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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-27
A Wife's Th0ughtfulness.

NNtit'A WIG liAnaf JNAlldi
Il haven't seen your pet dog for sew
eral days, said Somervi'le husband
to his wife.
mo, she replied; "the fact il, Ihave
given him away"
why, you needn't have done that.
] had, no particular objection to him. -"
''Oh, | know that; but / thought
that it was not right for me to have a
pet dog about the house when / have
such good, kind husband to lavish
my affections upon.
The husband sank into a chair, with
a deep sigh.
How much do you want, MaryW
he asked, as he drew his wallet from
his pocket; lit can't be a sealskin
sa cque, for the winteris nearly over
NO, she said 'it is not a sealskin
sacque; but would really like a new
silk for the spring, and you know it's
got to be bought and made, and all
that.
Now, be said, as he handed her the
money, what proof Of your affection
will you give me when you want an
other dress, since you have given away
your dog"
"Oh. she sweetly replied, I've
given the dog TO my sister, and / can
get him back again.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-27

Kennedy, at Noonan's Lake. Fla. 10
Years old. has borne fruit eleven
years and has earned for its owner
Sl06 in a single season.
In the negro cemetery at Americas.
Ga, is a cedar tree that was planted
in a pitcher at the head of a grave ten
years ago. 1t burst the bottom of the
pitcher and rooted in the earth. The
pitcher still encircles the bottom of
the cedar, which is is 10 feet high.
Delos Hotchkiss, of Marion, Conn.
has an apple tree in his orchard that
Is supposed to be Us years old Its
annual yield is about eighty-hve
bushels of apples. The circumfer-
ence of the trunk Is sixteen feet near
the ground 1t bears fruit on five
limbs one year, and on four different
limbs the next year In 1876 it bore
fruit on all its limbs.
The soft maple tree that was cut
down on the White House grounds
last December had many historic as
socjations. President Lincoln had
habit of stopping at this tree, when
thoughtfully strolling about the
grounds, and pulling twig from it.
Then he would take out his pocket
knife and slowly white the stick as
he walked en-. The tree was planted
during the administration of Andrew
jackson
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-27
Sound Doctrine.
Toledo Blade

Every physician and every scientist
who has made a study Of the physical
and mental organization Of man will
tell him that no man can violate any
of the laws Of nature without taking
from himself something which he
can never get back This is true Of
the physical, mental and moral man.
No matter what a mans religious be
lief may be, there are certain rules Of
morals which, if he violate, he pays
the penalty for, and no matter what
his ideas Of physical life may be there
are rules governing just as infloxible,
the violation Of which brings a penal
ty Just as certain. The indomitable
ambition and the wonderful will of
Napoleon impelled HIM TO labor when
he should have slept, and he died
young. An unusually strong consti-
tuition may enable a man to eat or
drink too much for years, but he pays
the penalty in a shortened life and a
premature old age A man may
drink so much beer a day and live to
be without 1.-THE would have lived
to be 1870
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-27
Exceeding Prudence.
Bismarck Tribune.


At the express Office the other day
a ranchman wearing a rough suit OF
clothes and prematurely bald head
sat beside a burial casket waiting for
the east. bound train A Tribune rep
resentative approached him and ask
ed
Taking the remains of some friend
east for burial2'
That's wat / be, pardner My
wife Sary lays in thar takin' things
sorter easy an quiet like"
Where are you taking the bodyg'
Back to Ohier; Ashtabuly coun-
ty.n
Have you other friends buried
there beside whom you desire her to
lie?n
wal, no none in particular. I've
got one wife anchored thar waitin'
fur the wakenin' trump; that's all. y
Why do you not bury your last
wife near your home? Unless, as we
suggested, you desire to lay her to rest
beside other loved ones, it seems
strange that you would 70 to the ex-
pense Of taking the remains to the
east.
Wal, pardner, I'm a iggerin' on
my own comfort in this deal. I've
lived in Dakoty fur goin on six years
an / know this soil too burned well
TO take any chances on it. If I'd plant
Sary out var the chances air ten to
nuthin' that this productive soil q git
IN its work an she'd sprout up a
bloomin beauty in the spring, 50 !
reckoned it'd be safer TO tuck 'er away
back in Ohier, woor the drouth d hev
a show to pervent accidents. I've
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-27

