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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-26
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

a FIRE at Ludington. Mich, Wednes-
day evening" destroyed Wards shingle-
mill and stock, valued at $4,000
GEORGE FAuLHABER's church furniture
factory at Cleveland, was destroyed by
fire Sunday, a loss of $4,000: insurance
$4,000.
FIVE persons were killed at Ashland,
Wis., by the bursting of boiler in the
carpenter shop of Ressnier 81 Webster
Two other persons we're wounded.
DANIEL MADIGAN, a teamster, fell from
the roof of a houre in New York, upon
Thomas Donovan, who was passing
Madigan was killed. Donovan fatally in
jured
AN incendiary fire on Monday evening
destroyed the business portion of Tulare
California, the losses aggregating to
S250,000.
THE Wersilician Steel Works of San
dusky, Ohio, were burned Wednesday
night They cost 100000 in 1872, but
have not been operated for two years on
account of depression in the iron trade
Loss, $4,000.
THURSDAY night Thomas r. Lyons
single mill at Ludington, Mich. was
burned. The mill was built a few years
ago at an expense of $4,000 1t is a to-
tai loss, together with 100000 shingles
No insurance.
A dispatch from Duluth, Mimi. says
the steamer Queen of the Lakes was
burned on Lake Vermillion, and is total
loss. She was used as a pleasure boat,
was nearly new, and was valued at $4,000.
Insured light,
A. W. ARMIsrEAD, assistant postmaster
at Danville, Pa, committed suicide at
that place Sunday. His excuse was 'tired
of living" Armistend was a prominent
citizen, and held high place among the
Odd Fellows of Pennsylvania.
THE storm of Sunday night eviy-
IDENTIFY caused considerable damage
throughout the northwest. The Presby-
terrain church at Larimore, OAK, was
blown down. Corn was injured by hail in
she region between Chicago and tue Mis-
sissippi river.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-26
The Human Family.
Boston Transcript.

The human family to-day living on
earth consists of about l450OOO 900 in
digiduals; not less, probably more. These
are distributed over the earth's surface,
so that now there is no considerable part
where man is not found. In Asia, where
he was first planted there are now APP
proximately about SO0,0OO,OO0. densely
crowded on an average 100 to the square
mile. In Europe there are 320.OOOOOO
averaging 100 to the square mile, not so
crowded, but every where dense, and at
points over populated. In Africa there
are 210,O0O,OO0 In America North and
South, theirs are ll0,0OOO0O,0O0. relatively
thiuly scattered and recent. In the
islands, large and small, probably 10000
coo, The extremes of the white and black
are ms five to three; the remaining ZOO
100000 intermediate brown ana tawny.
OF the race 5UO,O00,00O are well clothed
that is, wear garments of some kind to
cover their nakedness; 7O0.0OO,0O0 are
semi clothed, covering inferior parts of
the body; 250,000,O00 are practically
naked. OF the race 500oOO.Oo live in
houses partly furnished with the appoint
ments of civilization; 7OO000OO0 in huts
or caves with no furnishing. 26O, 600, 900
have nothing that can be called home.
are barbarious and savage. The range is
from the topmost round the Anglo-Sax-
on civilization, which is the highest
known down to naked sayagery. The
portion of the race lying below the line
OF human condition is at the very least
three tfths Of The whole, or 90OO000OO.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-26
Horses and Their Drivers.

