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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-02-07
MoMAN,s LOT IN 1NpIA.

Mrs. /. G. Griffin, who has been for
years Il missionary in Hindostan, re-
Gently returned to America TO recuper-
ate TO n reporter for the st. Paul Pj-
oneer Press she described woman's life
in India. She says: 1.-The government
of the house of the Brahmin is strictly
in the hands Of the man; of the father
during the youth of the family, and Of
the eldest son after he m9rries. The
son always takes his wife home to the
paternal roof, and as the sons marry
additions are built to the house until it
often becomes q village in itself In
this place the women are imprisoned
literally buried alive. From the day OF
their marriage, which is at a very early
ace. they never see more of the outer
world than the narrow cXpanse of sky
and cloud that looks down upon them
between the walls Of their prison home.
No men are allowed to enter the house
but the members of the family and the
priest. except on very rare occasions,
and then unseen by the women. Mar
ried at 10 years-for spinsterhood is
ominablc-mothers ut L, they are
faded and old at the beginning OF their
fifth lustrum. They die Of sheer old
age at about 80.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-02-07
FEMALE ODDITIES.

NJ must we forget, says q writer in
The Mdlhd{0N. that ii there are women
who strive to uusuN themselves by be-
coming too masculine, SO are there men
who most eflectually unseS Themselves
by general emasculation Of dress and
manner. which would readily strike u
Stranger from another planet rs repre-
senting 4 transition period between the
sexes. Ii a mannish woman olfends
urgood taste and judgment, a woman
ish man is an insipid embodiment Of
nothingness. and ought to be treated as
q geological curiosity representing
some hitherto unknown family of the
asinary genus. From these considera-
tions it therefore follows that if there
are female oddities who furnish the
weapons Of satire TO those who are OPP
posed to the advancement of woman,
there are also masculine oddities who
SHOW how closely man can sometimes
resemble a monkey. Touching the inn
portant questions of life in the most re-
mote and superficial manner, and rep
resenting q phase which can not be Sc
riously treated, III Sc peculiar creatures
excite our visibility, and cause us to
abandon ourselves to the claims of
Democritus, the laughing philosopher
Much as the study of these superficial
ties may amuse us, they do not, how
ever, and they cannot, reach those
strata OF evidence from which we must
draw our conclusions il we desire to be
philosophical and consistent
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-02-07
A rRnNcnnAN OF ENaLIsn WOMEN.


One Max O'Rell has recently written
q book on John Bull and His Island, =
which contains q good many things
which ought to interest American la
dies. Some Of them are here reprint
ed.-having special reference to Eng
fish femininity
English women are remarkable Tor
their fresh compilations, their decided
and fearless gait, and the length Of
their feet, which reminds one that
twelve inches 90 TO the foot in Eng
land Impossible to make ja1tt pas
with such bases rs these. They cannot
lose their center Of gravity. They
have only the beauty of youth. An
Englishwoman is seldom handsome at
80. In many respects the EnglishWo-
man is superior TO the Frenchwomani
she Is more natural; she is less subject
to yapors, and does not regularly get
her nltqraiuc She is not SO naive rs
tho young French girl; but, on the 9th
or hand. She is less childish. She goes
out without her mamma and her maid,
gives YOU n hearty grasp OF the hand,
and looks you unblushingly in the face.
Unmarried. free rs the air, she may 60
10 the theatre. take walk or even p
journey with male companions; she IS
ere leader If svcieiF, Indispensable a.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-02-07

Pullman sleepers and the Finest Din
Ing Cars In the World 8rc run on the main
lines Of the Chicago, milwaukee & st.
Paul Railway, aud every attention is paid
10 passengers by courteous employees az the
Company.
s. s. MERRILL. A.V. II. CARPENTER,
General Manager. grs, Fa.s APs.
J. Z. CLABb, up,3. u. Hs.AgToER
49, ~ist Ami eM res~ 49,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-02-07

The condition Of Chinese peasant
is described by . writer in the London
Times, and can hardly be considered
enyiable He is never ableto rise above
his position, IS satisfied if he can wear
the blue cloth spun 10y the women Of
his family from cotton grown by them
selves, and the coat, which lasts any
number Of years, serves him as cloth
ing by day and as covering " night
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-02-07
BEAuTY's Duty.