Coming out Of the Museum | saw
something which / sincerity hope TO
sec encouraged and kept up. A lady,
who had evidently not been affected
by the squirt Of sunshine which had
lured me from warm room, attempt
ed to go over a crossing On this
crossing the first blush of spring had
fallen, and the result was a combine
ton of snow, mud and ice. The lit
tie lady was driven to thedire extrem-
ity Of lifting her skirts little high
er than her own judgment would per
haps, have dictated, but this she could
not follow under the circumstances.
In her navigation one of her rubbers
came off. She picked it up quickly
and carried it to the corner in her
hand. A young man, dressed in q
par Of spring pants which even an
Indian had disdained to wear, stood
ogling her, with the knob end of his
umbrella knocking against his teeth.
His stare was bold and offensive
The lady could not escape it, and she
walked up to him and slapped him in
the face with the little rubber sandal
that had slipped from her shoe on the
crossing. 1t was the work Of flash,
for the young man disappeared as if
he bad been thrown from catapult.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-27
The Captain Takes His Turn Last.
Detroit Free Press

Captain said the reporter as he
elbowed his way into the circle "how
Large waves did you ever see on the
lakesIN
We'll, let's see. Do you mean
within the last five years2'
Il mean any time since you have
been sailing.
"Oh-ah, Well, sir, twenty years
ago, when ! used to sail the bark
John b Skinner,I saw waves ON the
Saginaw Bay which must have been
$50 on.
Say, observed the captain, 'please
ask some Of these gentlemen their
opinion
There were six other captains in the
circle. Two Of them said they had
seen waves fifteen feet high; two
more agreed ON twenty feet. and the
other pair thought they had seen
few waves running around loose
which must have been all of twenty
five feet high.
Nov, then, captain, said the re-
porter TO the first.
"Well, sir, replied the captain.
being that the other gentlemen have
given in their figures, | will say that
l have seen waves on Saginaw Bay
exactly tifty-one feet and seven inches
high | took ladder and a tape line
and measured EN-, and ] know |
knocked off at least ten inches of the
tops IN reaching up.
He came last, and the other cap
tains could only nurse their despera-
ton.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-27
A Change Of Treatment.

Brooklyn Eagle.
IF you will permit me to say so,
doctor" remarked the patient, sci
ence has in you one of its most perse-
vering disciples
The doctors face expressed the
qualification the compliment had
given him, and the patient contin-
ued:
But ] have one favor to ask of
you"
Name it" said the pleased and
smiling doctor.
you have treated me scientifically
for six weeks"
Yes.
"Well give me something now to
get well on. :"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-27
Naming the Town.
Lincoln tIll3 Times

Many years ago two old pioneers
Peter Lukins was the name of one of
them owned the land on which the
city of Petersburg stands Abraham
Lincoln, who lived at Salem, two
miles up the river, but now entirely
abandoned, surveyed the new town.
Tae two old pioneers couldn't agree as
to the name of the future great. One
of them proposed a game of seven-up,
the winner to have the honor of nam
ing 1t. Lukins won, and ia honor of
himself he called it Peters Burg.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-27
Interesting Trnns

The trunk Of a sycamore, near New
Madrid, is 10 feet in circumference.
An oak in Barnwcll County, s. O.,
measures 24I feet in circumference
inches above the ground.
An apple tree in Mercer County,
Kentucky, has borne fruit for sixty
seasons without failing. Five feet
from the ground its trunk is 10 feet
and 8 inches in circumference.
A lemon tree on the farm Of Thomas
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-27
why He Developed Centrifugal Force.


Sir sharply remarked pretty
Boston girl, moving away from a
young New Yorker, who was seated
on the same sofa with her and exhibit
ed a disposition to abridge the dis
lance between them, SIR the radius
vector Of your orbit is getting too
short.
The young man turned pale, felt
around for his legs IN stupeiied sort
of way, seemed to recover some con
fidenee on discovering that they were
still there, arose and fled.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-27
A REVELATION PROMISED.
Smith va Weed Says the Time is Ap-
preaching for Him 10 Give the Facts
OF the Political circumstances eff

