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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-08-22
To Get Rid of Cookroaches.

The Croton bug is now the most
prominent cockroach in America to-
day and really does the most damage.
1t is enormously fecund and its small
size enables it to hide and breed in
cracks into which the Oriental or
American reaches could hardly push
their front feet. When full-grown it
never exceeds iive-eighths of an inch
from the front Of the head to the tip
of the closed wings and it is much
lighter in color than either of the
others. Its colors varies considerably,
but it is usually of very light brown
with two darker longitudinal stripes on
the thoraX.
In the latitude of Washington and
further south the Croton bugs eat
everything which contains paste, and,
consequently, wallpaper, photographs
and especially certain kinds of cloth
book-bindings suffer severely from
their attacks. in a recent number of
Insect Life (Yol. l, p. 67) will be
found an account of severe injury done
to certain of the important files in the
Treasury Department at Washington,
the bindings of many important docu-
ments being disigured and destroyed.
In the Office of the United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey they have be-
come an intolerablc nuisance by eat
ing off the surface aud particularly
the blue and red paint from drawings
Of important maps.
But we need not elaborate further
upon the damage which they do. How
to kill them and prevent this damage
is the question.
Without condemning other useful
measures or remedies like boraX, in
the free and persistent use of Califor-
MIA Buhach, or some other fresh and
reliable brand of Pyrethum on Persian
Insect Powder, we have the most sat
isfactory means of dealing with this
and the other reaches.
just before nightfall 90 into the in
tested rooms and pun it into all crew.
ces. under base-boards, in the drawers
and cracks Of old furniture-iu fact
wherever there is a crack in ,hc
morning the floor Will be covered with
dead and dying or demoralized or
paralyzed reaches, which may easily
be swept up or otherwise collected and
burned. With cleanliness and persis-
tency in these methods the pest may
be substantially driven out of house,
and should never be allowed to get
full possession by immigrants from
without.
For no other insect have SO many
quack remedies been urged and are so
many newspaper remedies published.
Many of them have their good points,
but the majority are worthless. la
fact rather than put faith in half Of
those which have been published it
were better to rely on the recipe which
f. A. Janyier gives in his charming
article on mexican Supersuuons and
Folklore published in arecent NUM-
Der of Scribner's HagaztHe as current
among the MeXicans;
Catch three and put them in bot
tie, and so carry them TO where two
roads cross Here hold tie bottle up
side down, and As they fall out repeat
aloud three cred0s. Then all the cock
reaches in the house from which
these three came will 90 awayF-
Good housekeeping.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-08-22
The Nerve Of a Crook.

A fashionable lady went in an ele-
giant equipage to a well known Broad
way bank. and, alighting from her
carriage. went into the bank TO get a
check for S., 900 cashed. The money
was counted out by the teller and tied
up in a piece of paper and the lady re-
turned to her carriage and started TO
drive off. II appears that a "crook, y
who was waiting for something Of the
kind 10 turn up, was in the bank when
the lady was waited upon, and when
she went out he followed her Throw
ing his hat down a convenient stair
way be hailed the carriage just as il
had started up and the driver stopped.
Putting a pen behind his ear the
"crook stepped up to the door and
said to The lady: II am sorry 70
trouble you. but lind | have made a
mistake; your check calls for 5000
and I have only put up $1,000; if YOU
will Just let me take the package a
minute will step into the ban ( aud
rectifv the error and save sou the
trouble Of getting out. As the fellow
had the appearance ola bank clerk the
lady handed the money over without
a murmur. the crook took it, darted
into the crowd and disappeared, aud
has never been seen since. -hcW l0r
Letter.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-08-22

A IIoRNFRs AND COuNSELLoRS. rodgeylu,
~ Wis win practice .u an courts m the sts,r
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-08-22
DANDRUFF MUST GO.