'isfNN. L 4 > ~ - -
One Of the first duties of woman is
to always look rs pretty as possible.
1t goes without saying that wives,
mothers and maideus shall be good
tempered, skilled in houscwifery, true
hearted and kindly tempered.
Leaving the greater matters of the
unwritten laws Of life, however,
amongst the minor ones is that which
makes it an instinct with beauty 20
adOrD itself.
a bit of ribbon here, touch Of color
there, charm OF face and figure, shape
Iy hands and pretty feet, comcly waist
and supple neck; here, there and every
where about beauty's person, from the
curve of the dainty little pink ear to
the slope Of the shoulders and the car
rage of the person, there is ona mani
fest voice to be heard am trying to
look my best.
And, what is more, woman ought no
more to neglect trying to ook pretty to
the end OF her days than She ought TO
forget TO do her duty.
Who does not know the dear old
grandmother, whose sweet wrinklcd
face, clean cap, clean dress, and Lazy
ender-scented lace collar carry one
back to childhood's days? There are
Years there, and the experience of
trouble, the witness Of losses, memories
of bridals and Of graves, and q rapid
approach to those silent churchyard
gates through which we must all walk
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-02-07
CHAPMAN 4 co
LINENS.

We call he particular attention of HOusekeep
ers, Hotel keepers and others 90 our large stock
Of Table Linens towels, &c, &C
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-02-07

A Frenchman's Opinion of English
womcn---MasculinC Women.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-02-07
MOpEEN CIYILIzArIoN.

The Duty OF Woman 10 Look Charm
ing---Woman in India.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-02-07
wOMAN's KINGDOM.

The Views of the Editor of The Man
haitian ON Woman in Modern Civil
liZltion.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-24
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

Beer was first made in Egypt in the
year 400 b. c.
One Mormon superstition is that chill
dren. when i'll. may be cured by the lay
ing on OF hands. More than 5000 OF the
little ones are said to have died IN the
last twenty-five years who might nave
been saved by medicine.
A young man in Tennessee had no HAIR
on his face where the hair ought to grow.
Recently. however. the beard all grew
out in one spot of dense thickness. his
girl would not marry him until the con.
centrated hair had been cut oil.
Alaska mummies are much in demand
as curiosities Formerly the EsqulmauX
preserved the bodies of their chiefs ana
medicine men, and placed them IN caves,
where they were visited and given part
of what the natives captured IN hunting.
One of the new private residences on
Fifth avenue, New York, has music
hall and billiard-room, tennis court on
the top floor, an elevator, steam laundry,
and gymnasium. The frescoing was
done by foreign Artists, and the furniture
was made in Paris at a cost of $l1O, oOO.
A Santa Rosa Cali paper entertains
its readers with a story about petrlfled
pumpkin, brought from Mendocino coun-
ty. The report is that farmer some
years ago had lot of pumpkins washed
away by freshet down ravine, and
for a number of years the pumpkins
were observed where the water had
lodged them, but no one had ever thought
they had turned to stone, until the other
day a man attempted to pick one OF
them up, when he discovered that 1t was
very heavy and had turned to stone.
About fifty more were in the same con-
dition. -.
A Warsaw paper gives curious story
of a wager between two wealthy Polish
landlords. They agreed each to isolate
two hens, two ducks and two geese from
the poultry yard, and allow them to
multiply for fifteen years. Superfiuous
male and MANNED female birds could be
sold, but the total sale was not to exceed
ten per cent. of the whole flock at the
close of fifteen years. At the close OF
that term the possessor of the largest
flock was to get the smaller flock and
ten thousand rubles in cash, to be dis
tr1buted among charitable institutions.
Upon settling the bet short time ago,
the loser. had $3.50 hens, $50 ducks and
276 geese, total of 1896 birds. The
winner had 1904 hens, 965 ducks and
S95 geese, total of 2, 844 birds.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-24
FisIl.Eating.