Very many years ago | made up my
mind that when there was quarrel be-
tween a man and horse, in nine cases
out ot ten the man was in the wrong. Con
tinued observation cas- only served to CON
firm this belief.
The radical error into which the drivers
fall is the belief that the horse kaows per-
fectly what is wanted of him, and will not
do it. Then the driver proceeds to show
that ne is the master, and in the vast ma
iority of cases the horse is punished
without the slightest idea why he is so
treated.
For horse to understand instantly
what his driver desires, there must exist a
pleasant feeling between them. The horse
must feel a confidence in his driver. With
one driver a horse will show himself fear
less of locomotives, and with another he
will dread them. One man will drive
horse fifteen miles with no more fatigue
TO the animal than another will produce
in driving him ten.
Nothing tends more to cruelty to ami
mails than cowardice. The man who has a
lurking fear of his beast is the one who
treats him the most harshly. The man
who is afraid of no horse is just the man
who treats all kindly. He is perfectly
aware that there Is always danger with
horses, but he always knows that this does
not depend upon the horse, but mostly
comes from some extraneous source-the
bad driving of others whom he meets on
the road, or accident of some sort. He
has friendly feeling toward his beast as
being willing and useful servant and
companion, ready to do his whole duty,
and more than his duty. SO there springs
up pleasant feeling on both sides, the
horse is encouraged and cheerful, and
gets through his work easily and well.
Such driver gets vastly more from his
horses th an does the cruel one. They
come in fresh, they feed and sleep well,
and begin the next days work under
favorable conditions. Age tells but slow
ly on them; at Is and 16 years such
horses still show speed and endurance,
and are still gay and free-goers, with
years of usefulness before them, whereas
the cruel mans horse is used up long be-
fore this.
There should be kindness simply from
king feeling, but it does not the less GER
tainly bring its material reward.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-26

There was one man who didn't take
kindly to the late accident on the West
Shore by which dozen or more trunks
were smashed and their contents ruined.
When the passengers were notified to ex-
hibit their checks and make a statement
of damages this man exhibited his piece
of brass and declared that nothing less
than $500 would make him whole,
pretty valuable trunk" remarked the
official.
eyes, sir; | was going to Europe for a
year"
The passengers gathered at the wrecked
car to identify what had been saved, and
as the parcels We're handed down the num-
Der of the checks were called off. Pretty
soon on came a thin, lean, cadayerous old
carpet-bag which did not seem to con.
tain more than a shirt and pair of socks,
and as tho number of the check was called
the official consulted his list and re
marked to the mani
This is your baggage, sir"
Yes, think So"
That's the $500 trunk going to Europe
with you"
Eyes, that's the one"
There was a general laugh at his ex-
pense, during which he retired to the
passenger Some o .e presently asked
him how he came to make such mis-
take and he replied.
Why don't ye know, l supposed the
car and everything in it had been smash
to bits. / never did have luck nohow in
these railroad smash-ups.'
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-26
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS
WASHINGTON.

The copyright business continued 10
increase IN all its branches The appre-
gate entries for 1885 was 2S,4ll. The
system of international exchanges of
official publications has proved unsuccess.
full, is the returns for the valuable pub
locations sent out have been meagre.
The appointment of special agent of
international exchanges is recommended.
MISS IDA f. HowGArE the daughter of
Captain Bowgate, of signal service bureau
embezzlement fame, has been appointed
to clerdship in the treasury department
under civil service rules. Miss Howgate
passed the highest examination in her
class. She is graduate of yassar col.
lege and is highly esteemed by friends
and associates.
A number of private citizens of this
city have completed preliminary arrange
ments for grand national competitive
drill of citizen soldiers, to be held in
Washington during the last week in May,
1887, the ceremonies of the week to close
with general gathering of soldiers from
all the states at Arlington on Decoration
Day. Already 100000 has been pledged
to be spent in prizes and novel badges of
honor, souvenirs, etc.
AN officer of the United States army,
sent by General Mackenzie to investigate
the army of Mexico, reports standing
force of 10000 men, divided between for
great military districts. Ten new bat
teries of field guns have oflate years been
imported from France There is fac
tory for small arms near the capital. The
officers come from the National Military
School at Chapultepec, and the rank and
file are the lowest of the poems. The food
supply is the simplest in the world.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-26
GENERAL NOTES.

THE Canadian steamer, Francis Smith
was seized at Mackinac island for yiolat
ing the customs laws.
A RICH ore belt is reported to have been
discovered near Liyermore, Alameda
county, Cal.
The Wisconsin State Pharmaceutical
association closed is convention at Fond
du Lac Thursday. Officers we're elected
and Milwaukee chosen as the next place
of meeting.
CHOLERA is sweeping of hogs by the
hundred in the vicinity of Shelbyviile,
Ill. A farmer named Scone has two left
ont Of sixty
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-26

