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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-08-19
AmERI'1AN ASSOCIATION.

AT DETROIT.
Detroit, s; St. Louis, 4. uff.s
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-20

weapon, and bill, piece of money: there
is bill, an article over which legislatures
debate, and bill, claim for payment of
money; besides bills of exchange, bills of
lading, and so forth. But Chinese is full
of such words of a single syllable, yen,
for instance, which, like bill, means very
many different things. So they choose a
number of little pictures, and agree that
these shall be used as keys" Each key
means that the sign or signs near which
il stood belonged to some large, general
set of things, like things of the vegetable,
mineral or animal kingdom, forests,
mines, or seas, air, or water, or of per-
sons, like gods OF men. 1t was like the
game called throwing light, in which you
guess the article by narrowing down the
field until certain wha. it is.
But there Chinese writing stopped short.
thousands of years ago There it Is to-
day. There are now pa of these keys
and, by intense application, Cinnamon
learn to use their method with surprising
uuickness and success.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-20
Enrlx HISTORY Of stenm Power.

About $50 years b. c., Hero, of Alex
andria, formed a toy which exhibited
some of the powers of steam and was
moved by it's power.
A. ID. $50 Anthiemius, an architect, mr.
ranged several caldrons of water each
covered with a wide bottom of leather
tube which rose to a narrow top, with
pipes extended to the rafters of the ad-
Joining building. A fire was kindled be-
meath the caldrons and the house was
shaken by the efforts of the steam as
cending the tubes. I his is the first notice
of the power of steam recorded.
In l5l3, June Il, Blasco d. Garoy tried
steamboat of 2O9 tons with tolerable
success, at Barcelona, Spain 1t consisted
able wheel on each side of the ship. II
was laid away rs impracticable. A pres
eut, however, was made to Garoy.
In 1850 the first railroad was construct
ed at Newcastle-on-Tyne
The first idea of a steam engine in
England was in the Marquis of Worces
ter's Century of Inventions, A. d. 1868,
In l7lO Newcomer made the first steam
engine in England
In l7lS patents were granted to Slavery
for the first application eff the steam en-
CINE.
In 1864 James Watt made the first per
feet steam engine i'm England
In 1876 Jonathan Hulls set forth the
idea of steam navigation.
In 177S Thomas Paine first proposed
this application in America
In 1891 Marquis JouIroy constructed
one ON the Saoue.
In 1855 two Americans published a work
ON it.
In 1889 William Tymmgton made a
voyage ia ooe ON tho Forth and Clyde
canal.
In 1So2 this experiment was repeated.
In l7s2 Ramsey propelled "a boat by
steam TO New York.
In l7S3 John Fitch, of Philadelphia,
noyigated d boat 10y steam on the Della
ware.
I In 1902 Robert Fulton first began to
apply his attention 90 steam, and soon
after the Clermont, the first really sue
ces~ful steamer, was plying ON the Hud-
SON.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-20
Born To Marry And Keep House.
Womnn's Journal.


The end of woman is to marry and
raise up a famaily. She starts out in this
direction when she carries doll in child
hood. Your girl who leaves home and
goes out for herself does so because she
has failed to find the man sne wants 10
marry. By and by she does find him and
when she does she drops everything and
goes with him. She stops short in her
music, her acting her art her literature
or whatever it is because after she follows
her instinct tells her to marry and she
follows her instinct instead OF her reason.
A man can marry and go ahead in the
particular pursuit or profession be has
chosen but the woman stops and subjects
everything 10 the one duty of wifehood.
That is the reason women do not sue
coed as well as men, They fall short.
Grant all this for the sake of argument.
Admit that it is the general mission of
woman to marry and raise upa family.
But | ara now writing about the excep-
tiOns. There are exceptions to all classes
all rules all theories and all PHILOSOPHERS.
Most women do mary young and that is
right That is as far as most of them
want to go, They are titetd for this sort Of
life and have no desire or fitness for an
other
But are you going to make one kind of
girl do this when it is strait jacket
and an abomination to her? In other
words is she to marry simply for the sake
of marrying, and "settle down simply
for the sake of settling down: Why not
allow her to follow her natural bent as
well as the young mans True, she may
as my obiector says find some man while
herself following a successful career whom
she will love ana whom she will marry,
thus cutting short work that might
otherwise have been rounded and made
complete. True woman are not rs com
pletely successful as men in the more IN
dependent pursuits of life. But the point
which / wish TO make clear and emphatic
is that society and the woman herself.
and the man she marries and all directly
or remotely concerned are the better for
her having done even something for her
self however little.
repeat that the self-reliaut woman is
civilizer. The busy world is improved
\ by her having been q participation, her
words are gentle and kind and her pres
I ence is restraint to the headloug i'm
petuusity of men. Even though she may
not remain long with us single let us be
. thankful that she come at all. If she
falls in love and marries even at the sac
rifce of an independent career her life
.aftcr all is not in vain. Her own view,
have been broadened her sympathies
have been deepened her capacity for en-
Y ioyment made greater and her scope for
usefulness widened. | say again and
again let the ambitious girl see what She
can do for herself,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-20
swopped the Offices for Drinks.
Pi.ttbureh Times.

