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Sharp County record., 1885-08-06

1t is the best practical English Dictionary
extant.-Loadon Quar'crhy Rsric,r.
1t is an ever-prcSeut End reliable school
master 10 the whole f;.niHy.--S. S. Nora..
G. & c. MERRlAA & CO., PuDrs, Springfield, Mass.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-16

"a token!n exclaimed the father
and daughter in sreath.
Eyes, my friends, and here it is. "
Aud the major handed the ring to the
old gentleman.
whats the meaning Of this,
Laura exclaimed the coloael. This
ring gave you last week.
Laura uttered faint cry, and turn
ed deadly pale
THE mystery is easily explained,
said the major. THE young lady is
sleep walker She came into my
room before | had retired, utterly un-
conscious of her actions. [ took the
ring from her hand, that | might be
able TO convince you and her OF the
reality Of what had witnessed. =
The majors business was not press
ing, and he readily yielded to the
colonel's urgent request to pass a few
days vita him Their mutual liking
increased upon better acquaintance,
and in few weeks the White Phan-
TOMS ring, inscribed with the names
CT Merritt Hill and Laura Lawrence,
served as the sacred symbol of their
union for life.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-16
A Trne Lover.

A Washington correspondent gives
the folio wing as the origin Of once
popular song:
heard q curious story yesterday in
regard TO the well-known song.
No one 10 love, none 10 caress,
Travelling alone through ife's wilderness, etc.
The author OF tins song lives here ia
Washington, and he boards in hotel
within a square or so of the White
House. He is now man OF perhaps
30, and he wrote tae song many years
ago He was in love with a beautiful
girl and the day was fixed for their
marriage. In the interval between
the engagement and this day the war
broke out and the young man enlisted,
He was on the field when the time APP
preached for his wedding. IL was on
the eve Of a great battle, and the first
IN which the young man was 10 take
part lie wrote to his sweetheart ask
ing her to postpone the day Of the
marriage until after the tight This
she refused to do, and sac If he did
not return and keep his par. OF tao
agreement she would considerable en-
gagement off. The young man pre-
ferred to trust to luck in regard TO the
engagement TO beng considered a
coward in running away from his first
battle. and remained on the. field.
His lady love, however, was sopiqued
at the refusal that she persisted in the
rejection of his suit and married an
other man. Inspired with the feeling
OF the desertion, the rejected wrote
the song which has had sach wide
run. lie not only wrote the song, but
he remained true to his first love, and
for some time the story goes, he has
been living here with his mother.
Not long ago, however, his loves hus
band died, and since that tirne Ae has
renewed the acqlaiatanee'ef the wild
ow, who though Older than when. he
went 10 the war, is still charming.
The old flame has, it is said, revived
in the fair widows breast, and their is
a fair prospect Of a match.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-16
Founding a Town.
Wall Street News.


The founding OF q western town is a
very simple matter when one under
stands it. A New Yorker, who was
in Kansas when town was founded,
says that two men drove oat on the
prairie and stuck some stakes, aud
took drink of whisky, and called
the town "Pawnee City Then they
organized q city government, and
granted themselves charters for
street railway and gas company, es1
tablished a couple OF banks, donated
twenty lots toward building court
house, aud rushed the following
through the Common Council.
ResoiUed, That eastern capitalists
have their attention called TO Pawnee
City as place offering superior ad
vantages for manufacturing.
Only twenty-five minutes were con
sumed in the whole business, and half
a pint of cheap whisky constituted the
sum total of expenses.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-16