temptation beyond the capabilities of
most women.
A coquettisn corsage-front hes piece
of lace beginning at the shoulder-seam
and rounding about the arm-size and
over the chest to the seam under the arm
TO simulate a short Zouave jacket. This,
with the narrow Moliere vest of lace be-
meath the regular dress waist, makes an
airy and becoming corsage decoration for
summer evening toilets of mauve, surah,
primrose silk or satin foulard.
A graceful fla shion of arraying a four
eau shirt is to make it open up the seams
to any height desired, and lace the
breadtes together with silk cord. This
is very beautiful in pale rose satin over a
plisse of tenderest gFeen. The basque
of such gown should have long points
front and back, and be laced behind ths
bodice, opening in square down the
front, the pink satin sleeves slashed over
puffs of green satin.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-26
How 10 Tell When Person Is Dead.
Lt.nr,, -, M.ai..uI n "A StlrrrinnI DnnnrtnI


While we are decidedly in favor of
cremation, we do not admit that the fear
of being buried alive should be a reason
to cause us to reject burial and to adopt
cremation. There are two simple tests
by which we can always convince our
selves whether person Is really dead or
not. One test is the same that has been
crowned with prize by the French gov
eminent. which had for years offered a
large reward for the discovery of any
method, always applicable, always reli-
able, and one that may be practiced by
the most ignorant. The method of de-
termining the actual death which was
considered by the French government as
being worthy of reward is tho following
When the fingers of a person who Is
supposed 70 be dead are fully extended,
front of candle light in a dark room, a
peculiar bright color, due TO the capillary
circulation, will be visable where the fin
gers touch each other, if there is any life
left
The other is based upon the well known
fact that that the muscles of human be-
ing will never respond for a longer time
TO the strongest electrical current than
for one hour and a half after death;
while as long as life lasts, may its evil
dence be ever so little, the contractility
of the muscles, if not affected 10y some
forms of paralysis--and in cases thus
affected. when death seems to occur, it is
always real -remains.--
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-26

CoLoRED citizens of Philadelphia have
organized to aid in raising funds to erect
monuments TO the bsnefactors of their
race on the capitol grounds at Washing
ton. The monuments will be in honor of
John Brown, William Lloyd Garrison,
Charles sumner, Wendell Phillips, Abra-
ham Lincoln, RichUrd Allen and others
1t is estimated that the monuments will
cost about 81 100000.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-26
How TO Kill The Blues.
Prof Mathews.


Generally speaking, if you are troubled
with "the blues" and cannot tell why.
you may be certain that it springs from
physical weakness. Instead of lying on
a sofa and counting painful ideas, if you
are a despairing lover, hypochondriac
or a valetudinarian, you should be up and
stirring Yourself. The blood of melan-
choly man is thick and slow, creeping
sluggishly through his veins, like muddy
waters in canal; the blood of your mer-
ry, chirping philosopher is clear and
quick, brisk as newly preached cham
payne, Try, therefore, to set your blood
in motion Try, rather, what a smart
walk will do for you; set your pegs in
motion on rough, rocky ground, or hurry
them up steep, dragged hill; build a
stone wall, swing an axe over pile of
hickory or rock-maple, turn grindstone,
dig bitches, practice ground and lofty
tumbling," pour water into sieves with
the Danaides, or, with Sisyphus' "up the
high hill heave huge round stone;" in
short, do anything that will start the per
SEPARATION, and you will soon cease to have
your brains lined with black, as Burton
expresses it, or to rise in the morning, as
Cowper did, like an internal frog out of
Acheron, crowned with the ooze and mud
of MELANCHOLY
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-26

The southern and southeastern portions
of the city of Galveston were yesterday
inundated and considerable damage done
by violent easterly gale.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-26

THERE were~46l failures reported IN
the United States for the past week and
% for Canada or a total of 1856.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-26

The firm of Judsen d Co.. Chicago
carpet dealers, made an assignment yes
terday. Liabilities S150,O5O; assets
S134,577.3G.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-26

The British steamer Aberdeen, ladened
with 3, 500 tons of tea, foundered while
leaving the China sea. The fate of the
crew is unknown.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-26

Ir you listen attentiyely to the ticking
of a watch there will be intervals when
the sound becomes inaudible These
come every few moments. 1t is said to
be because of the inability to keep the
attention fixed steadily and not because
the watch-sounds grow faint.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-26

