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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-05-03
HONEST BARGAINS

III all kinds Of boots aud shoes for
spring -na Skinner wear P-aaaI-
legJn's Shoe Store
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-05-03

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New TRAIN; HUREAH!-A long
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last to be realized by the putting on
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-05-03

ular and efficient clerk Of the circuit
court Miss Noble is o young lady,
beautiful and accomplished.
Mr. J. H. Ford has commenced
preparatory work for the erection OF
o hardware store on his lot immedi-
ately south of Messrs. Bell & Johns
business house The building alto
gether will be one hundred feet in
length, the main parJ two stories
high, seventy feet long and twenty
four feet wide.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-05-03


MoNAuAN's wit: "Fish are being
caught-takiug the fishers word for
it-that are longer than the average
fishing pole". "The small onion
has become so scarce that It's worth
is priced above rubies "rhe
lmid glare Of the ice cream trans
parency will soon illumine the shad
ows of uightfaIl." "Sprlag hair
cutting has begun This custom is
synchrouous with grape vino trim
ming "Spring gardens and
spring chickens don't grow Well
together. II tho experiment is tried
the garden crop will grow into the
chickens CROP, "Fhe country
roads during the present month will
be good, bad and Indifferent, de-
pending entirely on the day Of the
week in which you travel over them"
...."If you wish to keep your wife
from spending too much on kid
gloves, buy her diamond ring.
This advice does not apply 10 news.
paper men or type stlokors."
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-05-03

ssre1etal Department.
..s frthp accommodation of those who
fn AM way. those who have lost
.,..rsb.e property, and for those who
ny exchange. Limit, twenty-five
gsf Insertion FREE, and Tor each IN
...-aafter twcuty-iiV cents
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-05-03

.rrD-ra rent house. For particu-
y ''-'..-a of 4. NJ. Grouse, at PulfOrds
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-05-03

Mr.. n IL. Hayth drove his
thoroughbred horse Quicksilver TO
Milwaukee two weeks ago. lie was
three days and Q half getting there,
and sold his horse without any trou-
bic for $500 -$l1j more than he
could get in ShullsbUrg He is
greatly pleased with tho success of
his trip and is inclined TO try that
market agalu.-Sh5}}SbvG L0ca{.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-05-03

REFRESHMENTS handed in later
Wednesday cannot receive at
.9r .lat week.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-05-03

SHIPPERS, slippers, walking shoes,
all kinds of low cut goods, an end
less variety, nc very low prices, at
PenhalleGon's.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-05-03

DELLER is determined to so out of
business and he therefore offers his
stock o, dry goods at cost prices.
A good chance TO buy goods cheap.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-05-03

PURE tea, coffee and spices at
Hendra's.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-05-03

LARGE quantities Of potatoes are
being brought into market this
spring and are selling readily at A.
to 50 cents a bushel, bringing al
most as much as wheat 1t would
seem that they ere about the most
profitable crop . farmer can raise
and hold over during tie winter for
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-05-03
,,,.-g1L POINT MARKET.

, ara the highest that are
-l .rf going to press.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-05-03

THE suggestion of the name of
Joseph Treat of Monroe as sue
cessor to Congressman La Toilette
Is bringing out newspaper argu-
ments enough in favor of retaining
a satisfactory representative to indi-
cate that Wisconsin's youngest
member has strong hold upon the
press and presumably the people of
his district.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-05-03

gp the bold ad. of Church, the
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-05-03

While the Darlington Republican
is congratulating its readers beause
they are not afflicted with shake
rag-under-the-hill," it might put to
better use the space in apologizing
for the wretched and senseless poet
ry it has been thrusting upon its
readers. Jim your no poet; do catch
on to the fact before it is too late
for redemption.
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LGeIt Z. E. Spinner IN .IacssguCilie (FIa) Times
UaiOH.}

LGeJi. T. e. Spinner in .IuctSgHCilie (FIa) Times
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You are quite right In regard to the origin
Of the pestal currency When all the silver
had been paid out Of the Treasury of the United
States early in 1862 l procured from the Post
Office Department quantities Of postage stamps
for the purpose OF making change-my recoI-
lection now is that at that time five and ten
cent stamps were the only kinds in use So. to
facilitate the making of change. | had the
stamps pasted OF slips of paper so as To make
p and 80 cents. This was done after an agree
meut with Mr. Montgomery Blair, the then
Postmaster-General, that he would redeem
them in that condition ia postage stamps Ii
was soon found that this mode of procedure
was impTaeticable.
then persuaded the Postmaster General to
procure the engraving and printing of fac
Smiles OF the postal compound postage stamps.
These the Treasury bought from the Postmas-
teT-Geaeral under an agreement that the Post.
office Department would redeem them. This
was what was called postal currency" and is
the kind you inquire about in your letter
Inclosed herewith you will find a sample OF
this kind OF currency. You will notice that il
was made redeemabe in postage stamps only.
The PostniasteT-G General soon became tired oil
the additional care, responsibility and labor
that the Issuing and redemption of this cur.
Teucy threw upon his Office and he urged that
the Treasury should relieve him from it.
then procured the passage Of a law by Congress
for the printing of a currency which would
represent the fractions of the dollar These
were engraved and printed in denomination.
OF 3. D. 10, 10, p and 80 cent notes, and in con
/ tradistiucli0n TO the postal currency wer,
/ called fractional currency, and were receivabl,
! Tor all Government dues.
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FOR THE LADIES