woman, his domlneerng ways being
unbearable. Dickens was poor nus
band, as were also Bulwer, Byron.
Greeley, and scores of others whose
names are familiar II woman de-
sires happy home, she will not fud
among men like these-yather in the
cottage Of the man whose work is
done away from home, and who can
give his evenings TO her and his chill.
dren. y good character goes farther
than good education, and good nature
is more desirable than correct spelling.
DO you shadow persons 10 learn
their vices"
Very seldom. Ii tits good Gus
toner who is compelled to depend on
us we 90 it n accommodate, but il is
unpleasant, TO say the least, and Of
ten wish ! could avoid that par. Of
it,"
"Ofwhat, then, does the major part
OF your information consistW
advice on general points, adapta-
bllity of the characters of the persons
temperament; the business capacity
Of the proposed husband; the extent
of his mind, and like information
that will give the lady a proper idea OF
what sort of man he is.
You could, then, be properly term
ed a match,makera"
Yes" he answered, laughiugly,
but we Try to avoid the birthstone and
the explosive ingredients" saying
which, he bowed the visitor out
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-16

was groTed to a mighty river, roarin'
an rushin' an gurglin' over the piles.
Boys, diduC feel sKeered then, but
somehow | couldn't STAN up Ny
legs felt weak and give way under me
an ! set down or the track IN the
pourin' rain. IL didn't so TO sleep;
| couldn't ha' done that, but ny fire.
man said he had TO shake me purity
hard TO get me up. Ma, boys | didn't
run ole Six. 1t was Dave an mc to-
gether that's always pulled her
through -
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-16
THINGS THAT NEVER DIE.

The pure. the bright, the beautiful,
That stirred our hearts in youth;
The impulse to a wordless prayer,
The dreams OF love and truth;
The longing after something lost,
The spirits yearning cry,
The striving after better hopes
These things can never die.
one tjmid hand stretched forth 10 aid
4 brother in his need,
The kindly word in grief's dark hour
That proves a friend indeed
The plea for Mercy softly breathed,
When Justice threatened high,
The sorrow Of a contrite heart
These things shall never die.
The memory of clasping hand,
The pressure Of q kiss,
And all the trifies sweet and frail
That make up life's pure bliss;
If with firm, unchanging faith,
And holy trust and high
Those hands have ciasped and lips have met
These things shall never die.
The cruel and the bitter word
That wounded as it fell,
The chilling wants of sympathy
We feel but never tell
The hard repulSe that chills the heart
Whose hopes were bounding high,
In an nfading record kept
These things shall never die.
Let nothing pass, for every hand
Must hud some WORK 20 do;
Lose not a chance TO waken love
Be firm and just and true.
So shall light that cannot fade
Beam on thee from on high,
And angels voices say 10 thee.
These things shall never die
- Chicago Ledger
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-16
The Perfumery Bu5iness.
New York Commercial ADVERTISER


There are many laboratories in the
United States which produce excellent
perfumery, but the business is rela,
lively new in this country when COM
pared with the old establishments of
the sort on the Riviera, where the in
habitants for the most part live upon
the products which that blessed CHI
mate affords them in sweet-smelling
flowers and shrubs. | was reading
only toe other day something about
the perfumery manufacturers of Nice
and Cannes, and friend, who has a
happy faculty of collecting useful
knowledge, has since given me the
latest statistics of one gJeat establish
ment at the latter city which are
worth relating, if only to show the
enormous scale on which operations
are there conducted la this factory
are annually used only TANK of it
no fewer than 154, 600 pounds OF
orange blossoms, 1920 pounds of
acacia blossoms, 154, 00G pounds Of
rose leaves, 30, 200 pounds of jasmine
blossoms, $4,000 pounds of violets,
s 600 pounds of tuberoses, and rela-
lively large AMOUNT of Spanish lIlacs,
rosemary, mint, lime and lemon blcs-
SONS, thyme, and numbers of other
plants and leaves and flowers.
Nice and Cannes together raise yearly
60, 600 pounds of violets, which
thrive there better, perhaps, than in
any other part of the world, to say
nothing of. 440, 900 pounds of orange
blossoms which Nice alone produces,
and which are more than doubled in
quantity by the neighboring villages.
Acacia blossoms are the speciality of
Cannes, where 3S, 500 pounds are OBJ
tained yearly, and where jasmine,
tu5eroses and roses also flourish. The
total annual production of perfumery
in the Riviera towns is said TO be 342,
600 pounds Of pomades and sweet
scented oils
The area OF land devoted to the
growth of trees and plants in ques-
ton may be imagined when it is con.
sidered that to obtain one ton of bios
SONS it is necessary to strip 30, 900
jasmine plants, 5000 rose bushes, 100
orange trees, 800 geraniums and 20, 000
tuberoses of their wealth of bloom.
Violets needs most space, and next
orange trees, roses and jasmine re.
quire one-third less space than the
orange trees, and tuberoses one fifth
less. From these various perfumes
in combination are made pomade,
salve, hair-oI, toilet water, sachet
powder, incense, balsam and essences.
The name of the perfumes which
are offered for sale is legion, although
the best known and the most agree
able of them all is eau de cologne.
Its preparation is naturally a secret
preserved with the greatest strictness.
The name Farlna, connected with this
perfume, is known throughout the
civilized world, and if one wishes to
get an idea of the real benefit which
an article is supposed to derive from a
single name, it is only necessary, as
many of my readers know, to visit
the ''holy" city of Cologne, wander
about in the vicinity of the Julichs.
Platz and study firm names on the
signs. All the Farinas IN the world
seem to be here assembled, and every
one of them manufactures eau de
cologne.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-16