THE jury in the anarchist case at Chi
cago, on Friday rendered verdict that
all Of the defendants were guilty of
murder except Neebe, who was given 10
years.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-26

JOHN Roach, the ship builder, has so
far recovered from his recev illness as
TO au ain assume business.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-26

TINS is the first year in which there
will no "October election in Ohio. Last
year constitutional amendment was
ratified by the voters changing the time
tor holding the annual state election from
October TO November.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-26

Tnr Current, Chicago's literary publ.
cation founded by Edgar L. Wakeman
appears this week with the name OF A. T.
Davis as president and manager About
year ago when Wakeman left very I'M
cermoaiously Davis is said to have come
to the rescue of the publication and saved
it from complete failure.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-26

The eccentric girl who sits on the beach
at Sea Girt alone or wanders in the WOODS
and doesn't seem TO know Q soul IN ne
house.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-26

AMONG the things occupying the atten-
ton of the American Society of Micro
scopists at Chautauqua are germs of by
drophobia matter from the intestnes of
one of the victims of the Greedy arctic
expedition, living bacterina, sections of
embryo chickens, and numerous other
equally pleasing exhibitions One side
shows crystals of butter supposed to be
100 years old. Other attractions include
sections of the tongue of a cat showing
trichina, cloth over four thousand years
old, kidney of a rattlesnake, the gizzard
of cricket, bacillus of Asiatic cholera
traverse sections of a 'possum's tail, an
infants lung, crystals of goose fat, the
brain of a cockroach, lancet of tleRs, etc,
besides the Lords prayer engraved on
glass III the 10000 part of nm inch or
on the same scale that would take the
whole Bible / ITO times ON square
inch.
IHE whole of southern California,
which Is in any manner useful for agri-
cultural purposes, consists of valleys Of
fertile lands between the mountains
whore irrigation can be successfully car.
ried on. The San Gabriel Valley, the
pride of southern California, and per
haps the most beautiful valley on the
continent, commences at Los Angeles
and extends over thirty miles between
the spurs of the Sierra Madre Mountains
and the Santa Anna Valley; which also
runs up TO near Los Angeles, and extends
for about thirty-hye miles bslow. The
land Of these valleys are worth $500 per
acre for purely agricultural purposes.
because the lands can be successfully ir-
rigated by water brought down from the
surrounding mountains
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-26

Traveller to ticket agent -Gimme a
ticket to New Brunswick. Agent The next
train doesn't stop at New Brunswick. 1t
goes through that town at fifty miles an
hour, Traveller That suits me. I've
umpired too many games of ball between
the New Yorks and Chicagos to be afraid
70 get OFF a train that's only jogging
along at fifty miles an hour.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-26
A Tried Remedy for Piifonsnes,.

Those who suffer from disorders or inscton Of
the liyer will never get the upper hand Of the
unruly organ so long as they use such irrationa,
remedies as blue pill, calomel and podophylift
But from the tried and popular medicine, Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters, they may expect relief
with a certainty Of obtaining it. The influence or
the Bitters upon the great hillary gland is direct
powerful and speedily felt. The relief afforded
Is not spasmodic, but complete and permanent,
The sallovness Of the skin, furred appearance OF
the tongue, Indigestion, costiveness, headache,
nausea pains through the right side and shout
der, in fact every accompaniment Of the obSti
nate complaint are entirely and promptly remov.
ed by course Of this inestimsble medicine ~
behalf Of which testimony Is constantly em nat
society
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-26

OPTICAL information of the desire Of
Geronimo TO surrender has been received
at the war department at Washington,
Geronimo is sharper than his would-be
captors. He lets them chase him about
until he is tired and his resources are ex-
hausted then he surrenders and takes
rest and when tne spirit moves him and
ne is seized with that mate desire to roam
the mountains and scalp the pale face
rarcher, never the bold, daring soldier
for he is not there, he sallies forth, when
the vigilaut guards are not looking, and
sets himself free to kill and plumber.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-26

IT is said that the new stamp letter
sheet about to be issued by the Post Office
department promises to be of great con
yepience. It is a letter sheet with the
narrow place outside overspreGd with
mucilage, SO that the sheet may be folded
and securely fastened; The letter ready
for mailing resembles the style in use be-
fore envelopes were invented. This the
government stamp in loose sheets and
collectively in pads, and it will be put on
sale soon at the leading postotlices
throughout the country. As it can be
produced at a very low figure and affords
the same security that an envelope does,
it is expected to take the place, to great
extent of the postal card
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-07-30
WILL SHOW UP.

