Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-11-20
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years ne became phs sically disabled
and entered the New England Aims
house, where he has outlived two
generations.
Inc last census reveals the fact that
OF the 349 kinds of work done in Eng.
land women participate in SEVENTY. In
three professiouS-medicine, educa.
tlon, and the drama-there are more
women than men IN the case OF medi-
cine nurses are included in that pro
fession.
The railway up Vesuvius has al.
ready paid for itself 1.-THE trains, which
ascend night and day, are well pat.
ronlzed by native and foreign sight
seerS, all strangers ascending nova.
days, whereas formerly foot assent
was so lrksome that only the daring
undertook the round trip.
A monster pumpkin weighing 100
pounds which was grown on farm
OF General Butler, in Massachusetts,
and mas been exhibited in a Brooklyn
window, has been bought by ]. D. G..
Gilmore, baker of New York, who
will make 1T into an enormous pie
to be presented to the next Presi-
dent.
The last subject of the great his
torical frieze which runs around the
capitol dome has been selected. 1t
! represents the ceremony of driving
the last spike in the Pacific Railroad
which bounds the Atlantic and Pacific
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sons assembled are placed in the fore
ground of the cartoon.
A couple Of confidence men were
neatly taken in by Boston broker
the other day. They induced him to
! go around to house of their selec-
ton to play cards, and in their anxiety
to bag their game they loaned him SIS
to begin playing with. The broker
was taken with violent cramps after
he had bet $40, and succeeded in get
ting outside and away with the other
$65 in lis pocket.
The great cathedral in the City Of
! Mexico is the largest in America, and
cost nearly 50, 900, 900. It was COM
menced by the Spaniards in 1873, on
the site of the old Aztec temple, or
pyramid, and finished in 1867. It's
facade IS beautifully carved. Against
its western wall leans the celebrated
calendar stone, covered with hero
glyphics, and weighing twenty Eve
tons. Its cast which the Mexican
government is at present engaged in
taking, will be exhibited at the New
Orleans Exposition.
Bismarck evidently thinks that ii
is as easy to make a horse drink as. to
lead him to ?yater. He caused a law
to be passed forbidding the inhabi-
tants OF the duchy of Schleswig- Hol-
stein, recently wrested from Denmark,
from speaking the Danish language.
Even school children are punished
when they speak among themselves
IN their native tongue, and so far has
this law been carried that young
girls birthday festival was broken
up and the guests arrested and fined
because they sang some old Danish
folk song
Among the ancient Greeks, deaf
mutes were looked upon as disgrace
to humanity, and under the barbarous
laws of Lyeurgus they were exposed
TO death. Nor was highly cultured
Athens less cruel than Sparta toward
these unfortunate creatures. Deaf
mute children We're pitilessly sacrifc.
ed without a voice being heard on
their behalf. Aristotle declared con-
genital deaf mutes to be incapable OF
instruction, and this was the universal
opinion of classical antiquity. The
Romans treated the unfortunates with
the same cruelty as the Greeks. AS
soon as the child was found to be deaf
and dumb it was sacrificed to the
Tiber. Only those escaped whom the
waves washed back TO the shore, or
whom the natural love of their parents
kept hidden from the eyes of the
world.
PEPPERMINT CANDY.-One cup of
sugar white is incest, or very light
Q sugar, one quarter cup of hot
water. Boil just five minutes, take
off, stir till it begins to thicken; add
FIVE drops of oil of peppermint; have
buttered plate, sauce or patty pans
ready, stir till it begins to granulate,
and turn out as quickly as possible
1t cnols and hardens very rapidly. If
boiled longer it is too hard when
right is soft and fne-grained, though
firm.
The relation of the microscope to
cholera is at present an interesting and
close one. And when another potent
servant of man, electricity, is sum
moned to aid the microscope, the
power of the latter is increased to an
degree. Recently in Lor-
don such sn apparatus threw upon
screen the image of cholera germ,
2 100000 times, and in
which these long hidden and minute
appeared the size of the
human hand. The motto of the mod
ern microscopic seems to be; There
is nothing hidden that shall not be re
vealed.