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The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-06-13

But one of the most striking in
stances on record is probably that
of the infamous Charles TX of
France, the author of the st. Bar
tholomew Massacre De Mezary
says that after long and desperate
struggle against his disease, he at last
took to his bed. During the last two
weeks of his life his constitution
made stranger efforts. He was af-
fected with spasms and commissions
of extreme violence. He tossed and
agitated himself continually, andhis
blood gushed from all the ontlets of
his body, even from the pores of his
skin; SO that on one occasion he was
found bathed in bloody sweat. "
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-06-13
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

SGiENIlFIG SGKAPS.
The relative efficiency of
electricity, gas and oil for use
in lighthouses is being tested
in England, where the Trinity
Board has selected certain
ranges, about three miles in
land from the South Fore
land lighthouse, as lines OBJ
servatlon, along which meas
urements are to be made.
These experiments are expectd
to last several months.
a new steel is being pro-
duced by company in Shelf
field, Eng, which, if reports
are true, will be of great
value to the railway as well
as the manufacturing world.
The product is made by add.
ing from z to 20 per cent of
'the ordinary feTo-man
ganese of commerce to iron
either wholly or to a good ex-
tent decarbonized and refined
amy treat by any of the ordi-
nary processes, or to steel
produced by such processes.
a new system of cable-line
railway is to be tried in Idaho,
between HALEY, thenorthern
terminus of the wood river
branch of the Oregon Short
Line, and Ketchum, a town
ten and a half miles distant.
The pulleys carryingthe cable
will be above the track, which
is Of three-foot gauge. The
necessary power is derived
from the current of the wood
river, at Il point where the
water has velocity of flow
of sixty-five feet per minute.
10 removed the unpleasant
tasle which is frequently OBJ
servable from new wooden
vessels is a thing difficult of
accomplishment. The Brew-
ing aoorld says that the simplest
plan, and one that will sue
coed in most cases, is to scald
them thoroughly several times
III boiling water; then desoIve
some pearl-ash or sodoin luke
warm water, adding a little
lime to it, then wash the in
side OF the vessel we'll in the
solution. Afterward scald
them several times thoroughly
as before.
An ingenious device to
prevent boiler explosions has
recently been patented. 1t
consists of an electrict battery
placed on the wall near the
boiler, connected with a gong
wires run to the water. gauge
and connect with Il glass bulb
filled with mercury. When
water falls below the point of
attachment the steam rushes
into the space surrounding the
mercury bulb and the mercury
expands, AS it rises in the
the it comes in contact with a
platinum wire, thus closing
the electric circuit and ringing
the alarm bell. When water
is pumped into the boiler it
forces the steam back, breaks
the circuit and puts the alarm
IN working order again. This
invention recommends itself
ON account of its simplicity.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-06-13

When DR.. Chapman was dining at
All hotel he was served with what was
called barley soup on the bill of fare.
. That is not barley soup" said he
to the waiter, " it is barely soup
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-06-13
MANUFACTURING SINGERS.

According to the Voltalre,
a French doctor has made a
discovery calculated to bring
down the price of tenors, and
furnish an unlimited quantity
of masculine sopranos. The
operator applies his surgical
skill to the human throat in
such a manner that he can
produce at will a first-class
bass, baritone, tenor or So
prano singer, and the opera
ton is, of course, very simple
and almost painless. 1t was
thought that the limit of folly
was reached by the man who
lately manufactured CATALAN
atmospheres" for English
singers.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-06-13

The crush hat is the only proper
hat for evening wear, so fashion has
decided. 1t don't generally take
more than one good evening out to
crush any hat.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-04
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

EIGHTY-sIX bales of cotton were burn
ed on the steamboat dock at Troy, n. J..
Loss, $4,000.
THE machine shops Of John L. Jack
son, at Saginaw City, Mich, were de-
stroyed 10y fire. Loss, S2j, 600; Insurance,
$4,000.
THE saw-mill belonging to the Helf-
rich Saw and Plauing-mill Company at
Independence, Warren county, Ind.
was destroyed on Sunday. Loss. >Ito0O,
insurance. $4,000
DULUTH, Mimi, suffered a loss OF
$4,000 by a contagration in its lumber
mills Saturday night. Prop ty 70 the
amount Of $500, 900 was consumed ut
Cyuthiaua, Ky. Sunday, including
fourteen race horses in "a stable.
TUE Winslow Laboratory OF the
Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute ut
Troy y. ~. including fine collection
of minerals and a library, was destroy
ed hy fire Saturday morning.
THE Abadilah stables at Cynthiana
Nv. were burned ut ( O'Clock SUNDAY
morning "a score Of fine race horses
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-04
The Eve of War.

