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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-08-29
Two New COIors.


Two new colors are described in
various recent technical journals. The
first is apparently a reproduction Of
a color known 70 the ancients, aud
made by them with sand and lime,
heated with roasted copper. The pig
ment, on analysis, appears 10 be a
compound silieate Of lime and copper,
1t is now made with exact proportions
of the materials, so that tho product is
uniform, and the process seems likely
10 furnish us with a material Of great
value. The color is a bright, greeuish
blue. so that it will be more available
Tor decoration than French blue or
cobalt blue, both Of which are Of q
purplish cast. and do not mix well
with the other coiors, while II APP
pears 20 be a. permanent as either Of
them. The other color is a black,
which has been made treating cam
phor with sulphuric acid. By steep
Ing camphor in strong suIphurIc acid a
ielly-like mass is formed, Of reddish
color. Wnen this is heated il hollis,
giving of fumes Of suIphurous acid,
and turns intensely black. BY eyapo-
ration the uuconyerted excess Of acid
and camphor is driven of and black
mass remains, which seems 70 have the
qualities OF Indian ink. Like Indian
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-08-29

ribbons three inches in width, and
these ribbons, eight or ten of them at
a time, are run through the toothpick
machinery, coming out at the other
end, the perfect pieces falling into the
basket the broken pieces and the re-
fuse falling into another. The picks
are packed into boxes, 1900 in a box.
by girls, mostly comely-looking young
squaws, and are then packed INTO
eases and finally into big boxes, ready
for shipment to all parts of the world.
About seven and a half million tooth
picks are turned out each working
day by this one establishments Aals-
aJucturer and Builder.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-08-29

as seal oil is extracted from the pelt
and the tallow-Hke substance that re-
mains has value commercially.
The catch has been made early this
year, the season only opening March
10. The fleet of vessels engaged in
the search must have very quickly
mes with herds of them. The vessels
viii have time for second or perhaps
hlrd trip, though the season lasts
bus little over a month. These are
tic seals whelp in the north in the lat
ter part OF February and drift down
ON the ice IN the early spring. As the
ice melts IN more temperate regions
the young seal drop oil into the water
and are then sufficiently grown to
take care of themselves. Ii is the oh
ject OF the sealers TO capture the little
ANIMALS known as the "white coats"
while still on the floating ice. Later
on the larger animals, up to the 400
pound male known as the hooded seal,
are hunted. Tue "white coats" not
over four feet long and of 40 to 90
pounds weight, offer little resistance
and are easily killed by blow over
the head.
The seal fishery will be most profit
abe this year One of the vessels Just
returned to port has a cargo of 27,010
seals, The market value of these is
something over 81 apiece. Allowing
for the running expenses of the vessel,
the proportional share of the catch TO
the vessels officers and crew, yet the
proit to the owners will be an exceed
ingIy neat one.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-08-29
Wasted lGloqucnoe.