1t Is a popular superstition that the
center OF the car IS not only the safest
part, but it is also much the easier
riding, says The Elmma Railroad
News. One of the greatest trials OF
a Pullman conductors life is the fact
that every passenger asks for lower
center berth the first thing, and is
frequently indignant because ii cannot
be had. If the confer of a car rides
any easier than the end, then our cars,
built as solid and as strong as they
are, spring up and down in the mid
die precisely as does a blackboard. II
they do not why should it ride easIer9
As for safety, if you arc in the rear OF
the last car on the train and
another train runs into the rear you
are liable to get hurt. In all other
accidents you can conjure up
as liable to occur & is the safest
In head collision there is nothing
back of you to add force to the blow.
II the car leaves the track and collides
with a bridge or any obstruction on q
side track 1t viii not be in your end.
Ii the train is thrown down an EN-
bankment there is nothing to land on
top OF you. Then this location is the
most pleasant From it you can
watch all the movements of your fell
low passengers, often a good way of
passing the hours of long, tedious
journey If your eye happens to
catch particularly fine view you can,
by turning in your seat or stepping to
the door, take it all in. If there is a
safest part Of train it is in the last
seat in the last car.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-16

A local naturalist 10 BrEokfeld,
Conn. has discovered that the stone
which village boys have been play
ing with for some time. and which
they called THE Birds Wash Stone, -
is an Indian stone r.ill and a relic Of
the stone age. II is two feet long and
one loot and half wide and deep.
It mas been for many years in the
Episcopal Church wall as part Of
its foundation.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-16

President McCosh OF Princeton
declares that, as rule, the leading
athletes ia college are the poorest
scholars. People who are not college
presidents are aware of that fact
Scholarship comes Of hard study, and
net from the development Of muscle.
Young men who want to become
famous athletes 90 to the college these
days, while those who are ambitious
to acquire scholastic attainments have
to seek more quiet places, where their
studies viii not be disturbed by the
constant paddle of the oar or the
whacking sound Of the baseball oat
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-16

"They can talk as they please about
bad luck out in the west, said pas
senger from Kansas, "but can speak
from experience and tell you honestly
that the west is a great country
fine country. Never had such good
luck in my life as [ had there. Just
to show you how nature helps a man
out there who is willing to help him
self, one day last fall bought barn
Of neignbor- got it dirt cheap, too,
because it was so difficult to move
and that night cyclone came along
aud blowed that harm over onto my
place, dropped her right where I
wanted her, and never loos9ned q
board. That's what call good luck.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-16
pidn't Know