Lii Fong Pao, Chinese envoy at
Paris, has received his passports The
French Consul at Pekin has pulled
down his flag.
This means war. Unless the Pow
ers intervene France will proceed to
lay Foo-Chow, as the RepubliQue
Franchise amiably suggests, in
ashes"
There is very little chance of inter
ventlon The war party in China are
unwilling to pay any indemnity at
all. France will have to fight for all
she gets.
The result is not doubtful. China
talks of her military strength. She
has built forts and barred rivers She
can make diversions in Tonquin. AS
one army is destroyed she can send
others to take It's place. This is the
limit of her strength. In the end she
must succunb.
France will be surrounded with
difficulties She will be conducting a
campaign beside which her adventure
in Tonquin will be trihe. She will
be exposing foreigners to massacre
and may be forced into quarrels with
the great nations of the world. But
in the end she must win.
Is the prize worth winning2 Has
the cost been counted? Has France
some dreamy hope of establishing a
vast empire in the Far East2 Does
she desire rulers of China at her feet
as the princes of India knelt to Give.
Times have changed. England
conquered Hlndostan at a moment
when nobody could dispute her con
quests. France will conquer China
at moment when every nation that
has foreign commerce is directly con
cerned IN preserving her indepen-
dence.
AS for the moral feet of French
victories on the Annamite and Ton
quinese population, we sarcely think
that worth battle.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-04
WASHINGTON.

.,4o,t, PAWN and sa,ep asso-
,iatos roacbod Mont smith Al, Mn
,",. =, ,Larreo ~ oaicors Tbav Vii bo
toilon ~ F6,+ Scott Kan ANA turned
o,.a, n, Ir,itni etotss af,icere
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home i'm Geneva. n. Y. Frustrated
His physician enioins absolute rest and
quiet for "a few weeks. but is not
alarmed over his patients condition.
posv,t,srrp Grvpp,r Gprsu,,, has
an,ointed ~ ~ Otto and II : Crayr-
XXI Observation-Disclosures of tba foroigp
mans renrasontatiyes of tba 1rniteJ
States M Tho 0ninnIoprial p,st,i In.
teynotionaI Convention which ,,aate. ~
Tishon pnrtp,r-l So nayt
-.-.
=, ms Tyate i'el''I ''l'eu, received from
Sasou' T. u'leu 'lt'e9 eViiSul aO 'larseu-
Igs' report II VFo' ,le StJu"'i1u 'lt 'hat
pace ana l9uloh siiio5 lhe aoa' meht
OF lhe choiera ePlIeln'c' ne says:
Ihe I5hSites Oh lo9'ou anu NlaI7ellIes
nave ps'n strained 20 Iue utmost IN
''veu''1 .'S s'loet9 anu 'y1S',.', us ana
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-04
Gen. Shields SuGerings
st. Louis Democrat.

