windsor state that the fire has made
tho Queen quite nervous.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-29
The Development Of the Trotter.
Harper's Magazine

1T IS but a short time, / know, -
said General Withers. since people
have begun to be convinced that the
trotter was not merely a happy acci-
dent and could not be bred at all, but
look at the uniform improvement in
the record since scientific breeding
began. Failures are frequent OF
course, but nothing is more certain
now than that trotters are begotten
by trotters. As any thoroughbred
can beat any common horse at the
run so that it is not even necessary
to have a trial to be sure of it, we ex-
pect to arrive at the same accuracy
with the trotting horse.
And what is the limit of time at
which you viii finally arrivefn
Two minutes now is not more IN
credible than was two-twenty a quar-
ter of a century ago, replied the Gen
eral.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-29

The annualreport of General Mer-
rift, the Superintendent of the United
States Military Academy at West
Point, states that ON September 1st.
there were at the academy fifty-five
professors and commissioned officers
and 81 cadets. There were 27l ca
diets at the same date of the previous
year. The average cost of subsisting
each cadet last year was $1792 per
month. The general tone and discip-
line of the cadets are good. Cadets
have been held to a strict accounta-
bility for all violations Of the regula-
tons, and uniform punishments have
been fixed for the more serious ne
elects and unmilitary conduct. Gen
eral Merritt is confident that the per-
nicious practice of "hazing,' which
has never been entirely eradicated at
West Point, will, in view of the de
termination of the authorities to show
no mercy to the offenders, soon be
put an end to.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-29
Suppression of Street Begging.
New Orleans Times.D emocrat.


The police. under the Instructions
of the Mayor, begun recently to arrest
the numerous Migrants and beggars
that have infected that city for so
many years. They were brought be
fore Judge Ford. and there given the
alternative between the prison and
the poor-house. One of them actual
ly preferred the lookup; and there
seemed to be much of that dread of
the alms-house which has grown up
from the administration of the poor
laws in England and some of the
Northern States, but this will soon
wear off with the proper care Of this
institution As it was some dozen of
our street beggars, the blind, the lame
and the halt, were sent to the aims
house where they will be well cared
for Street begging is confessedly a
great nuisance, but when it is joined
as it has been IN New Orleans, with
the exposure OF deformities. disease
and sores, it is simply uuendurable
1t is announced that the law is to be
thoroughly carried out and that our
streets viii be freed from these beg
CARS. There are charitable organiza-
tons i'm abundance here which wall
investigate all cases of need, and care
for and attend to the sick, suffering
and destitute, and with city aims
house behind them, there ought TO be
as little suffering here as in any other
city in the country
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-29

GEORGE WASHINGTON, a colored
waiter in restaurant at the national
capital, recently assaulted a policeman
with a shoe-kmfe. While on trial fol
the otfense he stated that he mistook
the officer for medical student seek
ing his corpse, and said he never en-.
tereda drug store without clinging &c
the counter, for fear of trap doors.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-29
Frog Eating Americans.

The Americans, if not great innova-
tors. are the most skillful imitators
and adapters OF other peoples innova-
tons. Like other apt pupils, they
soon learn to surpass their teachers.
These well-known national character
lStics are receiving fresh illustration
IN the adoption of frogs as an article
Of food. In Europe those tasty
amphibians have long been esteemed
a great delicacy, and years ago Eng
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-29

GoNERNoR BEGoLE has ordered the
Calument Light guards to the mines
in Iron Mountain, Michigan. The
pumps in the Chaplin mine have been
started again, under the protection Of
the Pinkerton force Several more
families have left town.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-29

ApvICEs from Egypt report the total
humiliation Of the Egyptian army,
under Hicks Pasha by the forces of
the False Prophet The force Of the
False Prophet is reported at 300, DOC
men, and that of the overwhelmed
Egyptians, that was under the chief
command of British officers, at %,
600
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-29

MELBOURNE, Ark, was wrecked by
a cyclone early Wednesday morning.
The court house, stores, churches, and
residences were blown to pieces. -Four
persons were killed and many injsr.
ed A number of structures at Coal
Hill were also demolished.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-29

Hon. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, the
United States Minister at London, has
been elected Rector of St Andrews
University, in Scotland, one of the
Oldest institutions Of its class in Great
Britain.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-29

a EAvoRIrE device with Irving in
a moment Of deep feeling is for him to
clutch and perhaps tear open the col
lar or loose scarf that is around his
neck. he has done this at some
point in every play he has yet pro
dngp1
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-29

An Boston Wednesday, Ellen
Thorne, divorced wife Of the deceased
actor Charles r.. Thorne, Jr., brought
suit against his second wife to secure
the payment Of $50 monthly and s.,
600 in a lump sum, as agreed between
the parties ina 1873.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-29

TURFMEN representing ten clubs are
holding convention in Louisville to
frame uniform set of rules. The
sentiment of the gathering is re
presented as hostile to fraud ON the
track, and it is proposed to forbid
reinstatement.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-29

THERE is no longer any doubt of the
loss of the steamer Manistee in Lake
Superior during the recent gale, with
all on board-twenty-fve persons.
She was owned by Leopold & Aus
trian. Chicago.