A well known Pittsburgher Of orthodox
republican PRINCIPLES, while in Washing
ton recently on business with the patent
office, was taking in the town one after
noon with his attorney, when the latter,
at loss for new diversions to offer his
guest, abruptly said; Lets call on the
president
IN go with you" said the Pittsburgh
er. and to the white house they went.
They were received by Col. Lamont
and the attorney said to the president
priy7Fre CT tary; 1--WE are from Owenton
XIV. and would like to see President
Cleveland about two appointments we ap-
piled for some time ago"
leave your cards. said Col. Lamont
stifiy, "and call again tomorrow. The
president Is attending cabinet council.
ooh, l guess we won't trouble to call
again" said the murcurial Pittsbargher
I'm tell you what wen do, colonel. Wen
Just swop off those offices for the drinks.
Col. Lamont ubent and smilingly re
piled Agreed l wish l could get rid OF
all office seekers as easily
The Pittsburgher says Col. Lamont
knows what good whiskey is
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-20
SQlIBS

The ccntcnuiaI ccIebrntion of Inc Town
of Dennysvire. Me-. occurs Nav II.
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There is sWd TO he more money i'm the
small hard CLAIMS now caugh' IN Oyster
bay, u. u" harhors than IN oystory.
ne hrSt contest between the Harvard
ana columbia FRESHMAN crews took place
m 1851. or the races rowed since then
harvard has won four and Columbia
Two.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-20
maxwell IN THE DOCK
Arthur Preiler's Alleged Murderer
Placed on Trial for His Life
in st. Louis.
A .Jurv Now Being lmpaneled Reclt-
inc the Famous Trunk Mys-
terry Of the Southern
Hotel.

ST.. LOUIS, Mo. May 14,-"Bring in the
prisoner" said Judge Vanwagoner OF the
criminal court, at noon tO-dGy. mo
ment later Hugh NJ. Brooks, alias Max
well, escorted by two deputies, walked
nervously down the aisle and took seat
within the bar, and the trial of the noted
prisoner began. He was dressed neatly,
and within a moment or two after his en-
trance had regained his usual composure.
The court room was crowded. A special
Jury panel of 30 men had been summon
ed, and the examination of jurors was the
first work of the attorneys. Messrs. Mar
tin and FauntlerOy appeared for the
prisoner. The examination of jurors
will be very rigid, and two or three days
may be consumed before the twelve are
chosen. The circuit attorney, who has
prepared the case for presentation, has
made il appear very strong on paper; but
the question arises, will he be able to get
in all the little scraps of evidence to
make the chain OF circumstances com
plete.
The story of the crime has been read by
nearly every one On the morning of
April A. 1885, the body of Charles Arthur
Preler. of London, England, was found
badly decomposed in a trunk in room IA
of the Southern hotel. The room was the
one that had been occupied by Maxwell
Every circumstance seemed to point to
the murder of Preler by Maxwell. Preller
disappeared Sunday, Anril 3, and Mon
day Maxwell was spending money freely,
although he had none before, and at 6
O'Clock that evening nc paid his bill and
left, saying that his friend Preller had
gone into the country for few days. All
these and many other facts fastening sus-
picion ON Maxwell, he was followed TO
San Francisco, whittier he had gone UNI
ner tho names of Hugh NJ. Brooks, and
Theodore Cecil d'Auguer, q French colo
mel, and thence TO New Zealand, where he
was after many formalities captured and
brought back He was two days out on
the ocean before the pursuit began. At
ter his return Maxwell admitted that he
was Hugh NJ. Brooks, but made no admis
sion of his guilt. He has been in jail now
nine months
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-20

