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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-11-22
The Crow,s Arithmetic.

Cute as the crow is, 10 cannot count
This weakness, says the New York Sun,
was taken advantage OF by a prudent
farmer, Connecticut farmers this year
have been driven to their Wits end to
circumyent the crows. A farmer, Amos
Brown, had particularly fine piece OF
corn land and vas harrassed by crows,
which dug up the kernels a fast as he
could plant them.
He built pen 1f rails in the middle of
the lot and concealed himself with an
old-fashioned, double barreled shot gun,
determined to kill all be could, and
brighten the rest. AS long as he remain
ed in the pen, however, not crow would
show itself, and after waiting several
hours, he grew meditative and left the
pen. No sooNer was he outside the LOT
than dcwn came a big flock Of the black
robbers.
Mr.. Brown took another trip to the pen
this time accompanied by hired m an
After remaining a short time the latter
returned to the house. As soon as be va
fairly out of sight, down came the crows
aud bang went Mr.. Browne gun sud kill
ed ten Cf the birds.
This gave Mr.. Brown unalloyed pleas
ure, ard az he started ont OF Bis pen 70
pick mp the dead crows, and hang them
Up g. a warning TO the others, be shouted
after the rest Of the flock:
cab, ye are ouuDin' critters, but y can
count worth a cent?
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-11-22
sanity aud Christian Science
American Magazine.

] am glad % note 0 return 10 sanity in
the matter OF Christian science, so called.
Many gho gave it their firm adherence at
first have aeei' that IL Is a rank imposture,
and have Withdrawn allegiance, ashamed.
It's rapid spread was due TO that peculiar
ity Of human nature that fluids truth in
bold assumption Of supernatural power
and infinitely prefers the ipse dixet Of a
charlatan 70 the careful, thorough, tr1sh-
telling physician.
One OF these quackB, ct the time in i'm
mense practice IN London, once consulted
the great Abernethy for some personal
ailmsnt. Curious to know the secret Of
his success ia attracting clients, the sur
seon asked him If be knew why he had 90
many more patients than any regular ply
stefan. Drawing Abernethy TO the window
be pointed 70 the surgiug crowd on the
street below and asked: doctor, of
every hundred persons who pass this
window, how many do you suppose are
educated people, capable OF approaching
study and cultivation in othersf'
perhaps ten" answered the surgeon.
Exactly" reioined the eharlatan.
well, you get those ten-the rest come
to me-
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-11-22
FRAGMENTS,

Our poultry almanac tells us thatab
this time is good time 20 put lock on
the ehickeu-house door, load up the shot
gnn, aad turn the dog loose nights.
There is no danger that the business OF
raising eggs for market wilt be overdone,
as long as we are obliged to import sever
al million dozen each year, in order to
have enough to go around.
Don't Try TO winter more hens than you
can care for well. Twenty-Five hens, we'll
cared for, will pay more profit than fifty
that are half cared for.
Don't sit down and whine because your
hens don't pays so to work and make
them pay.
We are about fred OF hearing some
folks say that half bred fowls are better
and more profitable than the pure bred
fowls, and one of these days we shall 70
for the misguided people who write such
stuff.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-11-22
Unhealthy Plants

DAmong variety of intermingled par
lor plants, there Is almost always ana or
more that d0es not look as bright and
healthy as the rest, Ofteatimes many
will show the same symptoms but in un~
equal degrees, The only way 10 treat
such plants successfully, il the cause is
not known, is to separate them; take
away al unhealthy specimens, look up
their original habits; then supply their
several natural conditions in regard so
moisture and temperature. The so.l
should not be overlooked, bat this is not
SO important as an Immediate change as
moisture and temperature. The crowns
Of many plants are very low such are
lisble 10 90 Kept too moist or are eerthed
up too high, and thus are subject 90
decay. IL may be possible that repottiug
will aid IL their recovery. IN many
cases change 10 treatment, will effect q
Plete recovery. The depredations of
insects should be watched for, az they
often cause trouble.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-11-22
Unknown Sensations.
Science Monthly.


