Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-11


An English physician warns moth
ers against allowing babies 10 suck
their thumbs, because II results in
peculiar deformity # the chest, de-
preston of the tkorax by pressure
from the arm of the infant as it lies
with its thumb in Its mouth.
On Wednesday, in the public
schools of Philadelphia, 1000 little
girls took lessons in plain sewing.
This is an experiment in industrial
education, which is TO be prachced
one day in each week until further
orders If it succeeds and proves sat
} isfactory TO the people, further indus
trial features viii be gradually intro
duced for girls and boys.
The Japan newspapers give no de-
tails of the recent destructive typ
hoon in Yokohama. They simply
said "rhe typhoon wiped out the
town. The japanese reporters work
by the day. If they had been on piece
work they would have gone back
few thousand years to the time the
town was founded, and give history
of the place mp to the day IL was DIES
troyed.
A foreigner has discovered a new
branch of the curious methods of
physical research into physical char
acter. 1t is the study of the finger
nails, the shape and color of which
are said to indicate certain traits of
character. Fingernails, according
to the experts of the new fad, If long
and sleRder, denote imagination and
, poetic feelings. love of art, and la2i-
ness; if long and flat, they are the
sign of prudence, good sense and grave
: mental facilities; If wide and short,
of anger and rudeness, controversy
and obstinacy; a healthy color slgni-
a ies virtue, health, happiness, courage
!. and hberality; dry and brittle nails
, are signs of anger, cruelty, quarrel,
! eliminating even N murder; curved
4 in the shape of claws, Hypocrisy and
wickedneSS soft, feobleness OF body
and mind; and, lastly, we are told
that short nails gnawed down to the
flesh signify stiffness and dissipation,
!. OF the "a 600 newspapers Of the
Is world, nearly 80 000 are published in
4 Europe and North America, leaving
# little over 1000 for all the rest OF the
o. world. South America only issues
d sufl cient 10 allow each of its inhabi
tants three newspapers year-ex-
o. hiblting the curious contrast in this,
II as in all else, between the great north
e ern and southern continents,
is 1t is found that canvass can be
d made as impervious to moisture as
is leather by sleeping il IN a decoction
of one poand of oak bark with four.
h teen pounds of boiling water. This
Ie quantity is sufficient for eight yards
of stuff. The fabric has TO soak "A
hours, when 1t is taken out, passed
If through running water, and hung VI
2 to dry. The fax and hemp fbers, il
absorbing the tannin, are better fitted
O. 10 resist wear.
d determination of the wolf is no
a. considered possible on the Continent
:, OF Europe. Many neighborhoods have
been cleared at one time or another
but after some years of quiet it is
u found that the wolves have gathere d
y from all quarters. There Is, in fact.
II a steady migration of the brutes from
Siberia upon f Europe. Asiatic species
are constantly Unidentified in the Vol.
pes and in the Pyrennees. The era.
1diction OF this plague must be begun
lin China.
, w. T. Chamberlain, of Norwich,
. Conn, has invented a way of charg
g ng cartridges with compressed air in
q lieu of powder, The shell is placed in
a receiver and then filled with com
! pressed air. A valve in the base Of
J, the cartridge closes when il is remov
ed from the receiver, and the cartridge
y is ready for use The shell is dis
! charged by opening the valve, when
1 the air forcibly drives the proiectile
: from the barrel The inventor claims
TO have obtained a range Of half a
mile, with a pressure Of 200 pounds TO
the inch.
An mronaut says that no balloon
. has ever gone over a second sunset.
: The moment the sun goes down the
gas condenses, and you get through
:, the night better than the day. But
(, the next day, IN the presence of the
: sun, the gas expands and you mount
: to greater elevations but every mount
: the balloon makes cripples IS power,
and it is a question of hours, If not
!, minutes, how long you can keep up.
J If an Hronaut could have 48 hours Of
: night he could travel great distance
= The highest rate Of speed he had ever
!, attained, with a strong wind blowing,
: was 80 miles an hour.
e "A note on distilled water used
0 for drinking pur poses was recently
a read before the Paris Academy by NJ
a A. Bureau de Villeneuve, in which
D the author argues the Importance of
+ the use OF distilled water and that the
price might be greatly reduced by OBJ
S tanning it from steam engines at work
? in mills. He considers it is neither
, unpalatable nor difficult TO digest,
Y that it generally contains sufficient
$ quantity of air, and that the absence
of calcareous salts is rather an advan-
tage than a drawback.
The pride of Savannah, Ga, is her
n beautiful shade trees, but they have