'eWould you like to see the mate
to the ball which passed through the
General in the Mexican War;" Mr..
Shields asked. In response to an af-
firmatiye, she brought out grape
shot, not like the more modern mes
seneers of destruction, bat great
iron ball with deep, ragged fringe,
showing rude casting. it measured
full three inches in circumference,
This was picked up on the battle field
by an aid of Gen Scott, who present
ed it to Gen. Shields only few years
ago. The shot which struck the Gen
eral entered below the heart, passed
through the lung, and came out under
the shoulder blade. A surgeon on the
Mexican side who found him took a
silk handkerchief and followed the
course of the wound, drew it entirely
through the body. So certain were
the medical men he could not recover
that the official report sent on to
Washington included Shields among
the dead. "Iu all the years of our
married life, SAID Mrs. Shields, 81
don't think | ever knew him to have
one whole night of sleep undisturbed
by that wound. He would get up out
of bed and walk the floor by the hour.
Ma, he would often say to me,
know this will kill me, and so it did.
The doctors had told me to try and
keep him at home and quiet him as
much as possible, for that wound was
liable to cause his death very sudden
ly. He was rot a man to complain,
and very few people knew what he
suffered-he could stand so much.
After he was wounded IN the Mexican
War they wanted to cut his left arm
off; it had begun to morhfy. lie tod
them no. Then they said that the
only thing that could possibly save
him, was to cut in and scrape the
bone. He told them to do it, and
went through the operation without
taking chloroform. In the last War
his right arm and shoulder were bad
ly hurt by fragments of shell, and he
had much trouble with them. lie
could never lie on that side. You
might think man who had gone
through such sutferings himself
would get callous toward the feelings
of Others. but he didn't. 1t was not
once. but many a time, I've seen him
take a mouse that had fallen into a
basin 70 water and dry the little thing
carefully and let it go, he was so ten
der-hearted.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-04

periSEed, among them Long Branch,
Chestnut Wilkes and Jersey Lily. The
total loss is estimated at 500, 600, mostly
horses.
SATURDAY night. fire broke out in
the planing-mills operated by Little &
Simonds, Duluth, MINI. The fire spread
to the adjacent lumber yard and saw
mills of Little, Peck & Co, the lumber
yard of Cutler & Gilbert, and the plan
ing-mill of ID. f. Little The total loss
was about S150000, the insurance about
1914 600.
A LAMP exploded in the millinery store
of Mrs. N. s. Avery, at Waukegan, Ill.,,
Monday evening, kindling fire that
quickly extended all through the build
ing and to the two adjoining wooden
Structures. Mrs Schwarm, who lived
over Mrs. Avery's store. was absent, and
all of the household effects and stock
of hair goods were consumed. The fur
niture and clothing store of William
Hallowell, next north, was pretty well
cleared, as was the next building south,
occupied Jointly by Henry Wood and
William Jones.
A WATERTowN, N. Y, dispatch of
the Goth says; A large part of the
business portion of the village of Adams
was burned this morning, including
Ripley's harness shop, Clark's saloon,
Gil bert's clothing store. Fox's drug
store, Chandler q Lomsons shoe store,
j. o. Browns grocery, Arms & Hun
gerford's dry goods store, Taylor's dry
goods store, Kelbys clothing andRip-
lcy's shoe store, Oyerton's grocery, Bar
ney's jewelry store, and two millinery
stores. The Adams Collegiate Institute
and many law and other offices were
also burned, The loss is 5000, 900.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-04

lake, with a series of unpretendino
buildings and temples lying along iss
expanse and fishing nets and boats
floating upon its bosom. The watch
tower on the hill in the northern part
of the city is upon the wall. which
here runs near the precipice two hun.
dred feet high it is a most conspicu.
Gus object when approaching the
place.
THE CHINESE AND FRENCH sQUADROYs-
The Chinese squadron at Foo-Chow
is said to consist of two cruisers and
twenty-one smaller boats. The chief
weakness of the Chinese navy is in the
scientific, medical and commissariat
service. The dock yard accommoda-
ton is bad; their skilled officers are
few and it was stated some time AGO
that not a single doctor had been an
pointed on any Of the ships. The
steamers of the China Merchant Com.
pany, forty in number, may be
freighted for the transport of troops
and materials and could be of con
siderable service. The French squad
roEs now operating in Cheese waters
are divided. It's estimated that some
ten ships of war are under Admiral
Courbet before Foo-Chow and which
1T was reported opened ON the city YES.
terday, while four or five vessels.
under Admiral Lespes, which bonn
barded Kelung early IN this month.
are still threatening that place, if
they have not already destroyed it.
Kelung is port at the northeast end
of the Island of Formosa, twenty
three miles east of Tamsul, with which
place the trade of Kelung is included,
Tamsul being the Consular residence.
The only coal mining of importance
in the Chinese Empire is carried on
near Keiung and the export of this
commodity forms a considerable por-
ton of the trade of the port. France
has no coaling station in the far East
except at Saigon, on the southeastern
coast of AMMAN, and Admiral Lespes
Selling of Kelung was therefore more
as strategic point in the case of war
with China than to force a speedy
payment of the indemnity demanded.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-04
Grape Rot.

