Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-01-19
MINERAL POINT, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY JANUARY

time the papers Of those taking
active parts. Our citizens are to be
credited with turning out well, and
the managers with promptness and
efficiency.
THE etiquette of the siek-reom
should be better understood. Many
q patient, nervous and excited, has
literally had the life forced out and
gone To the grave through uneasi-
ness or fright over his mysterious
surroundings. There is no time
when man or woman more needs
To have natural and cheerful people
about them than when tossing on a
sick bed. Talking in the room
should always be done in natural
tone of voice and never in whispers.
There should be no tlp-tuelng and
no long faces, or discussion over
this or that grave symptom. The
doctor that don't bring breeze OF
cheerfuness with him to the sick,
ro ON had better quit business aud
20 10 the undertaker's trade. There
are many forms of disease where
the patient is killed or cured, not by
any remedies, but by the indlscre-
ton or discretion of the physician
aud attendants.
A WORTHY and beneficial organi-
zatlou III our midst Is the Mineral
Point Book Club: 1t has recently
added to its library a number OF the
latest aud best books by such au-
thors as K. L. Roe, +. Marion
Crawford, Geo. Cable, Howell aud
ruurgee. Following are few OF
the publications lately added: The
Golden Justice, The Minister'S
Charge, Buttons Iun, Bledlsloe,
CaptaIn MacDonald's Daughter,
Jean Montelth, A Tale of Lonely
Parish, A Border Shepherdess, Paul
Patoff, Seth's Brothers. Wife, The
Gates Between, The Grandissimes,
Marlou's Faith, The Squire of Sean
dal Side, Pine and Palm, Saracinos-
Ca, Miss Curtis, A Magnificent Pie
ban, The Earth Trembled, One
Hundred Days in Europe, Narka,
Marzlos Crucifx, Story of Margaret
Kent, For Her Daily Bread, Ismay's
Children, The Resolution in Tan
ner's Lane. Library at Hanscom's
book store, open Saturdays from a
to 5 p. m.
STEARN WIsTER.-Up to last
week the weather for the season was
quite acceptable, but Thursday a
snow storm in the form Of bllzz lrd
set in. Although quite bad in this
section the storm failed TO compare
In the least with what was exptri.
enced in the west aud north west,
where, it is estimated, hundred or
more lives were lost by persons be-
lug caught in the blizzard aud freez-
ing. 1t is heart-rendlng to read of
the fate of children returning from
school, of farmers homeward bound
from market, of others while caring
for stock, engaged at work, etc, and
still of others who went in search of
those supposed to be last Railroad
travel was generally delayed
throughout a number of states and
territories, and in several instances
trains were suspended. In Mluerh
Point we were three days without
train. Following the blizz ,rd
came an intense cold wave. In
Montana and Dakota the mercury
registered from 40 TO So degrees be
low. In Iowa 40 below is reported.
Ia " isconslu 35 below Zero, and
this our citizens can certify to.
Large numbers of stock have per-
lshed. The wave ragged IN It's fury
until Monday. The Oldest settlers
everywhere say that nothing was
ever known TO exceed it, aud moth
ing TO equal it in a quarter of a cen
tury.
THE record that is made by man
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