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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-10-22
Making Money.
Taunton Cllass Gazette

It does not need to be asserted that
money making in topic of universal
interest aad acceptance with the
classes of people from the self-asser-
tive itch to the humblest poor. Money
is god universally worshiped. IT'S
affairs are on every hilltop and valley;
at every hamlet and fireside. Money
IS the euphuism of synonym of all
human comfort, luxury or advantage
the possession or it stamps its holder
as man of power in the community,
and has become an essential in the
organization Of business. 1t is a topic
always discussed; never laid aside,
ever present and of enlarged interest
Day by day, in the factory and field,
Ia the church and forum. 1t has ever
oeen so since the civilization, and
must ever remain SO long as civiliza-
ton lasts.
Money is the solvent Of trouble, the
charm for the hungry, the solace of
MN that is ready to die; for the
troubled soul feels that with money he
could remove disquietude; the hungry
Knows he could buy food; the man
JUST gong into the unknown feels
mat MS grave viii be paid for, and
not IN the Potter's field And as long
az earth has lis price for what il
gl'es up, and "the beggar must pay
lor a corner TO die in, we may expect
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-10-22
VHISTLING AND WHISTLERS.
Some Reasons why lien and Even
Women WhistIe-A Preventive OF
Profanity.
Denver Tribune.


It is an accomplishment which
proves very useful in a variety of
emergencies. Many a young man
aoing home from seeing his girl and
plodding over lonely country road
would have been scared to death only
that he whistled up his courage; other
wise he would have been looking
about for ghosts and bighwaymen and
get frightened by the sound of every
falling !eaf or perambulating cat. The
whistle prevents him from hearing
mysterious sounds and his attention
being taken up with trying to follow
the tune and working his eyebrows in
unison, will have no time TO look
about for " hat might be lying in wait
for him. And before he knows it, he
viii arrive at the paterAsl domlcile
and have to study about getting into
the house without awakening his
father.
Many man and great many more
ladies have becn prevented from COM
hitting the sin of profanity because
they whistled when they pounded
their forefnger instead of the tack
with which they were attempting to
fasteu the carpet toward the evening
OF a spring cleaning dag.
Men whistle when they are happy
and they wistle when they are sad.
When you see carpenter or house
painter pushing his plane or slebbing
on the paint and whstling a lively
air at the same time set him down as a
man who pays his debts, is cheerful
at home and never Whips the children.
When the latter task has TO be per
formed his wife has to do it.
When a man is sad he whistles in q
doleful tone. Nine times out of ten
he won't choose q dismal air, but he
will whistle a lively tupe, a hornpipe
or negro minstrel end song. And
he Will draw the melody in and out
between his lips in way to draw
tears from all listeners, Sometimes a
man accomplishes the same result
when he is cheerful and trying to
whistle real coed.
When a man is studying some
complex problem, wondering how
he can live at the rate of 81
600 a year on $500 in~
come, or something of that sort, if
ne has not got something to smoke he
will whistle. He will walk up and
down the room or the back yard, or
he will sit in a rocking chair and
thrusting his hands as far as the ell
bows INTO his pants pockets and whistle
whistle softly.
When man is suddenly surprised
at a preposterous statement, if he is
very profane he will say: "H-and
d-nationw If mildly profane he will
say: THE DIP IF not at all wicked
he will whistle: "W h-e-wi'
Girls cannot whistle well as rule
Now and then there is one who can,
bat she is an honorable exception to
the rule. There is one pretty, golden
haired creature in Denver who can
whistle first rate, but the boys usually
do not appreciate it, and they let her
know it. But the girls, as rule,
whistle ia jerlzy, disconnected sort
OF way and groan mildly between the
notes
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-10-22
Precautions Against Thiering.

