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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-09-10
Work of the London Mint.
Chambers Journal.

The recently issued report of the
Deputy Master of the Mint, giving an
account of the operations of that de.
partment for the year 1884 is a more
than usually interesting document
From it WI learn that the amount of
gold coined during the year exceeded
by more thaa a million the amount
coined in 1883, while the sill coin
age was but little in excess of the aver
age. The coinage of bronze, however
was larger than in any year since
1875.
The total weight OF metal melted
down during the twelve months, was
470 tons, made up as follows "a cer-
tain proportion Of alloy being, of
course, included: Gold, 67 tons, sill
yer, 1913 tons, and b%ronze, 2G5 tons.
The total number of coins struck out
of this metal was 65, 1895 382. giving
an average of more than 1900, 900
pieces per week throughout the year.
Out of these, however, s, 932 081 pieces
did not come within the limits OF the
standard legal weight, so that the
number Of pieces available for issue
was reduced to Sc 1868 301, the value
of these gold pieces being, real or
nominal, 83, 157 800 10 sbillings 1
pence. OF this amount. 93. 070, 292
1G shillings 5 pence al, 093, 301 pieces)
consisted OF imperial coinage, and the
remaining $S7, 673 10 shillings s pence
Us, 270, 900 pieces) being colonial coin
age for Canada, Jamaica. Hong Kong,
etc All this coinage, both imperial
and colonial, has been executed at
the mint, its increased coming power
rendering it unnecessary that any por-
ton of the work of coinage should be
intrusted to private firms.
The greatest number of coins struck
of any denomination was IL, 700, 600,
consisting, as will readily be supposed
of pence. Halfpence came next in
point of numbers, nearly 1000, 600 of
this coin being struck. The number
of farthings struck was 5, ZOO, 600, a
seemingly large number, considering
the present small general circulation
Of this coin. OF shillings. nearly
4 200, 600 were coined, sixpeDses, over
3, 400, 600; threepences, over 3, 300, 600
Sovereigns and half~sogereigps were
coined to the numbero of over 1, 700, 600
and /, 100, 900 respectively. OF colonial
coinages, that of bronze half cents
for the Straits settlements was
numerically largest, 1000, 900 of this
coin being struck during the year.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-09-10

fast, about as much for dinner; but
after the work of the day is done. he
sits down to q hot meal swimming in
oil, or better yet, boiled butter.
His sons eat with him, but the fe~
males of his house wait till his lord
ship is done. He rides a donkey when
travelling, his wife walking behied-
He laughs at the idea of vacating his
seat for a woman. He knows no use
for chairs, tables, knives, forks or even
spoons, unless they ere wooden ones.
Bedstesds, bureaus, and freplaces may
be placed in the same category. If he
be an artisan he does work sitting.
perhaps using his feet to hold what
his hands are engaged upon. He
drinks cold water with q spoon, but
never bathes in 1t unless his home is
on the seashore. lie is rarely seen
drunk, is deficient in affection for his
kindred, has little curiosity and no
limitations, no wish to improve his
mind, no desire to surround himself
with the comforts of life.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-09-10

Mediterranean. Every now and then
some enterprising De Lesseps or other
proposes TO dig a canal from the Med
iterranean to the Dead sea, and re
establish the old high level. The eff
feet of this revolutionary proceeding
would be to flood the entire Jordan
valley. connect the Sea of Galilee
with the Dead sea, and play the dicks
ems generally with scripture geeg
raphy, to the infinite delight of Sun
day school classes. Now, when the
Dead sea first began its independent
career as a separate sheet of water Oh
its W account 1t no doubt occupied
the whole bed of this imaginary en-
gineer's disappearing, If not from
Dan to Beersheba, at any rate from
Dan TO Edom, or in other words, along
the whole Jordan valley, from the sea
of Galilee aud even the waters Of
Merom to the southern desert. Ct will
not insult the readers intelligence
and orthodoxy by suggesting that
perhaps he may not be precisely cer~
tain as to the exact position of the
waters of Merom; but | will merely
recommend him just to refresh his
memory by turning to his atlas, as
this is an opportunity which may not
again occur.) The modern Dead sea
is the last shrunken relic of such a
considerable ancient lake. Its waters
are now SO very concentrated and so
very nasty that no fish or other self
respecting animal can consent to 1--we
in them, and SO buoyant that a nan
can't drown himself, even if he tries,
because the sea is saturated with salts
of various sorts till it has become a
kind of soup or porridge, in which a
swimmer floats, P~ersonsi in the neigh>
borhood who wish to commit suicide
are therefore obliged to go elsewhere
much as in Tasmania, the healthiest
climate in the world, people who
want TO die arc obliged to run across
for a week to Sydney or Melbourne.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-09-10
The Planets in September.