He had halted under an awning to
get out of the rain aud his back was
tu Abraham as the latter sat in the
store door and remarked.
milne freudt, let me sell YOU n rub
Der oafergoat VERY sheap. can
make YOU one at dollar. II you hat
rubber ovcrgont you can go along
aud meter mind der rain"
The man did not turn or answer
"Iou yhas very foolish" continued
the clothier, FER you noilcr get
another sooch bargain ash dot How
you like an umbrella for seexty cents,
chP | hat some shust ash good ash
YOU puy for two dollar at der stores.
If you hat an umbrella you vhas all
right in der wet weather. Como in,
my frondt. uud select der sort of ham
die dot suit YOU"
The man under the awning was like
piece of slatuary.
alt vhas a dull day nit me, gnd /
like 10 get rid Of something. Dot coat
of yours vhas VERY shabby for sooch n
shontlcman's ash you vhas It yhas
no match for your pants, onyhow. |
haf two hoonored 20 select from, und
if you like to shlep in make der price
all right can sell you peter one
for tree dollar--a mislit dot some con-
gresham doan' take away. Please
walk right in"
But the stranger didn't.
cor may bo you like TO look at a
trunk. Ny place yhas der original
und only trrnk store for der sale Of
der best trGuks at der lowest prices.
Eafeypody should have a trunk She
WINS handy If you go away, und shust
ash handy you shtay home. lean
sell trunk nit a patent tray und Yale
lock for two dollar. Dot vhas one
hali der price sharged on der next
shlreet ! can Tx you oudt all der
vhay from feefty cent up to seexseen
dollar. 1t vhas no trouble to show
goods. Shlep right IN und examine
my line of trunks
If the stranger heard word of what
was said no action of his betrayed the
fact
"Vhell, if you doan' like trunk,
perhaps you look at my spring suits in
twecds ! can lit you oudt ia fife min
utos, und gif you great satisfaction.
Dose spring CLOSE vhas no second
hand peesness An vhas insists from
der VERY pest tailor shops, und take
EN- at sooch a low price dot | can fit
you oudt at your own figure. Please
come in und make der greatest bar
gain Of your life. Dis shtore vhill
shange hands next week, uud der OPP
purtuniiy Was forefer lost 10 you"
The stranger still stood like a crow
bar
my fricndt, it vhas leedle late for
oafergohts. ind for dot reason / yhas
willing TO make n great shave. II
Will pay you TO buy now for next
winter. yhas long on oafergoats
uud short on cash. Come in und take
one at your own price. You can hat
brown, blue, green, black
abraham, who vas you talking
TOP" quefied the wife. as she came
from The back room.
40 dis shontlema1s oudt here, who
can hat AN oafergOat for fife dol"
You yhas an oidt fooll she ex.
claimed as She looked out. Dot yos
old lsaacs, who vas in der same bees
nees around der corncrl"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-08-29
AIuggins Settled IL.

Muggins-Miss Clara, must speak
at lasl-l have long loved youso much
will you be my wife?
Clara Why, Mr., Muggius, this is so
entirely unexpected, -
Muggus On. Clara, darling, you
have made me SO happy. Now, please,
name the day,
Clara But you didn't understand
me, Mr.. Muggins. | said your pro-
posal was 50 entirely unexpected
Muggns--Ah. how fortunate | am,
Clara, deaf It's the unexpected that
always happens, you know. You
never expected to marry me suppose,
and it is settled. See2-SpuHAIed
Union.
The Woman's Charity is new Bos-
ton Club.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-08-29

INK, 1t can be apparently dssorved IN
water, aud remains suspended for a
long time. We hope that some one
will pursue the subject of this camphor-
black. A pure liquid black is one of
the things that science has searched
for IN vain for many years, aud even so
near an approach to it as good Indian
ink would be a most useful substance.
american Archdsck
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-08-29
How Toothpicks Are Made.

The wood Of the canoe birch is used
exclusively. The logs are sawed into
pieces twenty-eight inches long, which
are thoroughly steamed and cut into
veneer. The veneer ia cnt into long
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-08-29

At Spokane Falls, W. T., the other
day Mr.. Wood espoused Miss
Pyle.
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PHYSICIANS AMONG THE ANcrENTs.

The Egyptians first reached a compara-
lively great knowledge of the art of healing.
A papyrus of the reign of Sent (3SO0 B. G.. }
gives directions for the preparation Of pre-
scriptions which were to be given to the
patient, accompanied by incantations. The
Hebrews, from their close association with
the Egyptians, imbibed talent for phar-
macy, and the tart of the apothecary" is
spoken of early in the Old Testament. The
Chinese were also early dabblers in drugs
and nostrums, but the pharmaceutical art in
China has remained almost stationary for
centuries.
The Greeks from an early period, like
most Aryan people, had tinge of pharma-
ceutical knowledge, An additional stimu-
lus was given to the science by the use of a
poison by the State for public executions,
and the increase of luxury and the necessity
the fair ones felt of adding to their attrac-
tions. An early poem of Theocritus deals
chiefly with philters, then a profitable
branch of pharmacy, which even in the
present day survives in the "love powders"
concocted by unscrupulous charlatans and
still in demand in certain deluded districts.
Ignoring the fabulous legends of demi-
god Esculapius and his wife, or daughter,
Hygeia, solid ground is reached in Greece
III bu6 lOuEbu CSHIuIy ID Os, WuCu VIC BT6db
Hippocrates first gathered up the most val
liable of the observations and experimental
data of his predecessors. For this task he
was eminently qualified, as he was the last
of seven of the same name and family, and
the most illustrious of long line Of med
ical men. Pharmacy and medicine. which
had begun to diYerge at this period, were
united by him. 1t is recorded of Hip
pocrates that on his various journeys in
Greece he always carried his drugs with
him.
THE REvIvER OF MEDICINE.
Galen, who lived in the second century
of the Christian era, was one of the most
learned in the knowledge of drugs. He was
the great reviver of medicine after long
period Of inanition, and maintained his su-
premacy for nearly 1,40o years. He united
in his works the various schools, though,
according to record. he was but the keeper
of drugstore in Rome. His theories as to
disease still prevail in small degree in
modern pathology. He was the first to
secure the aroma Of plants and flowers by
distillation.
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TIE BAzAARS Oh TUN1s.

