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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-27
The Telephone for Long Distances
New York Commercial Bulletin.

The utilization of the telephone for
commercial and business purposes is
making steady progress in other
countries besides our own. Thus, the
fact is worth recording that the Off
cials of the British p~ostofice have
been engaged in experiments for the
purpose of a%scertaining what may be
called the practical range" of the III
strUment, and thus far with the most
satisfactory results. In this country,
trials of a similar kind were made not
long since, it viii be remembered, the
result showing the possibility Of ex-
tending indefinitely the distance
over which the i~nterlocutors
may converse together. The
places linked together in the
recent experiments in England We're
London, Uxbridge, fifteen miles off,
and Liverpool. The distance between
Liverpool and Uxbridge, by way OF
wires was 200 miles. This is the long
est distance over which experiments
have been made in England, and some
doubts were felt SIS to the success OF
the experiment. 1t proved, however,
entirely satisfactory, and the officials
quite confident of being able 10
converse over double that distance;
the voices were not only audible, bat
distinct. There Is reason TO suppose,
therefore, that the day IS not distant
when London, Manchester and Glas-
gov and otaer large cities will be thus
within speaking distance of each
otbar
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-11-18
LITTLE FOLKS.

"Oh, didn't know Bologna sausage grew"
said little girl passing cat-tail swamp.
You never saw my hands as dirty as
yours" said mother TO her little girl, mo,
but your ma did," was the prompt reply.
A little girl sent out to hunt for eggs came
back unsuccessful, complaining that lots
of hens were standing around doing moth
ing
Nurse: Come, Willie, didn't you hear
your mother tell you to come right into the
house," Willie: stop 'minding me of it;
Use twying to fordet it."
A little boy whose sprained wrist had
been relieved by bathing in whiskey, sur
prised his mother by asking: Did papa
ever sprain his throat when he was boy?'
A boy, presented with pie to share with
his sister, was told that in cutting il he
must give her the largest part Rejecting a
moment he passed the pie TO his sister with
the remark you cut it,"
Boy-Please, sir, Tommy Johnson has
made me make blot. School Board Teach
er-Then Tommy Johnson won't go home to
his dinner to-day. Tommy said afterward
when the teacher had gone away: 81 'spose
yer think yer done a fine thing by roundup
on me, but, a. it happens ] amt got no
dinner to go home to. Yah, yer sneak"
He had seen il tried: ''You can't add diff
ferent things together" said a school teach
er. IF you add a sheep and a COW together
il does not make two sheep or two cows" A
little boy, the son of milkman held up his
hand and said: THAT may do with sheep
and cows, but if you add a quart of water to
a quart of milk il makes two quarts of milk
I've seen it tried
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-11-18
Marie Roze's First Love.
boston Herald. ]

Several years ago there went from Boston
young man. gifted with a fine baritone
voice, to study in the Conservative of
Munich. This young American, Mr.. Julius
Perkins, was not only possessed OF good
voice. but was a man of culture and a very
handsome man. Hard work brought its re-
ward, and Mr.. Perkins debut before very
critical audience at Munich was very success
full, and from that time his career was up
ward. 1t was while singing in London he
was thrown professionally into the society of
Marie Roze, then young and beautiful and in
the zenith of her fame. The old story. The
petted American youth soon found himself
madly in love with the charming Marie.
His wooing, like his singing, was crowned
with success, and the two artists married.
They were very happy for brief honey
moon, but at the end OF few weeks the
young bride was left a widow. Mr. Perkins
took a severe cold while sleeping i'm damp,
illy-aired room at Birmingham. and after an
illness Of only few days died. Poor Maria
was inconsolable for time. but art was her
comforter. and in the applause of her
audience she found some consolation in her
hours of Loneliness and grief. She is now a
second time happy wife.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-11-18
MERRILL MooRrs, Attorney for Plaintiff.

CHERIFFS SALE-By virtue of certified copy
- of decree TO me directed, from the clerk of
the Superior Court of Marion County. Indiana, i'm
a cause wherein Cicero Brown is -plain,if, and
William NJ. Wheatley ct al. are defendants ease
No. 's2092l. requiring me 10 make the sums of
money in said decree provided, and in manner as
provided for in said decree, with interest on said
decree and costs. will expose at public sale, TO
the highest bidder on
SATURDAY, THE 9Th DAY OF DECEMBER,
A. ID. 1883,
between the hours OF 10 O'Clock a. m and O'Clock
p. m, of said day. at the door of the Court House
OF Marion County. Indiana, the rents and profits
for term not exceeding seven years, OF the fol-
lowing real estate to-wit
Lots number eleven (l1 and twenty-thTee l2Sl,
in Brown. Frank and Ketcham's subdivision of a
part of outlots one hundred end seven l07l and
one hundred and eight lOSl in the City OF In
dianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
If such rents and profits will not sell for suf6-
cient satisfy said decree interest and COSTS
] will, at the same time aud place, expose 10 pub
lie sale the fee simple of said real estate. or so
much thereof as may be sufficient 10 discharge
said decree. interest and costs said sale viii be
made without any relief whatever from valuation
or appraisement laws.
GEORGE II. CARTER,
Sheriff of Marion County.
November ., A. d. 1885.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-11-18