New York Letter in the Albany Journal
In tina matter of pay for services
the general assumption in the business
of New York City has come to be
that all men are thieves. That seems
harsh and hard, bat experience has
taught that safety against robbery lies
in treating every handler of ones
money as possibly dishonest. 1t is
only ten years ago that the street-car
conductors were indignant because
the bell-punch was introduced; but
some of them soon proved, by ingen-
ious devices to beat it, that they de-
served the precaution. Mechanical
guards against stealing have multiple
ed, until now a machine for register.
ing receipts is conspicuous on half the
Cashiers, desks in town. Bartenders
in the bigger groceries have to hand
all the money to chap behind an
apparatus that stamps the amount Of
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-10-22

De little over 5000 feet below the
surface which would make it by all
odds the deepest well in the world. A
careful record is being kept, and por.
t.oAs ef each formation encountered
preserved Since it would necessarily
have to be very prolific gas vein 10
justify such deep drilling, it is ditti ,
cult matter 10 conjecture the object
that prompts such work, unless II be
purely to ,atisfy = morbid curiosity.
There are in Washington County
some wells drilled to depth of 1000
feet, and the only others so far known
approaching the depth reached by Mr..
Wesung house is an srtesian we'll IN
France, at which the depth of 5000
feet was reached
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-10-22
MARRIED HER son.
THE Startling Discovery Made by a
New work Couple.

New YORK, Oct. II. Mrs. Saman.
tina Gooddle, residing near Madison
Square, this city, about three years
ago married her own son. The dis
covery was recently made. They have
left the city, and efforts are making
to hush up the matter. Mrs. Gooddle
married Amass Turner of Lowell,
Mass, years ago She was JIG years
old. Shortly after a son was born.
Mrs. Turner fell into fast ways and
her husband left her, taking the boy
He went to San Francisco, amassed a
fortune and died, leaving his son
$780, 900. Mrs. Turner meantime
married Mr.. Sylvester Gooddle at
Camden, N. j., lived with him FIVE
years, when he died, leaving her his
fortune. She came to New York and
took up her residence near Madison
Square, where most of her time was
spent with young men. After the
death Of his father in San Francisco,
the son, Harrison Turner, came to
New York, met Mrs. Gooddle, who
was infatuated with him, and the two
were married. Recently he went to
San Francisco to attend TO business,
and brought back with him some Of
his fathers papers bearing on the
divorce. The wife~mother saw them,
and the whole secret was revealed.
She had married her son.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-10-22

The Bismark Tribune tells of a
young heroine in McHenry coun-
ty, Miss Belle Franklin, a school
teacher. She was awakened in her
lonely prairie shack in the night by
the approaching Of prairie fires Re
gembering that a farmer a half a
mile away was absent from home and
his house, barn, hay and grain must
90, she sped over the prairie, unlock>
ed his stable, hitched up his team and
with pillow ran fire break all around
the premises and saved his property.
The Shakespeare Society Of New
York will have their first anniversary
dinner Nov. %, the date of Shakes
peare's marriage. for the absurd reason
as stated, that ''the date of his birth is
not exactly known"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-10-22

An Eastern paper thinks that il all
the wise suggestions made about the
public schools are adopted, their
course of study, by the year 1900, will
be about like this: One hour, sewing
one hour washing and ironing; one
hour, cooking; one hour table setting
and other branches OF housekeeping
one hour, music; one hour, dancing
one hour painting; one hour, model
ing and sculpture; one hour, writing
one hour, arithmetic; one hour, book
keeping; one hour, industrial educa-
ton; one hour civil government; one
hour each on geography, algebra, tri-
gonometry, Latid, French, German,
botany, astronomy, tariff and free
trade, farming ard the weather.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-10-22
The Fancy Cattle Craze.
New York Cor, Cincinnati Enquirer


The tendency OF our rich men to
indulge in expensive tastes is shown
by the occasional sales OF Jersey cal,
tic Col. Russell, New England
capitalist, paid $7,700 for bull and
a COW, and William X, Vanderbilt
bought half dozen of the same herd
at fancy prices. The Nanderbilts are
so eager to show their wealth that
they seek every opportunity, If an
auction of antique books takes place
we lind an Eliot bible knocked down
to one of the family at $1,000. If a
rare picture comes into the market it
will find purchaser in the same FAM
lily, if the price only be high enough.
Fast horses are also bought at ia,
bulous rates, and then we find the
same mania displayed at a cattle sale.
Well, this is the most innocent man
ner in which such men can show their
wealth, and hence their weakness is
of an excusable nature When, in
deed, | look on james Gordon Ben.
nett's AlderAeys as they are grazing
on his grounds at Fort Washington,
they seem q closer bond to his race
than anything else in his character.
The milk and all other profits are en-
joyed by Crowley, who taxes care of
them; but whenever the proprietor
comes from Europe he drives up to
the place and looks at his pets.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-10-22
AN OLD MASONIC RELIC.
. travelling card Issued in This City
on JuRe 6, I776.
Philadelphia Times