reply, the drummer asked the farmer to
ride. The latter got in the buggy, and as
soon az he was seated the young man
pulled out his flask and asked his new
made friend to imbibe. 1t was declined.
and the proffered cigar elected the re-
Spouse that he neither drank liquor nor
smoked nor chewed tobacco. To this the
sharp young man rejoined by ayowing
his belief that there never was a man but
what was addicted to some of the vices.
Meeting with no contradiction on this
topic, he inquired of the stranger if he
knew Mr.. Smith and his standing in the
community.
Yes" replied he, Il know him very
well, and | think he is quite fair with his
townsmen.'
He's well booked up, amt hep
We'll, he owns one of the best farms in
the town, and he prides himself on his
stock"
He has a daughterW
eyes, three of them
"Well, | mean the one that is at school
in ? l have met her and am invited
by her to call and spend the evening""
"Ah, is that so: She is an excellent
girl
/ intend to do my level best to marry her
and get share of the old mans money
to set me up IN business Don't you think
that a bright business idea?"
well as l said, she is good girl and
one Il at loves her father dearly and obeys
him III everything. You could not obtain
her hand without the fathers consent"
'I'll see about that. I'd give more to
obtain the daughters than the old mans
consent" replied the impetuous but I'M
discerning young fellow
At this moment they were approaching
stately farm house, and as they reached
its front the farmer said: II live here,
and viii get out, if you please
The commercial man gently halted the
trotters, and as the old gentleman gently
reached the ground, he said to him:
Now, how much further is it to Mr..
Smiths:"
II am Mr. Smith, sir" replied the
farmer, sternly, "and you can drive on,
for ! will not permit you to step on my
premises"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-20
something. Chinese.

Chinese is queer language, All ITS
words are only one syllable long But the
sounds in the Chinese language are not
very many, some 465 at most, and their
written language contains about eight
thousand pictures, each picture repre-
senting a thing or idea. And these pic
lures must be committed to memory.
This Is hard work, and not even the wlsest
Chinese professor can learn them all But
now comes a difficulty. For OF course,
where there are so many words and 50 few
sounds. many different words have to he
called by the same sound. How, then, are
they 10 ten. when several different things
have exactly the same name, which OF
them is meant
We have such words. For instance
there is Bin, the name of boy; and blll.
the beak Of a bird there il bill, an old
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-20

Hero-worshipers have n better time of
it than the heroes who have TO submit to
their worship. The latter Including all
distinguished mem are largely at the class
of admirers who are to obtuse Co see any
violation of good manners or taato in
their pursuit of interviews and autographs.
William Warren tells a delicious story
about St. Louis man who went east last
summer and hunted up the poet Whittier.
lie found the quiet old Quaker poet try
ing to hide from civilization in a farm
house near Nahant. lie had gone there
to escape just such borcs as the st. Louis
man was.
AT first he declined to see the visitor,
saying that he was not feeling strong, but
the Missouri man was so persistent that
at last Whittier yielded, and he was ad-
mitted. He pounced upon the poet and
nearly shook his arm from the socket.
He declared that he adored the poets
works In fact, he read nothing else.
He asked Whittier to write his name Il
few hundred times ON a sheet of note
paper that he might distribute the auto
graphs among his friends, and it was all
the poet could do to keep the impetuous
visitor from cutting the buttons from his
coat Go carry away as mementos.
And all the time said Whittier pa
Electrically as he told his adventure. "he
called mo Whitaker
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-20
In The Sick room