scientific American.
September bears witness to an act
i've and stirring season among the
members of the solar family, wherein
the sun himself plays a prominent
part. Two great planets, Jupiter and
Uranus, as they reach conjunction,
disappear from the suns eastern side
to reappear on his western. Mercury
fits between the earth and sun at ins
ferior conjunction, and osclllates TO
his extreme western limit or eloHga-
ton, where early risers may behold
him for a short time before his fitful
light is qIenched in the sunbeams.
The sun reaches the vernal equinox,
and equal day and night mark the
passing hours. while he shines be-
nignly over the earth from pole to
pole. A favored few will behold a
total ecllsse of the suns radiant face,
and be filled with wonder and delight
as the silver corona starts 1T to view
and the rosy flames dart forth, while
the stars appear in the darkened sky,
and the face of nature is shrouded ia
funeral gloom. The moon is not be-
hind the superior member of the fam
lily in the part she plays in the inci>
dents of the month. She treats us to
a partial eclipse and the occultation of
a bright star. More than this, our
fair satellite crowns the month with
the harvest moon, when for several
successive evenings the lesser orb
rises in the Eastern sky Don as the
sun disappears in the Western, thus
prolonging the day, flooding the earth
with silvery light, and making it
almost as beautiful as a dream Of
the land where there is no night.
There may be other planets combining
more elements of natural beauty than
this little world, when the sunset
clouds linger in the west, and the har-
vest moon, rising majestically in the
east, looks serenely down upon a belt
OF earthly domain ripe for the harvest
if such fairy abodes exist IN the great
universe OF space, we have no desire
to visit them unless we can be equip
ped for the voyage with higher powers
than we now possess for the apprecia
ton of the transcendent scene.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-09-10

benefits of wealth Destituton is
dreadful, almost as dreadful as the
painful mortal sicknesses that attict
the rich as well as the poor; but the
poverty that does not involve pangs
of hanger is more endurable than it
appears to be. People get accustomed
to doing without luxuries or even
comforts. Competence, that is,
enough for the comforts of life, is, OF
course, far better than poverty, out
wealth is not better than competency.
The selfishness of man is strickly linn
tied. A Hebrew, who as furrler had
amassed a fortune of $50, 00O, was
dying, and he said to Thereafter from
the synagogue: Cant | take some
OF my money with me2' The reply
vas: "No, sir. Naked you came into
the world, and naked you must go out
of the world The dying man said /:
"Well, it is hard. What | have earn
ed ! have to leave behind me, and
while living could not eat mere than
one of my workmen." The dying
furrier was correct as TO his limitation
of his enjoyment of wealth. The
consuming capacity does not increase
with the Increase of fortune. A man
with a hundred thousand a year may
have a hundred coats and a score of
cooks, but he will not wear out more
clothing or consume more nourishing
matter than a well-to-do mechanic.
Whether he spends his income in a
grand stgle of living, or invests it in
reproductive enterprise, he himself
consumes no more of the necessities
and comforts of life than a compare
lively poor man. a rich man has the
privilege of disbursing a large income
in the way he fancies, but he must
dIsburse it, for he can not consume it.
So far as the individual is concerned,
there is not the wide difference be-
tween wealth and poverty, | say pow
erty, not restitution, that some per-
sons suppose. | am not seeking to
laud poverty or to d~epreciate wealth.
| believe that in moral worth there is
not much to choose between the poor
and the rich. II is to me as dificalt
to conceive the salvation of the poor
as it is the salvation of the rich, and
in both cases let us be devoutly thanks
full that what is impossible with man
is possible with God. Property is not
an accumulation for the benefit of the
nation. The very rich man, as an
Individual consumer, can consume no
more than the prosperous mechanic.
Property is not the cause of the coms
parative poverty of the non property
classes. On the contrary, it is the
means by which their comparative
poverty is alleviated. Without those
stores of wealth called property, the
outcome of which the owners must
nolens Uolens distributed, the poverty
of the comparatively poor would be
hopeless, and would soon become dire
destruction.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-09-10
"HIGH.PRICED CIGARS.
Twenty-Five Cents VIII Pay for as
Good n smoke as Is 40 he HAD.