- Many short Jackets have waistcoats Of fur.
,-Corduroy is again used sparingIy in some of
the new combination dresses.
- Velvet underslirts are again fashionable, with
draperies Of serge or camel hair.
- Chantilly lace walls are again fashionable hut
make the handsomest women look as If they had
been tatt0oed.
- Persian lambslzin is the most fashionable
black fur Of the season, and is muck used in COM
binaiiun with seal.
-DreclOire coats made of brocade will be worn
with accordeon-peated skirts OF China silk or
crepe. The coat is usually Of a contrasting color
The hustle dies hard. Despite all contumely
heaped upon il, il Is still extant. With the styles
now IA vogue, however, only the smallest tour
nures permissible and even they must be worn
with tact IN order not to appear hideous.
- A pretty dress for young lady of IS has a
skirt OF plain gray woOlen material open at the
side, showing a simulated underskirt of check ed
stuff The check bodice has a gathered stomacler
OF the plain material aud the sleeves are finished
with tuTnedup cuffs
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many billiard-balls ofmammoth size. Tied to the
backs OF older children, these shining white or
cofiee-coored heads were upturned to the burn
ing sun, and they wabbed about on their weak
necks as their little brothers and sisters ran
and screamed with laughter, or got down on all
fours and played their childish games. At
first the japanese child is thus completely
shaved. When it grows to the age of a certain
number of months ring of hair is allowed to
remain; then a tuft is added at the crown, and
the little wisps come out over the ears. When
it arrives at the age of manhood or woman
hood, its hair is combed in the peculiar styles
of the country, and these are as various as there
are cities in Japan.
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It was, however, far different from an Ameri-
can house. There were no chairs, no tables
and no stoves. We had no wbatnots nor pict-
ures and we looked in vain for bed The
kitchen had no range, and our dinners were
cooked on little square boxes of charcoal, each
of which was only large enough for single
dish. There was running water in the kitchen,
and this served as a refrigerator for the cooling
of our drinks and fruit. We had an amah
and cook The first wasour maid servant
and the other was a man. The amah was a
character; tall and straight, she evidently
thought herself very bright japanese. She
bumped her head upon the mating whenever
we entered the house, and got down on all
fours whenever she presented anything to Us.
She prepared the bath and kept the house clean,
buttoned my wife's shoes, and did the market
ing. She would have considered herself well
paid at 80 cents week, and have fed herself
The cook was dressed i'll japanese gown.
Neither could understand word of English.
Still we managed very well, and every day
brought new revelations.
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Puck has on its staff some industrious me-
ohanics, whose duty it appears to be to take up
old chestnuts, brush the cobwebs and dust OF
them and fix them over so as TO appear of re-
cent growing. Take this one in the last ISSUE
for example:
Mamma" said Etbelred, 81 heard papa
reading IN the paper the other day that bread
had gone up. and good many little boys and
girls didn't have enough 20 eat
Yes Ethelred; it is very sad"
"Wel, mamma / was thinking that You
could give the poor little boys my share OF
bread and butter, if-if you'd only give me
cake instead"
There is simply no telling how old that is.
A classic form of it is connected with the
French Revolution. When the starving people
were beginning the disturbances which led to
the overthrow of the monarchy one of the
young princesses is represented to have asked
what the trouble was.
They are starving; they have no bread"
was the answer.
why need they starve even if they don't
have bread?" she asked, Why can they not
eat cake?"
The logical result of disorderly living is a
disordered liver.
The coat of the stomach has an important
Office, but that does not make it an office coat.
Pack-AIways remove your hat, Algy, when
you salute a lady.
Algy-Eyen the boughs of the trees are made
bare now.
They are talking of "beef trust" now.
This is probably Of interest to those who buy
their meat on credit.
One wife Of James Nader, Mormon, has %
living children The law restricting these
men to one wife must be rigidly enforced
Think of the awful possibilities if Nader has as
many as Brigham Young.
Use Browns bronchial Troches for Coughs
Colds and All other Throat Troubles Pre-emi.
nenlly the best."-Rer. Henry Ward Beecler
No Feathers Holtlng in the Wing Of Friendship
[Puck
Mr. J. Parker-There are Trimble- Hawkins
and his wife. They are a handsome couple
aren't they?
| Miss Charity Ball-Oh, yes, they are quite
! distinguished looking; but do you know they
say that al home they quarrel scandalousy
( and, besides that, Mrs. TTimble-Hawkins absO
| lutely ueglects every household duty, and hel
| children are perfect disgrace!
Mr. J. PaTker-0h. You know her, then
Miss Charity Ball-SAes, indeed; I am be-
/ best friend!
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PRorEssIoNAL HAIRpREssER Ar MoRK.