Elizabeth Robinson Scovil in Good Housekeeping
thermometer is indispensable in the
sick-rOom and the temperature should be
carefully regulated by its indications. An
open fire is the best ventilatOr when it can
be had sometimes this is impossible, then
the nurse must exercise her ingenuity with
the means at her command. If there is a
fire place, a Lighted lamp can be set in it
in Summer when fire would make the
room too warm When the room is heat
ed by a register or a coil of hot water
pipes, or a close stove, metal dish filed
with boiling water and put where it will
keep hot will moist Il the atmosphere by
the steam it gives off. A window should
be arranged to open an inch or two at the
top and a strip of baize, or coarse flannel,
tackled over the aperture. To admit a
constant supply of fresh air with no
draught A screen can be placed between
the window and the bed if the cool air
strikes directly upon it. The proper
temperature at which the room should be
kept varies with the nature of the illness.
1t is lower for fevers than for diseases of
the chest and throat, and in some cases,
as rheumatism, may be governed by the
I feelings Of the patient. The wards of a
general hospital are kept at 6S degrees.
/ 1t must be remembered that a person in
bed does not take cold unless exposed to
strong draught, or violent changes of
! temperature, or the body being suddenly
cooled by throwing aside the bed-clothes.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-20

Providence journal: 4 story is told Of
a Boston doctor though ! do not know
upon what authority. Ina crowded church
the deacon with the contribution box made
his difficult way up the aisle and held That
receptacle for the cash Of the charitable,
suggesuvelv before the young man. II
am very sorry sir. the doctor sald' To the
infinite scandal and establishment ot all
about him. but the woman with the PINK
bonnet has taken my purse and ] can
have her arrested until after service, 50
You'll have To wait.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-20
The Seal Of The Senate.
Baltimore American.

Mr.. Edward Stabler, Jr., of this city,
son of the late engraver and postmaster
at Sandy Springs has in his possession
the correspondence relating to the history
of the existing seal. A few days ago the
committee on rules at Washington made
a careful search of the journal and arch
ives but failed to discover the history of
the seal or any authority for its use, In
the package of letters in the possession
of Mr.. Stabler it is stated that Edward
Stabler postmaster at Sandy Springs, Nd
from 1928 until his death in 1883, engrav-
ed the seal about 1881. The device was
designed by r. Z. Lamplier, IT,, French
artist. theu resident of Washington.
Mr., Wagner a wood engraver of York Pa
in letter to the elder Stabler i'll 1881
says: The seal of the senate is not what
it il ought to be for the money 1t cost.
The figures are very awkward and espec-
tally the middle one, which appears to be
falling over. The drapery is very stiff
and of too scanty a pattern. No one has
vet ever discovered what the figures We're
intended to typify or what relevancy they
have to the United States or its proceed
ings. Mr.. Stabler has a large collection
of seals made by his father for govern
ment department at Washington and
for states and courts.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-20
ALoyer Of Nature.
Rambler

Native to tourist who is standing rapt
in contemplation of an enormous rock
l see, sir, you re charmed by Sunset Rock
and | don't W, nder. II is considered one
of the most picturesque objects in TINS
part of the country.
Tourist II is glorious glorious!
Native What point do you particularly
admire:
Tourist The face of the rock. Itawes
me with its grandeur.
Native It would make a good picture
Could you paint it.
Tourist Z was just thinking of that
II is Just the kind of surface on which %
inscribe. Boxes Bullion Bitters 80 cents
a bottle" / never saw anything offering
a better opportunity!
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-20
on Importance to Il. \. Pensioners.

Mrs Mulligan, pension agent at Chicago,
has received official notice of the final
approval of the act of March 10, 1856.
commonly known as tho widows bill.
Under tho provisions of this act all
widows, whether army, navy, or 1872,
minor children and dependent relatives,
whose names appear on the rolls of the
agency at less rate than So, will Toe in
creased To that rate from the 10th of
March, 1886. Pensioners should send
their vouchers in as usual as all necessary
changes will he made at the agency dur
ing the june payment. General Black
has adopted this method in order to save
the pensioners extra expense. The fol
lowing number ON the Chicago rolls will
be benefited by this act: Army Widows,
with children 6S3; widows, without chill
dreu, 2,G99; MINORS pa mothers, 1852,
fathers, 267; widows Of 1872, 5s2; total.
Clio Navy Widows with children, IL;
widows without children, 60. minors, 3.
mothers, IS; fathers, - total,l5i.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-20
Joking Justices.
Nasu Work Herald