In an article in the recently issued
second volume of the Transactions of
the Mississippi Valley Horticultural
Society, Professor Trelease shows tina
there are at least five causes of grape
rot, which may be determined by the
following key:
l. Insects not found in the pulp, 2.
Insects found in TIE pulp, 4.
2. Minute black dots on a dried
gray spot, PhoBl0 uricola
(B. & o..
Berries Shriveling, not appearing
scorched, 3.
3. Berry not punctured, seeds not
enlarged, PeronoSporu 0jtj-
cola (B. 81 O.
Berry punctured or diseolored at
one spot, one or two seeds en-
larged, containing a footless
maggot, IsOsOnu ritiS (Saund)
4. Larva, footless, 5.
Larva with 16 legs, EudemiS
botrdnd (Schitf).
;. About BIC in. long, not hairy,
CrapOnius iRGgualis SAY
Less than ! in. long with fleshy
hairs, rarely, IsOSoma Uitis
(Saund.).
The first two are fungi, the others
are insects Destroying fallen grape
leaves, training the vines against
sunny walls or else where they get
an abundance of sunshine, and bag
ying the young clusters are recon-
for preventing the diseases.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-04

CHINESE papers just to hand show
that although the i'll success attend
ing the arms of the Colestials in Ton
Quin was undoubtedly due to the i'm
competence and vacjllation of the
Chinese Government, there has been
no lack of scapegoats in the shape Of
Governors and Generals upon whom
TO visit the wrath oftha Crown. We
read that one Brigadier- General VINO
lost a fort, and a Colonel who loitered
ju the rear, were sentenced to have
their heads cut OIL in the presence of
the army, and the Governors Of
kwaugsi and Yunnan, as web as the
Governor General of Canton. were
placed under arrest and ordered to
Pekin for punishment. These uu.
fortuuates were handed over to the
tender mercieS of a Court of Inquiry,
and it is sigiicant of the speed with
which fate overtakes intended victims
IN China that the members of this
court were instructed not to take the
trouble OF sending the Governors to a
Board of Punishment, but simply to
forward a report, which would I'M
mediate,y be acted upon. Others have
been punished for not carrying out
instructions that had never boen.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-04

DURING the present harvest season
in Italy the reapers have earned $3.50
per day, which they consider extraor-
binary wages. Their work lasted
fourteen hours daily, from 4 a. m.
to s p. m, with intervals for meals,
which consisted Of much and oil,
bologna sausage, rice, beans. cheese
and wine taken at Z, II and G
o'clock.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-04
Work Up the Local Markets.

Do not fail to try to work up the
local markets for honey. This not
only helps to increase consumption,
but also adds 10 the profits of the
honey producer, by obtaining larger
price at retail than by selling it at
bulk to middle-men in large CONNER
cial centers. By saying this we are
in no way undertaking the valuable
services Of wholesale merchants in
cities, for there is always enough
comes to such places to stock that
market, and by selling more at retail,
it will keep from over-stockmg such
markets, and thereby depreciating the
salable value of the product,
We can do the producers no better
service, therefore, than to advise
them to work up the markets in their
own immediate neighborhoods. To
do this, get some Leaflets, o.
Honey as Food and Medicine, witt
the producers name and address print
ed on them, and scatter them over the
territory that can be supplied. Try
this plan, and see how 1t will aston
ish you by its results.-Am. Bee
Journal.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-04

REV. ADoLPHUs HARTMAN, mission
airy among the Indians in Canada,
and Rev. William Weinland, recent
graduate Of the Moraviau Theological
Seminary, at Bethlehem Pa, have
been sent to Alaska on an exploring
expedition, with a view to establish
a Moravian mission among the In
NUTS, or Esquimaux, who live on the
western coast of that too long neglect
ed territory.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-04