er's great feebleness and his extreme palIor
making il evident that his life was near its
close.
The Cooper pew formed one side Of The
chancel of the quaint old church, 50 that
Mr. Cooper was able 10 retain his seat
have been told that Mrs. Cooper, herself an
invalid. was kneeling at his feet rubbing
them through the entire service.
When the Bishop came to Mr.. Cooper, the
last, he laid his hands seemingly with such
a tender touch on the gray head bowed on
the railing before him. and for a time ne was
unable TO speak. The stiffness in the church
was breathless and iC seemed long time be-
fore the gracious words came faltering from
the Bishops lips Il think every heart there
repeated that PRAYER: defend. o Lord, this,
Thy servant. with thy heavenly grace, that
he may continue thine forever; and daily
increase in thy Holy Spirit more and more
until he come into thy everlasting king
DOM"
think We all went our WAYS home quietly
a. going away from holy place. 1t was
the last time Mr.. Cooper was seen out and
not long after he went TO rest.
"0tsego Hall'' was sold into strange hands.
and some years ago was burned to the
ground; the Misses Cooper built charming
cottage = in CooperstOwn - with the bricks
Of the old home. A street now runs through
the grounds that Mr.. Cooper delighted TO
keep beautiful and the place is now "a will
derneSs"
1t is hard to keep my pen within its
bounds and not give you some extracts that
would stimulate your appetite for ''Cooper's
NOVELS but ] must content myself with
saying that among the very pleasantest of
Pleasant Authors" you will find Fenimore
Cooper. My own petit eveille has just
grown into a course OF Cooper be-
ginning with the Leather Stocking
stories; he was well under the
n, from fhp first oh IF
but. at the last, in the Prairie, where the
noble old Trapper meets-well, l won't
tell you who-I heard a suspicious shifting;
and did not wonder, for to this day have
to wipe my eyes over that scene, and read
Leather Stockings every year.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-11-18
VARIETIES.

The late Legislature OF California has given
several thousand dollars additional aid to the
silk culturists OF that State.
At the New York chrysanthemum show
there are collections of not less than 600 va
rieties. There are few plant families which
have as much difference in form or color as
this glorious and popular flower.
The longest spans of overhead telegraph
wire in the world have been put up by the
French in Cochin, China. Two wires have
been suspended across the river Mekong at a
point where it is 1850 feet wide. The posts
are 100 feet high.
When ladies find the color of their dresses
injured by watering-place lemonade they us
ually try to restore it with hartshorn. Ii, af-
ter making this application, they will rub
little chloroform over the spot, they will
generally obtain much more satisfactory
result.
A monument is about to be erected at
Roxbury Mass, TO General Joseph Warren,
who was killed at Bunker Hill. The struc-
ture is TO be twenty-five feet high, including
a statute OF Warren in bronze, with the right
hand uplifted and a roll of parchment in
his left hand. On the faces of the plinth
are reliefs in bronze.
The battle ground of Missionary Ridge
has been converted into strawberry patch.
Yankee colonists have climbed with hoes
where Yankee soldiers rushed With bay0nets.
Land that went begging few years ago at
81 per acre now commands $3.50, and natives
who starved on 500 acres are crowded out by
New Englanders who grow rich on ten.-Bos-
ton Advocate.
Some remarkable remains of a mammoth
have been discovered near Yreka, Cal, by
some miners. They comprise a mammoth
horn, jaw, teeth, vertebr;e and other bones.
They were found forty-five feet below the
surface The horn is one and one-half feet
long, i'm the shape of a cows horn. and is
eight inches in diameter at the base. The
teeth and other bones are of mammoth size.
An animal built in proportion TO them
would weigh at least ten tons when alive.
The teeth, horn, ETC., give evidence that the
animal was of the bovine species.
Several persons, including lady, a cler-
gyman, and military and naval officers, all
clad in the garments of their everyday life,
embarked in a small boat on the Thames at
Westminster, and on arriving in midstream
proceeded to jump into the water. When
there they appeared TO be perfectly at their
ease, and, making no movement rested
calmly with their heads appearing above the
surface. The explanation of the phenome-
non was that the clothes worn by these peo-
pie were made of fabric in which fine
threads of cork were interviewer with other
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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-11-18
A Good Game.
n..I.a.