Sound is the sensation produced on us
wheL sAe vibration of the air strikes on
the drum of our ear. When they are few
the sound ia deep; as they increase in
number il becomes shriler aud shriuer,
but when they reach 10000 in a second
they scase to be audible Light is the
effect produced on he when waves OF light
strike on the eye. When four hundred
millions Of millions of vibrations of
ether strike the retina in q second they
produce red, and IA She number increases
the color passes into orange, then yellow,
green, blue, aud violet. Bat between
forty thousand vibrations In a second
and four hundred millions OF millions we
have no organ OF sense capable Of receiv-
ing the impression. Yet between these
limits any number of sensations may ex-
ist. We have I'VE senses, and sometimes
fancy that no others are possible. But IL
Is obvious that we cannot measure the in.
finite 10y our own marrow limitations.
Moreover, looking At the question from
the other side, we hud in animals complex
organs of sense, richly supplied with
nerves, but the function OF which we are a.
yet powefless TO explain. There may be
fifty other senses as diL'eront from ours
rs sound is from sight; aud even within
the boundaries of our own senses there
may be endless sounds, which we cannot
hear, and colors az different "a red from
green, of which we have no conception.
These and thousand other questions re-
main for solution. The familiar world
which surrounds us may be totally diff.
ferent place 60 other animals. To them
ii may ho full OF music which we cannot
sear, of color which we cannot see, of
sensations which We cannot conceive.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-11-22
a Horses Memory

Many year5 ngo Mr.. Abram Dodge
Ipswich, Macs, owned beautiful hOre
which was the pet OF the family. He wa
admired by ali who knew his playfgnesl
and good qualifications. ia tbs summer
10 was MIR, DOdge's habit occasionally TO
have frolic with his horso in his barn
yard, theu let him ont alone and be
would 20 90 she river, which was about
One-third of mile distant, where he
would bathe, hen 20 TO common aud roll
on the grass, then start for home; his
stable vas renovated for him while he was
gone and his breakfast put In his crib.
II he met his master he would show some
cultish pranks, run for tho stable, pull
out the wooden pin that fastened the
door with his teeth, and rush to his man
ger 70 find his food One night the
horse was stolen from the stable. After
the expiration of sixteen years Mr. Dodge
was az the tavern when man drove
horse up 90 the door, Mr. Dodge nj onoe
recognized his horse and told the driver
his reason FOR believing II 90 be his, the
man told his story Of whom he bought
the horse, and that no had owned him for
several years. II was finally agreed that
II the horse would, on being taken 90 his
old stable, SO through the habit Of bath
ing, running on the grass, and pulling
the pin from the stable door, Mr. Dodge
should have him. When the horse was
let out into his old yard he viewed the
premises for a moment, then started for
his old ba h tUb, then for tine green towel
on the common, then 10 his old stable,
pulled the woOjeu pin, ana won for him
self q good meal and his master his
fayorite horse
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-11-22
snrar Refining by EIeetrIeIlg.

We wish something, even If 10 be light
ming. would strike every tIust, and other
monopolistic Combine" in America. Eu
NOR has it that the sugar trust is not a
little anxious, at tue present time, over
the alleged competition With which IL 10
being threatened by electricity. A New
York dispatch says that there Is big
building in Brooklyn, formerly used as a
-four mill, in which sugar il now being 70
fine5 by sn electric process. tits rumor
ed that the concern is Owned by an Eng
Iigh frm, and that the new process turns
ont refined sugar in three hours. Only
employees in the building are allowed 10
enter, and the method of defining y kept
profound secret. tt process is nov
il is said, in an experimental shape oul
final success is anticipated. Members OF
the sugar trust are endeavoring TO fathom
the mystery Of the process, bat with nc
success, as yet
The mystery Of this electrical process
for refining sugar, 90 unfathomable 2
the sugar trust, has evidently beer
some extsnt comprshended by Others
An English paper, named the CORRECTION
ers' Union, thus gives away portion q
tho secret. eve have on exhibition sam
pies Of electrically -rsfAed sugars-~th'
fret xhich have reached London. The.
were refined in New York during the Lac
few weeks, By tho secret electric process
discovered By the late Professor Friend
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-11-22

The following from the November
Century is one of the most touching
stories that Mr. KEENAN, has yet told Of
the fate OF Siberian exiles; ITO me per
haps the most attractive and sympathetic
Of the Tomsk exiles, was the Russian au
thor. Felix Volkhofski, who was banished
to Siberia for life in 1873, on the charge
of belonging to 3 society that intends at
a more or less remote time in the future,
to overthrow the exiting form Of govern
ment. He was about thirty eight yeers
of age at the time made bis acquain-
taince, and was man OF cultivated mind,
warm heart and high aspirations. He
knew English well, was familiar with
Americas history and literature, and had
u believe, translated into Russian many
Of the poems Of Longfellow. He spoke
to me with great admiration, / remember,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-11-22
AHoRRIBLE CRIME.