Tohn d. Harris, OF SO North Thirty
ninth street, is the owner of an old
Masonic travelling card, whiah is about
q foot long and eight inches wide,
made of sheepskin. 1t is written IN
Latin. French and English and reads
II do hereby certify that Brother
John Perkins is p regular registered
Free Mason of Lodge No. /, of the
brovince of Pennsylvania, and has.
during his stay among them, behaved
himself and became an honest and
worthy brother, as appears by the
lodge certificate to me given under
nv hand and the seal OF the Grand
Lodge in Philadelphia, the Oh day OF
lime. in the year of our Lord 1776
and the year Of Masonry 5776
JAMES SUTTON,
Grand Secretary"
Mr.. Harris says it was found be-
tween the rafters in the garret of an
old house ia Worcester county, Md.
Within about four feet of the relic
was found the skeleton of = man. One
of the persons present when it was
found was j. w Barker, of this city.
The relic is considered the oldest Ma
sonic travelling card in existence.
Nobody by the name of Perkins has
lived in Worcester county for years.
1t is supposed that the man whose
skeleton was found was evidently a
traveller who had been fouly dealt
with and his body secreted in the gar
ret. Masons at the present time have
no travelling card, but are pro7en by
their works.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-10-22

many good things from the great
father and his administration.
The above scheme hSs been submit
red is now being favorably consider
ed by the administration, and the
father says he is more than confident,
owing to his long residence among
the Indians, and from the opinions of
those to whom be has submitted his
plans, that he will succeed.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-10-22

A CURIOUS case for the study Of the
geolegist was unearth' d Friday last
in Indianapolis. w. w. Working
ton, foreman Of the work Of improv~
ing the courthouse yard, had occasion
to break in pieces huge slab OF lines
stone from the quarries Of Greensburg
Southern Indiana. The piece of stone
was about fourteen inches thick, and
in the heart Of it was imbedded part
OF a huge sea crawish lobster, the YER
tebra and bones corresponding pre-
cisely TO those in that wellNknown
animal Of the crustacean variety.
The specimen obtained measured
eighteen inches in length, and was
evidently but two thirds of the en-
tire animal. 1t has been sent to the
geological department Of Purdue Uni
versity.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-10-22
The Deepest Well In The World.
Drug Repnrter.

The deepest well IN the world is To-
eaten at Homewood, Pa. 1t is owned
by George Westinghouse, Jr. The
average depth OF the Homewood wells
is about /, $50 feet. In the vel now
drilling everything found of the ma.
ture of gas or water at the depth Of
1000 feet was cased off as unimport-
ant, and the drill at present is said to
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-10-22


At the Armstrong Works, in Eng
land, gun that will cast a one-ton
she'd IS miles has been made.
Private Betting, of the Eighth
Cavalry, has become heir TO $50, 900,
bequeathed by a relative in Paris,
France.
Muscogee county, Georgia. recently
prosecuted q man for the theft of Is
cents worth of tobacco. IL cost the
county $27 to convict him.
A widower at Whitehall, n. Y,
has his dead wife's gold teeth made
INTO an engagement ring, which he
gave to woman whom he was about
to marry.
The public schools in Mendocine
county, Cal, have been closed for sew
eral weeks so that the pupils might
work at hop picking, the principal in
dustry in that county.
English soldiers in Egypt live in
mud huts. The ease with which they
were constructed shows that there is
no ditlicultyin making bricks without
straw.
Cremation is popular IN Alaska.
Singing, shaking Of rattles and beat
Tag OF long stick accompany the cere'
mony, and are kept up all night In
the morning the body is taken out
through a hole in the roof of the
house and carried to the funeral pile.
The missionaries are trying to break
up the practice.
E-lI 20
voice Gladstone talks distinctly in
in medium tones, and Lord Salisbury
loudly.
Professor Bartholow says that
choral is the most effective remedy
for cholera, and that its power is
much increased by the addition Of NOR
phine.
Prince Bismarck has made arrange
ments for a constant supply OF can
vasback ducks, which are TO beshipped
TO Berlin BY way o. Bremenhaven.
His own cook not being up the cooking
OF ducks, the Prince will borrow that
Of NJ. Bleichr@der
General Ben r. Butler recently
told friend that he had presents
ment that he would die within four
years
The largest profit by German rail
road in 1884 was SO per cent. Four
other roads earned over 8 per cent.
General Badeau possesses one OF the
most important document connected
with American history. 1t is the orig
inal of Gen. Grants dispatch to Sec.
g anton announcing the surrender of
Gen. Lse's army.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-10-22