@N1H 1RAA 2NAAs
For 25 cents each," said the pro-
prietor of one of the largest and most
fashionable cigar stands on upper
Broadway, you can buy as good a
cigar as one wants to smoke. The diff
ference in flavor between that and
one that costs 81 is to slight to be no.
ticed almost. You can't make a good
many young men believe that,
though. / used to have a wealthy
young customer who quarreled with
me once because | didn't keep a cigar
that sold for more than so cents.
Il told him | would order some for
his especial benefit. After he had
gone | took fifty OF the 25 cent cigars,
wrapped them carefully in tin foil,
and put them in an old box with a
tag stating they cost 81 each.
THE next day he came in and ask>
ed me if | had filed his order.
81 told him that at great personal
inconvenience l had done so, and
then l handed him out one of tho dol
lar brand.
HE took five, and eodld never be
induced to smoke any others.
They cost a great deal, he used
to say, but the flavor is so dnc they
are more than worth it
81 want a medium strong cigar"
said an old gentleman who now en-
tered the store.
Yes SIR responded the cigar man
as he handed out a number of small
cigars, The old gentleman laid down
a quarter on the counter and took six
cigars.
THAT isn't the kind OF a man who
pays a dollar for 25,cent cigars we
SAID.
No answered the dealer. "He
leaves that sort of folly for his son.
He is the father of the rich young
man
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-09-10
MAKING NECKTIES.
Materials Used in Searfs-DesIgns and
Fashions-Suiting Ia supply Il the
Market.

''There are special grades of silks
and satins made exclusively for the
necktie trade" said a manufacturer to
a reporter of The New York Mail and
Express recently. ''These materials
are made from patterns designed by
men who do nothing but study up Lew
Things in neckties. There are from
fifty to seventy-6ve factories in tins
country and ten or twelve ~irst-class
makers. The latter usually secure ex.
elusive rights to use certain styles of
goods from the makers, by buying
either the entire stock offered to the
American market or a large portion of
it. But the success of making up the
goods is just like a lottery ticket.
Perhaps one year | may hit or some
design and it will become so popular
that all other makers will be forced to
adopt it, but the next year some one in
Boston o Philadelphia may make q
hit and | will have to follow him.
There's never any telling how a neck
tie is going to take with the public
until It's on the market. There its
success depends on who adopts it fist.
If he happens to be a bowling swell,
and on the right side of popular fa>
vor, that particular kind of necktie
will see we'll"
"Are the styles of making up neck
ties originated abroadi"
Not now. They were until less
than three years ago, but now our
style are superior to the European,
and they are coming owe here for
patterns. However, there is a ten
dency for English fashions for the
fall
Are men or women employed in
making neckties2'
"Women. There are more than
l 200 girls thus employed in this city
alone. They work by the piece and
make Tor or less money according
to their expertness. A good finisher
can make IS or 81 a week. She takes
a neckte after it is put together and
finishes each detail perfectly so that il
is ready to box. Three different col
ors of the same design and same style
are boxed together to give the dealer
an assortment in the n make. The
tinisher must see that all Of this kind
are exactly alike in point of finish
and make up. We have one girl who
does nothing but turn the bands OF
neck!ies. and she maks S15 q week
She turns twenty-five or thirty d szen
bands "a day.
Tine cheap wear now flooding the
market is composed Of old STYLES made
OF poor goods. AS o rule, men show
no discrimination in purchasing neck
Ties. They look into a window. see a
tie that takes their fancy and rush in
TO b ~ 1t, never stopping to ask the
price. Thus they are Just as likely Ia
buy one Of the cheap kind. that viii
not last a week, as a good one
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-09-10
4 Glimnse al pead Ga.