One bottle of Wright's Dandruff
Remover will positively remove the
dandrutf and cure that itching of the
scalp when used according to direc.
lions, or the money will be refunded
Price scots. per bottle; prepared only
by Wright II Son, chemists, Platte.
VILE, Wis. Sold by w. II. Prideaux
Mineral Point. l7m6
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-08-22
tFTORNETS


\ TToRNEfs AND CouNSFIORS uI,,r.,
- l Point, Wisconsin. oalce I'M Wrst NsW,rs1
bank building VIII practice In an state and n I
lily
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-08-22
Ikecsc a CnrInr-

\ TT00RNEf AND COUNSELLOR, podrpvlue wis
WIZ practice Ia an the courts Of tbls ststn ~
'ept The Iowa County tProhatel Court ~
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-08-22

j. h. VIVIAN, N. n. srANSvoyv ,.,,.,.,
Vivian a Son,
DHIslolANS AND SURGEONS. An,.rstp, ~.
otce In Niylans Drug store '''"'s
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-08-22
VAN NJ D. rWtuP EsiLJY, Al. u.
Enliuan Il Reilly,

~ SlOlANs AND SURGE0ND. Graduate. .-,
~. ne'eSee Hospital Medical College. or New yore
~. uucts In Or. raOman's bulldog fonr 5,H,,
no. N'ofos drug store, High street.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-08-22

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. -oNcs :, t..
4 ahsn's block, up stairs, first door 40 len Nh
peuee ars' door west from NJ f. Church Nursr,i
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-08-22
ihe Tribune Dh'ect0rg.


PHYSICIAN SURGEON -oaiee In r..h...
=. Rloek over Bishop, Furniture store RTsiGso..
On 10Y Street north Of Tlrweek's ,yaroD ~,
aus promptly responded to. day or nisbt anf
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-11-27
Bouquet Begging.

James Fair tells a St. Louis Globe
Democrat man: ''The cutest confidence
game / ever heard of was practiced on
myself. was coming up Broadway
few days ago with a button-hole bou-
quet given me by friend, pinned to
my coat, and was accosted by two rag
ged little wrens-little girls-who very
piteously asked me for the flowered
trophy, which | had owned but a few
hours, and which, by the way, was,
very pretty and attractive With
deal of reluctance | gave it to them
and passed on. Shortly after that, as
! returned, / was approached by an
other little girl, who offered for sale
the same bouquet l had parted with
but half hour before. Realizing that
SOME sort of combine existed between
the one who offered to sell and those to
whom / had given the flowers. deter
mined to buy and watch developments.
For 10 cents | bought the bouquet. As
soon as she received the money she
broke straight for a newsboy, had the
dime changed, ran to the alley across
from the Laclede hotel, joined the two
girls who had done the beg act, and
divided the spoils. Each girl received
8 cents, which left l cent over. How
should they divide the cent? They
fiipped for it. How much they made
that day in this way do not know, but
it is reasonable to suppose that was
not the only one who was made dupe
of by those three ragged little wrens."
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-11-27
The Cockroach.

Comparatively few people know that
this familiar of the kitchen is not by
any means native of these climes. Il
is an Importation from the warm and
sunny lands of Asia, brought over. per-
haps. something like two centuries ago.
The first arrivals must have reached
this country as stowaways on board
ship, and, finding themselves in con-
genial surroundings, they multiplied
apace. Now they seem almost every-
where, but for long time after they
swarmed in the kitchens of town houses
they were unknown in the country.
No doubt if they had been natives of a
similar climate they would have quick
ly reached even remote villages, but
they fortunately have delicate constitu-
tions and cannot stand exposure to
cold. Many people must have noticed
that it is only in hot summer weather
that they are seen far away from the
warmth of the kitchen fire 1t is this
need for a high temperature which
causes them to concentrate where it is
most constantly maintained. Cool
larders and pantries are comparatively
secure against their attacks, in spite of
the fact that they would find better fare
therein than the crumbs and particles
upon the kitchen floor. Their common
description as. horrible black beetles
is curious misnomer. They are not
black, nor are they beetles; the only
part of the description which is at all
to them is. the epithet s'hor-
rible," with which few will quarrel.-
N. I. LeIqer
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-11-27
A Queer Fee.