A large convention Of laborers at
Seattle, w. T., recently adopted res,
olutlons that, on the return Of the
delegates to their respective localities,
they shall call mass meetings for the
purpose of appointing committees to
notify the Chinese to leave on or be.
fore Nov. 1, 1885.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-10-22
MEN WHO OWN HORSES.
An Old Horseman Says They Can Eas-
lily Outtalk the Owners OF Yachts.

There's no installing the owner of
fast horse, or road horse of any
kind, no matter where you may meet
him In New York, said the proprie-
tor Of big livery stable up town.
In the country nearly every man of
reasonable means can afford to keep
at least enc hore, but in New York it is
rather an expensive luxury. To be
the owner of a roadster argues that
you're man OF means. and as every
one wants TO appear wealthy, l sup~
pose that is the reason one hears so
much horse talk. They talk about
yachtsmen being unable to talk of
anything but their own particular
form OF sport, but that's nonsense
compared 10 tho enthusiasm of a
horseman. Yachts are out of COM
mission six month Of the year, but
horse is always ready.
1.-The horse fever usually affects men
about as it has friend of mine who
started in year ago. He has charge
of department in big commission
house down town and his salary was
recently increased from 50, 500 TO So
a year. Then he decided to keep
horse. He bought light road wagon
looked about, took the advice of half
a dozen friends who didn't know any
thing about it and finally scared a
horse that was worth about $500 for
$500 cash. His expenses for keeping
the whole outfit here amounted to $35
month, but that's the lghtest part
of the entertainment. The expense
begins above MeComb's Dam bridge.
For the first two months the young
commission merchant was up here
every cay about o'clock, wearing a
frOck coat and high hat and driving
gloves aud regularly took some young
lady out to drive. The young ladies
worked pretty lap robes for him and
he was quite a go with them for a
time.
"Then one day he went up the road
alone, after that he never had lady
with him. Now he has the regular
4 horseman manner. He wears big
linen buster, a low hat, goggles, and
rides with bent shoulders and his head
pushed forward One would think,
10 look at him when he stalks out,
that he is driving Maud S lie sits
with round shoulders and an intent
look, and nothing new comes up in
the way of ixings for horses that he
docs not adopt. His slang is as steep
as a Jockeys, and his knowledge so
profound that the oldest horse doctors
IN New York seem like novices when
compared with him. You can't learn
all about horses ia year. nor be a
good Judge of horseAesh without i'm
mense experience and study still
every New Yorker that owns a horse
apparently knows ii all, and to sit on
Cabe Cases or Judge Smiths porches
and hear the one-year-olds talk about
trotting stock makes us veterans feel
so ashamed that we all go off in cor
ners and talk to ourselves.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-11-05