Street Shops Where Delicate CoIors and
Strange Sights Abound.
Susan Hale in New York Commercial Advertiser. J
The bazaars of Tunis are more intricate
than those OF all other North African towns.
Here was really the East There is an old
Spanish flavor, also, at Tunis, the bazaars
being built round q mosque. once church
Of Charles V. The crooked streets are COW
cred with awnings or archways, with funny
little shops like boxes, in which the pro-
prietor sits up on his counter cross
legged, surrounded by shelves. holding all
manner of gandouras, haiks and burnuos.
veiled with broad scarfs like Mexican re-
bozos which they hold before them by their
two extended arms. Jewesses more bold, re-
vealing half an eye from folds of white
falling from pointed caps, and tall brown
men in stately bnrnous of all possible deli
cate shades. The color at Tunis was won
derful. Soft robins egg, delicate lilac or
Lavender, vieux rose, pale amber. Such are
the colors of soft stuff, that wrapped grave
and reverent signors pacing the streets in
turbans.
In Africa the railways are so new that
they are not in the guide books, and it is
impossible to procure time tables. All
through Algiers we were seekinga railway
guide, and were always told that the last
edition, being wrong, was destroyed. and
that the new one was not out yet. Finally,
the day we were leaving Tunis and Africa
for good, I saw ina book shop the announce
ment of "1tinerario della Strsds Ferrata
Tunisiana. Too late. The Gitana was
awaiting us, and we were about to step into
train which would take us to La Goleta.
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shop must be cleanly, to please the senses
withal. He must have his mortare, stills,
pots, filters, glasses, boxes sweet and clean.
He must have two divisions in his shop, one
most clean for physic and the other base
place for chirurgic stuff. He is neither to
increase nor diminish the physicians pre-.
scription. He is neither to buy nor sell
rotten drugs. He must be able to open well
a vein for to help pleurisy. He is to meddle
only in his own vocation, and to remember
that his Office is only to be the physicians
cook"
Long after the division Of the two
branches of medical practice the apothe-
carries were restive at their subordination to
the medical practitioner, who in turn uses
all possible means to assert his supremacy.
Jealousies arose between the two classes
which occasioned endless disputes. This
controversy is still existing in modified
degree. In France these disputes assumed
a somewhat farcical phase. The physicians
enraged at ADVICE being given by apothe-
carries determined to srarve them out, and by
persistently prescribing only simple rene
dies from herbalists they subdued the
rebels, who were reinstated after taking a
Pecksnifian and comprehensive oath. The
quarrel assumed just the opposite form in
Bruges, where, on complaint Of the apothe-
carries, medical practitioners were forbidden
to dispense drugs under heavy penalties.
PRAYER BEFORE MIXING MEDICINES.
A peculiar phase of the, sixteenth cen
tury pharmacy, especially in Germany was
the instructions and ordinances Of the
various pharmaceutical associations and
guilds as to prayer. A compounder of pre-
scriptions was directed to 60 down on his
knees and supplicate before he commenced
his labors. It is not definitely stated
whether he was required to pray with each
prescription or whether single prayer
would answer for batch. Most of the six
teenth century works on pharmacy contain
curious wood-cut illustrations of representa-
tive pharmacists at their professional devo-
tlons. CyriAcus Schnaus, Nuremberg
pharmacist, published book in 1866,
wherein he in person is represented as
kneeling on large mortar before a sacred
allegorical picture. 1t would be rather
startling in these latter days to see the drug
clerk kneel in front of the soda fountain
and repeat worthy Father Schnaus' prayer,
but it might be just as edifYing to the
customers as caressing his pompadour or in.
quiring with or without"
With the close of the sixteenth century
what may be termed the modern era Of
pharmacy began. The introduction Of new
drugs, the discovery OF the circulation Of
the blood by Harvey, and other develop
ments soon reyolutionized the older methods
and rapidly led to the high standard attained
by the pharmacist of to-day.
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into Heterogeneous whole, which united
the salutary, the useful, and the criminal in
a peculiarly characteristic middle-age man
ner. sssss.lt
The first drugstore in Europe existed at
Muenster, in Germany, in 1886. Others
soon sprang into being. The: first regular
apothecary shop in London was in 1885. Up
to that period drugs were dispensed by gro
GERS aud spicers exclusively and these
tradesmen did not entirely lose their hold
on their side line for q considerable time. A
peculiar document dated 1S45 is still in ex-
istence. In it King Edward Ill. Of England
grants pension Of Sd day to Coursus de
Gangland, an apothecary of London, for
taking care of aud attending His Majesty
during his illness in Scotland.
In England in the sixteenth. century the
position Of the pharmacist was Q relatively
high one. The separation Of pharmaceutical
from medical practice was then almost com3
plete. Bulleyn (known as Queen Anne
Bulleyn's co1sin), a prominent apothecary,
laid down the following rules for cotempo.
rary pharmacists:
RULES FOR CONDUCTING BUSINESS.
1.-THE apothecary must first serve God;
foresee the end, be cleanly and pity the
poor. His garden must be on hand with
plenty of herbs, seeds and roots. He must
read and study. His place Of dwelling and
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WHY REPORTERS LIKE HIM.
How Talmage Helped n Tired Man to a
synopsis of q Sermon.