combed by a professional hairdresser. She
may be semi-nude, but she goes on with her
work without blush, and she looks at you
wonderingly and perhaps smiles as you pass by
The addressing lisa long operation, and tits fair
TO presume that the young lady ~ proud of
il when finished. She does not wear a hat to
hide its beauties nor spoil its contour, and she
by no means combs it every day. She sleeps at
night on a pillow shaped something like the
sketch. 1t is a block of wood, with wad of
paper or cloth on top of it, and it fits into the
neck just under the ear. This raises the head
four inches off the ground and keeps the hair
from touching The girl, however, cannot roll
around, and she does not dare to turn her head
without care. / have tried these pillows and
find them very uncomfortable, and a lady
friend of mine who had her hair done up in
Japanese fashion, and wished to keep it so until
she could have her photograph taken, passed a
sleepless night in attempting to use one of these
pillows. The japanese woman's hair often
reaches to her feet, and it is probable that the
not using bonnets adds to its luxuriance. In
the combing it she uses wooden combs, and the
tools of hair dressing are many in Japan as
| they are IN America. There are japanese
| switches and Japanese hair-rats. There are
frames upon which the hair is dressed to make
! it look larger, and in a Japanese book | find
| representations of these which are so odd that
| the American girl might find ideas in them
| which would make her moro attractive.
The varieties of japanese hairdressing differ
with the locality. The Kiota girl wears her
| hair in another way from the beauty of Toxic
or Yokohama, and could ill this paper with
| the curious outline of heads cOmbed in differ
ent ways, each Of which, however, must be filled
in with almond eyes, cream -colored faces and
pretty, round, pudgy, fat noses, III order to ap'
preciate the picture. The Japanese nose, by the
way, the bete nOir of the maiden who aspres
| to foreis seauty. A Japanese belle told me
| yesterday BE- she did wish she had the large
| straight nose ol the American women she saw
Our noses," said she, "are so fiat and wide
at the nostrils. They are not beautiful"
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QUE JAPANESE HOWE.

seven rooms, seated in strictly Japanese gar
den. A big lantern stood beside the walk which
led to the front door, and a stream of rushing
water, crossed by rustic bridges, flowed just
in front of the house. The garden was far diff
ferent from an American yard. There was no
grass, and stubby trees grew in all the varying
shapes of japanese horticulture. Their limbs
were twisted in every direction by being tied
to bamboo rods and stretched this way and that
by strings. They looked just like the carving
on many bronze Japanse vase, and one of them
was a pine tree with limbs like an umbrella.
1t was wonderful how the ugliest of things was
turned into the beautiful. An old cedar stump
had branches trained to resemble q hat-raek.
The great rocks had been planted with moss,
and ferns grew on tree-stumps. One upright
boulder had been turned into a stone lantern
by putting carved ball and cap upon it, and
in another bushes grew, making very bed OF
green. There was ashrine at the right of our
pathway, and in this two sacred stone foxes
stood, and behind these gold image.
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From EVERYWHERE.

Young man" he said, as the former lowered
q bottle from his lips with sigh of content,
" you seem TO drink whisky with a good deal
of avidityn
4" No sir replied the young man, ''I always
drink il straight "-Ep0ch
Pater Familias-Why, Ethel! You don't
mean to tel me you want to marry that bald
headed Prof Wiseman?
Ethel-It IS true he is bald, but think how
many young men Of to-day are bald on the in
side Of their heads.-Tbe idea.
Mrs. Blinlzs-I see Mrs. Hull, the nurse who
took charge of ali the Queens babies is dead
Nr. Blinks-Poor old soul! Died of over
work, / suppose. Philadelphia Record.
." What sort Of labor is best paid in this coun-
try?" asked a visiting Englishman of an
American.
" Field labor" was the prompt reply.
- You surprise mel"
It's a fact. You ought to see the salaries
paid to cur baseball players. "P Pjts5urg Chroai-
cle
Old Lady dn shoe store)-Have you felt
slippers?
Small Boy Clerk (solemnly)-Yes, ma'am,
mauy time.-Terfs Haute Express.
Write to E. A. Armstrong, Detroit, Mich, for
-
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In order to tell your readers something of
the operations of Japanese home | rented a
furnished house at Irimachi. It was the pretti-
est little japanese cottage in the village, and
was owned by one of the wealthiest men of
the town. He had made fortune out of bean
candy, and he was turning out about 300 pounds
a day He had built this cottage for his bald
headed father, but the old man would not live
alone aud he had it for rent The village of
Irimachi is a nest of houses surrounded by
mountains. rushing river runs through it,
and gurgling waterfalls spout out of its many
hillsides. Our cottage was little beauty of
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10 b contiHucdl
RUMOR.
A CONFIDENCE MAN