"The queerest fee l ever heard of, :"
said a member of the bar to a New
York Herald man, ''and a fee that
shows the soft side of a lawyer, was
the one given all in pennies, newsboys'
pennies to boot, to ex-Judge Curtiss,
or taken by him. rather, when he went
out to Pittsburg to defend his friend
William N. Riddle from the charge of
mismanagement of the funds of Rid
dies bank. 1t was Just SO cents, that
fee was, and those SO pennies were got
ten together in this way: Mr.. Riddle,
who is now prosperous broker here,
was in his Pittsburg days one of the
wealthiest and most liberal men i'll that
town. Every Christmas he gave the
newsboys a dinner which cost him a
thousand or two. The boys all loved
him; they all called him Billy" as in
deed half the people in Pittsburg seem
ed to do. When the news came out in
an afternoon paper one day that there
was trouble in Riddles bank-it was
another official there, Il man high uI
in politics and society, who ruined it
the newsboys began to realize that per
haps their friend Billy was in trouble,
too. They knew that money cures
many things, and after a moments
consultation half dozen of them took
up collection. A spokesman was ap.
pointed. He hurried into the bank,
handed tiny brown paper parcel tc
Mr.. Riddle with the simple words
Here, Billy and was gone. That
brown paper contained the SO cents
Riddle wouldn't have taken thousand:
for them, AfterWard. when he wa!
tried and acquitted, through ex-Judg'
Curtiss' most eloquent presentation o
the facts, the Judge wouldn't take any
fee from his old friend except that tin,
brown parcel"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-11-27
BUREAU OF ENGRAVING.
Interesting Sight to See How the Govern
ment Daily Turns Out Tons of
BanIKNotes.

On the wide-stretching plain over
which the Washington monument casts
its slim shadow when the sun is setting
stands tall brick building made con-
spicuous by still taller tower and
waving flag. All day long the chimney
belches forth black smoke that drifts
out upon the Potomac and 4 noisy
steam-pipe sends forth cloud of white
vapor in respirations. At 8 o'clock in
the morning nearly 1000 people pass
under it's arched doorway, and at 5
o'clock they emerge again, like bees
from hive. In the meantime they
make money-make it in a purely
matter-of-fact way as a weaver weaves
carpets or a cobbler mends shoes fol-
daily living. They exist in an at.
mosphere of wealth. Great stacks OF
money that are sight for poverty
stricken eyes stand around them. The
poorest girl in the bureau of engraving
handles enough money every day to
make her rich for life.
1t is an interesting sight to see how
the government turns out day by day
tons and tons of crisp, new bank notes
or silver certiticates-to watch the
silent engravers etch the steel, the
shirt-sleeved plate-printers take the
impressions, and the careful mes
sengers carry off the finished bills by
the cart-load. SO interesting, indeed,
is this work of money-making, says the
Washington Post. that the bureau be
gan to be overrun by visitors, who
seriously interfered with its work. Now
visitors are only admitted between 10
a. m. and 2p. m. Saturdays and during
these hours nearly every stranger in the
city presents himself at the arched door
and under the leadership of pretty
girl-guide sees how Uncle Sam re-
plenishes his cash.
When congress has ordered the issue
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-11-27
A Touching Incident.

A touching incident was that of Mrs.
William Nichols, q brilliant and much
admired lady of Bath beach, who had
been suffering for some time from an
affection of the eyes, says the Brooklyn
Citizen. She was led to fear speedy
change for the worse, and Immediately
consulted her physician. An examina-
ton discovered a sudden and fatal fail
ing in the optic nerve, and the infor.-
nation was impaired as gently as pos
sible that the patient could not retaas
her sight more than few days at
most, and was liable to be totally de-
prived of it at any moment, Last
Tuesday the afflicted mother quietly
made such arrangements as would oc-
eur'to one about to commence so dark
a journey of life and then had her two
children, attired in their brightest and
sweetest costumes, brought before her;
and so, with their little faces lifted to
hers, and tears gathering for some
great misfortune they hardly realized.
the light faded out of their mothers
eyes, leaving an ineffacable picture of
those dearest to her on earth-a mem
ory of the bright faces that will console
her in many a dark hour
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-11-27
An Editors Duties.