driving past q fuli speed. HorriAed 1t their
danger abe ran % their saso3stancc, but only n
time 10 AL victim TO her own heroisn. for Just
- she reached them they were Knocked down
and run over by the horse and carriage. Both
OF the children were badly hurt Mr.. Sosaris
little one had an arm broken and the other one
received some bad contusi0nas Miss Lena had
her aull fractured and received severe injuries
OF the chest They are all doing well, and II Is
hoped will soon recover. Sheriff Demeritt, with
hls usual pfomptness, arrested the driver and
locked him up to await the result OF the in1u-
ries
--Palafka Herald: Three schooners loaded
with iron for the railroad, extending south 10
Sanford, arrived last week. and are discharging
their cargoes al the j. T. b Z. w. KY. DOCKS
IN this city. 1t will take twenty-five or thirty
cargoes 10 bring enough iron to complete the
work now in progress. .Palatka Is in her glory
once more. Everything goes with rush, men
of business move with quick step. Teams
have all they can do, and everything has live
business air. Now and then teams get ahead OF
the times, and make the dust fly in their hurry.
I'VE were out driving Sunday and saw
farmer trying TO harness an obstinate mule
Won't he draw" said our companion. "Of
course" said the farmer, " he draws the atten-
ton of every; fool that passes this way" We
drove on, and, looking back, saw the man about
to mount. He put his left foot in the stirrup,
the mule turned and looked at him, and taking
the farmer by the slack in his pantaloons, swung
him around, and dropped him over the fence into
a patch of sand spurs We did not 60 back to
ask any more questions. .Palatka, with pop
ulaton OF 1850, is said to have not less than S27
pianos, and yet, not lunatic has left town for
the asylum. though a good many remain and
play on them. II things continue TO 60 on 10
this rattle-brained, tin pan, squalipg way. we
will all, more or less cross over the river Chat
tahoochee and rest under the shade OF the walls
that surround this idiotic place, where we can
see ourselves as others see us"-nOw.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-11-05
DISCHARGES NOTICE.

ok MONTHS AFTER DATE 1 WILL PRE-
y sent my final accounts and vouchers as admin
istrator OF the estate of W. J. Blake, deceased to
the County Judge of Leon County, Florida, and
ask to be discharged from my said administrato
ship. W. X. BLAKE, Administrator
Tallahassee Fla, Oct. s, lSS5-6m*
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-11-05
''SHAkY."
The zIG.zAG METHODS EMPLOYED
BY MERCENARY men.

1t is notable fact that the people OF Atlanta
and elsewhere are beginning to be thoroughly
convinced that worthless compounds 6ecome
"shaky" at all new innovations, while an hon.
est preparation never fears opposition. We do
not propose to "wipe out" others, as the field
for operation is large, and we accord to one and
all the same privileges we enjoy. We are not so
far lost to business principles as to denounce any
other remedy as fraud, or imitation, or as con-
tanning a vegetable poison, the effects OF which
are horrible to contemplate. The alarm need
not be sounded for tn ere is ample room for all
declining anti-potash, pine top slop-water COM
pounds.
If one bottle of B. B. B. is more valuable in ef
fects than half dozen of any other preparation,
we won't get mad about it. If len bottles of 3.
B. B. cures case of blood poison which others
could not cure at all, it only proves that B. B.
is far the best medicine.
10000 Bottles
of B. B. B. have been sold to parties living in
side the corporation of Atlanta since twas start
ed two years ago
SO short a time with so little advertising?
1t must be confessed that ii is because b. b. b.
has proven itself to possess merit in the cure OF
blood, skin and kidney diseases. Hundreds OF
home certificates attest the fact OF our claim that
in Atlanta and many other points B. b. b. are
"on top" and will stay there. Many persons de-
sire 10 know how the B. B. B. acts on the system
By entering the circulation, il modhes the vita
ted blood glObules, increases the red cOrpusces,
antagonzes all poison vitaZes and regenerates
the tagging forces, furnis es the pabulum Tor
rich, new blood, eliminates all poison through
the secretiOns and increases the appetite, while,
by its wonderful action upon the pores OF the
skin, the kidneys, liver and glanduar system. all
effete and impure matter is speedily conducted
from the body leaving the blood pure. fresh and
healthy.
By it's magical Alternative powers, B. B. b. un-
loads the blood of all impurities, unlocks the liv-
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normal condition, unclUuds the troubled bran
clears and beauties the complexion, cheers the
respondent, strengthens The feeble, Gains the
disturbed nerves, and induces quiet and peace
full sumbers. II has been in use over twenty
five years as a private prescription In the South
is no iar-teiched, ioreign-ound or dream
discovered subtIranean wonder, but is scienli-
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years OF constant use and experiment IN the treat
ment of thousands of some of the most appalling
cases of scrofuous, syphilitic and cutaneous
blood poisons ever known in the State, resulting
in complete and unparalleled cures OF pronoun-
ced incurable cases.
Send to Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ca. for a
copy of their Book of Wonders, free, filled with
information about Blood and Skin Diseases
Kidney Complaints, &c.
Sold in Tallahassee by w. A Rawls and NJ
Lively Oct. 22-lm