Two Men Murdered and Fed to the Hogs.
OMAHA, Neb.-0n Friday last, two
farmers, Hiram Rotter and William
Ashley, living In Custer county, called on
a neighbor named Holstein to see him
IN regard 70 some furniture
which had disappeared from the
school house in that district.
Ashley and Rotter were directors, They
failed to return Friday night, and after
waiting until Sunday their neighoors be-
came suspicious and instituted search
for them. Yesterday afternoon they saw
some hogs eating at some obiect in a hay
stack n Holstein's field and going to the
spot found the dead bodies of the two
i .ectors. Rioters face had been badly
eaten by the hogs. Holstein cannot be
found ana it is believed be took the team
which the men had and left the cosntry.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-11-22
FEW SHORT SERMONS

Repair all Buildings as soon as possible.
Dusty hay and the horse neye, agree.
Sdecess in stock breeding consists in
wedding ont the pco,est.
IT the butter Is waxy or grassy there is
something wrong some place
All stock should have comfortable
place for the night and foul weather,
To compel animals to drink zee water
in winter, ought 60 be made a crime pun
ishable by heavy fine.
The digestive system Of q COW aud
horse are quito dissimi,ar, and the bulky
FOOD should be given the cow
Lay in supply of wheat bran before
winter prices set in. 1t will always pay
TO use considerable for all kinds of stock.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-11-22

The innovation threatens to completely
revolutionize the sugar industry of the
world, and the 500 shares in the company
have risen to tl04 in ten days. II is
stated that the process is carried on in a
building five stories high in New York
city. On the top door the raw sugar is
fed into the frst machine, aud it passes
thence downward TO the lowest floor,
where, without having been seen or han
died, 1t is delivered IL refined state
The lime occupied in the passage OF the
sugar, from entry to exit, is four hours
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-11-22
THE FARM AND HOME
PLAYING SCHOOL

Blue-eyel Maud is the teacher.
Clarence, Minnie and Belle
Are the most advanced Of her pupils.
The first class studying we'll
Then there are the primary scholats
Those dollies Who sit In a row
and Robbie's the Superintendent
Who visits the school, you know
Fuss is studying drawing.
Her paws on the crayou-tray,
While Bose sits on hassock
Ready his part 20 play.
She has on her very best ribbon,
With an extra frill of lace.
While he wears a rundown cellar
And very solemn face
a mouse peeps cut OF the corner,
From his hole just under the wall
And puSs goes seampering after,
UpSeiting the dollies all
While Alauda-- the diguilcd teacher
Just screams ana jumps 10 a chair.
And the grave little superintendent
Laughs loud az the funny affair.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-11-22
Two Kinds Of Girls

There are girls and girls says writer in
Golden Days. One is the girl who appears
best al home, who helps ner mother, and
takes unfinished tasks from the tired
hands that falter AZ their work. She Ia a
cheerful and oongenial companion and
all her friends and relatives learn TO re-
gard her as little saint and comforter.
The other girl is the one who lets others
work for her. 81 inst hate homework, y
she says, land Ilet ma do most Of il. -
"You make your own bed, of course,
says her friend. "Well no, ma makes the
beds generally. haven't the strength
"Who washes the di5hes?' "Ma does, or
sister Jenny It makes my hands red,
and red hands look 80 horrid when / am
playing the piano" "Aud you do moth
ing" II do the shopping. That's such
help to ma. receive the company,
for shells too tired to stay up after sup
per, and she says I'm lois of help TO her.
There is not much trouble in choosing
between tho two girls.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-11-22
cALIFoRNIA DIAMONDS.
0neof tue Products Butte and Amador Coun-
ties,