How Talmage Helped n Tired Man TO a
synopsis of a Sermon.
New York SUM-
A Brooklyn newspaper man tells story
about the Rev. DR.. Talmage which par
tally accounts for his popularity among re-
porters. A young man who had the pleas
ant job of reporting the clergyman's SER
mon got over-stimulated one Sunday night
and didn't attend church. He had been
working since the morning before without
intermission for the necessary sleep, and
took little something to brace him up.
When he woke up at IL o'clock he dimly
remembered that he had not been to church
as usual. He hurried around to DR.. Tai
mage's house, and was ushered in by the
clergyman himself.
He told what had happened to him, and
the Doctor Immediately sat down and began
writing a synopsis of his sermon. BE
CHANGED to look up few minutes later, and
found the young man fast asleep. He began
over again, and wrote a complete report Of
the services at the church, including, Of
course, the sermon. He put the manuscript
into the reporters pocket, woke him up,
and sent him to his Office.
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FOUND IN ALL POSITIONS.
Deaf NIutes Engaged in All the Professions
and Trades.

Deaf Mutes Engaged in All the Professions
and Trades.
Deaf mutes fill various positions. Some
are engaged in the professions, some are
journalists, artists, bookkeepers, engravers
and photographers. Some have govern
meut positions; few are scientific men;
many find employment in the ordinary in
dustries, and not few make success Of
agriculture.
The peculiar balancing by which the loss
of one sense is compensated by increased
strength in the others, receives emphatic ex-
emplifcation in the deaf mute. While, in
common with the rest of mankind, insists
occur in vOcations, and a good shoemaker is
occasionally spoiled to make very poor
teacher, it is a fact that wherever deaf
mute works with hand or brain in a posi-
ton proportionste to his ability, he is gen.
orally found somewhere near the top. In
illustration of the facility to notice and
master what would ordinarily escape others,
deaf mute, now distinguished Pennsyl-
vania divine, after completing a course in
an English university, was examined at
Yale College for a special degree. The ex-
aminer noticed that in certain mathematical
work the deaf mute was especially quick,
and after the examination inquiries led to
the discovery that the deaf mute had been
using valuable system he had evolved
from his Cambridge tuition; and for an
hour or two professor and pupil changed
places to the everlasting profit of the
former.
: The deaf mutes Of America very easily
lead those of the world in intelligence, man
illness and ability. They are living in q
present whose work renders the future se-
cure. Their organizations are strong and
the work benefcially practical. The schools
take more and more the complexion given
them by the alumni. Educators OF the deaf
find that the suggestion of the graduate,
based on his own experience. is worthy OF
place in the plan of guidance for future edu-
cational work. While educated by special
processes deaf mutes cannot be classed as
detectives. e., persons incapable of being
taught to care for themselves in the world,
as is true of the insane, idiotic and feeble
minded. Their schools are part Of
country, and are cheerfully sup
ported as such by the various Common
wealths, But as these are schools for the
bearing of higher grade supported by pri-
vate beneicence and endowment, so should
there be facilities for special scholastic,
artistic and industrial education of the deaf.
People should understand that schools for
the deaf are in no more sense charitable
institutions than is Cornell University, for
instance, and that donations and bequests
are as much proper and necessary for the