Many years ago, gentleman who now oc-
cupies a very high position at the New York
bar attended tirst-class private academy, at
which many now noted men were his fellow
pupils. Ii was the custom Sf these bright
little boys often 10 enact after school hours
some of the marked events of their history
lessons, and thus to fix them indellibly in
the memory
one Saturday afternoon. having been
deeply impressed with the story of Regulus
and the cruel punishment with which the
Carthaginians rewarded his self-denying
devotion to his country, the little fellows de-
termined 10 make the experiment for them
selves. They built an inclined plane of
planks, procured sugar-barrel, and when
''Regulus.n after his return from Rome,
gave himself up 10 his enemies, they thrust
him into the barrel and set il IN motion
down their imprOyised hill.
Faster and faster rolled the barrel, and
louder and louder rose the shrieks of the un-
fortunate Regulus. The discounted hero
survived his rapid ride; but he never forgot
the story thus dangerously enacted.
This story Is OF course only introduced rs
u ridiculous example OF game III itself good,
but i'm nearly every history lesson marked
scenes NAV be found which can be played
in pantonine. or with a little labor drama
TIED 20 that they may alike entertain both
spectators and actors. Hard names, which
would soon be forgotten can be divided into
>yllables. and acted as charades.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-11-18
HARRIS & cA1Krss. Attorneys Tor Plainun.

CHERIFF'S SALE.-By virtue of a certified copy
- of decree to me directed, from the Clerk OF
the Superior Court of Marion County, Indiana, in
a cause wherein The State building sale Deposit
aud Loan Association. etc. is plaintiff aud Julla
Barker Ell al. are defendants Case N0.54 0i4l re-
curing me 10 make the sum OF eight hundred
and six dollers and ffty-two cents (sS06-a2, With
interest said decree and costs, VIII expose at
public sale, to the highest bidder, ON
SATURDAY, THE 5TH DAY OF DECEMBER,
A. ID. 1885,
between the hours of 10 O'Clock a. m. aud O'Clock
D. m of said day. at the door OF the Court House
of Marion County, Indiana, the rents
and profits for term not exceeding
seven wears of the following real estate to-wit:
Lot number twelve l2l, in Jacob Tranb SOUTH
west addition TO the City OF indianapolis. accord
ing to corrected plat OF the said addition in Plat
Book No s. at page % OF the Records in the office
of the Recorder aforesaid, and in Marion County,
Indiana.
II such rents and profits will not sell for sufi-
cient sum to satisfy said decree, interest and
costs. will, at the same time and place, expose
to public sale the feeimple of said real estate or
so much thereof as may be sufficient 20 discharge
said decree interest and costs. said sale VIII DO
made without any relief whatever from valuation
" GEORGE II. CARTER,
Sheriff OF Marion County,
November ., A. D. 1856.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-11-18
JAS. A. MITCHELL, Attorney for Plaintiff.

CHERlFF'S SALE-By virtue of a certified copy
- of a decree 10 me directed from the Clerk OF
the Superior Court of Marion County, Indiana,
in cause wherein Catharina Rebori is plaintiff,
and Eliza A. Rollins ct al. are defendants, lease
No. "a, 1901. requiring me TO make the sum OF two
thousand two hundred and forty- dollars and
twenty-eight cents lS2,235 2S), with interest on
said decree and costs will expose at public sale,
10 the highest bidder, on
SATURDAY, THE 5th DAY OF DECEMBER, A.
d., lss5,
between the hours of 10 a. and p. m, of said
day. at the door of the Court House of Marion
County. Indiana, the rents and profits for a term
not exceeding seven years, vi the following real
estate towit:
Lot numbered one hundred and eight Q0S) in
Elizabeth TalbOtt's revised subdivision OF the
part of the west eighty s0 acres of the north
west quarter OF section 81, in township 10. range
cast an addition to the City of indianapolis, ac-
cOrding TO the plat thereof recorded in Plat Book
. on page 81. i'm the Recorders Office of Marion
County, Indiana, situate in Marion County, lndl-
ana.
If such rents and profits will not sell for sufi-
cient sum satisfy said decree interest and costs
will at the same time and place. expose 10 pub
lie sale the fee simple of said real estate. or so
much thereof as may be sufficient TO discharge
said decree, interest and costs said sale will be
made without any relief whatever from valuation
or appTaisement laws.
GEORGE II. CARTER.
Sheriff of Marion County.
November 9, A. D. 1885.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-11-18
Jxo. 5. TARk1Ne1ox. Attorney tor Plaintiff.