We apologize for mistakes made in
all former issues and say they were in
excusable, as all an editor has to do is
to hunt news, and clean the rollers,
and set the type, and sweep the floor,
and pen short items, and fold papers,
and write wrappers, and make the
paste, and mail the papers, and dis
tribute the type, and talk to visitors,
and carry water, and saw wood, and
read the proofs, and correct mistakes,
and hunt shears to write editorials, and
dodge the bills, and dun delinquents,
and take cussings from the whole force,
and tell our subscribers that we need
money. We say that we have no busi-
ness to make mistakes while attending
to these little matters and getting our
living en- gopher-tail soup favored
with imagination. and wearing old
shoes and no collar, and patch on our
pants, and obliged to turn smiling
countenance to the man who tells US
that our paper isn't worth 81 anyhow,
and that he could make better one
with his eyes shut.-Sauk Rapids Sem
te7lel.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-11-27
Ivory Growing scarce.

Between six and seven hundred tons
of ivory are imported into this country
every year, SAYS the London Illustrated
Nea0S, India. the west coast of Africa,
Egypt and the Cape are the countries
from which the largest quantities come.
Six hundred and fifty tons or so does
not, perhaps, sound very great
amount; but when we are told that the
average weight of pair of tusks comes
to no more than forty pounds, and thus
gather that nearly thirty thousand
pairs of tusks reach our shores yearly,
the question assumes a different aspect.
The tusks certainly do not represent
the annual slaughter of 81, 200 ele-
plants, for a good many of them are
either derived from native boards of
ivory or are found bleaching in the
forests of Africa or on the plains of
India Still, there is no denying the
fact that the present rate at which
ivory is consumed in this and other
countries is far in excess of the rapidity
with which elephants breed, and though
there are no doubt immense herds of
the noble animals at the present mo-
ment in the interior of Africa, the time
when ivory will be thing of the past
is unquestionable within measurable
distance.
The high prices which tusks now
fetch are such an inducement to ele-
phant hunters that they pursue the
animals with ever-increasing avidity,
and unless some steps are taken in the
matter the elephants will before many
years have passed. disappear as COM
pletely as the buffalo has disappeared
from the North American prairies.
The favorable conditions offered to
the animals by the dense unexPlored
forests of interior Africa will, no
doubt, prevent the disappearance OF
the elephants from being as rapid as
that of the buffalo has been, but though
slower, the determination of the larger
animals will be none the less sure.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-11-27

AND arrvan ON DATE eAoH mc.rH-
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Chronic Diseases or fto Ltye, sucn
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ina; Chronic Ulceratons, 5gasms of the Lids,
Cancer of the Eids and Eye, iears running over
the Cheeks, Day and Night Blindness, Purulent
or Mattering Sore Eyes, GOnorThCeal Ophthal-
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Phlyctenular Ophthalmia, OPacltleS or MIX
White Spots on the Eye, Glancoma or Cupplng
of the Nerve, Amauross. Failing out OF Lashes,
Sores, Redness of Edges of Lids and Eyes, and all
other diseases to which the eye or its appendages
are liable, positive and rapid cure guaranteed.
Ear Troubles are cured by DR.. Salm in an
astonishingly quick time me- lie Will aS Ieneye T9 s9n
close up hole in drum of fifty years standing;
will insert Artificial Ear Drums OF his own in
vention with astonsshingly gratifying results.
NoSe.-Dr. Salm has paid particular atten-
tS OF ef even Il the
bones have partly been eaten up; removes po-
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the sense of smell and taste, and removes fetid
odor as a result of Catarrh in one setting.
Diseases of the Throat and Lungs
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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-11-27
A Tailor Rebuked.

Gus Dudley, one of the gilded youth
of Gotham, who owes trades-people a
great deal of money, happened to e.ntes
a restaurant on Broadway, where he
perceived Snip, his tailor, with some
friends at table, hosting in cham
pagne and oysters.
'Snip, what does this extravaganza
mean?" asked Dudely, who IS one. of the
checklist of dudes.
'.Mr Dudely, don't see that it is
any ofsyour blank business, replied the
tailor, deiiantly.
''May be not, Snip, may be not; but
it just occurred to me that if you lived
within your means, and did not guzzle
champagne and oysters, you would not
be so hard pressed for money as to
have to dun gentlemen the way you
have done me-" Te1os Sitlings.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-11-27
MRS. HENS GREAT HEAD.
How She Entrappe1 Big Owl With Fe-
Ionious Intentions.