Common sense is making Roadway
against the strange popular prejudice
against fish-eating that exists among
certain classes in England. The fact is
that an altogether false standard Of com
fort has been set up in this country, the
result of which is that no change IN the
dietary of the poorer classes is consid-
cred a benefit unless it means the intro
duction of beef where it had no place
before or the addition of more beef to
meals into which beef previously entered
as primary element Vegetables, bread,
fish, all are alike despised because they
do not. like tough or stringy beef,
lie like lead on the laden stomach.
Without indulging in the nonsense
talked by those who misunderstood Louis
Agassiz's jeu d'esprit about = fish being
the food of philosophers, or, Hike DIR. Nor
timer Granville, arguing that fish Is
'sbrair food +" because it contains traces
of phosphOrus-we may point out that
it is excellent for sedentary men and old
people. 1t is so simply because it Is
light and easily digestible. Apart alto
gether from its cheapness, as, to which
there can be no doubt, there is thus a
very strong reason for including it In a
pauper dietary The inmates of work
houses are usually aged persons. They
have passed the period of life when tho
body demands strong, stimulating food
not only to, repair its waste, but to pro,
mote its growth. They have come to, the
stage when life is made pleasantest and
longest to those who tax their digestions
Ieast-that Is. to those who, remember
that they have bad teeth and feeble stom-
achs. Soft food, savory and well-coOked,
and easily digestible withal-that, and
not heavy messes of butchers meat is
the diet that will keep the old and the
infirm in the best of health and heart.
TO give these inactive old folk butchers
meat every day is to load their systems
with waste products-with material
which is virtually poisonous. London
Nelrs
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-24

Mrs. Sarah Nicholas Evans, who dsi
recently in Des Monies, Iowa, was ons~
the four ladies with whom the oossl'.
ance of Decoration Day originated ~
the 18th of April, 1862, just one ~
after the fall of Fort Sumter, Mrs. EVSa1,
with the wife and two daughters =
Chaplain Nay, of the Second regimen y.
Michigan. volunteers, decorated i.
graves of considerable number oil y
diers bursed on Arlington Heights, M ID
Washington. Ia May of the year ~ y,
lowing they rendered the same saI'
pleasank attention to the graves OF y
diers barred at Fredericksburg. In 70
Congress made the Both of May lso'
holiday
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-24

FOR ONE WHO FELL IN BATTLE.


Room for a soldier Lay him in the Glow.
He loved the fields, and they shall b !,
cover:
Make his mound with hers who called
once her lover:
Where the rain may rain upon it.
Where the sun may shine upon it,
Where the lamb hath lain upon it,
And the bee win dine upon it.
Bear him to no dismal tomb under >.
churches;
Take him TO the fragrant fields, by the SIN,
birches;
Where the whippoorwill shall mourn, wha
the oriole perches;
Make his mound with sunshine on it
Where the bee viii dine upon it,
Where the lamb hath lain upon it,
And the rain will rain upon it,
Busy as the busy bee, his rest should be N
cfover;a
Gentle as the lamb was he, and the fs
should be his cover;
Fern and rosemary shall grow my solder
pillow over
Where the rain may rain upon it,
Where the sun may shine upon it,
Where the lamb hath lain upon it,
And the bee will dine upon it.
Sunshine in his heart, the rain would con.
full often
Out Of those tender eyes which evermore al
soften;
He never could look cold till we saw him L
his coffin.
Make his mound with sunshine emit,
Where the wind may sigh upon it,
Where the moon may stream uponit,
And memory shall dream upon it.
"Captain or Observation-Disclosures invocation
Suit cur hymn the best, no matter for thy sa
ton
On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eys
of mighty nation!
Long as the sun doth shine upon it
Shall glow the goodly pine upon it,
Long as the stars do CLEAN upon it
Shall memory come to dream uponit
II. w. Parsons, IN Boston IrdnScriK
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-24