CHERIFF's SALE.-By virtue of a certified copy
- of decree 10 me directed, from the Clerk OF
the Superior Court of Marion County. Indiana, in
a cause wherein Francis NJ. Churchman ct al
plaintiffs and Elijah :. Alvord ct al. de-
PENDANTS, lease No q. ::-S5 requiring me to make
twenty-ninc dollars and thirty cents (Sl6.32930l
with interest on said decree and costs, will ex-
pose at public sale, to the highest bidder on
SATURDAY, THE 5th DAY OF DECEMBER,
A. d. 1885,
between the hours Of 10 o'clock a. m. and O'Clock
p. m, OF said day, at the door of the Courthouse
on marion County, Indiana the rents and profits
for term not exceeding seven years of the follow
ing real estate situate in the city of lndianapO-
lis, County of Marion and State OF Indiana, to-
wit:
One undivided half OF lot four ~ in Elder and
McCarty's subdivision OF square eighty eight 81
also the whole OF the following described prop
erty tO-wit: Lots eighty-one 81. eighty-two 50
eighty-five ls5l, eighty-seven 81, eighty light
1881, eighty-nine so, ninety 1901, ninety one 81
ninety two 1927, ninety-three 1888. ninetyfour "a l.
ninetyfve 1851. ninety-six 1867, ninety seven 1871,
ninety-eight l.'S ninety nine i99l, one hundred
l00l, one hundred and one llUIl, one hundred
and two llO2l. one hundred and three ll0Sl. one
hundred and four IIO4, one hundred and five
LlO5 in Allen, Root and English's North Wood
lawn addition 10 the City of Indianapolis lot
sixteen ll6 in Buffers North addition TO College
Corner: lot three .3l, in Blake's subdivision OF
outlot seven I7; lots one III, two ri three st and
our raj, i'm KirtIand and Ryan's subdivision of lots
one y and part OF lots two in square fifty four.
n such rents and profits viii not sell for suffi-
cient sum satisfy said decree, interest and costs
] WILL Al the same time and place, expose to pub
lie sale the fee simple of said real estate, or so
much thereof rs may be sufficient to discharge
said decree, interest and costs. Said sale will be
made without any relief whatever from valuation
GEORGE Fl. CARTER.
Sheriff OF Marion County.
November 9, A. d. 1855.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-11-18
srrprxsrlcKrr & Rrnxs. Attorneys for Plaintif.

CHERIFF'S SALE-By virtue of a certified copy
- OF a decree To me directed, from the clerk Of
the Superior Court of Marion County, Indiana. in
a cause wherein Catharine Zurich is plaintiff. and
August Leo ct al. are defendants lease No. 1900
requiring me TO make the sums of money in said
decree provided, and in manner as provided for
IN said decree, with interest on said decree and
costs. viii expose at public sale, TO the highest
bidder, on
SATURDAY, THE 9TH DAY OF DECEMBER,
A. ID. 1856
between the hours of ten O'Clock a. m and four
O'Clock D. m. of said day, at the door Of the court
House OF Marion County, Indiana, the rents and
profits for term not exceeding seven years of the
following real estate, situate in Marion County,
Indiana, to-wit:
Lot number thirteen (l3l in Dumonts subdi-
vision OF part of outlOt number one hundred
QOO) in the city OF Indianapolis.
II sucn rents and profits will not sell for sum-
cient sum TO satisfy said decree. interest and
public sale the fee simple of said real estate or 50
much thereof as may be sufficient 10 discharge
said decree, interest and costs said sale viii be
made without any relief whatever from valuation
or appraisement laws.
GEORGE Fl. CARTER,
Sheriff OF Marion County.
November Q. A. d. 1885.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-11-18
YOUNG FOLKS.
The Song of the Corn-Popy