Frank W. Miner, of Salem, wild
town ten miles west of this city, has
canny old hen, says a Norwich cores
pondent of the n. Y. Sun. The hen is
in the habit, sanctioned by her owner,
of roosting under coop, one end OF
which is uptilted on the edge of large
tin plate, and very big owl, also OF
Salem, has been in the habit of visiting
Mr.. Miners homestead and stealing his
chickens. The two habits impinged on
each other one night this week, and
the result was detrimental to the owl.
The big owl had come out of the
woods and was strutting about Mr..
Miners front yard, when he espied the
hen cozily doing in her peaked cot
tage. In the heavy shadow of the coop
ne could not estimate her age with any
accuracy, and so he went into it to get
her. The hen saw him coming, but
she made not sound until he had
passed beneath the impending port
cullis, and then she gave wild cackle
and darted out of the coop. She was
smart enough in going out to take the
tin plate with her, and the portcullis
came down. The hen wheeled about
and gazed at the situation.
At second was now on the boards,
and the positions of the actors had been
shifted. The hen was no longer at
home to nocturnal callers, but the owl
appeared to be very much at home.
The hen was out in the chill and humid
night, and the owl was sequestrated
under the arched roof behind the bars
of the coop. The hen was in ecstacy,
the owl evidently was astounded and
displeased. But he did not realize the
extreme gravity of his situation until
the vociferous cackling of the hen had
alarmed her master, who strolled out
of the house smoking.
The delighted and exultant fowl led
him straight to the coop, and as Mr.
Miner, having taken his pipe from his
lips, squared himself before the cage
the mien and jaunty carriage of the
old hen seemed to express the boastfu
jibe: ''Well, old man, how does this
affair strike you for a melodrama, en-.
| titled: "The Consummation of Cute
ness; or, The Doleful Dole of the I'm
hidden GuestP"
Mr.. Miner took charge of the prison
er, set the coop again, and the old hel
retired into it to doze and wait fol
another woods chap to come foolins
around her. In recounting the Incl
dent Mr.. Miner said that in all hi
wide experience with owls he had neye
| before seen an owl whose eyes were 8,
big with wonder and bedazzlement a
were the eyes of the owl the old hel
| caught in the GOOD.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-11-27
THE FAMOUS RREEcHEs BIBLE.
A Copy of the Rare Old Volume Owned in
Hartford.

A well preserved volume of the gen
uine old ''Breeches Bible" so called, is
in the possession of Mr.. Horace John
son, of Hartford. 1t was printed in
1902 in the old 'black letter. text
enough to spoil the sight of any but
the most persistent reader-but it was
a kind of print with which Shakespeare
and Lord Bacon were familiar. This
edition = probably copied from the
Bishops Bible" of 1865 derives its
irreverent name from the version of
the story of Adam and Eve in he
garden. In chap. iii, V. 7, after tell
ing of the transgression. it reads:
~. Then the eyes of them both were
opened, and they knew that they We're
naked; and they sewed fig tree leaves
together, and made themselves breech-
eS."
That picturesque attire is changed in
King James version, which appeared
nine years later, to aprons pres
ent accepted version. King James
fifty-four translators only made altera-
tions of the Tyndale and Coverdale
text, and of the Bishops Bible" ="
when it was found to be necessary" :"
The new revised version, however,
makes a good many changes. 1t cost
poor Tyndale his life-he was burned
at the stake, near Brussels, in 1886
for daring to make a translation into
English.
This quaint old Bible includes those
Old Testament books that have since
been relegated to the nebulous limbo
of 1.-The Apocrypha, and includes them
without any mark of separation from
those that are now accepted. There
are the books of Baruch, of Susannah,
of Jesus the son of Sirach, the book of
Maccabees, Esdras, Tubit, Bel and the
i Dragon, etc., all figuring as part OF
the divinely inspired word. Ii we can
! believe the various holy councils, y
on those subjects. more or less of these
apocryphal books are not so inspired.
Mr.. Johnson's old Bible contains also
the quaint psalmody of Sternhold and
Hopkins-the psalms of David ''done
into" English verse.
The quaint character of the mechan
ical work alone of this old Bible make:
it an interesting study to any one es
pecially who knows much about print
ing. Unfortunately, the quaint ole
title page is missing, its place being
supplied by pen and ink copy.-Hart
ford Times,