"Old man PippS would make
poor stagger at driving hogs, wouldn't
he2"
81 don't know. Why2n
Because he's so bow-le@ged he
never could head them. II ice tones
had never been invented, one look at
him would give any man the idea"
"l1e is dreadfully bow-legged, isn't
he. Do you know how he got that
way9"
'gEo; but / think could guess.
How, do you say2'
II think more than likely he under
took to shoulder a saw. log when he
was young
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-16
SPORADIC CHOLERA

WASHINGTON, July 10.-A few days
ago a dispatch was received at the
office of the supervising surgeon ger-
eral of the marine hospital service
saying that several cases of sporadic
cholera had occurred at Toledo, Oalo
DR.. Hamilton, supervising surgeon
geaeral, Immediately telegraphed for
a report to the medical inspector No
reply has rs yet been received.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-16
EDidennicS
SMALL POX.

BURLINGTON, Iowa, July 10.-Com-
plant comes from the smoll pox in
fected district near Creston that it is
impossible to get conveyances to carry
the dead to the cemetery. The people
are panic stricken The dead lay
unburied several days. Much indig-
nation is expressed.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-16

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Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-03-21
ST. PATRICK'S DAY.
A Large Time at the Rink in the
Evening.

Evening.
Nearly two hundred people gathered
at the roller rim X Tuesday night in honor
of1reland's patron saint; and there. were
almost all nationalities there with green
badges and emerald rosettes. Dancing
commenced at On early hour in the even
ing and continued until S O'Clock this
morning. Itwas an interesting spectacle
to witness and jolly crowd to be with,
for they danced and danced until the
floor was hot, and yet they danced and
did not tire. One hundred ladies and
gentlemen at time, moving like autom-
atoms to the harmoues of an excellent
orchestra, and the spectators gallery
comfortably filled. Said one onlooker
"There 10 no caste here, no 'quality;
and look at the good clothes" The
speaker was an American and he de-
declared he had never seen finer body
of people under roof. Another citizen
who was here two and half years ago
made striking comparison when he
referred to the fact that ut that date there
were but two ladies in the town and not
over dozen in the county. We all
wished that our eastern critics could
have looked in upon the assemblage.
The INTER-OcEAN will attempt the task
of giving the names of those present, but
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-03-21
Couldn't BuV Him.

Martin Sullivan, who filled the posi-
ton of assistant sergeant at arms Of the
house at Bismarck is in the city. In an
interview with him Mr.. Sullivan stated
that he was ashamed of the late legisla-
ture; "but,' said he, 81 want to say this
tho member from Ramsey county, DR..
Ruger, is absolutely unpurchasablo.
They tried to buy him, but failed. Mon
ey was plenty and prices high, but the
lobby soon learned to let DR.. Ruger
alone. He was quite as fortunate in pro-
curing Legislation for his constituency
as any of tho new members. The old
schemers made it uncomfortable for all
the new members."
Mr.. Sullivan is outspoken in tho state
ment that there was the worst gang of
robbers gathered at Bismarck this win
tor that ever disgraced capital. He is
quite positive that several Of tho "old
wheel-horses" consigned themselves to
oblivion by their conduct.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-03-21
The following arrived Tuesday and
we're placed on file Wednesday.
Personal Testimony,

What is related in this little item will
be called Dakota lie down east. Worry
good; Dakota cun stand it, and here 1t is:
Mr.. o. II. Lane, one Of the original so,-
tiers Of our neighboring city Larimore,
arrived here last evening and in conver-
sation with the INTER- OCEAN stated that
he had just returned from an extended
trip through Missouri, Kansas, Ne
braska and Indian Territory, and had
come back to North Dakota for good,
thoroughly satisfied that no other coun-
try Of which he knows anything can
compare with this No. hard wheat belt.
Said he, "rhere is moro money, moro
health, better times and greater oppor-
tllnities IN North Dakota than can be
found in any other portion of tho Union,
and ] am back here to stay" Mr.. Lame
and his brother will engage in the stock
business in the Moose river country. lie
has lived throe years in Dakoln and
knows what he is talking about when ho
backs it against the universe.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-03-21
Wheat Grades.