New York Telegram
Col. Charles Wooley, of Cincin-
natl, whose business here, at which
he is very industrious, is evidently to
get into print for the purpose Of bear
ing Payne's Presidential stock, said
in late interview, which was widely
quoted, that Conkling had prepared
speech against counting Louisiana for
Hayes. The statement called for sew
eral denials, among them one by Mr..
Conkling. Reference was made in
that interview to Smith M. Weed, of
Plattsburg, as a person who was ac-
quainted with the political circum-
stances of the winter of1S77, to which
the interview had reference. Weed
is now in town, and when questioned
about the statement he minated, not
only that it was true, but that it had
prepared the way for disclosure to
be shortly forthcoming, which would
make a great political sensation. He
said he was not ready to appear in
print, but soon would be, and the
truth was at last bound to come out.
he commended Wooley as man of
character who knew whereof he had
spoken, and although Weed had not
gwen Wooley special authority to
use his name in this connection at
this time, he recognized that Wooley
was still acting under authority given
four years ago.
Weed does not speak threateningiy,
but his manner leads to a belief that
lines of personal veracity among
prominent people will soon be closely
drawn
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-27

Miss Phoebe W. Couzins, famous
as lawyer IN st. Louis. is the lead
ing advocate in advancing the claim
of Miss Anna Ella Carroll whose
alleged suggestions that the Tennessee
River and not the Mississippi was the
KEY of the war in the Southwest led
to the adoption Of the Tennessee cam.
paign plan in the civil war. She
wants money for it now.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-27
Presence of Mind.

A lady stepped into the sanctum
this morning and SAID sweetly:
VIII you be kind enough to let
me look at The Christian at Work II
The horse editor biushed a little.
but had the presence Of mind to say
Certainly, madam; what can | do
for your
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-27
Sure Of One Thing AnYhoM.
Sornerville Journa

DO you think your horse has q
soulT Somerville philaippist asked
brother hippologist the other day
as the two met in Union Square
81 don't know whether he's got a
soul or not was the reply, but I'm
pretty certain he's got the heaves.'
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-27

Another woman has been tattooed
in Cincinnati for circus. There are
i've tattooed persons in the United
States
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-27

lived with Sary SIX years, pardner,
an | reckon I'm fggerin' on the flu
tnre purity near right.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-27

Speaking at the Yale dinner in Bos-
ton, Rev. DR.. Daniel Butler said he
couldn't remember that the good old
college at New Haven had ever
graduated demagogue. He had in
his minds eye, he said, a recent chief
magistrate OF Massachusetts,. You
could no more grow such a man IN
Yale College than you could raise
alligators in Eden.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-27

Hiss Blanche Tilton, who died IN
Philadelphia on Saturday, made a
request that her remains be cremated,
and the burning took place at the lie
Moyne furnace.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-01

Several thousand bushels of the best No.
'--i wheat will be done mp in neat souvenir
..ages labeled with compliments Of
...ita'' to be given away 20 persons from
ali parts Of the world. Great quantities o.
vegetables viii be kept on hand in cold
storage rooms 10 replace those on exhibition
as soon as they deter.orate from exposure,
and 20 De given away. Each one OF the roller
mills II Dakota will build pyramid of -four
con sisting OF a car load each. The different
woods Of the territory will be advantageously
displayed. An artistic waiting aud recep-
ton room matched inside aud outside with
Dakota wheat viii BE- built A special de-
partment viii be provided for the archaic re-
mains Of the territory. Indian cuTiOsities Of
all kinds including teepes, ponies, travels,
cooking utensils, implements of the chase
articles Of dress, religious paraphernalia. etc.
will be fully represented. The Chicago, Nil
waukee * ST. Paul railroad viii provide =
special railroad exhibit.
Parker is to have system OF water works
mounted on stills. The tank is 10 bn.. ]. 500
barrels and the water is to be forced into Il
by fourteen foot wind mill
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-01