Pip, pOpi iippeTty flop,
Here am ]. 81 reacy TO pop
Girls and boys, the FIRE burns clear;
Gather about the chimney here.
Big ones. little ones, all in n row.
Hop away pop away here we goi
Pip. pop! fipperty flop.
Into the bowl the keFnals drop.
sharp and hard and yellow and small.
Must Ssy they don't look good al all.
But wait till they burst into warm white snow
Hop away! pop away! here we 20!
Pip POpl fipperty flop.
Don't Ill me too fun; shut down the top,
Rake out the Goals in an even bed,
Topaz yellow and ruby red.
Shade your eyes from the fiery glow.
Hop away. pop awav. here we go!
Pip, pop fipperty Cop,
shake me steadily; do not stop!
backward and forward, not up and down:
Don't let me drop, or you'll burn il brown.
Never too high and never too low.
Hop awayi pop away here We go,
Pip, pop. fipperty flop.
Now they are singing, and soon they'll hop.
Hi. the kernels begin To swell.
HO, al last they are dancing well.
Putis and pufis of feathery snow,
Hop away, pop away! mere we go.
Pip. pop fiipperty flop,
All full little ones? lime 10 stop
Pour out tie snowy, feathery mass.
Here is a treat for lad ami lass.
Open your mouths now, all in u row,
Munich away, crunch away here we go,
Laura f. Richards in Youths Companion.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-11-18
cHAs. A. DRYER, Attorney for Plaintiff.

CHERIFF'S SALE-By virtue OF a certified copy
- OF decree to me directed, from the Clerk of the
Superior Court of Marion County, Indiana, in
cause wherein German American Saving and
Loan Association, etc. is plaintiff, and Frederick
Brocking ct. al defendants, lease No. 3461Sl
requiring TO make the sum of four hundred
and ninety-four dollars and thirty-h cents
ls494 35l with interest on said decree and costs,
viii expose at public SALE TO the highest bidder,
SATURDAY, THE 9Th DAY OF DECEMBER,
"A. d., 1880.
Between the hours Of ten O'Clock a. m. and four
O'Clock D. m OF said day, at the door of the Court
house OF Marion County, Indiana, the rents and
profits for term not exceeding seven years OF the
following real estate. tO-wit:
Lot one hundred and sixty-fve (165l in Fletcher,
Stone. Witt. Taylor and Hoyts subdivision OF
outlots ninety-sx 1861. ninetyseven go. ninety
eight l9Sl and the south half of out-lot ninetyo
,9i), in the city OF Indianapolis, Marion County,
and State of Indiana.
II such rents and profits viii not sell for a sufi-
costs will the same time and place, expose TO
public sale the fee simple of said real estate, OF so
much thereof as may be sufficient 10 discharge
said decree. interest ana costs said sale VIII be
made without any relief whatever from valuation
or appraisement laws.
GEORGE H. CARTER,
Sheriff OF Marion County.
November 9, A. D., 1885.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-11-18

1t is quite too generally assumed that if
boys are provided with small handsaw or
Ratchet, a jack-knife and gimlet they have
all the tools necessary Tor the purpose Of
rrcreative employment. Many boy has by
nature a decided taste for those more deli
cate kinds of handiwork which may at least
claim kinsbip with art, but taste is allowed
to die out as the years pass for want of
proper fostering. A boy Will often arrange
flowers with an eye u harmony of colors
quite surprising TO his elder sisters; and this
i evidence of a sensitiveness to what is fine
and beautiful in nature too rare and precious
to be suffered 10 perish Of neglect.
Give the boys cardboard, fine brushes,
mucilage or glue, and encourage them to
preserve flowers, ferns, autumn leaves and
grasses. Let them make rustic picture
frames, wreathS and crosses for their friends.
''Transfer-work" upon ivory, glass or card is
most fascinating employment both for
boys and girls during the winter evenings.
The pictures needed are to be had very cheap
flowers and grasses, also, is suitable for boys
and know of At least two who, by patient
continuance in well doing, finally achieved
beautiful phantom bOquet
Transparencies, made of cut paper and
shaded with ferns and mOsses are very
beautiful placed in a window. andin the
varying light produce artistic effects such as
al ldihtcA StilNc> III vain 10 pTOuutt lcdCu
your boys something of the harmony OF
light ami shade and of cOlors; draw their
attention to grace of form and motion, as a
manifestation of beauty distinct from that
of strength, sOlidity and grandeur. How
many men 90 through life with eyes that
might be likened to a sieve, which retain
only the coarser perceptions of beauty but
allow all the finer, golden particles to escape
unobserved.
There is not the smallest danger of max
ing boys ef1eminate by thus stimulating
their aesthetic tastes provided due attention
is given to out-Of-door sports and occupa
tiOns. Even in these the element of the
beautiful may be mingled. The finest home
collection of preserved butterflies J hav,
ever seen was the work OF a boy of ten years
He is now engaged upon birds, and promises
a rare museum in the course of very few
wears.