one as for the other. To inculcate this princi-
pie, and by securing its observance to bring
to the deaf mute student the inestimable
boon of enlarged educational facilities, is
the present leading object of that admirable
organization, the Empire State Associa-
ton of Deaf Mutes.''
Fort LEWIS SELINEY, =
Editorial Writer the Rome Sentinel.
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USES OF COTTONWOOD.
1t is CrowdInE White Pine Out Of the
Market for Some Uses.

1t is CrowdinE White Pine Out Of tho
Market for Some Uses.
Detroit News.l
Southern cottonwood is coming into wide
use for lumber, although formerly consid-
cred useless for that purpose. Cottonwood
is crowding white pine out of the market
for certain purposes, and large fortunes are
being made all along the Mississippi river
out of this wood, which was once despised.
In New Orleans white pine is worth S35
per NJ, while yellow cottonwood brings
S65. For the ceiling of grain barges 1t is
invaluable, as grain cannot sweat in 1t.
Every cracker box in use to-day is made
of cottonwood. and it cannot be excelled
for fruit barrels. Cottonwood will hold
nails, and can be used for building. 1t is
also capable of fine polish after certain
treatment, and is much priced for interior
decorations. There are now men rich be-
cause they own tracts covered with cotton
wood, who, five years ago, would have
traded an acre of it for yellow dog.
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a Sixteenth Century Va sii0N6A1V "'0
Pharmacist by this quaint old ad-
yertisement. A drugstore where agricul-
tural implements were kept for sale might
be considered a novelty in these days, but
not so then. The stores that sold medicines
sold also tinware, hardware, drygoods,
molasses, rum, whisky, fish and -four. 1t
took large population to support
drugstore, Druggists were few, even in
cities, and in the country districts the busi-
ness was almost wholly in the hands, of the
medical fraternity. The modern drugstore,
now found in every village and hamlet,
scarcely had an existence then. 1t is no
wonder that the proprietor Of an apOthecary
shop in the country added plows to his
stock in trade. Most probably there was
more profit for him in plows than in medi-
cines.
The growth of the art Of pharmacy has
been slow because it was dependent on the
progress of the sister art of medicine. Botn
sciences had a common origin in the phllos.-
ophy of the savage, who recognized a soul
in every inanimate object Disease was the
soul of one object attacking another, and 70
eject the evil influence diabolical nostrums,
horrible noises, and even strange contor-
tions Of the face and body were employed by
the medicine men" Of the day, practice
which still prevails among some Of the bar
barian races of the present time.
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Frt-z
the introduction of manual training into the
schools for the deaf all this has been changed.
To-day we find the deaf mutes in every pro.
fession, doing the same work as hearing
people. Some of them finally 60 in business
for themselves and generally with good sue
cess. In New York City are4employed hum
dreds of deaf mutes in capacities that would
have seemed absurd 80 years ago. Deaf
mutes, artists, engrsvers. sculptors, editors,
designers photographers are making mark
in the world and their work speaks for itself.
At one time it was the ambition Of good
many to get into the Federal Offices, and
while the custom house, postofices and other
Governmental departments have their quota
of deaf mutes, the civil service lay prohibits
their employment Perhaps this is good
thing in one respect since it compelS them
to seek other employment not SO hazardous
as clerkships in the civil service.
ALEXANDER L. PAcH,
Easton, Pa.