One Of the Products Of Butte and Amador Coun'
ties
Diamonds have long been known to OK
list in California, though none of larg
size have boon found, The principa
holds are atung the north fork Of Ia
Feather River IN Butte county, aud in
the volcano gravel region on a tributary
OF Dry Creek, in Amador county. At
Cherokee, near the orth ork OF the
Feather, sixty or seventy diamonds have
been taken out They ara found in the
gold dicgings in coarse gravel. The jew
oler's Rev,ew says:
Last winter diamond expert from the
fields OF South Africa, M. Atkins, ex.
omiuei tho diamond bearing places at
Cherokee aud Volcano, aud came to the
conclusion that the stones f0gaa shure
had et some period been brought from
distance aud that these gravel fields were
not their original bed The same view,
IL may be added, is held regarding the
gold deposits for which Che mines are
worked, Cherokee and Volcano are in
the Western foot hills Of The Sierra Ne
vada, tho latter place being about 100
miles southeast of the former. The pros
TO as giving any clue to the source from
which the precious deposits bave come,
40 II is evident that that the entire region
has been completely changed by earth
quakes and volcanoes, and the hills ARE
now ia many rases composed OF lava
which has overlooked and covered up
ancient rivera, mountains and ynlloys.
The best gold gravel mines GU the east
ern slope OF the Sacramento valley are in
the beds OF ancient rivers. These beds
have been traced for long distances, in
many cases passing under mountain spurs
or being cut OF by valleys. La other
instanoea violent uphtavas have SO dis
arranged them that tha prospentors, fol-
lowing up q wel.dehaed and paying river
bed, suddenly lose IL, finding II broken OF
like pipe stem, Gnd freq gently thorough
prospecting has failed 10 find the eontinu
alton of the bed, or il has been found
miles AMY, choosing that the earth had
been cracked at right angles with IN,
stream and the two sides OF The crevioe il
opponite directions for miles.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-11-22
LOSS AND GAIN.
- raonsEEcaoFT FowLEn.

-,,.5 that the golden day was dead,
lS9it1 ,hf no more the countr5 side adjoining;
US L7iss grieved, behold 1.-The East grew red
d. ' With morning.
THAT merry spring was forced to 90,
SCI tf the wreaths that old 50 well become
,.lf's Imurmursd at her absence, lol-
b-' Twas summer.
..,sed because the daifodils were killed
i,,-rTrliiug skies that sc0rched my early po-
.--t.l.t for these / pinned my hands were filed
D-' With roses.
.,.,, broken hearted bewaile1 the END
az f-endships than which none had once
seemed nearer
.,rli..t wept l found newer friend
p" And dearer
..5bg,I learned old pleasures are estranc .
Univ that something better may be given
,-,...lsr Ilst we md this earth exchanged
For heaven.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-11-22

brought them into prominence stands as
OF yore, and is one OF the attractions of
sightseers at Crawford.
National Republican., 1888-03-09
Pure Food,

Americans can still afford to look to
England for some good things. The con.
servative Englishman, with all his faults, is
very often safe leader to follow. In
nothing is this more true than in the laws
OF England on the 'pure food" question.
From those laws we take the following ex-
tracts as samples worthy Of imitation:
No person shall mix, color, stain, or powder,
or order or permit any other person to mix,
color, stain, or powder any article Of food with
any ingredient or material so as TO render the
article injurious TO health, with intent that
the same may be sold in that state, and no
person shall sell any such article mixed, col
Ored. stained, or powdered
No person shall sell TO the prejudice OF the
purchaser any article of food or any drug
which Is not Of the nature, substance, or quail
ity Of the article demanded by such purchaser,
provided that an ofiense shall not be deemed
to be committed under this section in the fol.
lowing cases, that is to say Where any matter
or Ingredient not Injurious to health has been
added TO the food or drug because the same is
required for the production or preparation
thereof as an article commerce, in state 1T
Tor carriage or consumption, and not fraudu-
lently to increase Il bulk, weight, or measure
Of the food or drug, or conceal the inferior
quality thereof
The penalties for violating these laws
are, as they should be, very severe. Con-
gress might, with profit, examine the + lg
Heb laws on squire food.n
National Republican., 1888-03-09
DINNER by THE PRESIDENT
To Ex-senator Francis Il ernap, of New
York.