Among the latest bon mots ascribed to
Chief Justice Waite, who it will be re-
membered, administered the oath of
Office to President Cleveland, is the de-
claration that legal objection may be
urged against the coming marriage.
Il ne president took an oath TO support
the constitution, you know the chief
Justice is reported to have remarked.
Certainly was the reioinder
Very well. The constitution pre-
scribes his compensation. and declares
that it shall not be increased or deminish-
ed during the period for which he shall
have been elected, and that he shall not
receive within that period any other
emoulmeut from the United States or any
of them Those are words believe
said the chief justice.
Yes YOU have quoted them exactly
Then is it not clear that $4,000 Is the
full sum for him, and no other:'
The patient listener died Of shock, II Is
believed.
Associate Justice Gray. who Is bache-
Tor and is not credited with matrimonial
aspirations. has since ruled on the opin-
ion uttered by his chief. He asserts that
a wife can not be classcd as an emolument
OF compensation, but quite the reverse.
From his point of view. he asks that an
exception to the chief Justices dictum be
noted in the presidents favor.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-20

No said bankrupt merchant sadly
advertising doesn't pay l -ried 1t lu7'
before I failed. so I know what I'm tax
ING about. "What newspaper did you
advertise ing" Not any newspaper.
{ pasted five hundred dodgers on a barn
lust out of town. and I'm sinner i 2
windstorm that same night did't scatter
that barn over ten acre COW pasture
Don't talk to me about advertising.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-20

The Dominion criminal statistics re-
Gently published. show that Manitoba is
the most criminal Of the provinces, there
being one indictable offence foI each ESQ
of the population charged with crime.
Convictions in Manitoba were forty-seven
in 1881
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1886-09-03
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

The thickness OF. tho carth's crust Is
believed by Monsieur Faye, the French
geologist to be greater under oceans than
beneath continents, because tho earth's
hcat has always radiatcd more freely
there.
Salts of copper-usually regarded, as
very poisonous-havc been administered
by French chemist to dogs aud rabbits
without serious effects, either from large
doses or from long continued regular
use Of tho substances.
SurvcyD made during the past two
years have shown that the river Rhone
has cut for itself channel in the bottom
of Lake Geneva, through which it flows,
between parallel banks, like IN ordinary
stream OIL the enrth's surface. The Rhine
makes similar passage through Lake
Constance.
An instructive display ut the newly
opened colonial exhibition in London is
thnt of the rico of India, which includes
ten thousand different varieties, all be.
longing to NJ single specics. All colors
nre represented, from black to pale yel.
low and white. Two species of wild
rico are known, only ono of which close
ly resembles tho cultivated varieties.
On tho Trans Caspian railroad in Rus
sin, now aprro aching Mcrv, it ia claimed
that about $500 per mile is being saved
by the uso of ozokerite, or mineral wax,
for ties. When purified. melted and
mixed with limestone and gravel, the
ozokoritc, which iB' abundant in tho vi
entity of the railroad, produces very
good asphnt. This ia pressed into shape
III boxca, and gives tics which retain
their form and hardness in the hottest
weather
Tho botanic gardens OF tho world, most
OF thom scientific in character, aro re-
ported to number 10T, OF which Ger
mnny hns 81, Italy %, France 20, Grea,
Britain and Ireland 12, West Indies six
and the United States five. Moro thar
half aro supported by government and
only five per cent. by private enterprise.
A novel locomotive Ia to DO built for
trial on ono Of tho French railroads Soc
ing that big driving wheels wcro good
for speed, tho inventor proposes to build
n locomotive with six coupled wheel,
8 Id feet in dIamcteg, Tho tender and
coaches nrc to have wheels of tho samo
dimensions, and the calculation Ia that
with such n train speed Of from 70 te
78 miles an hour cnn bc obtnincd.