reasons already suggested. II says: Mr..
Wilson would be in sympathy with the ~
lority OF the congress from which our trr
tory will ask fzvors, and would be listened
10 with a respect which no Dakota Republi-
can could command. His election would be
looked upon as an uprising Of the people and
would cl0the him with power
which no Republican could possess.
The man we want in congress is the man
who can accomplish most for our people in
the present unusual crisis in our history. The
present is a time in which the voters Of Da-
kota should SO far as their congressional
delegate is concerned, Law of al party preiu-
dice and elect the man who can serve them
best. The delegate votes on nothing So
lar as party measures are concerned IL mat
ters not what may be bis political belief.
But we have q little business To be attended
10 at Washington, and We want 10 get a man
who can get the ear and confidence OF a
Democratic congress. Such man Is John
K. Wilson.
There is hardly possibility that the Dem
ocrats win lose all their seventy-eight major
ity in the new congress. The Republican
managers do not expect 81: The south,
which is really in earnest In asking for divi-
sion. has the most interest in the matter.
The north does not expect 20 come in as n
seperate state for several years in case Of
division and the support ifs politicians viii
give division cannot have much heHrt In it.
One big state would really suit them better.
The men who want a state south soon should
look 70 the Democrats in congress for aid.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-01
The Tirinnrc.

IN summing up the results Of The season
in that section. the Pierre Pres says: Prior
10 1883, no land IA Hughes, Sully or Potter
counties had been occupied by farmers. Dur
ing the year 1888 a few thousand acres Of
land were broken in the above counties. No
grain Of any consequence was sown. AZ the
opening OF the present season from 80, 200
5,0O0 acres were prepared and put in crop
in the three counties mentioned. Three
fourths Of the above acreage was, however,
unquestionably upon prairie sod broken the
present season. IN other words, a sod crop,
much Of which, owing 10 the lack Of proper
tools was put in upon land poorly pre-
pared. What are the RESULTS Al least
two hundred thousand bushels OF grain
grown the present season in the
three counties OF Hughes, Suiiy and
Potter will be marketed at stations along the
line Of the Chicago q Northwestern railroad
and, without question, an equal number OF
bushels will remain IN the hands Of farmers
for the purposes Of seed ana home cOnsump-
ton. Although some 20 600 bushels Of wheat
have been delivered at the elevator in Pierre
not one bushel has been offered that does
not grade No / hard. OF a large quantity OF
fax delivered every bushel grades No.
prime. Thousands of acres Of the hardest
and best developed corn, some Of WHICH will
yield fifty bushels shelled corn TO the acre,
have been grown. Corn planted on the 25th
day Of May was marketed ia wagon load
lots in the streets OF Pierre on the 9th day OF
September. And yet, in spite Of the in
huence which this early marketing Of corn
might have been supposed to be able TO pro-
duee in the way Of early killing frosts in this
section until after Oct. !.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-01
Soutl.ern Dakotn,s Gro,r,h.

Some unknown party gathers this state
ment of the growth of southern Dakota the
past year; During the past year over 3,OOO.-
600 acres have been entered in southern Da-
kota and 100 postofiices established, a larger
number than all the other territories TO.
gether The daily newspapers have increased
from 46 TO 63, and weeklies from 16O to 243.
immigration is pouring in at a rapid rate. a
nation is being born in day, and a short
time only can elapse before two OF three
large states will grow out of the Gland of the
Dacotahs." This enthusiastic outlook of a
territory now knocking at the doors of con-
gress for admission to the sisterhood of states
was recently given the writer by Rev. Stew
art Sheldon, Of Yankton, superintendent of
home missions for southern Dakota, a gen
tlemsn who has lived in the territory for the
past sixteen years, who has travelled over Il
many times, and is fully competent 10 give
a trustworthy opinion. ''LOok at the terri
tory of the state" continued tins reverend
gentleman, ''l60, 600 square miles, enough
to make twenty, eight Conneeticuts; to hold
all the inhabitants OF the world, with only
sixteen and fraction TO the acre: 10 mt a
belt around the globe six miles wide. In =
single year 1900 miles of railroad are buiit.
and on a siugle farm 1000, OOc bushels were
raised Its possibilities are almost bound
less.r
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-01
Dakota FTar.