sniggers-Brassy, it is true, has the utmost
confidence in himself.
Jiggers-Yes, that is true; it's all in him
self. none outside He is 50 full Of it that there
is none lef, for anybody else to put in him, and
no room Tor it If they had II to put in.
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Prosecuting Attorney Witness, what is your
name?
Witness-Sir, if you desire to know that get
some proper person TO present you.
Prosecuting Attorney-You must answer my
question; the law requires it.
Winess-Tben the law is a hateful, ill-bred
thing, with no idea of what is due lady NOV
ing in the best circles Of society.
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KIo, October %, 1888.
T is a question of hair," F"
was the remark made
to me the other day,
when ! asked a friend
as to the age of a child
who was passing. He
then pointed to the pc
culiar shaving of the
head, which had been
cleaned away in spots.
All of the hair above
the ears, with the ex-
ception of ring around
the crown, had been
shaved off. At the
crown itself there was
a bare spot the size of
a trade-dollar, and l
was told that this shay
ing was done every
morning. The Il e x t
child we met bad its
head entirely shaved,
with the exception of
two little wisps of hair
under the ears. A third
had a bang only, and
as for the babies we met,
the down was shaved
from their pates until
they looked like so
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The house and overhauging roofs, and the
wide corridor, which ran around it between the
outer and inner walls, was polished as brightly
as any lacquer you have ever seen. Its interior
was pure Japanese. The floor was three feet
from the ground, and the outer walls of the
house moved in grooves into box at one side
in the daytime, and we satand lived within the
interior walls of paper. These walls of paper
began three feet back from where the outside
walls ended. They moved in grooves also, and
we could slide them back so that the whole of
the beautiful surroundings of mountain and
valley. of rushing water and evergreen hills
were as open to us as though we sat outdoors.
These paper walls were beauties in their way.
A frieze of wooden fretwork lined with paper
extended round the ceiling aud came two feet
down until it met these paper walls The walls
were of white wood lattice of the most delicate
shape. They were in sections, each of which
was about three feet wide and six feet high,
and each of which contained lis square panes
of paper about two inches wide by four inches
long. The frames in which they stood were so
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Of the enemy, and were lost in a cloud
Of dust. In its runaway career one Of the
wagons knocked down some of our soldiers,
wouDdiug one seriously AID two or three
slightly. solid shot struck the house and
went completely through it, but aid no damage
to any one, rs the family had taken refuge in
the cellar"
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terror Of Japan, how
ever, is the place to see
old costumes. l took a
sketch at Yumoto of
one of the mountain
girls who ride pack
horses. Her hair was
combed in this remark
able style, but she look
ed more like a man
than a woman. Her
kimona, or dress, was
tucked up at the knees,
and below this a pair of
sturdy legs, dressed in
folds of dark-bIue cot
toni eggins, shone forth.
She had straw sandals
tied upon her feet, and
in one hand she carried
o japanese lantern. In
the big belt at her waist
hung her tobacco pouch,
and the pockets of her
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a shrine papered with gold leaf and in this
sat little gold god with his hands on his
knees The names of the departed ancestors
of the family were ranged around him painted
upon wooden sticks, and in front of them all
sat little cups of rice and japanese candy.
During our stay, however, these bowls were not
replenished. We did not attend to the nourish-
ment of the heather idols, and the rice be-
came moldy and the candy turned sour.
There was nothing sour, however, in our part
ing with our landlords family, and he sent Us
on our way with a number of presents and
with enough bows to have satisfied the AIikado
himself FRANK G.. CARPENTER.
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When a Japanese woman is married she
shaves Off her eyebrows aud blackens her
teeth. This shaving of the eyebrows is sup
posed to have originated from an Empress, who
was born without eyebrows, ages ago. This set
the style of beauty, and japanese married
women have stuck to it ever since. BY this l
mean the women of the interior. Those of the
large cities are doing away with the barbarous
custom, aud not few of them clothe their lit
tie plumn forms in European dress. The in
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Our house was not without its religious
features, but these were Of Buddhism rather
than of Christianity. In our sitting-room,
just over the hibachi, and set in the wall, was