AT Cynthiana, KY, on the oath
the Addallah stables were burned,
and a score OF fine race horses perish
ed, among them Long Branch
Chesugt Wilkes and Jersey Lilly
Different owners had horses quartereC
in the stables. w. A. Wilson placed
his loss at $4,000. 1t is estimated
that the loss is 100000, mostly in
horses.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-04

a YOU'VE widow, in erecting mon
ument to the lear departed, clever
ly awaited herself of Tie opportunity
to iuscribe upon the tomb: Sacred
to the memory of Mathusin Bexuchet,
who departed this life, aged IS years,
regretting the necessity of parting
from the most charming and best Of
women
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-04

Several Newfoundland dogs were
brought home from the north by the
Greedy relief party. These dogs are
very intelligent, and they became
general fav0rites with the crew dur
ing the voyage. Since the ships have
been at the Brooklyn hayward the
intense heat has proved fatal to the
health Of the dogs They have grown
i'll and languid, and have hardly
moved from the hold Of the vessel
where they tried to hide themselves
when the hot sun blistered the deck.
Wednesday one of the fur-clad dogs
rushed up from the hold of the Bear
and Jumped overheard. The animal
made no effort to SWIM, but allowed
itself to drown as if from deliberate
desire to commit suicide.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-04

THE American Missionary Society
in Madura, South India, has just eel
ebrated its fftieth anniversary in a
three days fete. The programme
comprised a large procession through
the town, in which 1,800 Christians
took part. The Hindoos and many
Europeans are astonished at the sue
cess Of the word.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-04

LAST year the women of the United
States gave 100000 toward Chris.
tianizing the heather OF this large
sum Presbyterian women gave nearly
5000 600; Baptist women, 1876, 600;
Congregational women, $3.50, 600;
Northern Methodist women, SOS, GOO
and the Southern Methodist women
over S2a- 600.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-04

THERE are a hundred things which
You cannot do, and which you are not
called upon to do; but you can always
do what is your duty here and now,
There are a thousand places which
you might conceiyably fill; but the
fact remains that at the present mo.
ment, you are only called to fill one
place. DO the one thing; Gil the one
place. He who secs all things and all
places will take care of the rest
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-04
From Head to Foot

The postmaster at North Buffalo,
Pa, Mr.. NJ. J. Green, says 81. JACOBS
Oil the great pain-conqueror, cufe9i
him of pains ia the head. and also o.
frosted feet
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-04

THERE is an association in London,
just a year old, or the purpose of
placing texts of scripture in street cars
and omnibuses. The number Of the
London street car routes alone exceed
400, and it is estimated that the pas
senger traffic, which is steadily in
creasing, is Z, 200, 00aunually. Texts
have been placed in fifty of the cars
at the cost of 81 50 per year for each.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-04
PROSPECT FROM THE WALLS,

The walls of the city are about
thirty feet high and twelve wide at
the top. The gates, seven in number,
are overlooked by high towers; smaller
guard houses stand upon the walls at
short intervals, in which few soldiers
lodge and where two or three cannOns
indicate their object. The city IS di-
vided into wards and neighborhoOds,
each of which is under its own police
and headmeu, who are responsible for
the peace in their respective districts.
From the Wa-shIu shan, an eminence
on the north side Of the city, the view
is extensive. The square battlements
of the wall are seen extending on a
devious and irregular circuit Tor more
than eight miles and enclosing most
of the buildings except on the south.
On the southeast a hill rises abruptly
more than two hundred feet. It's ridge
built up with iuterspersed dwellings,
and anothe" ON the extreme north of
the city, surmounting a watch tower,
closes the prospect in that direction.
Serpendne canals divide the country
round about into plats of greater or
less extent of every form and hue
while they help 90 DRAIN the city and
provide channels for boats coming
from the river These parts of the
Landscape are dotted with hamlets and
cottages, and where the ground is
higher, with graves and t0rnbstones.
ON the western side OF the city is .
sheet of water called 81 Hu, or West
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-04

II is predicted that the volume d
telegraph business viii be doubled
within the next five years
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-04

The value of the butter made IN the
State of New York annually IS est
mated at over $50. coo, 900.