The Dead sea is an old and decrepit
salt lake in a very advanced stage OF
evaporation. II tiles several feet below
the level of the Mediterranean, Just
as the Caspian lies several feet below
the level of the Black sea and as IN
both cases the surface must once have
been continuous, it is clear that the
water of either sheet must have arlea
up 10 a considerable extent. But
while the Caspian has shruak only to
eighty five feet below the Black sea,
the Dead sea has shrunk to the enor
nous depth of 1892 feet below Inc
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-09-10
Arab oddities

An Arab on entering a house re-
moves his shoes, but not his hat. He
mounts his horse upon the right side.
Ia writing "a letter he puts nearly all
ms compliments on the outside. With
hun the point Of a pin is its head.
while lis head is maze its heel. His
head must be wrapped up warm, even
IA summer, while his feet may well
enough 80 naked ia winter. Every
article of merchandise which is LIQUID
ne weighs, bat he measures wheat
barley, and a few other articles. He
reads and writes from right to left.
lie eats scarcely anything for break,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-09-10
A New Grant Anecdote.
New York Tribune.

Now lOIk 1TiDhuts
1.-THE recent outpourIng of Grant
anecdotes" said Mr. Stuart Robson,
the actor, in an interview with a Trib~
une reporter, ''has reminded me of one
which lido not think has been printed,
Crane and myself We're playing some
years ago in a well>known managers
theater out of New York. The first
act was over and we were chatting in
the wings with our manager, when
of the boys rushed up to tell us
that General Grant and his family
were in one of the boxes. A flush of
gratified pride mounted to the man
agerial face, followed by a look of
agonized doubt, AS he evidently re-
Elected that perhaps the General dead
headed into the box. Did you send
him a box, RobesoR2" he asked nae,
and on my replying in the negative,
he pulled a card out of his pocket, and
s~cribbling a line on it, told the boy to
take it to the kox'oflice and bring
back an answer. The boy rushed of,
his head full of the General, and re
turned in a few minutes with the same
card, which he handed to Mr.. Mama
ger. A CHASTITY look crossed his face
as he read it, and without a wold,
handed it to me. The first line read
in the rather shaky managerial cali
graphy: Did General Grant pay for
his box2' while underneath appeared
Nc. But my son Fred did.
U. S. GRANT
The boy had taken it to the box in
stead OF the boX-ofhce.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-09-10
A Miseonstrnction.
Boston Courier.

"Just ore" said the lover, as he
stood upon the stoop with his girl,
'just onel'
Just L." said the mother, putting
her head out of the bedroom window
above; "well l guess it amt so late as
that, but it's pretty Lear II, and you'd
better be gong, or her father will be
down"
And the lover took his leave with
main in his heart.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-09-10
Evolution in Music.
P~hlldephla Can.

Philadelphia Call.
Il tell you, Bromley I've married
an angel"
20, no doubt. Wait until you've
been married as long as l have"
'She's all smiles, Bromley; nevee .
cross word. Her voice is as sweet as
the sound of a harp. Her"
20, she reminds you of a harp does
she2 Inside of a year she'll remind of
an accordion
"Why Of an Accord N
Because she'll make the most noise
when you attempt to shut her up
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-09-10

The priacipal wedding anniversaries
First year, paper fifth year,
wooden tenth year, tin ffteeath year,
crystal twentiethyear, china; twenty
fifth year, silver; iftieth year, goldeP
seventy fifth year, diamond.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-09-10

Ladies as poor law guardians have
found a legitimate sphere Of public
work, and in England and Scotland
there are now no less than forty six.
In London there are sixteen and IN
Edinburgh nine.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-09-10

1t is estimated that the opposing
candidates for District Attorney OF
Lszerno county, Penn, have promis'
ed /, 500 postotfices to politicians,
though there are only 100 to DO filled
by ANYBODY.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-09-10

An Englishman has been Condemn
ed to 20 years penal servitude at
Lyons for plundcring churches.
While secretly prosecuting his career
Of crime he was received into fashion,
able sporting circles, and became a
patron of the turf.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-09-10
Poverty and Wealth.

lihsleN 5 haBaElne
There is much exaggeration as to
he deprivations OF poverty and the
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-02-14
PARTY NOMINATIONS.
A Democrat Submits Figures and
Argues in Favor Of Party Lines.