A Chicago hummer was asked by re-
porter whether men of his class managed
TO steal liquor, and replied:
In lots of ways. Here's a scheme
I've often worked myself with great sue
cess. get "A whisky bottle of peculiar
kind, sold at certain saloon. This |
fill with water, colored like whisky, and
cork and seal it. With this inmy pocket
| enter the saloon and call for a bottle
of liquor. The barkeeper looks to see
how far am from the door and hands it
to me. put 1t in my pocket and begin
a search for money Failing to find any
say something about my washerwoman
having left me little short, and ask for
credit, which is, of course, refused, and
4 return the bottle-of water.
In barrel-house, where they give
you small glass and tell you to help
yourself. often see bum lean against
a spigot of barrel in the upper tier,
while confederate, who has deposited a
nickel and is helping himself, manages
to turn on the liquor, which runs into a
flat tin can down the first mans back.
When the can is filled No. shuts it Oft
and they generally get away without de-
lection.
A weary tramp enters a saloon, in
vests his nickel, and sits down on barrel
of whisky for little rest. He has hol-
low screw, such as is used in tapping a
champagne bottle without drawing the
cork. To this he has attached a small
rubber tube. He screws it into the side
of the barrel and sucks himself full !;
then transfers the end of the tube
from his own mouth to that of large
bottle in his pocket. The tube acts as a
syphon, and the bottle is filled. He then
removes the screw, stops the hole with a
bit of wax, and takes walk. The next
day he returns and repeats the operation.
why I've drank and carried away one
third of barrel in two weeks.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-24
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS

Leather pants will stave off the hydro
phobia.
The crow is the greatest American con
remover.
Objection is made in New York .
drowning stray dogs for fear so mani
sunken barks may obstruct navigation
Boston Bulletin.
An extract from diary: overt d
hear one of the prominent funny mel
lecture on the 21st of last month. Ian
now convalescing. Scissors.
1t is a laughable spectacle to see
aear~sighted dude mistake the waving
the ear of a mule across the street Tor
girl flirting with ham. = Chdcago SIM.
'G always close my eyes when ] play
said a ccnceited young pianist. "LucKI
you cart see the audience, was the
heartless reply. Darlington Free P'e'
Some philosopher says: 'Put off moth
ing till tomorrow. This means deanII
beloved, that to be happy you should %
to bed in your clothes and disrobe IN t@
morning.
eeWill the coming man be happier
asks writer. 1t depends to a grea
extent upon whether his wife has g@
tired and gone to sleep or is still waiting
up for him. Boston Post.
A Kansas City woman is said to spe@
eight languages. The average womA
speaking one language, can generaIi
manage to get over a good deal !
ground in a short time. but when W
consider the capabilities of woman aw
to,s@y eight times asmuch we shuddeI
the possibility of o meeting. - foasa'
Statesmen.
THE BUSY RUMBLE BEE.
Now will the busy humble bee
Be buZzing ON the wing,
With polished point put carefully
Upon his steely sting.
The small boy, loafing on the lea
With hat in hand will try
To bother the busy humble bee,
And flick him on the fly.
The b. b. b. will simply smil@-
He won't moment waste
But that boy'll be heard about a mH
As he humps for home in haste
--LolOeH CittSs@
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-24
wouldn't Lose 1t.

DIR. and Mrs. Burpee, according J.
the Atlanta Constitution, have ~
habit of arguing questions; now f1 H.. !
all perfectly right if Mrs. Burpee wouiu5s
get angry and fly all to pieces, ior ?
has regular whirlwind temper. :,
A few days ago heated debate spa
up between them, and as usual MS :
.ot mad.
Hold on, Saliny," gently reng,
strated her mother, who CHANGED y
present, .'don't lose your temper. =
Huh, 7 growled Burpee, mo " ,s
put in that caution: her temper has
too big hold on her to be lost.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-24
The Wonderful "Oil Spot.s

$50 much has been said of late re-
garding the use of oil by vesselmen dur
ING heavy storms said Lieutenant
Stamm, of the revenue cutter Andy
johnson, that many people are led to
believe it reduces a curling, smashing sea
to LIQUID mound. 1t does not exactly
flatten things about just in that way, but
its causes good results, there Is no doubt
of that. And speaking of oil in water
remindsme of the wonderful oil spot, a
freak of nature that believe was never
fully described.
1.-THE 'oil spot is situated about ten
miles south of Sabine Pass, into which
flows the Sabine river to the Gulf of
Mexico. The river forms the bound
AIRY between the States of Louisiana
and Texas. The oil spot extends
two miles along shore and seward about
three quarters of a mile. A storm from
the northeast, by way of east to south
east has rake of from 800 to 200 miles
across the Gulf of Mexico into this mys-
tic haven. During a gale this spot Is
wonderfully defined. Looking seaward
the scene is grand. An acre of towering
foam marks the abrupt dissolution of the
1shing seas as they thunder toward the
shore. This occurs in about three
1athoms, or eighteen feet of water, from
Ahich the storm-driven craft, cracking
and straining in every timber emerges
and suddenly finds herself rcposing like
a child rocked in it's mothers arms,
hemmed in by wall of wrath where the
Reary mariner can be lulled TO rest by
the roar of the winds. The place is
Termed the oil spot, not from any
Known analysis of its nature, but simply
from its condition; it has no troubled
water. 1t is to be hoped that some sci
enlist viii unfold its wonders. Nal
scoukos Wisconsin,.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-24
POPULAR SCIENCE.