The Dakota O.silook has this mention Of a
town that seems 10 have exceptional pros
Perity this year, a. II did not depend upon
the wheat crop. Scotland is in Bon Homme
In the south: The amount Of business an
nually transacted at Scotland is greatly in
excess Of that done at any other town Of the
size in Dakota. Farmers bring their produce
hiiy and sixty miles Ia get the benefit OF the
Scotland market. II Is unquestionably the
largest fax market in America. Already
this year 200, 600 bushels Of fax have been
shipped from there, and that is about one
third Of the total quantity Of this years crop
that will be offered for sale there. Flax has
brought from 81 TO Sl.i5 per bushel and the
reader can easily compute the sum that the
farmers tributary % Scotland viii this wear
receive from lax alone. Thus while the
farmers In .he wheat growing sections are
having hard tisaes because % the low price
OF wheat, those OF this section who have
grown fax are getting all the money they
could reasonably expect. This makes an ae-
tive business and the merchants Of Scotland
are well satisfied with the trade they are do
Ing when 50 large part Of the country is
suffering from hard times.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-01

has been an object OF interest.to the admirers
OF the great infidel orator. Ingersoll terrace
Is another recognition OF his visit. Elwood
liofer, the famous guide and escort, viii
spend the winter with Col. W. d. Pitchett. a
wealthy gentleman from Tennessee, hunt
ing. He was with the colonel on seven
months hunt in the winter Of 1880, when
they killed twenty-four bears and much
other big game.
The Livingstone E,steprsse gathers these
signs Of Montana weather: Many old timers,
learned in natures lore, predict a very
severe winter. They base the prophecy TO
some extent on the abundance of berries
last summer. The same condition in rs
and 80 was followed by hard winters, they
say. The beavers and the muskrats and
other knowing animals have evidently pre-
pared for rough season. The man with
the goose bone has not yet been heard
from, and we await his verdict with much
anxiety.
town that requires visitors 10 pay their
own whisky bills in Dakota can hardly ex-
pect better notice than this by the Plankin-
ton Free Press When the Aberdeen Fire
company visited Mitchell few weeks ago,
according TO the Mitchell Mai, they were met
at the depot, escorted about the city, aud
their expenses paid. including a SOB shlsky
BILL When the Mitchell company visited
Aberdeen they were comselled 10 put up 81
per day for board and - cents per drink for
whisky. The citizens Of Aberdeen are Hogs
with big IL.
Dr. /. r. Wisner, of Lisbon, in reply to
inquiries from the east as 10 malarial diseases
in the Red river region, saws: have never
seen case Of fever and ague in north Da-
kota, nor have / ever heard it claimed or
charged that they had fever and ague in the
Red River valley. Typhoid fever is distinct
fever and does not mix with any other-a
case is either typhoid or It is not. About
two years ago ! saw DIR. Darrow, Of Fargo,
who is prominent physician OF that city,
and asked him 10 tell me about the fever
they had in the Red River valley. He said it
was only typhoid fever, perhaps modified by
the water they drank, which has been called
alkaline, but as 10 malaria or miasma or
intermittent fever they have none whatever.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-01
PfnnL,inaton rrnfrie Eire.

The loss by prairie fire in the vicinity Of
PlankingtOn is estimated at from $4,000 10
$50, 900. The Free Pres says Of it, Last
Sunday morning, between and s O'Clock, a
fire was set southeast Of Travis claim south
Of town, by some unknown person. About
O'Clock heavy wind set in from the north
and in a short time the entire prairie was one
vast rolling see OF flames. Like a race horse
the fire rushed south, licking up every thing
in its path and destroying property to the
amount of many thousand dollars. Only
one life is thus far reported lost-the little
daughter of John Asmus. When the FIRE
rushed in on Mr.. Asmus, he and his wife
barely saved the house from destruction.
His Oldest daughter-aged thirteen-was sent
to the barn yard to let out the stock. A little
two-year old girl followed her, and losing
sight Of her sister the little one went into
the stable to look for her, just as the fire
caught the roof OF the barn, which was built
OF hay. 1t Is supposed she became smoth-
cred, and unable 10 get out, was consumed
in the flames. All OF Mr.. Asmus' grain, hay
and stables were consumed, leaving him
nothing but the house. Mr.. and Mrs. Asmus
were also severely but not dangerously
burned in fighting the fire. While attempt
ing to save the property of Mrs. Wilson, Ro-
land Smith was severely burned, but under
the skillfui treatment Of DR. Tarbell Is doing
well as could be expected. Clint Ray
mond, who saved x. K. Watson's place from
destruction, was also severely but not dan
gerously burned. The feeling against the
party who set the fire runs high. and should
his identity be established he viii be dealt
with to the full extent OF the law.