To Ex-senator Francis X ernap, of New
York.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland last
evening gave dinner to ex-senator Fran
els Herman, of New York. The other guests
were Secretary Bayard, Senator Beck, Rep
resentative Mills and wife, ex-senator
Joseph +. Mcdonald and wife, Hon. VIM,
Z. Morrison and wife, Mrs. Lamont, and
Miss Willard.
Alfons Won Mumm, the new secretary for
the German legation, arrived In the city
yesterday. He succeeds Baron Won Zedt-
departure Of Mr.. Won Alvensleben.
Senator and Mrs. Jones entertained
Justice and Mrs. Field, the Mexican minis.
ter ard Madame Romero, Madame
BakhmetefI the Russian minister, NJ. de
Struve, Senator and Mrs. Cullom, Senator
and Mis-. Stewart, Senator and Mrs. Dolph,
Senator Palmer, Sen: tor Allison, Miss
MeIcia Jones, and Mrs. Hutchlson at
dinner on Wednesday evening.
The Swedish Minister and Nine. de Reu.
terskiold entertained Mrs. Scott Townsend,
Mrs. Rollin Morse, Of Boston; Mrs. An.
drews, Count Sala, Senator Hale, Miss
Dresser, Mr.. James Lowndes, and Minister
Alyensleben, the guest Of honor, at dinner
on Wednesday night.
Mrs. Watmough gave dinner party last
evening.
Mrs. Y. II. Berry gave mi Careme dance
last night.
Mrs. VIM. d. Cabell gaze luncheon
yesterday TO Mrs. Senator Daniel. The
guests were Mrs. Daniel and her mother,
Mrs. Murrell, Mrs. Justice Lamar, Mrs.
Walthall, Mrs. Pugh, Mrs. Vance, Mrs
Bate, Mrs, Gen. Lee, Mrs. Breckenridge,
Mrs, Marshall Mcdonald, and Miss Cabell.
DR.. Geo, B. LoriDg ana Mrs. Loring, at
their residence, No, 1921 X street, last
evening entertained at dinner Senator and
Mrs, Sherman, Senator and Mrs. Dolph,
Judge and Mrs, Strong, Hon. John ID.
Long, Mrs. Gen. EIaZen, Hon. Edward
Burnett, Nine. Bakhmeteff, DR.. Wales, and
Mise Sallie p. Lorihg.
National Republican., 1888-03-09
democratic Aversion to New States.

Always shy and dif1ldent In the presence
Of full and free vote, the Democratic
party is particularly sverse to any extern
sion of the ballot on the eve Of presi-
Dental election. Hence the existence Of
tho Springer omnibus bill, pretending to
provide for the admission OF four new
states. 1t is q measure invented for the
purpose Of preventing the admission Of
one state.
There is no reason, except we consider
Democratic excuse for joining four terrific
ries in scheme for extending to new peo'
pies the rights OF statehood, and the Demo
cratic excuse is q lame and impotent one.
The old Democratic excuse for Joining
states for admission was that the balance Of
power between the free and slave territory
might be maintained Although slavory
has passed away and lost Its influence the
Democratic party has learned nothing, and
deceives itself with the belief that the
people Of this country will copdone such
trifng as Springer proposes. The people
ASK for fair consideration Of the merits Of
the several territories for statehood, and
Springer answers: We will admit Repub-
licsn state II you will allow us a Demo-
cratic state to balance the account The
proposition is Infamous, and is character
ietic Of a cabal which is perverting the
organization of the House OF Representa-.
tiyts TO an electoneering machine for the
Democratic party.
The Republicans never will sanction
such scheme. Certain territories are en-
titled to statehood, and they are not all
controlled by one party. They should be
considered separately and candidly, and,
so far as the Republicans are concerned,
they will be. But the omnibus scheme Is
notice simply to all that no honest plan
for extending the ballot in new commun-
tiles will be considered until the suppressed
vote OF the south has had another chance
to swing the balance in presidential con
test. There will be no new states until the
Bourbons are retired from power.
In fact, there will be no progress In
affairs OF admin lstration or legislation o
asy kind until the Republicans enforce it,
In one year from this date the country
will begin new era OF prosperity, and then
several new states will arise to take part in
the advance OF the nation.