A Democrat Submits Figures and
Argues in Favor of Party Lines.
To the Editor OF the Gazette.
Allow me TO tip my cap and shake
your hand and express the hope that
you may arouse the Democratic voters
OF Fort Worth to the Importance of
holding a nominating convention be-
fore the ensuing city election,
snail not attempt 10 call in ques-
Ton the honesty or capacity OF any
man or party, but the fundamental
principles OF American institutions
are founded on the idea
that the majority must rule
aud this being a Democratic
city, situated in q Democratic comfy
IN Democratic state, / am firmly Of
the opinion that the "gTeatest GOOD IN
the greatest numbern demands that
the different governments should he
IN accord with each other. What.
ever errors or shortcomings that NAV
occur IN ourcity government, the ms
l0rlly-the Democratic psrty-will he
held responsible, and that being the
fact, claim that IL Is essential that The
representatives. OF that party should
ne IN position TO coutrol the
affairs for which 1t is Liable,
1 am aware that some good Democratic
are IN favor OF "free-for.all race, and
believe that our majority Is so strong
that we have nothing 10 fear. But iel
us look et the figures:
AT tho last general election. the
Democratic electors received 9O35 yotes
while the Republican electors received
loOd votes, and there were SO scatter
ing, Now there are four Democrats
and one Republican making the race
Tor city attorney, and we have no good
reason TO suppose that either OF the
Democrats will run very far ahead Of
the others, and Ii we divide the aOS5
Democratic voters equally among
them and give the Republican the lOO6
Republican votes, he would be elecied
with several hundred to spare.
IN view OF the long line OF defeats
when our party has sustained during
the last twenty-fsur years, Ii seems
shRt all good Democrats ought 10 bewIII. |
ing to suhmit their claims 10 members
Of their own party and not seek 10 i'm. |
peril party success la order 10 crafty |
An Unsuitable greed for office.
DEhoCRAT.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-02-14
BIG SPRINGS.
Hides on the Market Court News.
Rpecial

Hides on the Market Court News.
Special.
BIG SPRINGS, TEX, Feb. ia
Wagon loads Of hides have been
brought to town by the sheepmen who
Loot large numbers from their 1Ocks
during the late blizzard.
County court was in session last
week aud some important business
was transacted. The case OF CTaw-
ford Va. the Texas & Pacific railroad
came up and verdict for the plaintiff
was rendered, An appeal was noted
by the attorneys for the company,
Messrs. Walthall and Cowan. The
suit was for salary and interest.
The cars that were derailed east OF
here some days since have been
brought in and are somewhat demon
allied.
A large amount Of tree-plAnting is
going on
The commissioners court is in ses-
sion this week, and 1t is hoped that
they will settle the matter Of "A bounii-
ful water supply, as 1t is something in
which all are interested.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-02-14
O,sot,

A Triple Wedtlnl az Breckenridge.
special
CISCO, TEX, Feb. l5.-It was Tu-
mored On our streets late yesterday
evening that our townsmtn. Perry
Pa.chall, brother Of Ben PsschAll,
who escaped from Jail at Denton, had
been arrested at Breckenridge. On
inquiry II was ascertained that after
proirac'ed struggle the gallant Perry
had been cap u ed by and had surren-
dered 10 the charm Of Oneof Brecken-
ridges forrest daughters in the person
OF Miss Marberry II was also re-
ported that triple wedding had
taken place, the remaining happy
couples being Mr.. John MaTberry and
Miss Julia Webb, Mr.. J. G. Beck and
Miss Fannie Veal.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-02-14
Pure powaer,

Since the first package OF silva,
Loaf Baking found it's way 90 the
nome OF consumer, it has grown In
popular fayor with apidity un.
known IN the history OF any baking
powder yet offered the public. That
u rose triumphant over every on.
posing obstacle and took a position
ode by side with the leading brande
IA the market, evidences the merlt
Manned for 1t by the manufacturer
Why this unprecedented popularitv
~ this new brand OF baking powder a
legitimate question, and the answeY
q found In the guarantee OF j. III
Brown that every package Is chem.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-02-14
Texas land and Live stnek

We have for sale at bedrock prices
large and desirable list of Texas
properties, such as improved and
Lnimproved grazing aud farming
lands, in large orsmall bodies, ranches
already equipped and stocked with
either cattle, horses or sheep. win
also deliver at any point in the United
states any number or class OF cattle
wanted. All inquiries promptly
answered.
GEO. b. LOVING & Co,
Real Estate and Live Stock Rrokers
Fort Worth. Tex.