CooL1N, D. T., March 16.-Ed. Inter-
Ocean: I noticed in the News piece
entitled, sour Elevator Agent-A Better
Grader Of Men than Wheat" l would
say this in behalf OF Mr.. Shaw, I con-
slider him fair and impartial agent and
a very good judge Of grain. AS for be.
ing a grader Of men, Shaw does not
grade them. AS I have been in the
wheat business for twenty-seven years.
and think I am something of judge Of
wheat, ask to know if there has been
one man that sold wheat at Devils Lake
this fall or winter that had hard wheat
without smut that did not get No. l
hard. If there is such a man I have
not heard of him, and I don't think
that the farmers could get better man
than Shaw. have heard farmers from
Larimore state that the wheat that Mr..
Shaw has graded No. l hard would not
receive as high grade there, and
think that the farmers have no cause to
complain. I think Mr.. Shaw made a
slight mistake in grading six sacks Of
wheat by not looking At it closely, which
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-03-21
Missionary Work.
Streat0r (Ill.) Times


John Barton, Of Dakota, called on US
the other day and brought with him a
large number of documents which give
a very graphic description of that won
derful land, Dakota. Any of our read.
ers who desire information relative to
the desirability of settling in that coun-
try can do no better than call upon US
and get some of these publications. The
Manitoba railroad seems to have an
abiding faith in the country, as is evi.
denced by the manner in which they
deal with probable settlers. Those who
have had experience with this road and
its management claim that it cannot do
too much for settlers, and encourage
them in every way in ther power. We
again extend an invitation to intending
purchasers to give US call and see
some of these documents.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-03-21
Another Illinois Legislator Dead.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, March 2O.-Senator
Bridges, Democratic member Of the
state senate, who suffered a stroke of
paralysis q month ago, died this morn
ing. This, following the death of Rep
sentative Logan three weeks ago, leaves
the Illinois legislature tie on joint bal.
lot. The house and senate both ad-
journed when the announcement of Sen
ator Bridges was made.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-03-21
BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
Sidewalks Ordered - Ordinances
Drawn and Adopted.

Sidewalks Ordered - Ordinances
Drawn and Adopted. ..,
A meeting of the city fathers was held
last evening. Present, President Bur-
nett, Trustees Dodd, Converse and
Moore. Minutes read and approved:
Moved by Trustee Dodd that the
opening of bids for grading Fifth street
be postponed for one week and that the
clerk may be authorized to receive any
other bids that may be offered. Car
ried.
The petition of H. NJ. Creel and 9TH
ers for a sidewalk on the north side of
Fifth street, between Kelly and Arnold
avenues, was presented.
Moved by Trustee Moore that the
petition be granted and the marshal he
instructed to notify owners of lots to
construct the walk forthwith. Carried.
Moved by Trustee Dodd that the own
ers of lots % and "a, block %, and lots
l5 to "a inclusive, block "a, be instruct.
ed to repair or rebuild the sidewalk in
front of their respective lots forthwith.
Carried.
Moved by Trustee Moore that the
owners of lots to 7 inclusive, block %,
be instructed to rebuild or repair side
walks at once. Carried.
Ordinance No. l3, relating to OBJ.
structions on streets and sidewalks, was
presented and adopted.
Ordinance No. ID, relating to nui.
sances affecting the general health, was
presented and adopted. Adjourned.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-03-21
Commissions Good for Their Fsoe,

WASHINGTON, March 2O.-The presi.
dent has decided not to disturb Repub-
licans appointed for four years. The
Democratic officeseekers threaten to
raise row. There will be no appoint
ment made to succeed Postmaster
Pearson of New York. 1t is quite prob
able that he will be permitted to serve
out the term Of his commission,