Prominent Citizen contemplates . Sur
prise for Chicago Detectives.
I'm going to Chicago to show my.
SEN. said conspicuous, laxative pas
senger to a crowd of listeners in the
smoking car. What for? Well, Ill
tell you. 'Tain't because I'm proud OF
my personal appearance, though folks
do say I'm man that likely to attract
attention in crowd. You see, there
five or six men up in Chicago who have
been looking for me for a month. at
least. so have heard. Why they haven't
found me is more than can imagine.
live only fifty miles from Chicago, IN q
right smart of town. I'm quite prom
inent citizen, too. There amt nobody
down my way that don't know me. NV
name is frequently in the papers. There
isn't conductor or brakeman on the
railroad who doesn't know me oy sight,
and most of 'em to talk to. Yet these
Chicago fellows haven't been able to
find me. l haven't any idea on earth
what they want to see me about, but
I'm going up to Chicago to show my.
self Just for fun
.'WhO are these fellows who have
been looking for you?'
''City hall detectives. "-CAicago He"
aid
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-07-30
ROUGH FEED NEEDED.
The Only System Of Feeding Which In.
sures Complete Digestion.

The Only System Of Feeding Which In
sures Complete Digestion.
All domestic animals need rough feed,
or '.stover," mixed along with the fine
food, hogs as well as the rest. In the
case of the Illuminating animals. it is
doubtful if grain or meal fed alone goes
to the first stomach at all. Alarge ma
jority of the experiments made to deter
mine this point, clearly show that fine
foods do not. to any material extent, go
to the first stomach when fed to cattle
alone: and if food does not go to the first
stomach, it can be only very imperfectly
iigested, since it escapes the macerating
process of the rumen, and being remas-
ticated and mixed with the saliva. How
true this is every large feeder of cattle,
in the West ut least, must know. A large
proportion of the kernels of corn eaten
BY the animals is found in their drop
pings, some whole. others broken. but
all indigested. If they had passed into
the first stomach they would have been
raised and remasticated. and certainly
would not have escaped this process
scarcely broken. So it is when meal is
fed. 1t passes into the third and fourth
stomachs. mass of dough. into which
he gastric juices can not penetrate. 1t
true that the muscular contractiops of
the stomach will give gentle motion to
the dough: but this will make it more
compact rather than of character that
the gastric juice can operate freely
upon il. If. however, we mix this meal
with cut straw or hay. the mixture will
90 to the first stomach. and will, of
course. be remasticated, while the bits
of straw or hay will allow the gastric
juice to circulate through the mass and
insure complete Observation-Disclosures
pnsf
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-07-30
RAcHEL'S CUPIDITY.
How the Great Jewish Actress Solicited
Valuable Gifts.

How the Great Jewish Actress Solicited
Valuable Gifts.
Rachel, the famous tragedienne, was
as avaricious as she was gifted. On
one occasion she was invited to dine at
the house of . wealthy Partisan who
worshipped her genius. Observing a
magnificent boquet of flowers that
adorned the center of the table she ex-
claimed: "How lovely"
Pardon. mademOiselle," said her
host with true French gallantry, '.per-
mettez moi de rous presenter cela," at
the same time lifting the flowers out of
the massive silver vase in which they
rested.
..But. monsieur" said Rachel, twas
the vase that admired"
'.PdrJ0itment, c'est rous Gussi.
(this is yours also)" said the ever-polite
host
When the repast was finished she
asked her friend to send her home in
his own carriage, as she was afraid
some one might rob her of her silver
vase if she returned in q public cab.
He assented readily, but rs he handed
her into the vehicle he said imploringly:
''You will at least return my carriage,
will you not. mademoiselle"
1t may be presumed that the coach
came back.-Teras SittiHgs.