M. Bartholomew has studied the de-
veIopment Of a good many eggs lald by
hens suffering from poultry cholera.
None of the chicks Matched from the
eggs came to perfection, and the blood
was found to be actually swarming with
bacteria.
Experiments made in France show
that the time required for melting 200
pounds Of ice was as follows: Natural
ice Of Switzerland, 107 hours; of Norway,
1f5; Of Massachusetts,, 100; artificial ice
by the Care process, 100; by the Telliei
process, IA.
A new rubbcr-producing plant,
prameri glendulifera, has been brought
forward in India. 1t is common in South
ern India and Cochin China, and yields
abundant supplies of pure caoutchouc.
The liquid juice is often employed In
medicine by Anamites and Cambodians.
Observations made last year by Lieu
tenant-G General Sheridan indicate that
the power of the Yellowstone geysers
has not diminished since 1872, when
they were carefully surveyed by DIR. A. G.
Peale. Two new geysers of considerable
importance have appeared since that
lime.
Were a man weighing one hundred and
fifty pounds endowed with the strength
of beetle some time ago exhibited by
Dr. Theobold at a scientific meeting, he
should be able to move 1875, 900 pounds,
or nearly one hundred tons. The insect
weighed two grains and moved 2,64O
grains.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-24
WOrld Commissions.

The recent earthquakes in Java and
Sumatra were the most appalling and
destructive recorded in history True.
the great Lisbon earthquake early in the
last century destroyed so, 900 lives, but
the number of human beings killed out
right in the recent earth commissions was
nearly $4,000, Then the phenomena at
tending the disaster we're far more awe
inspiring Mountains disappeared inthe
sea, and In their place newly-developed
volcanoes filed the air with their jets of
fire, ashes and smoke The descriptions
of the disaster bring wildly TO the
mind the accounts geologists have written
lof the vast perturbations which
took place on the surface of our globe
millions of years before man appeared
To quote Shakespeare line, The earth
was fev'rous and did shake I'm
doubtedly the recent commissions affected
an immense section of theearth's surface.
The earthquake in Ischia was part Of
the mighty explosion which found its
principal vent in Java and Sumatra.
Scientists now say that it Is possible to
foretell earthquakes. They are preceded
bv certain conditions, which may serve
as warnings against similar catastrophes
In the future. -Deps0rest.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-24
A Thrilling Experience.

An instance Of thrilling heroisnn oc-
cured during. one of the California
forest fires. Near the ranch of William
Purdy, on SCOTS Greek, the fire had been
raging for several days, and finally
reached the place. Mrs. Purdy was at
home with her FIVE children, and re-
alizing the danger she hurried to the
creek. which was near by, and rushed
into the water under the bridge Here
she stayed for six hours, and with buck
cts threw water an the bridge, which
was in danger of getting on Ere. They
were obliged to get entirely under water
every few moments to avoid the terrible
heat from the flames After the fire had
been snbdued they came out, but were
utterly Destitute and homelees One OF
the children was taken with sort of fire
greatness, and it was with difficulty ne
could be kept from running into the
flames.
If you would create something you must
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-24

Lack of confidence in the police system
Of Philadelphia by bankers and mer-
chants is shown by the fact that banks
and large stores have private watchmen.
There are in the city nearly 1900 of
Aep.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-24

The number of Italians who emigrated
to other countries during the last year
was 81, 562, as compared with 135, SaS
In 1881.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-24

If you would create something you must
be something.